AFTER SEVEN YEARS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1932, Page 6

AFTER SEVEN YEARS

WORD OF LOST EXPLORER. COLONEL FAWCETT-S FATE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) .LONDON, March -15. A brief, dramatic message to Loudon from the British Consul at San Paulo, South America, has suddenly revived the hope that Colonel P. H. Fawceta. the British explorer who disappeared seven years ago in the unknown Mutto (Mosso territory of Brazil, may he alivfe.-

The British Consul has cain-d through the Foreign Office' to a former British Ambassador to Brazil.

lie declares that a Swiss hunter, just returned from the wilds of the Amazon, lias seen and spoken to Colonel l'.ivcctt. The colonel is hop'd captive by Indians on some tributary of the Amazon.

Immediate inquilies are being initiated b,v the Foreign Office to ascertain further details.

|( may 1. • that the unnamed hunter has solved the mystery ol the tate ol ,tl.e British explorer and .Ids cmnpa i- ions --a in v tery whu-h has fascinated the world.

('(> 1 o.ic| Fawci'tt, with his soil John, then aged twenty-one, and a companion named Raleigh RummcU, set fnt th cn/y in 1925, with the approval of the Royal Geographical Society, to explore the vast jungle region of Central Brazil. The last direct news Iron. Inin, was in May ol that year, whet, lie sent home a dispatch, headed "Somewhere Along the Sao Alaunel River,“ which contained -the inlorma--1 ion : '•Do not count on many more despatches. Ti may he .possible, but rcceiit- I rouble with |he Indians makes it, precarious.” Sine then various repurls concerning Colonel Fawcett’s fate have hern received. A Peruvian engineer sta'led J I Ind he had met- the colonel ami his son in the summer of 1:27 in the pm- j vii.ee of Alinas denies. j In 1928. .Comma.idee G. M. Dyoli led j nil expedition into the heart ol Brazil ill. .-11 l attempt to solve the mystery. Comma,rnlcr Dyult found evidence uhidi was held to prove unmisl akahly , licit ( oloi.el Fa wet 1 1 ami l.is pa rt\ 1 had been murdered by Indians. 1 One man who bidieves linnly H.al j Cu'ouel Fnweelt is s-ill alive is Mr L. | C. |i,-e-Mason, who recently travelled! through tin- Amazon territories. j -| have always maintained sin, o ni\ rd urn iron. South America, said M. I'.cc Mason. "‘1 hot Colonel F.I W etl was heilig held captive. The Indian.-- "hi il (aa was go.tt'g do not miitil--. v-1 al* | melt, lint if Ihe.v can capture a «hit • j mail they hold him as chml ami j medicine man. We in on. ,x j p Mil ion picked up stories ol Colon, I j I-v, c-f t;.. and they were .I ways im.i In- W-..C idivg somewhaift