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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937

the China Mail

Ninety-irst Year of Publicath

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Notice To Contributors.

SORRY TO LEAVE Here

RAF BUT

New Governor Is No Grouser

"THESE THINGS HAPPEN IN THE SERVICE"

There and

Everywhere.

SYDNEY-SMITH'S HEAVEN

Air Chief Marshal. Sir Robert |

A year and a half ago extracts Inspector-Gen-were quoted from "The Lighter All communications intended for Brooke-Popham, publication should be addressed to feral of the RA.F. shook hands

WAR ON THE RABBIT

AUSTRALIA DESPAIRS OF VICTORY

Duty Paid the Editor, and be necompassed by cheerful to-day when congrata-Side of Local Government, by I

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the Writer's Name and Address lated or his new appointment as not necessarily for, insertion, but Governor of Kenya, writes

Home correspondent sa a guarantee of good faith

Then be stuck his hands into his trouser pockets and said, more to himself than to me, "Of course,

Subscription Extes.

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IF you want to learn how from a sheep run at a cost of 6 whale continent is imperilled pence an acre, which seems low Mr. C. Kent Wright, the Town by a fastbreeding animal, read enough. Glerk of Stoke Newington, which David G. Stead's "The Rabbit of But the sheep herders are not apparently appealed to the public Australia." The rat, the English convinced. Neither is the Coun- Mr. Kent Wright has produced sparrow, are harmless pests comcil of Scientific and Industrial anthology, "Speakingpared with the rabbit. Something| Research of Melbourne. another after Dinner.” which seems of its productivity can be gather-¡ studying the sad condition of these things do happen in the contain practically every joke theed from the fact that two dozen South Australia that body com- after-dinner, speaker could pos-wild ones placed on a Geelong cluded recently that it is impos- Service."

Now Sir Rob is the last man sibly need.

in 1839-mat Geelong are sible to exterminate the rabbit. Sir Seymour Hicks figures in it the plains which form the greater though there is hope of checking in the world to grouse.. He is

Australia-had in six the spread of the pest It now most keen to go to Kenya, but he with his aphorism on the subject part of

to about 30,000, costs £1,000,000 a year for con- Hong Kong. Tuesday, January 5, 1937 would have like to see the daffodils of alcohol and after-dinner speak years increased

of which 20,000 were killeda Ful-¦trol-just about the amount come up at Cottisford, because being:

Only a genius can sparkle only three-quarters of Australia is brought in by the export of rab- has only just arrived there.

water, and if he is one he doesn't)now overran.

bit skins and frozen rabbits. But try to.

Both rabbit and sheep eat the the loss in ruined pastures and same food. But the rabbit lowered output of wool amounts

One Year

6 Months

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3 Months

NEW MENACE ÎN

SPAIN

The pessimist can find plenty of scope and justification for despair psychosis in the newest developments in Spain and Spanish waters.

Just Moved In Anticipating well-earned retire- ment. Sir Robert bought Cottisford Hall, and he and Lady Brooke- Popham have just moved in.

After three weeks' work

the

place is not nearly straight.

Sir Robert surveyed the scene in

estate

There is another:

My idea of heaven is eating selects the finer and richer grass to a hundred times as much, foie gras the sound of trum- and crops more closely. In al pets,

drought it always wins the Hardly the idea one would ex-struggle for existence. The sheep

pect of a clergyman. But then die first enough rabbits remain COLOURED ACTORS' the clergyman was Sydney Smithto propagate their kind.

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GOTHA CUTS OUT HAILE

SELASSIE

£125 A WEEK

AGENCY WINS CLAIM

The salary of two coloured the wind American stage artists, playing as.

The fox was introduced. He

at Westminster County Court, last month. when they were sued killed more lambs and chickens by Forsters' Agency, of Piccadilly Artificially intro- Cirens, W. for £26 10s as com-

SEAL

The defence was that Harris con- sidered the agency had not given

One of the commoner sheep fodders is Germany pursues what may silence.

the mulga scrub, which grows in fairly be described as punitive

Then, smilingly.. he said: "Fe

dense thickets. The leaves are measures in an effort to exact shall just get straight in time to

In fact Isatisfaction in the Palos incl- begin to pack again, and as for the! A photograph of ex-King Ed-relished by the sheep. ident and in a situation where garden, well-I shall see it someward in admiral's uniform is the they are its mainstay in a drought

ideological antipathies are mu-day. I hope.

frontispiece to the 1937 editions of But rabbits eat the mulga seed- tual and intense, as well as un The first letter I opened after the "Gothaischer Hofkalendar," thellings and ring the bushes. When concealed. it would be both fuwe got here was the one suggest-German version of the Almanach; the ground is bare tile and foolish to deny the ing I might like to take on this de Gotha. This, the 174th edition, sweeps away the top soil and re- Harris and Howe, was discussed gravity of the crisis.

job as Governor. Strange wasn't has just been issued by its tradi-duces all to a desert. The British Government."

tional pulfishers. Justus Perthes. having striven so persistently

Sorry To Leave R.A.F. of Gotha and with 'no small degree of

The editors have decided to than rabbits. "By the way, I hope it's all right surcess hitherto, to limit out! side interference in the Spanish talking to you," he asked, with follow the example of the German duced epidemies could not clear mission.

King the vast areas affected. "I am still a Government and recognise internal feud, mar well feel it parent anxiety.

Control Measures to be ironical that the first real serving officer, you know, and we Victor Emmanuel as Emperor of

Abyssinia The former imperial] Control was tried. The govern-sufficient care to obtaining engage- peril of a clash should occur at are supposed to be dumb.”

I assured him that the advant- family of Ethiopia is now altogement put up over 6,000 miles of ments, and that the contract with this time, just as a substantial

wire fencing. There were fences Fosters, as sole agents, had been achievement has been chalked ages of conversation were permitt-ther emitted.

Another interesting innovation within fences. Thus

the brokem up on the credit side.

ed to governor-designate. Agreement between Britain and Italy on Mediterranean in RA.F.," Sir Robert said, terests, carrying with it the shall be sorry about that.

| Nazi organisations. as the storm to be expensive. clearest assurances that Italy have had a fair innings.

officer troops, the protective guards, and both the rabbits "I have served as 20 has no intention of taking any

else in the the motor corps, in which the Duke beneficial animals. Carbon dis-later he told Harris that he con- step likely to disturb the longer than anyone

of Sachsen Coburg und Gotha is a Julphide and carbon monoxide had sidered it too much. Harris re- status quo in the Western Medi- RA.F. I am proud of that.

only a brief effect when turned fused to consider working at £90 s terranean appears, on the sur- "Before I go to Kerys I shall high of

The mystic Jetters B.A.G. into burrows.

week face, to be relatively impor- jhave completed 25 years of dying.

Adelsgenossenschaft) "Early An: 1911 I was seconded (Deutsche

Stead recommends cyanogas, a' Later he heard that Harris had tant when considered alongside

the Oxford-indicate that the fortunate scion calcium cyanide in dust form. booked with other agents to ap- the more dramatic activities of from my regiment,

with water in pear at £80 to £90 a week. the Koenigsberg and the Graf shire Light Infantry to the Royal of a noble house who is entitled when moistened von Spee. It is not, however, Engineers, for service in the new to place them after his name is the ground it generates hydro- Harris, giving evidence, said that outside the bounds of possibi- air battalion--that was the begin-of pure "Aryan" descent and mar cyanic acid gas, the most deadly he had no recollection of refus-

ried to an "Aryan.”

fumigant known. The compounding to work for £90. {lity that the pact's existence ning of the RAF

Prince Bernhard zur Lippe- takes a day to decomposé after a Judge Dumas, giving judgment will have an ameliorating effect "I am the only officer left; I

think that there are three men still Biesterfeld, the fance of Princess few puffs have been introduced for the agency, said that he did jon the situation.

Juliana of Holland, is included as into a warren and the entrance not think that Fosters had been Germany may feel that she serving. Flying Then

a member of the

incely house of has been closed. Stead claims neglecting the interests of the has been gravely provoked andį

Lippe.

that rabbits ci thus be cleared Ipair. yet be unprepared to force mat- "Queer things acroplanes,

Just a little wicker Children's Dept. ters to a disastrous conclusion those days.

now that Italy's interest in the seat, a horizontal bar, and a con- outcome of the battle for Ma-trol arm. drid has become mainly aca- demic.

"I shall have to retire from the is that for the first time members spread of the rabbits fought, not Mr. George Foster said that

"and of German families are requested too successfully. Sam, Ito give details of their rank in such

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"Still, it was fun flying then, though we were always having engine trouble.

The beauty of it was that, whenever anything did happen,

Chang Esneh-liang has been you got down so easily." granted a pardon but is to be) Sir Robert has had more than placed under "strict surveil-his share of "adventures,” parti- But I lance" by the Military Affairs cularly during the war. Commission

must spare his blushes.. Anyone capable of defining "All being well, I shall fly to exactly what the effect of this Kenya in March next, and hope to official decree is likely to be, do some fiying there as well.”

new Gov- could safely be trusted to pre- Kenya will like her dict the course of Chinese poh-nor just as much as the RAF. tics for the next twelve months will regret losing such a likeable Interest in the decision lies man, such an efficient officer as Sir chiefly in its apparent confirma- Robert Brooke-Popham. tion of the official claim that the Young Marshal's release of the Generalissimo had no con-

than {ditions appended, other

perhaps, General Chiang Kai- shek's personal promise that During the Territorials annual bis detention would be regard-camp an officer was giving a lesson jed as an error of judgment, in judging distance to a troup of

After several men committed in a moment of im- recruits,

ziven the estimated distance of sun- pulse.

one of the dry objects he spotted corporals obviously dozing. So-

"Corporal M, how far away would you say that windmill is?" he said,

Corporal L, recovering speedily from his day dream, replied un- hesitatingly: "I dunno abaht a top- Scientists have now discover-peny bus ride, sir." led how to produce gold from

platinum.

And of the obvious fact that China remains for ever China.

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Fish Story

Am I my

"Is the ish man here to day?" "How shad I know. brother's kipper?"

No, but I've been herring things more about you”

ig

The disappointing feature toj them though probably not for the rest of the world' that platinum is much scarce a metai than gold.

After the frantic business of going off the gold standard, it would be a pity if all the z- tions had now to get on a pla- tinum standard and then, one by one, off it again.

At the same time, if scien- tists can make gold from pla- Phonetinum, perhaps they will soon 33122 be able to supply us with mar

garine made from butter. Then we shall be ready for the next

"Yek, that's the halibut" "Yes, sir; salmon's been talking about you"

"Did I clam they weren't?" "Pike cod, I octopus your face in." "I call my father and chase you out of here."

"Trout him out, I'm not afraid." "Whale I'd better go then."

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Host: There are my grandma's ashes over there.

Guest: 0, so the poor soul has passed on?

Host: No, she's just too lazy to look for the ash tray.

Harris and Howe mme from digging proved America to the London Palladium Poisons killed at £125 a week He was able to and the more get other dates at that figure, but

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