THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934,
LITERARY NOTES
EUROPE'S LARGEST ICE CAP
Secrets Revealed In Explorer's Book.
TWO STRENUOUS MONTHS
"Iceland Adventure,"
By J.
Angus Beckett. (Witherby. 88. 6d.)
Vatnajokull, in the south-east of Iceland. is the largest ice-cap in Europe, consisting of about 3.400 square miles of perpetual, ice and snow, almost devoid of: life and very little explored.
In June, 1932, six young Cam- bridge scientists set out to in- vestigate it. "Iceland Adventure" is the account of two strenuous months spent by the expedition. the average age of which was only 23. The group consisted of geologist and zoologist, a sur- veyor the author of the book,
a botanist. an assistant geolo-I gist. an assistant surveyor and seismologist, and an ornitholog ist.
These good companions voyag- ed from Hull to the Icelandic coast in a trawler, used ponies to reach the ice, and thereafter proceeded on foot with their aledges and camping equipment. Progress was at first very slow, trying and monotonous in contin-
ual rain and fog.
But the high-spirited party made light of all their difficul ties. They were soon rewarded by excellent scientific results being published separately from this volume) and by better wea- ther.
While physicians marvel at the wonderful physical condition and rapid recovery of 6-year- old June Robles after her 19-day confinement in a sateel box in the desert near Tucson, Ariz., the child calmly resumes her ordinary pursuits of life where they were halted by her kidnapping. is shown here with her mother; with her father; with both parents at the scene of her imprisonment; She receiving gifts from friends and at top a closeup of her legs, scarred by the chains that bound her.
Excellent Way To See Life
AN ESSAYIST OF
CHARM
Character Studies And Pen Pictures.
Facts About The Animal Mind SUNDAY SCHOOL
Cruelty Caused By Confused Ideas.
NEW NATURE STUDY
"Wisdom. In the Wild." By
POLICE RESERVE. Orders for the Current
Week.
Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Douglas Gordon. (Murray. Wolfe, C.M.G. Inspector General of
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This is a Natural History Book
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Chinese Company.
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PRIZE-GIVING
Anniversary Service At Union Church.
ADDRESS BY MISS ATKINS
Prizes were distributed at the Kowloon Union Church Sunday. School Anniversary service yester
of an unusual.kind. It is not, Strength. The following mem- day morning when an interesting on the one hand, an academic bers have been permitted to re-address was given by Miss E. S. treatise; nor is it on the other, sign from the one of those enchanting works as
Chinese Company, Atkins, the Headmistress of the which rambles through
dates shown against St. Stephen's Girl's College. the them:-
The service Curiosities of Animal Life and
was conducted by Constable R59 Molin Yue 16th.
the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen, while at tells us about plants which cat June, 1934. Insects and of fish which climb
the close of the address, the prizes trees. It deals in generalities with the "animal mind," in a simple, colloquial manner.
There must be few who have not, at one time or another taken part in discussions (al-
Prize Winners.
The following
were the prize
18th. June, 1934,
Constable R21 Tee Kwing in were distributed by Mrs. Allen,
wife of the Minister. Constable R92 Lam Hou Wai 18th. June, 1934. Constable R97 June, 1984.
Lam Ping 19th. (winners:
Training Course-Part IL
Primary Department: Evan ways inconclusive) about "reason recruits of the Chinese Company chenzie, Jean Kempton, Sadie Mur- All Grady, Nan Provan, Ann Ma- and instinct" in animals.
Larceny.
Training Course-Part II.
will attend at the Chinese Comray, Margaret Rodger, Jean Miller, In the palmy days of St. Loe pany Headquarters on Tuesday, Jean Grady, Catrion Robertson, Strachey's "Spectator the cor- June 26th. at 17.30 hours for in-Edith M. Brown, Chrisle Brown, respondence columns of that traction. earnest sheet were crowded with
Dorothy Allen, Kathleen Taylor, Indian Company, letters from old Indies and re
Margot Kurrik, Barbara Miller, Strength. Constable R262 MO-Anthes Bates, tired colonels about the preter-HAMED HOOSEN has been taken Eunice Dodson, Lilian Knutsen, Dorothy Revie, natural intelligence of their pets; on the strength of the Indian Telford Fergusson, Colin Milling- and any contemporary editor who Company, as from 14th, June 1934. ton, Douglas should care to open his columne
Mitchell, Ronald Commendation. Constable R253 Trowt, Angus Wilson, Neil Robert- to discussions on such themes MOHAMED AHSAN of the as "Do Dogs Think?" "Do Mon-dian Company is commended and son, Austin Spary, Roland Offord, In-son, Kenneth Jackson, Nigel Pear- keys Talk?" and "How do granted a commended service Bar Stewart Fraser, Migrating Birds Find their by the Hon. Inspector General of Maurice Offord, Malcolm Kempton, Denny Hooper, Way?" would be immediately Police for zeal and alertness in Dean Wilson, Rooded out with mulitudes of arresting a Chinese Male on 17th. Desmond Rodger, Billy Carr, Ken- Graeme McKenzie, letters, contradictory theories, May, 1994 who was convicted for neth Maxwell and Charles Dodson. and remarkable instances. A Lifetime's Study.
Junior Department: Miora Wat- All tie, Joan Bradbury, Mary Cuthill, Those are the kind of themes recruits of the Indian Company Joyce Fergusson, on which Mr. Gordon,, who has residing in Kowloon will attend 41Norah Aires, Winnie Ingram, Nan Jean Nelson, Spent a lifetime studying wild Chi Woo Street, Kowloon life, and writes with
on Taylor, Fraser Thomson, and Roy an ease Wednesday, June 27th at 17.30 Taylor. which betokens a great amount of hours for Instruction. knowledge undisclosed and ex- All recruits of the Indian Cam-Sellwood,
Intermediate Department: Ronald SHIPS AND SHIPMEN
amples not brought into play, pany residing at Hong Kong will Aires, Robert Provan, Ian Kemp-
Ian Fletcher, Theo * discourses in this volume. It is attend Chinese Company Headquar-ton, Peggy Fergusson and Helen Set on the summit of a Scottish delightful reading, and will supters, 17, Queens Road Central on Ingram. pass and marking the frontiers of Ply much ammunition to those Thursday, June 28th at 17.80 hours the Highlands and Lowlands is of their lives, they will periodical.
who feel sure that, for the rest for instruction. stone bearing the inscription, "Reatly be forced to give their opin- Instructional Patrol.
Flying Squad. and be Thankful." In placing
The next ion over the coffee-cups. these words on his book of collected
Instructional patrol for members An interesting memoir forth. One may be pardoned for giv. of the Hong Kong Section will coming with Heinemann is con- pieces Mr. Blake has done well, for ing a list of some of Mr. Gor take place on Friday, June 29th cerned with King Charles II. and they indicate the proper frame of don's chapter headings, as thus Members will fall in at central Po-his sister, Henriette-Anne, "Char "The Provost of an Oxford col-,mads with whom he had thrown be taken
mind in which this volume should can the nature of his themes be lice Station at 1780 hours sharp.les and Madás." The writer, Mr. llege,"
says Mr. Philip Alling-in his lot.
and ̈read.· · An-unqulet best indicated: "The ham, author
spirit can reb an essay of all. Its Creature's attitude towards Man-White Uniform Cap with
Wild All members will attend. Dress Cyen Hughes Hartmann, bases it of "Cheapjack". It was mere chance which first beauty. (Heinemann, Ts. Gd.), "pointed sent him out wearing evening
kind."
White upon the correspondence, which "Affection," Some of these pieces would morej
"Relation-Cover, Belt with Brace and Trun-[passed between them from 1659 to“ out to my father gently but clothes, but he quickly realised accurately be described as charac
(Continued at Foot of Gol. 1). very firmly that my chances of that it was a lucky chance. Soon ter studies and others as pen pic-
1669, passing Responsions at any date he was in the North, at Hunslet tures, but they are all very read- were less than small."
Feast. So Mr. Allingham's career at trouble over my clothes. It was gow or the people in it; the Firth. "I took a great deal of able whether they be about Glas- Oxford came to an end, and, hay-my aim to look smarter than the of Clyde or the ships upon it. There is a rare charm in this tale ing tried this and that with in- people who patronised me.
different success, he found him- I had great trouble in getting ships and shipmen, and his descrip
Mr. Blake writes charmingly of. self at last, aged 21, sitting in my boiled shirts properly laun- tion of an ancient workman sitting an office in Coventry-street.
He dered, but the trouble was worth on a hillside bench and watching
It
The expedition made a double traverse of the ice-cap. But they were disappointed at the outset by the complete mechan- ical breakdown of the seismo- graph, by far the most expensive item in their equipment. seems remarkable, by the way, that the total cost of the adven- ture was only a little over £800. about half of which was sub- scribed by the active partici- pants.
SIMPLE LIFE ON AN ISLAND.
Tale Of Pastoral Peace.
+qf the simple life on Skokholm island, off the Pembrokeshire coast, and not for naturalists alone, al-
Travels Of An Oxford Undergraduate
"A PSYCHIC
PUB CRAWL”
(By HOWARD SPRING.)
though a large part of it is devoted was not at all sure what he in-it. My iramaculate evening the clipper he helped to build being]
to the sea birds and other wild office, "save that it gave me the traction at Hunslet." denizens which the author has feeling that I was there on the Bludied with such friendly interest spot should anything ever arise It is a tale of pastoral peace and for me to do.” independent, self-supporting labour.
tended to do with his one-room clothes were something of an at towed home in its old age to be
the acquaintance of Ezra Boss. the true artist.
It was at Hunslet that he made work which bears the impress of broken up is a delightful piece of
head of a gipsy clan. "If ever
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And then, all of a sudden he you're in any bother or find your the great brotherhood of the "Producing most of our own saw what a fool he was, sitting self in food, living simply. with plain there waiting for life to come to let me know," said Ezra, "and our delight in a book that is
a hole somewhere, just road. tastes in food and clothing, with him. Why not go out, hold life we'll all see as you're all right.
Here he parades them for firing at the cost of our own up, so to speak, at the pistol's And the time was to come when ings and queer characters.
stuffed full of bizarre happen- labour only, our expenses are few, point, and demand what it seem-1 this pact proved to have been and are covered by the receipts ed so reluctant to accord? He worth making.
There was Daisy Boswell the from a flock of one hundred ewer said to himself: "I have always
gipay fortune-teller, and the writer's rabbit crop.
That was much later, on the tight-fitting scarlet boots, laced been able to tell fortunes," and Newcastle Town Moor. Mr. Alto the knees, and carrying an ex- wearing These sheep are just a com- when the evening was come he lingham had ceased to be a "graf-pensive fur coat in June. "Her fortable handful for one man put on full dress kit, without an ter" by then and had become a brown fingers were ablaze with who has regular assistance from overcoat, the month being June, "pitcher," that is to say, one (diamonds. his wife and occasional extra and sallied forth.
who uses his voice. pitching the that she had once had so many She told me sadly help from the keepers at the
He called himself a island lighthonge.”
voyant and adviser." and began tale about what he has to sell. hand, but that times were bad "clair-brown-paper bag and the rest of rings that she could not shut her It is a delightfully fold record to say, he would go into a public-was a "hair-waver," and he had
"a psychic pub-crawl" That is What Mr. Allingham was selling now." of liit, lovable things, through house, have a drink or two to done well £18 on one which one sECIDE always to sense create a friendly atmosphere. £11 16s. on another, and £14 118 wherever anyone was in trou
day, "Little.
There was the immaculate, the fresh breezes of the sea.
Major," bobbing! and then, with the landlord's per- on another. mission, tell the fortunes of the he had over £60. taken in shill seemed too much for him when At the week-end ble, though. "the slightest effort customers,
inge,
his own affairs were concerned." as fre- There WAS
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It is a
So he accumulated the funds: Then a "gang," such
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to set up as a cheapjack at the quents the racecourses, started in Billy, the Dismal Jimmy of the ship," "Friendship," "Co-opera-fairs.
Three-fingered A garden shelter cost to make trouble, and in a jiffy fairgrounds, who was tion," "Language," Strategy." thirty-five shillings. "I also pur-Mr. Allingham was involved in dead "Orientation and Migration," chased an incense-holder, some bloody melee. The Boss family game's not what it was..
always "Vision," "The Mind of the Wild incense, and a number of Eastern was true to the pact.
on the floor." **The Craftsman."
trays, and when I had draped spanners wrapped in felt, with beer
With Mr. Gordon very rightly drives some cloth across the open front truncheons made of rubber bound He was "working the Budget." can remember the time when in again and again the fact that of my shelter it made a pretty with cord, with bare fists, they and if you want to know what was three-pence a pint." we must not read or own minds good fortune-telling booth." into those of animals.
streamed from all sides into the that means Mr. Allingham will natural propensity, fortified by Wearing the
His First Fair.
battle: It was a good fight, and tell you, fully and amusingly, the fact that we are most of us which were henceforth to be his truncheons which the gipsies car many ancient tricks and dodges;
dress clothes the toughs were routed.
He blows the gaft on a kreat brought up on stories in which "flash." carrying a silk hat in a ried were illegal, but, as a mat and theres no harm in that for animals talk; half the cruelty to brown-paper bag, and the rest of ter of fact, when I talked to one no one expects a "grafter" or animals in the world would not his impedimenta under his arm, of the policemen: afterwards he "nitcher" to be a philanthropist take place did men only realise he set off for his first fair. He advised me to provide myself He dedicates his book "To my that the poor beasts cannot un-did not know that a "flash" was with ones th derstand our thoughts or wishes any distinctive thing to em When we see a beast or bird min-phasise personality; he did not A good deal had happened
Length Travels.
cllants affectionately," and well be may, istering to its young, and even know that he was about "to between the making of the pact call his readers will in turn His clients and so we may risking its life for them, we work the tick-off" which means with the Bosses and their effecfeel some affection, towards him, tend to think in terms of human telling fortunes; he did not know tive intervention. Mr, Alling-for here he has provided good mother-love. But Nature arthat he had become a "grafter, ham had travelled all over Eng entertainment. He has explor ranges that the affection of and-or one who works a line in a fair land und North Wales, "working ed an England that most of us mals for their young only lasts or market; but he was soon to the tick-off." and later selling his have only glimpsed and brought as long as is necessary in order be well up in all the ins and outs Hair-wavera. He had, become a back a joyous and exhilarating to safeguard the species.
of the queer. good-hearted no known and accepted member of report.
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