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CHINA MAIL.

A HOME RUN FOR COMPLAINED WHEN

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1931.

THE

BRITAIN

DECLINING AS A WORLD POWER

A FISH FEEDING BIRD.

Habits

of the

Pelican.

DEAN INGE TALKS ON THE FATE OF EMPIRES.

In his second lecture on the "Fate League of Nations that was in work- No part of the British of Empires," at the University Col-ing, order. lege of North Wales, Bangor, Dean Commonwealth paid either tribute!

There was not Inge said that Russia stood by it or tax to Britain.

and extra- self, and he would be a

a written constitution rash tan who predicted its future. The re- ordinarily little military force. volution of 1917 was led, not by Russians, but by Jews, Georgians, and Tartars, and on the one alde it looked like a violent repudiation of the European vencer.

With a Government which was not really communist, but State Catholi- ciam under terrorist Administra tion wielding absolute power over the whole population, it was unlike anything ever seen before in Europe or Asia. If the revolution passed into a militaristic phase, as some said it would, the world might see another series of Tartar invasions and possibly the destruction of Western civilisation. This is a somewhat unhappy prediction," he said, "but none can guess what will follow the Terror."

Spanish Empire.

The question to-day, he said, was no longer whether we would retain our coloured subjects, but whether we could keep them out of the countries we had staked out for our North America would own kin probably succeed in keeping them out, but the future of Australia and South Africa was much more doubt- ful.

.

Definitely Over. The period of the expansion of the white race, ha declared, was de- Some nationa were finitely over. dying for want of heart, although was not he was glad to say that

this country. quite the case with But-our-Birth-rate has declined (it was below the real actuarial death- rate), and even on the basis of a stationary population the country We The decline of the Spanish Em-was going down in numbers. pire, which lasted longer than the had lost our natural advantages, and British Empire had so far lasted, he our geographical position was no proceeded, was due, among other longer quite the best. things, to the dissemination of terature and ideas of revolt, main- ly from French and British sources. There was a modern parallel in the case of India. With almost, incredible folly we had been educat ing the Indians with the literature of revolt for nearly 100 years, and now we were surprised because they were learning the lesson. The French as colonists had proved clever at making themselves decent- ly popular, but like Rome the French were playing a dangerous game in relying more and more upon bar barlan troops

their to maintain rule,

Since the fall of Rome tere had been only two political experiments

A wonderful bird la the Pelican, Whose beak Holds more than his

belly' can,

They say he drinks Bass From a bottle or glass, But I don't know how the h.. he can,

What he thinks 't "a rare bird", fell to the gun of Mr. John William Coonerathe of langawatte, Mirl- gama, Ceylon. The bird measures- about 8% feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other, and is about five foot in length from beak to tip of tail.

Mr. A. R. Hughes, an authority on birds, contributes the following note on the specimen :--

"The bird in question is Pelicanus Philippinus, the spot-bill Pelican. This bird is found wherever there

sheets of are suitable

water throughout the North and East of the Island and even as for down us Hambantola. It is found often in large flocks on brackish lagoons. It is much more common in the sea than inland, but I have observed it at Horowaputana, in numbers Kantalai and the Minneriya tanka.

"Its nesting habits are as follows: It builds usually in large trees at a good height. The not is a huge of haphazardly arranged affair sticks and the eggs, usually three in number, are white with a chalky appearance, and rather rough to the touch.

How Pelicans Fish.

FROGS.

Two That Wrestle Like Humans.

FROGS COMMIT SUICIDE.

SIGHT WAS RESTORED.

Hypnotic Cure Stops Man's Income.

If a frog should suddenly come Somewhere in London there is a your dining-room man in tinted glasses who carries a hopping into while you are having a meal and "dlech:rged, incurable" certificate request a "hand-out" by sitting up from a blind institution. and begging like a trained dog, Without the glasses. he can read: don't rush for the smelling salts or what is written on the certificate. to the wine-cupboard to see if ther Nevertheless, he displays methylated spirits accidentally got placard bearing the plea, Pity the

poor blind. in, among your stock of drinks.

That is, don't rush to the, wine! His remarkable story was told to there is just aja West End audience by Professor cupboard. unless chance that It might be the wine, Alexander Erskine, the authority and not something else.

on neurology and therapeutics, wha Simply treat the visiting frog was repelling, in debate, the charge] with courtesy. He may be that the science of hypnosis; la a

or round-the-world traveller, he public menace.. may be ons of your own garden

Blind for Years. products whose great-grandfather "I stumbled over the man, nud picked him up with apologies, said] went to college,

Mr. W. Boggis (sounds sugges. the professor. The man replied: tive, that name) of Dunvegan, Mid-"It's all right gov'nor, I'm blind." diesex, is probably the first man in "I took the man upstairs and ex- the world to have conducted a amined him," the speaker went on. school for frogs. He told a Daily "He was certainly blind, and had Express representative that he did been for many years.

"No one

had been

so "because all the world despises] "But he reacted to hypnotic treat- the frog." Therefore, he decided to mant, regained his sight there and give them some "uplift."

then and flung his arms around me Mr. Boggis assembled about 120 and kissed me..........

"A week later, however, he came frogs and 90 toads in his suburban! garden and commensed to educate back, complaining I had taken away

his livelihood. them.

know much seems to

"His pension had been stopped, about the creatures," he said. "So he said. He could no longer collect the streets. It had even built an estate for them in my alms in

and arranged suburbani been suggested that he garden villaa und bungalows near the tank malingering in the past. side. In time the frogs and toadej

Professor's Offer. became quite tame, and whenever "I offered to hypnotise hint back they heard my footsteps coming to blindness- no doubt I could down the garden, they began to have done-but his reply to that

was: 'For God's sake, don't.' Two of them, namied. Mrs. Brox-

"He decided then to wear coloured) bourne and Lady Nazing, according glasses and to go back to his old to Mr. Boggia, would stand up on mode of livelihood.'........”

wrestle like their hind legs and human beings.

"Although I do not wish to take an altogether pessimistic view, I am afraid our part of world power is approaching. Its end," he added,, after predicting that the British ele- ment in the Dominions and the States would steadily United

1. "Pelicans ard naturally fish- diminish,

feeders and the large pouch-like at The parallel with Rome was

There was roam for tachment. to the lower bill will on croak in welcome." rather clone, expansion in Canada and Australia,casion hold several pounds of fish. I have observed Pelicans on several but only for the right type, not

oversions systematically fishing the parasitic type whose iden wai to put in fourpence and take out given area, Quartering in the water like well trained gun-dogs, the Peli- ninepence.

cans drive the fish into shoals, the

Not Good Enough. He was afraid we were not good enough to keep our position, and he expected that a

hundred yea

on a very grand scale, both the hence we wild have gone back to work of Anglo-Saxons: these were the pre-industrial Britain of be- the American Federal Republic and fore 1760 except for the enormous

tions.

bill and the portion of the head and neck are submerged, and with ecooping motion the fish are caught.

"The young of the Pelican

Mr. Boggia told the Press repre sentative that frogs and toads often commit suicidé by drowning. "I have seen them deliberately throw have rescued them and revived as themselves from bridges and main in the downy duckling stage them by means of artificial respira- for a considerable time. Here tion." --

nestlings are quite helpless and re-

1

WATER RETURN.

All the Reservoirs on Island Below Level.

The level and storage of water in "And now,” added Mr. Boggle, the reservoirs on December 1, 1981, "I have set them all free to impart were as under: their knowledge to their brothers and sisters throughout the world."!

the British Commonwealth of Na-development of labour-saving mangain the pouch comes in handy in chinery and the smaller population.

How the population was to be re- conveying food from the water to I am not sure though

City and Hill District. duced he did not know, but it would the nest.

There was still that the fish before being fed to the

198D 1981 have to be done.

not partially

Tytam

16' 8" 10'11"B much that was fine in the British Young Pelicans are

Tytam Byewash ... 28 BB. 23' 8"B We might even have wallowed by the bird, breaking the

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Tytam Intermediate 0' 1"B 0' 1"B character.

703 12′ 3′′B new renaissance, with another bones and conting the food with

WIZARD. pepsin, as there appears to be a

Tytam Tuk Wong Nei Chung 14' 3" 18′ 6′′E Shakespeare, Milton, Reynolds, or a

considerable amount of this fluid in

Pokfulum

18' 9' 13' 4"B Newton.

the gullet of adult birds. If the Strange powers, sald to be Aberdeen Upper

9'6"D ∙13′ 8′′B bird was eaten, I uld rather like possessed by a schoolmaster of Aberdeen Lower

Europe's Ascendancy. The United States at present was already the greatest Power and with a population of 130,000,000 and vast wealth and resources was Invulner- Some three years before the able. war, said Dean Inge, when he was a member of a mission of peace to Germany, he stated to a great Gor- man publicist that Europe appeared to have about fifty years more of ascendancy before the centre of wealth and power definitely crossed to America, but that if we had a European war possibly we should throw away those fifty years. The British Commonwealth of Nations was an experiment with a dubleus future, he went on, but wo must wish it well. It was the one real'

a

London might become the

spiritual capital of the world after ceasing to be its financial centre. Our future was in our hands and history would do us the honour of saying that although this was the last of the world empires it was the greatest and most beneficent.

Loss of empire, however, did not necessarily mean the fallure of the race, but he emphasised that only eugenics would save the race.

ORPHAN BOY FINDS Officer Kelly took the boy to his

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own home instead of to the deten- tion home.

It was through Kelly's efforts and a story printed in The Ledger that Mr. Babbit took Bill to live with him as one of his own sons,

MARRIED NOW, SPINSTER LATER.

to know what it tasted like."

STORY LIBELS A COMPANY.

When in a trance, it la said, the

Czernowitz, in Bukovina, who is [Note: B. denotes "Below Over flow" A. denotes "Above Overflow": becoming famous in Austria as a medium, are now being investigated denotes "Level with Overflow."]

Storage in millions and decimals by local doctors.

of gallons.

1980 1981 261.12 208.31 schoolmaster, whose name is Tytam

Tytam Byewash... 1.22 1,22 Joseph Schmidt, can read and Tytam Intermediate 195.43 195.43 predict thoughts: fluently speak an-¡Tytam _Tuk ....... 1,250.00 1,185.75 cient Hebrew and Greek and Baby-Wong Nel Chung lonian tongue, sing songs in Arabic, Pokfulum

Aberdeen Upper.. tell the date on which any person Aberdeen Lower

and the cause of their death.

Paper To Pay £200 Damages. Damages of £200 with costs, were awarded to the kock Investment Company, Ltd.,.In the King's Bench Division. against the illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd.

The jury found that the company into a trance. had been belled in a story called "In the Long Run.”

1. is added that a mere touch

of the hand will cause him to fall

NO WINS, NO GIRLS!

The "co-eds" at Boston University Informed the members

14.44 15.17 30.58 37.32 123.04 34.41

Total ....... 1,752.79 1,845.65 -Consumption of water in, the City and Hill District in millions and de cimals of gallons during the month of November, 1981.

Consumption

1930 1981 20.56 353.208 Estimated population 448,040 881,500 Consumption per

80.9

22.0 of the head por day ...

Includes 41.80 million gallons

Complaint was ma that the Rock Investment Cany WILB mentioned in the story, which re- ferred to "that huge financial 'varsity football team by letter that swindle, involving the arrest of they would not speak to, or make from Mainland.

$Includes 75.68 million gallons dates three directors."

with, any member of the

Mainland from The defence was that, the story tear until it 'wins a football game. November, 1930-Constant Supply William Brady, 16, motherless

A woman in Uruguay may get a was entirely fction and was not in- The Boston cleven now has gone throughout the City, Hill & High walf befriended recently by a.

divorce without giving any reason. tended to refer to any of the plain-through 10 consecutive defeats and Level districts during the whole month Tacoma police officer, has found

She need not notify her husband; | tiffs.

the girls are tired of the continued West of Eastern Street where a con- with the exception of the districts

home.

she only needs to appear and ask In cases brought by three direc-losses. The letter alto informed stant street fountain 'supply.

A year later she tors of the investment company in the players that the ultimatum operated from November 3 to 80, 1980. for a divorce.

November, 1011 Constant Supply comes back and is given the final dividually, Judgment was given for would not be altered in any circum-

throughout the City, Hill & High! decree.

defendants without costs.

stances save a football victory.

Level Districts during the whole month.

a

Alex L Babbit, assistant manager of the Bank of California, has taken the lad into his own home and is giving him the same treatment he gives his own two boys.

Bill has already been entered in the ninth grade at the Mason Inter- mediate school. For once in his life Bill can do something else besides work, according to Mr. Babbit. Bill will be able to play games other boys his age are playing. At last he is to know what the word home really

means.

Mr. Rabbit is confident that Bill will make good. The bay has work- ed hard all of his life, but a medical examination showed him, to be in good physical condition th

the exception of his tonsils.

In the few days, he has attended school Bill has made a great many new friends and is daily discovering. with great delight pleasures he nover knew existed.

Bill was found by Patrolman J. A. Kelly sleeping in a sawdust pile on the waterfront near Old Tacoma, When ho learned that. Bill had 1 redalled his way from Aberdeen on his bicycle; that his mother had died three years ago, and his father had deserted. his family six years ago,

Montreal's Newest Station

A comprehensive view of the Canadian Pacific's sew Park Avenue Biation, located at the' head of the thoroughfare of the same name, to serve 'the northern residential districts. This splendid building, completed at a cost of $754,000, is constructed of limestone and is in combined modern and classical style. Park Avenue was upened for service November firat.'

WEB

Kowloon.

0' 7"B

1930 1981 0' 1"B L

23" "B

1′ 5′′B

Shing Mun Recep-

Kowloon Main Kowloon Byewah Shek Lal Pul

Reservoir

tion ....

0' 7"B 7' 2"B Storage in millons and decimals

of gallons.

1920 1981 Kowloon Main...... 858.88

Kontoon Byewash

Shek Lai Pui

Reservoir

Bhing Mun Recep

852.50

104.61

113.70 110.35

31.61 ·15.75.

Total

498,00 568.21 Consumption of water in Kowloon In millions and decimals of gallons during the month of November, 1981.

1980 1981 ** Commption

186.31 151.54 Estimated population 177,889 209,099 Consumption

172

hend per day k 25.3 Constant supply in all districte dur Ing November, 1980 and 1981

The reports of the Government Bac terlologlat and Analyst show that the quality of the water is satisfactory.

Total ratatali recorded by Royal Observatory from January 1, 1930. 10520; January 1, 1981, 76.84

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