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The Gold Clause
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All German students of both sexes will shortly have to take a course of 'sport and gymnastics for the first three terms of thể) academic year.
A decree to this-effect was s sued last month by Dr. Rut, the Nazi Minister of Education, in' col- laboration with Herr von Tacham- mer, the Director of Sport.
A
JUNGLE WONDERS!
FROM AFRICA
QUEER CREATURES OF
THE CAMEROONS
BIRD, BEAST AND REPTILE
IN EXOTIC FORM
(By Ivan J. Sanderson)
SMALL whale which had While digging for these, we
never yet been seen by opened a hole in which crouch 1: white men, squirrels with para-janother proud mother: a spider. The obligatory course will com-chutes, a shrew the size of a cat, eight inches long, covered with prise gymnastics, athletics, boxing, and a frog of similar proportions hairs and armed with shiny, poi- swimming and shooting. There were the prizes that tempted us son fangs half an inch in length. will be inter-school and inter-uni-to explore the virgin jungles of Over and around her crawled her versity, championships.
West Africa.
two dozen hairy youngsters with At the end of their first year These were not. however, all luminous eyes and loath-some students will undergo an examina-the living mysteries that the plump bodies.
It took many
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
tion. If successful they will be mountains of the Cameroons anxious minutes to coax this given a sports diploma. Those sheltered, as we subsequently family into our collecting net who fall will not be allowed to be-learned.
for they can jump more than a gin. their fourth term.
Our initial attack was launch-yard, a method which they em Jed upon an isolated, forest-clad ploy in catching small birds, mountain in the hope of finding| Old-Man Gorilla Shot Lord Russell of Killowen has mistaken in the choice of our High among the mountains, in the Goliath frog. Nor were we Small surprises led to great. been el sted president of the Pega-location, a native walking into the land of perpetual mists, we sus Club, in succession to Colonel our camp one morning carrying a came upon the king of the forest. C. P. Hawkes.
great gourd covered with a cloth After man days fruitlessly hunt The club was founded 40 years which bobbed up and down like ing with cameras, a native rush- ugo to organise the annual Bar a jack-in-the-box.
ed into our camp saying he had When we raised the cloth, out been attacked by a huge male The first president was the new jumped not only a huge male of gorilla which he had shot dead president's father, who was then this species, with a mouth as as it advanced upon him.
point-to-pount races..
Lord Chief Justice..
In 1895 the frat Lord Russell of
large as a codfish, but also half His tale was the truth, for we Killowen invited the originatore of in crimson fur. Two of the zoo- five feet tall, lying among the a dozen great fat, frogs covered found the great ape, more than the scheme to meet in his private logist's greatest prizes room in the Courts. The Pegasus served up for us in one dish. Club was then formally inaugur-!
were undergrowth. With outstretch- ed arms this "grand old man of
ated, with himself as president. Flying Squirrels And Mice the mountain" measured. nine Mr. W. W. Grantham (now K.C.); We roamed the forests at the feet two inches across, the eigh- the fulfilment of a contract,
foot of these mountains night teen strong men could barely nothing could look more straight-was the first hon, secretary.
Among the original members after night hoping to obtain carry him down to camp. And forward.
aa Mr. Justice weird squirrels that nature has yet we had been assured that The same circumstances arose were such names
be found in England when the pound note Grantham, Alfred Lyttelton, M.P., provided with parachutes, by gorillas were not to
M.P. (now whose aid these creatures accom-within hundreds of miles of these ceased to be a legal claim to Charles Darling. Q.C., golden sovereign four years ago. Lord Darling). Frank Lockwood, plish prodigious leaps from tree mountains.
Water-Shrews A claim to be paid in gold on a Q.C., M.P. (who designed the club to tree. What was our surprise contract where gold was men-crest of a barrlater in wig and gown when, in their stead, a swarm of By the time that commerce letioned instead of merely the numbestriding the winged horse of the flying mice were dislodged from strange beasts, living fossils able to settle down to some more ber of pounds sterling was dis-Inner Temple). A. T. Lawrence a giant hollow tree. or less stable conditions, we shall missed in view of the Aet sus-(later Lord Trevethin and all be experts in the more recon-pending the gold standard; and Chief Justice) and J: G. Butcher, few inches in length, with tails streams at night by the light of dite and technical processes of it has to be borne in mind that M.P. (now Lord Danesfort). currency exchange. Some of in England an Act of Parliament
Lord
In the water also we found
almost, in their primitiveness. These tiny creatures, only a Wading up the clear rocky
like an ostrich feather, leap into bark torches, dark forms were
Most of these rode their own the air when frightened and sometimes seen darting to and float away through the forest as fro like fish. Traps. nets, and silently as flakes of soot from alguns failing us, the method of London chimney. They too are catching these animals employed equipped with membranes by the natives had to be resort stretched between their legs like ed to. We chased them with our their larger cousins,
bare hands and after marty Later in the year, the flying attempts were rewarded by a
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these are more interesting, than is final; it is not subject to any horses at the first meeting. others, but it is on the whole re-revision by the Courts on the markable how many of the wider ground that it is unconstitu- questions both of law and of tional. However, on appeal from ethics are interwoven with ques- the Court of Appeal to the House On a frigid morning an Irishman tions of money, which used to be of Lords, the judgment was upset running a riding gang-plow was accost- supposed to have very little con- and the doctrine adopted thated by a friend driving by: "Hey, Pat, nection with either. Among the where gold is specifically mention-way don't you get off and walk? De squirrels turned the tables on us capture.
want to freeze?"
by appearing one night at the Sleek like an otter, these giant more far-reaching problems ined the contract must be specifi- "Shure replied Pat in fine scorn, very door of our camp. Rustlings water shrews, when chasing their volving law, the claim which is cally and literally carried out by "an Old father frase like a man and scratchings in the darkness prey, are driven through the under the consideration of the the debtor. This at any rate throt along beheind toike a dog!"
above sent us headlong to the water by a powerful fish-like tail, American Supreme Court, and on was on all fours with a previous
gun case. Flashing a light into while their feet, which they dra which a considered judgment is judgment adverse to creditors. A kind old gentleman met a little boy the tree tops, four flaming eyes up beneath them, have developed to be given on the 4th of in a private loan to a Russian erying.
were revealed. Then, as the sharp keels to assist them in pre- February, would certainly rank Company the borrower had the Old Gentleman: "Why are you crying amoke from the guns cleared serving their balance. Their high; for it raises the question ortion of paying in. "roubles," my little man?"
away, there at our feet lay two jaws are beset with a formid-
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Cause For Tears
Little Boy (sobbing bitterly):
which of the two aspects of jus- which were at the time worth
The rouble don't know what to do. Mother won't let creatures that brought ahouts of able array of needle-sharp teeth
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HE WORE HIS HAT IN COURT
tice, law or equity, that used to two shillings each.
me stand on my head and daddy gram-surprise even from the natives. and their eyes are so small that have in England separate rules had become practically worthless bles because I wear out my shoes."
The Galago
Lone must search long in the fur: and separate Courts, and differ-after. the revolution, and the
Left-Handed Compliment.
I can but liken these animals of their heads before they can ent procedure.
debtor was able to settle his The case is one which calls for liability for about a hundred. A teacher asked the class to name to streamlined rats, with bushy be seen.
the states of the United States, One tails and silkén hair. though the
The Pangolin an interpretation of a bond which thousand pounds sterling with a child responded so promptly and auparachute gives to the whole the Raking over the dead leaves was executed as security for a bagful of paper worth about acurately as to bring forth this co-appearance of a kit, all but the that cover the floor of the forest, Railway loan, and at first sight shilling.
ment from the 'teacher: "You did very
we occasionally came upon ob would appear to have no compli- In the United States however well-much better than I could have string.
The following night I saw ajects having the appearance of cations at all. At a period when there is a section in the constitu-jdone at your age."
“Yes you could," said the child con- tiny figure silhouetted against (Continued on Page 11). American prosperity was much tion which lays down the rule
the brilliant moonlit sky, literally less securely based than in recent that Congress shall not have the solingly, "there were only 19 then.”
galloping through the tree tops. years, and when the dollar was power to vary or cancel a private
I fired at random, but it dis based on a bimetallic system contract by any retro-active
appeared while I waited listening! which was abolished in 1875,-legislation, and the argumenta of
to its body crashing to the ground though the recent silver pur-the learned counsel will therefore chases, authorised to be up to aftake a different range from the In yesterday's report of Mr. Ko- through the branches. With quarter of the gold reserve, are deductions from the principles of ki Hirota's Diet speech he was the aid of a torch I eventually a fainthearted revival, it was equity which did duty in the quoted as speaking of the "puppet-came upon a bundle of pale grey possible that a man who wanted English Courts which set aside regime." This, we need hardly wool at the foot of the tree. to be paid in gold might be paid the claim for gold; though it is say, should have been Manchukuo. Seizing my trophy I received a Tong was confined in the court cell in silver, which would be equally quite probable that some of them The report was printed exactly as severe bite on the thumb and the until the Court rose, as he unde legal tender. The ordinary pay will be quoted. In any case con-reedived from the cable company. fur came to life, a spitting, hiss-money to pay the fine of $1, which ing fury with wide-staring, was imposed on him by Mr. E. L ment would of course be by che sidering that the gold clause"
Mrs. A. O. Brawn will distribute amber eyes and soft little hands, Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis- que, but it might easily happen was invented to meet the case of
a gold obligation in some other there can be no doubt of the in- Government School Speech Day to This Galago, for a lemur it was defendant stated that he came to that the creditor thai to meet changes in the national currency the prizes at the Cheung Chau maily like those of a man in tracy this morning
Imintature.
country. There was a further tention of the creditor in insert-morrow at 8 pm. complication arising from the ing it.
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Then Could Not Pay $1 -Fine
For wearing his hat in court, LI
When asked why he came to Court,
far from being dead, was only a look for a friend who had been ar little stunned and subsequently rested for hawking flowers,
lived about our camp for many a day. Awaking at sundown, it would leap about the tent catch- nimble fingers.
Newts And Spiders
enfstence "of irredeemable paper; There is no need to indicate Pleading guilty to a charge of money, which might be useless to the enormous importance of the stealing $5 from Lau Tat, an earth him: and the days of the green-decision, for the clause has been coolle, Chan Ki, a 29-year-old un- hacks, which were eventually re-common form" in all manner of employed, was sentenced to two deemed after sensational depre- similar contracts. With gold in months hard labour by Mr. E. Wing moths in mid-air with its ciation, were vividly remember the open market worth twice the Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis- ed. It therefore became cus-old value in dollars, the judgment tracy this morning. tomary to insert a clause that the will make or mar many fortunes, lender should have the option of and if the plaintiff aucceeds the A dinghy, the property of Cap- places that housed strange crea receiving payment of capital and Power of Congress over foreign interest either in dollars or in contracts will be greatly limited the form of a certain quantity of gold. The plaintifï in the pre- sent case is offered the stipulated amount in dollars, which since
THEY SOLD THEIR CHILD
For selling a child of two years of
Nor were the tree-tops the only
tain Kennedy of the East Lan tures. Digging In swampy cashire Regiment, stationed at ground, we came upon odd worm Shamshulpo, was stolen from its like newts that have lost their moorings at Shamshuipo pleron legs through their habit of bur Monday evening.
rowing into the soll. They pile Jup some mud on the floor of the last year represent only fifty four age, Yu Kwong, 42, the child's Sentence of three months' hard little galleries that they excavate per cent., of the quaility of gold father, Li Chuen, a 56-year-old labour was Imposed on Tam Sze, & underground, and on the summit that he would have received two widow, and Fong To, a 20-year-old year old unemployed, who was of these they lay a dozen crystal- years ago, and he wishes to exer- married woman, were sentenced to Charged before Mr. E, W Hami cise the option of being paid in six months hard labour and two ton the Kowloon Hagistra gold bullion the amount specified mont
In his bond Under the Common
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clear eggs
They coll the their eggs until they are. and then, like hens-thet lover am, driving
the crabs by fets of water at then