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OXFORD FOR THE OXONIANS?
The Committee of the Oxford University Conservative Associa tion will meet shortly to consider the selection of Parliamentary can- didates to replace-Sir Charles Oman and Lord Hugh Cecil, who are re- tiring at the end of this Parlia-44 ment.
LEVIATHAN'S DAYS ARE NUMBERED
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WHALE PROTECTION IS NEEDED
APPALLING SLAUGHTER
(By J. Wentworth Day.)
DEAD whale or a stoveling feet of Mount Erabus to the boat"-end, with the skerries of. Scandinavia, is destin- Some members of the Committee words, darkly, as in a mist of ad now, in the fullness of civilisa- |think that it would be inadvisable childhood memories, my mind goes tion, to be boiled down into a tub
to nominate two Conservatives. This hack to those steel engravings of of fat. rumour having got about Oxford. nursery days wherein gallant The End Of The Race
Bir Arthur Salter is offering him-straw-hatted aeamen of the 1840's Here are figures which spell the self as an independent ́candidate. rowed desperately through tumbling end of a mighty and Inoffensive A Conservative Minister who seas, in tiny clinker-built boats to race. In 1909 the South Georgia holds a shaky seat in the North of wards a mountain of heaving whaling station produced just over England is also putting forward his whale, "spouting magnificently a quarter of a million pounds" name. It has been suggested, too, against a background of Green-worth, of whale product. That that Oxford might, provide à sanc-land mountains.
figure rose to five and three-quar- tuary for the Prime Minister.
The harpooner, standing, erect ter millions in 1925! Three of the The Committee may have a word in the bows, his puny weapon poised leading Norwegian whaling com- of its own to say. Within the last for the throw which was to open panies paid no less than 57% per year it has been transformed by an that titanic battle in which either cent. In 1928. In 1919-20, the influx of youth,, including younger men or whale would lose their lives, world's whaling stations killed men connected with industry. It stood to us then as the incarna 11,369 whales. By 1980-81 that will be surprising if this new bloodtion of desperate bravery. He
total had risen to 30,000 whaled does not insist that the University was a terrible fellow, an honour-
per annum,
should find its candidates among able inheritor of the Vikinga In the Antarctic alone there active members of its own body. whose seng he sailed.
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My mind went back to that hero were 48,000 factories of the type I WHERE IS A PREMIER SAFE? of childhood literature when I read have described, six land stations, 232 whale chasers, and ten trans- Lord Plymouth's recent warning to The Prime Minister's battle-the House of Lords that the oil-port vessels, manned in all by ground at the next general election producing whales of the world 11,000 Norwegians. Neither age, is a matter of constant speculation had come very near extinction."ex, pregnant mothers, nor suck among politicians. In Seaham, if And then I read a book by an ex less slaughter. Yet the whole ling calves are spared in this rath- The fights there, his opponent will be pert, J. T. Jenkina, who, in hie Mr. E. Shinwell, the former Minis-"History of the Whale Fisheries," only breeds about once in two ter of Mines, who would like noth- anys: "Unless steps are taken 360 days. The baby blue whale, years. The female is pregnant for cross swords forthwith to afford protection for when born, is between 25 and 27 whales their extinction will be feet long, and weighs about fifteen
of the war.
As the United ing better than to States would not accept the Bri- with his ex-leader. tish point of view, then Britain But Mr. MacDonald's friends are complete in from five to ten years' tons. Twins amount to only 0.7 declared that she would not ask anxious for him. The possibilities time." Mr. E. R. Darnley, until
per cent of the average birth-rate. more from her Allies than she of his adoption for the City of lately chairman of the Discovery
It will be seen, therefore, that had to pay on account of any ex- London have been canvassed, and Research Committee, agrees with under no possible circumstances ternal debt she might have in-lt has frequently been suggested, this gloomy prediction. War Debts.
can a natural increase of whales curred by the war. To that de that the Scottish Universities, There is an international move be expected to balance this appal- claration she has consistently might, as someone said, "oblige Mr.to preserve the whale. But it is ing and devastating rate of Though one influential United adhered. The Lausanne Agree MacDonald and honour themselves" half-hearted and by no means un-
slaughter. States newspaper, which speaks ment of 1932 reduced future by electing him as one of their animous.
But there is one whale whom as the principal member of a payments of German repara- three representatives -- at present For to-day the whaler risks his even the whale killers fight shy of of two Conservatives and a Liberal. capital only. He is no hero. Nothe ferocious killer whale. Al- The University elections are, of longer does the whale have most worthless commercially, fear- maximum figure course conducted on the principle of sporting chance. No small row-less as a lion, and as agile as a proportional représentation. ing boats are atove in by the lash modern speed bost-Indeed, far ings of a mighty tail on the more so he enjoys almost com thunderbolt stroke of an enormous plete immunity from attack. He fluke. The whaler to-day, goes to
an average
an-
chain of publications; now re-tions from gard the war debts as no more 400,000,000 dollars per than "trouble makers," President num to a Roosevelt, with the elections to of 40,000,000 dollars per annum, Congress taking place this year, and at the same time the credi could not, even if he wished ittors of Germany resolved to pro- regard the war debt problem as long the suspension of war debt
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five or six minutes,
Cannibal Whales Unlike the rest of the whales, Airing steel har poons with explosive heads. Some the killer has teeth and is carni
Vorous. He is the only whale who of them not only explode when they can eat a man. He is also a canni- bal. In the Antarctic the killers
strike their victim but are also
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dead. It would not be politics.payments- indefinitely, pending An apiarist claims to have a pet sea in fast whale-chasers, each can dive at the rate of a mile in because there is too vast & mass the coming into force of the bee which goes everywhere with from ninety to a hundred and forty of United State opinion-unin agreement. The United States him. That's nothing-I saw a tons, armed with breech-loading formed though we may regard it was not represented at the con-man the other day taking a whole harpoon guna, -which considers that the inference, and, though it was con- swarm for a run. curring of the debb was a normal sidered in Europe that the Unit- monetary transaction, contracted ed States had encouraged the for the benefit of the debtors holding of the conference, she "Which would you like sir, hair electrified so as to paralyse them hunt in packs of eight to twelve. only, and that the debtors are would not agree to cancellation cut or polish?" asked the barber still further. bound morally as well as legally of war debts or large reduction of the bald-headed customer.
Ploughing through the water like to pay. Though, in the en-which the agreement, if it were
steamboats they surge
up to the thusiasm of entering. the war, to be ratified, made necessary. Wellerism
↑ the whale edge of the icefields, sometimes the principle of supplying: Europe regards the war debt "That's straight to the point, chasers there steams a great float leaping as much as six feet out of munitions and recording the fact problem as dead. It appears as as the batsman said when he cut ing factory a converted liner of the water to see if any seals are on by a book entry to enable the though Great Britain, though she the ball into the fielder's hands.
anything from six thousand to the ice. If any are in sight the Allies to press the war more will make token payments, will
twenty-two thousands tons. The killers dive under the Icefield, vigorously while the
United make no full payment to the Obviously
biggest of them all is five hundred amash it up, and pounce on the States was preparing to put her United States unless her debtors "Hamlet has many fat parts," and fifty feet long, with a beam wretched seals like woltes. force into the field, appealed to make payment to her. That is the says an actor. He is evidently an- of seventy-seven feet and a slip- Worst of all, they attack their farseeing men in Congress, and position which President Roose other bellever in the Bacon theory, way down her stern, up which the own kind. For the killer is a true was no expressed by them, the velt faces when he refuses to
dead whales can be hauled by epicure.. He only oats the tongue. aboard, Two or three of them attack the the whale is flensed, cut up and victim's jawa until they have torn fried down into oil. +
them apart. Then they bite' out. Three years ago this ship took the wretched animal's tongue," nearly fourteen hundred whales, which weighs four tons, and leave
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whole senson's work;"
vouring the fishermen. Such butchery dooms the whale. So, in the irony of fate, it seems
after the glamour of victory had nations in general conference on] worn away, forestalled any hope the war debt problem. A pre- of the people of the United decessor, President Coolidge, de States adding thereto by regard-clared that the money was Great News ing the cost of munitions sup-"hired." and should be repaid in A 200logíat in India has succeed-producing 119.434 barrels of oil. it to a miserable and lingering plied to the Allies as part of the cash. The opposite view is that ed in breeding a tuskless ele-In two days she caught more death. Before now the killer has cost of the war. Politicians are by her fiscal policy the United phant. This is great news for whales than the entire whaling been credited with attacking small seldom courageous enough to ad-States has made it impossible for those people who object to ele- fleet of 1804 could capture in a boats, smashing them up, and de- vise the people to assume bur- the debtors to sell to the United phants having tuaks. dens which the people consider States the goods which would should be placed elsewhere, yet procure the American dollars to "Engaged to 13 Men At Same of the thirty or so giant mammals likely that the only whale left to any payment on a large scale of pay the cash. It was the strain Time."" war debt services, unproductive of finding gold in lieu of the re- as they are, would set back the fused goods which had a great ning suit this time.
Doubt if 13 hearts will be a recovery which the world is now deal to do with the economic experiencing.
crisis. Capitalism, it is declar In Their Element The attitude of Britain all ed by its opponents, has failed; Discontented chefs in an Ameri- throughout the world. The lesser through has been that the but the truth is that such weight can hotel recently smashed all the Rorqual, a bare thirty-two feet in moneys which are due represent was put on capitalism by un-furniture they could lay hands on length, is, fortunately for him, too munitions procured to wage war productive war debts that no They must have enjoyed making a small to be worth killing, against a common foe, and that system which could be devised hash of the joint.
they should be regarded as a by man could withstand the
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pooling of resources on the part strain. That part repayment of Ship Of State Nowadays
of the Allies and the associated principal and interest on such Dictatorship...
Powers for the attainment of alimmense sums representing so
common end. Though the money much of destroyed products and
which compose the family, only the world may soon be the most win-two, the white or Greenland whale worthless, the most ferocious, and and the lesser Rorqual, stand a the only one of its specles deli- reasonable chance of survival. berately dangerous to man." The white whale is now. protected
The principal sufferers are the blue whale and the common Fin- ner-both so big that the 19th century whalers scarcely ever dared to attack them. The blue:
is the largest creature aliveon
EUROPEAN ON ARMS CHARGE
Warned And Advised To Secure License.
Mr. A. C. Kella, Chief Officer of
with which munitions in the of capital assets could have been Facts You Did Not Know whale, up to a hundred feet long, United States were obtained för made for many years out of the the Allies by the United States production which the capitalist The only producer of carbon black the globe. But to-day this magni- the sa. Kwong Fook Cheung, was Government was from the citi-system brought about, was plain-ng nations, the United States' ficent creature, specimens of which charged Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the zens of the United States, It was ly not a sign of failure, but be exceed $10,000,000 a year.
sales in domestic and foreign markets may be anything from two hundred Central Magistracy this morning, part of the contribution of the tokened the strength of the sys-
to five hundred years old, has bo for being in possession last Friday United States to the war, just as tem and the vast reserves whose
come a mere floating target for the of a pistol, and 47 rounds of am- Wire forms have been invented to the money which paid for muni accumulation It had accomplish be clamped to the outside of damp airplanes, steamships, guns, bombs munition on board the s.a. Kwong tions obtained in Britain by the ed..
shoes so that they will dry sooner and electric shocks of whaling Fook Cheung, without a license, British Government for her
than if wooden trees are inserted. companies.~
Inspector Stimson Bald that he PM The beast who may have spouted had already warned the accused and Argentfra annually uses about as a calf under the carved and had "advised him to secure a license 160,000,000 fute bags, most of which gilded, forecastles of the Spanish as soon as possible. “Moscow, are used locally of, imported “ burlap.
Allies was raised, from British THE BRIGHT YELLOW WOLF citizens, and was part of the con- tribution of Great Britain to the
war. That war debts should be The fun of a wolf killed near and are used for exporting grain, Armada, whose eyes may have Defendant said that he was a so regarded was practically the Vladivostok was a bright yellow, St. Lepis educator has invented dours of Arctic midnight suns, was not aware of the regulations.
MDARLENE X 2006 seen Ave centuries of the splen- newcomer to the Colony and that he proposal made by Great Britain Instead of the usual dull brown, a typewriter to write English and whose flukee have churned the The case was adjourned until next when the United States pressed The wolf belonged to a practically Hebrew linearly or Interlinerly, simul seas of the world from the terrify week. for payinent after the conclusion unknown species-Reuter,
taneously or interchangeably,
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