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THE
CHINA MAIL.
CLIMBING GOATS OF POSITION IN MALTA. UNIVERSITY OF THE TERRITORIAL ARMY. MAN SAVES A TOWN
MOROCCO.
An Unbelievable Sight.
CURIOUS GRAZING GROUND,
Everybody expects monkey-shines fron Billy and Nanny-to a certain extent.
won't a goat'eat!
A MEMORIAL TO THE PRIME
MINISTER.
Mr. Isaac Foot, M.P., headed a Parliamentary deputation to the Prime Minister on July 30 and handed to him the following memorial on the position in Malta, which had been signed by a number of leading Free Churchmen eariler in the day:``.
AIR.
Great New Scheme at Brooklands.
!
Brooklands, the world's centre of motor-car racing, is now to become the training centre of professional aeroplane pilots.
Arrangements have been made for Tin cans and overshova, rusty
a fusion of motoring and avlation nails and broken crockery-what We, whose names appear interests, and the famous Surrey Hereunder, desire to place ori record resort of motor-racing will be con our support of His Majesty's adverted into an international training visers in the stand they have taken centre for the aviators "B" licence dispute which has arisen the most advanced training in in the between the British Government and civil aviation, entitling the holder the Vatican In relation to Malta. fly "for hire or reward.”
In zoologien folk-lore, that is As a matter of stern fact, probably few goats have been actually seen partaking of any such ascetic fare,
But if a goat will ent almost anything-poison ivy, for instance-- will it also go almost any place to
eat it?
Ilave you, for example, ever seen gunts perform such monkey-shines us climbing into the tree tops for their dinner?
2 While deploring the necessity for the teinporary suspension of re- presentative Institutions in Malta, we support the Government in their decision, which was made Inevitable by the action of the Roman Catholic authorities.
DECREASE IN NUMBERS SINCE
LAST YEAR.
The latest official returns show that in June 3,651 recruits were finally approved for service in the Territorial Army, a decrease of 937 compared, with the number approved last May, and 848 tess than in June, 1929.
The total number of enlistments
during the nine months of the present
was
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
FROM DISASTER.
Dash to a Blazing Gasometer.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
· GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS, ·
600-FT. COLUMN OF SMOKE,
Keighley, July 26.
A gasometer, exploded and shook town of Keighley early to-day,
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causing widespread consternation, услг recruiting
but no one was injured.-p 23,789, compared with 23,485 dur-
Three-quarters of a million cubię ing the corresponding period last feet of gas, sufficient to supply the year. Last month, the Western Command led with 952 recruits, town for some weeks escaped, and then came the Northern Command, was carried away into the country In other words, it will be the Arst 844; Scottish Command, 719; Lon- by a strong wind, although fumes British University of the Air, from con District, 122; Southern Com-hung over the village of Thwaites, on the outskirts of Keighley, for which will graduate future air mailmand, 958; and Eastern Com-
come hours. and passenger aeroplane pilots for mand, 356.
Flames and amoke leapt to a The total Territorial strength, employment in the Empire and for-
exclusive of permanent staff, is eign countries.
The flying clubs and schools now 1,753 officers and 129,428 3. We support the action of the throughout the country which are other ranks. This is an increase Government in repudiating accept-actively engaged in teaching flying of 26, officers and, 606 other ranks ance of "a condition as to the per- Leoncentrate on securing "A" licences compared with the numbers last sonality of the Head of the Maltese for their pupila--the private flier's month, but is still three officers Morocco and Administration, which constitutes licence which can be secured after and 1.674 other ranks less than a hundred inhabitants, would probably | Children's Boots or Shoes from $200
nothing less than a claim to inter-about ten hours of instruction. fere in the domestic politics of a The "B" licence, however, neces British Colony,"
sitates great experience and know. ledge, and a minimum of 200 flying hours.
Probably not. Probably the giddy goats, if any, on your visiting list, are not giddy enough to mistake themselves for monkeys. But if you go to wander about in the vicinity of Mogador and Agadir, you can see this very sight-goats grazing in the tops of argan-trees.
4. We welcome the declaration of David Fairchild, a botanist of the Government that, during the note, who has recently returned interregnum, the existing Ministry from wandering through the East will be retained in office, and we Indies. Sumatra, Ceylon, Java, and attach the utmost importance to the Morocco, in, search of rare flora, statement of Lord Passfield, H.M. describes the sight in "Exploring Secretary of State for the Colonies, for Plants" (Macmillan). We read in the House of Lords on June 25.
There is an amazing variety in 1930, namely:- the forms of the trees; there were areas where they looked 'as dwarfed as the juniper of the rocky coast of Nova Scotia, due in part at least to the herds of goats and sheep that have browsed on them through the centuries.
In other places they seem to have escaped browsing only to be blown into strange, one-sided shapes by the winds that sweep in from the Atlan tie. We passed under one with so large a trunk that three of us could scarcely encircle it with our arms. Some had spreading crowns and others narrow ones. Some branched almost at the ground and others had a distinct trunk.
I even found one with weeping habit of growth. All had, of course, grown from seeds and it seemed to
"We have retained the noble Lord, Lord Strickland, and his colleagues in office; we have saved their posi- tion. We have not allowed them to be eliminated.... We are not in any sense giving way to the demand of the Vatican that Lord Strickland and his colleagues should be removed, and we have no intention of doing so."
5. We ask that the claim recently made by the Archbishop of Malta, that cleries cannot be summoned before a lay tribunal (except with ecclesiastical assent), shall be for- mally and definitely repudiated.
G. We declare our opinion that the pastoral letter of the Bishops of Malta (issued on May 1, 1930, and since approved and endorsed by the Pope), threatening severe spiritual their elementary-right of free choice of their Parliamentary representa- tives, is a violation of the privilego of British citizens, and is an abuse of ecclesiastical power.
Safer Flying Needs, An R.A.F. training was usually conaldered adequate for commercial flying, but with the increase in civilian air traffic, special training in dying to schedule, use of wireless, and a keener regard for safety are being more and more insisted upon.
Most of the present air line pilots have grown up with aviation, the vast majority having war experi- ence.
But the demand is already begin ning to exceed the supply, and the problem is how to find pilota of suitable calibre to be entrusted with the lives of passengers and the res- ponsibilities of regular mall carry ing.
year ago.
STAMP TALK.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
A few weeks ago reference was made. in the Straits Times to the display of postage stamps, bearing pictures of beasts and birds, which has been attracting a good deal of attention recently at the British Museum (Natural History Section),
South
Pair
height of 000 feet, according to eye-witnesses.
The corporation gasworks are at
as the town is on Leather Sale Canvas Shoes... 450 Thwaites, and holiday there were only a few work-Crepe Rabber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 6.00 men on the premises.
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have been wrecked had it not been for the presence of mind and cour- age of William Brent, the yard foreman.
Regardless of his own safety he rushed down the yard through a sheet of flame, blinding smoke, and fumes and intense heat to the con tral house, and turned the wheel which shut off the gas that was being manufacured and pouring into the blazing gasometer.
He covered his face with his coat, but In spite of this his head was scorched and his right hand burned.
"The report of the explosion shook the building," Brent sald.
Had the gas from the works con- tinued to go into the wrecked gase Kensington. meter the flames would in all pro- Beneath each stamp le a label bability have spread to another full bearing both the popular and the gasometer a few feet away.
of the specimen scientific name shown, and also directions for finding an example of the animal or bird, stuffed and mounted, in
galleries of Incidentally It
that on one of Borneo stamps is seen a pleture of the cassowary; a bird which is not, in fact, found in the country. Commenting on this the British North Borneo a height of at least 600 feat.
"There was imminent danger of
Some idea of the growth of com-the general mercial aviation can be gained by Museum. considering that in 1929, 47,000,000 mentioned miles were flown by regular air the liners. This will be vastly increased in the present year.
The Brooklands scheme aims at putting the British commercial pilot's licence on a par with the Bri highest and most respected in the world.
North
"The top of the gasometer seemed to shoot off, crumble up like card- board and collapse. The gasometer Was then began to sink."
the
600-Feet Flames. "Flames shot into the air and
smoke rose in clouds. I think the flames and smoke must have reached
Herald says: "Obviously the 24 the second gasometer becoming
be a variable species, with ample penalties against electors, exercising tish niaster mariner's ticket-the cent. stamp is the one referred to involved. I thought at any moment |
provision for cross pollination.
Many of them that had succeeded in growing into trees were in the centres of wide bushes, where the animals could not get at them with tut being severely scratched by the aharp spines which everywhere cover
the organ.
Everywhere they had been brows ed upon, even the donkeys stop and
pick the leaves from the under
branches above their heads. Goata will, of course, est almost-any-shrub,
and I was not surprised that they found even the tender young spines good to eat.
Dr. Fairchild had heard that goats go up into the branches of this tree to browse, but he admits that the sight surprised him. He tells us:
I recalled a woodcut published by Sir Joseph Hooker in his "Journal of a Tour in Morocco," depicting three goats in the branches of an argan-tree.
It is one of the twelve woodcuts Illustrating the book, but the pic ture in my copy was so badly print ed that only the lowest goat was easily observable, and Sir Joseph treated the matter so casually that I was quite unprepared for the sur prise which came with a sharp turn
7. We ask that there shall be such amendment of the Constitution of Malta as will give to the electors in that colony legal protection in the exercise of their franchise not less
than that secured by law to the
electors of Great Britain.
Among those who identified them.
selves with the memorial or with the deputation were the following:-
Lord Clwyd, Sir Donald Maclean, M.P., Principal Garvie, Mr. Isanc Foot, M.P., Mr. Wickham Steed, the
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that there would be further explosion. Had the top of the gasometer not
of the world to secure their certi- megapod, and the megapod is broken and the explosion oc-
Students will come from all parts"
ficates at Brooklands. Indians, to operate internal Indian air routes, will be seeking instruction in in creasing numbers as will Chinese and Japanese.
Now Gazette Notification 120 of 1909 states that the design on the 24 cent. Hac stamp representa a
found in North Borneo. Evidently the Government knew what it curred inwardly instead of rising meant to have represented, and into the sky, the consequences would the Natural History Section of the have been terrible," British Museum, of course, must The cause of the explosion is a know all about megapods. Could mystery. After turning off the gas ILLNESS AT RACES. the misapprehension have arisen Brent rushed to the telephone, and in the following way? A person's the fire brigade was on the scene In ordinary appearance is sometimes a few minutes. They extinguished she has to have a portrait takan-gasometer with water. considerably disguised when he or the fire after Alling the burnt-out-
our illustrated
Mrs. Duckworth, who keeps a weekly
papers amply prove this; the occasion farm close to the works, said: "The rouses the ambition and excites sight of the burning gasometer was The so terrible that. I was unable to the, vanity of the sitter.
rose from their megapod is a Malay bird, and move. Villagers Malays have a proverb to this beds and. fled from their homes, effect: In a country where there expecting another explosion at any
Baya noment" are no eagles, the sparrow
LADY ALLERTON AND SEVEN OTHERS FALL VICTIMS.
Rev. Silas K Hocking,.. the Rev. Lady Allerton and a number of Thomas Nightingale, Dr. F. W. other people were suddenly taken ill Norwood, Bir Murray Hyslop, Mr. at the recant Bibury races. Salls Milner Gray, M.P., Mr. James Scott,bury,
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M.P., Mr. George Lambert, M.P.. They were medically examined on Mr. H. F. Owen, M.P., Mr. Duncan the spot, and their condition was so "I am an eagle" There are Millar, M.P., Mr. Blindell, M.P., serious that they had to be removed cassowaries in Britain. Mr. F, Gould, M.P., Sir Tudor to Salisbury Infirmary. Four were megapod, therefore, finding itself Walters, M.P., Mr. E. Granville, taken in the city ambulance and then the limelight, indulged its vanity, got away with its bluff, M.P., Mr. J. H. Hudson, M.P., Mr. others in private motor-cars. Holford Knight,, M.P., and Mr. Salisbury doctors who were sum and has realised its ambition."
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The Japanese Press report that, the Public Safety Bureau have de
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spellings, such as harbor, plow, 'and altho.)
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It is thought that the sufferers, 50 (adds the Straits Times) here ed by the Polish Tobacco Monopoly,
a a chance for some keen ornitho claim that they have in the road when we saw across the tained the motor car belonging to who collapsed suddenly in the Coun- lagist, either in Malaya or North method of treating the coarser valley two argan-trees full of goats. Mr. S. Harada, an employed of the ty enclosure, in great pain may have Borneo, to send a stuffed specimen krades of tobacco, giving them the One of these happened to be a Yokohama Specie Bank, alleging been attacked by ptomaine polson of a megapod to the British taste and aroma of the best tobaccos plebald goat, and stood out in strong that he failed to pay a Chinese taxing, and inquiries are being made Museum authorities with a little and eliminating all components dan- contrast with the dark green vegeta- of $76, several years ago. The re- to trace a possible source of infer
note of explanation. tion of the tree.
Catching up my camera, 1. ran across to see these arboreal animals.
port-continues that, owing to the tion. absence of the official concerned, the Japanese representative could ac- I reached the tree and stood under complish nothing.
It, snapping my camera as fast as 1-
could, and standing almost directly tree to browse.
under some of them so that I could It is alf-century since Bir
In addition to Lady Allerton the patients Include: Mr. and Mrs. Bainbridge, Mra. Grainger sen, Mrs. Grainger fun, Mrs. Sealy Green (wife of the hon, veterinary surgeon of the course), and Birs.
get their silhouettes against the sky. Joseph Hooker described this scene, Anning.
He's "Asking For Trouble.
And probably he'll get it—if not applied. externally, then most certain
internally. Boys are so curious and adventar-
gerous to the lungs and mucous membranes.
Application of the treatment, they claim, will save the Monopoly several million francs, because It will diminish the import of foreign tobacco, but terms have not yet Bean mode with the inventors, who expect that the discovery will revolutionise the world's tobacco industry
the sake of seeing how it feels eren It is announced from Moscow that
in secret, Just to see what they taste the Kinotechnikum is to become a Ike. But it's all in Hift, and for high school for the study of every 11ttle kinematography. It will accommo- worry they
bring, there are date. 150 flm students, and the a. dozen com-course will last for three years. A pensating Joys, special section will come later for Andor non-Russian students of the Soviet
stomach... aches
They were not aware of my pre and in the preface to his "Journal," Mrs. Garton, of Wellow, near sance for some minutes, and I had he remarks, "up to the time of this Romsey, Hampshire, was taken ous. They will do a thing just for time to study the method by which visit, the Great Atlas was little betina Balisbury garage to which she they climbed into the topmost tor known to geographers than it had gone for her car, and was taken if it hurts, and eat "strange things branches, cropping right and left at was in the time of Strabo and home in the city ambulance, their leisure.
Pliny," and "from a comparison Lady Allerton is the wife of the A close examination of the larger with the accounts of early travellers ard baron, to whom she was married branches of the tree showed that the no notable change is apparent durin 1928. She was formerly Miss upper sides had been flattened into ing the last two centuries, so I am Joyce Hatfeild, daughter of the late actual runways by the sharp hoofs conscious that I am giving an ac- Mr. J. Hatfelld. of Thorp Arch of many generations of animals count of something pretty old Hall, Yorkshire. travelling up and down on them. In spite of this. I do not alwaje They were even broad enough to find it easy to get people to bellave allow a goat to spring from one my story until I show them my branch to the other and stand there photographs. on its hind feet while it browsed. The goat has been a domesticated
When the sulmals saw me, they animal-and associate of man since POLISH ASSOCIATION DEMANDS scampared down, the tree trunks and the Stone Age and as there are
THEIR EXPULSION. away across the valley
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of herding
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