TRAGIC HOLIDAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23500, 14 May 1938, Page 6

TRAGIC HOLIDAY

BRITON’S BODY FOUND SKI-ING IN JAPAN Two months after he disappeared while on a ski-ing holiday in Japan, 24-year-old Gunnery Lieutenant T. A. Peacocke, of Hammersmith, London, was found dead in the midst of the mountain snows. The fact that one leg was broken, and that there was a ski nearby, suggested that he had an accident, and was either frozen to death or died of exhaustion. Lieutenant Peacocke vanished after leaving his hotel for a ski-ing expedition in the Nikko and Shigakogen mountains in the Nagano Prefecture. UNCLAIMED LUGGAGE First news that he was missing came when the manager of the Toio Hotel, Tokio, told the police that the Briton’s luggage remained unclaimed. „ , Police and the British Embassy began investigations immediately, and it was learned that Lieutenant Peacocke had planned to catch the P. and O. liner Comorin from Yokohama for Singapore on February 23. It was then discovered that he last registered at the Kanaya Hotel, at the famous tourist centre of Nikko, in the middle of January. After that there was no trace of his movements. Lieutenant Peacocke, the younger son of Mrs P. A. V Peacocke, of Luxemburg Gardens, Brook Green, was born in Trinidad and educated at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, and Jesus College, Cambridge. ‘SACRED BRIDGE’’ He went out to Singapore last year with the Royal Artillery He last wrote home to say he was going ski-ing in the Japanese mountains. Nikko is 93 miles by rail from Tokio. and is a favourite centre for its magnificent mountain scenery, rivers, and lakes It is on the River Daiya, which is spanned-—near the hotel where the missing Briton registered—by a “ sacred bridge.”