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1. Return from abroad.
2.
Cuban Serenade
3. La Reine di Matin.
Overture
Waltz Selecilen
The
MOCK TURTLE
or
What The Razor Blade Revealed
A
almost everything about any cold. The slightest change of thing.
temperature causes the paper to
How these newspaper people contract or expand-hence obtain such comprehensive spasmodic movements." knowledge always puzzles me. but they seem to have an in-
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exhaustible supply of answers THE TURTLE slowly shook his to such questions as: "Who hend, I very carefully re- was the grand-aunt of the pre- placed him in my pocket, thank- sent Rajah of Bhopawar?" or cd my friend and withdrew. "What are the boundaries of I still had some doubts on the Sudetenland?”
matter, but the theory seemed a I found my friend in his sanc- could easily be teated. I would possible one, and, at any rate, it tum with the usual telephone in subject my turtle to an exces- smoking) in front of him, and a a typewriter (still
glass of ice-water within handy reach.
one hand,
sively high temperature and watch his reactions.
S UNFATHOM- rolled his head, and waggled his
off hind leg. ABLE as parts of
After which, complete im the Pacific Ocean mobility. is the depth of Chinese
Twenty seconds later, coming
The hottest thing I know to life again (this time with
works in an office in the Central ingenuity.
hend, tail, and all four legs in placed my turtle on his blotting you her address), so I took the I said nothing, but merely District (No! I refuse to give
turtle along and showed it to
motion), he made It kind ot
He looked at it with a fixed her.
I have seen some feeble attempt to do the Lam pad, strange things on sale beth Walk. in the streets of Hong- an occasional half-hearted nod ments.
Again immobility, except for and glassy stare for several mo- Assuring her that it would not bite, I asked her to pick it up, kong from dried of the beat...and 'so on,
At first I thought he was try- watching with breathless never repeating exnetly the same ing out his powers of hypnotism, terest as she did so, cockroaches to tongue- movement twice.
but at length, as if in answer to But the turtle never so much my unspoken enquiry, he pro- us wagged his taill nounced judgment.
scrapers, but for sheer business acumen 1 have to take my hat off to the gentleman who sells turtles in Des Voeux Road Central.
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·by· GEOFFREY SUCKLING
"That is a specimen of the
in-
tuttifruttidermus, or man-eating TIME MARCHED ON-to be turtle," he said. "It's found in precise, exactly 24 hours the jungles of Patagonia.... marched on--and my turtle was very fierce in its native state, no more. I mean to say that all but extremely docile when in movement hati stopped, and his captivity."
demise must have taken place during the night.
I BEGAN to feel buffles!.
You see, there was no ques- car
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JAPAN'S supreme Commander H'S "PITCH" is not a stone's tion of any clockwork mechan- TNK AGAIN! I advised, picked out my sharpest razor
in-Chief in South
China issues 扎 challenge tte Gen- eralissing Chiang Kai-shok to fight a final and decisive battle on the plains of South China,
In that one paragraph you have the answer to the Chinese, maleontents who still ask why Hankow or Canton were not de- fenried to the bitter end.
throw from fite G.P.O., and ism.
for this would have in
the turtle was fitted with neither
be dos pat shout his wares. He volved a key of some sort, and merely squals on the curb with key nor keyhole. a cardboard tray beside him on which is lined up the weirdest collection of turtles you have seen.
ever
Each turtle is about the size of a walnut, and to all appear unces a normal member of the It reminds you of a boxing species except that, instead of ring, with brawn pitted against bearing the usual rather drab- brain. Japan's mighty and coloured shell, it sports one of modern armaments provide the the most vivid and even startling. brawn, Chiang's nimble wit the hue. brain.
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Now I hated to be beaten by ten-cent turtle, so resisting the impulse to smash him open and lay bare his very soul, that same afternoon I took him along where I have a friend who knows to the office of a local newspaper
Inid the
'Now was the time for a post mortem cxumination! I
How does it work?"
"It is not a living creature. blade, and reverently
remains on an empty soap dish. Another profound silence, dur- What would the razor blade ing which time I knew his Great reveal? Brain must be working. Then, I made "I think we can
a neat incision just rule out the where his collar stud should question of electricity, internal have been, and ripped him open combustion or remote control," as he murmured,...."I have it! It possible.
far as....well, as far as contains a strip of very brittle. The mystery was solved! tremely sensitive to Japanese parchment paper, ex- Out tumbled a large dead fly
heat and of the blue-bottle type!
DOWN TO THE WHITE
Some are spotted, some art ON DECEMBER 14, 1911. Captain
It was two months before the news
Ninety-nine times out of
Roald Amundsen, the famous hundred, brain will win in the might term futuristic designs.
striped, and some have what one Norwegian Explorer, reached the
South Pole. ring. The same applies in war. They wag their heads and move no brawn he doesn't stand and fund are sure to catch your eye.
When a boxer has brains and their feet at irregular intervals receive punishment for the glory of it.
Ile retreats, retreats, retreats,
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of his success reached the outside world--a success which meant the failure of one of the objects of the British Antarctic Expedition.
GREAT SOUTH
mund of Captain Scott, of Discovery Lieutenant Bowers and Pelly Oilleer fame. nited down the Thames bound Evans, said farewell to their inst
leave
these early catographers were so cer-"relle."
North.
his
again for the great White Southink with civilisation. The objects of the expedition not Evans and his companions gave them Lieutenant
But what a glorious failure!
only included the exploration of parts three hearty cheers the last appre of the constline, but also a further clation they would ever know, Hundreds of years before it was attempt on the Pole. actually seen by human eyes, a great He plays with his opponent, AT ANY RATE they did mine almost invariably show of the southbourne, tund it was here that Captainment lay awaiting them. Dog tracks On January 17, 1912, Captain Sext One of the last ports of call before and his four companions reached the continent now called Antarcticn was leaving for the Antoretic was Mel- Sou allows the lumbering mammoth
South Pole. But what a disappoint- the other morning and stop-s lying in the region of the South Scott received the 10 chase him, arms laying.ped to investigate.
Pole. It is impossible to say why Roald
telegrain from were picked up close to the Pole, Amundsen around the ring.
stating briefly. and tuin of its existence; they marked it
the nway in ave inform you proceeding Ammuntisen's flag fluttering from the After a few minutes" observu- "nondum cognita." and placed its shock to Scott. There was only one furestalled them by thirty-four days. distance was But all the time he is waiting. tion-during which time neither boundaries many degrees too far reason for Amundsen's "proceeding
This news car us 0 top of a small tent. Amundsen hid Sooner or later, brawn tires, be-seller comes bewildered, exasperated, uttered
nor prospective victim.
In 1756, De Brasses, President of attempt on the Pole.
Antaretie," and that was for on Two days later Cuplain Scott and 11 word-my reason shouls as Japan's army leu-forced me to conclude that, as The most celebrated and modern be, Amundsen, had had no previous snowstorms harried them, and on
the Parliament of Dijon, wrote: was no meam rival. Scott knew that northward arch.
And Amundsen companions began their fatal Blizzards and ders are shouting) "Why don't Mother Nature could hardly have sovereign will be he who gives his experience in the Antarctic, but he February 4 Evans sustained a severe you stand and fight!"
endowed any of her children in name to the Southern World." It re- also knew that the Norwegians were concussion through Sooner or later, too, brawn such fantastic garb, they must make the first serious attempt to
mained for a British navigator to experts in
Provisions icecraft.
were rapidly becoming discovers to his dismay that hehe, artificial products of a very establish the existence of a continent. Before reaching the Antarctic, exhausted, and on the 17th Pelty
Captain Scott In 1772, Captain Cook was commis-plan of campaign. The attainment has used up all his reserves,
Officer Evans died, had worked out his sioned by the British Government to of the Pole was not to develop into memorable his birthday by walking. On March 17 Captain Outes mude that his opponent on the con- But, then again, how the devil undertake a voyage to the southern a race at the expense of the scientifle to his death in a blizzard. His feet trary, has become re-vitalised. did they move their limbs in so whatever is success may have been in the work of exploration while
ocean in search of new land, but programme. One party would carry were severely Next month, Japan's "China realistic a manner and at such
lameness was bitter, and his Incident," which was to have varying intervala?
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He said..
in other directions, he failed to prove second made the attempt on the Folc, To quote from Scott's dury:
alding up the party. that land existed within the Antarctic and this latter party would Circle.
also "Oates Jast thoughts were of his carry out a programme of scientific mother, but immediately before he The mystery must be solved!||
research while on the march. "How much?" I asked.
The next half century witnessed Expedition set up its base at Cape giment would be pleased with
The took pride in thinking that his re- efforts of an altogether different Evans, and long months were spent bold, way in which lie "Twenty cents," he replied. character. British
sealers in search of new and virgin ing food depots along the roule to the the end. He slept through the night
American in completing arrangements and lay-
lie met his dentit "I'll give you ton cents," the map of Asin, hoping against said, and the rapidity with which Georgia, and the South Shetlands comprising motor sledges, ponies and 1. was blowing a
rounds pressed further and further! Pole.
He was a brave soul. This was South, The Falkland Islands, South hope that the decisive "knock he accepted my offer convinced were discovered, and, though it is not dogs drawing heavy londs of sup- I am just going outside, and muy On October 24 the advance party, he woke in the marring-yesterday, before last, hoping not to wake; but out" blow will be administered me that I was grossly overpay recorded, it is nevertheless believed plies, left the Cape. before her fast-cbbing strength ing him. However, a bargain's/ that those intrepid scamen were the set up food depots both for the out- the blizzard, and we have not scen
They were to be some time. a bargain, so I paid my ten cents, glons of the Aniaretle Continent.
He went out into first to sight the mountainous reward and selected one
return journey. of his wares
November "Why don't you stand and
On him sinee....We knew that poor 21, Captain Scott and the Oates was walking to his death, but In 1821, Admiral Bellinghausen, a match, as near us possible, my Russian navigator, finally proved the vance party, and on November 24 a knew it was the act of a brave man fight!" plead her military com-old school tie, and departed.
main party came up with the od- though we tried to dissuade him, we existence of a continent; thus was part of the latter set off on the re- and an English gentleman." manders. That cry is almost
given the impetus to further explorn-turn to Cape Evans. one of despair,
Most of us have a childish on. Thereafter, followed Weddell, Scott's furthest, South on a previous On the 20th leaning towards mechanical toys grevink, pluncers of modern explora-cember 11 there were but two teams on Shortage of food, severe front- Ross, Wilkes, D'Urville, and Borch expendition was passed, and by De- of any kind, and, in my case, Ition.
Scott, Wilson, and Bowers fought must confess that the urge to
With the dawn of the present cen-
in the field.
bite, and the blizzard mude the going PHRLICH, Mendelssohn, Heine, find out "how it works" amounts covery. New traditions were found in making preparations, and had laid depot, the blizzard became so violent tury came the age of herole dis also spent the long: Antarctic winter when within eleven miles of a food
Meanwhile, Amundsen, who had m
almost impossible. On March 21, almost to a mania.
ed to be sustained and extended as down a large number of food depots on the 25th the end cane. Lack at the years passed by. National (Discovery) Antarctic Ex- the way to the Pole.
In
that they were unable to carry on. 1901-3 the along
the rute, was by now well on food and the distress caused by the pedition, under the comand of Cap- Sectt's inst supporting party return intense cold were too much for these
On the day100% Were they alive to-day, their HERE I HAD a problem of the beyond the limits of past explorers ed he was actually within sight of men who had already suffered so tal Robert Falcon Scott, pushed far names might have been included in the swelling lists of refugee chase home and placed him on ing within ave hundred miles of the
I took my pur-adding hundreds of miles to
the coveted goal. the
really. known coastline, and actually rench- passengers aboard Italian ships the dining-room table for more Pole itself. Four years later the his party and that Lieutenant lived. I should have had a Lale to On January 4 Captain Scott decki- The manner in which they gave ed that Lieutenant passing through Hongkong each careful study.
Bowers should their lives to their enterprise is best British Antarelle Expedition under week.
in Scott's own words: "Ind we (now Vice-Admiral Sir Edward) the command of Lieutenant (later Sir Evans and the remaining men of Ernest) Shackleton broke
hardihood, Just supporting party should return and
endurance, all pre-
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If They Were There
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notes and our dead bodies muri fell