STORKS
Thursday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 12, 1939.
ARRIVED-AND CHAMPION
THE BABIES FOLLOWED
Legend Was Right
In This Case
EVERYONE knows the nursery tale that the stork brings the babies. Lord Mansfield, one of the greatest | authorities on birds, tells a story suggesting that there may be some truth in the old legend.
He has had storks of his own, and within a year of their being taken to his Dumfriesshire home, Comlongon Castle, they "justified" the reputation legend gives them. After they were installed it was obvious there were to be various increases in the local population.
One of the newcomers was born to a couple who had a girl aged eight, another to a household with three children, the youngest being 15, and a third to a couple who had been married for 10 years with no children,
PANDAS JOURNEY
FROM CHINA
MA
INVOLUNTARY 100 M.P.H.
For years Lord Mansfeld has been studying bird migration and can tell authentic stories of their mystery travels abroad and how their move- ments are traced by the familiar means of putting rings on their legs.
He tells of a flock of tapwing caught
in a storm while crossing to Ireland,
A gale blowing from the east swept
FAJOR FLOYD SMITH, who them out across the Atlantle. The brought the Best giant panda to flying speed of the tapwing is about said that had 40 miles an hour. The speed of the England recently,
ocean were carried westward at 100
nites an hour.
il not been for the extrage and gale was 00 miles an hour, so that animals tho which did not perish in the endurance of his wife the
night never have left China.
"I was physically unable to anke the 25 days Journey from Chenglu to Hongkong" he said. "It would have killed me. The only person I could trust was my wife. As soon as she realised my position she volunteered to make the journey alone.
"That meant travelling by road Gruugh bandit infested territory con- stantly exposed to attack by Chinese Irregular troop.
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Mrs. Floyd Smith continued the tory,
were
A day or so later thousands of weary lapwings reached Newfound- land. Most
unfortunately massacred, and whether they were
colonise able
la exceedingly doubtful,
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"LITTLE ENGLANDERS" Once Lord Mansfeld ringed shelduck that was found in Jutland the following summer. It had lost both its legs in rabbit traps bust hud a family and was apparently happy.
"We just had to get the animals; Many British birds migrate, but to Hongkung," she said. "They were there are certain birds which arc placed in trucks, and 1 took two of determined Little Englanders and our most trusted men-nen who had think Continental travel not worth worked with my husband in the while. No British-born specimen of mountains and helped him to catch the chaffinch or the hedge sparrow the pandas. After supplying then has been found abroad so far as with arms I began the journey.
A PANDA KILLED
"On the second day a truck rolled down an embankment and killed one of the pandas. After several hours we proceeded on our journey."
Mrs. Floyd Smith went on to my that they travelled all day until nightfall, and then put up at small Chinese Inus along the highway.
he
knows. The British robin, however, bas been found in South-west France and Holland, said Lord Mansfield, who talked to an audience of women at the Pioneer Club, Cavendish Place, W., recently.
outh, which meant many more addi- tional days' hazardous travel.
"I was not nervous until we reach- SOMETHING WORTH WHILE ed the province of Kweichow, which ! "I cannt describe how thankful I is infested with bandits. It Is a was Lo reach Hongkong.. I was sinister, mountainous country, with terribly pleased with my accomplish- miter and iles of deserted land. Iment, and for about the first time
ficre in Mrs.
Lenard Dunn- byll, photo- praphed recent-
21 with her twin sons. Оп the left is an action picture of her a few years age, doing the high-jump.
JUMPER PROUD OF HER TWINS
Athletes
Good
Mothers
SAYS ONE
MRS. LEONARD DUMB-
RILL,
Ubrary, Supreme Cock!
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University Students Fight mother of week-old twin Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
A
Magazine Censor
of
boys, sat up in bed recently and laughed at all the "old women" who told
her
STRICT censorship of articles in the magazine pub-athleties were bad for girls.
lished by the students of St. Andrew's University is demanded by the University Senate. It would ban all
sad at a Streatham nursing home, "Just look at my lovely boys," she "and tell me if they look as though
expected at any moment to see ban-in my life thought I had done some dits swoop down. But fortunately thing worth while." nothing like that happened,
"But just when we thought we turn to China to capture an animal political articles, and the authorities would have power to they were sorry their mother is an
Major Moyd Smith intends to re-
were safe we encountered somebody that has never been seen by white veto other articles. who warned us that Chinese irregu-man. 11
the chronberch, Д
miles up the road. We were at Fort is still in existence is provided by
lar troops had been seen only a few species of deer. Evidence that it Students who edit and publish the magazine twice Bayard, a French penal colony, and the powdered antlers which natives monthly have refused to accept the conditions, with the result that the magazine has not appeared since October
there was nothing for it but to turn use for medicinal purposes.
Woman Claims Millions Napoleon Took From Bank
Paris.
athlete,"
Before her marriage their mother'
was Miss Mary Milne, British chum-
lete. plan high jumper and Olympic
with a leap of fifi. 214in.
At 15 she broke the British record
Twenty-one months
Mrs.
ago
24,
Recently the matter was brought before the House of Com-Dumbrili had her first baby. He is mons by Mr. Robert Gibson, Socialist M.P. for Greenock.
HOW 話 strapping fellow, weighing 24st. Ile asked the Secretary of State P. C. Rescues Girl for Scotland if he was aware of the take up athletics for fear of en- "Girls who think they should not pressure being exerted to prevent St. dangering their health and spoiling From Her Bath Andrew's students from dealing in their chances of motherhood are
their own magazine and in their making a mistake," she said. societies with the urgent questions! of the day.
"Most of the girls who won inter- national honours in the early days have healthy children."
CLAIMANTS to the fabulous fortune left by Jean Thierry, an PRETTY twenty five year old innkeeper at Brescia, Italy, who died in 1636, leaving estate business girl, Eleanor Nicholl,
I estimated to-day to be worth £300,000,000, have been informed was singing in the bath in her bache- by the French Government that a settlement for £160,000 will er at in Cambridge-terrace, Felix-
stowe. be made if they produce a family tree proving their right to the money.
Mme. Jolyeler, of Auteuil, near 1706 he took this fortune from the Poris, who claims she is the genuine vaults of the Zecca Bank. heiress and has genealogical tables! Five judgments have been given to prove it, told how France obtained by the Seine Tribunal since 1822 in possession of the fortune,
favour of the legal heirs.
"Jean Thierry," she said, "was the son of a pour nobleman who took up innkeeping In 1600. He met n rlebi Venetian merchant who made him heir to the fortune.
"The treasure included estales, houses near the Doges palace ini
First Mishap In 41 Years
North Andover, Muss.
Mrs. Gibbons, in the hut down- stairs, was having a bath, too. She heard the singing of the girl in the room above. Then there was silence and a groan.
Gibbons gave the alarm.
Throwing on her bath-robe Mrs.
FORCED THE DOOR Police Constable Brooke arrived when hope nad been given up.
He found the bathroom door locked and bolted. He had to use his trun- cheon, a brick, a saw and a chopper before he could force the door.
He found Eleanor lying Venice, a four-foot-square box filled Arthur L. Rand's record of driving bath, unconscious.
in her with gold ingots, 50,000 gold coins, for 11 years without an accident, She had been gassed 20,000 silver ducats, 300,000 Vene ended abruptly when his automobile nearly drowned. Later she was stot- and then tlan ceus (silver coins), and two bags collided with a dump truck. The 62-ed to be on the road to recovery 1- of precious stones.
year-old Fitchburg resident sold he though still seriously ill. It is acknowledged in France that first drove a car in 1887 while when Napoleon entered Venice in student at Townsend. VL..
"It was all part of my job," såld Police Constable Brooke.
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GORDON'S
SHOE SALE
NOW ON
His question also asks when the rules under which this action was taken were approved, and if the Minister will undertake to make no grant to the university until he has held an inquiry Into these! incidents.
"We find it impossible to nccede to the demands of the senate," a student said. "If we did so freedom of thought and speech, which we claim as our right, would be abolished.
past to an editor and two students "We know what happened in the of the university magazine when they printed some articles which dild not find favour with the authorities. They were sent down' for a time." Sir James Irvine, Principal of St. Andrew's University, said:
"No outsider has any right to Interfere with the offairs of St. Andrew's University. We are per- fectly capable of settling our own problems without external aid."
Pupils Identified By Numbers
photographed at Streatham with her Pleturs above shows Mrs. Dumbrill wins. Inset: As Mary Milne, doing
high jump.
Duke Of Windsor Loses "Shadow"
The Duke of Windsor has lost his "shadow.'
Superintendent David Storrler, burly Scotsinan of 40, who was the Duke's police bodyguard for 18 years, 03 Prince of Wales. King, and ex-King, bas returned to London to take up administra- tive duties at Scotland Yard. During the anxious days before the abdication Mr. Storrier remained with the King at Fort Belvedere.
When the Duke of Windsor left Chief-
England Mr. Storrier, then Inspector, went with him.
OFFICIAL LINK He become the only "official link between the Duke and his former kingdom.
He was present at the Duke's wed- jding to Mrs. Warfeld, continued his ¡duties "guardian shadow" in Aus- tria, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, and in Franec.
It was the superintendent's re- Bobby sponsibility to secure privacy for the and to discourage curious
Norman, Oklu, Here is how the Bobby Davises Identify themselves: "I'm Davis No. 1," and "I'm Bobby Davis Duke No. 2." The "twin-name" students sight-seers. are not related.
Kill Kidney
Trouble Quick
Mr. Siorrter was a uniformed station-sergeant at Cannon-row 18 years ago when he was called on to replace the late Inspector Durt on his retirement as polica bodyguard to the then Prince of Walca.
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