{"id":2609,"date":"2023-06-27T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.schatzalp.ch\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2023-07-05T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T10:01:14","slug":"das-imperiale-russland-in-den-alpen-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/2023\/06\/27\/das-imperiale-russland-in-den-alpen-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"25th August to 17th November 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2609\" class=\"elementor elementor-2609\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-65199ebe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"65199ebe\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-68adc8c0\" data-id=\"68adc8c0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-356ec4fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"356ec4fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2622 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-2048x1265.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-130x80.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-394x243.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-915x565.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-1240x766.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-1749x1080.jpg 1749w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-162x100.jpg 162w, https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dmitri-Romanow-1-scaled-1-600x371.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Welcome to the last summer installment of the Schatzalp history blog! So far we have relied on the Davoser Bl<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">\u00e4tter <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">and its co-publications, the Davos Courier and the Courrier de Davos as our primary sources of information, but that\u2019s about to change, for the very good reason that those journals stopped publication after their 25 August 1939 editions, not resuming until 17 November of the same year. The cause of the interruption was the mobilization of the Swiss Army and the calling up of the reserves for the defense of the country\u2019s borders. That left Davos with very few trained typesetters, and it took some time to fill the resulting gap. So this blog installment will follow the usual format, but starting next time we will turn to the writings of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia to fill us in on what was going on. He arrived in Davos on 31 August and reported to Schatzalp the next day, but arrived too late to have his name included on the current guest list. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I began the last installment by saying a few words about the situation here in the US, and my hometown Portland, Oregon. Things are pretty much the same as of this moment \u2014 strange and alarming \u2014 but life goes on without too much disruption. Eighty-one years ago, by contrast, it must have been pretty clear to the inhabitants of Europe that life was about to undergo a profound change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland \u2014 the first act of what would become the Second World War. If there\u2019s one thing I feel absolutely certain of, it\u2019s that the guests at Schatzalp were glued to their radios during that first week of September, listening to the leaders of each of the warring nations address their people and declare war. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">While working on this blog installment, I tried to find recordings of as many of those broadcasts as possible, the better to imagine what the Schatzalp residents experienced. Here are links to the three I listened to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NMi312fewdg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">King George VI of the Untited Kingdom, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>September <\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xcSnKArKz8E&amp;t=349s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-1\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom, 3<\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-US\">rd<\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-US\"> September<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KkKp-9PgO-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-2\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Dictator Adolf Hitler of Germany, 1<\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-US\">st<\/span><\/sup> <span lang=\"en-US\">September<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As for the Schatzalp census, it is not at all surprising, under the circumstances, that the guest list that had remained steady and even increased up until 11 August now dropped precipitously, going from 108 to 96 residents over the course of only two weeks. The number of countries represented underwent a corresponding decrease from 21 to 19. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Here is the nationalities breakdown:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Germany 16 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">England 15 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Portugal 15<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">India 8 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Ireland 8<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Switzerland 6<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"fr-FR\">France <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">5 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Belgium 4<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Holland 3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Romania 3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Yugoslavia 3 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"de-DE\">Czechoslovakia <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Spain 2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Dutch East Indies 1 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Finland 1 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Hungary 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Iraq 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Italy 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Syria 1<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"de-DE\">The Spanish exodus was the most noteworthy, with five of the seven citizens of that country departing. The sole representatives of Brazil and Austria, respectively, likewise made their exit<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, the Brazilian gentleman having been at Schatzalp for a mere two or three weeks. We don\u2019t know if he went all the way home, but it was certainly an opportune moment to head for South America. I wish I could have found some information about him!<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Of the remaining guests there were five noblemen and women \u2014 1 Baron, 1 Marquise, 2 Countesses, and 1 Count. People with professional titles continued to make up roughly 10% of the whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The departures follow the usual pattern, with six people out of 21 leaving relatives behind [these can be found in bold print]. What is particularly interesting though is that it was the Marquis de Benicarlo and not his wife who departed. Based on the fact that he had been there much longer than the Marquise (he was number 30 on the previous list, while she was number 93), one assumes that he was the sufferer in the family, but perhaps she had the disease as well. At any rate, neither of them died of it, but it will be interesting to see if she appears on the list of 17 November, after publication resumed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">It is perhaps worth noting that one of the departing guests, Frau Margerete Sachse of Switzerland, shared a name with a famous Austrian character actress who was very active at that time. When I first saw her name on the list I was excited, but after noting the difference in nationality and learning that Frau Sachse the actress worked on two films during the summer of 1939 (from May to July), whereas Frau Sachse the Schatzalp guest was already in residence at the beginning of April and did not leave until mid-August, I realized that it was an almost impossible connection. Dr Maurer would surely not have allowed such comings and goings, however celebrated the patient in question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Departures:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">1. Mr Alphonso Zobel de Ayala, Spain<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">2. Mr Manuel Aguilar Otermin, Spain<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">3. Mr Frank Ingham, Austria<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">4. Mr Robert Holt, England<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">5<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>. <\/b><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons G. Perez-Sanmillan, Marquis de Benicarlo, Spain<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">6. Frl. S. Lackner, Germany<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">7. Mme Candelaria Santos Suarez y Giron, Spain<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">8. Mlle Carmen Creus y Santos Suarez, Spain<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">9. Miss Alice O\u2019Neill, England<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">10. Frl. Nedia Krunic, Yugoslavia<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">11. Frl. Marg. Sachse, Switzerland<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">12. Mons Andr<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u00e9<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> Crouzier, France<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">13. Mme S. Fonseca, Portugal<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">14. Mrs Florence Howell, England<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">15. Frau Dr. Gerda Wallach, Germany<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">16. Herr Dr. P. Cuypers, Dutch East Indies<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">17. Mr C. Cond<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u00e9<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> de Oliveira, Brazil<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">18. Mons Jose Fonseca, Portugal<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">19. Mme F. du Mesnil, France<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">20. Mme L<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u00e9onie <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Laurent, France<br \/><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">21. Herr Werner Rooda, Holland<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"de-DE\">Five of the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">nine <\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">new arrivals joined relatives already <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">present at Schatzalp. Frau Dr G. Mackh was clearly the wife of Herr Dr G. Mackh, so Herr Dr W. Mackh was perhaps a father or brother of the latter. <\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">Mr C. Chaturvedi joined Mr S.L. Chaturvedi (perhaps they were brothers, or father and son). <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">A <\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">sixth <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">individual, Mr A.S. Singh, may or may not have been a member of the little family group surrounding Mr Bowa Dinga Singh, the subject of this week\u2019s biographical sketch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Arrivals:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<ol>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Dr W. Mackh, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau Dr G. Mackh, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Joao Mello Osorio, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau Berta Helfer, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Max Brandeis, Switzerland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Irmengard Wiemers, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Marie<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\"> Th\u00e9rese<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> de Vasconcellos, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr A.S. Singh, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr C. Chaturvedi, India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The new census shows that slightly more women had left than men (7 vs 5), but the ratio remained amazingly well balanced, with 44 females and 52 males. I found some statistics on gender and tuberculosis mortality in an old TB textbook to which I sometimes refer, though it is only passingly relevant to the Schatzalp situation since we do not know the ages of the patients there. Still, it offers some interesting context:<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span lang=\"en-US\">Of the 60,428 deaths from tuberculosis in the United States in 1940, 35,795 were of the male sex and 24,633 of the female sex\u2026 In other words, on an average that year the male death rate exceeded the female by nearly 42 percent\u2026 This difference between the two sexes varies with age; until they are ten years old the tuberculosis mortality of boys exceeds that of girls, but between the ages of 10 and 30 the female rate is strikingly higher; after age 30, in the United States, the male tuberculosis mortality exceeds throughout the remainder of life that of the female, the difference being particularly great between the ages of 35 and 70.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span lang=\"en-US\">This excess of the male tuberculosis death rate over that of the female is somewhat typical in urbanized or industrialized communities; the same situation is noted for instance in England and Wales. There are several exceptions, however, namely, in Italy where the female death rate exceeds, especially through the child-bearing period; in the Netherlands, the female tuberculosis death rate exceeds that of the males up to age 40. Other countries, where the female rate exceeds that of the males, might be noted: Denmark, Japan, both sections of Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden.\u201d*<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The author did not claim to know the reason for the age-gender mortality divergence, and simply allowed the numbers to speak for themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Speaking of science and research, the Davoser Bl<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">\u00e4tter<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> of 25 August, instead of directing its readers to the latest popular novel, suggested some more serious literature coming out of Davos itself:<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span lang=\"en-US\">The Physical-Meteorological Observatory in Davos, under the direction of Dr. W. M<\/span>\u00f6<span lang=\"en-US\">rikofer, has recently published some interesting scientific papers. Dr. M<\/span>\u00f6<span lang=\"en-US\">rikofer is the author of a very comprehensive publication, a reprint of the Handbook of Biological Working Methods published by Urban and Schwarzberg, which deals with meteorological radiation measurement methods, an area that has been particularly closely studied by the head of our observatory for many years. \u2013 His co-workers O. Eckel and Chr. Thams published investigations on density, temperature and radiation conditions of the snow cover in Davos, and W. Hecht and W. M<\/span>\u00f6<span lang=\"en-US\">rikofer submitted as a third publication a paper on criticism and improvement of the gray wedge photometer method, which came out as a special edition from the Meteorological Journal 1939, issue 4 and 5\u201d<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">English readers, meanwhile, could savor the final installment of Llewelyn Powys\u2019s \u201cSummer in My Alpine Village Home\u201d. And those who preferred French had two articles to choose from: \u201c<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">Le Lac de Davos<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201d and \u201c<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">Le Visage Politique de la Suisse<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The latest sporting news certainly gave no indication that anything at all was amiss in Europe. The Landquart-Davos Alpine Cycling Championship had just taken place for the first time the previous Sunday after an interruption of several years. It was a 48km course encompassing 1000 meters difference in altitude from start to finish. There were 25 participants, all of whom finished the race. The average speed was 27.5km per hour, and the winner was a gentleman called Henri Roth from Degersheim, who completed the course in 1 hour, 44 minutes, and 46 seconds. I imagine there were at least one or two Schatzalp guests who slipped away from the rest-cure to be there at the finish-line. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">But the most stupendously optimistic item to be published in the 25 August edition was the announcement that the International Skating Association had chosen Davos as the site of its 1940 Men\u2019s European Speed Skating Championship. Needless to say, it did not actually take place!<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Before proceeding to this weeks guest spotlight, I\u2019d like to say a quick word about a certain Mr Nathaniel Hone who came to Schatzalp from Ireland at the end of July, 1939, and left at some point during the two-month interval when the Davoser Bl<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">\u00e4tter<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> suspended publication. Mr Hone, like Frau Sachse, bore a famous name, though in his case there can be no mistaken identity since the Irish painters Nathaniel Hone the Elder and Nathaniel Hone the Younger died in 1794 and 1917 respectively (the former was the great-grand-nephew of the latter). I have not been able to establish any familial relationship between the Schatzalp Hone and the two artists, but one does wonder\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I suppose it is not absolutely impossible that the subject of our short biographical sketch, Bowa (Bawa) Dinga Singh of Lahore, India (now Pakistan), is not the same man whom I was able to find on the internet, but it seems so highly unlikely that I shall, at any rate, proceed: <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">B.D. Singh was a timber baron in Lahore, who started out as a clerk with Spedding &amp; Co Timber Merchants and ended up as Chairman and Managing Partner of Spedding, Dinga Singh &amp; Co. At some point he received the title Rai Bahadur, an honor conferred by the British Raj. His wife was called Durga Devi Singh, and one of his many children was a son called Bawa Sunder Singh. That would seem to confirm the identity of the Schatzalp B.D. Singh, since he was joined there in July 1939 by Mr Bawa Sunder Singh and Mrs Devi Dinga Singh, who arrived together. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The thing that initially gave me pause about Rai Bahadur B.D. Singh was his age. One online listing says that his date of birth is unknown, but another places it in 1855, which means he was 83 or 84 years old at the time of his death in 1939. Tuberculosis, on the other hand, has often been portrayed as a disease of the young \u2014 one thinks immediately of the many poets, writers, composers, etc, who died at the height of their careers in the 19th century, depriving posterity of the brilliant works they would undoubtedly have produced in later life. The oldest patient at Thomas Mann\u2019s \u201cBerghof\u201d suffers not from consumption but malaria, and the house is overrun with feckless young people, whiling their lives away. So what do we make of the octogenarian Rai Bahadur? <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Well, as it turns out, \u201cold-age type tuberculosis\u201d was (and is) a significant subset of TB cases overall. The same old textbook that gave me the mid-20th century statistics on tuberculosis and gender has some interesting age-based numbers as well. For instance, among the Caucasian population in the US, those 75 and over, both male and female, had the highest TB mortality rate. If you lived long enough with a latent infection, it could very well emerge as active disease in old age. Not surprisingly, racial minorities, whose lives were generally much harder, tended to succumb to the disease at an earlier age. Outside the US, the English and Welsh TB mortality rates were highest among middle-aged men and young adult women. In Ireland, meanwhile, it truly was a young person\u2019s disease, with those in their 20s hit hardest, regardless of gender. In Paris, young women died in droves, but men reached their peak risk only between the ages of 60 and 65.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I do not know the age-related statistics for either India or Lahore, but it turns out to be quite plausible that our Schatzalp B.D. Singh was indeed the Rai Bahadur. Only one point of suspicion remains: Rai Bahadur Bawa Dinga Singh died in 1939 <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>in Lahore<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. Could our B.D. have made it back to his homeland before dying? Would a terminally ill octogenarian have even attempted such a trip? Certainly the arrival of his wife and son at Schatzalp suggests that he was either already on his death bed <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>or<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> they had come to take him home. We don\u2019t know exactly when they left, but none of them reappeared on the guest list when publication resumed in November, so overall I am satisfied. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Two structures remain standing in Lahore that attest to the importance the Rai Bahadur once enjoyed in that city. The Bawa Dinga Singh building, erected in 1927 at the behest of its namesake, is now a shopping center. (<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:BAWA_DINGA_SINGH_BUILDING.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">Link to the picture<\/a>) <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Rai Bahadur\u2019s family home. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/449058991945655\/posts\/the-house-related-to-rai-bahadur-bawa-dinga-singh-situated-at-mcload-road-lahore\/1209906035860943\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to the picture<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Finally, if any of you just happen to be interested in the Indian Army, consider having a look at: \u201cTradition Never Dies: The Genesis and Growth of the Indian Army\u201d, written by a Lt. Col. Bawa Sundar Singh, and published in India in 1972. <\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As for a specific activity, my suggestion to those of you who are currently at Schatzalp and would like to honor the memory of B.D. Singh is simply to take a hike on one of the forest paths and spare a thought for the old timber merchant from Lahore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Until next time!<br \/><\/span>Your Dr William Lee<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mme Andr\u00e9e Ferrand, France<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Doctor Walter Mackh, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Erwin Geist, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Laurice Antaki, Syria<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Miss Doris W. Bartlett, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mme Maria Ernestina Infante da Camara Martins Pereira, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons le Dr Louis Baudrux, Belgium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Spiro Valerianos, Romania<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Guy Lefort, France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs Emilie Francis, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Bowa Dinga Singh, Lahore, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mme C. Valerianos, Romania<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Miss C. Howell, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Dr W. Zechnall, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mme Mello Osorio, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Baron F. von Langenn, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Dr G.Wallach, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Kumar S. Gupta, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. B. Weiss, Switzerland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs Georgina Rawlins, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Marie E. Alvarez, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Martin McGrath, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle H<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u00e9<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">l<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u00e8<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ne Mathieu, France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Oswald M<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">\u00fc<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ller-Dubrow, Director, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs M.E. M<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">\u00fc<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ller-Dubrow, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau Nada Paolovic, Yugoslavia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Vlasta Navratil, Kolin, Czechoslovakia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr P. Cunningham, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Andreas Kammer, Hungary<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr George Foreman, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Z. Manolesco, Romania<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr M. Clenagham, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">M<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">me Josefa Murteira, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Jo<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u00e2<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">o Sequeira Cantinho, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr James Clarke, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Mario Ferreira, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Miss A.C. Rouse, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau Petronella A. Kleinhoonte, Holland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Eva-Brita Aminoff, Finland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Vincent Reynolds, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr S.L. Chaturvedi, Calcutta, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons F. Gosset, France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Antonio Orfila, Spain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Heinrich Wepf, Switzerland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Emmy Lion, Dutch East Indies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs Cecily Drummond, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Comtessa Marie Cecil de Carnide and nurse, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons le Comte Jose de Carnide, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mme le Comtesse Tereza de Carnide, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Dr Julio de Vasconcellos, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Hans Warsitz, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr George Bull, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Fernando Madureira, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Geoffroy Pittar, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Jeanne Opsomer, Holland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Hussein Kamil, Baghdad, Iraq<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Fernando Madureira, Portugal*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr K. McFadden, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons F. du Mesnil, France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Antonio Lopes de Fonseca, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr John Kennagh, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Rosalia Termini, Italy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Dr. Hans Cornet, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs G. Solomon, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Felicia Bohm, Yugoslavia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Dr. E. Kux, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Ew. Generaloberin Mussiliey, Schweiz<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle G. Humbert, Switzerland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Dr. Jonkheer van Haeften, Holland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau L. Bierman, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs Ph. Monk, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr. Eric Monk, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Andre Gilles, Belgium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Francoise Lhonneux, Belgium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mme Gabrielle Lhonneux, Belgium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Nathaniel Hone, Ireland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mme Marquise de Benicarlo, Spain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Egon von Brasseur, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Amar Kapur, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Bawa Sunder Singh, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs Devi Dinga Singh, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau Maria Bundy, Yugoslavia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Wilma R<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">\u00f6llinger, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Hynek Katz, B<\/span><span lang=\"de-DE\">\u00f6hmen<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, Czechoslovakia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle L. Achard, Switzerland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Antonie Muller, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr Arthur Rawlins, England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Dr W. Mackh, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau Dr G. Mackh, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mons Joao Mello Osorio, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frau Berta Helfer, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Herr Max Brandeis, Switzerland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Frl. Irmengard Wiemers, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mlle Marie<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\"> Th\u00e9rese<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> de Vasconcellos, Portugal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr A.S. Singh, India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr C. Chaturvedi, India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">*See: Goldberg, Benjamin, ed., <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Clinical Tuberculosis<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, \u201cChapter 1: Epidemiology of Tuberculosis\u201d, by Godias J. Drolet, F.A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1946<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the last summer installment of the Schatzalp history blog! So far we have relied on the Davoser Bl\u00e4tter and its co-publications, the Davos Courier and the Courrier de Davos as our primary sources of information, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/2023\/06\/27\/das-imperiale-russland-in-den-alpen-2-2-2-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":117,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schatzalp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}