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Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 8, 1914. any, were only academie.

HERE, THERE'

EVERYWHERE

|COUNTING THEIR CHICKENS

It is not merely naval, experts. that Japan has sent to England. ·

Three Japanese, poultry experts Have arrived to demonstrate a new method of determining the sex of a newly hatched chicken.

PRINCE OF WALES ON SAFARI

ADVENTURES WITH RIFLE

1.

AND CAMERA

IN HEART OF WILD AFRICA

(By Rene MacColl)

This method which' is of obvious importance to the farmer has been THEN the Prince of Wales tried in Japan for some time. It is shot his first "elephant in claimed to be infallible.

East Africa. It proved a disap-

had looked to him as long as the boom of a yacht

"Thed-but there, as far as

the Prince was concerned, the amatter. -ended For Pearson,

A trained "chicken toucher," it is pointment to him. He said that said, can deal with 10,000 chickens elephant shooting, was not

day. He makes more than £80 "one-man show," that it was too a month.

ensy and unexciting, and that it Canada, Australia and France was better fun altogether to film have all invited these experts to an elephant than kill one, give them practical tests:

TRAINING THE CHINESE .........

But comments Mr. Patrick Chalmers, "he way later to learn otherwise."

Nor was it a question of "learn-|- The Chinese should like Captaining otherwise" about elephants L.A. V. Morse, who has been alone. During the Prince's Afri- Fappointed head of the British-Naval can visita in 1928 and 1930—his Miastori whic. is to train the homeward Journey to the King's Chinese navy.

sick-bed intervened → a thrilling "Tony" Morse, who won the moment or so has been hinted at. {D.S.O. at the landing on Gallipoli, But, in a book published to-day, Is tall, athletic and good-looking. which has been compiled from the He is an expert at all those handy Prince's own private diaries jobs for which naval men are ("Sport and Travel in East famed. He has a son mouth.

with

声

some presence of mind, responsibility, with a terrific push of his, right, out of danger and backwards into the heart of. thorn bush. As HRH took the timber he heard the rifles rap- Stes one. three. shots that sounded as

"And when he stood up again the incident was over. This is what happened in the two sounds during which he had sprawled in the bush. The ele plant lowered bis trunk for business; Pearson and Salmon, snapshooting

at point-black runge, got three bullets into the great head....*

The attack was deflected. Pear- at Dart-Africa," by Patrick R. Chalmers; son put a fourth shot into the ele- Philip Allan, 12s 6d), we may now phant's shoulder. It ran another In the Chinese navy he will have read for the first time in detail of hundred yards-then dropped the rank of a commodore and will the extent and variety of the dead. (wear Chinese uniform. It is Prince's startlingly

similar to but heavier than the capes. British uniform. .In the British uniform the gold is sewn on to the blue serge. In the Chinese "the serge is fixed on to the gold.

Your Daily Smile!

The Woman (departing): "Now.

the influence of the League to zero was the impression that its decisions even when it did make Poland in the affair of Vilna don't bother to come any farther Italy by her bombardment of you'd have to get a platform ticket." fonia, Japan in Manchuria, show The Man (meaning well): "That's led that in their opinion academic all right. It's worth more than a pen-

decisions were not enough; and ny to see you off.". The offer by the British

in any case it had become clear Government to send a contingent that if decisions were to be so

Fido's Reply

"Intervention

xuard):

*

*

of regular troops to help in main-slow they would only come when Lady (handing dog over to railway taining order in the Saar is a big this case the decision has come dum Dinkle want oos dindums?" And the damage had been done. In his meale, I want you to say, 'Did- "Now, before you give him precedent which may have bis in time to affect the issue; the if he rawns, he's not quite ready." results. A couple of battalions policy of securing the execution

force: but even may not be a very imposing of treaty obligations is one that

all can understand and approve; Inquiring Schoolboy: "Daddy, what a corporal's

and the precedent of using inter- effect does the moon have on the guard is an important contingent national force to help the League tide?"

Dád (from the depths of his news-

* * * The Moon and the Tide

if it is known that it will be sup-in a difficulty is one that may paper): "Not any, son. The only ef ported should circumstances call have great extension. It will be feet it has is on the untied." for reinforcements. The whole recalled that it was the policy

approved by a swamping majori-

* * * The Recruit

Drill Sergeant:

of the Saar controversy is only ty at the recent Conference of another example of the. danger the Labour Party..when they re- rifle, and find out how to use it."

"Now, take this and convenience of conducting pealed their former decision to Recrult: "Tell me one thing. Is it diplomacy by means of Preas call a general strike rather than true that the harder I pull the trigger, propaganda. The date of the surrort any war whatsoever. It the farther the bullet will go?" plebiscite and all the necessary is a policy of preventive inocula- details were appointed so long tion against world wars which

ago' as 1919; it is quite clear that seem the only other alternative. "PURE RACES NEVER

the French Government is not. The new move is also of great only willing but anxious to get importance to England, and will the whole business completed in be certain to arouse lively argu- Jan orderly and legal manner; and ment. The présent attitude of

MUCH GOOD"

It is also clear that on second the ordinary man with whom Mr. Leonard Woolley's thoughts the other party to the rests the final control of these dispute has decided that nothing great matters is that under no is to be done by threats (clrcumstances should England

Deduction

parrow es-

"It had been, of course, the 'nearest shave imaginable. When the shots were fired the elephant was, by the tape, within sight feet of Pearson and Salmon. Twelve feet away was the bush. in which the Prince was spread- deagled. Had the éléphant not been turned he would undoubt- "All around the busb

edly have got one or other of the alive. Dozens of animale, great) party. And that would have and small, came down to drink. been another safari spoiled." They were harmless enough pro- They all sat down by the dead bably; but in the dark they were beast while the Prince, get the tea au_coward-making as so many basket and rather shakily made tex. Presently his Royal High- consciences.

Night By The River

An absorbing story' it makes. After the Prince had killed his firstį elephant in Uganda his party' had to find its way back to Kigoya in the dark

was

"Pearson replied, "No, sir, wo don't usually go assing about. arguing who is going to shoot the elephant'

I

"So the tired party, keeping as neas, handing a cup to Pearson,

torian Nile), yet near enough to far as might be from the croco asked if such a happening were dile-haunted banks (of the Vic-usual.

keep in touch with the guiding river, stumbled on for hour after darkhour. At luat they struck a road, and on It-how Cameras Scattered gladly they saw them were Later, in Kenya, the Prince; and some natives with lamps and three companiona found that a push-bikes sent out the a huge bull elephant, which they chance of being useful; An had been photographing, was ""de- hour later H. R. H. pedalled in-licately walking after them." They to camp."

decided on retreat, but at that mo- Following a day's rent the party ment the elephant trumpeted and started off again on safari, After charged. four miles of trek the spoor was found.. It pointed to a group of four elephants, and It was follow- ed up wind without difficulty for a mile. Then the procession halte

OB

The quarry was not a big ele- phant and he had but one tusk, due to accident, perhaps. The yards of him. shooters walked to within fifty

A Tusker's Charge

"He was on top of the cameras almost at once, and it appeared certain that one or another of the artists would be his meat. They separated and ran like rab- bits. It was a ridiculous aight. There was the high road 200 yards in front of them, and on it the safari-a-line of five im- portant cars and four lorries and here were four men, one the Heir to the Throne, running for their lives before an Irritated elephant, rapidly overtaking

them."

Just as the elephant, aquealing

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COTTON MILLS IN CHINA

and bluster such as were engage to protect anybody's MIXTURE NECESSARY. FOR ART: He seemed so "haystack easy" used at the big demonstration boundaries on the Continent, or

that the Prince and Mr. A. F on the frontier a few weeks ago.ally herself with any other The theory that a mixture of Lascelles began an argument as to The whole of the rest of what Power. if the effect of doing so races, is necessary for the produc-who was to have the doubtful with rage, was closing on Las- was only recently, a very ugly is to place in other men's hands tion of great art was advanced by honour. The Prince told La-celles, a quick shot from Finch- menace to peace is the result of the decision whether we are to Mr. Leonard. Woolley, the excavator celles, ahmost nut: load, that he Hafton sent him off. The four deliberate sensationalism outside fight or not. We have not yet of Ur of the Chaldees. He was de- the Prince) had already shot an fugitives stopped and tried to look of the area concerned and the finished paying for the last war. livering the second of a course of elephant, and that it had been as if they bad not been running. presence of a small international much less forgotten it. Eng-six lecture on "Ur and the Develop agreed that Lascelles should have force of British. Italian, and land has all to lose and nothing ment of Sumerian Art," arranged the next chance, to th Belgian troops will probably to gain by "any war in Europe; by the Institute of Archaeology at Lascelles, vehemently denying secure that the vote will pass off and in the Dominions the chance the Courtauld Institute of Art, any such arrangement and it quietly.

of being drawn into a needles London.

was clearly up to the Prince::tö? The deductions from the eas-war is even now the main weapon! Mr. Woolley argued that the great shoot firat He said a single- ing off of tension which has of those who are in favour of outburst of Mesopotamian "nation- tusker was a rarity. The Prince already occurred in Europe, and "cutting the painter." which will be much greater if all Downing Street is therefore in than 5,000 years ago, sprang from one eye clay bará

alfatic” art, which "bogan "more replied that so was 'amar” with goes well, are of great interest in a difficult position, for geography a mixture of three races one from At this moment the elephariti the discussion of the main pro alone, to say nothing of history central Asia, one from northern becoming suspicious, melted into blem of the day, the prevention and finance and commerce, forbid Syria, and one from Anatolia. of war. As against the extreme England to cut herself entirely "It fe at curious thing," he said, wounded game, whatever it mas the scenery." Now to: fölfŐNI UYG pacifist who is opposed to all adrift from Europe. When our that a pure, race never seems to be fa as a rule "about as danger- military forces, the incident ancestors acquired territory in be much good in the world, and a ous makes it clear that it would not a fit of absence of mind" all over

as walking R

According to statistics released be possible to manage every con- the world they did not anticipate poltical cries which we are now slowly on to the

queer contradiction of some of the partridge. The procession moved by the Ministry of Industries, there troversial decision by dropping a an age when telegraph and air-hearing from some other countries." Price in front with Capt with a total capital of $474,109,480 bush, the erg at present 136 Chinese and

foreign owned cotton mills in China. vote into a ballot box, unless craft would make distant inci-

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there was somewhere a police dents concern ne almost as close- The culmination of Mr. Woplley's Salmon, the Game Badgir of Ug- man and a soldier in the back-ly as if they had happened in our lecture was a slide showing an anda, and "Pete" Pearson, a hun-and H.K. Tla. 50,000,000 approxi- ground. One can only say that own backyard. But nonetheless | alabaster vase, a work of which any ter. "It was all very quiet and mately and a total of 232,761 work- men are made that way, and that they could not move" London out craftsman of any age might justly breathlessly hot THE governments have to deal with of the sphere men as they are, But there are affairs, and Londo other deductions which are not rt of the British quite so truistic, if we remember that an ounce of precedentis worth a ton of theory,

The first is that, putting aside

a few small incidents that are much less impressive than intervention in the interior Europe, this is the first example of the organisation of an inte national force to protect the reign of law. What sent down

have been proud. It showed, in "What happened. successive ttars of low relief, a pro- over almost before. cession of men bearing sacrificial

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