So-called speleologists who have made it their life’s work to study caves and always attract the greatest interest, especially among those who read the big-city magazines, recently explored the cave between Taxenbach and Schwarzach, which, as we learned from the newspaper, had until then been totally unexplored. At the end of August and in ideal weather conditions, as the Salzburger Volksblatt reports, speleologists entered the cave with the firm intention of coming out of the cave again in mid-September. When, however, the speleologists had not come out of the cave even by the end of September, a rescue team had formed, calling itself The Speleological Rescue Team, and had set off for the cave to come to the aid of the speleologists who had originally entered the cave at the end of August. But this Speleological Rescue Team itself had not come out of the cave by mid-October, which induced the Salzburg Provincial Government to send a second Speleological Rescue Team into the cave. This second Speleological Rescue Team was composed of the strongest and bravest men in the province and was equipped with the most up-to-date so-called Cave Rescue Apparatus. This second Speleological Rescue Team, however, just like the first, entered the cave according to plan but even by the beginning of December had not returned from the cave. At this point the department of the Salzburg Provincial Government responsible for speleology commissioned a firm of building contractors in the Pongau to wall up the cave between Taxenbach and Schwarzach, and this was done before the New Year.

In Lima

IN LIMA

In Lima, a man was arrested who stubbornly maintained that he wished to go into the Andes to look for his wife, who had gone into the Tauern mountains the year before and who, as the man is said to have deposed before the Lima police, had apparently lost her way in the neighborhood of the Tappenkar and fallen into a crevasse. But since the Tauern and, in the nature of things, the Tappenkar too lie in the Salzburg Alps, as even the police officers in Lima knew, it is not surprising that the Peruvian police officers asked the man, whom, in a state of total neglect, wearing only a pair of ragged trousers and a so-called Carinthian peasant shirt, they had arrested in downtown Lima because he had appeared suspicious to them, what he was really after in Peru. The man who was arrested was actually born in Ferlach in Carinthia and was a wealthy Austrian who ran a flourishing gunsmith’s business in that town. Our newspaper gave no further details.

Almost

ALMOST