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FLYING COMPLICATIONS The question of flying by lone pilots, more especially lone women pilots, over dangerous uncivised areas, is likely to be the subjecti of diplomatic negotiations in the near future.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1933.
THE STORY OF A DAY "IN THE SHIRES"
A VIVID PEN-PICTURE OF MELTON MOBRAY HUNT
THE THRILL OF THE CHASE
(By Major Geoffrey Harbord.)
London.
The covert, called in
Leicester-
The point at issue is the ganisation of search-parties by the Government in whose territories jan aviator may become lost, Hitherto rescue work has
In any other country in the world,, shire a "gorae," is a small spinney carried out as a matter of course, one would look out on this drab, dull on a south slope, quiet and good but now the question of costs is weather with a shudder. But in the lying for a fox and a likely and. being raised, and it is likely to be English Midlands, and expecially For a few minutes after the hounds regulated by diplomatic conven-
here at Melton Mowbray, the hub have been thrown in there is no tion.
of fox-hunting, it is a grand ruorn-soand from them, the Master's oc- Jing.
Icasional cheer mingling with the din The little town which looked last of "coffee house" conversation by night such a dreary, one-horse place the field in the corner, has now come to life. In twos and fours and strings, horses are being taken on to the meet, generally a "second horseman" riding one and leading another.
Your Daily Smile.
The Renson. "I suppose you know the Millers are moving?"
"Why, they've only been here six months. People were just getting to know them.”
"Yes.
That's why."
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"Can you come and dine nezt Wednesday!**
"Mind that horse! He'd kick the eye out of a fiy!"
"I never saw horses run so fast as last Tuesday."
"I would have bought him, only my ret, wouldn't pass him.”
Who's the girl in the white collar?"
Then a piercing halloa is beard
And what horses! Most of them] are nearly thoroughbred, and as they walk sedately (r jix-jog through the town, their tails neatly i LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE. "banged," manes plaited, and the A lady of our acquaintance who glow and sheen of health and con- hadn't been giving economic condi-ition on their skins, the greatest from the far corner, and two hun- tions much thought heard the horse ignoramus could not tail to dred people simultaneously try to were bad, the other day, and de-admire them.
get through a gate just wide enough cided at once that she must do By 10.15 the last of the contingent for two. A young something about it.
man in a red She would has left the town. Half an hour swallow-tail nils over cut down
some high She looked later we are following them to the rails on the left of the gate, follow. around to ace where a little eut meet by cat along the Oakham road,jed by a girl aatride, and one in a ting wouldn't hurt and decided and once clear of the town we realise black coat falls crashing through that she really didn't need three why Melton has ever been the fux-the fence near by. The Field Mas- extension telephones. One, she hunter's paradise. As far as the ter moves forward, and the "field" figured. would be plenty. She eye can see there is nothing but bursts like
**They're went right to
a shrape). an extension and a sea of grass, broken occasionally away!" to synthesize near-life than to re-called the Phone Company, order by a spinney, or email wood.
This is the time when initiative. The China Mail
cognize it in 'he slime of a pool.ing two of the extra instruments; Soon the increasing animation on quick decision and nerve count. The Hand in hand with Franken-lout. The Company said, all right. the road shows that we are nearing main body ride as one man to 2 Hong Kong, Saturday, March 25, 1933 steinian attempts at synthesizing The next day, however, it called the meet. We pass a lumbering | half-open gate in the corner.
living cells must go a profound- her back. It had been looking horse-box or two; then a small boy four or five, followed by a score, pull Jer study of nature — the quest over its records and, so far as il
ou a pony, the old family retainer out and ride straight down at the of something which seems anim-could see, she didn't have any ex-riding with him. Foot people and fence. How Did Life Begin? jate but which cannot be wholly tensions at all. She hadn't, at any scores of cycling sightseere are suc-for the first of the day; it is hard Not the nicest of obstacles accepted as life. Even if a tran-rate. been charged for them. IL cceded by the horses we saw going to see if there is a ditch Although he is convinced that sitional form were discovered or would investigate. It did, found through the town. The bas discovered bacteria in created, we would not be sure of the extensions, and made her pay meteorites that have rained on us it until we had subjected it to arrears before it took out two of from outer space, Professor Lip.the test of evolution. Nature them. Now she has one extension | |man, a leading American scien-works with infinite time. Must and her bill is higher than it was quarter-mile avenue of horses wait- tist, makes short shrift of the we wait a few hundred years to in the first place. Very confusing. hypothesis that the earth was see a bit of slime become what colonized by primitive organisms we think is living protoplasm and PAYING FOR ITS KEEP.
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The Field Master Arrives. Passing them, we drive through a¦
But
on the
take-off side or not, owing to the long, rank grasa in front.
Recovery, With A Scramble. The ditch is on the other side, and ing for their masters and the first four sail over clear, whe mistresses. Grooms are fussing the fifth, bla horse not yet wormed with rubbers removing mud sparks up, jumps sticky, drops his hind lega
from other worlds. The question then a few thousand more to see! "Look here, Hiram, when be you saddle covers, drawing girths, ad-lin it and recovers with a scramble, of the origin of life is not thus the protoplasm evolve a coral or goin' to pay me them right dollars from the stirrup Irons, taking off just as the lady who will ride I've had saddle covers, drawing girths, ad-straight on his tail innds beside him Janswered. Probably biochemists, a sponge? The prospect is ap-for posturin' your heifert
justing curb chains and doing the only an inch away. |will agree with him that we must palling. But there seems to bejker now for about ten weeks."
(Continued on Page 13.) seek the beginning of life on the no other way of testing our frag- "Why. Si, ther critter ain't worth hundred-and-one little things essen earth itself. A half century ago ment of transitional pond or test-ļmor'u ten dollars." life was a purely chemical mani- tube slime and deciding that at "Well, supposin' I keep her for festation of matter. Now it is last we have made nature revea] what you owe me?” studied as a "physico-chemical how life began on the earth. "Not by a jug full. Tell you what system," meaning that internal
I'll do; keep her two weeks more, and and external forces enable a cell
you can have her."
to adapt itself to its environ-
Turfed Out.
vears."
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Facts You Did Not Know.
the
tial to the comfort of horse and rider.
The hounds are in a field beside
LOCAL POLICE CHANGES.
the road, with the Master, on a grand chestnut horse, in the middle,; and the two whippers-in and three] Hunt second horsemen, all in red Chief Inspector Paterson
coats and velvet hats, near by. A
tall, handsome man gets out of a car, takes off his overcoat, puis on
Retires.
Yet another senior offieer of the
As from to-
far talk to the Master. He is the Field minated a long and faithful ser- My his hunting cap and strolls down to Hong Kong Police Force has ter-
Master, Lord Sefton (owner of the vice in the Colony. Grand National racecourse), who, day, Chief Inspector Harry John controller of an unruly field of fol- Paterson of the Police Training lowers, must discuss the programme School will be on leave prior to of the day's sport.
retirement, after nearly 26 years Riders are now busy finding their in the Force.
ment. Although he would be the
Used To I. The revolotion of the American last to revive the abandoned view colonists is inevitably bound up with;
"Did the palmist tell you that life can be compounded like the famous Tea Party at Boston.
truth about yourself?" a drug-store prescription. Profes-School hielories for generations wife has been doing that "Yes, but that's nothing! sor F. G. Donuun, one of the brad- have impressed upon us the import- ing organic chemists of our time, ance of this open act of revolution- boldly hails the day "when the ary intent, which was to herald the physicist will be able to create events held sacred by the modern life," and sees no reason "why American. Yet a recent occurrence, life on a physico-chemical basis closely connected with that Tea should not be constructed by the Party, seems to have passed almost creation of living cells." Unfor- without notice. Nevertheless, the or pencil in a pocket is hinged and The tall man with the small side- May, 1907, Inspector Paterson was
A new clip to hold a fountain pen horses and preparing to mount.
Appointed a police constable in tunately for such predictions, dinner held at the Lord Baltimore when reversed
"stove-pipe" letter whiskera,
hat and would not be easy to identify life Hotel, Baltimore,
in celebration of opener.
promoted to Lance Sergeant in sightly old-world appearance, 1913 and attained the rank of Sub- in its lowest synthetic forms. Is the Tercentenary of Maryland gave
Lord Londonderry, from Ranksboro': motion the test? Under the rise to an event
Inspector in June, 1919. of no mean his microscope patently lifeless parti- torical significance. As at Boston sections of Mexico and the industry fox covert of that name just visible vice to the front, and on his
Tobacco is grown in virtually al Hall, below the world-famous gorse cember, 1916, he went on war der- cles move about with deceptive 159 years earlier, a cask of tea play-ranks third in spontaneity as the result of the ed a leading part, and so did a pack portance.
manufacturing im on a distant hillside, and with him turn to the Colony, resumed his physical forces to which they are of playing cards and a Yorkshire
Their wives are dressed in exactly 1924, saw him appointed an In- duties with the Police. February, subjected. Digestion? A drop sod. Each of these characters to the
An automatic filler has been u-opposite styles, Lady Londonderry in
repro-water.
serves as
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der in the ultra-modern short black)
In De-
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Police
mada
t
of chloroform will wrap itself plot, as the Baltimore Sun announc-vented to keep the water in an au- black swallow-tail coat seldom Spector, and in .1929 he was made around
Chief Inspector at the a glass particle coated ed, was a gift sent to the Tercenten temobile battery above the plates at worn nowadays, and Lady Warren- with shellac, digest the ghellac ary
Training School. Commission from England all times. and reject the glass particle.
It is understood that Inspector A under the auspices of the English-
cant, fawn breeches and butcher Paterson is spending his leave in living amoeba can do no more. Speaking Union. The cards were A metal alloy for boats has been boots of the ride-nstride fashion the Colony, and will not sail for Growth? Crystals can be made provided by a London firm of invented in England that is lighter Lady Kimberley and the Hon. Mrs. Britain until next year. to sprout like plants in solutions. playing card makers, and were de- than wood and resists action of Bes F. Cripps, side by side, wear the Even the process of self-division corated on the back with a
Inspector. A. R. Clark. blue collar affected by some of the can be mimicked. As he thus duction of a portrait of King
On his return from leave during Quorn ladies. A girl with a white the past week Inspector Alexander rune through the gamut of sup-Charles I. by Van Dyck. The cask
collar comes from the Pytchley, and Robertson Clark was promoted to posedly exclusive attributes of of tea was a gift from the London
two men riding together in black are the rank of Chief Inspector, and living forms, the biochemist finds firm which supplied the tea for the that "The United States Department Lord Beatty and Lord Boredale. them all in "dead" matter. Her original Boston party. The sod was of Agriculture forbids the importa-
assumed duties at the Polica bert Spencer thought he had dispatched
By 11.16 the field holds about 150 Training School, Inspector Clark from the Yorkshire Lion Into this country of this horsemen and women, and the road foined in 1910, and was evaded the difficulty by ponder-estate of Lord Baltimore's father. particular article, and, therefore, an is packed with sightseers, afoot, on Lance Sergeant in 1914, Sub-In- ously defining life as "the con- The tea of 1932 seems to have officer from said department called bicycles, in pony carts and care. It spector in 1921, and Inspector in tinuous adjustment of internal escaped the fate of the tea of 1773, at our pier and after seizing said is time to move off, and aa
the 1926. relations to external relations." and to have arrived safely for the plece of turf destroyed same." It is Master turns his horse the entire This also turns out to be a fine, banquet; and doubtless it occupied very well for a country to refuse pack of hounds rush at him, jump- philosophic description of the an honoured place among the Lady imports. Every great country does ing up at his horse and throwing electric refrigerator in the kit-Baltimore cakes "on each table, that, including Great Britain; and, their tongues like terriers about to chen. Because of the difficulty decorated with candles and black- after all, it does save the citizen be taken for a walk. Each hound of recognizing life in its simplest eyed Susana of Icing in the State from spending money on luxurics to this amazingly successful amateur forms, we find Professor Lipman colours, black and gold," as the Sun which he ought not to afford in huntsman is an individual entity; poor people in Madrid the restating the old belief that there tells us. The playing cards also ar- these bad times. But if a country he, to each hound, is the ruler of the tional Spanish stew of meat, pota- must have been an unbroken rived safely. But the sod, the poor begins to refuse even gifts, and, universe.
toes and peas for threepence, series of evolving organisms from Yorkshire sod, suffered a fate not being offered a humble sod, sefres We clatter for a mile down the This is half the cost of the dish. lifeless matter to protoplasm. unlike that of the famous tea. It said piece of turf and destroys same, main road to the first draw, and then Evolution is still at work. Na- reached New York harbour only to the world position may well become the horses squelch across a field, ture must therefore be even now be pounced upon by quarantine intolerable: Yet one must not judge little jets of water spoiling the im creating life and causing it to officials of the Department of others too harshly, for was it not maculate boots of the men and even evolve into Beethovens and Ein- Agriculture. Then came the tragedy, British Customs officials who almost splashing their hats as they canter The Annual Dinner of the Law steine.
No doubt there are The Chairman of the history com- succeeded in charging a duty on the to the corner where the Field Mas- and Commerce Society, of the Hong transitional forms between in-mittee of the Tercentenary Commia watches awarded to British seamen ter is collecting his flock to give the Kong University, will be held at animate proteins and living prosion was advised by the Interna-for saving life in the disaster to fox every chance of leaving without Lane Crawford's Restaurant, on toplasm. Hence it may be easler tional Mercantile Marine Company L'Atlantique?
being headed.
Saturday, April 8, 1933, at 8.80 p
DINNER FOR 3D.
Madrid.
A canteen is to be opened to give tradi-
---Beuter,
News In Brief.