MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1931.
SERIOUS ARMY SHORTAGE.
How the Infantry is Affected.
There is a serious shortage in the Army of both officers and men, October, 1929, the doficiency in men was approximately 9,500, In April of this year the shortage in the establishment was 11,500. As to the commissloned ranks, the Army to-day has to meet the keen competition of, the commercial world. The actual shortage, last April, of subalterns was 231.
These facts were brought out at
ant-Colonel G. McM. Robertson
STATESMAN DEAD. SIR LAMING WORTHINGTON EVANS, P.C.
DIES IN SLEEP
London, Saturday.
The death occurred in his sleep to-day of the Rt. Hon. Sir Laming Worthington Evans, Et., P.C., G.R.E., M.P. (Cona.) for
minster since 1929, in his fifty- third year. Reuter..
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INSECTS.
Natural History Museum Collection.
STATIONED FOR TWO YEARS
IN NICARAGUA.
www.
500 TO REMAIN.
Washington, Saturday, The United States Government has decided to withdraw Ameri Six million insects have "mov-can Marines from Nicaragua, cd house" into the new wing with the exception of 500 who
MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS.
Japan and Mukden Re-open Negotiations.
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Marshal Chang We built by the Empire Marketing will be employed as instructors of day entertained Mr. Kimura,
Board at the Natural History the National Guard.
director of the Japanese South Museum, which was opened by Sir Jaming Worthington Evans the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisting to maintain order in
The Marines, who have been Manchuria Rallway, and a discus- was born at Birchington, Kent, and Acute over-crowding in the insect Nicaragua since 1927, numbered sion took place on the subject of
hc
WAS
made Comptroller
of
was admitted as a Solicitor In
rooms, which contain specimens
rollway situation in Maa- 1890. Retiring from practice in
American Service.
churia generally and the position of 1910, in that year he contested the from every corner of the world 5,000 two years ago. Beuter's the
has made necessary a new build- Colchester Parliamentary Division
[The Republic of Nicaragua the South Manchuria Line in parti i ay a Conservative candidate, belaging for their display.
The collection is a sort of 1913. On February 18, 1918, the
tame into operation on April 5, cular.
It is alleged by Japan that the successful. He bold several ad the Royal United Service Instituton.ministrative posts in the Governogues gallery for the use of Bryan Chamarro Treaty between South Manchuria Railway is being
the men who S.W., in a lecture given by Lleuter-ment and served during the Way Empire's most destructive and was signed, under which the of the completion of new Chinese are policing the Nicaragua and the United States prejudicially affected as a reguli under the rank of Major. In 1916 dangerous criminals-the insect United States, in return for railways in Manchuria. Sin Kua (Dorsetshire Regiment), who is employed on Staff duties ai the War Foreign Trade, and later Parlis tries to put an Empire crop "on for a canal route through Nicara-
prsts. If a new insect crook $3,000,000, acquired the option Min.
A Nicht Nichi message states, spot" the entomologist's gua and also a naval base in the definitely, that negotiations be- The soldier, he said, never before mentary Secretary to the Ministry thes
of Munitions. From 1921-22 he first act, like served ander such good conditions
was Secretary of State for War to identify the pest and to get its const and Corn Island on the At- tion and the South Manchurian the detective's, is Bay of Fonseca on the Pacific tween Marshal Chang's administra- Barracks
were being
and from 1923-24 Postmaster dossier from the criminal relantic coast. It was ratified by Railway Company have been open modernised, recreation-rooms were
General. In 1914 he again assum cords. This information tells Nicaragua on April 7, 1916, and ed "for the settlement of questions provided which resembled clubs, the
and preparation and service of food had the post of Secretary for War, him the criminal's habits
by the United States on June 24, concerning railway construction methods of working and helps 1926.] him to find ways and means of outwitting the enemy.
Office.
now.
been improved, and educational Incilities were available to prepare the soldier for his return to civil life after the completion of his colour service. His pay, too, hnd been substantially increased, and for one shilling a month he had opportunities for sport which were, denied to men of the same class out- side the Army.
the
But despite these advantages there was a falling off in recruits which led to anxiety among those responsible for maintaining strength of what was, after all, only a small Army, practically the whole of the difference between establish- ment and strength being in infan- try batalions at home.
Other Branches Preferred, The Infantry, it was obvious, had the lever attraction for Army re eruits, who normally preferred a branch of the Service where they would learn a trade which would be of use to them in civil life. The problem was how to make the In- fantry more attractive.
which he held until 1929.]
PRINCE HENRY.
RETURNING TO ARMY
LIFE.
The Duke of
the Hussars in August, 1929,
COUNTRY MANSION FIRE.
Water Pumped From Pond Nearly Half-Mile Away.
Insect by General Post.
Farmers, medical officers, mis- JUDGE & THE PRESS.
sionaries, commercial men, and
post
rights"
to
Kimura; on behalf
It will be recalled that, according recent Japanese reports. Mr. of the South Manchurian Railway, intended to Chinese authorities approach the and endeavour to persuade them that there was plenty of room in Chinese and Manchuria for both
turn for the various concessions which Japan was prepared to make in regard to railway construction in Manchuria.
Jagricultural specialists Bend BRAIN NOT NIMBLE ENOUGH specimens to be identified from FOR CROSS-WORD PUZZLES. all parts of the Empire. By every morning's
arrive Mr. Justice Eve was in humor Japanese development, with mutual London, Saturday. boxes containing un unknown sus mood when he proposed "The benefit, if the two would co-operate Gloucester, who beetle from the West Indies, a Press" at the Printers Penalon instead of compete with each other. was placed on the retired list from moth which is ruining crops in Corporation dirner at the Con-
Is Fiji, an ant which lives on rail-naught Rooms, recently,
It was further stated that Mr. Kimura would press for the com. returning to Army life to become way sleepers in Palestine, or a
There were, he said, alluring at-pletion of the Kirin-Tunhua Rall Staff Captain of the second fly suspected of carrying some tractions in the Press with which Cavalry Brigade at Tidworth
on fatal disease in Central Africa. he had very little personni acquain-way, to the Korean border, in re-
These are filed in special wooden tance. March 3.-Router.
specimen cases and scientista
His brain was not sufficiently study such delicate signs as the nimble to solve the cross-word puz insect's lower jaw or the pattern rle: his knowledge of football was of thé veins
its on
Other points which Mr. Kimura wing not sufficient to prognosticate the to find its exact place
in the winners of 12 or 20 matches was expected to take up included:-- week; his back garden in St. John's loans to Mukden for the construc (1) Repayment of the Japanese tribe.
Advice on practical control Wood was not large enough to grow tion of the Taonan-Taitaihar and measures, also, is given. The the longest cucumber or largest
the Kirin-Tunhua linea, on which Newton House, Buckland, near new building contains "controlled marrow of the season.
fine old temperature" rooms. where the Faringdon, Berkshire, a
He mentioned "a matter of his- not even the interest has thus far insects can be The lecturer, then dealt with the country mansion, was almost com- tropical conditions even in
reared under ory," the net result of the fourth been paid: and
(2) China's violation of position of the commissoned ranks.pletely destroyed by fire
crusade, which he discovered only
refrain from COD The pay of a Second Lieutenant on Mr. and Mrs. F. Lea Page, the English winter. Their
on Sunday-that the net result of agreement to joining was £272 a year with allow owners, were away when a servant histories can then be studied and the fourth crusade, launched in the structing parallel Hines competing ances--not a very attractive figure found one of the rooms on the certain methods of destruction thirteenth century, was to establish with the South Manchuria Railway
main line. man without privata
a Latin Empire under one Baldwin. for a young means. Families moreover, which
(Laughter), normally supplied the Army with officers had been hard-hit by the War and their sons were looking For more lucrative openings.
The prospect of premature retire ment and the expense, especially in the case of the murried man with children, of service abroad, were other factors which told against the supply of the commissioned ranka,
On the other hand, Colonel Robertson added, the cheap entry into the Army as compared with other professions must be borne in mind.
ground floor ablaze.
the lawn.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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life-
tested.
Two Strange Collectors.
million Three-quarters of a
new rooms and have
near
a breakfast.
FOG FATALITIES.
WALKED INTO RIVERS AND CANALS.
London, Dec. 28. A feature of the great fog in England which in parts has lifted |
churia
the
It was hinted that Japan might She called the Faringdon and Abingdon brigades, but although
It was a constant wonder to him be willing to overlook violations of these were soon on the scene the butterflies are arranged in one of how, amid all the hurry and bustle, the agreement mentioned in (2) fire had gained a substantial hold. the
such a wonderfully accurate re provided some agreement could be Villagers, attracted by the glare, romantic history. Two brothers view of the world's happenings was reached whereby the South Man- Railway would be hurried along and helped to save who lived Rheims, in served up to them daily with their
guaranteed a certain percentage of some of the valuable old furniture, France, collected insecta as
One devoted himself to but the heat became so intense that hobby.
It was Arnounced that, as a re the freight which ordinarlly would they were driven back before many beetles; the other collected but-sult of the dinner, subscriptions be carried on the S.M.R.
It was further understood that valuable pieces could be carried to terflies, and by the end of his amounting to £23,211 had been re- Mr. Kimura had likewise been au
life had amassed one million ceived.
When the coller-
thorised to intimate that Japan was The firemen worked throughout specimens.
desirous to co-operate, and ready to the night, but were handicapped tion came up for sale the Natural
advance money under proper safe- They had History Museum acquired the by a shortage of water.
the authorities Then the
guards, to enable butter- to feed their hoses. from a pond bulk of it.
flies, the most fragile of cargoes.
In Mukden to carry out their rail. nearly half a mile away.
way plans. had to be transported to London. They were taken across France by road, shipped with tender care over the Channel and finally de- livered in South Kensington in thirteen specially padded vans.
Other insects have reached theter of people who have walked inte Museum in odd ways, A book-rivers and canals because of being seller bought an ancient cabinet unable to see the edges of the of books in which he found a banka. At least four men perish. number of dead butterflies. They ed last night, including three sep- turned out to belong to an old tuagenarians. Several English species which had since have been killed and many injured! lecome extinct and to be worth in road accidents. Thieves have ten guineas each. They now been busy, including a gang of repose in the new insect wing motor bandits who stripped a but Attempts have been made to re-cher's shop in the East End of its introduce several species of but stock of Turkeys. A alight south- terflies which had become extinct westerly breeze to-day gradually into butterfly sancturies in Enst cleared the fog, and it is hoped that Anglia..
It will ensure a fogless, it mildly chowery, Christmas. The weather Some other valuable moths in the Channel to-day is beautiful were collected by an engineer only fine.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow,and altho.)
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69-N. E. state of U.
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The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Wednesday's issued along with a new cross vord rude.),
Moths From An Oil Field.
South American oil-field. ""The desire of the moth for the flame" drove them to besiege his flares when he was working at night Other specimens have been sent
in by army officers who take up. "bug-hunting" in their spare time in Iraq, Egypt, Aden and the Indian frontier.
The insect wing will provide room for scientists from over- seas who wish to work at the Musoum, Nowhere else in the Empire can they find ao complete a collection, and the new accom Imodation should prove another valuable weapon in the war against Insect pesta, for which i the Empire Marketing Board has already allocated some £200,000. The Natural History Museum does for insects much what Kew does, through its Herbarium, for the plant world.".
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION. VISTA
SEALS
A OARSUDEA PO READİ.
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ST BEEN L
this afternoon has been the num-
Made Auditor
persona
One of the younger men holding
Important offices in the Canna dian Pacifio Rallway, W. R. Pat-. terson, has been appointed deputy ̈, gonoral suditor of the`'rallway as from the first of the current year. Born in 1890, Mr, Patterson held the position of auditor of disbur- sements prior: to the present ap- olatmeti, and.,was” prombled to that post at the age of 36 Ho "entered, Canadian Pacific, sorvice in ́1917 sa olerk in the auditor of disbursements office at Montreal jandross-through's" auccession. Dr promotions to bo head of the Poffion, Frina that position he now
takes his present appointment
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