DRAMA OF THE LIVINGSTONES.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 51, 18 November 1946, Page 3

DRAMA OF THE LIVINGSTONES.

PLAN FOR RE-ENACTING IMMORTAL- MEETING

DEATH INTERVENES

Two announcements—one of a death and the other of a birth—have recalled the meeting of Livingstone and Stanley in Africa. Squadron-Leader David Livingstone, 29 years of age, died suddenly at his home at Worthing. The next day his son, who also will be christened David, was, born. Squadron-Leader Livingstone was the great-grandson of David Livingstone, the explorer. He was captured by the Germans in a shot-down Flying Fortress in 1943. A month ago he advertised for a man of the name of Stanley who would accompany him on a business trip to the Cape by air. Having room for two more passengers, he suggested that if there were a Stanley who would like to make the trip they would cross over Ujiji, on the shores of massive Lake Tanganyika where in 1871 H. M. Stanley fulfilled the mission appointed to him by Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, “to go find the lost Livingstone.”

There were replies from several Stanleys, and one, Mr C. J. Stanley, a Capetown jeweller now in Britain, had practically fixed up with Squad-ron-Leader Livingstone to be his passenger.

In the air, over Tanganyika, they would have shaken hands solemnly and would momentarily have reenacted the immortal meeting. That was the plan of the greatgrandson of David Livingstone. Now death has intervened.