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It was delivered to n Pan His triumph is now history. American Clipper and taken But what is not so well known across the Pacific to complete a is the fact that at that time there 14,000 mile journey by air.
was scarcely one officially Ac- credited entomologist in the Bri- These insects came from the tish Empire. headquarters of one of the
are over three To-day there strangest armies on earth, the hundred highly-trained
spe- army of expert campaigners of cialists sparing neither time the Imperial Institute of Ento- nor effort in finding new means mology, whose invisible war of defence and attack. Their against marauding insects is work is not confined to the saging the world £100,000,000 takes them into the
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War on Cancer
which depends our very exist- proof of the theory upon which ence, physical and economic.
were
THOSE insects
samples of the 8,000,- 000 insect specimens housed and catalogued at the Natural His- tory Museum in London.
From all over the world come
they are staking everything, the theory that (to paraphrase an old rhyme)
If big flens have little flens
Upon their backs to bite
em,
Then little flens
fleas,
I
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Licht
"He MUST care a little-didn't he naine his new bacteria dis-. covery after me?"
This is
OUR EMPIRE
SHALL be dealing to-day'} with a string of Colonial have lesser territories inhabited by Euro-
peans-such as Gibraltar, Malta And so ad infinitum! and Cyprus, or by Asiatics, such That is why this year prepara-and Hongkong.
as Adon, Ceylon, British Maluya appeals to the "Parasite Zoo" tions were made, well in advance,
have been soon a battalion of for defensive action against an British
Most of the
under and very
government for a hundred warrior parasités are recruited attack of the desert-locust. years, ie, much longer than tropical from the breeding station and Years of field-study have shown Africa, but not nearly so long as the
West Indies.
BRITAIN THIS WEEK de- clared war on an enemy which claims more lives than sent off by the air-liner, safely that the locust, whose damage There can be no denying that this!
enclosed in special cold-storage is appalling and incalculable, chain of British Colonies through any war she has previously en-containers, with rations for the swarms in cycles of ten or eleven the Mediterranean, the Red Sen, and gaged in.
journey composed of such tasty- raisins and sugar and
Financed to a
great extent bits as from philanthropic sources, a valiant campaign has been waged for many years in Eng-
water.
years.
the
THIS article
comprises cx- tracts from a talk lven by Lord Harlech from the microphone ot Broadcasting House, London, recently.
Lord Harlech, as Mr. Ormsby- Gore was Secretary of State for Colonies.
The manuscript of the talk was supplied by the courtesy of the British Broadcasting Cor- poration,
fortress
for
Hongkong has been British became Brilish the Indian Ocean
headquarters of the Chine of the 'needs But there are locusts and use of our Nuvy, and primarily close on one hundred years and is.
Navy that had to the locusts. South of the desert-police the great, maritime trade Squadron of the Royal Navy.
The overwhelming majority of its locusts are the tropical-locusts, tralla, New Zealand and
routes from Britain to India, Aus-
Far million inhabitants are Chinese.
Aden became stretching from French Equa- East
British port and torial Africa to Tanganyika:
before the opening of the In the 19th century they were Suez Canal. THAT is but one brief south of these are the red- often called "coaling stations." To-
The Colany and protectorate of naval require Aden, et course, brings us into direct land against cancer, man's
chapter in the story locusts, then the brown-locusts, day with the same
ments, and the added requirement contact with the Arab world. greatest scourge. But the faci- of man's ceaseless war against whose terrifying hordes cost the of air bases, civil as well as military,
Cyprus, ceded to British adminia- marauding insects-insects Union of South Africa £2,000,- this chain of British Colonies is
tration by the Treaty of Berlin more lities hitherto provided are, in which represent sixty per cent. a year and can strip areas larger as vital importance to the Dominions than fifty years ago, is inhabited partly by Turkish and partly by the words of the Minister who of all living things on this earth, than England completely
Greek speaking Cypriots. introduced the Bill in the Com-and which would soon over-run of green life,
us, killing our sheep and cattle,
down our trees, blighting our vegetation, and spreading anni-
mons this week, "manifestly destroying our crops, cutting inadequate."
Less than one in four of those hilating plagues, if permitted to
destructive way.....
England the opportunity of cure or amelioration which modern methods provide.
RMIES
of
clean
insects,
us to Great Britain.
Utility To Empire
of
The prosperity and good govern-| ment of there islands and fortresses is ns essential as their physical de- fence, for the internal peace
and progresa of each of them.is as im-
BY LORD HARLECH
Malta And Gibraltar
Of all parts of the British Empire, it is the archaeologists' paradise, with the still visible remains of the and monuments of Venice, of the Lusiguan Kings, of the Crusaders, of the Byzentine, Roman and Hellenis- tic Empires, back even further to and the ancient Egyptians, and based. ultimately
on apparently rich in- digenous Neolithle civilisation of its
own.
Malta, our chief naval base in the Mediterranean, was, for two roman- tle centuries before it became British in the Napoleonic wars, under the rule of the international order of the Knights of St. John.
The Maltese, who are of
are of European self- race, speak a language which is at the root Semitle, and many go back far beyond the Saracenic occupation of
known and unknown, portant in peace and war as their Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. who suffer from cancer have in have their own irresponsible, are always attacking. They cost defence against foreign aggression.
Canada £25,000,000 a year. India
Their utility to the Empire as a Every week some 2,000 lettere £150,000,000 a year, and Amerien whole depends in no small degree Persia, the Ututes, the Myceneans
on the guod relations of the people arrive from every corner of the tain's farmers are not without Bri- £400,000,000. At home world at the Imperial Institute their insect troubles. Because
Entomology; every day
of the prolonged drought in the packages of all shapes and sizes spring British sugar-beet was cigar-boxes, cigarette tins, attacked for the first time by the bamboo tubes, -hand-made
deadly black aphis, whose total wooden containers-arrive with specimen corpses of bandit in annual damage here cannot be computed. It also attacked sects. And almost every day mangels and beans, while legions of hoth Britain and of
governing Dominions and legions of anti-pests are sent out to the remotest part of the world of caterpillars devoured acres of peoples who inhabit these vital links
cabbages, and deadly armies of between us all. to battle against the hordes.
We have now had a partnership wireworms moved across our
and did untold with them for several generations, A popular parasite emigrant wheatlands
and on the happy and willing con is Alysia Manducator, an insect damage to the cereal crops.
tinuance of that partnership de- pends the ultimate security of. India security of Great Britain itself, and Australia even more than the
Singapore, our island
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Cancer, like many other dis-of cases, must be tackled early if there is to be any hope of cure, and the extension under Govern- ment auspices of the network of treatment centres is a matter long overdue.
Sanctions in Sydney
AUSTRALIAN WORKERS which is in great demand in But the fight goes on.
Each Australia. The grub is sent out new type of crop produces a new have declared economic in the chilling-room of a steam insect enemy for whom there sanctions against Japan, and re-er, dormant in a bed of earth. At must be found a parasite, fuse to load shipping carrying the end of its travels the grub anti-pest. Man cannot rest in
what they suspect aro materials which may be turned to use in the war with China.
The boycott weapon, as Hong- kong people know only too well,
is the most powerful that the masses can employ.
But it is a dangerous and two- sided weapon. The Australian workers have got to square
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hatches into a fly, which likes nothing better than to feed on the grub of the blow-fly which can kill sheep to the value of £3,000,000 in one year.
⚫
this world-wide war.
or
the
the early Middle Ages to the time when Malta was predominantly un- der the influence of Carthage and
Carthaginion Phoenicia.
the
homeland
The extant remains of a high rivilisation in Malta go back_even earlier than those of Minoan Crete, The Rock of Gibraltar has been fortress British for over 200 years, that sen at the south-easternmost corner of tinci of the entrance and exit of the Asia where the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean, the smallest of all the China Rea converge, is also one British Colonies, but one of the mast
of the greatest commercial ports significant In our navel and mill- of the world, and is now by far the lary history, still vital to imperio1
largest city in the British Colonial defence. Empire, with over half a milloni Inhabitants.
10
Local Patriotism
This talk has inevitably been- hút. descriptive sketch in outline.
cludes in addition to the links of
It was Sir Guy Marshall, in his capacity of Director of the Imperial Institute of Entomology -ör C.-in-C. of the Anti-Pest The Dominions and Malaya her- Army-who once said that if the self have helped Great Britain insects
the cost of this the largest defray were allowed to have
averaca naval and air base in the THEN there is the saw their own way they could destroy Empire a new bulwark of all Em- fly parasite, which is the world's vegetation in one pire defence opened last year. plentiful in Britain but which, year.
includes ly, British Malaya, which As Ocean, Mauritius, St. Helena, the
In addition to the hundred until recently, did not exist in That gives you some idea of year old annexed
colonies of the Straits Settlements, the protected Canada. Unfortunately the saw the debt we owe to those scien-states of the Malay Suttons and fly has the annoying habit of tists whom we facetiously call rulers, is by far the richest territory tunnelling inside wheat stems "bug-hunters." But the true administered
and mowing down acres of grain value of their work can never be Offee, long before the harvest is duc. assessed in terins of £ 8. d.
It is an expensive pastime, cost-
the possibility that boycott may bring reprisals by Japan. Aus- of dollars a year.
ing Canadian farmers millions
But England's "Parasite Zoo" tralia has only two better cus-
comes to the rescue by supply- tomers for her goods than Ja-ing parasites which lay eggs in- pan-Britain and New Zealand. side the sawfly grub so that
If the Australians
WED IN HASTE
under the Colonial
Rubber And Tin
Islands all
Our scattered Colania! Empire in-
this chain, many lalands in the Paċi-
Falkland
the conse quence of British maritime adven- ture in generations now long past. Each and all are other links with. the mortar between the great stones the great self-governing Dominions,
which are the ramparts of the Em pire; they are the nerve centres of our vast Mercantile Marine but not. only that, they are centres whence spread the knowledge and examples. of British political and cultural ideas. Each unit has its own life, its own patriotism, its own distinctive:
It is the largest producer of both rubber and tin in the world. As the United States of Amerien la the larg est consumer of both these two im-local
as the culture. portant raw materials, and United States and its dependencles; do not, and cannot, produce them,
don't
Loyalty To King
the state of the American market is It is "bound together by three of vital interest. to British Malaya. things, first and most important, n when the sawfly grub is hatched Bandsman Charles Thomas, of the
Although larger in area, and far common and generous loyalty of the are pre- the parasite egg is also hatched Royal Scots Fusiliers, and Marie richer materlot resources, Malaya varied peoples of these Colonies to pared to risk the loss of Japan's and proceeds to feed itself upon Exhibition at Edinburgh one Monday. Ceylon, which has six million in-, a sense of partnership in a great Docherty met in the Ideal Home is less populous than the island of the person of a single King; second- trade by pursuing with their its unwilling host until there is. She was working, he was playing habitants and is often called Britain's humor enterprise, and, third, and
there On the Tuesday ho pro-Premier Crown Colony." sanctions they have set 'an ex-no sawfly left to food upon!
posed. On the Wednesday they against Insects, were married under a tree on the Economically, Ceylon is famous in its materiai-guardian in ́k. now. ample which, if followed by the This war workers of other nations, will which is known as "biological Pentland Hille near Edinburgh by for its ten plantations and for its dangerous world,
In thinking Gretna's wedding priest," Richard coconut products.
over my memories of control," really took practical Rennison, who was af the exhibition Ceylan ranks third after British visits to these groups of Colonies so rapidly bankrupt Japan.
shape In 1904 when General He brought his anvil from his Greinin Malaya and the Dutch East Indies varied in elimals, in type, and degree: But it is a risky experiment. Gorgas became sanitary inspéc, smithy.
As a world producer of rubber,
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