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How Birds Travel From Germany.
WEDNESDAY
A SUSSEX LAKE
Netting Fire-Pounder Goldfish.
DECEMBER 27
GLIDING LESSONS.
Watching The Buzzard And Albatross.
1923.
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TRY III.
The development of gliding har They call large po ̈ids fakta in A casa arising out of the im-1 portation of German canaries to Sussex and there are many lakes occasioned considerable discus Britain came before the Maamong the woods and fields of the sion in regard to the, results that For the Weald was the may be obtained from the study' chester City Justices recently. Weald.
rs. Ellen Smith, a bird dealer. centre of the iron industry of the and practice of motorlega Night, was summoned hy the Rogal South Country, and two hundred and the performance of the pilots Society for the Prevention, of years ago the poods supplied the are being carefully noted by Cruelty to Animals for causing water-power which lifted the airmen all over the worlch
Mr. Glenn Curtia- believes thas paid suffering to a number of thudding hammers and forged the
red-hot pigs To-day the quiet a glider can be produced to jakej canaries -An inspector of the Society said waters call down fighting duck, of from the Fas, and he is now WHAT IS 11? hat he saw in the defendant's and the trout rise with a plop at balding anod a muchise. Alt in shop a large number of small the May-ly, or the grean cater constructed of wood, darafomin, » i:ker cagër, each containing a pillar which drops twisting from and silk, and weighs Alt with Javerall lon th of 22ft. Thin-and canary. There werealscsomages the overbauging ost, writes the pilot on board, of has a a little larger, each containing correspondent in the Times.
But we are at the lake to-day a span of 23. This glider is a Iwo canaries. The birds caught their tail feathers in the bars of not to take trout with a fly. Wolb ́plans with a flying boat body, be cages, and they could not are to get them, and notably the tail bring supported on a move about with freedom. Herour, but goldfish--`arge, carp-boom rather similar to that used went into the shop, where he saw ke Austrias fish knowo as orfajin Fokker gliders. It is designed he defendant and told her that the laks is to be re-stocked, for for a speed, of twenty miles an the cages were not large enough. the orfa spoil the feed: as well hour.
Mr. Cartins, discussing in the She admitted that the larger they may, when you realize that cages were too small for two they weigh up to four pounds Aeronauticol Dige the generali birds, and that the other cages and more, and cruise aboal in question of moturless O›ght, says were on the small side. Shehoals picking up what they may that we are now si a staze iň nero added that following a call head on the surface and among usulies in which the bozései and the albatross appear prominently. a magnificent had given her a year ago shehe weeds.
We have two flat-bottomed The buzzard is wrote to the senders, who there- upon agreed to make bigger cages, boats, and here is the gamekeeper soarer. In fla; country, where it ith the net coiled up in a farmis most frequently found, the air The canaries, she said, obir came in the night before and they water-carrier. It is a sen net of rises from the surface of the earth had not been able to deal with small mesh, fifty feet by nine cork-in waves and sometimes in spirals. them but would do so as soon as ed along the top and leaded along Yr. Curtiss says that he has they could. The birds, the wit-the bottom, and with a purse often watched a buzzard seek ness was told, only left Germany which the keeper knots securely. and find = "lodgment” in cae of) Wednesday or ThursdayIt weighs, he tells us, a hundred-theás spirala and be literally lifted morning, and bad arrived on weight, and he shakes his head; out of sight. The buzzard is com- Friday night. The size of the shall we be able to drag such a paratively lightly loaded, the load- small cages was about four and a weight along the bottom? One ing sometimes being only half a quarter inches wide, four and of us looks at the keeper and pound to each square foot of its balf inches high, and fire and a shakes his head. too; he has wing surface. The albatross on half inches long. The cages con-helped to pall in such nets on the other hand, has a wing-load- taining two birds were five and a the wes shore. But the keeper irgof more than 3 b, to the square
foot. balf inches wide, six inches high.5 miles.
Mr. Carties believes there are and six and three-quarter inches long. In the witness's opinion the bosts, and in five minutes it greater gliding possibilities over the cages were much too small fis plain that not even Hercules the sea than over the land. The and to put the birds into them in both of them would move that albatross, he points out, takes bellying weight of cord and lead; off with little effort from the was cruelty.
defendant, he would merely snad scalls in crest of a wave and rides the Counsel for the
The Curtiss giider described denied that she had been guilty balves, as we do. The teeper winds for hours. of any cruelty. He produced says nothing, but in a matter- some of the cages, one contain-f-fact way stops over the side of above will be experimented with ing a canary which appeared to be the bat into the lake. And he, first by being launched from the very lively and chirpad, apparent-oD oce side of the lake, being a deck of a fast boat, or by towing, ly quite contented!, while it was man of straightforward babits, but it is hoped that ultimately a being examined in its cage by the merely walks up to his middl. direct "take-ofTM" from the surface
hrough water and mod hauling of the sea will be possible. justices.
the net and the other boat after) him.
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We pay out the net between
The crew of the other bast
The inspector, in answer to counsel, said he understood that the consignment was one of 300 eg him to wait while they get GREAT LINER'S RECORDS 'birds, and that they were all sold rope. A rope is feiched from the farm; they tie it to the net, tak- by the Saturday night.
The defendant's son gave eridhe bost inshore, and pull them
The trucks ence. He said birds had been elves, forward by coming to England in these small of trees. wicker cages for the last 35 years People did not believe they were German birds unless they were
the-e cages.
FISH CORNERED."
Mauretania's 275th. Crossing of Atlantic. The Mauretanis left Southamp The net streiches across beton on October 28:b. on her 275;k| mildly of the pond, and the boats crossing of the Atlantic. She has guard the shallow sues. Aad transported during ber- career A canary breeder and julge a how we can see the great golden 375,000 passengers, and as a pas cage-bird shows said the canaries, swimming backwards and enger ship alone has steamed We come near the end 850,000 miles. If her warservice) were bred in the Hartz mountains forwards.
is included, her total voyages in Germany, and at three weeks of the like, and the keeper hauls ol were put into these small that strong men safely on the exceed a distance of one million: These figures constitute the bird back groan watching hims we are)
m les. cages. Looking at poduced, he said it suffered bringing the two ends together.recards for any liner in' service inconvenience and was in no and there are splashings of noble to day.
its tire flanks and fios in the narrow- Not only did the Wanretaniz pain. If it brushed feathers against the bars of the sirete of the corks. We begin to bring back to this country the cage that would not cause it pair pill the not into the bar, and the Blus Riband of the Atlantic bat she still holds all the speeds. She pire dias nearer and nearer t and suffering. There would b
bas averaged 2516, knots & cruelty if the bird could not get the muddy store.
A great gleaming back walowe record across the Atlantic for at its food and water.
The chairman said they were half out of the water, and a fat twenty-seven consecutive ruas, performance unspproached by agreed that the cages were too three pounder is lifted out and Three
Apart from ans other vessel
basi small, but they were satisfied placed in the carrier.
more follow, one of them surely her great speed, she that the bird prolaced bad no
remarkable reg- The nearer five pounds that four achieved a suffered in any way.
This year! with scales like half-sovereigas, ularity of running. summons would be dismissed.
Chen come the trout, and then three successive Atlantic cro38- nore orfe, neatly bandred andings showed a difference in time DIPLOMAT GETS DIVORCE, fifty trout, from balta pound to of less than five minutes.
After three more trips in thei bree pounds, and fourteen or 6fteen arte-soch 6sh as Theo Southampton-New York sarvice critus's fisher Asphalion dreamt the Mauretania will go to the of, waking to find his golden Mediterranean for an extended quarry gone.
But is not all this, in the Octo- A decree Lisi was granted on
|ber sunlight, under the green oaks Oct
Divorce 23rd. in the
of tnd the blue sky, something of a Court 01 the Joshua Milne Compton Cheat fisherman's dream? It is not ham, of the Avenue de Bois given to a man every day to Boulogne, Paris, for the candle red-gold fb weighing four and five pounds, or a bon- of his marriage dissolution with his wife, Anastasia Cheet-dred and fifty trout he has angled for in vain. And there are more, ham, formerly Mouravief, on the ground of her misconduct with we refl act, in the lake. It is to be Mr. Nigel Law, described as petted, again: after which the secretary to the British Eobassy keeper, it may be, will walk abroad in other, drier corduroya. in Paris.
de
Colleague at Embassy as Co-respondent.
petition
The petition was undefended. Sir Joshas stated that be Rasian married his wife, a
cruise.
UNSUCCESSFUL PLAYS.
Where Novelists Don't Always Succeed.
The contemplated withdrawal of the dramatised version of Mr. Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent,” after a run of little over a week, seems to prove what a very different craft play-writing is) From novel-writing. The reater A COMMON COMPLAINT,e writer the less chance he
AMONG SAILORS
appears to have as a dramatist.
Perhaps the greatest failure of
Woman, in 19.7, when he was sacretary to the Embassy in Rome. Last May she went away is Constipation because of the!
for several daye, saying she was ack of fresh fruit and vegetables a big writer in his attempts to cap- going motoring with friends in in their diet. To them, as to ture the theatre was Heary JATOR sveryone else troubled by costive with "Guy Donville," which last- the South of France.
And Mr. H. G. Wells has noti His auspicions were aroused, bowels, Pinkettes are blessing, ed very touch less than a weak. and two letters were found from because they gently dispel con- the co-respondent. Ous of them stipation, and cure the ailments fared well on the stage. "The began "Darling," and said, "I which it causes, such se liverish. Secret Agent," by the way, is not bilicus attacks, sick Mr. Conrad's Brat, but his second His first, was a one-act miss you, my Anastasia. Myness,
beadaches, dizziness, foul breath, play.
stage version of one of his abort morning walk is so dull now."
Replying to the judge, Sir pimply and blotched skin
Pinkettes are tiny but thorough, stories. Joshua said the co-respondent
act as gently as-nature, and thus was a colleague of his.
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