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SATURDAY, MAY 1,-1920,

WHEN BIRDS FLY.

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They have been observed by an aviator at an altitude of 15,000 feet, but this is unusual. In an article on the flight of birds a writer in the Toronto Globe says

"On the night of September 3, 1887, while an American scientist, F M. Chapman, was observing the moon through an astronomical telescope, he suddenly became aware of a number of birds passing in front of the lens, allhouetted against the glaring light of the moon's face. For more than two and a half hours -from 8 p.m. to 10:50 p.m., to be precise an intermittent stream of migrants flowed southward across his field of view, and among these Mr. Chapman was able to recognise the outlined forms of Carolina rails, grackle, snipe and ducks. These, roughly estimated, were travelling at elevations varying from 6000 to

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14,000 feet.

AFTER THE ARMISTICE.

NEUTRAL SHIPOWNERS' NOVEL CHAPTER OF PUZZLES

A novel matter came before the Prize Court for full dress debate recently, and the echo of it may sound in Prize Courts after future wars.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NEW JUSTICES OF

THE PEACE

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The Governor: has appointed the following Justices of the Peace: (official) Messrs E. W. Carpenter FIRST ANNUAL CHILDREN'S and A. H. Crook֒un-official Mesars. A. H. Compton. H. B. L. Dowbiggin Ho Kwong. James Reid, J. H. Wal- | lace, and N. L. Wason

BELL RECOVERED ON JAPANESE COAST.

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- SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS

OLD-INTERESTING '.

STORY FROM "FUKUOKA-KEN.

SUNDAY NEXP, May 2nd,

at 11 s.m. agd 6 pp.

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6 p.m. Preacher:

The Bisor or VICTORIL (Farewell Message to the Colony). Offertories for Dr. Barnardo's Homes

the Allied Powers and the neutral Power of Norway authorising the exportation to Germany of a certain percentage of the annual catch of fish in Norway In return for certain Specified conditions assigned to the Allies by Norway under the agree ment. There had been a number of JUDGMENT TO QUOTE IN FUTURE WARS. these agreements with Norway and ather neutrals during the war, covering various, branches of trade. Under this agreement R was provided that if a certain quantity of the fish supply was sent to the Allied Powers, 15 per cent might be exported to Germany. The position May a vessel be captured as prize was this, that if Norway assigned all alter the armistice has been signed? her catch to one side she would be Is a neutral ship immune under a infringing her neutrality. The fact general licence when her Govern that during the war this ship was mert has an arrangement with the employed for the trade between Nor captor to do a certain amount of way and Germany was known to the trading with the enemy? May the Allies. When the Allies got control German Government trading com- of a real portion of Norwegian the Nagasaki Fress, a large bell has OST ex 8.5. "Dunera" green. pany be supplied with herrings when shipping there was an exemption as been lying in the sea off Kane zaki, trunk marked yellow and blue the army in the fi id has laid down its to part, and he submitted that this arms? What the status of such a ship came within the exemption. It north coast of Fukuokaken, for stripes bearing name MRS. H. L traffic when the Allies have declared was impossible to make an arrange seven hundred years. It is believed WENNER. Address "Laureston." that they will arrange supplies"?ment which would de-neutralise to have been brought from China as Does a base of enemy supply cease to neutrals without bringing somebody be a base of enemy supply when no into trouble with the other. belli fighting is going on? And what are gerents. There had been no secrecy the precise legal bearings of the about this proceeding. This cargo various stages during which an alien of fish came. he contended, within enemy" is being metamorphosed into the permitted 15 per cent. an alien friend" These were among the problems which were gravely argued before the President, Sir Henry Duke, by the best legal brains that the Crown, the shipowners, and

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"Until the advent of airplanes, nearly a quarter of a century later. this observation formed practically

Mr. Leck, KC, for the cargo the sum total of our knowledge of

owners, submitted that this cargo of Many years ago Mr. Yamamoto, c/o

inhabitant of the locality, attempt-, the height at which birds travelled

fish which was conditional contra- to and from their summer quarters.

band was por, in ali the circum to recover of the bell and after It was realised, of course, that certain

stances of this case, contraband ful last November. when the bell was

repeated failures was partly success passerine species-eg. swallows. the cargo owners could respectively With the Armistice the decision of wagtails, pipits, larks rooks, etc. command for 30 weighty

and that Court that Stettin was a base of brought into shoalwater, from which usually migrated at a comparatively momentous a collection of post-war supply must be reconsidered. Even a portion of it emerged at ebb tide.

PUBLIC AUCTION. low height; bet of many birds, and issues.

to feed the German army during the and attracted many visitors to the especially of the larger species. we The case was that of the steamship Armistice was not a warlike purpose,

With considerable difficulty the DARTICULARS and Conditions of the know next to nothing. True, weRannveig," which the Crown claim and there was nothing before the Occasionally obtained a distant viewed as prize, along with her cargo, and court to show that these herrings supposed block of metal was even letting by Public Aretion Sale, ta tually brought ashore a few days ago be held on MONDAY, the 3rd day of a skin of geese moving in orde by her cargo was herrings and soap would feed the army

and it is now hidden from public of May, 1920, at 3 pm, at the Offer formation across the gray back nearly 9,000 barrels of herrings and The Attorney-General-But here view, as being sacred pending the of Elia, Excellency the Governor, of one of the Public Works Department by Order ground of an autumn sky, but it was 13 cases of household effects, includ was a ship carrying foodstuffs to the erection of a suitable shelter. Lot at CROWN LAND EAST of always dificult to compute their fing the soap, from the German Vice Stettin before peace with Germany The bell, which is said to be thirteen Pokfulam Road, in the Colony of Eeng height, and one could only guess at Consulate at Christiansund. Such was concluded! Not only was she feet high, looks like a rock heavily kong, fer term of 15 years, with the direction and force of the upper things as were obviously personal going to Stettin, but to the kaowledge coated with seaweed and shells. Its the option of recowal at a Crown Rent air currents through which they were effects the Crown had released, but of those appearing she was carrying value cannot be determined until it the King, for one further term of 75 years. to be dred by the Sarvayor of Eis Majesty passing.

it kept its hand on the soap and goods for the Government depart has been investigated by experts. certain rolls of military maps. Coun-ment. I say, there has been an entire sel die not say that he supposed soap misconception of the rriginal agree would not be among the personal ment made between America and effects of a former Vice-Consul

A NEW MEDIUM.

"It is hoped that in course of time aviators will be able to throw a flood of light upon this obscure but in- tensely interesting branch of or nithology- Already a number of these are generally lacking in detail,

The Attorney-General Sir Gordon Hewart, K C., M.P., and P.. Higgins

the Norwegian Government.

observations have been recorded, but and Mr. Hull appeared for the Crown I think about, and he must think it:

instructed by the Treasury solicitor):

Sir Erle Richards, K.C.. and Mr.

and no very definite conclusion can Darby, for the shipowners; and Mr. as yet be formed. Up to the present

I believe the greatest height at which Leck, K.C., and Mr. Burrows, for the

a bird has been seen from an airplane cargo owners.

is 15,000 feet, when Lieutenant J. S. Rissen, of the 57th Squadron, observ. ed two large birds over St. Omer in August, 1917."

Like an airplane, a bird may seek the stratum of air in which it is most convenient to fly, as the writer goes

on to say :--

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case had given him something to The President intimated that the

over before delivering judgment.

Judgment was reserved.indefinitely.

The Crown sought condemnation Two new Launches are being built for the "WALLA-WALLA "! Beet. 'Phone No.3516.

of the cargo on the ground that the herrings were conditional contraband going to Germany, and asked for condemnation of the ship on the ground that she was carrying cen traband with the knowledge of the shipowners. Alternatively, condemna tion of the ship and cargo was asked for under the second Retaliatory Order of February, 1917.

"Probably the majority of species seldom travel under normal condi tions above 10,000 or 12,000 feet,

After all that has happened since but, of course, the height at which a year last November, it seemed a they dy on any given day depends little odd to hear a tangle of argu- very largely upon the weather.ment in the Prize Court about a When the air is. thick or capture which took place barely a. heavily charged with moisture. year ago. The year 1919 has never if birds are migrating at all under been mentioned in the Prize Court such conditions, they are inclined before.

to keep low, and I think it is only in

The herrings were from Christian.

clear, atmosphere that they rise to sund to Stettin, and the "Rannveig the higher strata. Wind is another was captured in the Baltic on March and a very important factor. What 6 and brought to an anchor outside appears to be a contrary wind on the Copenhagen. Then she was ordered ground will almost certainly veer to

to steam to Leith. shoulder wind at 2,000 or 3,000 feet; while if it happens to be blowing from the east, a complete reversal of direction may occur before 15,000 feet is reached.

The President observed that this was at a time when there was a full blockade of the Baltic. An article of the Armistice Convention expressly "There is every reason to believe laid it down that that was to be continued, and his Majesty's ship that the power of a bird's flight is

'Cadet," which stopped the "Rann- reduced as it ascends to more rarified veig," was in the Baltic for the pur- atmospheres, on account of, among other things, a loss of buoyancy, an pose of maintaining the blockade.

For the Crown it was stated that insufficient supply of oxygen, and too te herrings were going to the thin, unresisting medium for wing Reichsfischversorgung Gesellschaft. propulsion.

the German Stare purchasing com-

"From the few records.available, pany, which had branches in the I think, it may be assumed that the neutral countries. The consignees majority of high-fying day migrants were not the claimants. Article such as plovers, ducks, geese, 26 of the original · Armistice cranes, etc.-prefer to travel between terms said "The existing blockade 4,000 and 3,000 feet, but, as already conditions set up by the stated, more data and precise informa Alba and Associated Powers are to tion are required before any definite conclusions can be arrived at.”

remain unchanged, and all German merchant ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture. The Allies and the United States contemplate the provisioning of Germany during

necessary." The Crown said this case was to be tried as a matter of law, as though the ship had been Sir Laming Worthington Evans, seized before the Armistice was made. the Minister of Pensions, stated at a Only two states were known to any meeting organised by the Dulwich (court, a state of peace and a state of Conservative Asscalation, that next war, and peace only began when the year war pensions and widow's pen formal treaty was ratified. Peace only slons and children's allowances would came into forcé la Germany on cost £123,900,000. He had a staff of January 10 of this year. There over 21,000 and they were looking were Slates with which even now we after the cases of 1,100,000 male were not formally at peace. The pensioners.

Prize Court long ago found that Some Interruptions occurred when Stettin was a base of enemy, supply. Sir Laming attempted to defend the Sir Erle Richards, for the ship Government against charges of ex owners, aaid he relied on what travagance, and when an old soldier amounted to a licence to carry on rose from the body of the hall to in this trade, protecting him from. quire why the old pre-war pension of seizure. The word "Licence" was a shilling a day was maintained, more commonly used for a special despite the higher cost of living, he permission for a special venture. replied that the matter was ender Daring the Napoleonic wars the consideration. It was, he said a system prevalled to such an extent legitimate claim, and it involved not that Lord Stowell said there were only old soldiers, but old policemen, more vessels trading at one period and all other pensioners.

under licence than there were vessels

COST OF WAR PENSIONS. Armistice, as shall be found

Speaking of the higher prices, he sailing without licence. That came attributed these to the general to an end because the merchants scarcity. to the larger demand for of this country said the neatrals foodstuffs, and goods that did exist, were getting an advantage over and the rates of exchange. Exports them. But the licence he was -were doing-pretty well, and within relying on was not a licence forma few months from now, he hoped our particular yoyage bat a licence given imports and exports would about under what he might call a treaty. balance.

There existed an agreement between

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