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RUSSIA, POLAND AND LITHUANIA,
London, Oct. 4
OCTOBER 7. 1920.
CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
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ODOROUS FLY TRAPS AT KEW GARDENS,
In one of the hottest "divisions of the T green-house and the adjoining cool porch at the Royal
Although there are sensational reports from Helsingfors as re-Į Botanic Gardens, Kew, there can gards the situation in Russia, they are not yet condrmed. Finnish be seen just now many examples frontier reports indicate that great anxiety is prevailing in Soviet of carnivorous plants. All" of circles hereanent. Both on the Polish front and in Crimes the Red these attract insects by some forces are demoralised with hunger and are surrendering or desert- kind of lare, a bait of colour, or ing. Trotsky's efforts to recruit new forces in Siberia and the scant, or even only a contenient: eastern provinces have failed, while the labouring classes at Moscow resting-place, then trap them, ar and Petrograd, if they have not actually declared a general strike, lime them with a sticky secretion, are threatening thereanent and pillaging the factories. It must be and finally kill and digest them. remembered that authentic news from Russia is always scanty, owing pitcher-plants, chiefly species of A large greenhouse is full of [to terrorism and the strictest control of visitors evar devised
Nepenthes, from Malaysia, and Warsaw, Oct. 4
Sarecenias, from the New World. Some are upright in pots, others | are trained like vines against the sloping glass, sod from all no- merous pitchers depend. These
A Polish-Lithuanian armistice has been concluded. The demarca- tion line is not yet known.
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* London, Del. 4. There is no confirmation in Londen so far of the Warsaw report are really modiñed lestes lo that a Polish-Lithuanian armistice has been concluded. On the con- Nepenthes carried on a long and; trary, according to the latest Lithuanian information, severe fighting | flexible leaf-stalk. forms a was going on on Saturday, with heavy casualties for both sides. Nei-curved bandle, and in the Sarra”
demarcation line, which it considers unjustiɓable.
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bottom of the pitcher secretes a juice which stupefies the insects, kills them, and slowly digests The "Times" correspondent at Riga states that peace prospects them. The nutritive juices then are considered bright, although much depends on the development rass straight into the plant, and of the internal situations in Warsaw and Moscow, The Poles have save it from the chemical delivered a considered reply to Jaže'a terma. The Reds have agreed business of building up proto- to eliminate all reference to East Galicia in the treaty. It is declared plasm from inorganic materials. that private meetings between Joxe and Dombski bave led to an un-come of the pitchers are bright derstanding on all the main points.
green, other are flecked with LOTOWD OT purple. The tip Wrangel's operans in South Russia have again come into pro- for the leaf usually forms a minence. The situation is apparently developing very rapidly and kind OF lid. which serves a big move to the line Ekaterinoslav-Rostof appears imminent, several purposes. It keeps rain simultaneously with the widespread reports of General Makhno, ap-frem filling the pitcher and parently the famous guerilla teader, who has already advanced toļso flooding out the insects of Losovaia, Slavianskand Kramaborskajain the Donetabasin and reached drowning the digestive juices. Krementchong on the Dnieper. The movement prepares the way for Ita upper surface is often brightly a big Wrangel advance, as the capture of Losoraia and Slavianak Jealoured and serves as a can- cots the Bolshevik main communications from their big base, Khar-venient "resting-place on which hod, to the Rostof area, while Ekaterinou!~ ** menaced from the an insect, lured by sight or scent, Wrangel announces that eleven th. 3 prisoners were alights to explore. Following counted in the Volnovankha area. He has reached a point nineteen the attraction. the insect creeps miles west of Mariupol, prisonering six hundred. Meanwhile Trot. into the pitcher, is prevented sky's latest trumpet call reveals the greatest anxiety as regards the from getting out by rows of re- southern front. He declares it most be liquidated before the curved brists, and soon drops wister...
down to join earlier victims in the bottom of the pro.
rear.
ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE AGREEMENT.
London, Oct. 5.
There are also some plaats of the famous Venus fly-trap Caro- Jina. The green blades of this plant are binged and surrounded with spikes. The upper surface of the leaf has many little pouple- salted glands and sensitive hairs. A faint odour attracts the insect, which alights on the leaf. There no sticky secretion, but within
The dratt of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement has been published. It confirms the recent cabled forecast 1 ignores the question of the vast liabilities of the Russian Government, municipali-secordsofthe sensitive hair be ties and private borrowers, and proposes protection against the ing touched the hinged leal soaps attachment of Russian gold, securities and commodities which Russia ogether, entrapping the victim. may export in the course of trading. The "Times" denounces the The digestive juices are poured agreement as a contract of repudiation of Russia's obligations and out, and the insect is slowly dis declares every member of the Stock Exchange, the Baltic and Lloyds solved and absorbed. The leaf knows that the repudiation of a contract would mean instant expal then opens, and the hard indiger ision and disgrace. It states, however, that the Cabinet is reported; ;ible remains fall ou;.
to have postponed consideration of the agreement, because the reports of disintegration of the Soviet forces grow steadily more persistent.
ESGLISH INSECT-CATCHERS. Even more interesting to Eng-
| Furthermore, trade negotiations will not be resumed aptil the Govern-¡
ment has received satisfactory assurances from the Soviet as regardsah visitors are the examples of the return of British prisoners, Bolshevik propaganda and hostile the species of Butterwort and
action in Asia,
THE TRADE DEPRESSION.
I: appears that trade depression is setting in quicker than anticipated. The Phoenix Steel Works at Sheffield have notified the retrenchment of a thousand workers owing to shortage of orders Other manufacturers are stated to be taking similar action shortly There are three thousand workers, principally seamen, unemployed at Cardiff and considerable unemployment is reported is the black, country. Hundreds of operatives were discharged on 2nd inst
EARL HAIG'S APPEAL
London, Oct. 4.
Earl Haig, addressing representative Glaswegians, appealed for support for ex-service men by providing work for able-bodied men and money for disabled men. He referred to the formation of the |Officers' Association, but added that it was his aim to see a great united Empire organisation. He was attending conferences at Leicester în November therefore, and visiting Capetown in the spring.
THE MINERS' BALLOT.
London, Oct. 4.
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Sundew. many of which are found in Great Britain, on!
moors and heaths. The Com:300 butterwort DT butterworth is a small plant with leaves shaped like those of a daisy, but smooth and hairless, and a manve flower carried on a slender stem. The sundes is a smaller plant; with spoon-shaped leaves carried on the end of long stalks, and studded with little knobbed tentacles. Very little known of them until a correspondent told Darwin that the leaves Usually had Dany insects sticking to them. The great naturalist was interest- ed, and began the set of observa- tions and experiments which led to the famous book, "Insectivor. ous Plants."
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There seems no doubt that both the sundew and the butter- wort erodes secretion with sa odour attractive to many kinds of insects, but especially to de- licate lies. The insects alight on the leaves, and at once get anlangled in the sticky fald poured out by the knobbed glands. The more they struggle, the more smeared they become, and the juice seems to have Darcotic effect on them. Very 3000, however, something else happens. In the sundew the lentacles slowly bend over, preSS-
The text has been issued of the miners' ballot form. The mening their knobs on the ly until are asked to vote either for or-against the mineowners' offer cabled it is firmly beld and almost com
on 1st Oct.
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Captain Keszon of the steamer Kuching has been drowned, the result of an attempt to reacure a child which had fallen into the ses et Tanjong Kátong.
pletely covered. In one of the species, not found in England, the leaf is long and norrow, and rolls over on the fy. In the common butterwort, the signs of the loaf itself fold inwards, press- ing down the fy. In another species there is a central forrów; in the leaf, so stranged that the Insect gradually sinks into it as it struggles. After a short time digestion is complete. the tentacles straighten or the curled edge of the leaf flattens out, re- leasing the remains of the insect, and the plant is ready for a new prey. In the sunlight at Kew worts and sundewa were catch yesterday afternoon the butter-
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