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NOTES OF THE DAY LIGHTHOUSES & WINGED The Very Idea!
The powerful movement in Eng- fland aiming at the preservation of
INVADERS
THIS DEPRESSION
By Edward: Kolly, Ditto
YESTERDAY, being our
undor its con- Into operation this summer for tion of Birds, whom we have to Besides, it's the middle of Hore the Jerry-builder and the first time suggests that the thank for fixing theno protective the month.
entomologists are now in the van. devices which both prevent birds for any inseet, let alone a bird, them the rest they need.
be difficult flying against the light and give to land on our shores unreported,
It will henceforth
the countryside from the vandal By SIR WILLIAM, BEACH THOMAS and the speculator is worthy of TANGLISH naturalista have often naturalist. The majority of our ENGINE OVERHAULStudy by public-spirited indivi. E astonished their neighbours lighthouses have now both per duals in Hongkong. The annual by the preclas care taken to disflat places for such ground birds ches for the ordinary birds and roport of the National Trust covor tho smallest detalls.
off-day, we went out in as the cornerako; and never be- ahows that it has nequired thirteen. Hitherto and on the whole the fore have observers in the light-search of this depression we more properties and
that it bird-watchers have led the army houses sent so much evidence to have heard so much about. now has nearly two hundred of observors, but a schome put the Royal Society for the Protec- and Arty trol. the land-grabber is taboo for all time. The brightest feature of the
Only about three hundred report, however, is the proof it gives that the public is alive to to amuggle itself in; and one of and interesting; and curiously it:
The list of discoveries is long people were jammed into the value of the work. The fact the more or less recent discoveries indicates how largely our home the lounge of the Hongkong that the inhabitants of a little
home butterflies, Hotel when we visited there, Dartmoor village banded together in natural history is that insects, birds, like our to buy up one of the properties almost like birds.
especially butterflies,
migrate are increased by Immigrants: and the waiters, with for the Trust shows that there is
starling, larks, crows, pigeons, pression written all over their a new spirit abroad in England. shipa captains and many other
Lighthouse-keepers, constguards, and not least, blackbirds.
"Naturaliat A little of that spirit would be persons have been asked to send they may be so called, are dotted shaw they were receiving.
Coastguards," if faces, were beaming at the cum- welcome in this Colony.
in reports of any butterfly or all round the coast, and they are moth that they see making its of all sorts. The oldest sanctuary furtive way to our shores.
in the world, now more of a ‚INSECT PESTS
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FRENCH FASCISM ?
SILVER PROBLEM
FROM THE AIR.
de-
"Depression?" said one of the Managers, "I should laugh!”.
So we finished our drink, signed
We staggered down to Ice House Street, where the brokers, with means and groans and other noises, were raking in the day's profita. day," we heard one of them remark. "Only $80,000 gold sold yester-
It is utterly natonishing, even a thousand mule for ordinary the chit, and wandered forth. to those who have moat knowledge English] swans congregate among of the little-known subject, how hosts of other birds, especially huge a volume of evidence has tern and duck. Attached to the Informa- swannery is a duck decoy of the already been secured. tion is pouring in. The Insect old pattern, consisting of long Immigration Committee are al-netted and tapering passages with ready reaching results, though screens on one side. they did not come into being till THE HOME April of last y or
FROM HOME.
Another
are the Clouded Yellow, the Silver STEAL MOTOR RIDES.
:
"I have to back up if I'm to make $1,000 this month.
coming to."
Mr. C. de S. Robertson, the Secretary Hongkong Brewery, was our next victim. "Yes, it's pretty that we're giving our bear away crook," he said. "Things are so bad
to-morrow."
After promising to be there, we thought and thought of other people who should be affected by the de
During the last six years the Government of India has supple- mented the market supply of silver by sales of 165,000,000 ounces, but the startling fact is that, having had 290,000,000 ounces and now Bold 155,000,000, it has loft 380,000,000 ounces! This is one of the many perplexing statements regarding the silver position con- tained in a lucid review published
It happens that among the Every bird that is tempted into We hurried away. The Hong- in the American magazine For- tuste, The seeming paradox of immigrants are some of the love these corridors is carefully ex- kong and Shanghal Bank was the Indian sales and stocks in ex-licat of the butterflies andamined; and now and again some nearest place we could think of plained thus: By selling sliver quaintest of the moths we have duck or teal is found bearing a that would be struck by the depres- the Government of India depress-At the head of the list comes the ring indicating its nesting place. ed the price. A one rupee coin Painted Lady, and there are some One teal recently found had come alon, so we wandered in to son Mr. containing 155 grains of silver, signs that this is a Painted Lady from its home in Holland. Grayburn. but maintained at a legal ratio to year. Now and again this love- The RE.P.B. and such bodies. ns gold, became able to purchase in ly butterfly pours over the Chan the Norfolk Naturalists Trust, query. Yes, it's awful. We only "Depression?" he replied to our the neighbourhood of 600 grains nel in great quantity, but, of silver in the form of bullion. like the birds, the butterflies and and there are many Argus-eyed I don't know what the world is un have a number of paid watchers, made $16,000,000 profit last year. Large hoards of rupee coins were moths that arrive never depart individuals. One of our brought from their hiding places They mate here and perish; and naturalists spends much time in and exchanged for triple the their eggs may or may not surand by a solitary shack on the
The quantity of silver.
rupee vive our winter and hatch in the Norfolk coast, and he has as shrewd coins gravitated to the Indian next spring.
an eye for an arriving or departing Treasury, which redeemed them Trold value. Thus the more native butterfly, is perhaps the lector, or longshore sportsman or
part migrant,
part butterfly or bird as for any col- silver Indin sold, the more silver most aplandid of all, the
trapper who may be contravening came into her Treasury-and the Admiral.
The
the laws of protection. He has n With talk of the rapid advance more she had left to sull!
Other insects which this ring double on the coast of Hampshire. the argument of observers round, the coast le of Fascism so much in the air, event illustrates the situation in France is of against bimetallism.
being especially urged to observe PLANTS THAT special interest. It has been
Y moth, the Diamond-back moth Such coastguards are most frepression. predicted that France will BANFF CONFERENCE
and the Rush Veneer moth. quent in Norfolk, a county that We went to the Colonial Tres- be the next country to fall
Most mysterious in its ways in has more naturalists to the acro surer, but he had so much money into line with Italy, Germany The conference of the Institute that odd, indeed that unique, than any other region in the coming in that the P.W.D. were all and Russia in adopting a form of of Pacific Relations has opened at moth well-named the Humming-world; and some of them are on a-quiver, wondering whether they government other than Parlia Banff at a time of considerable bird Hawk moth. It never settles the watch for migrant seeds us could build new vaults in time to
ПВ birds and insects. At hold it. mentary, and undoubtedly there tension and Sir Robert Falconer on a flower, but hovers over it well is growing French feeling that is optimistic in foreshadowing and sucks the honey at a good Scolt Head a completa survey is There was only one place we could the constitutional machine is in success. Amicable discussion will inch away by means of its long being made of everything on the think of. So we want across to these queer island or peninsula, whichever you Kowloon to see Mr. Jeffreys at the adequate in times of crisis like not be rendered caster by the proboscis. I W
Inclusion in the agenda of the moths recently among the rocks like to call it. The tides are Observatory. the present. There is, however, vexed question of naval prepared on the coast of North Devon, and exactly. measured and every bird, "Depression?" he asked. "Hmm- little to suggest the existence in Boss, the principal cause of frie- was at once asked for evidence by insect and species or variety of mmf Lemme see. There's a bit France of an organised political tion, while the Japanese delegates this energetic committee. How plant is marked down. That of a depression off Formosa, but movement. The Blue Shirts are not in the happiest of moods far the species are native born, great botanist, Professor Salis-It's filling in. Pratas's barometer started some years ago
stili in bury, who has shown especial in is falling, so there's a chance we were because of the exclusion of "Man-how far immigrant, in laughed out of existence. The chukuo" from the conference. some doubt.
terest in one of the plant sanctus may have one a bit nearer. But. Some astounding clouds of but-rics of Norfolk, has discovered there's-not-much-hope- just now hints of A new movement Strenuous efforts were made-by- probably had its origin
Japan to induce the organising terflies have been traced and they that certain seeds are particularly Come back next week. the recent
We went to the Peninsula. committee to remove the ban, seem to have a more or less regu-vell adapted, for fitting into the among some remarkable arguments being lar route. They fly in companies tyres of motor-cars without dam-
"Solly," said the boy. "Number politiciana for stronger pow-submitted in support of the pup of thousands southwards from age, and thus migrations of at er. But
been one, he say you no have chit ac- the "full powers'
count here. You pay cash, eh?". which are at present being dis. pet State's claim. Acting under gun, and are apt to swing least one rarer plant have Japan's influence, "Manchukuo" suddenly to the west when some- traced with some exactness, cussed among practical politic- went to the length of appointing where near Calais, and to cross Our army of observers is indeed At last we had found the depres-
One swarm of now so far-flung and their eyes iang are largely delegated a delegation, but it is not, of to the East Coast.
white butterflies on powers, limited. M. Caillaux, course, In attendance at Banff,
migration are so acute that we may reason passed across Scolt Head (famous jably expect any deleterious Insect, when he spoke of the will to
CRETIN CRITICISMS for the observations of that lone or animal to be at once detected. authority, together with the co.
Walcher, Miss Turner) in such In this class the most dreaded operation of public opinion, as
The Sign of the Cross-Story numbers that they were compared is the Colorado beetle, about which of a girl who crossed her fingers necessary for the solution of the
to a snowstorm.
the Ministry of Agriculture has and and she wouldn't play, but. budgetary crisis, was
The most remarkable feature of prob-
A number of different butterflies recently been warning all and found she had to. the dispute between Japan and settle on ships in the North Sea, aundry ably thinking of
observers. It' came to no more. the Organising Committee in this and oven in the, Atlantic, and the France with the American Army Other proposals, however, go so matter, however, was. Tokyo's lighthouses attract a good many. and may at any time appear in far as reforming the Constitu- insistence that a country of the It will soon become almost a England. Can It OBCHO tho tion. M. Tardieu proposes to size of "Manchukuo” could not be necessary qualification for a light notice of our Argus-eyed natur- strengthen the hand of the exe-excluded. But there must not be house-keeper that he be an expert alists? cutive by giving the Premier any discussion at Banff regarding the right of dissolving and to the manner in which this new reinforce direct popular govern- "State" recommended to the Con- ment-in appearance at least-ference had come into existence. by instituting the referendum. The Japanese are naive if nothing Not much Fascism in this.
demand
NAIVE
else.
Yet there is talk of Fasciam AN OFFER
in many places. Some comes
from the Socialists, whoso
virtual split in their Congress his proposed League of British Major Cassel still assorts that is really a split between the old-Whites is not of a Fascist natura fashioned doctrinaires, and and adds that not a single Chinese
the young men, who are struck will be out of a job as a result by noticing that Hitler and of the League's machinations. Mussolini are breaking up land- We should like to hear moro. ed estates, imposing the forty- Much of that which wo have hour weak and otherwise apply learned regarding the League's ing Socialist principles. Hence aims has been so self-contradic- the speech of the Marquet about tory that further explanation is undoubtedly necessary. If Major incorporating "order and au Cassol will supply a complete out- thority" into Socialism. The line of tho League's policy in dissident Socialists have now Hongkong, confining himself to formed themselves into an objectives and leaving the public independent group, and the ex- to judge of thoir ilkely offect, wa pression "Fascismo de gaucho" shall be pleased to accord It
publicity, is being adopted by men who, a fow months ago, would have considered Fascism to be syn-
C.ER. NECOTIATIONS
onymous with extreme reaction, The Soviet delegates
at. the There are too, now militant
Chinese Eastorn Railway confer organisations at various points once in Tokyo are to be commond- between the familiar extremes ed for patience. Seven wooks of the Action Francaise and the have elapsed since the negotiations Communiste, and they may commenced and the delegates aro suddenly fuse into something no nearing agreement than when formidable. It may bo so; but they began. There can be only the balanced character of the reason for persistence in the Frenchman of to-day and the futility of further discussion, relativo immunity of France namely, the reluctance of both. from the worst effects of the Parties to be suddled with re sponsibility for throwing the Feconomic crisis-are-solid ste
ments of steadiness.
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· A Farewell to Arma-Venus de Millo,
BEER TO-DAY!
People of Hongkong. This poignant message is directed to you. This afternoon you will all bo out at the new Browery, sampling the Hongkong Bear, listening to speeches, and having a good time generally.
As you get your head down under the nozzle of a cask, sparo.a-thought for us. Think of us, in the awel- tering city, tearing out hair as we try to think out an Edward Kelly Idea for to-morrow. Think of us, hard at work while you guzzle beer. Can't you see us, tied down to our desk, our tongue lolling, our thoughts with you at the Brewery. But duty calls. Wo cannot let our Great and Admiring Public down. The rest of the sinif, may, have to. come home on stretchers, but Ed- ward Kally must stick to his post. We have got to write this column to-morrow, no matter what tempte-" tions call us from the path of duty! Our Public comes firsting a LIK b. So, taking it all in all, wo? hópo the Editor wen't see us when we go Tout-there-this afternoon
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