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Chocolate? Oh! Milk Chocolate. Ah! Nestle's? Why of course Nestle's and Milk Chocolate go together just like Devonshire and cream. It's the choc that's choc-full of creamy goodness!

NESTLÉ'S

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The nut milk bars are just as good1

CHOSEN FOR EXCLUSIVE

USE AT THE INTERNATIONAL

CHAMPIONSHIPS OF FRANCE

AND GERMANY 1930.

llosengeres

THE "SLAZENGERS" TENNIS BALL

OBTAINABLE FROM ALL THE LEADING DEALERS.

HUNTERS'

EQUIPMENT

OF THE FIRST QUALITY.

THE

CHINA

MAIL

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF roundings, soon become accustomed

APES

to their keepers, and, lika gibbons, are much, hardier than was suppos led. As every one knows, they have been trained to all sorts of unusual

REASONING POWERS OF THE habits, from riding bicycles to tak.

ANIMAL WORLD

NEW INVESTIGATIONS

ing their food seated at a tablo.

P'RAPS

PRAPS NOT!

He had just moved into Mrs. Dunmore's most respectablo board-

"What's the food like hera?" he asked the oldes: inhabitant.

A small colony of them, provided with a large playground, plenty of open air, and suitable indoor quar-ing-house. Most mammals, and many birdsters, if not apolled by the public or and reptiles, learn by the method trained merely to tricks, would lend well to psy- of trial and error. Put them where themselves extremely

"Well, you get chicken every their Hberty is restrained or where chulogical study o

morning." the other informed him. they are excluded from a tempting Although far fewer gorillas have

"Chicken every morning!" he ex- morsel recognized by sight or smell, been studied, there is enough evid-claimed, hardly able to believe his and there will be a release of en-ence to show at these apes sur-

cara. ་ BAY, that's fine! How declaring itself by efforts, pass the others in ment capacity. Is it served ?** ergy, spasmodic and irregular In the less Without doubt,, however, they lend

"In the shell," was

the oldest intelligent creatures, almost me-themselves less readily to the usual boarder's gloomy answer. thodical in higher animals, to conditions of captivity. and are escape from, their bounds or to more difficult to keep in health and reach their booty.

In contentment.

"You must find Rving in the city Some blue hares recently brought The West African gorillas have dreadful after spending your life from Scotland to he turned out in been hunted for their flesh up to now so pleasantly in the coun-

their 1 500-acre enclosure in Britain, and

akins 90 long❘ try. What do you miss most?" within a few minutes reached the that,

except when taken 43 "My pocket-book and my watch."

have very mere

babes they enclosing netting and in a short time had traversed the whole natural dreof man. But the circumference; if there had been an mountain gorillas of Kivu are still open gate or a single hole they unsophisticated, and as they are now in complete sanctuary in the would have found it and escaped.

証

A cat, having recognised the pro- Belgian Congo "Parc National Al- sence of young pheasants in a wood bert," the greatest hope for the surrounded by high netting, turned future study of anthropoid ape outwards at the top, found the only psychology lies in the uplands of possible way in and out and con- Kivu, tinuerl to use it until the gamekeep

er discovered the trick, to the cat's SAMARITAN ROBBED

undoing.

Those engaged in testing the cap acities of animals have used mazes,

ingenious puzzle-boxes, and similar

one-way devices, writes the scienti fie correspondent of The Times. If

Theft From One Who Gave Food & Lodging

·

Said a bored man at Yarmouth, "Alnek,

With a sea breeze I'd coase to feel 'alack!"

Said a fishman, "Well, If you don't mind the smell, I can give you

a BLOW SMACK."

on a

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ST THEY

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Banko.

Mrs. Screeche was-or, at least, thought she was-a soprano, and she and her husband were just going out to dinner with some friends.

"But, dear," she gushed to him Hong Kong Bank...$1385 "whatever shall I do if they ask me

Chartered Bank ..... to sing?"

Mercantile Bk.. AMB.L "Oh," he replied, "If they ask

A&B. A It'll be their own Bank of Asia 18

A case of robbing the good the desire to escape or the attrac-Sumaritan was brought to light at tion of the bait is sufficient, the the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-you-well, sing. subjects of the experiment will trying, when a Chinese was charged fault?" every possible way of attaining with the theft of some scaffolding their object, and sooner or later will poles, the property of his master, find the clue or the trick.

with whom he was formerly em- ployed, at Tai Yuen Street.

After a very few repetitions of

It was stated that the defendant the experiment they have learned their lesson, and afterwards take was an ex-employee of the complain- the right course without fumbling.ant, but was still residing on the

premises.

free

But if the conditions are varied ever so little they have to start again.

Complainant said that it was the from the beginning, or, indeed, even custom of matshed workkers, when farther from the beginning, as for an employee of theirs left and failed a time they continue to try the way to find work, for them to take him food and they had found to be right, although in and give him it is now wrong. The process is lodging, but no wages.

Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith said that was a very kindly thing to do, and that the defondant was

abusing that kindness.

Sentence of one month's hard labour was passed.

ono

of trial and error

mory of success.

The Great Apes

with me-

In an important treatise on the psychology of the great apes ("The Great Apes," Yale and Oxford [University Presses, 1929, price 453.)

Professor Yerkes, a distinguished TSUN WAN MURDER student of animal psychology, shows from his own experiments

and those of others that the great Accused Foki Too III To

apes use the method of trial and error, but also surpass it. It seems almost as if they had some idea of

of a similar kind.

'Appear

A formal remand of one week was accordingly ordered.

Leung Lin (24) shop fuki of the how the object is to be attained, so Yan Wo medicine shop, Taua Wan, who that the lesson gained from the is charged, with others not in custody, conquest of one difficulty helps them with the murder of one Li Shing, at the to get over another difficulty if it is Heung Kong Distillery, Taun Wan, oil the night of January 13-14, was stated to be too ill to appear before Mr. J. S. They use implements as, for ex-MacLaren, Assistant District Officer, ample, rods to push or pull covered New Territories, at the Court of the objects within their reach, or will Southern District, Post Office Build place one box on the top of another ing, this morning for a similar purpose, as if they had some dim conception of ad- apting means to an end. They

The body of the murdered man was watch the behaviour of human be found by the Police on the foreshore ings and will imitate it often in Near by, a chopper was also found.

at Tsun Wan on the night in question. such fashion as to make it possible Chief Detective-Inspector Reynolds, is to think their conduct based on in charge of the case. conscious reasoning.

Unfortunately

Professor Death by: misadventure was the Yerkes shows, observations on apes verdict at a Southwark inquest on have been mostly conducted by per George Doran, a lad of 15, who is sons without experience in experi-stated to have assaulted a stranger mental psychology, but the inferon Christmas Eve, and to have been ences from these and still more from knocked down by him. the smaller number of exact experi- was fractured, and he died in hos

His akull ments show that study of the apes pital. may throw much light on the origin of human mental faculties.

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