A BOY TRAVELLER

Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 2

A BOY TRAVELLER

YOUNG CZECH’S ADVENTUROUS CAREER.

Polio A. Erajev-Bux, a young Czech, who is visiting Australia, has had> experiences unusual to one of his twentyono years. H© is a citizeh of the Czechoslovak Republic, who, while taking a course in sociology at the University .of Prague, decided that an ounce o! practice was wo rill a pound of theory, and that the proper study of mankind was man. Last May he set out on a tour of the world, which was to bo, as far as possible, a walking tour, and! ho has already covered) much ground anti water. The tour was the revival of au yld wanderlust, for hel roamed over the vast steppes of Russial and Siberia as a member of the Czechoslovak I/cgion which was formed in 1917 by Professor (now President Masaryk from those Czechs and Slovaks of the Austrian Army who had refused to light their blood-brotilers the Russians, and) had) gone over to their nominal enemy. Tho boy legionary had) two and a-half thrillin'r year# of adventure In Eastern Russia and Siberia. The Czechs fought tho Bolsheviks and the German and Austrian war prisoners whom the latter had armed, and whoso aim it was to prevent the Czechs from joining the Allies on the Western front, M. Bur was captured four times, wounded once, and! ence sentenced to death. A fortunate rising of the! intelligentsia in the town saved his life. M. Bur has walked through Hungary and tiro Balkan States to Constantinople, has been captured by Kemalists, and been on the point of being hanged by them as a French spy. In India, whore he forsook the road for the railroad M. Bur met Rebindranath Tagore at Bolcpur, and saw Gandhi at tiro Indian National Congress at Calcutta. Contrary to general belief, Gandhi, he says, does not sit in gaol, but is under dose police supervision. At Colombo tho traveller joined the Larga Bay and came on to Sydney. ■ His further itinerary includes China, Japan, and America, and ho hopes to return to Prague in May, 1924. Everywhere he has called on tho mayors of cities, editors, educationists, and reformers, and they have certified tho fact of M. Bur’s visit by entries in the very interesting book ho carries.