The Washington times., 1924-05-19
BR|TON Invited
TOFORB|DDEN
INDIA CITY
Famous Specialist Makes
Long Trip to Cure Indian
Prince of Cancer
BY CHARLES A. SMITH,
international News Service.

LONDON, May 19.-One of the
longest and most remarkable jour.
neys ever undertaken to perform
surgical operation has just been
completed by p. Lockart-Mum.
merry, the famous English cancer
specialist and chairman Of the
British Empire Cancer Campaign
to wipe out cancer.
He has just returned from the
4O,OOO'miles distant city Of Khat.
manou, In India, one Of the two
IorDldden cities in the world. TO
where he had been called to per.
form an operation on the nine
teen-year-old Maharajah Of NepaI
IN his wonderful palace there.
Strangers are only allowed in Khat.
mandu on the express invitation
OF the Maharajah, and can leave
only with his permission. Lockart.
Mummery is perhaps the first
stranger to have entered it's gates
IN this way, and he has brought
back some vivid Impressions Of the
Journey, the city and it's inhab-
ltants and the Maharajah.
+ When Lockart-M ummery and his
assistants arrived at the nearest
rail-head they were met by the
Maharajah's representatives with
an automobile and three huge
elephants. the former for the con.
veyance OF the passengers and the
latter Tor the baggage.
Journey Amazing.
Overwhelmingly describes the
journey through the Jungle to
khatmandu as amazing" the pas.
sengers being thrown about the
automobile during the first days
Journey along a dried-up riverbed..
Armed guards accompanied . the
party until the Himalayas had been
crossed and the Maharajah's terri
tory was reached.
At the bottom of the Himalayas
the royal carriages awaited them,
and they were driven to the royal
palace, a large palace standing in
Its own grounds, in appearance like
an old English country house.
Describing the Maharaj ah, Lock.
art Mummery says he was always
gorgeously attired and wearing
wonderful jewels whenever he re-
ceived his visitors. A noticeable
jewel was his one earring, an
enormous ruby. His five-year-old
daughter was always present with
him, and she was observed one
day on the parade ground leading
q regiment of soldiers, with full
band, round and round the parade
ground, all looking as serious as
sphinxes.
Ladies GOOd.LOOking.
Tho na1aco 1odiaS uyoSa tor
looking and all very fair. Black
lines painted under their eyes and
continued to the ears gave them
a very amusing appearance.
Everyone, even the children, had
vermillion marks on the forcheads,
indicating their royal casteS
The visitors found that the city
itself consisted mainly of temples
and palaces, the remainder being
slums. The innumerable palaces
were both huge and gorgeous, with
wonderful gardens, fountains and
aviaries.
All were painted white inside
and out, the floors being laid with
white or colored marble. A fur
Their instance of the modern West
meeting the ancient East was the
fact that there is plumbing, with
hot and cold water, throughout the
palaces, while many places in the
city have electric light. Tho tenn.
pies are described as being most
beautiful and being so numerous
that they seem to jostle each other
everywhere.
The Maharajah's operation is un.
derstood to have been successful.