IN INTREPID TRAVELLER

Evening Star, Issue 12061, 4 March 1907, Page 6

IN INTREPID TRAVELLER

DEATH OF LIONEL DBCLE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 3. (Received March 4, at 8.50 a.m.) # Lione! Decle, the African explorer, is dead ; aged forty-eight years. [The late Lionel Decle, explorer, author, and.journalist, was born in France on May 16, 1859. He travelled extensively from his earliest youth. From 1881 to 1885 ho visited India, Burmah, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, and America; from 1891 to 1894 he accomplished the longest journey on record, across Africa from the Cape to Uganda and thence to Zanzibar. He fought in the Unyoro War; joined the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette’ in 1894; was special correspondent to Russia for the death of tho late Czar; was: entrusted >*llll the organisation of the native transport of the Madagascar expedition in 1895, and on his return resumed work on the ‘Pall Mall Gazette.’ It was through him that the sensational murder of Stokes by an officer of tho Congo Free State was brought to light. When Mr H. 0. Gust left the editorship of tho ‘ Pall Mall Gazette ’ he resigned his positron, and after conducting a successful journalistic campaign in favor of Mr Cecil Rhodes, he accompanied Mr Cast on an extensive tour through South and East Africa. He went with Mr Pulitzer, proprietor of the ‘ New York World,’ to America when war broke out in 1898, and commanded the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ expedition fiom the Cape to Cairo in 1899-1901.]