THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 13, 1938
News Snack Bar
VILLAGE FROM LAKE AGAIN UNDER WATER
One of the largest farms in the world now lies at the bottom of a lake in eastern North Carolina.
Some 15 years ago Lake Mattamuskeet, largest lake in the State, was drained in an effort to re- claim the 50,000 acres of rich farmland in the lake bed. A complete settlement was established a 23-room hotel, houses, barns, highways, bridges- and a "New Holland" rose where the lake had been.
A great four-master which went ashore on the Cornish coast in 1986, still lingers, for, despite the huge rollers which thunder over her, the "Herzogin Cecilie" still proudly stands up to them. As soon as next summer's weather permits it, workmen will break her up for scrap.
THOUGHT LOG WAS
A HUMAN LEG
RESET
It's the latest idea in sinking funds one of the huge tanks with which Switzerland is experimenting for war-time storage of food and petrol on the beds of her famous lakes, secure against enemy bom- bers.
The largest pumping station in the world was built to pump water out of the lake bed into Pamlico
FIRST APPEARANCE Sound. Large crops were planted DOWN IN DARKEST SURREY and the unusually fertile soil pro-
The. The chairman of the Surrey Edu-
Premier of Carpatho- duced bumper harvests. A total of cation Committee, emphasising at a Ukraine, otherwise known 48 $17,000,000 was
Dr. spent in a pro- London conference the many diffi- Ruthenia,
Voloshine, digious effort to reclaim the sub-culties in the way of education au- sworn into office yesterday at a merged land. Research men, en thorities wishing to use films in special meeting in Prague of the gineers, soil experts all co-operated schools, said: "We still have schools Federal and Provincial Govern-
in Surrey lit by lamps."
in the attempt.
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CATHEDRAL'S LOSS
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But the sea was not to be so easily thwarted. The great pump- ing system capable of removing a million and a quarter gallons of water a minute proved unequal to the task. of keeping out the sea.. Canon John Bernard Haldane, Water seeped in and covered the Provost of Southwark, Cathedral, crops a foot deep. Mud and silt first Church dignitary to hold such collected over everything. Water an office in London, has died in a stood in the lobby of the hotel. Plymouth nursing home. He was Homes and farms were silowly one of the few Churchmen to wear top hat and gaiters without hold- To-day Lake Mattamuskeet has re- ing the title of Bishop or Dean.'
The "New Hol- claimed its own. land" that was born of a rich man's dream is no more. Nothing re- mains of the vast attempt except a few deserted highways winding down into the lake.
inundated.
Lake Mattamuskeet is now a Fed- eral migratory wild-fowl refuge- the home of thousands of ducks and wild geese-and is stocked with an overabundant supply of bass and other fish.
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MERCY KILLER “INSANE"
To save the wife he had loved for forty years from suffering for the rest of her life, William Robin- son, sixty-two, of Station-terrace, Holwick, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, tied a noose around her neck and the Then he told strangled her. police.
A woman walking on the beach at Westcliff reported to the police that she had seen a human leg ly- His wife, Margaret, was paralys- ing on the mud near the edge of ed. the tide.
Durham This story was told at Detective officers were hurried to Assizes when Robinson was charged his the scene, but all they found at the with the "mercy murder" of spot indicated by the woman was wife, The jury returned a verdict a small log of wood, apparently of Guilty but insane, and Robinson used as dunnage in a ship, from was ordered to be detained during which the bark had been stripped. his Majesty's pleasure.
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SEA MONSTER MYSTERY
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MORE "APPEASEMENT"?
Czech guns, with other
heavy
Two men, trawling in the River Crouch at Hullbridge, pulled on equipment filched from the Eastern board what appeared to be a mon- Maginot Line, will now be trans- ster conger eel. It measured six ferred (report says) to the other feet, weighed 1001b. An expert, Maginot Line on the West. Mr. J, G. Bostock, has suggested it might be a seacow, dugong or manatee. It is still alive.
Manatee (sometimes called mer- man) is like a huge newt; without hind legs, can live out of water: Manatee is a native of South and Central America. Dugongs come from India and Northern Australia.
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A REVEALING REPORT
A form of Nemesis. France's. former allies are gone-deserted. Their guns are now turned towards France.
Is this a signal of "appeasement?"
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M. P. DUCHESS. SURPRISË.
Lads at the L.C.C. Nautical School at Rotherhithe, might al- most be at sen, so effective is their training apparatus. The lads are taught free in preparation for a seafaring life, and their training includes splicing, climbing masts, sailing, etc. They have their own breeches-buoy in the playground.
FOR THE SCRAPBOOK
Do It Now
A little too late, much too late. Dutch Proverb.
Anticipate Dig the well before you thirsty.-Chinese Proverb.
Power
can conquer who
The Executive Committee of Kinross and West Perth Unionist Association, at present represented Those in Parliament by the Duchess of they can,—Emerson. Atholl, have decided to look for.
for the next
The Commission which sat on another candidate the "Kyeena" disaster in Australia election. No name has as yet been has reported, and declares that put forward,
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even the most elementary precau A friend told the press that if it tions for safety had been neglect comes to the point the Duchess will ed. The Report calls for complete contest the seat without the support reorganisation of civil air services of the Association.
are
think
Everything Had a Beginning Whatever is now established was once innovation Sydney Smith.
Environment
A pearl is often hidden in an ugly shell-Chinese Proverb.
was
ments. Illness and prevented Dr. Voloshine from appearing -in political affairs Czechoslovakian earlier.
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QUEEN MAUD'S HORSES SHOT
One of Queen Maud of Norway's last requests was fulfilled in Oslo on Friday when a veterinary sur- geon shot four of her favourite rid- ing horses, all of them of an advanced age.
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SOUTH AFRICA
-EXPORTS LESS GOLD
At the end of September, South Africa had an export surplus for the current year of £2,000,000 as against £16,000,000 for the same period of 1937. The biggest de- cline
is in in imports
motor vehicles. The exports are down principally because less gold has. been sent overseas.*
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SHORT MEMORY
Poland, worried about the effect of autonomy in Ruthenia, has com- menced a propaganda campaign "chaotic describing
conditions" and "acute food shortages" in the area, the meantime making it clear that Poland does not intend to accept a "present" of autonomy demands from her own Ukrainian minority.
Poland which joined spiritedly in the "self-determination" chorus in September last finds speedy re- fuge in a short memory.
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