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For The Pope's Staff The cuts recently announced in Vatican' salaries and in the house- hold expenditure of the Pope were expected last year, but were avoid- Jed by internal economies.
Now, however, the full effect of the depression and of recent politi- cal changes in Europe has reached the Papal treasury.,
The chief sources of the revenue of the Holy See used to be the rich Catholle population in American and the Church in Spain.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934.
LOCH NESS MONSTER POSSIBILITIES
WHY THE ZOOLOGISTS ARE SCEPTICAL
FAMOUS SCIENTISTS OPINION
(By Sir Arthur Keith)
Why are professional zoologists
If the postmistress of Inver- so aceptical of the news from Loch|farigaig has observed the monster Ness? Let me try to explain their accurately-and women are usually reliable witnesses-then it cannot point of view
The former are just poor, and Johnston announced many of the Church's possessions in the okapi in Spain have been sequestered by the Equatorial Republican Government.
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I remember how sceptical many be an amphibian, as Mr. Wetherell af us were when the late Sir Harry has inferred from the footprints. -
the discovery For the postmistress saw that the the foresta of monster was "hairy generally" and Africa That was had a thick hairy mane." This. **** thirty-two years ago, when the only evidence was confirmed by another evidence he had of the beast's 'witness, who gave the additional existence was a skin. Soon, how-information that it was "a most King Alfonso's "Coup d'Etat"
ever, a skull and other parts ofjugly beast.” The Madrid nowapsper E this strange animal were discover-
Now zoologists have found that Socialista alleges that ex-King Al-ed and we had to admit that Sir there is a high degree of orderli fonso is planning a coup d'elat.
Harry was right, and that there neus in the construction of living The truth is that the army in still existed in the Semliki Forest things. They have always found Spain, on the disaffection in whose of Africa a type of animal we had that if an animal has a hairy skin, ranks King Alfonso is said to be r expected to meet with not as athen it has breasts to provide its lying, was definitely infected with ving reality but only as a fossil. young with milk, and that its brain. republicanism for some years be-The living okapi is a survival from its heart, its lungs, its skull, and fore the revolution of 1931.
prehistoric period.
Ita teeth are constructed according With the example of the okapi to a well-known pattern. army, were the mainstay of the before them why are zoologists se The teeth of monstrosaurus are monarchy. When General San sceptical of the monstrosaurus ofanid to be conical and pointed. jurjo, their leader, went over to Loch Ness? In the okapi there has Such teeth are characteristic of the revolution. King Alfonso wise-
come down to us a type which is reptiles, but are sho to be seen in ly accepted defeat.
perhaps 2,000,000 years old. In the jawa of certain whales. Laymen The two chief pillars of the the jungles of Borneo there lives must have patience with profea- monarchy in Madrid are the Dukea amall, climbing primate known as sional zoologists who hesitate to of Alva and Count Romanonestaralus. It is the sole survivor of credit the existence of a "most Both have recently advised the Kinga type which flourished in count-urly beast" which combines charac that the chances of a restoration less forms some 30,000,000 years teristics of amphibian. reptile, and
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British Shipping Depression.
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ago. Is it possible then that the mammal. Such a beast would be a Loch Ness monster--monstrosaurus kind of monaler of which zoologista can be a survival from the age of have had no experience hitherto, great reptiles-which lies some Too Many Eye-Witnesses 150,000,000 years distant from us? All the laynien who have visited Is it within the limits of pos-Loch Ness to collect evidence at sibility that there exists in Loch firat hand lay great stress on the Ness to-day a live descendant of number of witnesses that can be Rome plesiosaur, dinosaur, or produced. Scores of men Lod brontosaur? I have to admit the women claim to have seen the
ed. Perhaps the suggestion Man proposes; woman makes him possibility. But at the same time monster in the waters of Loch
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The girl whose boy-friend forgot he had promised to take her out.
modern zoologist on his job that he places, then concrete and unmistak
I have to state with all possible Neas or basking on its shores. emphasis that until now there has Strange to say, it is just the great ant been found anywhere in the number of witnesses and the dis- world a little of evidence in sup-crepancy of their testimony that port of such a possibility.
have convinced professional zoolo- The professional disbelief in the gists that the Loch Ness monster existence of R flesh-add-blood is not a thing of flesh and blood. monster in Loch Ness is not based For, seeing that monstrosaurus on any theoretical objection. The has been seen by so many people, opposite the cane: no keen is the st so many times and in so many
would sell his soul for the deadable evidence of Ita existence cureane of a dinosaur or plesiosaurshould have bean at our dispocal that he might be the first to long before now. A live hippo- or a dolphin could not If he had the slightest hope of the bide itself in Loch Ness from have the honour of dissecting it. potamus materialisation of monstrosaurusį prying human eyes for a week, to he would be trooping to the shores) say nothing of four months. of Loch Ness in his thousands from The only kind of being whose existence is testified to by scores of all parts of the world.
The scepticism of the profes-witnesses, and which never reaches |sional zoologist is due to the nature the dissecting table, belongs not to of the evidence that is being the material world but to the Scult for British shipping to pro-trade for their own nationals and
placed before him. In the case of world of spirita, Or, indeed, such 1 by any recovery in interna-some of them, America for ex-
the okapi, Sir Harry Johnston could creations may exist only in the tional trade. This is not a new ample, put the most fantastic in-
show at least a skin, but those who buman imagination. So many problem. It has agitated the terpretation on the word const-
have convinced the Secretary for people assured me they had seen shipping world for years. Until ing. Not unnaturally there are
Scotland and the Chief Constable of railway trains laden with Russian recently, however, there was a some British shipping men who
A man somewhat under the in- Inverness-shire of the existense of suldiers pass through England is of opinion advocate that the countries of} considerable body
even a the first year of the war that I fluence of good-fellowship attempt monstrosaurus have
or a hair of his skin or a never doubted their statements; which held that the adversity the British Empire-for Great was merely temporary and that Britain is not the only sufferer-ed to pass through the revolving scale its causes would sooner or later should reply to this by reserving door of a restaurant. Each time nail of a toe to produce as evidence yet not a single soldier from Rus
a few questionable foot-sia for themselves all trade between he entered he made the complete-only disappear. It was held unneces- the different parts of the Empire, round and found himself in the prints. sary to do more than press for There is much
After several un- Conflicting Descriptions support for street again.
down The accounts of the alze and the removal of trade restrictions schemes for reducing the amount successful attempts he sat and for the abandonment by of tonnage to accord with the re- on the pavement to work things shape of monstrosaurus differ no
ESCAPED CONVICT foreign Governments of subsidies duced freight available by means out.
A moinent later a young mankinds of monster in Loch Ness and of other artificial stimulants of scrapping or laying-up pools,
TRICKED BY BOY (to their shipping. The aim was possibly with financial assistance walked rapidly up the street and not one. The single helpful report- to restore free competition and from the Government. To this it went in The door went rounded fact is that the beast is of large
Marooned On Island to let the fittest survive. But by is objected that foreign co-opera- and a young woman came out. The size as big as a hippopotamus or elephant, or even a whale. To
By Clever Ruse. this time most shipowners have tion in such arrangements would inebriate was puzzled,
"What gets me," he remarked, keep such a big body supplied with come to realize that the old con-be very hard to obtain on any
equitable basis, and that without "is what the devil he did with his food our monster must work long
DRAMA ON ZAGREB RIVER ditions under which British ship-such co-operation it would only clothes."
]hours; we should And numerous ping gained its great place in the encourage foreign countries to
|traces of his repasts. If he comes
Zagreb, world are not likely to be restor go on increasing their tonnage. As
ashore, as he is reported to have
The prompt action of a 10-year- ed, at any rate within any period Mr. Runciman pointed out in a
done, then he ought to leave un-old boy has resulted In the re- for which they can afford to wait, speech at the Chamber of Ship-
mistakable" footprints-seeing that
capture of an escaped convict, Rada The recent World Conference ping a few months ago, while
he weighs weil over à ton.
He must have a father and his strength and brutality,
Selakovitch, a brigand notorious for showed very plainly how little British mercantile tonnage has
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prospect there is of recovering been reduced since the War, that attached to an automobile windmother 'somewhere, living or dead;} -- Rada had escaped from a Zagreb for International trade anything/01′ her principal competitors has shield has been invented to bring he should have sisters and brothers prison but was held up by a swollen been greatly increased. In overhead traffic lights into range of and cousins and uncles and sunriver. He persuaded the boy, to Perhaps he has a wife and is the row him across; but, half way over, Yather of a family. Strange that the boy's suspicions were aroused the thousands of eres which have by leg-irons showing through a searched the turbulent waters of tear in the bandit's trousers and by Loch Ness have seen no trace of heavy revolver sticking out of his relatives. Not bone or tooth his hip pocket. mark has been observod-only 4 Pretending that something was few footprints discovered in the
wrong with his Boât, the Boy lându- shore shingle by M, Wetherell
ed the bandit' on an island in mide An examination of the footprintstream while he went back "to"
like the old freedom of move America, France, Italy, and Japan a driver's vision. ment. The tendency is all the fit hus been trebled. A one-sided other way, for trade to be in- scrapping policy might thus
The highest device of its kind creasingly regulated and stabiliz make things worse instead of the world, an aerial tramway that ed and canalized. There is even better. There is a certain mea starts from Vienna, carries passe less hope that foreign Govern- sure of agreement on the advisera to point in the Alps nearty ments will be argued into aban- ability of preventing, if it can two miles high. doning the policy of artificial equitably be done, what are prac
support to which so many have tically forced sales of efficient To compensate for the thicknest committed themselves. The re-ships at bargain prices to foreign of clippings or pictures pasted in {ception given to the British competitors. And there is un-a how scrapbook every 'alternate has convinced Mr, Wetherell that faich a larger bout." -viden
memorandum setting out with animity that in negotiating, trade) page in "the book is perforated no monstrosaurus is an amphibian, He returned with a gendarme,"
Now all living amphibia are of Rada Immediately Jumped into great force the harm they were Agreements the Government that it can be torn out,
small'alse; one są As A hippon the water and attempted to swin doing to the whole trade and should bear, in mind, that ship.
ping services are a staple British An automobile has been built in polanus causes zool shipping of the world left no export for which they should Czechoslovakia, with six wheels, each their eyebrows and room for doubt that mere logic, seek to secure favourable treat on its own aide and equipped with however convincing, will not by mint by every means in their its own brake, eight spoeds forward litself get rid of this evil or even pow
Vand "fóta “reversa,
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