The Adventures Of
ROBIN HOOD
THE STORY THUS FAR: King Richard, leaving for the Cruzadce in 1191, put England under a Regency, mistrusting his Sazon- hating brother, Prince John. In a jousting match before the latter, Sir Robin of Locksley, a swashbuckling Saxon youth, worsts Sir Guy of Gisbourne, a Norman knight, thereby winning the dislike of Lady Marian Filzwalter, Sir Guy's sweetheart. King Richard li captured abroad and held for ransom, and Prince John plots to.
seize the throne-taxing and otherwise persecuting the Saxons. Robin docs many daring deeds to flout Prince John and findly makes Robin an outlawo denounces him as a traitor. Prince
on his head. In retallation, Rebin bends together a
John
with time of Sir Guy and Prince John. They hide In Sher-
host of
Richard to the throne-to wood Forest and vow to restore King take from the rich and give to the poor. When Sir Guy and his retinue go through the forest with a huge sum of money-Robin takes it and make the knights change ratment with the serfa Prince John arranges for an archery tournament to bait Robin. He comes with his Merry Men to Nottingham-wins the prize of the Golden Arrow from the hands of Marian-but is surrounded by the men-at-arms of Prince Jolin." His own men are on hand and a Apht is imminent...
"Your memory
CHAPTER IX
for voices, Sir for him shone in the tear-dimmed Guy, is far better than my own!". eyes of Lady Marian.
Robin Hood bowed low before the Robin-ringed now with steel- royal box where all the Norman fought desperately, but at lust they dignitaries sat in glittering state- bore him down. The mob was yell- and the Lady Marlon whose face lng no
'Robin's, arms, and was white with dread at what the arms phey fought blindly, Mcn-pt- fates might have in store for the dragged him, bleeding and tattered soul-stirring outlaw of Sherwood toward the royal box. Forest.
Sir Guy, after eyeing him from contemptuous head to foot with smile, reached out and struck him heavily across the face.
For the moment the only sound in the crowded courtyard of Notting ham Castle was the wind, for storm clouds
durkening the
were
kky
а
falth,' cried the High Sheriff, where a lone hawk was wheeling. "a very good idea!" He reached for- "A long bow and a short memory, ward but as he was about to emulate ch? sald Prince John with his wily Sir Guy-Robin hunched out with smlic. Botti
at his foot and gave him such a terrific convenient very timest
kick in the mid-region that the sometimes stretch, breath was knocked out of him all
"Memories
Your Highness.. " retorted Robin but permanently.
Prince John!"
"Your turn now, with an impudent grin.
"And so do necks, my friend!" cried Robin, ominously.
"You're very rash young man!" cried Sir Guy, angrily. "How is it replied Prince John stepping back you didn't use a black arrow to precipitately. "I'm sorry I can't re- day?
in Nottingham to see what Sir "That is my last resort! Its ver- Guy has in store for you!... It'll dict is always Пnail"
As they folked the soldiers were be unething special, I can slowly but surely closing in and
you, Sir
main
you that
"Sorry !
underestimated
The next time
Robin's men were having dimculty Gere'll be no next
assure
time for
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1938
Microbes join
the Army
but they make poor recruits
O
Fall the potential weapons suggested for the next world war, perhaps none arouses as much horror in the mind of the average man as the mention of bacteria warfare.
This is probably becauso bacteria warfare is the only known killing method which hasn't yet been thoroughly discussed by the Press.
The limitations of poison gases, submarines, tanks, bombing planes, liquid fire, and similar mon- atrosities of civilisation, have all been exposed until the average man of every nation knows all About their respectivo dizaа- vantages for large scale use.
Open Letter to Everywoman
D
EAR MADAM,-What on earth are you doing? Where are you going? Who are you trying to be? Someone has drawn my attention to what you propose to wear this autumn and winter. For your own sake I must say what I think.
been imitative in dress.. by open you," shouted Sir Guy. Then, to Guy aig Dickon: "Lock him up!"
In holding their positions without giving themselves away hostility. Suddenly Sir nalled his lender.
"Arrest this man!" bellowed Dic kon and in that instant the storm
was on.
As they led Robin away, Sir Guy and Prince John noted with sardonic amusement the pallor of the face of Lady Marlan. Robi
Robin's captors lost Instead of trying to flee back no time in bringing him to trial. through the crowd, Hobin leapt into The Great Hall of Nottingham
Sir the royal box, umashed full into Castle was
the place.
PARC Guy, clutched his throat and forced Sir Guy, Sir Geoffrey, Sir Mor- him back
nck gasping. Next he bowled timer and Sir Ralf sat in judgment the High Sherlit over-and, with a with the High Sheriff and a num quick smile at Lady Marlon, dushed ber of Normon ladies were in attend- to the rear of the box, and
out ance among the Lady Marian. through the silken canopies that Robin Hodd, heavily guarded by formed the back of it.
men-ut-arms under Dickson, stood
Sir Guy was astonishingly calm as before his accusers, dirty, tattered he picked himself up and wiped the and blood-stained.
rear of
Het ond
the
soldiers were frantically trying to get around to the rear of the royal Box.
The
two
"If I could "add
Women have, I know, always Their fashions have often been influ enced by some oriental outline, some military effect or sentimen- talised peasant design. But usually one could recognise style.of a
period. Whether you like them or not, the late Georgian, Regency, carly Victorian, mid-Victorian, late Victorian, Edwardian. Wartime and Post-War fashions all had their own distinction.
Every decade of the last century can be called to mind by a different cut of sleeve, set of bodice, flow of skirt or shape of hat.
You, they tell me, have revolted against all that. You are asserting once again the natural Gothic sen- timentality of this England. You
are leading us back to the pretty- pretty, to duff and frills, to curves and coyness, after your stark and simple display during the years when the memory of tribulation was still keenly with us.
If that what you are doing. I suppose we must make the beat of it. But I wish you would do it with como sense of style, of form, of line, of grace and dignity. I wish you would make up your mind about yourself.
I have seen you within a few days, hours, minutes oven, aping the Edwardian, the Victorian (savetal varieties), the Regency, the Restoration, the Mediaeval, the Chinese, the Spanish, the Aus- trian.
blood from his face. The High "Robin of Locksley, known to Sherly
sat blinking stupidly, some as the outlaw Robin Hood and be
get
"Sir Guy reading pompously. behind
Sir "after a fair trial in which you were Guy advised him to stop shouting, not able to produce one witness on and whispered something in his ear, your own behalf, you have been which made him smile broadly. found guilty of outlawry, theft, mur-
royal box Robin der, abduction, false pretenses, con At the rear was confronted with a solid flank of tempt of the Crown, poaching in the nearing men-at-arms. He doubled Royal forests and high treason!" and ran parallel to the
"Haven't you forgotten a count or Other
7 asked Robin coolly. as quickly ran back ugo, and
What do
do you mean?" "Isn't it
crime under the noble mans of people rushed Prince Julin to love my country? back and forth in bewilderment.... felony to protect the serfs Robin's Merry Men-disguised in against your rapacity?... a mis- anything but the Lincoln green- were doing their best to delay to demeanor to be loyal to my King
the anything to soldiery "What's the matter?"
charges against you, I'd gladly do were saying. pened?" "It's Robin Hood" "Don't "It is the sentence of this tribunai "What's hap so!" answered Sir Guy and went on; let them take him!"
that on the morrow, at high noon, Swords were dashing-knives you are to be taken to the town gleaming-quarterstaffs flailing. aquare of Nottingham, and there The melee was at its height when hanged by the neck till you are Friar Tuck whanged his staff down dead."
the skull of a soldier who was
There may be some
sug- about to brain Little John. "Thanks, gested Sir Guy, his eyes resting on Fally," said John, a bit reluctantly. Marian, "who will regret that a man
pleasure was all mine!"
of grunted your peculiar talents should be Tuck. At the moment they over- cut off so early in life. But per- heard WIL Scarlet whisper to an- zonally other of their comrades:
"He'
you think," Interposed away! Give the signal to scatter!" Robin,
sentence exceedingly CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. The man blew a blast on his hunt- lenient! I thank you!" ing horn.
Staring
straight ahead Robin Hood Robin ran desperately but another was led along the resounding cor- ring of horseman appeared suddenly ridors and down interminable steps from around the end of the pavillon to a dungeon door. A turnkey open- and closed in on him, Mounted cell was empty but for chains ed it and Robin was thrust inside. soldiera were advancing on three sides. He slid to a stop, looked bolted into the wall and to these about for a way of escape, then, with Robin was fettered. The door open- The Motor Vessel a bound, he ducked back into the ed-clanged shut. The sky turned. rear of the pavilion. When he was The cell was in darkness. seen a roar want up from the crowd. Marion, at her window was look Two solid Alles of mounted men-at- ing out into the night, her closed arms rode in from the flanks, cutting beating Impotently against the frame, off his escape. Now from every side Her eyes were filled with tears. soldiers rushed upon hin..
"What's troublin' you, me lady?" usked the nurse, tenderly.
“You know, Bess; where his men
on
Ho was trapped.
"the
Sir Guy observed this with a sardonic amilo-the High Sheriff was may be found!"! jubliant Prince John mountainous-
st
I
"Oo's men, me Lady. The ly complacent. The Bishop of the houtlawr's men? 'Ow should Black Canone raised his eyes in know?"
(Continued to-morrow)
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Yours compassionately,
It is only when bacteria warfare is mentioned that the informed man of to-day shudders and speaks of civilisation destroying itself.
The truth of the matter is that bacteria warfare is subject to even greater imitations than the more famillar weapons in war. It is no more possible to dent denth on a wide scale by the use of known microbes than it would be to wipe out the population of the US, with tho present Inefficient polson KAICE.
F
FOR the purposes of war, bacteria can be divided into three main groups. The first classification consists of the microbes of those discases which can be transmitted from person to person only by means of direct contact.
The second classification in- cludes the microbes of those di- seases which are transmitted from man to man through an inter- mediary agency, whether it be an insact, bird or animal or just plain water.
The third group consists of the microbes, as yet unknown, which supposedly cause such diseases as influenza, measles, scarlet fever, mumps, and the common cold,
The first group is hardly to be considered as potentially "useful" In war. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to infect a sufficient number of the enemy to justify the dangers involved for the agents who would do the infecting,
Granting that the infection could somehow be achloved, it would be a simple measure for the enemy to quarantine the men in- fected and thus provent any disas- trous spread of the disease.
T is in the second group that we And the most probable bacteria wea- pons of the next war. The most
important of these is probably the bacillus of the dreaded bubonic and pneumonic plague.
This bacilius can be transmitted from man to man or it can bo transmitted by Neas which are quickly distributed over a wide area by rats.
"However, the infected fleas would bo just as quickly distributed by
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Another dangerous disease in this category is the typhus plague which is spread by infected lica.
This too, howover, is a type of disease which would be apt to in- fect both friendly and enemy troops alike. Coolles are no re- specters of nationalities, as any war veteran will affirm.
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The serums for all the above diseases have been developed, and could be manufactured and distri- buted rapidly enough in an emer- gency to minimize any epidemic almost before it started.
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hilators of a nation.
If the bacteria department of any Government could secretly iso-
late and cultivate the bacteria of one of the unknown discases, und could develop a serum for inocu- inting its own people, that nation would then be in a position to in- flct an uncheckable, plague on its enemies.
The likelihood of such a calami- tous event is extremely far fetched. In the first place the othics of the medical profession, even in Ger- ninny, are still high enough that the doctor discovering the new bacteria would probably risk las- ing his neck rather than allow his discovery to precipitate a world- wide catastrophe.
In the second place even though the doctor kept his secret, it would be almost impossible for any nation manufacture the necessary quantities of bacteria culture and serum without being detected by Eples of foreign governments.
to
Of course, once the cat was out of the bag, any Government could manufacture the serum and tho principal effect of the weapon would be lost.
In the
very remote possibility that a Government could keep the secret of a new microbe weapon, however, there would still be a bot- ter-than-even chance of avoiding a serious epidemic.
E
VEN the most hardy bacteria have a tough time getting started in the world, and unless the enemy population was starving and in poor condition from a long drawn- out war, there would be little chance for an epidemic to get started at all.
And
the enemy were starving, there would be little need to resort to bacteria methods in the first place.
"If the disease was transmitted through an animai host, the fact would very quickly be found out, and an appropriate means of con- trol inaugurated.
Altogether it should be evident by now that the horrors of microba warfare are not quite all they are cracked up to be. The known dia- 30ses also have known romedics, and the unknown diseases are not likely to become known under con- ditions favourable for their use in warfare.
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