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V.R.C. FETE.
HIS EX. THE GOVERNOR
· PRESENT.
CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS.
THE
CHINA
(88 secs.). The other competi- ICE CAVES OF THEd with snow and Ice?
tors were Miss M. George and Miss D. Hunt.
100 yards Boys' Championship of the Colony.-1, R. B. Woods (76.4/5 ecs.); 2. F. J. Anslow. 179.4/5 secs.). The other com- petitors were A. Roza and A. A.: Rumjahn.
Novelty Race.-Won by H. M.: Remedios.
crowded.
swum.
WORLD.
Dangers of Wrong Teaching.
wrong.
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Arctic
MAIL.
If you thirst before they were able to imagine a temperature even as hot reach any place where they could as England, let alone hotter, you get human help or where they can easily see that if there were could help themselves. snow it would rapidly melt. The Wilkins came down on the floating snowfall of the Arctic Is very ica of the Polar sea 100- miles light. The average snowfall of north of Alaska, and walked ashore. the Highlands of Scotland Is in eleven days.
When you remember, then, that several times as heavy as the average snowfall of the Aretic. the flying conditions are really But some of you might want to better in the Arctic on the average ask: 'Is it a fib; then, about than in many places whore we now Greenland being covered withly regularly, you see how signin- snow and ice? You have learnt cant it is that Nature has placed that not only in the school books, an Arctic land bridge, as it were but also in the hymn books:
From Greenland's icy moun
tains.
From India's coral strand.
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50 yards Members', Handicap. and Lady Peel were amongst the 1. M. de V. Soares (36.2/5 large gathering of interested spec-seca.); 2. F. X. Monteiro. There tutors at the Victoria Recreation were so many entries for this
Before I went to the
between England and Canada. If Club's swimming gala on Saturday event that Ave Beats had to be was a teacher of Anthropology in when four events for the Champion swum, the finalists, besides the the oldest and one
you fly from Englund over Scot- of the most
land it is only about 300 miles to ship of the Colony were deelded.
prize winners. being J, Neves, respected Universities in the
the Faroe Islands, then from the The 100 yards breast stroke C. A. Gaan and L. A. Soures.
'United States, said Vilhjalmur
Faroes it is only about 300 milea Championship of the Colony way Chasing the Number, Won by Stefansson in a talk on July 16. won by Wan Kwong-ting for the M. M. de V. Soares. There were 35
"But if-you read the hyma care-) to Iceland, frem-Ireland-about 200. It used to
from third year in secession. He was competitors and the bath was seniors and juniors in Harvard lands' icy mountains. The moun. Greenland about 200 miles to
be my job to inform fully, you notice it says, 'Green- miles to Greenland and given a very hard race by W. Foraita and had to go all out to retain his 50 yards Ladies Tandicap-1, would find if they went to the land fornia and Mexico.
College what sort of a place they tains are snow-covered in Cali- Battin Island. After that you never title, winning by a touch. His time Miss P. Gittins (41 secs); 2. Miss of the Eskimos. Then I resigned even some snow-covered mountains over water until you arrive at the There are have to jump more than fifty milea of 82 seconds, however, was not Anslow. There were 13 com- my teaching position, about 22 in Africa. Then, why should not great cities of Canada. Wan's best for this event.
petitors and three heats had to be years ago, went to the land of the the mountains of Greenland be If you will look, not on a map, Another thrilling event was the
Eskimos myself, and discovered similarly
They but on your globe, you will snow-covered? Two Lengths Tom Race-Won that out of ten things which I hadare. 100 yards free style Championship
that coming from Paris on your of the Colony. W. Lawrence and by L. Roza Pereira's team which been teaching about geven were S. V. Giltins kept together through-¦ included B. Gošano, C., S. Howard,
Eighty-four per cent. of Green- journey to Vancouver, London will
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the land in the Arctic is all of it and Scotland put together. A until you arrive at Vancouver, and in the final spurt they were V.R.C. competed in this event and always covered with snow and ice, piece of snow-free land no bigger travelling approximately in together and touched the wall sim-it was a closely contested and ex- and that even in midsummer the than England or Scotland may be direct line. That flying route will ultaneously to make a splendid dead | citing race.
weather is always distressingly big enough to change the course bring Vancouver as near to you as hent in the time of 61 seconds.
Water Polo-Kowloon Swim- cold everywhere in the Arctic, 1 of history, and so it is not negli- New York City, a saving of more Hong Kong's time for the 100 ming Club beat V.R.C. by 2 goals thought that there would not be gible that there is more snow-free than 2,000 miles. If you are flying yards free style is better than to` 1. Teams: K.S.C.-F. Angus, any flowers in the Arctic. or land in Greenland in August than by aeroplane to New York City that of "Abe". Fingereth of R. Witchell, J. Henry, E. W.
grassca, sedges or bushes-certain-in England. You must remember you will find it advisable either to Shanghai who captured the Railton (Capt.), W. C. Simpson, y not any trees. I thought that also that although Greenland is take the Iceland route or else to Northern Settlement's 100 yarda' B. R. Rasmussen, and W. Kerr: if there were any vegetation at all large it is only a small part of the cross far south by way of the Championship at the Rowing V.R.C.-TL: Knight, J. R. Soares, it would be mosses and lichens. Aretic as
a whole. August 30 in H. M. Remedios, L. Roza-Pereira, believed that most of the Eskimos there is snow in July on less than
Therefore, Azores. D. Laing, W. Lawrence and C. lived in the winter time in anow one-quarter of all the land in the houses. I had an idea that the Eskimos dronk oil, and I even imagined they liked it I believed these things because I had learn- ed them in school and college from professors and text books.
Chub's gain оп 62.2.15 secs..
Ladies' Tussle. Miss Enid Seul won the ladies' 100 yards Championship of the
Roza-Pereira.
Colony, doing the four lengths in ASYLUM TRAGEDY. 84.2/5 seconds. She had a worthy i rival in Miss E. Allen, who gave her
a close race for the first three DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER KILLED
BY PATIENT.
·lengths but fell away in the final spurt. But she was by no means" |
disgraced, finishing comfortably At the lunatic asylum of Graz, ahead of the other two competitors, the capital of Styria, Franz Krenn, only 3.5/5 seconds behind the wine peasant patient, aged about sixty, who had been confined for twenty years, was allowed by Dr. Ludwig Maresch, the head physician, to do occasional work outside the build
ner.
Krenn
When I went to live in the Arctic I do, not think I learnt a thing during my first year and a half, for I had been in one Univer- sity or another for so many years and was so thoroughly educated that I was able to see nothing ex- cept what I expected to find. Then, at the end of a year and a half
retic.
It used to be taught in most schools, and it is taught in some schools even now, that the chief vegetation of the Arctic is mosses and lichens. But in my experience and I have, travelled more widely than anyone, I believe, ever did in the Arctic-if you take the Arctic on the average you will find ten times as many tons of flowering plants as you find of mosses and lichens combined. In Canada you and trees 70 ft. high, let us say, 100 miles north of the Arctic
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Therefore, the British Air Route Expedition now at Iceland on its way to Greenland for a year's study is undertaking an extremely important pioneer task, investigat- ing the conditions by which, with- in a few years, we shall no doubt have regular air communication between the British Isles on side and Canada and the States on the other,
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WHY CROCODILES CRY.
Crocodiles have been endowed beyond other creatures with tho gift of tears, and one believed to
There was a difference of three seconds between the winner and runner-up in the boys' 100 yards for the Championship of the Colony, ing.
in the ordinary civilised countries 300 miles north of the Arctic world has stood gaping at the which was won in fine style by One day, when
was for about half a year, and went Circle. Master R. B. Woods in 76.4/5 picking currants in the garden, Dr. seconds. F. J. Anslow was a good Maresch asked him to stop and second in a “field" of four capable scrub his floor instead, a custom- young pwimmers of whom much ary task on Saturdays. This order can be expected in later years.
seems to have infuriated the luna- tic, who was regularly introduced Novelty Race,
'to visitors as an "incurable case." Much amusement was caused by In his humane management Dr. Maresch went so far as to allow his
in the North I came South, lived circle; in Siberia you And them find it a business asset. While the
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spectacle of 80 tearful a reptile back North, this time remaining But the point is, that when you the crocodile has gaped to greater for four years and a half. During come to the end of the forest you purpose. Now, however, he is to that time I gradually came to the only come to the beginning of the lose the advantage of surprise, and opinion that fully three things rea coast, and, of course, it stops his tears will be a puzzle no out of four that I used to teach there. But, If you are in a Zep- longer. Imperial scientific re- were not only incorrect but even pelin, for instance, or in an acro search which has so many fine absurd.
plane, and, if you continue your feather
' its cap already, has Consider first whether the North travels north over the sea, you will won an er notable success, and n novelty race in which the com-
Pole could possibly be even
appresently come to some Islanda, has found out something about petitors had to go through the eleven-year-old daughter, Traute, to proximately the coldest
place and in those islands the prairie crocodiles which it would be very process of dressing at the end of talk and play with the patients, North of the Equator. To begin will be ahead of you. So you go decidedly worth their own while to each length of a 100 yards swim. most of whom were considered with, we know what kind of place from island to island until you are know, Researches carried on in After completing the first length harmless, and she was great it is. It lies in the ocean.
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many hundreds of miles north of Uganda by Mr. Hoare, of the Wel- they had to climb out of the bath favourite with them.
mirai Peary, the American ex the Arctic Circle until you arrive come Bureau of Scientific Re- and put on a pair of trousers be-
After the doctor had left him plorer, went there more than 20 on the north coast of the fore, swimming the next length. Krenn
most search, have shown that crocodiles found the little girl years ago. He found what we northern land in the world, where have a secret grief. They are very Then they had to put on a shirt in the garden playing with thought he would find an average you will find a hundred, species of human in some ways, and are in- at the other end, return, and put her dolls, tried to choke of about five feet of ice floating on flowering plants. And where you clined to sleep with their mouths on a coat, ond finish with their
her, and finally atabbed her top of more than 10,000 feet of and flowers there you will find open. There is nothing wrong 30 clothes properly buttoned up. several times with a knife. Her anfrozen water. This ice is heav-insects, too. There are humble far; and If crocodiles spend most Chasing numbers was also an ea- corpse was found hidden among the ing with the tide, which breaks it bees and butterflies on the north of their lives in a snooze nobody tertaining event. Each competi- bushes.
constantly, showing the open coast of the last land on earth. will complain. But it appears that tor was allotted a number marked
water between the ice floes. The
Snow-House-Oil Myths.
the tsetse fly in addicted to walk- water is only about two degrees below freezing. In the United It has been a common bellef that ng around the open mouths of biting States, where I have lived a good moat Eskimos live in snow-houses sleeping crocodiles and to
the softer parts. part of my life, we sometimes have just as most Britons live in
But there seems no way of teach- temperatures of as much as 75 houses of stone or brick. But I
Many Bre degrees below freezing.
Suppose can assure you that more than half ing crocodiles this.
Is the tsetse fly, that one of the now that you have a temperature the Eskimos in the world have very well aware, and so apparently as you sometimes have in, say, houses are found only in certain best ways of getting left alone is to be known to carry disease. North Dakota, Minnesota or Mon-districts. It may seem to you, What selfish men de in railway tana in the United States, then possibly, that if some Eskimos you would have right above the have show-houses all the Eskimos carriages, wrapping scarves round their heads and pretending, to water an air layer 50, 60 or 70 de- must have seen them; but that is scarlet fever, is what tsetse files
The Eskimos 'cover grees colder than the water, and, of not the case. Keen Polo Match
course, there would be a rapid such a wide territory that some do with much less success, owing to the apprehensions of most of There was keen rivalry between
warming of the air, therefore it Eskimos are farther away from their hosts. As it is, the new dis- the V.R.C, and the Kowloon Swim
could not ever be extremely cold other Eskimos, by their ordinary ming Club in the water polo match
coveries belong to the human race, Its august atmosphere merely a at the North Pole. And if it could ways of travel, than England in which has paid for and made them, which brought the fine programme memory, the Supreme Court room not be then it isn't. I do not be from Brazil. to a close. Although Kowloon took here now looks like a certain type of lieve it ever has been 55 degrees
The idea that the Eskimos drink and they are likely beyond any the lead in the first half and did men's club. Justice John E. Mack, below zero at the North Pole.
oil is mere folklore. Oil, of course, question to be used, not by the not relinquish it, it was a well con- recently elevated to the Bench, is
: Frozen Prosperity. would act as an emetic if it were crocodile, but against him. tested game which. Hong Kong had responsible; for. as he explained to
tsetse files carry Some readers. may think that 65 drunk in any quantity. No careful
Krenn has been removed to an- on small wooden balls which were other asylum, lest, he should be thrown into the bath before the attacked by his fellow-patients. race. The swimmers had to hunt It is a sad coincidence that on the for their numbers in the water and very day of her death Trante had then swim home. Luck, of course, passed her entrance examination entered a lot into this race and into the lyceum successfully, and her arlly lucky in that the first ball paranta had arranged to entertain
M.M. de V. Soares was extraordin-
which he picked up was the one bearing his number.
As an extra to the programme,
Ed. da Roza gave one of his fino; exhibitions of fancy diving, which greatly pleased the spectatora.
the girl's friends to tea.
INFORMAL JUSTICE.
THE JURY SMOKE AND PUT FEET ON THE RAIL.
White Plains (New York),
July 16.
over the North Pole about as cold never seen a snow house,
Snow-
one
If disastrous
hard lines to lose by the odd goal the jurors, he never was "a stickler degrees below zero or 87. below observer has ever reported the germ, they can probably be coach-
in three. The score la the first for etiquette."
A freezing is very cold. It is per drinking of oil as any more
ed or compelled to carry another.
half was 1-0 in favour of Kowloon "You twelve men can smoke if you tinent for them to remember that habit among the Eskimos than The day may not be far distant
he Eskimos and in the second half both sides want to, and take off your ceata roll one of the most prosperous sec- among us.
when carefully inoculated flies will scored once. Simpson was respon-up your sleeves, and, put your feet tions of the Empire is the Province
I hate covered all this ground 80 off to the Nile with the Govern alble for both of Kowloon's goals, on the jury box rall," the Judge of Alberta. In that Province we to try to prepare you for the iden ment's blessing and bite redundant | whilet L. Roza-Perelta, who de declared when his Court opened.. putised for "Jimmle" Stewart, scor- "I want to make things as com that is a region where wheat is and begins to consider such pro- walk straight to the careful traps have the Peace River Valley, and that when one goes to the Arctic and unpopular crocodiles, giving the hydrophobia and making them ed for the V.R.C.
fortable as possible for you. This being grown now, where, land is blems as the British Air Route After the sports dancing was as case probably will last some weeks, worth ten to eleven gulmonsan Expedition is now
of the bag and purse and shoe considering,
The manufacturera,
Saurian usual indulged in to music supplied and no doubt it is inconvenient for acre, where prosperous farmers one does not deal with the Arctic creation has a bad record and has by the Lyric Orchestra,
you to be here, when you might bedre crowding in. And there they of the school and. University, but never wished us well; and it will It was announced on the pro- having your holidays, I want to have a record of 18 degrees below with a real Arctic which is very gramme that the annual harbour extend every courtesy and privilege xero, or 110 degrees below freez-fitfle known. On the average, the that are likely to be. shed if we 80 have Itself to provide all the tears race of the V.R.C. will be held on to you, for I have suffered myselfng..
Little children go walking flying conditions in the real Arctic October 14 and 15, starting from in Courts during hot days.”
two or three miles to school all are probably about what they arrange matters that sleeping with Kowloon each day at 6 pm. Clouds of smoke soon rolled to through the winter and are not in would be in England and Scotland the mouth open proves to lead to sharp. The Championship prizes ward the chandellers, and the furors terfered with seriously by the cold. They are better in some respects worse misfortunes for crocodiles will be presented in the Club house had every appearance of appreciat.The summers certainly are longer and they are worse in others than the most inringinative, parent | after the open harbour race on Ing Justice Mack's favours. Feet and hotter in Central Canada than Imperial Air Route Safety, or guardian has ever invented One of the chief safety factors when threatening the perversely rose as high as chins and the jury colder in the Arctic than they in flying in the number of good in the Arctic, but the winters are
snoring human young." The box resembled the first tee at 6
Tinios, municipal golf Inke, so far as are in Central Canada. Is there natural, emergency landing places. extreme cold in the Arctic in mid- There is no large area north of the costumes were concerned
Hummer 7 There are places Inside Equator where on the average of the Arctic Circle whare the there are so many safe emergency United States Weather Burdan (in landing places as in the Arctic, Alaska) has reported a tempera- Take the case, for instance, of Sir ture of 100 degrees in the shade. Hubert Wilkins, who was a mem We think it hot in England when bar of my third expedition, and it goes above 00, and it does-2010 who is now, of course, one of the degrees higher than that ony the great figures in the world of ox Yukon River north of the Arctic ploration. Wilkins was born in Circle in Alaska. There are within Australia; he says that the rum Krishnamurthi, In his closing the Arctic Circle areas much larger ber of landing places in the Arctie address, urged a complete cleavage than the British Isles where the is far greater. In Australia. It h with the past
extremes of temperature goGiigher a significant thing that some of
October 15.
RESULTS
100 yards Breast Stroke Cham- plonship of the Colony-1, Wan Kwong-ting (82) seco,); 2, W. | Foraita (88 secs.). The other competitors were C. H. Tan and Wong Kl-chow
100 yards Free Style Champion ship of the Colony-1, W. Law rance and S. V. Gittins, dead heat (61 sec) The other com- petitors wary T. Faget and R. Amery
** 100 yards Ladies Championship
KRISHNAMURTHE
Ommen, August 6 The Star Camp, which opened in torrential downpour and was con- ducted through gales and thunder- storms, closed to-day in drenching rain.
of the Colony, Mis. E. Scull He said it was futile to try, to In summer than they do in England the flyers who have made fored (84,2/5 secs.): 2, Miss E. Alles reconcile the new with the old.../
Is the Arctlo land always tovers, landings In Australia have died of
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