MAPS ALL WRONG.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1927, Page 2

MAPS ALL WRONG.

BKRTdX. August 0. Profesor Obrutsohcff. one of t lie? most eminent of Russian geologists. has just concluded n long visit to the north-east of the Yakutsk Republic, in linstcrn Siberia, for exploration purposes. lie hits ascertained that the rivers are all marked wrongly on the map. But the most important result of his tour is the discovery of great ranges of mountains between the Xeza and the Aloma, two tributaries of the Indigirka River. The professor saw no fewer than seven Alpine ranges where the atlases show level country, many of their peaks being IO.OfIO R> 11.000 feet high. One range which stretches front the roast to Kolyma River, is some 600 miles long and 150 miles broad. The naming of the ranges and peaks is to he left to the Russian Geographical Society.

SOXS AYITH RKYOIA'KRS. GENEVA, August !L AA'iien two brothers, aged 16 and 1-i wears respectively, arrested yesterday on their arrival at Geneva from Lausanne. wero asked to account for the revolvers in their possession, they admitted having been to Lausanne for the purpose of killing their mother, whom thev accused of conducting herselt in such a manner ns to dishonour the fnutil name. For many hours they kept watch at her flat and dogged her footsteps, luit as she was never alone they resolved to postpone the execution of their project until a more favourable moment. Their suspicious behaviour at Geneva, attracted the attention of a gendarme who took them ti> the police station.