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Show Foreign Service Music and Drama m fie SECTION THREE BALT t Motion Pictures Religious News LAKE CITY. UTAH KATUROVY .JUNK mi IS KRillT I WOES Woman Explorer Rivals Stanley and Livingstone " P enetrated to Secret City of Arab Enthralling Story of Real Life Adventure by Intrepid Woman of High Mrs, Rotita For bet Diecovert New Trade Rout During Month of Thrilling Danger Birth and Position Life in Danger Many Timet From Savage Tribes and Frequent Peril of Other KindtkoJe Many Milet.on BacktolCameU.TulveDrJvW'rtktut'lM'rtkintk'WTtr"' Deiptte 'Youth , This Amaxing Woman Hat Explored Remote India, Auttralia and Africa Went Around World in Year And Seventeen' Days' WithoutSuffifiehl Wafer orTTaiSjor WcpJh f tkjecial June yO d4. wotnep It brrlf ht M l.-- H'f a tl amam story of the of lid tdvet.lurv yvubt lrl)r beutjr and tt tugtlsh told ter for the first tune. i A Of' the deadly danger ami ail the dusromf rl of crossing eo camel hundred mile of it uur hurt- a. desert of tte H waste of thr turn and to Mr. Ri! forties bat just om hi lecdon to fnd famr awaiting her At th imminent of her hfe ahr hat a frat that place her among th world moat darin tipiorsr-a- to b mentioned to tt am breath with Livingstone, Stanley and Bcott. Alone but for an Arab rarer!, ahe hat pa-ar- d to Kufra. th arrrrt and Jeahniily-ruarda- d city of th Remusi, th atrirtrat rrt in Islam. w h irK h Tl-r- e n re a rTi ed by no previous wbil tiatrlrr. Fha ha opened a new trad rout to ) 7f I and aha ha mad romphira diarevri of th Impnrtanr. I to hrr atory, on of th moat Ihrtllin tala of advontur in all th Ion abnala of tratrl, and I am priilrd. thank to thi ir!ui mtortiow, to iv hr owrn firt paraonal orount of her aalonnhin xprinrr , and rhiovnint. Only "twrnty-arvo- n yrr old. tall and alrndrr, fminm to br fir.tor tip, aha haa aonmi.!iahd a foat from wbirh earn th atron-at.in- d rural mas miaht fUnch witbost ah am, her four month ah livd a a ludouin in thr drrt. Ilr uid bat th way and durin on a favdat and Lem 4a hrr f.r4r M-milk and wrrr aavd from tarva-- I ion only by thr limly arrivahnf a raraaan. For twlve day thry bad not water, and whrn at last uma were blit they found a wed. Mr. Forbs for."n-tt-end h war haw a he to unahl t.rn day wh. and, I wo he throuph andtorm, )itn paJd from and rahe. terribly robber band Uy in wait for her and h rode for two days and nights to escape. Site waa Uken iTMOuer by Lrtbrwmea and narrowly got off with her life. Fanalir constantly threatened to 'kliimt her'and on one orrasionsh gave heir eiie-Hithe lip d.guid as a ramef drikr. On on -lagf iif her jmimey she walked thirty miles a i!:i across (he sand. While t'aot:ng in the Brnusi country she and ut hht rtrdy I ki hra. rwwa h went around th world. Ukin a yd to do it and wrot a hook about it that It a wtdr idle wat L'ticonducled t Owtl Trc 111 I Mr Tfcw Wjr Wr. rrW. ! 4 t Ml.k , Hrr I Hr W rrr IHIr,, T.xr. riw klr hi if. Farly in th wir h dwe rabinrt minitr, inrludin Cunon, Iord Milner, Ird Robert . X. liarnr. M.P, round Iondon, and Cecil and an ambuUnra for th then went ner to drt French Red Cro. A TR tWf REST CURE. -e A nrvo breakdown ruttdt In madtcal to take a rur. She atarted on another 1 , trip around th world.- - iV.7' In hina he w taktf priaoner by the koiithern army and forced Jo do Red Cro work lor 'them. When h planned to gb through Oichui China, the Rnlish rrnbaaey advid her to take wood for hrr coffin a wood was very dear there. Rut he pulled through and, what is more, aba found a new route through the country. Ofly'cnf'dfYtnjr Whrt e ' pr rsnn'XhiCrenow nod i raid to know more about tha Colonel Arab and raml lor than Silt Khadija," tiTgiv he also has inti-- A Arab name. )fr. Forb matA knowledge of China. Japan, Tibet, India and ' north, south and central Arabia. She speak Chinese, many Iscguage.- including-Japan,''Arabic, French, Italian and Gernj.an. So intereat- ing is this slender slip of English womanhood. with her striking beauty, her fascinating personality and astonishing caresr, that on could write volume about her crowded life, so full of thrilly and triumphs, even before eh? crowned it all by - the cotton-wo- ol ed existence of the Society ' butter-fi- y: ; , This fearless heroine of many daring and dangerous exploits for the Kufra trip is by no means her first bit of exploration in the world's secret places does not even suggest the athletic woman. he looks more fitted for A stroll down ", Bond street or Fifth Avenue or the Rue de Rivoli than for a ride through the desert The scent bottle rather than the revolver, Parisian gowns rather than the veiled and trousered costume of the Moslem woman, and a Society rat het than- - the silent and empty desert places that is the strangely incongruous impression one gets after teeing her here tit civilized London. - And is not- - anrpriaing that this should be, for she is stijl known as the- beautiful Mrs. Forbes. And believe me, her photographs do not flatter her. The title is well deserved. Her beauty is as much that of a charming and arresting and line. personality as of faultless feature Descended from a long- line of Lincolnshire a all Hip tribal fttieik . l's w-- .U5l,whMO!hLIi S covern-nni- 1,1 kii i In!.' j 11 a rrtiin wa r I OT ti y of fame), fddrr lrrmr w rre iur iiitilr bad lol III wy nd r f ftl.'l-- d til fttlia.t llllll. TlirrB ml "f w.il'r fT each kirk I day. r.i rv f.-- s il rlr . Ol as I KD I HI I il-- or l Mi i J ge . tivrd lhhuin. tor nearly four laving f re (m.e a day. eating with our finger.. il! r,c mi the f:..or and j.erf Tnung the and ahlulion, A f.r neee.arj M.e.ni r ;ear my boe for and ynipvby wih the 7ra sndlT'rkerft'lt 0? th 83(1) hlr.-riam'lveni.-ii- l had been known. I wa prokided with a passport from the Amir I.lia lallog that I w a Mo lei Iraki 1. m; f r the good of Islam. Hengai I went tn my starting point for the desert journey on .horseback. Thi was I'jedabla, which i eighty mule outh. It washe c rnonlha. s r 3eg-T3prrr'- fTch planoct Or h f ana ira I p a rty, Shar led Sfdt Illd.l to offer me Hie use of h: own soldiers and cam- el. -- - - 'But the was on!) juf beginning. bile the carav an w being formed I bad ta.f.y smbienly at midnight in Bedouin disguise, leaving outf.t. TKj-fep1 had beard of further plolj again! my Trshreprtn .UP our honor. was able to take, with me my lent and sleeping Mrs. Rrk H Vara I a 4 rak CMfiai i mmtmmo 1 ka Oa Her Haa Favarlir It is At laj-- I waMav.slily-enlerta!ne- d. essential hern from mv house a bales of Arab sacking. strange littlo oily of window let. house set on It was a trying moment when we invited the s l.ff high above Ihe valley of Kufra. The valley' upon whirh one comes suddenly is exquisite with spn- - who surrounded the house lof come in and drink mint tea with ns. The tea was drugged it verdure and amber sand, its purple and red' with a strong ep ng draught and it did its work. sandstone cliffs, .its three intensely blue salt lakes, its cultivated field, its orchard, and its 8c at one m the morning four slaves secretly reat of government is tile large town moved the luggage and m the pitch dark through palms. The the raid and the wind, which was blowing strong. of Jef. There is a slave market where men ran be bought for about ?t'V and women for 8150. I followed tie .laves out of the town to where six camels were waiting for us behind onre old The Tuareg lo the west have slave farms where tomb. We found them, after groping aheijt they brped slave m large pumber. Of the five tire bUckness. b Snaring their grunts. To add to villages in the six "oases of Kufra there is oni village of grass bouse. my troubb. I had divlo-ate- d my ankle and loadFILED LIKE ARAB WOMAN. ing the beast in tiie icy cold and the darkness wa no easy; matter. For nine days 1 lived thc'Jife of a veiled Arab In my character a S.tl Khadija. a Mo.lemf woman in Taj. being entertained in the house of blond. was Sidi ldri.. ' thoroughly explored the, valley dnd drere,i m white and greyn narrow trousers, a managed to take phntngraih with my kodak sestraight crinion cloak, a bmg bine barracan lh cretly through a hole rut in 'my barracan. As with a black kerehn f the gravest dstrut of .alt my instruments was , outer, eirvijoping gannent wound round ,my head and neck. My face was shown by the . had to hhJe them all. veiled and on my feel I had ye. low beVjle? s. i started pul for Egypt on a January Heii'-a'l- i a scarlet ssh were It dden new rorne with nin(sean,ieland five companions my two rcf o'vcrs and rny"Tn:pas.' These I dai'c On our wav during die first four days we narrowlnot exp( Sr. y escaped being attacked by Tebu raiders but The w., cniifidcntial men with u blt their got away by turning aside mlo the hill. Before, guiding 'ar and th. ir way. for three weary u was a march of twelve d.iv..tirnucti aliHolute boues v.e no vi. I round in circle. t la.f we desert, u:u baited, water!"5, and never crossed halie.l and lay down bcide the cameLin. ihe oj,e:i before by a Euir.pcao. We walk! thirteen days desert to wad for the dawn. When the dawn and average! Unity rn.bs daiij. k e had no, came yre lijejdabia only one m ite away. There ten!- - auJ slej! m Wc were t .ertaken wa nofiri'ig in be done except to gel away a far by a SanJ.torin which dm d three vvatr skms ami we rode bard for a? po.'ib'o i utli at ikiire,-antujneii Hie ret.(-- f the wafer black and made it Two- - duv. smell bmhly. on fite twelf'h day we reached beg, we were joined Jiy twio black "snMTer Tine of wHTiTTwantcd to shoot ne a a Jagtilnib with mr fiim-- i cvlciii'led. ChiHl.in Hie v ry day, but the people willj here we started on February After me eoijv meed li m tbat f wa indeed a I? with ant a gu - for Styva. ur pl.gbl Wa serious. jis I discovered that vv a slow, as we had to fide at li ght ami prog'"5. iicitioT lit- -, .oMier per Ihe guides bad brought the tiei'ts tird out. H.isaueiii , fell ami any foci wnllbem. AH we bad wii Jbri.kc la collar ieuie In face vye bad gone man for f!ur for more than two days and there were miles. I set it roughly, an I he rode n for thirty six of Us. Wl-- expected that 8idi It da- caravan miles in gre&l pain uni1 ht in the second night w op Id pick us up soon and we wen! on. .we rarne a camel rur; patrol ent out lo living malted milk tablets s;id camel's mdkt But . look f r up'n 'Ve (air.ped on one .id1 of a hdl'un-cfU- !i we nearly- starved, for though a strange, merchant ions of the fact that ihe patrol was camped caravan rescued they had little -- pare fed and on tligjitber side. we had-textt on the" rii' l meager ratnis, reAt tat 1 dragged my secre- maining for fourteen day. tary on lo 'a ca.niel ami jpuyhod on ip the Jiioop Tight up and over tbe ii i!l. - Then the rescuers rTAEAfOTAfrmrNnTTnrET.rFrVEn. "When the caravan; of jcsdi Rida ai last ' Jiead us anil came to u and we ate auages caught us up we were greatly relieved. The VrH rtusid a canTp fire and !a'ikd till dawn. We were. bagsajKLiiLhrabsoiut Taimet. .! ftrfi Ckiarrl far ratarlpf aatf 4alaial RramriU Oldrat Paraa af TraaHrf Kaoaa to Mam. which I have discovered, it may be possible for his trade to go to Egypt. This is the more like--- 1. as the trade exchange js with Egypt. At present all the goods from Egypt goby sea to Bengazt rnd-thesix hundred miles inland by caravan which involves double freightage and double customs. By the "new route the whole of the goods could be sent by camel which' is the cheapest known method of transport. A camel in Kufra for a journey of six hund' J miles' cost lcs than two dollars and it ran carry a load cf thZce hundred pounds. I had been plannmg this visit to Kufra for A year and was fortunate enough to persuade A. M. Bey Hassenien. of the Egyption ministry of the interior, to accompany me. His help was. inval- uable, as his father wa a nio.t learned and fam ous gheik of the biggest univeisity in Cairo. His religious standing ifmpng ttm Libyan, Arabs. w great. Thanks to the Italians my Journey to Iijedabia wa facilitated." we this me, 8ayed P'lnre' Rida plice jAt fejp5j. His hopitahfy was uve whelming. If gave u's houses, servants. borcs and food while 'we were thpre. t But a certain fanatical party among the more rigorous Ekhwan deiermtned to destroy i at all costs. The Ekhwan aie brothers of the religious order of the Senuwi and it must be understood that the Senussi are a religiQu order and -- -- I ( ' . 1 1 7'". 77 d - 1 pe.-ple- slip--pej-- 1 !- ! and I i fnrttiuaiidv a inveiil.-the t 1. h-- !,ote I'T!,0n M "" th' f Un thPOrrary of the Horan shorn of .every motlern (Egression and audition. Thus, they do not permit the use of gold for personal adornment nor the drinking gf 'fcoTTee oFlfcoIibr v The lnTuTof smoking U--t destroyed hia camp on the outskirts ?o14 S1 Vat raay 0 the oasis, all his notebook, and instruments, lhe ln and 80 'e,, of U"!r huban,teand appropriated all his presents and .money. He Gold may a!o fled fot hi- life back to the coast. He had never . secure a Targp progeny for Iiam. as these would been inside the main oasis at all. Th? only ether be used for the hilts of swords be devoted to war agamt the infidel.. European who has been there was a French The whole journey was intensely hazardous. , prisoner sent there during the. war. At the very beginning the Order was divided. The IN SPIDER THE VEB. ' more fanatical and party planned "The interesting thing about Kufra IsThal it to destroy us at all costs, while the modern party. isdjke the spider at the heart, of the web of the' wb. wished lo IiliThf.Jnrrs.-.wba.aj-e--gRentionftd in dht rfurH hTFet- - in favor of our journey- - The Amir Idria, th Iioomsday Book as landowner, in lhal county- -' ran. Tripoli and Cremate. Obviously, strafegi- - bead of the Renussi, was most ae a sister-in-la- w of Lady Helen Forbes, well rally it is of the greatest importance, ns H The generous, "and lo hrrfi and to hi b so her we owed &frtem -lJialrivary. 0iFtc--b featbeea.-oLai!enrpt.TTicy mst gen. marrier one of the Bradley Martin. Her father, the Sudan mut of necessity pas through Kufra. erously supplied the wh'ote.of the caravan, giving H. J. Tocj jS4h owner of Hail Lmolta- - Ualy uxini lo tnm tho otil b me nine soldier slave and lending me eighteen town house in the West End. She hire, and Iienrvi to the a. Now. owing to the new route rumel. The kmir. also -- - eo nf jsh -f- t -- high-heel- la 111 hr bhe has been rec?lvtffcjr the Ktng'sit! -- lecture on her dikcnvcma to th Royal Gogr, teal Society--- a signal honor as well as to Central Asian a:jd tbeAfrican Society.- - She has completed a book with the title Kufra,- the Secret of the Sahara, which will be published this fall, and she hopes to go on a lecturing tour through the United States in October. In between, she is to attempt another Journey which she says will be even more important and perilous than the one to Kufra. For the present, however, this is her secret. After the war, she told me, I went over-Im- d through Morocco to. Tnpolitania and Cyren-a:c- a and that was where my interest in the Arabs began. I went through Eritria. north of Absys-siru- a, to the Red Sea with an automobUe. This trip had never been done before. Then I came up the Red Sea in an onion boat. After my trip up the Red Pea I went through Syria and Palestine at a time wlien.Feisul was king of Damascus. By that time I had lamt to talk Arabic, and as Fei-suguest went through Syria and north Mesopotamia. staying with Bedouin sheiks and living the Arabian life. I came back and conducted a vigorous pro-Ar- ab campaign in England lat summer.' f decided then to go1o see the Senus'i vyere like. It vas my interest and sympathy with the growth eff the Arab national spirit which determined me to do this. I wanted to see what the real power of the Penusi wa. One heard so much about and I wanted to find out its real strength in North Africa. In 1879 the German Rohlf went to Kufra with hundred camels, backed by the strength of Germany, carrying magnificent presents from the Kaiser and great cases of silver. He had hostages from the tribe held St Bengali Jhc Mediterrnnean end of ancient caravan rouJe from the Centra f Sudan across the desert) while he went to Kufra. He got through to the Zouias, the tribe which ic,;i t rfmf LOOKS FRAIL AND FASHIONABLE. Tet, talking to this elegantly dressed and fascinatingly beautiful young woman, who looks the frail and fashionable type born to adorn the boudoir and the ballroom, it was hard to realize that the amazing adventures which she described with the nonchalance with which one discusses the weather or the latest frock from Pans bad actushoes with ally befallen her. Hr their fin paste buckles, her thin silk stortings, covering th slimmest of ankles, and her and modish gown, her slender form, deep blue eyes, wonderful pmk And white complexion, and her mas of dark, early hairpin the luxurious setting of a London drawing foom. all suggested T xjtit-- te-.- kk retinue consisting of sn rab secretary and eighteen men and as many rr.rnel.-,- . She reached Biksa and was found by a rescue parly sent out hr the Egyptian government with her ftcrreUry suffering from a newly broken collar bone, three men anil four exhausted camels. She had returned by the longest waleriess route known, neer before traversed by whites and never by an Arab with less than forty camels. Mrs. Forbes did it with nine. She has discovered two wells, three lakes and two mountain ranges, and has found out more about the Benui and their country than any other explorer. rrarrn Lw of l.tija. nn- -t tjn.il r that iai Ho h It. ! had bog.-dand to !!n we (met i t of Ml hoiufll the government i.r t "trhb-k- . alofficial' icc.'iv d ii. evervwhere Willi of the traluari Nights, the wild ii.v r. Mifii.. an I ii w !e. element wa- - alwava mania' a1') r.p-- 1 to stranger aui-w.n iidutuu. .of the nf our trlterr mid of ntrr tofk--. gemimefg-s -- ( i idt.i.il r.t uf-frr- ed 1 raHkfal la Call !. ad-u- nrtd Owtr fwal irrr I Hr vf '.rr. Irrw Hrrwl immltrlfla I Wla Ird i .rrk in the , f Ilir ftkrirli.li ikdit fjiUut k ft dft he itb-Hi- t :i .hi watrf furl ifie !ir J w bka Vit ndrinrv" I .v.h ramrU who 1 la rr ., it i dwaayrd by of tl - porlrt. y ill ) We wrr !,n li.r ju. r ft t'niir.J krarUblr the Ibal nl lit w ii thr Jji wilr ik undriiik-- ! w li . ! lt wa'rr l!it wa aiiir 1. ai.iU,..-ir. a tJi iljwtid i.J wr were wilh-I'l- il Hi. n ll.r'r atnr rrlirf fur we w!rr, f.'HTi I an unrliirlel wrll lair tht rriioon. We wrir half iitn.d anl our firm were tdil with t it .r l lo thi taddlrt and lb . ton. Hir Maw ii a! of th ftluin bad brp turn up for for the rainei loin kriy lowly with fkhift!r'l ramrU dropping by th wy. we rear 'hi'ininTn TTTQ".'!.i' by comp iTwT da U'er, and here we had to ny three night l" lest til, caravan Here there r rilliouk palm glove rktejnl.iig for l'ul eigtil niilesrodue-in- g And there i a lt the te; .(.- - in hike some five iu'.-- hog with "lie frrstl irillg. dliere are also the ruin of fort built by th "I rhu, the aiengmes. It i a strange frt Ihat here he hoiir are also ued a grave, the dead b'ii.g hurled m a -- itl ng iKltMn rolled in fthecfkftft Ole, Here (lie )pUlWU Waft llvtll ftnd we were forrtd io make a defensive camp, bid we Kve a feal to the nal .v e and after that I wa allowed, la explure. the iiasi.ita the two sheiks.. tin the wav to Hawran.rth northernnuwit vil-bof lh Kufra oai proper, was passed a giotip of hiiman skeletons, the rrmaiirs of party who ftpparrnt'y hd died of th'rt. Our guide nt out by the fanatical lotrajed u to .ie Z. mas telliiia Ihcni that we liid .deceived 8.df ldri and were plauniug to eiro the ruiilry by 1' of msglrst (n'Siirerris- - rrr ecmriAs I he guide bin.wiilap and aneroid l.atoiueler, wenl.on with our id(er of introduction to Taj, a acred rii) to the "u'h, and secretly Instructed the Zouias to maacre u. " Boon we were -- e by a hotile rrosad of men, and ail-b- ut I two of our black slave ran away. V got ready JaiBi' a fj 'To r "de fc n s'(?' S ii rTWcf were impriemred m imr Sent wuh'Zoira girad to watch us I oriuiiatrly Ih.i! nighttwe managed, desprte the mtnc, in inTUgglp imp of our party out into a palm gmve and some friendly Scnusi buit huaa donkey. JIe tiutu rode over the uwun- - -tains to Taj and in lev than een hours wa w iai7.i jiciinit 1J priKCol. The. whole business, which at one lime seemed des-- nht u : i,.l rk. id and-Zul- an i,r i.. ijr w!r i.li.lisiiyit in Mir Utl lgn nvrthla "I I itie .ll-- l kk .f a n j r..ernrrn lt r her a.h. l.e started with a l..k fr rat a! li.r dh per-for- H' I l- litnd tb!t. a - ia-h.r- rti iiiirr Un.,uiii n, irl:..riii. ki.J thr Wrlr '.jjilirj In hiirr atir fur fating famlbe ftiU.tt.lfst. lb fury of Xoiw lauiiri ind the r bber Nod lb perils of sindstornis haa a flat in Mayfair with wonderful U li ft. ..ill fuii of t ogs, w ill wth.t.g and r than a (!mhiiJ t rat a old. which ahr brought hark from twntrgl Inna. Itrfor ah wou fain a an eaptorer the wa chiefly noted for her French clothes, and her babtt of aiwsy wrarui black gown and immense hat. And ah introduced to Mndon th- feather that wrr all th vogue a whlir bark. Hr lil'le aulofnobde rttil" aa d and ah tnallral rar in tji nre all 'dr.tr this with ad (hr skill and showed tn lbr hunting Held her .'hr erly In l1l li wrnl I nd a and theme In Xualral.a with brr t H waa .V. It . to th governor of New Nuih Male. tfurwarda ah returned home by way cf Afrtra and pnt three montba ridtn land. up to through Iteehiianaiand Liviugstooe, on polir covering foj-t- mil a day. She did thia a Iona, and afur alartin with I art h rndd up with than a dollar in hrr tifleotgl -- ftrt re-tu- ig Mo-lor- n. 'foil-"cam- el, vv.-r- - u. u. came out to greet u and a 'sheep wa slaughtered in our honor. Our caravan a made up of rigid ecti cam- epl ojn- - '. TeV t eoM.ee- - , t - . got into three autvvfuo b in wdiich we soon covered the .fi ru lev fo Alexandria. .That i a href mjlline of the mam incident i . |
