Fighting Scourge From The Sky
London, Feb. 8.
A nation-to-nation alert will be mounted from now on until well towards the year's end throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East.
sticks and sandals of the defend- ing villagers,
and
formers 21
wolf for the enemy's
arrival
From Kenya to Karachi, from Teheran almost to Timbuctoo, lookouts of Moreover, the aeropinne gave
bo the planters many countries will anxiously scanning the sky long arm; no longer did they for a swiftly moving cloud. before engaging him. They They will be looking for a sought him out in his breeding hundreds-even per- cloud that can spell famine grounds, for those lands upon which haps thousands of miles dis the him by tent, and sew It casta its shadow.
million when he was still In Bledgling form.
of
The cloud will be one locusts and what the Colorado
50-
But the locust in turn beetie is to Continental potato taliated by increasing his breed- во 跹 the locust ng netivities until even the most growers. to practically every
country powerful counter-measures were Douth
much
and east of the terranean. Only co-because the locusts arrive And at this very moment, the In
ouldoing any balance of power between the swarms Scourge of Coloratios, and the scientists and the locust is pre- Is why recent damage they wreak is infinite- carious. That
news of his suspected record ly worse.
breeding season is grave.
Medi- only barely able to prevent him whole countries. more smothering
This year, experts prophesy a locust "invasion" en ' perhaps They an unprecedented scale. know that the creature has bred In almost record numbers and therefore expect the worst.
LONG-RANGE WAR. However, the menaced popula- Lions are leaving nothing 10 chance. It has been proved that insecticides, petroleum-based
agalnat
THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1958.
THIS CROWNING YEAR
HERE IS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF PRESENTATION PAGES PREPARED FOR THIS CROWNING YEAR. THE SERIES BEGINS BY GIVING ONE. MAN'S INTIMATE CLOSE-UP OF CORONATION HISTORY IN THE MAKING
A remarkable
W
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ON THE evening of August 9, 1902–the day that Edward VII was crowned King in Westminster Abbey-the man who had acted as chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury at the ceremony sat down to urlie a private letter to his family about what he had seen. THE CHAPLAIN is now Provost W. 1. Conybeare. He has made avallable
the letter he wrote at the time.
started from Lambeth Palace at eight, in the brougham the Hon. Mary Lascelles, once a lady-in-waiting on the late Queen, and therefore a maid of honour:
also Mrs Lascelles.
the
We drove to Vauxhall Bridge. being stopped a few minutes by a number of Indian troops who However, the locusts are re- specially compounded calving an increasingly rough this particular pest, are the most had just arrived by train from
Hampton At one effective method of mass exler-j
Court. reception every year. time,
and on to thanks to the
Over the they could only be at mination, And,
bridge
quick Station Was of the oil industry Victoria tacked of ground level, after co-operation
vulture and international team-work on work, but when we got into they had swooped,
String fashion, upon plantations and a most energetle basis, stocks of
of carriages in Victoria TO
protect their growing crops.
these insecticides have been dis- Street It was a tedious job. lands,
Miss Lascelles then suggested Eastern pooples were tribuled at all strategic points
I should try to get policeman sometimes obliged to burn whole in countries where the locust is plantations, Infested beyond re- likely to strike.
to help us along quickly, but I was shy. Not so Miss clamation, in order to annihilate
mounted the invading insects.
Lascelles, Seeing policeman the called to him: This the orchbishop's chap tain, and he is most anxicus to get to the Abbey quickly."
DITCH TRAPS
to wage Airaraft are ready long-range wanfare, while spray- for ing itearns are poked Immediate close-quarter fighting cund-ball poisoned dug a-with Hugh ditches WOTC
the awaiting immediate spreading if "locust traps," and while
busy in front-line a locust army succeeds in zetaling actions, the women and children anywhere on the ground.
men were
OIL
of a village used to be recruited At the same time, in labora- to engage
those spearheads of tortes in countries where locusts the enemy that had leaped the are fortunately unknown, forward defences, No one, young chambats are nevertheless con- too small or tinuously working in close asso- or old alike, was too feeble to be excused "mobi- ciation with entomologists on lisation" when a locust war was research projects. Their job is in And you stronger insecticides that will wipe out the post still more effectively.
on.
Insects These rapacious
de Boended, though, in numbers that made s mock of any "bow and-arrow**
food
It is a war of the utmost im- portance to tens of millions ezunter-measures, people-whose daily And in recent times, scientists placed in jeopardy the moment
weapons of that a citit swarm descends. adding the the chemical laboratory to the London Express Service.
were
WH
'MAGICAL'
Few
my
WHETHER it
gorgeous. Lpparel
(scarlet caylock and mantle) that start! ed him I don't know, but he at once said he would put us into that part of the street reserved for. ambasadors and so forti.
cipating.
Hy Road
wwe now sul out forma, for it was mort exacting getting food the card on maustethet was done with it handing theme that want wanted. Add bothri, Twas in real anainty fo the Archts. Awas horribly danch, of I dovere they not turn up the clestin light bill tha mo crowning its to thaines torand, behi got minden,
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Written from Lambeth Palace after the 1902 Coronation of Edward VII
by PROVOST W. J. CONYBEARE Chaplain to the then Archbishop of Canterbury
SO MUCH TALK
being sung. The result was that I hardly heard any of that great anthem for my whole mind was absorbed in the arch- bishop.
The moment of crowning was wonderful. The chair of "King Edward is very high off the ground. so in order to prevent the King straining himself, a small platform had been put in front.
On this the michbishop stord, end the Sub-Dean of West- minster brought him the crown on a cushion
Most stupidly he gave it to him the wrong way round. But the mistako was remedied before it was actually on the King's head though to those close to, the twisting of the crown right round looked poor.
on
At that moment the peers put
the their coronets, électrio light was switched on, The scene was truly wonderful, After that the archbishop had no trouble with reading, but he was tired, and leaning over terribly. The Bishop of Win- chester led him about.
11
No sooner were they seated than we heard
WAB the homago that the Westminster boys followed the enthroning which shrouting Vival [May caused most dismay for the he live). nd the archbishop neit quite rightly on
King's Procession can one knee to do his homage, but into alght
words.
The King really did look very well, walk-
when he had said his instead of at once getting
he Bank on to both knees and
ing as strongly as any it looked as if he had collapsed.
one
was
could do. It
д
rollet to
his humble altor quite down at his
CONFUSION
More than
half the
King George people brought him a letter sent by the later
Vand Queen Mary). irad urrived by the time I got King. The envelope was ad- Where at 9.10 0.m
By the King himself, at with their retinue I found my dressed
ap- gorgeously cards and scrolls [to be used in and a closely written card in of
ladies and the Fervice] the pulpit, the same hand was enclosed.
in
Farciled quite safe I had left them It was to express his absolute gentlemen.
The Princessen nr= archbishop them, approval that the overnight. 1 unred
with their right should insert certain words into rived and
.In the pu! them order and then looked about me, one of the prayers, referring to magnificent trains of is recovery the King's Waany purple and gold borne had postponed the Coronation.] by indies with equal- ly long white trains, The words added were "for so that each
Princess look up watch him make HAD no scat, but only the
to the whose recovery we nos render ten yards at least. They had 4 adoration step of the pulpit, which I
Thee heartfelt thanks" great job picking up their trains easily and kneel had had carefully carpeted
the prayer for with the heavy blue druggel the Collect in
the ter so as to be able to go up the faldstool with no trouble at all. HE was, however, tulpen up, the Holy Com- staircase into the royal seals. ·
the King himself giving him While he said his private munion,
hand. He kissed the King's It w£G
11.15 now
ahid we prayer, the choir Aatched the left, check and said: "God bless
B00 Meanwhile the scats become expected every minute to beautiful anthem "I was glad," you str, God bless you. God be filed.
began In dront of me was the the archbishop's procession [Dr and then
the great with you." The King WES royal box, sill empty but for F. Temple, aged 81, was then service.
evidently pleased with this, ani the two little Princes one of bishop of Canterbury] arrive,
took the archbishop's right hand There was, of course, a great whom ought in time to come to but it was not till 11.40 that
and kissed it deal of talking going on, and his own Coronation fone did
hardly Prince We walked about, realising it was God's house.
which covered the
rest of the canctuary, so that the wooden rollers of the scrolls shouldn't knock against the stone
and maste a noise.
to
•
were
ALARMING
After
the. Creed
the came oath, and here my first duly to began in walking forward
The archbishop was then led where the King was sitting and down the steps and, being a handing the Bishop of Win-
very awkward descent, he never chester (Dr Randall Davidson, got his balance, so that it looked later archbishop] the card for as if he was being. almost the archbishop King's voice
to read. The
solemnly on seemed very keen to ask heaps moment I saw him, for he strong as he gave his answer,
same peroDNS
House
WCTU
Albert, later King he arrived.
and the other did George VI; We were soon called to our not he was uncrowned King
VIII. They sense by the canons and minor Edwara
In sailor suits, and canons appearing with, the re- dressed The result was magical. We galia to be laid
of questions, trotted without a check right the alter. These Into Dean's Yard, seeing the then disappeared into Henry transept, and above
where we could cowling looks of peers and VII's
them ainging the peeressen whom we were anti- overber DA,
litany, which had been cut out Pe of the service proper. And then transept, their view very much we could hear Bishop Welldon broken by the pulpit. Most of
the ladies had opera glass lex Bishop of Calcutta) solemnly blessing the oil in St and this, added to the ceaseless jabber, almost made it seem as If we might have been waiting for a play.
The organ and full, orchestra pieces, and the played several
bells of St. Margaret's were ringing, but the time seemed long from
to 11.
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Edward's Chapel.
The canons and minor canons reappeared, received again the regalin, and processed with the choir singing "O Goo our help" to the where they deliver their were lo treasures to the Lord Great Chamberlain, ---Thien-came-long- Interval. The Bishop of Winchester. came to see if all was ready and while he was talk-
ing to me an official
EAR old me, I was alarmed
the
was wonderfully carried. The peets
He was safely taken to his were in the south had evidently been standing too and as he laid his hand on "the chair at the north end of the
them the long already, so that he had a Commons. of
The tendency to Iran
altar and there sat down and over on one Gospel" and look the oath.
a fow In the
My time was now cut out for could fortunately have north side, which happens with him
most exciting minutes rest, while the
Prince when he is tired. It was also me, for it was a cloudy day and the Abbey getting back the card or scroll of Wales did his homage in.
and, son kissed must strain his eyes to read, ing the one that was next want and whispered to one another, was dark. This meant that he that was done with, and hand- which father
I was in and shook hands most heartily, and more than likely blunder ed. Added to this, in reading.
real anxiety for the archbishop, and also while the Archbishop It was
dark, and I of York anointed and crowned horribly When the Queen's Procession knew they would not turn up the Queen,
electric light fill the
When arrived a few minutes later, he the stood up, but only when the m
moment of crowning.
archbishop told him, dor Lord Chancellor
As ho strained to read, so he was so dark he could not got more and more over on the recognise anybody.
Elde. His voice kepi strong and procession *was very he only made about four blun- royal:
the beautiful Queen ders altogether, the only [Alexandral looking rod and likely to raise a smile being soon followed by the anxious, and walking with such when he presented the sword bewan-very- told the King to protect and beld one much on Duke of Connaught stately grace, but with just the and [the King's brother] slightest limp, which was only "widowers.”
The anointing took place
the Patten all and then
the Prince noticeable as she passed close
sinnt on the while "Zadok the Priest"" was and Princess of Wales by.
but, thank God, thero was accident
royal arrival
took
place: the
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This
30,000 STARLINGS VERSUS A CITY
The Battle of Trafalgar, 1953
THE
latest round
Tnearly
is
over in Lon-
don's fight against the
starlings that every night
blacken the sunset over
THE BIRDS - LOOK.
my
cam
to
the Bread it was
mest anxious to
one
watch him, for
Awdiated from the roof of the council house on to birds rooet ing on the look tower. The starlings merely dodged the beam.
sido
It was worse with the dean, for his memory is gone, and ho all but fell with the Challee and forgot to Communicate the Queen till he was told
All these circurastances were unfortunate, and made some confusion at this supremely solemn moment, but in a way they added to the reality of it all: these two 'old men chosen not for their bodily fitness, not as good actorg but because of holding their historic ULTRA-VIOLET BAYS were their also tried, in the hope that the offices in the Church of the Sir Herbert Williams, MP for unusual appearance of one bird land
to another might cause fighting
LIKE WINNING
Trafalgar Square and roost By 1922 the National Gallery was
ROOF TRAPS
talked
GOOD RESTA
THE old archbishop had done
in nearby buildings. And it aico a favourite spot. This mass. Croydon, E., has described the looks as if once more the movement has increased greatly effect of their nightly chatter as to break out. They ignored the during recent years. It has now "Vore than a late sitting of FMEWORKS have been used starlings are going to win.
grown to fantastic proportions. House, for
they. Only one starling has so far Today," about 30,000 startings simultaneously."
but these proveti nolder than Nelson's been caught in a month, in come wheeling in over
a. shrieking block the every one wants to see the starlings; end,' anyway, the his part, He had lived to Some Westminster birds came back as soon as the Westminster City Council's' ex- Column in
mem go.
do it, and it was done. Others periment to lure the birds into have become one of London's interesting to watch, and no real
cloud dusk. The starlings residents think the starlings are crockers were finished.
might have done it more briskly ELECTRIFIED WIRES were special traps.
and with less anxiety to others, major spectacles something be- nuisance. In the starlings do tried on South Africa House; the but not with greater force,..., tween a Dore engraving of the fence, it is said they cat insects birds flow to an unclectrified Inferno, and a Dimney night and flies.
part
of the building'
As it was, the service from Even RUBBER SNAKES and the moment the King entered mare. Four circular trips made of
STUFFED OWLĘ have been the Sanctuary to the end of the wiro-mesh to catch 50. birds. Tho birds arrive regularly
used.
Blessing. Insted from 11:45 to apices have been placed on the every day over regular flight- The official attitude of the Not long ago
aro the Westminster 1.30, just the bourjand a half roots of Westminster City Hall, patha from feeding places mainly Royal Society for the Provention City Council: gave up hope of allowed by the doctors dava the Constitutional Club, Grund within a 12-mile radius of cen- of Cruelty to Animals is: "Leave removing the starlings. They Buildings, and the Canadian tral London. They return the birds alone; they do not resigned the battle. Then came Pacific building. Two hours be punctually at down, fore dusk the traps are beited
with food,
the
THEY DODGED
jeopardise man's existence." the new, secret weapon
the
As the Te Deum was sung, the archbishop wont into St. Edward's Chapel and placed the In summer their numbers But for the last two or luce specially designed TRAPS,
regalla on the altar there. The The bird that was caught on reach a peak. But their main years an intensive war has been THE SCRAP HEAP? King and Queen retired thither their waiting and also into roof of City Hall was not roost then is not around Trafal waged against them, not only in tempted by the bait; it is gar Square, but on Duck Island London, but in Birmingham and
These were produced by the dressing-rooms thought he fell in by accident. in St. James's Park In 1951, 90-Glasgow.
The King thoughtfully, sent. Ministry of Works have
Last week in Glasgow starlings Ministry of Agriculture after 000 starlings were counted here.
two years of discussion, between been experimenting, appar-
arriving at their usual roost on naturaliste and various Minds out to the archbishop & kilver bowl full of Bovell, and, after an insurance bunting were tries. The traps were
known effectively dealt with by a sys to effective in the country formed and go to the West the Queen's Procession ind re- tem of wires Alted on
where the starlings fed. It was
." also went door, the Ka porches which can hoped to induce the birds to thither his man ery sinking the food at their repete in town.) archbishop by the hand, laying: Interval
Unless a great change comes "Have a good rest, erchbishop,
tho markings feeding Have a good
The
ently
with not much more suc cess. They have placed four trops on the roots of the War
roost:
DIRT, NOISE
Why do they prefer Trafaler degCTRIC SHOUL
Squaro in the autumn and
.
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to
Office, the Admiralty and the National Gallery
WHY HAVE THE TRAPS winter? No one knows for cer- development of an earlier avstemt over FAILED! The starlings do not tall. The lodges; make good invented by: 30-your-old boobs dels 31, 2018 4, 4After the king was tobe, the normally food at night; they perches, and perhaps the cen man, Winkam Ellott, of Hawick will have de jobs the r
to Trafalgar Square to trally heated buildings,“
Fattract
He claims it “100 percent them. But they keep away
scrap heep
wa Urchbishop wout kway by Poets Sterlings have been coming to any building violent efficient against starlings, Ho
ter City Councils will | Coroneluñéten by anyópía-cloc Central London since about 100% (particularly, those with a glow, now runa :: Arm dedicated to Westminster ·
again bo back Where they
und soʼgut back, herè [Lambeth probably because their normal charact one or two but the cause of the anti-singing started said Nelsons on his Fatarel before two troo-roosting sites were fast dis appearing as London saturising like this around Trafalgar war. It is called Do-birding, column will, one gas turbo-his expanded farther and farther Square are free from starlinga bind eye to a very of battle. When two go
Other mimave ogodnat the more inglorious then he over Lambeth before?: three Eikero Nolaod's Column: When carly Wertaminater city counes wont starlings have boon as ingeniour, kura in his listing things you the Talmate a king
chair tes proference. In: 1019 they beton to get rid of the burda biontiae of but ineffective,
It be find the following yew at St. Pauly, noževe -
to zoost ut Mom Feltoka kautumny - this dirt. - theor cauM,, and thưár In Birmingham, a beacts” of John Waterman Coronation
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