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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1955.
AFTER THE RABITS,
NOW THE FOXES
London, Aug. 25,
Poultry keepers want the war on
rabbits followed by a wholesale destruction of foxes. The National Poultry Associa- tion, with 10,000 members, has made the request to the Ministry of Agriculture.
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The Ministry has declorexi "no rabbit areas," in which in- tensive "mopping-up" In being out. following the epidemic of myxomatosis.
Altogether 44 countles in England and Wales have been covered by orders, under which farmers and landowners must kill every remaining rabbit, it they fail the men of the Minis- try have power to do the job themselves.
who Now
poultry keepers, claim losses amounting to mit- lions of bounda a year, have asked
to take Ministry similar steps against toxes, where rabbits have been clearest, Rabbits are normally the chief thet of foxes.
the
Overtime costs Mr John
Harvey, general uf the Association, secretory said: "We have had more reporta of losses during the post nine months than during the ceding three years.
pre
At the Daily Mail-sponsored National Laying Trials at Mil-
If not prepaid a booking fee ford, Surrey, where 3.000 valu- able birds are kept, foxes mean £100 worth of overtime a year. Said Mr. A Denby Wilkinson the manager: "To shut up our
against
foxes means
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YOKOHAMA No. 1/22.
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| LAUGHED OUT OF ROBBERY
Washington, Aug. 25. Bir Margaret Whipple's
prevented laughter robbery of the
Second
ус National Bank here
terday.
unarmed youth An handed Mrs Whipple, a teller, a note saying “hand your money carefully. Don't let anybody know,'
Mr Whipple said she was amused by the word "carefully."
over
NO up- Fler laughter nerved the would-be robber that he turned in
and fted... confusion China Mull Special,
High Cable
Railway Opened
Paris, Aug. 25. One of the highest cable rail- ways in the world was opened on a peak of the Aiguille du Midl, 3,842 meires (about 12,000 feel) above sea today.
level
THE STORKS ARE FORSAKING DENMARK Mail Notices Legs Insured For £100,000
Insured For £100,000 Disappearing Behind
The railway, which will tourists from Chamonix to the peak in the heart of the Mount Blanc range, is in two'sections. On the first, cages carry 70 passengers cach, leaving every
ten minutes.
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FRIDAY
AUGUST 20 By Air
Formone, B. p.m.
Burma, India, Pakistan, Middia Eart, Africa, Great
Europa. 6 ..
Philippines, 0 p.m.
Kore, & p.m.
Japan, 6 p.m.
U.S.A., Canada, & p.m.
By Surface
Britain d
Pakistan, Italy, Portuguese India,
P/P via Karachi, & p.m.
Macao, 6pm.
Malaya, Ceylori, India. Aden, Middle
Britain EART Great
Europe, Reg. & P/P. 20/8, 3 p.m.; Ordinary, 21/0, 0.0.m.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 By Air
Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand & Ceylon. Noon.
Philippines. 2. D.m.
Indo-Clúna, France. 3 p.m. Philippines, N. Borneo, & p.m..
Howell, U.S.A, Canada, Japan,
pn. Malays, Indonesia, Australia. New Zealand. Talland. India, Pakistan. Middie East, Africa, Great Britain & Europe. P
Formosa. Okinawa, Korea, 6 p.m.
By Burfaco
China, People's Republic. 9.30 am. N. Duraco, 10 a.m. Formosa, Noon.
Philippines, 2 p.m.
Macho, 2 p.m.
Thailand, 4 p.m.
Chinn,
People's Repubile. 6 p.m. Macao. p.m.
Birth
Control In Egypt
Cairo, Aug. 25. Birth control will soon be attempted in Egypt, following the recommendations of experts of the Council of Public Ser- Vicce
TeSources
1
Milan, Aug. 25. Adele Gasperini came back. from work here last night to and her
father 02-year-old On a rooftop gable above her home.
perched
The over rapid growth of the population in relation to the in- crease of the country's economic
would lead to decrease in the Egyptian stand-
A neighbour, Antonio Pac- In the second, shorter stage,ard of living, the experts re- # 40-ton cable with no ported.
ciarini, 25, climbed up to the Supporting pylons on the way
the old man to rescue, roped Nevertheless birth control 1s
the gable and waltod for the carries lighter cars each with only aimed at couples with three
Mail children
fire brigade to carry him down passengers, China
already. France-
to safety-China Mail Special Prcsac.
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Special.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
IS THIS YOUR MISSING HUSBAND, TURNED TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER ?
FERDINAND
NANCY
I HURT MY
ANKLE--- YOU'LL
HAVE TO CARRY ME
IT'S EB--BUT HE'S TURNED BACK AGAIN--LIKE RE REALLY IS. EB, YOU COME TO THE STATION. WE'RE GOIN' HOME.
JOHNNY HAZARD
· HEY, JOHNNY, WHETHEME
| SHARI 7 DON'T TELL AME YOU,
GOT, FRESH AND SHE UPPE AND WALKED HOWIE
I'LL BET SHE'S FAKING BECAUSE SHE'S TOO LAZY
TO WALK
NOT QUITE BUT
THE AN IDEA FOR BUTURE DATE: EVE BOT HER STABHBER BEAWAY IN COOL STORAGE!
I LEFT MY SUIT CASE AT THAT DANCE HALL--th |--L FEEL BAD--__
DUSHMILL MILI
· I THOUGHT IT" WOULD BE
AART TO LET HER HIDE IN
LESE 2 THOUGHT.
J.
Worth more than passing glance are these lovely legs, gracing the attractive MGM dancing For star Ann Miller. they have been Insured by Lloyds for £100,000 for the duration of her first Lon- don, visit where she is playing in "Hit the Deck." -Reuterphoto.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
I'LL GET IT FOR
YOU AND MEET YOU AT THE
STATION.
STRANGE WHAT PEOPLE CAN IMAGINE HE
THOUGHT HE BECAME
TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER AND MADE HER BELIEVE IT,TOO.
50 TIHFUL IRLS
ance
STRANGER THAN YOU THINK
By Mik
4-12
By Ernie Bushmiller.
I FORGOT TO TURN THE
WATER OFF IN
THE BATHTUB,,
By Frank Robbins
· AND YOU WERE | BI WOULD NEVER HAVI FOUND
NOT WRONG, L
ASSURE YOU..
HER HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR
YOUR FRIEND'S GENEROUS
CO-OPERATION I
The Iron Curtain
Copenhagen, Aug. 25,
The storks of Denmark, for so many centuries famous in legend as Denmark's traditional birds, are disappearing.
The indications are that they are gradually forsaking Northern Europe in favour of the Iron Curtain countries,
Half 11 century ago, there were upwards of 4,000 pairs of these birds which migrated each
and year to Denmark
made their nesta here. Last year, only 310 couples and 30 lone birds were counted.
"Hans
great
the Andersen, Danish story teller, often wrote
stories have completely disap- peared in France" he says, "although they are still some- times found in Alsace-Lorraine, as well as in Belgium, Switzer- land and Holland. in Skone, In Southern Sweden, in 1917, there were still 35 nests which were used by migrating storka,
about storks in his famous fairy Now, only one is left, tales, and ornithologists believe "The Zoological Museum, and that during his lifetime, many the Ornitholeglent League havo more than 4,000 pairs arrived made extensive researches into every year In Denmark.
Not Only Denmark
ways
པ
the
storks, in. co... operation with #the stork specialist, Dr Halfdan Lange. 1949 only
300 pairs of birds came to Denmark, but according Danish ornithologists have to records in 1938 there were no been studying the decline in the tower than 860 occupied nests numbers
of these pleturesque and their number increased birds with their long legs and until shortly before World War widr wing span, coming here to, 11. In 1939, between 1,100 and make their untidy-looking nests 1,200 nests
on the tops of church towers, year. chimney pots, or tall trees. Last
year, the 210 pairs
be- produced
wore in use Cach
"Observation of storks largely
tween them 449 young storks.censed during the war, but in In 1953 only 177 pairs were 1952 we were again able to keep
found, with 307 young. In that track of the birds," yeur, no fewer than 80 storks made the long migratory flight of starks visiting Denmark and The reason why the number
to Denmark alone.
other Western European lands,
While the number of storks in where formerly they were abun- Derumark has shrunk to a small jdant, has declined is not known. proportion of what it was with-
in living memory, stork migru-*
Ornithologists know that they
In
tions to the Iron Curtain coun- prefer marshy moors and open trics, according to Danish spaces. As a result of the greater scientists, have greatly increased. utilisation of the land in Den- mark, these have become fewer, during that period.
But observation has shown that According to Professor Hans storics can live well in dry and former arcas cultivated Johansen, of the Danish Zoolo-
often
livet in they is years, gical Museum, the decline found not only in Denmark but colonies of 50 or 60 birds, but- also in other Western European even under present conditions of countries, where
birds intensive cultivation of the land, wore formerly seen large it is believed that several thou- could easily live numbers,
so sand storks not frequently as in Denmark. The here.
TALK
these in
although
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you sech
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!
TRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
DAIRY BOX
MILK CHOCOLATE
calls
tuation
Can Miguel
Strict Regulations
Another reason advanced is that the weather in Denmark has changed. There has certain- ly been a long sequence of wet and cold summers, and storka are known to profer warm climates.
.
Another suggestion is that many birds get killed by flying into
overhead electrio cables. Storks are unwieldy filers and cannot chango direction quickly when they see, often too late, that they are heading for à cluster of overhead wires,
What is certain is that nothing- that man can do will attract the storks, although they can be encouraged by strict regula- tions to leave them undisturbed whlio nesting. Storks GLO rigorously protected by law and there is no question of their being shot or otherwise harmed in Denmark,China Mail Special,
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