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CATCHING ANIMALS Here
ALIVE
Hunter Who Supplies
Many Zoos
There
and s
MR. CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZS Everywhere
BIG RECORD
When the British India liner
Kokno arrived in Singapore re
A GREAT SILVERSMITH
The recent
M.
THE INHOSPITABLE RED SEA
LANGUID ATMOSPHERE OF SULTRINESS
cently the sad on pound Mr. Jenson as death of Gears WHERE DUST AND SAND COMBINE
TO MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT
Christoph Schulz, who specializes craftsman and the world's leading in "bringing 'em bacit alice.”- silversmith.
He began business at Copen- Mr. Schutz is one of the best
(By Malcolm Muggeridge) now animal-catchers in the bagan in 1904 on a very small world, owning big game ranetes scale, but his fame spread until his
WHERE are few less hospit-flet the following wind blow of thousands, of: acres in Tangan-shop in the Ostergade became a magnet to silver lovers, especially
able-places-in-the world through it for half an hour so yika Territory.
It was his first visit to Singa- from Great Britain and the than the Red Sea and its coasts, as to get an airing.
On Shore pore and be had with him on the United States.
He opened branches abroad, even in the autumn, let alone in
midsummer, when most of the On share, no such devices are. Rohns two giraffes which he cap tured about two years ago, and a ways choosing a leading shoppins Talian troops now in Eritrea possible. Italian soldiers pack-
were transhipped.
ed in Massawa in hastily con "singing" monkey. He is taking street in the city for his premises
The heat is a torment, the structed barracks, have just had Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1933 the animals to the Tarouse Park-Bond-street, Rue de la Paix and
Zoo in Sydney.
hot air barbers blow on to your the arrival of more troopships The giraffes and monkey were Though he had a large staff of very breeze scorches, like the to endure, Anguidly watching Megalomania In Italy transhipped to the Burns Philp assistants, many of were hair to dry off a shampoo. You and waiting for the war to be-
Einer Merkur at Empire Dock for his own persons
$ Months ..... HES 9.00 Posture Abroad Extra
and
Fifth Avenue.
diwork
seem to breathe in dust, hopegin with tepid water to drink lessness, so that the back of the and food mostly shipped from mouth is everlastingly dry-Italy to eat The sun beats down with a re-
You see
The Fascist Grand Council Australia together with the two has met in Rome, on the eve of Burmese elephants which had ar- WHERE CHARLES I LIVED
Flying over such--places, it the application of sanctions, and rived earlier, and enacted a quay-
If the Duke of Gloucester alentless, dazzling monotony, seems extraordinary that they after considerable labour has side comedy as stevedores : unsuc brought forth a T-clause motion cessfully tried to make them walk cepts the suggestion that after his and you have not even the satis support life at all. which .for megalomaniacal the plank from the steamer Kazamarriage he should live per faction of knowing that night nothing but desolation, an oc casional shadow where a few manently at the Palace of Holy fall will bring relief. hyperbole must surely be unique par
For night, too, is hot, sullen-trees are a cluster of houses An Both elephants and girafes were codhouse he will be the first place in the annals of history.
ly, heavily hot, and the stars by the sea coast., examination of the seven swung into the Merkar by Slings resident for over a century.
Charles X of France made the seem beady, like eyes in a fat, It seems quite strange, land- clauses rereals, on the construc-at the me of the ship's derricks
Flies settle ing, to find men, black and thick- tive side, a call to the Italian and no difficulty was experienced place his home on two occasions perspiring face.
Jan featured and impassive-looking, people determinedly to resist in handling them. the sanctions, "and for this pur-
The shipment of these animals shortly after the Revolution, when languidly on features too pose, to mobilise all its moral over several thousands of miles or as the Comte d'Artois, he lived-up guid to twitch them away and clustering round the place, and forces and material efficiency."sea is only a minor incident in the his early reputation for gaiety fans just stir up the suitriness.to realise that somehow or other such barren surroundings the One important part of this varied life of Mr. Schulz He is and held amateur theatricals there. Trying to think is like trying they manage to extract from
~ Dawn Like A Threat wherewithal to keep alive. when he had abdicated after the
Red Sea Parts campaign is apparently to be a well known to the directors of the and again, bearly 30 years later, to drive a car through fog
I have known such heat in meeting in Rome of "mothers principal zoos in Europe, America 1830 trouble.
The Red Sea ports-Port and war-widows from all the 94 and India, and supplies many of The King was then an elderly. Upper Egypt when the tempera
plous, and rather quernious mature was 115deg. in the shade. Sudan, Massawa, Assab, Jibuti, provinces to organise resist them with animals.
letter still in
existence and when, waking up at day Berbera, Aden all look very A ance, when a mission of prime Among the animals on and near importance will be allotted to his ranches are said to be lions, Italian women," and it may be leopards, traenas, zebra, giraffes, reads: "Last week I saw poor old break on the roof of a house much alike passing by them a Charles X. peering through the where I slept. I looked over the sea-front, a row of palm trees, dawn white houses, little encamp assumed that something more antelopes, elephants, rhino than bombastic phrases will hippo. As recently, as July this fox in the streets of Edinburgh desert, seeing the grey eventuate from this meeting year he took 153 cages of animals quite solitary. Over the shoulders Eke a threat and the sau come ments of what is called civilisa
mination
Taste the edge of desolation. But for the rest, the motion dis- to Boston, for distribution to vary of his frockcoat he wore a shawl up, fiery, a doom and an abo- tion existing precariously on Then the interminable waste The European officials who plays a mass hysteria which is ous zoos in the United States, in-and seemed to be shivering.”
of sand all round seemed a fit come on board have a white, truly pathetic. One finds it cluding in his consigament two
Your Daily Smile!
ting background, it parched too tired look Their faces, bear difficult to believe that a whole wildebeeste." nation has so subjugated its will During over 30 years as a big
An easy way to write that empha- it also a victim of the relentless the marks of much boredom en- sun; and life became cruel and dured. It is not difficult to to the rhetorical bombast of one game catcher Mr. Schulz has cap-f
simplified, and there was no imagine what their lives are single man as to acquiesce in tured alive over 500 zebra and 150 tác megative is NO,000.
luxuriance: no rich, tangled like, for life for a European in the declaration of November 18 giraffes, but killed only 27 hippo to be a date of "infamy and the and 45 shing. Often he is accom-
where; only heat and glare and between one small station and most profound injustice in the panied on safari by his wife and I believe chess is a more reputable jungle, no fertility even any the Fast does not vary much as
game than bridgeTM
another. history of the world," or in the son
"In what way?”
Even passengers in Inxurious Nor does it vary much as decree that "for coming en-
"You play chess with two bishops,
ly equipped liners, with ice and between one European and an- turies the monstrous injustice whole object of which is the
fans and nothing to do but lol other Your Frenchman or ** + done to Italy will remain public-abandonment of force as an in-and bridge with four knaves."
Surgeons of Ancient Rome remov- ly recorded" Nor is that all.strument of national policy) for the motion goes on to say and the specific outlawry of war ed cataracts from buman eyes. We on deck, find the Red Sea in Italian may look rather more
flowing wind
Englishman, be more inclined to that the "Grand Council ex- entailed in the Briand-Kellogg didn't know that in those days they tolerable when there is a fol- soiled and creased than your To add to everything else alsit in prizmas in the evenings, presses its solidarity with those Pact. These are concrete com- had grapefruit.
sort of saltiness in the sir have a more indolent, frankly States that have served the mitments which allow of only
makes it sticky, unsavoury to perspiring, frankly homesick, cause of peace by declining to one interpretation among law-
They may be "I'm thinking of asking some breathe. It is not uncommon, forlorn air. But for all there participate in the application of abiding men. sanctions, etc., ett (the Ita-broken-they are being broken to marry me. What do you think of in such circumstances, for is the same round of sunset lics being ours). This is surely but they cannot, with any the idea?":
"It's a great ides, if you ask me liner to stop, turn round, and extreme example of the honesty of intention, he simply jad captandum presentation of put aside
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most
a case which has even less to Italy's case outlining the commend it than such things monstrous injustice" of sanc- usually have.
tions, apparently takes no ac The leaders of the nation, no count whatsoever of what might doubt, find themselves in the easily be called the equally diré necessity of having to con- monstrous injustice" of seek- vince the people of the justice ing, by fire and sword, to sub- of their case, and one is hardly jugate an independent people, to entitled to object to their wrest their territory from the methods of doing so, however by force, and to bring to bear far removed they may be from against them all the resources logic and truth. But an acade of modern warfare in effecting Whatever crimes ic interest is surely permissi-those aims. ble in two points which imme-against civilisation Abyssinia diately arise: the reactions of may have. committed. the people concerned, and of people agree that the punish- the outside world As far as the ment hardly fits the crime. And flatter is concerned, the judg-in any case there is not the ment of the world has already slightest shadow of justification been given. If there is in exist for Italy to take it upon herself ence a minority opinion which to inflict that punishment. off accepts Italy's own apologia for her own bat completely oblivi- her action in Abyssinia, it is so ous of the fact that the League small as to be almost negligible. was prepared. and still is, to On the other hand, the large give a patient hearing to what- majority of the nations and ever charges Italy may-bring peoples have with no uncertain and effect a judicial sentence, if voice expressed just exactly that word may be used in tiris what they think about the ad-connection. It was while nego- venture, and the opinion is not fiations were actually proceed very flattering either to the ing to this end that Italy took Italian nation or its leader. It the law into her own hands and is inconceivable, also, that began the conflict, for which there is not some current of dis-there-can surely be no moral or approval with the national po-judicial justification whatever. hey among the 42,000,000 It In short, however, much the hens who go to make up the Italian people may delude them- nation. They cannot all, have selves, or be deluded into be been mesmerised or bludgeoned heving, that they have right on into acquiescence of a policy their side, the judgment of which on the face of it entails a world is never cynical disregard for the rights with them; and the f of others and an equally cyn
the world must,
abandonment, not only of
nary usages of internati
nas but also of
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Chess vs. Bridge
*
So Sadden!
sand.
(Continued on Pag:10)
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