1940-11-20 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 20, 1940

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STUMPED

HONEY PHRASES THE KEAS

REPLACE JIBES AT THE SOVIET

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a spokesman of the Japanese foreign office who would invariably re- ply to all questions about Soviet Russia with a weary smile and the words, "In dealing with hysterical girls, it is necessary to employ great patience."

The here,

This was fairly mild, by comparison to other Ja- panese pronouncements about the Reds, writes the Tokyo correspondent of the Associated Press.

In October 1937, Baron General their conflicting interests. Sadao Araki, former minister of Germans, it is understood war, told the Associated Press are taking the lead in the prac that Bolshevism was "a religion tical aspects. The Japanese con- of beasts," described Russia as "a tribution is a food of edulcoration prison without walls," and said and cozening. Sapań probably would have to do something about the whole situa- tion.

Not long afterwards, a foreign office coinmunique described So-, viet actions against Japanese in Sakhalin as "utterly LIN- thinkable in any civilised coun- try,"

The Lushkov Case

The next year came the fam- ous Lushkov case. One sunny Ray the government produced a ent, curly haired little man and announced that he was

General

Ganerich Samoilovich Lushkov,

erstwhile commissar of the Far

Eastern Red army. The general, it was stated, had found life too of his status, and had fled across

hard in Russia, even for a man

the border into Manchukuo.

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"It is silly," said a Japanese diplomat recently, "for two po- tential friends to squabble for an obscure corner of Asia."

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What is described as "Strangers' Guide

Some Zoo birds have such destructive beaks that they keep the repairs department constant- ly busy. Woodpeckers, budgeri gars and cockatoos are persis- tent offenders,

Worst of all are the keas. Three of these olive-green sheep-killing parrots have been living at the

parrot house since their arrival last year from South Island, New | Zealand, and though they have

only short, curved beaks, they do an incredible amount of damage.

Sometimes they chew their. cagtwires until the whole area has to be rewired. Sometimes they batter their 'metting-boxes until : the woodwork becomes unserviceable.

More recently, the keas attacked the door leading to their sleeping quarters, and played such havoc with the woodwork there that they could no longer be shut in at night.

Now, the keepers have thought of a way out of their difficulties.

In the keas' cage they have placed several tree-stumps, well furnished with bark.

Of course, the keas don't know it, but there / tree-stumps · have been provided specially for them to ruin. And ruin them they. dol

Every now and then the birds' make a "dead set" at one of the stumps and peck away at it till they have stripped off all the bark and damaged much of the wood behind. Then they forgather a on one of their perches and con- template their handiwork or to "beakwork”—with evident satis-

faction.

As a rule they are not left long

Flak'" has been prepar- ed by Air Ministry ex-to enjoy their triumph; for the remove the damaged perts. "Flak" means anti-keepers aircraft fire, and is deriv-stump and replace it with a new ed from the initial letters of "Flieger Abwehr Kan- which gun one"-the drives off raiders. The

MONARCHY IN FRANCE?

Photographed, interviewed, newsreeled, he became Japan's Exhibit A in the case against the Soviets. Came 1939, and another crisis when Russia auctioned off-pre-

her sumably to

own buyers-- Japanese fishing concessions. word "Flak" is probably Unconfirmed reports circulating Japanese warships went foaming used in every Bomber in the Italian court were to the through northern waters, cleared fer action. A retired army officer Command pilot's report were working for the restoration

Usually the report deals sent, says after a raid on Germany. of the monarchy in

were seeking Adolf Hitler's con- with its presence; occa- despatch from Rome. sionally with its absence from some target area:

growled, "Give

and I will settle this Sakhalin me one division

problem, once and for all." ~

Meanwhile, in each of these three years, Japan and Russia had fought miniature but full-dress wars on the Amur river, on the Korean border, and in Mongolia.

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But to-day, there has been ล surprising flip-flop Japan.

The guide deals, in convenient form, with the range, calibre, Japan's Flip-Flop weight, and type of shell, and This is a bare thumb-nail-out-rate of fire. There are two prin- line of the Japanese attitude to-cipal kinds of "Flak"-light and ward Russia, until recently. The heavy The former is from guns two nations were perennially in a of calibres between in, and 2in. of the shell in- situation short of war, and fre- and the weight

creases from under half a pound to quently not very short of it.

3 1-3lb. The rate of fire decreases as the range, weight, and calibre of the shell increases. The Ger-

for example, fires The Soviets no longer are "hys-man 20mm.. terical girls." They are "our about 160 rounds a minute up to 7,000ft., while the 47mm, gun fires Japanese northern neighbours."

25 rounds a minute to a height, travellers no longer describe starving masses of Russion pea of more than three miles.

Light "Flak" fire tracer shells sants, begging along the trans-

which burst on impact and have Siberian railways. There are

that self-destroying detonators; no more fulminations in Japanese

is to say, they explode in the air newspapers, no more demonstra- tions in front of the Soviet em- even if they miss the target, and, drop back on Heavy bassy, no more Soviet automobiles therefore, cannot crowded into the curb by patriotic the ground and explode.

"Flak" do not fire tracers. They Japanese taxi-drivers.

On the contrary, Japan is pay-Are, time-fuse shells, and range gun, throwing ing ardent courtship to the So- from the 75mm. viets, plunking the diplomatic shells to 20,000ft. at the rate of guitar under Moscow's windows 15 a minute, to the 105mm., fir- and breathing honeyed words of ing 10 32-pounder shells a minute

up to 30,00ort.. love,

To-day, more than ever before, Russia is the big factor in Japan's foreign problem. Japan is now "Lied in with Germany and Italy, pledged to fight for them against any new belligerents in the European war. This means, par ticularly, the United States.

Those Northern Frontiers

But to do that, Japan's northern frontiers must be guaranteed. She cannot afford to throw her, mill-

At night or in cloud Are can be directed by sound locators, but this method is naturally less ac curate than visual shooting. Our own anti-aircraft batteries have suns equal to and even botter, than those of the Germans," and during the recent large-scale raids our gunners have obtained an en- couraging number of successes.

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effect that French monarchists

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The pilot red the notice, dived and shattered the warning with his bombs!

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