THE
HONGKONG ·
TELEGRAPH.
22, FRIDAY, JANUARY
1937.
ANITA THE PARROT IS WAR HEROINE
She Just Tries To Imitate Guns As Madrid Zoo Is Shelled
Keeper Drives
Through Fire
To Get Food
THE
By A Special Correspondent
Madrid, Jan. 10,
Madrid Zoo is a place of terror and sadness to-day. It is in a heavily bombarded war zone, and so the children who usually come to feed the unimals have been forbidden to do so-even if they could get the food.
I called in to see the effect of the siege and the bombardments.
Tony, the elephant, is rather hungry. When he saw me he raised his trunk hoping that I would throw him a bun. I did not, and he turned his back on me with a trumpet of disgust.
He is being fed on bread, bran and chicken feed-not at all the thing for a grown clephant.
And Pepo, the hippopotamus, has developed
a rash on his skin because the chicken food dis- agrees with him, and the shell
that landed outside his house was not too good for his nerves, either,
But to-day the keeper, Pedro Campoy, managed to get him a load of grass from somewhere out in the country, and Pepo' will have a comparatively happy week-end.
LUCKY MEAT-EATERS The lions, the tigers, the hyenas and other meat-eating animals are the best off.
The reason is that the human beings are not so hungry yet that they want dead mule ΟΙ dead donkey, and there are stillTM plenty of them for the animals,
But the monkeys have to put up with tinned fruit,
Sometimes Pedro's soldier friends telephone him and tell him of a home lying dead at the front.
Pedro who was wounded in this war while fighting in the October Battalion, then drives to the frunt, into the thickest shell fre it neces- sary, and feiches the horse for his Jions.
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Most of the animals are panic stricken during the bombardments, Only Anita, the parrot. keeps calm.
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Anita is trying hard to imitate the noise of anti-aircraft guns. But one of the zebros was frightened when' the bombs dropped that he ran round and round his paddock, faster and faster. At last he ran into a tree. And now Zizi, his wife, is a widow.
HUNGER STRIKE
The only other casualty to date is Don Diego, the pelican. Dos- Diegu-- was an aristocrat. In fact, some of the other animals suspected him ΟΙ being secretly a Ruyalist.
Anyhow, when Don Diego could not get a special kind of fish he wanted he refused to eat anything else-ond now he is dead.
If this siege goes on much longer I would not like to be the 'bison, nor one of the two Hamas, nor even Pepo, the hippo, for when I was admiring Pepo to-day a militlaman stood by looking at him appraisingly.
"Pedro," he said to the keeper, "Hippos are a kind of pork, aren't they?"
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Savage Gang Battles Over Religion
"NO MEAN CITY" OF HATES
GLASGOW, JAN. 10. GANG WARFARE AND GANGSTER terror- ISM IN THIS CITY HAS SHOCKED THE WORLD THIS WEEK.
Two days ago four young men concerned in the death of George Stankovitch, another gangster, werp sentenced to terms of from three to ten years' perial servitude, but Glasgow's leading citizens still will not believe that such things can happen.
The real story of Glasgow gangster- ism has never been told. It is a story in which religious feeling is coupled with a brutality that borders on sadism.
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The meaning of gangsterlam in Glasgow can be summed up in two words Catholicism and Protestant-
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In the
MAN IS FOUR-FOOTED
ANIMAL STANDING -
ON HIND LEGS
-SCIENTIST ASSERTS
Chicago, Dec. 30.
Man is a four-footed animal standing on his hind legs, ac- cording to William King Gregory of the American Museum of Natural History.
After tracing the evolution of man and beast, Gregory con- cludes there is no great differ- ence between a horse and his rider standing on four feet, the horse resembles a grappling bridge, with skeletal stresses equalized while man is the same bridge up-ended.
"A comparison of the skeleton of home sapiens," he said, "with those of his nearest surviving relatives shows that he has langer legs and shorter arms and that his cranium has become greatly inflated.
The facts plainly indicate that the skeletons of both the horse and his rlder, however much they muy differ in detalls, are but divergent modifications of the old grappling bridge type.
Dr.
Evolution occurred because of solar energy,
Gregory found, and animals developed their powers of locomotion to carry them "loward the life-giving food containing the vitalizing, locked-up solar energy."
The only rule has been, 'seize what you can and when you can." The vertebrates; on the whole, have been one of the most successful classes of robbers of solar energy, excelled perhaps only by the insects.
-United Press,
name of religion. But the hatred exists and it is a deep-seated hatred.
made pocket down the trouser leg,
BOOM IN EX-KING
FACING
SOUVENIRS
London, Dec. 24.
a situation without any sort of precedent, Britain has rolled up its sleeves.
A hundred fresh problems and a thousand fresh jobs are now to be tackled.
The new Coronation looms largest. Whitehall wondered how much of what has been done already will stand; how much will have to be done again.
Serenely the Office of Works said yesterday: "Work on the Coronation has not been held up. We are proceeding normally."
But it was admitted that plans retailers, wholesalers and manufac- for converting the Abbey for the turers a lot of money,” said Mr. H. ceremony will have to be "re- B. Southam, secretary of the Bir- adjusted" since a Queen will now mingham Jewellers and Silver- be crowned, as well as a King. smiths' Association. Similarly the Import Dutles Ad- "It will be a tremendous relief to visory Committee was considering the Potteries if it keeps up." said the 100 per cent, duty which Parlia- Mr. S. H. Dodd, secretary of the ment has imposed on foreign Corona- Pottery Manufacturers Federation. tlon souvenirs and Bags. This duty begins to operate next Tuesday.
THE SOUVENIR MAKERS The order issued by the Treasury
dutiable: makes
"Articles of all kinds suitable for use for... the Coronation of His Majesty... which consist of Or bear a representation of His Majesty, any member of the Royal Family, or other Coronation e-
A publie demand for the "rele gated" souvenirs would save, every- body.
Dressmakers and tailors were hall- ing the end of a slump as severe as the period after King George V.'s death."
NEW QUEEN'S INFLUENCE Nobody has been buying clothes in the last week: hundreds of fit- tings have been cancelled.
"But the Duke and
now," said Mr, E. H. Duchess of York would be covered. Symonds, president of the British
British
raised Fashions and Fabrics Bureau, "we
50
poriralts of
Kouvenir makers
ironie smiles yesterday at the thought are looking forward to a brighter hint
dealers here who have accepted jern, huge stocks of cheap Coronation Japan und Roods from Germany. Czecho-Slovakia, rushed in to escape the duty,
will now be "landed kiih
and
I believe the new Queen will be a tremendous influence on the side of British foallons."
The Hotels and Restaurants As-' sociation, and most of the Ticket Agencies were rejoicing in the belief that the Coronation will be on May 12. Business is flowing normally
JEWELLERY TRADE hit They were not smailing about their own position.
Hardest hit, it seems, will be the again. Birmingham metal and Jewellery trades.
Tens of thousands of pounds worth of dies and press-tools bear- ing King Edward's likeness and name are possessed by nearly 100 firms which decided months ago to specialise in souvenirs, The dies will be useless, or stucks, finished
half-finished, and jolt but prodlous metals will be sold The silver lining shines only for the die-sinkers, who expect a rush of new orders.
ns
scrap.
8,000,000 MUGS AND BEAKERS The Potteries do not know yet how
have undly they
been bit. An Bayonet as Weapon
estimate is
They loss of £100,000. Gangsters are particular in their were working on 8,000,000 mugs and choice of weapons, The latest is the beakers. Those which bore the bayonet.. It is fitted into a specially official design were being printed
Pottery Manufacturers Federation ir: eleven colours-an expensive iltho- There are others the leather belt graphing process needing expensive with barbed wire twisted round one blocks, and there are busts and pla-
of King Edward. end and swung round the head in
On Monday the Federation is to I charge.
meet to decide what to de.
Some unemployment is inevitable,
Some firms in Lancashire
been printing flags and bon- aners with King Edward's likeness are
worried.
A popular weapon is a potato Into which used razer blades have
been inserted. Hurled among erowd, its effects can be terrible..
Another favourite is an ordinary cap into which has been rivetted one or two razor blades.
Snatched off the head it is one of the most effective means of slashing,
Many of the modern gangsters have razor bludes rivetted into the toe of their shoes for use in fights.
The secret of the gangster's fight methods is that he is trained in the art of inflicting terrible injuries that do not end in death.
Tues
who
But for them. ns for Birmingham and the Potteries, yesterday pro- duced a phenomenon which nobody had foreseen; and it lightened their spirits,
From all parts of the country came reports that people were rushing Lo buy Edward VIII. souvenirs from the shops, Two great London stores were sold out of medals and mugs by early yesterday afternoon.
IF IT LASTS "If this trade lasts long enough to clear out Anished stocks it will save
Star Tells
Wives
How to be Happy
"IF you want to be happy though married go hiking if your husband wants to hike, and go fishing if he wants to fish. Don't let business get inside your house.”
This is the secret of happy mar-1 riage given by two people who are
"A REEL WOMAN"
"And then Rod is interested in
When he told me about it I was fascinated,"
still happily married after 10 years trout fishing.
though both are film stars.
Vilma Banky and Rod la Roque told me that they were never happy If they were parted for any length of time, says a London correspon- dent.
"Rod is definitely different from! most Hollywood folk. He's a hus-' band first to me, not a flm star," sald Vlima.
"Quite suddenly he say, 'Put your old shoes on. Let's go for n hike In the hills."
"I like to trump on the hills-in rain and wind, and off we go.
"And now," said Rod, taking up the conversation, "she throws as pretty fly as anyone I know, and she can light wood fire, clean fìali and grill in the embers quicker than many a real backwoodsman.
not Vilma-she's real-not arlincial,"
"She doesn't mind handling Osh,i
sald Rod.
The two plan to live in Britain for a year or thereabouts.
"And we will catch some of your famous trout up in the hills of the North, won't we, Vilma?" sald Rod.
"Sure," replied Vilma.
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