TOWERING EVEREST.
PREPARATIONS FOR NEXT CLIMB By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z.y Cable Association. LONDON,'September 17. The “Daily News” stated that General Bruce is experiencing difficulty in obtaining feLcilitiea for a fresh attempt to climb Mount Everest, firstly, because the Chinese missionaries are fomenting anti-British feeling in Thibet, and secondly, owing .to.the mysterious death of the Commander-in-Chief of the /Thibetan Army, the' only pro-British : official, in the country, who previously aided General Bruce.
EXPERIMENT’S IN ENGLAND. LONDON, September 17. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. , Australian and N.Z, Cable Association* The “Daily Mail’? says the Royal Engineers stationed at Weymouth pier, experimentally released 600 cylinders of a new of;smoke screen, containing a small percentage of secret poison gas, which was directed’’at and enveloped the warships Tiger, Champion and: Rob Roy, lying in the Ray. The crews, who were heavily masked, assert that the gas penetrated every part of the vessel.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 19 September 1925, Page 9
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150TOWERING EVEREST. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 19 September 1925, Page 9
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