IN MANY LANDS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1931, Page 2

IN MANY LANDS

BRITISH JOURNALIST’S TOUR. Many adventures have befallen Mr Charles Eade, a London journalist, since be left England on a world tour last September. Mr Eade arrived in Auckland recently having come to New Zealand by way of Fiance, Egypt, Ceylon, India, Burma, Malaya, Siam, French Indo-China, Java and Australia. During his visit to India he had the unique experience of being smuggled through the Khvber Pass under an armed escort of British .soldiers despite military regulations forbidding visitors to travel through the pass. Mr Eade 'was the first- civilian to enter tlie Khvber. since two banks officials were murdered 'by their native escort) last Easter. He was rushed jhrogh by motor car from Peshawar on the day when the Afridi leaders were gathered at Jamrud Fort (at the southern entrance (<f the pass), for a conference with the British military authorities. The tribal chiefs and their lieutenants lined the load when the car passed. Mr Fade travelled as far as Laudi Kotal, and returned the same day to Peshawar. Whilst in India he had a week’s biggame hunting in the jungles surrounding Daltonganj, in the State of Behar and Orissa, in the Bengal Presidency Accompanied by Mr 1). C. lay lor, a British I'csidental magistrate, and also bv Indian officials and landowners, Dm party went out alter tiger and bear. They d'd not encounter any dangerous game, though, curiously enough wild animals were abundant, a leopard having been shop quite near to where Mr Eade was staying only a few days previously. This was actually in .the compound of a house in Daltonganj. A POEM IN SANSKRIT. An Indian village schoolmaster honoured Air. Eade in native fashion bv writing a poem in Sanskrit and Hindi. He read out the composition in front of the school, Mr Ead.e being garlanded with a necklet of yellow flowers for the occasion. “The poem sounded very interesting,” said Mr Eade, ' “but unfortunately I have not yet been able to get it translated. However, there was a : prelude in the form of a greeting that J was able to fathom the meaning'of. I found that it read something.like this: ‘When. Charles Eade draws his sword his enemies vanish as though mnde of smoke.’ Considering that I never owned nor have used, a sword, t thought it was fairly promising.

When in Indo-China, Air Eade travelled by what he thought was an ordinary service car from the Siamese frontier to Saigon. Late at night the car was stopped by soldiers, and was searched. It was found to be heavily laden- with smuggled goods—drugs coffee, silks, etc,—which were packed inside spare tyres, tool boxes, and a dummy petrol tank. The presence of a French diplomat on fife car prevented what might have been an embarrassing incident- The diplomat mentioned that on hip Lisp journey by the same rqad he was held OP h.Y bandits and robbed bf ajl he had, MEETING AIEX OF NOTE-

While in Australia, Mr Fade met ancl interviewed Mr Scullin, the Prime Minister; Mr Lang Premier of N.S.W 'Mt Blakey. Australian Minister of Home Affairs, In New Zealand he has met the Prime Minister (Mr G, W Forbes), Mr Coates, and Mr Holland.

From Auckland Mr Fade plans to visite China and .Japan, and to return Homo via Canada, the United States, and South America, New Zealand is the thirty-fifth country he has visited during the past ten years, He was in Rome during the Fascist revolution in 1922, and was unable to leave the city until Mussolini had established his regime,