JOURNALIST’S TRAVELS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 11

JOURNALIST’S TRAVELS

TALES OF ADVENTURE RUSSIA, IRAQ, AND CHINA. (Ter Press Association] AUCKLAND, Aug. 14. Mr. Rudof Carney, a young Austrian journalist, who is motor-cycling round the world for the second time in his life, told a thrilling story of adventure after his • arrival by the Wanganella. He was a lieutenant in the Austrian navy during the war and commenced to travel four years after the Armistice. When asked in Russia if he had served in the Austrian army he foolishly said no. The answer was true, as his service had been in the navy, but when the Soviet Legation in Vienna reported that he had served in the war he was imprisoned in an internment camp on the edge of Siberia, but after nine months, with money given by a friend, he managed to bribe his way out and eventually reached home. He set out again in 1934. In Iraq he fell into the hands of brigands, and in China was captured for money. He saw China rent in twain by battles and floods. He predict that Japan will go to war sometime within 20 years, her Manchurian venture having failed, and her increasing population needs somewhere to go.