SCIENTIST’S JOURNEY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 10

SCIENTIST’S JOURNEY

ESCAPE FROM NORWAY (Times Air Mail Service) LC T '"DON, July 23 Professor Lancelot Hogben, the British scientist, who writes science best-sellers, has arrived at New York with his 21-year-old daughter Sylvia, on the last stage of a journey home that should have taken a few hours but has already taken more than three months. Professor Hogben and his daughter went to Norway in the spring, where he lectured on Hitler and Race theories, says the Evening Standard. They were in a bus on the way to Oslo airport to get an airplane home when bombs started to fall and the bus turned back into the city. The streets were full of Nazi soldiers. It was the day of the invasion. The Hogbens kept out of the way and made their way to Sweden in disguise by lorry, dodging in and out of columns of invaders. After six week’s delay awaiting a visa, during which they earned a living by translating, they flew to Moscow, having found it impossible to get an airplane from Sweden to England. Change of Plans They planned to fly from Moscow to Istanbul and return via Italy, but then heard that the Italians were already arresting Britons although not then at war, so they went across Siberia to Vladivostock, where the Soviet Customs took their remaining money. They got a ship to Tsuruga, Japan, and another from there to San Francisco. Now they have travelled 3000 miles across the United States in the midst of a terrific heat-wave, with the temperature in the Middle West of 107. Now they are wondering how they are going to complete the world trip home. During the trip from San Francisco they stepped off at Madison, Wisconsin, where Sylvia matriculated at the University.