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venture which diplomatists calf "bluff." The bluff would have to.. be called. It would be too late then to save peace.

Compliment to Camels

Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 day, a lively debate on the Surrey Assizes heard the other

nature and legal category of All communications intended for Judge deciding that they are en- camels which ended with the publication should be addressed to titled to rank as domestic animals. the Editor, and be accompanied by The Court was considering the the Writer's Name and Address, case of a visitor to a Surrey zoo not necessarily for insertion but as who while picnicking beside the a guarantee of good faith.

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camels' enclosure fed one of them which leaned over with apples.. The camel took three apples without mishap, but on grabbing the fourth seized also his bene- factor's hand and badly mangled it. A lower Court had awarded the victim £800 damages against the proprietor of the zoo, and the

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1939. question whether this should be

THERE WILL BE NO WAR":

upheld produced considerable dif- ferences of expert opinion as to the temperament of camels in. general. It was, as might be ex- pected, a point on which several It is in the tradition of the witnesses who had served their "Daily Express" to play Sunshine country on Eastern fronts held Sally to the rest of Fleet Street decided views, for, whatever tri-- and too much attention should butes the British Tommy may pay not, perhaps, be taken of the to the utility of the camel, he symposium taken of its own cor seems to regard it in personal re- respondents, ten of whom pro-lationship with even more suspi- nounced the verdict, "There will cion than he does the mule. In be no war. It was the "Daily the camel's defence, however, a Express," it may be recalled, witness who had been a specialist which during the week before on camels to the Punjab Govern- Munich discreetly dropped from ment pointed out that its claim to its front page a box carrying the domestication is older than that same phrase, which had appeared of any other animal, and asserted. daily some time; and then restor that in general it is "without. ed it gallantly on Mr. Chamber Vice. The Judge agreed that it. lain's return.

must be classed as domestic, and There is, in fact, no-one

it therefore now. takes its place day, except possibly Herr Hitler with horses, dogs, cats, cattle, who can afford to, be dogmatic sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry as one way or the other. Danger entitled to one bite, irrespective lies in the mere marshalling of of the size that bite may be, be-- millions of men in arms. The fore it falls foul of the law. The moderation shown by the Dan-case will encourage a healthy zig Senate in its latest brush caution in the approach to camels..

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question is an important some- as to where domestication begins. thing to the placed on the other and ends. The elephant, for ins-- side. Again, it cannot be sug-tance, is a highly skilled and doc-- gested this time that Herr Hitler ile servant of man when properly has the slightest excuse for mis-trained. But would a normally understanding the mood of the well-behaved elephant that as-- British Government Mr. Chamsaulted a visitor to a zoo be able berlain's declaration on Danzig to throw itself on the mercy of may not have the effect of the Court as a first offender with ducing Hitler to abandon his a domestic tradition? policy of keeping Poland under

constant pressure, but it-

help to deter him from letting Picnics Streamlined his Danzigers loose on a which would bring war.

The "open" season for meals is: At the moment, the Nazi Re- now well advanced, and the sport. gional Leader of Danzig, Gauleiter of picnicking is being enthusias Forster, is at Berchtesgaden, re-tically pursued. At the same: ceiving his instructions, men are time, the public would seem to be drilling in the backyards of the coming to the conclusion, that, as Free City, the forces of National a recent editorial comment in Socialism are swelled by thou "The Times" put it, picnicking. sands of new comers, and while reaches its rarest heights of en- the Free City itself is calm, a joyment when it is a by-product, degree of tension in several capi- and not an end in itself tals and the reports from Prague, For the old-fashioned picnic, reflect the dangers which find a which was the grand climax of focal point in the Baltic port: the day which sprund its table

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