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almost everything about any cold. The slightest change of thing..
temperature causes the paper to
How these newspaper people contract or expand-hance the obtain such a comprehensive spasmodie movements." knowledge always puzzles me,
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but they seem to have an in-
exhaustible supply of Answers THE TURTLE alowly shook his
head, I very carefully
qucationa
no: "Who
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to such was the grand-aunt of the pre placed him in my pocket, thank- sent Rajah of Bhopawar?" or ed my friend and withdrew. "What are the boundaries of
I still had some doubts on the Sudetenland ?"
matter, but the theory seemed a possible one, and, at any rate, it I found my friend in his cane could easily be tested. I would S UNFATHOM. rolled his head, and waggled his
tum with the usual telephone in subject my turtle to an exces ABLE as parts of
one hand, a typewriter (still After which, complete im- smoking) in front of him, and a watch his reactions.
sively high temperature and the Pacific Ocean mobility.
glass of ice-water within handy The hottest thing I know
A$
is the depth of Chinese ingenuity.
off hind leg.
Twenty seconds later, coming reach.
works in an office in the Central to life again (this time with
I said nothing, but merely District: (No! I refuse to give hend, tail, and all four legs in placed my turtle on his blotting you her address), so I took the motion), he made a kind of
turtle along and showed it to
in-
I have seen -some feeble attempt to do the Lam- pad.
He looked at it with a fixed her. strange things on sale beth Walk.
Assuring her that it would not Again immobility, except for and glassy stare for several mo-
ments.
bite, I asked her to pick it up, in the streets of Hong- an occasional half-hearted nod head....and so on,
At first I thought he was try- watching with breathless kong from dried of the
nover repeating exactly the same ing out his powers of hypnotism, terest as she did so.
but at length, as if in answer to But the turtle never so much cockroaches to tongue- movement twice.
my unspoken enquiry, he pro- as wragged his tail! scrapers, but for sheer
nounced judgment.
2 business acumen
I
Hongkong Telegraph. have to take my hat off
Wyndham St., Hongkong to the gentleman who
'Phone 26615 December 14, 1938
"On My Right
sells turtles in Des Voeux Road Central.
I
·by GEOFFREY SUCKLING
"That is a specimen of the tuttifruttidermis, or man-eating TIME MARCHED ON-to be turtle," he said. "It's found in precise, exactly 24 hours the jungles of Patagonin.... 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 had stopped, and his captivity."
demise must have taken place: during the night.
☆
Now was the time for A post mortem examination! I
BEGAN to feel baffled.
You see, there was no ques- IS "PITCH" is not a stone's tion of any clockwork mechan- ""THINK AGAIN!" I advised, picked out my sharpest razor HIS
"It is not a living creature. blade, and reverently laid the JAPAN'S supreme Commander- throw from the G.P.O., and ism, for this would have in- How does it work?"
remains on an empty soap dish. in-Chief in South China he does not shout his wares. He volved a key of some sort, and
Another profound ailence, dur- What would the razor blade issues challenge to Gen-merely squats on the curb with the turtle was fitted with neither ing which time I knew his Great reveal? eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek to a cardboard tray beside him on
key nor keyhole.
Brain must be working. Then, I made a neat incision just hight a final and decisive battle which is lined up the weirdest
Now I hated to be beaten by "I think we can rule out the where his collar stud should on the plains of South China,
a ten-cont turtle, so resisting question of electricity, internal have been, and ripped him open collection of turtles you ever
the impulse to smash him open combustion or remote control," as far as....well, In that one paragraph you
and lay bare his very soul, that he murmured,........"I have it! It possible. have the answer to the Chinese malcontents who still ask why Hankow or Canton were not de- fended to the bitter end.
have seen.
Each turtle is about the size of a walnut, and to all appear ances 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 huc. brain.
ring.
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Ninety-nine times out of hundred, brain will win in the The same applies in war. When a boxer has brains and no brawn he doesn't stand and receive punishment for the glory of it.
He retreats, retreats, retreats.
been a glorious episode of only a few weeks' duration, will be 18 months old. Japan is still chasing her nimble fee all over
as for
AB
Hume afternoon I took him along contains a strip of very brittle The mystery was solved! to the office of a local newspaper Japanese parchment paper, ex- Out tumbled a large dead fly where I have a friend who knows tremely sensitive to heat and of the blac-bottle type!
DOWN TO THE
DECEMBER 14, 1011, Captain |
the striped, and some have what one Norwegian Explorer, reached
It was two months before the news
Some are spotted, some Are ON ser lle
WHITE
GREAT SOUTH
or his success renched the outside hand of Captain Scott, of Discovery Lieutenant Bowers and Petty Olleer fame, sailed down the Thames bound Evans, said farewell to their last
world-a success which meant the
might term futuristic designs. South Pole. They wag their heads and move their feet at irregular intervals and are sure to catch your eye.
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fallure of one of the objects of the British Antarctic Expedition.
But what a glorious fallure! Hundreds of years before it was actually scen by human eyes, a great continent now called Antarction was
the
blizzard. His feet
South.link with civilisation Lieutenant again, for the great White The objects of the expedition not Evans and lite companions gave them only included the exploration of parts three hearty cheers-the last appro- of the constline, but also a further cintion they would ever know. attempt on the Pole.
'On January 17, 1912, Captain Scott One of the last ports of call before and his four companions reached the leaving for the Antarctle was Mel- South Pole. But what a disappoint- He plays with his opponent, AT ANY RATE they did mine almost invariably shown on old maps bourne, and it was here that Captainment Iny owaiting them. Dog tracks allows the lumbering mammoth
Scutt received the the other morning and I stop-as lying in the region of the South
telegram from were picked up close to the Pole, Pole
It is impossible to say why Ronld. to chase him,
Amundsen stating briedy. and arms laying, ped to investigate,
distance was these early eatographers were so cer- "Beg leave inform
away in the you proceeding Amundsen's Bag Buttering from the around the ring.
tain of its existence; they marked it Antarctic. This news came as a top of a small tent. Amundsen had After a few minutes' observa- "nondum cognita," ond placed its shock to Scott, But all the time he is waiting. tion-during which time neither boundaries many degrees too
There was only one forestalled them by thirty-four days. far reason for Amundsen's "proceeding Sooner or later, brawn tires, be-seller nor
North.
Antarctic,"
Two days later Captain Scott and prospective victim
and that was for an comes bewildered, exasperated, uttered
In 1760, De Brosses, President of attempt on the Pole. And Amundsen
sen his companions bogan their fatal Д word-my reason
Blizzards and Parliament of Dijon, wrote: was no mean rival. Scott knew that northward march ahouts (as Japan's army lea- forced me to conclude that, as "The most celebrated and modern he, Amundsen, had had no previous snowstorms harried them, and on ders are shouting) "Why don't Mother Nature could hardly have sovereign will be he who gives his experience in the Antaretle, but he February 4 Evans sustained a severe 2 heavy fall. 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
mained for a British navigator to experts in icecraft.
Provisions were rapidly becoming Sooner or later, too, brawn such fantastic garb, they must make the first serious attempt to Before reaching
exhausted, and on the 17th Petty the Antarctic, discovers to his dismay that he be artificial products of a very establish the existence of a continent. Captain Scott had worked out his Ocer Evans died.
fertile brain.
In 1772, Captain Cook was commis-plan of campaign. The attainment On March 17 Captala Oates mude has used up all his reserves,
sioned by Uie British Government to of the Pole was not to develop into memorable his birthday by walking that his opponent on the con-
But, then again, how the devil undertake a voyage to the southern race at the expense of the scientifle to his death in a blizz
ocean in search trary, has become re-vitalised. did they move their limbs in so whatever his success may have been out the work of exploration while
of new land, but programme. One party would carry were severely frostbitten, and his lumeness was holding up the party. Next month, Japan's "China realistic a manner and at such in other directions, he failed to prove second made the attempt on the Fole. To quote from Scott's diary:
that land existed within the Antarctic and this latter party would also "Oates' lost thoughts were of his Circle. Incident," which was to have varying intervals?
carry out a programine of scientific mother, but immediately before he The mystery must be solved!
research while on the murch. 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- "How much?" I asked.
the efforts of an altogether different Evans, and long months were spent bold.
which he met character, Britis
dealin lila "Twenty cents," he replied.
aud American In completing arrangements and lay- He was a brave soul. This was sealers in search of new and virgin ing food depots along the route to the the end. He slept through the night "I'll give you ten cents,"
Igrounds pressed further and further Pole. the map of Asin, hoping against said, and the rapidity with which Georgia, and the South Shetlands comprising motor stedges, ponies and I was blowing
South. The Falkland Islands, South
before last, hoping not to wake; but On October 24 the advance party; he woke in the morning yesterday. hope that the decisive "knock- he accepted my offer convinced were discovered, and, though it is not dogs drawing heavy loads of rup-1 am just going outside, and may a blizzard. He said, out" blow will be administered me that I was grossly overpay recorded, it is nevertheless believed plies, left the Cape. They were to be some time." Не went out into before her fast-ebbing strength ing him. However, a bargain's fat that intrepid seamen were the set up food depols both for the out the blizzard, and
first to sight the mountainous
wo a bargain, so I paid my ten cents, glens of the Antarctic Continent.
have not seen reward and return
Journey. On him since....We knew fails altogether.
that selected one of his wares
November "Why don't you stand and
In 1821, Admiral Bellinghausen, a main party came up with the ad- though we tried to dissuade him, we Captain Scott and the Oates was walking to his death, but match, as near as possible, my Russion navigator, anally proved the vance party, and on November 24 a knew it was the net of a brave man fight!" plead her military com-old school tie, and departed.
existence of a continent; thus was part of the Intter ret off on the re- and an English gentleman." manders. That cry is almost
given the impetus to further explora- turn to Cape Evans, On the 29th, Most of us have a childishlon. Thereafter followed Weddell, Scott's farthest South on a previous one of despair.
Ross, Wilkes. D'Urville, and Borch expendition was posted, and by Do- leaning towards mechanical toys grevink, pioneers of modern explora-cember 11 there were but two teams on. Shortage of food, severe frost- Scott, Wilson, and Blowers fought of any kind, and, in my case, I ton.
in the field.
bite, and the blizzard made the going With the dawn of the present cen- must confess that the urge to
On March 21, Meanwhile, Amundren, who had almost impossible. tury came the age of herole dis- niso spent the long Antarctic winter when within eleven miles of n food. almost to a mania.
ed large On the came,
elepat, the blizzard became so violent the years passed by. In 1901-3 the along the moule, was by now well on food and the distress caused by the National (Discovery) Antarctic Ex-the way to the Pole.
Lack pedition, under the comand of Cap-Scott's fast supporting party return-intense cold were too much for these
On the day00 tals Robert Falcon Scott, pushed for 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 names might have been included
adding hundreds of miles to the in the swelling lists of refugee chaso home and placed him on ing within Ave hundred miles of the join his party and that Lieutenant lived. I should have had a trip to first water. I took my pur known coastline, and actually rench-fed that Lieutenant, Bowers, should their lives to their enterteilaEKARS On January 4 Captain Scott decid- The manner in which they Have passengers aboard Italian ships the dining-room table for more Polo cf. Four years later the (now Vice-Admiral Sir Edward) told.in Scott's own words: passing through Hongkong each careful study.
British Antarctic Expedition under the command of Lieutenant (later Sir Evans and the remaining men of the sell of the hardihood, endurance, The nation whose name they! For the first couple of minutes vous records, red bone, all pre- to the Cope. And 10, when with which would have stirred the Heart
Ernest Shackleton
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two hundred miles of the South Pole of every Englishman, - These rough suddenly he shot out his neck, Ablarctic Expedition under the com
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