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THE AUROCHS IS EXTINCT
The controversy about theat tempt to recreate the extinct aurochs has been settled by Lord Rothschild, who states that the animal is definitely extinct.
The assertion that a herd of aurochs is still maintained in the Polish National Park at Bialowleza is the result of the Poles and Gor- mans folsting the name of aurochs
WHITE HOUSE FROM WITHIN
CANDID PORTRAITS OF NINE PRESIDENTS
FORTY-TWO
YEARS SERVICE
AS USHER
(By R. H. Bruce Lockhart)
on the European bison. The A GENTLEMAN
d a angin he
Hoover has written a book several bells at once.
They dash- aurochs was finally exterminated in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- which has been an outstanding ed upstairs, to find Wilson stand-
success of the American publishing outside his room in his under-¡1
clothes. His trunk had gone as- turios.
A ing season.
The animals at Bialowieza are the European bison. The Duke of Bed- ford has a small herd of animals at Woburn.
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SOUND "AUTHORITY
Mr. "Ike" Hoover is no relation tray. It was not recovered until // these of ex-President Herbert. He came an hour later. Mr. Hoover de to the White House as an electri-cribes this as a typical
cian in 1891 in order to instal the House inauguration day Whits
Wilson's Breakdown.
first electric-lighting, system. And there he remained as the chielf
His account of Wilson makes an According to Lord Rothschild the uther and confident of nine Pre-interesting contribution to history. European bison, which bears a sidents until Roosevelt came into Contrary to the general belief, close resemblance to the American power two years ago.
Wilson's breakdown began in the buffalo, la now reduced to some 80 His book, which is a record of
summer of 1919 in Paris, some head.
his 42 years of service at the White months before the stroke which-in- Before the war there were 400 at House, has been extravagantly capacitated him after his return Bialowieza and some 150 ia the praised by the critics, who have to America Mr. Hoover describes compared him with such divergent how one day in Paris Wilson went The aurocha (Bos primigenius) artists as the late Lytton. Strachey to bed ostensibly with a cold. While he was the in bed- resembled a gigantic ox, Interme- and Mr. Walter Winchell... diate between a Highland ox and a To the English mind the book victim of extraordinary hallucina Longhorn, bat with much bigger lacks literary distinction, but its tions. Colonel House was trying horna. It stood some. 17 or 18 candour, its obvious sincerity, and to usurp his place. Every French its freedom from bias are impres-employee near him was a spy. He
Caucasús,
handa at the withers.
he was
never the same man again.
economy
On this subject Lord Rothschild Is sive. As a "de-bunking" biography suddenly, acquired a as sound an authority as there is it is both amusing and historically craze. After this illness he was to-day. Not only is he a world-valuable. famous zoologist but in his zoo, at Tring, he concentrated largely at one time on buffalo.
"No Heroes
In turn Dir. Hoover passes an
Mr. Hoover puts Wilson in a class by himself for intellect. Ex-
much to the vigorous and far-
At 66 ho still writes a remarkably usherly oye over his nine chiefs-cept for a slightly caustic account Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Mc-of Wilson's courtship of his second sighted policy of General Lyau- tey and to the prowess of the clear and bold script
Kinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, wife, during which he had a prí |V.C.'S FOREST HUT
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and vate wire installed between their two houses and "put orchids be Herbert Hoover. With the excep- Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1935. French Foreign Legion. In spite of conflicts with the Berber tribe of Riffs French policy has been Bialowieza, once the private shoot-tion of Wilson and Theodore fore, affairs of State," the portrait is both sympathetic and flattering. conciliatory towards the natives ing preserve of the late Taar of Roosevelt he finds them just sver
About President Harding Mr... since the conquest, of Algeria, Russia, is to-day becoming more and age. men, neither as great nor as Hoover is comparatively reticent constructive, and energetic. Only more a happy, hunting-ground for interesting as their visitors.
He avoids most of the old scandals. in French British sportsmen.
In the time of the Harrisons, a recently, reformas
He was ths Italy in Africa contained in the Equatorial Africa by means of
The Polish Government now give homely couple who believed in and Mr. Hoover's Harding list Hard- "colonial clauses of the new centralisation have effected con- special facilities and arrange pri-practised the early-to-rise and ng gets one first
best-dressed President. pact form the latest stage, in the siderable economic progress. The vato shooting parties for English early-to-bed precept, the White
No Praise For Coolidge Lo long history of African colonisa French have also been aided in men at an all-in cost of about 250 a House had only one bathroom and Mr. Hoover lets himself go with tion by the peoples of Europe their colonial policy by their com- head.
Colonial Africa
The French
concessions to
Your Daily Smile!
six domestics,
McKinley, who is one of ""Ike's" good spenders. Some saved half
most
and Asis, a history which goes parative freedom from colour The most privileged Englishman Grover Cleveland took his job some effect on President Coolidge, back to the days of the twelfth prejudices, which have occasioned in this respect is Carton de Wiart, seriously. He often worked all of whom he paints a thoroughly century B. C., when the Phoeni- trouble in the native colonies of the V.C. General, who was wounded night. To keep himself awake ha unattractive picture. Taft's tem cian galleys swept the Mediter other Powers. The Italians came eight times in the war.
chewed tobacco. He kept it loose per was angelle compared with Coolidge's. Some Presidents were ranean Sea and Phoenician co-late on to the African scene, but He has been given a special hut in his coat pockets. lonies were founded in North since the establishment of the in the forest. Here he spends Africa. The remains of Roman Fascist regimé, Signor Mussolini several months.every year shooting favourites and who was assassinat-their salary.Coolidge saved, all
eloquent of another has been very explicit in his ut-bear, boar, deer and wolf.
ed at the Buffalo Exhibition in of his. He was the only President cities are chapter in the story, whilst the terances regarding the expan-
1901, was a martyr to his invalid who kept the White House, domes tic accounts himself. He was the wife ruins of Carthage remind us of Bionist intentions of Italy in
least interesting and the the time when there, was a thrust Africa, and has not forgotten
Theodore Roosevelt
egotistical of all Presidents. He northward instead of southward, that Italy was left out in the co- 'wife (back from the shops): "Well,
than any President and the writ of the Carthagin lonial cold at the post-war con- dear, I've found just the costume I've Theodore Roosevelt, who suc slent more
At present Italy's ian Empire run as far as Corsi ferences.
ceeded McKinley, is shown in the more even than Taft. His treat- been looking for."
Husband: "Splendid! I certainly full light of his virtues, and his ment of his staff was bad. He had ca, Sardinia, and Sicily. In more three African possessions com- modern times, the last century prise the large but rather sterile couldn't have afforded to buy it for defects. At first Mr. Hoover put his head rubbed regularly with while he Wad hav has seen what has been well area of Libya (Tripoli), the you,"
down this restless, muscular Pre vaseline scramble dubbed "the
for small strip of Eritrea along the
Supply.andTM Demind
sident as a play-actor. Later he ing breakfast. He bestowed what Africa," as Great Britain, Spain. Red Sea, and Italian Somaliland
A on his servants. He called the Portugal, France, Belgium, Hol-in East Africa: Italy was fores What did you and Sandy have for was convinced that Roosevelt was he thought were funny nicknames supper the day you were married?"
the most genuine of men. land, Germany, and Italy all ob-talled in the more fertile Tunis "Bolled rice, of course,” replied Mrs characteristic picture of the Pre White House doorkeeper "Mink" tained a foothold in the vast un-by France, but the Italian popu MacFarlane.
sident is given in the description and his butler "Bug."
The only occasion. on which he developed continent Posses-lation is equal to the French one,
To achieve success, keep your ess of a White House evening when sions, protectorates, and spheres and the privileges granted to the of influence were obtained by Tunisian Italians should be very open and your mouth closed," says a Roosevelt, who himself had prac-was ever known to make conversa lecturer. To eat a melon, reverse the tised ju-jitsu strenuously for two tion was when the Prince of means of pacific penetration and welcome.
years, was determined to match Wales lunched with him. The the force of armed conquest. Al- Another interesting feature of most all the European nations the new Franco-Italian Fact is The small boy who has kicked his best Japanese exponent of the art Prince, Mr. Hoover Bays, Was. have secured some form of co- the granting to Italy of shares football: through, a neighbour window against the best American wrest very shy. lony, and the map of Africa is in the railway from the French knows something about recovery.
now a patchwork quilt represent port of Jibuti in French Sompli- ing various colonial ambitions land to the Ethiopian capital of
It is a striking fact that to-day Addis Abbaba, French enter- the only two really Independent prise was responsible for the realms that have not been building of this line, the only one parcelled out, possessed, pro-into Abyssinia, but in 1906 its tected,....
influenced or
are construction was divided amongst the Liberia arising from France, Great Britain, and Italy
process.
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COUNCIL MEETING TO-MORROW Finance Committee's Agenda
fer. MA
Coolidge's hobbies were doing
The two men took up their post- jigsaw puzzles and fishing. When tions in the East Room of the he fished, he wore white kid gloves- White House. Roosevelt himself and made his secret services men was referen, In the first round the bait his/hook for him. The final Jap grabbed his opponent by the picture in of a Coolidge furious and shoulders, put his feet into the bitterly disappointed because, when throw just before Herbert Hoover's "nomi- American's stomach, and the wrestler over his head. In a nation he made his famous des fash the American was on his claration "I do not choose to Finance feet and before the Jap knew what stand", his own party took him at
new America and the an by an agreement which also in At the meeting of the cient land of Ethiopia, which we ternationalised the line in the Committee, to be held to-morrow had happened had pinned his fu- his word. Calvin had confidently Liberia is largely owned and for traffic. By the same agree Council, votes supplementary, to the been nailed there. Roosevelt was again. know as Abyssinia. Even here sense of equality of treatment after the meeting of the Legislative jitsu rival to the floor as if he had expected to be pressed to stand controlled by an American pri- ment the three countries, whose 1934 estimates, totalling $12,030,00, so pleased that he forget all about vate company, whilst Abyssinia possessions surround Abyssinia,
has been writing Notes to the promised "to maintain intact the will be presented by His Excellency his duties as a referee.
Taft's Jealousy League complaining of Italian integrity of Ethiopia," The the Governor for consideration. These include a sum of $10,873 for
pressure upon "Africa's last Em-Ethiopian "King of King the Canton-Kowloon Railway and Very different is the picture of
pire.
Dengan ke Menelik, also insisted on preser-
Whilst the British Empire ving the absolute independence one of $1,161.00 for Camp Expenses Taft, who, once the bosom friend was often first in the field and of his empire. His successor of the Volunteer Defence Corps. of Roosevelt, became so jealous of controls a large portion of Ras Tafari, Is also a strong and Estimates for 1985 which will be him that, during his own "Pre- Africa, French colonial policy has progressive ruler who realises tabled at the same time, amounting sidency, he could not bear a Roose been so enterprising that French the temptation of his rich and to 811,150.00, include an items of velt, admirer near him; Taft, a control extends over an amount fertile lands to any European $10,000 for Public Works Extra-huge man, had to have a special of territory in Africa which is Power with expansionist, alas, ordinary and one of 8400 for the bath bullt for him. When he first greater than the whole area of although an agreement has beed Volunteer Defence Corp
the United States and her pos- concluded with Great Britain,
sessions. It embraces the pro: whilst Japanese Industrial a
tectorates of part of Mo
and of Tunisia, Algeria
administered asp
France itself
Africa
French
French
Peace Tr
either
[right
golan
the north;
commercial firma-s have beed
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ifted:
used the White House bath, he stuck in it. He was the first Pre- sident to play golf, and he had few other virtues in Mr. Hoover's eyes. Mr. Hoover's portrait of Pre- sident Wilson is the best thing in his book. Trus, the President's day was hardly Buccess. There is no formality about, the
of President into
add) unaand
Shortlat
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believe this boy is