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SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

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10th Nov.

Monday,

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934

TWO-YEAR SEARCH

FOR LOCUSTS

Man Who Wanted To Gas Them

POISON CLOUDS, BUT NO SWARMS

Over two years ago a man de- vised for locusts a peculiarly pain- ful form of death.

Much of the intervening time he has spent in a vain search of locust swarms to Aftien for.

! of locusta caused millions of pounds' worth of damage during that period-buti they never stayed stil long

eliminate. Plagues

enough to be killed.

At last the man tracked a small swarm to Broken Hill, Northern. Rhodesia, and prepared to spray it with paison dust from the safe elevation of an aeroplane.

--

Then the aeroplane incapacitated itself against its own hangar,

But the last laugh is ugainat the Renewed experiments locusts.

LIVERPOOL, via Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus. Genoa have proved "efinitely promis-

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS Rio De Janeiro Maru

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Montevideo Maru

ing,"

"Dead Or Very II"'

Such, in brief, is the tale of perseverance rewarded which may be read in the austere sheets of the sixth report of the Committee on Locust Control,

The locust slayer is Mr. H. H. King, who worked out the system when Government entomologist atj Khartoum. He worked, subsequent- ly for the committee.

Mr. King and his staff at Khar- toum caught .locusts, hung them from a wire, induced them to flut- ter and sprayed them with pow- dered sodium arsenite.

"Within two hours the locusts were usually either dead or very within 24 ill. All were dead hours,"

The next problem was to make big clouds of sodium arsenite and Tuet them to the locust swarms. Experiments were made by the Air

9th Nov. Force with fresh chalk, discharged: from aeroplanes by compressed air. The apparatus worked.

Sat. Sat...

24th Nov.

Nov.

22nd Dec.

NEW YORK via Japan, Los Hekkai Maru

Sat.,

27th Oct.

Angeles and Panama. Call Kinai Maru

Fri.,

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Colombia, Boaton Philadel- 1

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5th Dec.

Disappearances

Survivors of the fire-raked hair, Morro Castle are shown in the William Price lounge of the rescue ship, Monarch of Bermuda.

(above) stretched out on a couch, was reported to have lost his wife and two daughters; Herman Torboro, (bottom, left) is shown in an exhausted state; Miss Sadle Wald (bottom, right), is pictured

being treated by the ship's nurse.

Eater Of Lions' Hearts

(Continued from Page 9)

er and heaved himself into the bran ches of a tree A moment later,

Then the minimum lethal dose Very carefully, at last, he covered not two hundred yards oway, the was worked out by experts. Three the small dead dog with leaves and elephant stampeded, by with loud

Then he blasts and trumpetings. tons of sodium arsenite were ob-hastily plucked twigs,

.

For some time, up there among tained after some difficulty in a rose to his feet and began to pick finely divided state, ready for use. his way through the undergrowth the branches of the tree, the man He began to retrace 5th Nov. Meanwhile the locusts in Kenya like a great beast of the jungle, remained very still. Then he clam-

and Northern Rhodesis ate and secretly, stealthily trailing its prey. bered down. ate, and theatened to become, un-All human feeling had been driven his steps; he must find his gun temporarily from Petrus Jaarsveld's where he had dropped it. In the un- The minutes slipped manageable.

Kenya was selected for the first soul. Now his whole being burned dergrowth. trial, to be undertaken in August, in the conflagration of, only one by. He, who knew the jungle white, glowing as a man knows the palms of his 1933. Everything was ready ex-emotion-anger;

hands, could find neither his gun cept the locusts. Inexplicably they anger. had vanished.

.

Like a god of vengeance he nor the trail of the leopard. The The committee was undiamay-hastened onward to exterminate and mad rush of the elephant had done ed. Broken Hill, in Northern forever destroy the beast that had its work, Rhodesia, should provide better killed the thing

he loved.

The Slace, without his gun, it was

5th Nov. sport in December. Alb arrauge- leopard, as if sensing the strength useless to try to pick up the trafl ments were made. Again the and will and determination of this of the leopard, Petrus Jaarsveld,

vanished. "Such as: locusts had were still on the wing were either enemy that trailed after him with after much searching, decided to re- murderous tenacity, slunk further turn to the spot where he had left very heavy with eggs or dying of and further into the dense strong-the body of his dog. He wanted to He was hun-take it back with him to the camp. holds of the jungle. senility."

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Amoy

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Sun.,

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1st Nov. 20th Nov.

28th Oct.

11th Nov.

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Sun.,

1st Nov. 4th Nov.

28th Oct.

summer.

AMOY

JAPAN PORTS

Juyo Maru Direct call at Bhavnagar, and Bldebunder.

The new offensive was begun in gry, but for the time hunger must And now, unarmed, he made his way April, 1984; and after the unfor wait to be satisfied. When he had through the jungle, his eyes watch- (no sailing) tunate incident of the aeroplane, shaken off this relentless two-legged ful, his ears tuned to every sound. He had been walking a long time. arrived at its final success in the enemy, then he would go back by

circuitous ways to the clump of His reason told him that he must foliage where he had slaughtered be quite near to the clump of un- the small white creature for his dergrowth where his dog was killed, yet he could find no trace either of meal,

his own tracks or the leopard's trail. (Continued on Page 11),

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for him. Long thick cables of par-1 ployment to 100 men.

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