Servicemen Start Remote Expedition
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ADELAIDE, February 27.
A British combined-forces expedition left Adelaide yesterday on a three-month journey of exploration, adventure and scientific survey in Australia’s remotest country.
Thirty men are in the party which is travelling in five Land Rovers.
The group will test desert survival techniques and will collect wild life and geological samples over an area of 9000 square miles west of Alice Springs. The area is a succession of ravines, ridges, rocky outcrops, salt lakes, dry clay-pans and mulga scrub. They will experience the blinding heat of day and chilling cold of night that typifies the Australian outback.
They will bring back snakes, frogs, bugs, spiders, rocks, and soil specimens. The leader of the expedition, Wing Commander Charles Alexander, said that British services’ expeditions had tackled many exploration trips but none as tough as this.
Elephant Amuck.—An elephant which ran amuck while being led in a temple procession near Ottapalayam killed three people, tore down power poles and caused other damage on Saturday. Police later shot it dead. —Coimbatore (Southern India), February 27.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 17
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