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JAPAN NEWSLETTER By David Goldon

Teacup Handles

First Oceanarium

Face The Right Helped Save Lives

Tokyo.

The gentlemen of Japan moved one more step towards

the "American way of life" inst week when they learned from the Education Bureau that the American method of placing a teacup on a saucer-- being "more practical" than the British-is considered de rigeur in social circles.

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students seeking admission to Tokyo's senior high schools.

A series of pietures of a tea- cup-with the handle towards the drinker's right-were shown as the correct method of setting the teacup.

As etiquette is of the utmost Importance to all Japanese, the paper WAS inundated with and letters from phone calls prople in all walks of life, pro- iesting that they had been taught to place the cup with the handle towards the drinker's left - supposedly the British

way.

the Extention Bureau who was

used in pre-wir days,

to submit an inventory of his assels to the Diet.

This unusual step was taken in on effort to put an end to de- mands for a fensible explana- flon an to how he acquired mich extensive property on the low income of a Dlet member.

lis barfe salary on Prime Minister is lear than £100 per month.

“Itengkong is a place in- which it is very easy to be bored,” says Mr J. D. Drom- hall, Chler Selentide Oßeer of the Fisheries Research Vall.

"For the vast mass of people of Hongkong, for much of the time there la nothing to do and nowhere to go.

"There is clearly a need for some form of entertainment which is equally satisfy- ing to everyone — something that will attract coolle and wealthy tourist alike, and be Lequally fascinating to a child and a profess e of mathematics.”

His suggestion? An oceanarium, or a Ľuper aquarium. He says this would be better than just an ordinary xoo or a conventionst aquarium,

An oceanarium he claims — which would be only the third in the world — would be a sensation.

To show you just how much of a sensation the American oceanarium is, this article by Tony Wrexham tells you more about the project.

One of the most terrifying of all hazards that can overtake the ship- wrecked, or the victims of an air disaster, is to be attacked by sharks.

On one occasion, when a plane carrying three people sank off the South American coast, the sharks, after a leisurely investigation, seized one of its occupants. After an hour they devoured a second. The third succeeded in swimming to The shore.

It

WAY

war-the quest for a shark re-

A doped, freshly captured shark is revived by being pushed through the pool at Marine Btudios and having water fareed through its gills. At present the shark is too weak to turn on the attendant but when it is better

look out! by a central

surrounded by

this incident that Burden and Ilin Tolmay, 18 deep, and a clrcular one prompted one of the strongest grandson of the author of War 75 ft in diameter and 11 ft

cientifle projects of the last and Peace.

deep-connected Their tim was to make channel and pellent.

a kind possible

of aquarium passage woys where the varieus species would and windows through which the public could watch the fish.

ESPITE DE the many changes wrought in Japan during the past decade, the youth of this The project was carried out organisation called the by an country is still badly Marine Studios, and it is un- stifled through feudalis-likely liat mybody could have been found which was better tic formula in the matter sted for the work. of getting jobs.

According to the oficial of ked for a ruling on this grave malter, the British method was Seemingly it went something like this, he said: "With the British way, the left hand was ured to hold the handle, while the right hand was used to hold the spoon and stir the tea.

"After the

had tea

Hel companies stirred, the handle was

employment agencies around to the right."

while, the big unes advancement, notify universities and technical With post-war

"100 rulleges of their requirements was thought to be formal," so children are now for the year. And the "old taught the more practical and school fie" counts considerably.

Thit

time-saving Aworlean

It is not "liquette" to fo deer-knocking looking for work.

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their turned help ot

usually,

The competition to enter the the "better-patronised" univer- sities, in very heavy.

methad handle

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of starling off with, the on the right. This of

dipes answer any doubts which may

A day-labourer who Farise as to which hand should pled frem

of one be used for the spoon and lesser-known universities told his own bitter story in a maga- zinc.

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His

own university, he co-

The manager of the Banquet Section of the Imperial Hotel

shuse

pronouncements. were

also sought, solemnly stated fated, received "low calls" from that guests in that establish- prospective employers as it had ment would find teacup handles na "influential connection."

Owing to unforeseen cir- cumstances, the rocktail party in honour of Dr. E on their right-American-style.

Claxton, the Assistant Secre tary of the British Medient Association, has had to be postponed until Monday, then 16th of March.

It will be held at the same. time and in the same place as previously announced.

T. PHILLIPS, Hon. Secretary, B.M.A. H.K. & South China Branch. }

British

gloom this defeat on the field of catture, will be somewhat dispelled by reliable reports that the British method

wielding a knife and

fork. Western- is still acceptable in style establishments here, und in the moment, the Education Bureau does not emtemplate ordering any major changes.

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Frimr Minister Kishi, under continuous pressure of accusa- ttons of corruption, has agreed

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However, this fulled because he could not account for his years of study at the university and employers felt, he had either been ill during that period, or worse still, in gaol,

His tale ended with the warn- ing "either enter major univer- xities no matter how long it takes, or don't entertain the silghtest idea of going to a uni- versity."

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For the Marine Studios had A vast pruellest ex- perience of sharks arising out of their responsibility for one ingenious and of the mont scientifically valuable enter- priacs of its kind in the world the first "oceanarium” ever to be bulli Oceanarium was 21 colned by the men who con- ceived the project, W. Douglas

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Tony Wrexham

not be separated, and where conditions would be as nearly as possible like those al the bottom of the sea..

GIANT FISH STARED BACK

captors to 'lake it to an and count tourist cars artificial corral whence it by. could subsequently be moved to the oceanacium,

Many other fish were caught each species presenting its own problems, and by opening

turtles,

raya,

parsing

The greatest number that the boy was able to report in

any 24-hour period wa This was discouraging,

The Importance of finding sufficiently strong zlato for the windows was ertzelal, but the most vital features of all were under the heavy floors of tanks and adjacent to them

But as Mr Ralph Hili says in in separate buildings.

day June 23, 1038 the tanks his book on the project "Win- Here were assembled the were alive with sharke, dow in the Sea," on the opening thousands of feet of pipe, and bottlenosed dolphins, loggerhead day they were amazed to see. the valves, pumps and malors

barracuda, 20,000 people descend on the necessary to circulate between groupers, and many other studios. four and five million gallons of fascinating creatures. term

"Only Lie early ones sea water through the tanks

managed to rezoh the every day,

oceanarium. Swarming through the passageways, with their cameras, they stood transfixed for hours at every Dvailable window space. They stared, and were stared at, by plant groupers with their emply faces and by thousands of other specimens, while up the road for miles cars stood bumper to bumper unable to move."

So they built two tanks on the court of Florida a rectangular one 100 ft long, 40 ft wide and

BY. THE. WAY.

by Beachcomber

O mice.purposely avoid traps Felmett told Keith Loughbury

baited with cheese of in- that Lorna had seen them to ferior quality? Experiments con- gether st Vecchiati's, and that

duced at the Whitstable Mouse this man Foulenough offered to Contro have shown tha

mark. They sent for the

Anleky mice are given tranquil dgn the bill with 15 thumb lising pile they will eat cheese that even a buman being would avoid.

manager, and Foulenough sald he couldn't read or writò, that he was Baran Silberplatz, and

These pills were liberally used at the January Mouse Show at a lot more nonsense. Vita was

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man Ben-

the

Battersea Baths, and, several apparently highly amuses, and highly-strung mice stood still he finally haggled about while the judges noted their bill, saying: "It's my Eastern ner points. Mice with glazed blood. Will you take such-and- eyes—a sure sign of over- such asum? I'll give such-and- Indulgence in the pills-went to such, and that's my last offer. It sleep on their feel, and WETE you don't want my moйoy, 1 classified as doped.

didn't want your food,"

The manager thought he was drunk, is said that b

and Vita finally got him away. í tenced to three years for thought you ought to know all robbery with violence

arrived this... af the prison in a hired car. He told the chauffeur to walt, "As I shall be back shortly." He then collected his file, his rope- ladder and pass-key, and his passport from the car, and was shown to his cell. Two hours later ho came out, climbed the wall, got into the car, and was driven away.

Tongues à-wagging MRS THIRDLEIGH to Con-

Aalance Breuls:-

And so, dear, I thought you ought to know that Mrs

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Then there was the question of the creatures who word to make their home En the uccanarium.

How would they got large creatures like sharks and tags from the ocean into the tanks In the first place?

And over If this could be done, would the big and little fish live happily together in such a relatively confined space? Or would they ent each ofhort (On the whole, they didn't).

Sharks essential

Temperament

But there were still plenty of other problems to be solved, the chief of them being to And watch of the more interesting and spectacular fish would live In the oceanarium and · which would net.

It was partly a matter of food, but temperament, had also to be considered. Game fish are diMcult to keep in a tank because they need space and freedom, the mackerel. for instance. stems bent on swimaning into the sides and Boon dies of exhaustion and injuries, while marlin and Sharks and other spectacular wallfish will seemingly only fish were curentiel, otherwise

Uve if they can race at great the oceanarium would not be

speed through the open - sea. different enough from ordinery

But one by one colutions were equaria to attenet the public.

found, and the oceanarium and But sharks normally ke

its Inhabitants prospered and few hours after capture because they cannot, apparently survive, of the ocean liseif.

more and more gave the illusion their struggles when they are hooked.

The oceancrium provides im- mense pleasure to Son harpoon

the people was designed who crowd to watch. With its when it penetrated the shack's large

specimens, skin, injected ʼn now drug called Epival.

This kept the creature quiet for long enough to allow its

(Left) a huge porpoise is fèd with fish by a diver at the American ocean. arium and (below) after having his flil he shoots to the surface for an animated

chat with a rather nervous looking,seabird.

fumber of some of them rarely found in neilities for scientific research captivity, It offer superb

and for the taking of documen- tury films.

Vost costs

The vast operating costs of the Marine Studies

WAS OBE factor. which worried the promoters before it opened, When they found the ideal site for the studios, Whitney. hired a Negro boy to sit by the road

The studio has never look- ed back.

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