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A huge white swastika, with arms hundreds of yards, long, glares from the side of the Home Nock, nearly |6000ft above the sea, the "High Dumpling", peak of the Sengsenge birge range in Upper Austria.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933.
HOLIDAY-MAKING IN ALWAR STATE
WILD ANIMAL FIGHTS
AS PUBLIC SHOW
VIVID STORY BY BRITISHER
(By Marcus H. D. Cockayne.)
the
The precipitous slope on which the Nazi emblem has been painted is al- Fights between wild animals, height and inserted its body be most inaccessible. The paintera staged as a public show, still take tween the bare of the cage and the screen in front. Nothing must have done their work suspend-place in the native states of India, canvas Fed by ropes 120ft. long.
though I believe that very few Euro-was then visible except a nose above As the Austrian "authorities" do peans have ever had an opportunity and two large brown feet below, but the screen seemed to be shaking in not wish to have any lives risked in of seeing one. efforts to remove the swastika it The one which I saw had been ar-rather an ominious manner... will stay where it is.
|ranged by the Maharaja of Alwar. Bear's Bid For Freedom It is the latest example of this in honour of a State visit of his Meanwhile the Bon had been form of Nazi propaganda, the mark-neighbour,
Maharaja of showing signs of interest in the It took place in Alwar, bear's movements, but interest of ing of swastikas in inaccessible Jodhpur.
inot more than 100 miles from Delhi, an entirely passive kind. It seemed spots.
Several others have been stamped the Imperial Capital,
puzzled by the animal's sudden, dis- The show was given in on"heights in the Tyrol and other
a large appearance and rather inclined to circular open-air parts of Austria.
amphitheatre investigate. As it - walked slowly specially built for the occasion at the round the arena the trembling of the. Maharaja's orders. From the screen increased visibly, me İstands where the spectators were I felt the deepest sympathy for Naval warfare will shortly be sitting to the actual arena was a the bear. Suddenly the screen con was cealing it gave way with a loud re revolutionised, it is claimed, by an 17ft. perpendicular drop. I invention which has just been told by a State official that a tiger port, revealing the unfortunate adopted by the French Admiralty, has been known to jump 15ft, and animal poised in a rigid, upright anyone felt apprehensive position, facing the arena and fully The French gunboat Etourdi, in care which is attached to the French about the 21t. margin, sowars (or exposed to view. naval squadron at Brest, is to be troopers) armed with lances would Things then began to happen fitted, with a special stabilising be placed around the edge, and dis- rather rapidly. The lion roared but. device invented by a Russian, M. courage any attempts to break the showed no sign of opening an
attack while the bear, having ap Kefell, whose work has been sub-record.
It was a very hot afternoon. Asiparently decided to make one des- sidised by the French Government.
The device, consists of movable in a Spanish bull-ring, the best seats perate bid for freedom, rushed the shade. The two across the arena to the central from fins which, it is claimed, prevent were in rolling and pitching in the stormiest Manarajas, dressed in magnificent gate leading to a flight to steps into
brocade coats and wearing brightly the crowd amphitheatre." "In a rolling sca guns fired from coloured jewelled turbans, occupied The whole structure was built of hastily-prepared mud bricks and had the pre- as a protest against the procras-a warship lose 20 per cent of their the seats of honour. tination of other Powers in dis-accuracy," said M. Kefeli. "Ships The crowd seemed in excellent been completed only on | arming,
as she has been dis- fitted with my stabiliser will be per- spirits and there was plenty of noise vious day. It soon became ap The funeral of Lady Shou-son armed, under the Peace Treaty. fectly steady and their guns will be and singing, but not sufficient to parent that the bear was tearing Chow will take place on Sunday. Mr. Henderson has, by direction as efficient and deadly as land drown the roars of the ilons, tigers away the bricks at the side of the
artillery."
and other animals which were im-gate, and if something wasn't done August 27, at 3.30 p.m. at the of the conference, been trying to The tests which are to be carried prisoned in cages opening on the quickly it would be out of the arena. Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Aber-
keep alive in European capitals deen.
discussions off-stage of difficult out on the gunboat Etourdi with a arena. The actual cages were con- and among the audience, possibly points, in order that the threads view to perfecting the device, should cealed from the spectators by canvas followed by the lion.
A partial stampede of the be completed in six months, and screens, which could be rolled up
then occurred. The of debate which the conference then the largest French battleships from above when they were to be audience
jopened.
Maharaja and his party cocupled the was pursuing might not be lost in
The first event was a fight be most vulnerable position close to ha the interval of its adjournment will be similarly equipped.
The Inventor claims that ships of In the psychological temper of
A short quite unperturbed. His Highness Europe as the conference went any description can be stabilised by tween, two huge buffaloes armed entrance, but they appeared to be
this means. He has already taken with large curved horns. recess, further discussion out patents in the United States and length of rope was shackled to the rave rapid orders to his bodyguard, could be nothing but fruitless other countries and hopes to adapt near hind foot of each animal, and who rushed down the steps and fe Disarmament Debates. There was one week in which an his invention to commercial craft a man dragged continuously at each tercept the bear. Its death was
joutbreak of war seemed near.
rope when they became interlocked, quick, and I hope, painless. The truculent tone of the Hitler!
The buffaloes lowered their heads
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What is home without a motor? tempt to seize an opportunity to bring the horns into play. The result was inconclusive and no very serious damage was done,
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Lions Refuse To Fight The next involuntary entrants were a lion and a tiger. To every
BULLOCK AMOK IN SIMONSTOWN
a dis-one'a great surprise they approach- ALL
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Mr. Arthur Henderson, presi- Government in Germany restart- dent of the Disarmament Com-led mapy fears, and the aggres- mission, is reported to have give acts of German Nazis in In this Mechanical Age. returned with a cheerless outlook Austria are, virtually hostilities from his consultation with Euro-conducted by private forces from pean Governments in further outside against the security of A Different Storey.
Pedestrians Injured By "Love in a cottage is out farce of the plan accepted in May the Austrian State, Meanwhile
Maddened Animal. as a basis of agreement. This a lively debate has been proceed-date." It has become a little fat. plan, put forward by Britain, ing in Britain on a subject which was the most acceptable com-animated the Disarmament Con-
TRAFFIC DISORGANISED promise of the divergent propo-ference before it rose. the Bri-
Simonstown. sals made by the chief Powers at tish proposal for abolition of gusted enthusiast went across to ed to within a few yards of one an-
All traffic-trains, buses, motor earlier meetings. It embodied a bombing aircraft. "except for the referee and asked sarcastical-other, lay down, and gazed at one az- "How long can a man live other with expressions of the ut
most benevolence. Attendants in cards and pedestrians was held up Convention of the Powers not to police purposes in outlying re- resort to force, and defined algions." At Geneva the British without brains?"
zone made frantic atin Simonstown when a bullock ran found themselves "I don't know" replied the re- the safety new general limitation of arma-delegates
tempts to cause a breach of the peace amok and carcered in and about the by throwing fireworks Into the main road for an hour. It created ments to replace the armament alone in supporting this reserva-feree. "How old are you?” article of the Peace Treaty, tion. Apparently from the reply
arena, but the two animals appear-la reign of terror. It chased every- against which Germany protests. given by the Under-Secretary for
led to have struck up such a very one of the street, tossed a pedes It also set out proposals for Foreign Affairs to a deputation, Jack and Jill went up the hill
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stands, tary, naval, and aerial material. bombing" in certain regions, such
miralty. House, And Jack spent a lot more than he difference.
This friendly atmosphere was The maddened animal charged The first part, the convention not as the north-west frontier of In-
oughter. to resort to force, was eventual-dia, has not changed since the
quickly dispersed by the next couple every moving object and approach- ly taken up for negotiation, after conference rose. Recently, in a
on the list. On the far side of the ing the station tore down part of STALLING HIM OFF. repeated redrafting, as a pact debate in the House of Commons,
SON: Pop, I wanna go to the arena from where I was sitting a the fence before stampeding down among the chief: Powers. Bri-Sir Asten Chamberlain urged a
walked out, roared ominously, and from boarding a train. The train tain, France, Italy, and Germany reconsideration of this matter, George Washington Bicentennial cage opened and another tiger the platform, preventing passengers
celebration in Washington......... finally approved it just before the despite the great weight of the FATHER: We can't afford to glared around, as if looking for was delayed 10 minutes. World Economic Conference be- British Government's arguments, take the trip this year, my boy, trouble.
After injuring another man and a The trouble arrived gan The United States gave as an inducement to other na
with a little girl, Petty Officer Frederick but you can go next time. condtional adherence to the printions to agree upon other points.
minimum of delay,, A screen was Kidd, of HM.S. Rochester, took ciple of consultation and co-It may be that the British Gov-
raised just below me, and a wild pig rife and with a magnificent shot at And Over Father's. operation to keep the peace dur-ernment is holding to its views
"Life's lessons are learnt at emerged. The moment it spotted about 75 yards range dropped the its adversary it put down its head animal in its tracks, killing it in- ing the ten years of the pact, and as a factor for, diplomatic bar-
mother's knee.” the parties undertook in one ar-gaining when the conference shall
and charged without a second's stantly.--Reuter. hesitation. ticle to make every effort for the reassemble, But in any case, success of the Disarmament Cón-unless political confidence can be ference when it shall resume in re-established in Europe, the October. But before the adjourn-possibility of forbidding serial do we do if we are in the air and pig certainly won on points. While ment of the conference the open-bombardment seems remote. It PLANE PILOT: Open para- the pig's back which is apparently ing debates on the British plan, is suggested in the British plan chutes and drop. approved as a basis for discus-that the banning of air-bombing Suppose the parachute fails. sion, made clear that the views shall be implemented under - Flap your arms and say, T'm of leading nations were still fective international control of
dicky bird"," widely opposed on almost all the all civil aircraft. Yet mechanisa- named heads. The reduction of tion of armies, permitting redne- military personnel, the limitation tion of man-power, is the modern of numbers and dimensions of trend, apparently irresistible, weapons on land and sea, are all and how the use of aeroplanes, or
near the edge of the arena, and reLeague, foremost unofficial ex intensely provocative of Indivi- of any other modern scientific Portland cement manufactured in turned the gaze of the spectators ponent of preparedness, forecast dual national insistence upon ne-machines, is to be effectually pre- Yugoslavia is exported to nearly with an expression of bored indit that the next congress will "en- cessity for strength in one arm vented in the event of war is past every world market. for the other an account of local the ordinary man's comprehen- «m
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the tiger tried unsuccessfully to maul US, NAVY LEAGUE
reinforced by a think covering of gristle, the pig repeatedly ripped, at the tiger underneath with its razor-
like tusks.
The performance did not lack variety. The next and final act very nearly ended in tragedy.
A lion appeared first, sat down
OPTIMISTIC.
Congress Expected To Pass Programme.
The
Washington.
United States: Navy
ference. Its interest appeared to be thorize additional naval construc only slightly aroused when a screen tion to bring the United States
Keys are elected by springs from was suddenly - raised and an fleet up to total treaty allotment the Japanese insist upon the horrors of modern aerial bomb- a new metal pocket container when enormous brown Himalayan bear although maximum strength will
entered.
not be attainable before the ex- need for submarines in their sys- ardment is of no small influence buttons are pressed..
The bear's abject terror when it piration of the naval treaties in tems of defence; the naval quo-in keeping some nations from
spotted. Its adversary was pitiable 1936
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force, & will wet be
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