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NOTICE TO MEMBERS ELEVENTH RACE MEETING

Monday 13th and Saturday 18th Novombor, 1950- The first bell will be rung at 11.30 am, and the first race will be run at 12.00 Noon on the 1st day. On the 2nd Day the first, bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m. The Tiffin Interval is after the fourth race (1.30 p.m.), on the 1st Day,

There are 10 races on the 1st Day and 8 races on the 2nd Day. (18 in all).

may be obtained at the Through tickets at $36.00 each Compradore Office of the Treasurers, 1st floor, Telephone House, also tickets for the Cash Sweep on the last race of the Meeting as well as the Special Cash Sweep on the "Pearce Memorial Cup" scheduled to be run on 28th February, 1951.

To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House,

their non-members

to purchase requested tickets at the Club's Branch offices at:----

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5. D'Arullar Street, Hong Kong

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Is Another World Watching Us?.

SCIENCE BEES'

certain had most entomologists become that all insects were incapable of anything that we would call conscious ness, that J. Loeb, who was, one of the 40 years ago,

felt great entomologists, that it was unwise to speak Coven of instinct.

to

Race memory if that was what iristinct was being taken mean, was altogether tou roman- tic a term.

word

He popularised for describing

tho behaviour insect

turns "tropism.". The Insect toward its food-the pollen for carrion for the the bee, the

carrion. fly-because compulsorily. drawn

It is uncon-

U

such capes were algnals,

Fortunately,

many

the one subject they discuss is a simple one: the hang of all their conversation is honey. That is the master clue. The actual signs and signole, which the discoverer of the bro bee- language has noticed, catalogued, And Interpreted. keepers had noticed before. Any one who keeps a hive can,

Every now and then when a comes into the foraging ber

of unloading at hive, instead

nectar or pollen, it once its fusses about, Adgets, quivers, and circles aimlessly.

Chapter 11

DISCOVERS INTELLIGENCE

...

to "go out of your way for in-

exhausting to dy overl

That this is real thinking and exchange of Information cannot any longer be doubted,

Amazing eyes

another, they couldn't sea, that must abandon all these simpler, actually gives her climate, not might be able to act as invalu- may be plenty underground on Join sturtling explanations. (as we used to imagino she able translators and interpreters Mari: and the bee masters of a still the planet may have learned Bugar cactics always flow) "in a boy line, but when and if "been" of Ho placed his

advanced breed might what we are soon hoping to making allowances for the actual more

learn, and the eucalyptus tree miles from the hives and yet the distanco flown when you have swarms upon us.

them.

Our bets might help to bridge has already learned to dote water needed by bees want straight for

condensing moist air, and mak There could be no doubt they stance, ip, order to round a hill the

which it would he needlessly "oth between us and those get all the

They could Indicate to them ing the drops run down into the must have been given exact in- formation.

that in spile of our unprepos- ground. 'sessing appearance, our lack of shot-with-violence, that we are method and order, our laziness- not really or wholly creatures of

Finally, we must add, some- blind instinct, but capable, treated kindly, and not fright thing further. We have seen that bees have amazing eyes as med into

well as wonderful power of reanonabin When we consider (1) the re-

quite probably ne At last he got the hang of it.

hearing, Their cense-equip- terest and security, but also of ment is better than ours,

their Across the circle that she had calling by the bee on the dis- seeing things from our own incent and

energy, aiza for size, is described, she was now pacing tance she has travelled; out a bisecting line. It wasn't (i) the calculations of direc- something approaching at times

to dotached curiosity. at all easy to recognise this. For tion she must make, by estab-

of "A truce to your fooling and much greater.

Their eyes alone are a won- speculation" eries, the der. For not only can they gee. traditional Naturalist, "Go back polarised light and the polaris-

ed

Ile therefore noted with in- creasing care every movement of the capering bee on its return from finding a cache. First it milled round-li described a was followed circle. But that by a more confusing behaviour.

Useful

lesson

Insane

(HI) the transposition of the to the bees!" map in her mind (the actual of the countryside),

not only of and of

as

Lightings made by such

Her whole body waggled and picture

any which is, of course, horizon; Plan and design Vie

No

beer

which he was a specialist. in country where there were no Great discovery drawer

That was

map-

a marvellous perfec- are striking.

Further, their eyes sur ass

Queer capers when the bee so performed, she lishing the triple position Von Frisch noticed that the appeared to be excited that hive, sun, and, cache

the performance semed more a

can also see by ultro just as iron bees which were around didn't lipsy dance than a steady piece sciously drawn,

Impatient or in-

of measuring. fillings are drawn to a magnet seem either

On

They can see up into wave secmod at-

squirmed.

wonder

the the vertical plane of

We can Bay the following lengths to which our clumsier That was the standard faith, different to this display.

Wo can of this trick to and what

T10 former observers

hive-comb then

things are clear about the bees, eyes are blind. It has been And then, after the Brat world the contrary they

fusa lo believe that. they apparently

had dismissed the whole thing

longer refuse war Dr K. von Frisch, an Aus- tentively interested entomologist of high was more,

as aimless excitement

beas talk, becs draw maps and They have built up their amar found that they can respond to trian

ing economy over millions of many flowers that seem to un to publish learned something and acted on

read what a enn

years there is evidence of plan dull and unnoticeable. Seen by light these blossom. ultra-violet standing; began

sketches

certainly design. I has behaviour in it on bee paper's

Von Frisch had put his hives

is u complete revolution in and produced irrefragable other bee-keepers.

Von Frisch's great discovery all our former notion of what IIc

because it is that, and ours in another respect. As Ausk bc. other the first accessary step, confirmed by

"runs itself," as we say of a comes on, though we can evidence,

The second, equally necessary, lay in recognising that in all an insect's consciousness could

re- perfectly planned business, that an observers, that bees do think,

constantly was to mark cach separate bee this pirouetting there was the possibly there must then ain one most disturbing

not mean that the bees "night-sight"-when we se and

and can

It not only is dim but even when In brief he has proved, and also most exciting question. mind has stopped thinking, exchange thoughts, consciously with a small spot of distinctive most precise pointing.

We cannot, and must not as the sky is only dusk all objects. and constantly make plans and paint.

Then as soon as he began to convinced other entomologists, bees can, talk and do exchange the circle, is business, would it not be pos-

from

the beginning. It of all tint. This revolutionary fact must suspect that the bees were ac- that the bec, when drawing this detailed information about their cume that bees had their lon- appear to us colourless drained

diagonal across communicating, actually iually

bees the sible to discover whether they guage

must have sprung up as ours faced: bees now be

the only subject giving the onlooking

lles the over talk about other things?

did from the pressing needs of about direction in which They continually con- guessed that speak.

they would talk

a close community life. Verse with each other. As clearly that

or the raw cache.

les la a If the food-place as lip-readers carry on conversa would be honey,

the hive tion so can and does the honey material for it. So he placed, at

various distances from the hive, straight line between

and the sun then the bee paces bec,

If the caches of sugar.

straight up the comb.

lies straight away

straight behind the kive, then she from the sun when the sun is Baces straight down the comb.

do

compare information.

he

He found quickly that it was

Sign language always be that had found sugar mine

As plainly and definitely as we draw sketches and plans to direct cach other (so as to find a street nr house) so do these insects.

This, the most startling and ever made about insects has only come to light since 1940.

amazing that It may seem bees, which have been kept by man for millennis, should have been able to pass as dumb for so long. But when we look into the mystery we see why their secret was ill now overlooked.

cut straightway such a dump that, on her return to her hive, these queer capers,

Further, those bees that saw after a her and watched her, few moments rushed out of the hive. And they were discovered hidden to go, straight for the treasure.

Measuring

Of course this could still be explained away as the pioneer's 19 clation exciting the others, who, The bees' sign-language laborate. Because it is so ad- seeing that she was loaded with first had vanced and complex it so long loot, rushed out, and by huck lit

on the deposit escaped detection.

So, though plenty of people, located.

But year by year experiment generation by generation, bad

to signalling one convinced von Frisch that he bees

scen

Evil

A the

himcolt”

La

the

is the word

The book sets out to

as great 4

If the cache is to right or left of the line made by the sun and the hive, she indicates on which side and at what angle, by the slant at which she cuts across the circle she has described.

But how does she know where the sun is when it is overcast, or when from the hive she can only see a narrow glimpse of the eky? That led to a further dis- covery, The bee, it appears, can seo polarised light. mosphere polarises the sunlight

a little.

The at

Some people have eyes that permit them to see this "effect," The bee sees these "streakings" across the sky and from them as we should do from the beams of a searchlight-she estimates where the sun actually is.

Super find

By:

but

T

ancient form of sight."

Space

ships

Maps, charts, logs, and all All cats are not only grey in

the gear of exploration grow as the dark as the French motto men have to find their ways in says they are roy consider- to unknown countries and open ably before. But that is not so routes to bring back distant with the bees. As long us they products. Now bean

should not insects on that in- truly as we in GERALD

HEARD

plan For example, do they

are being attacked by their many enemies defences when they

the badger sometimes laun- ches an attack on them; ants are their enemies; some birds, such as the wood-pecker, are not out for their honey-which every creature loves but likes to eat them

is

The skunk will sit under à

Go-betweens

The

It wo our

If the bees with us have can recognise the object at all, growing in mind, why as long as there is any light to

see it, they

it coloured as light see it, sect world of Marso much When we take of those eyes wonder whether

more ancient than ours-have -assume that this must be so.

to

59 Sull

gone ahead? We should indeed we bestemor aircruisers with

Time-spans

Maybe they have had a world

those

their baleful glare would really a bee-pilot as inconvenience severely Jas weak-eyed humans?

One

beeg ere

It would us poor

further argument must

all to themselves. Certainly they be met. It runs; you said that limited in their size, have had geological time-spanis more than the bees here have and even on Mars (where things that are smaller many count for enjoyed.

more because the pull of gravity us, even is so far less than with But it may be said: They have only mosses and lichens--brais- there, how could such minutise lichen have built a fleet of space ships ed moss for brealdast,

ce and brought them across-when

one of them may be a thousand -- But these

fect across? vegetables strange for lunch, perhaps dried tipede for supper, what's diet! wonderful as those extreme de Skill and force

Bucculents, may have flowers as strange and sert adaptation, the actually have. The succulents

of in arid

course, termites have succeeded in living

that are sometimes as regions where heat and lack of cities

a space water make a veritable Mars high as a small house. But when must remember two make many plants wilt for ship could be built by a super-

bɛe wo and keen cold at night would we thinks of whether

bees have specialised things,

First, they aro immensely their diet even

pure

As to the lack of abundant water-small creatures

mot

would

need our supplies: there

(World Copyright London Express Service).

(MORE, TOMORROW)

bulld

hive, and if the alighting-board

low, go on licking up the en tering bees (wrapping them in But why, if she is being go in his sticky milya so they can't LGER HISS was one of Acheson, President Truman's

publicly telligent, so precisely informa, sting his larost or mouth) unti

deplete a whole hive. most important Secretary of State,

reaffirmed his faith in Hies.

live in giving the line and he will civil servants in the United

Now that I have read "Seeds pointer to reach the food-place, To all these enemies they try The

the whole and make counter-attacks, and

here on our still States. He sat with Roose of Treason," which drags out must she confuse

every fat or insinuation which thing. by such waggling and when the hive itself is assaulted triumphantly ingging planet ahead of the bees hero-er, any

tactics

of velt and Stalin at Yalta.

sugar hive, even at its level with us, could be made to tell against squirming that till now no one they show the power of co-so that they live entirely on insect. And when we study the

energy

vith- it la a pretty amazing piece of suspected that she was conveying ordinated strategy and

that

one would expect of intelli- the

strengthened with some

skill. Yet, on January 24 of Hiss, I am still unconvinced.

warn

Certainly not exact bearings?.

mins from the flowers,

The second thing we mustv this year, Alger Hiss was Americans - and Britons

eliouldn't we come, in

On Mars, they may have re. Then surely, concluded von sent to prison for five years against the treason of Commun- to keep us in the dark. on a conviction for perjury.. ism in their midst.

exchange, signals? It would be a hoping to do, by making a syn- you have akill you can reduce It warned me, as I hope itrisch, if the bee is so unwaver, Lime, and by, perseverance, to teased sugar, as we are already not forget. Is that, as soon as

ingly efficient a worker, such a

the atom. It was said that throughout

chlorophyll now docs, ably stands through every prob- his public life he had been a will warn you, of another evil persistently rational creature, she greater discovery than breaking thetic substance that will do, force. In fact, the formals, the It might, as we shall be seeing with water, air and sunlight, more skill the les force, prob- would not be wasting time and energy and risk confusing her in moment, prove to be the what secret member of the Commun- which is at least

and of course able to make, L informees unlesy there were most useful lesson we could making the basle food, sugar, lem of manipulation. 1st Parly and that, through the menace to democracy,

take in a foreign language.

required, starch too. years, he had passed a stream

In the United States today an method in her mimic. of State documents and other

And here von Frisch came ofcial organisation known as information to Soviet Russia.

His main accuser was White Red Channels publishes a pro- upon his super find. For, where- scribed list of people as her circling and diagonalling taker Chambers,

whose political am-

gave the direction line to her on-

question arises: had who

way she wobbled could get in touch with liations, are suspect. Lookers, the boca n

Anyong whose and squirmed as she went up becs, might not our power to

to views are

and down that line gave the dia-

communicate with them or at left of Sir Waldron Lance away at which the store feast their sense that we are

sensible, r find

"communicable," Smithers may

would be found. his

the name on

Von Frisch counted carefully tional, hicable creatures pop list. Mr Attlee, who supported the Re- with a stop-watch the number of sibly come some time in stand publicans in Spain, there wargles of the abdomen, us in good stead? of say, Picture Post had an- and Mrs Churchill, who headed and he found that from them he

that nounced

he and the our Ald to Rustin Campaign could make a scale, which ladi- the during the war, would be in cated the space between the hive

and and the cache!

And if our bees here ...Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Brooches or

Permanent Secretory of Foreign Omee had been part of danger if they were Americans. Season ticket and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, to the

And once his name is

that

now, our bees which like our- selves are not nearly so old Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day includmg. a Russian spy ring.

list, a man can loso his job and The distance

and advanced as: Insects.could tax, for ladies or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary

even be driven from his country

world. B say, a on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member

It is against that background

The bee is a perfect "timer, be on,

ahead ·DE to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for pay-

tween, Hiss and Chambers and and h. that spirit that "Sexys of and ber unlooking fellow-boos geological ages ment of all éhits etc,

of the trial welch Frestilted has Treason seems to have been and a count. For it is our becs have a form

I call it in

rational communication -- quite Badges admitting to Members Enclosure will NOT be on sale

unlike precisely the number of complete now been published. It is cal- written. That is why

still, our speech evil book.

Iden trate was danota that she tape

speech, conveying then might not that prove The Branch Offices and the Treasurers Compradoro omised SEEDS OF TREASON, bry

tor Ammasicos, whether traltor be Communist, Fascist that tells the uchtal distance, Day. The Secretary's Office will close at 10 am, the 1st Day and

It is an evil book..

If we could get into touch with them here and now (and af 11.45 am on the 2nd Day. The Treasurers Compradore Omge

At the time I could not decido or a mere acceptor of bribes away; the core les from the Immenso use to us? the Secretary's Office are situated at let oor, Telephone

ingenious, so there secus no reason why wo The boo is no for myself whether or not Hiss But if the ocarch for traitors ever leads, us into blind, savago

·Hous--.. Hous limited number of timing will be obtainable at the Club was guilty. At his first trial, intolerance, the traitor's work consciously intelligent and, shouldn't, as we have found the when two Supreme Court judges of undermining democracy will aware of the way that her out they have language and do House braved they are morta in dybede frugt; the MP, 1 Boy

gave evidence for him, the jury be done for him.

formation must be given to her notice in a rational way

that she things round them) then they (Tel. angin

dingreed, "After his conviction

attending fellow. bot. -(London: Exprser Service) NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUBY

Dean DURING THE MEETING. “ PREMISES

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NQ.ONE, WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

at the RACE COURSE,

ofter a

member of the Communist un derground, but who, change of heart, had become a 'senior editor. of

ກາ Was 2 It Time. though, in Britain, a departmental editor

by

J. P. W. MALLALIEU; M.P.

The account of the clash de-

on

act as Could they not betweens between us and.. minds open. Well, we have to keep

will close, at:10 a.m. on the 1st Day and ́at 11 am, on the 2nd Ralph de Toledano and Victor No one wants to leave off in a definite period of time our

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