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WEB-FOOTED DOGS IN

LONDON.

ARRIVED WITH A CRATE OF SNAKES.

ABYSSINIAN LAND TERRIERS.

HOW MRS. BORODIN ESCAPED.

A WELL LAID PLOT.

THE PEKING STORY.

FAMINE RELIEF · WORK IN CHINA.

HELPING THE FARMERS.

A Training School has been open- ed nor the Tsing Hua University with the object of instructing The facts of the sensational release farmers from villages of the dis- of Madame Berodia from captivity trict how to organise themselves in- in Peking, which affair, despite the many sidelights" of the verna Already

to co-operative credit societies. 129 villages in that cular press, has hitherto remained hsien have formed such organisa- much of a mystery, have been com-tions and during the last four municated to us from what we have yes the Famine Relief Commis- They are hairless dogs with web-every reason to believe an authonion has lent them about $60,000. bed feet like ducks, which enable tie, source, says the Peking and and not a cent so far has been lost. them to "swim" in the fine sand | Tientsin Timės.

Two unknown dogs, with ducks' feet that jumped out of a crate full of "snakes newly arrived from Africa astonished the dog world at the £100,000. Kennel Club show at the Crystal Palace.

of the Abyssinian desert.

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The person chicly responsible for The story of these remarkable Madame Borodin's release was dogs, which had never been sten be- Portuguese, who was nasted by fore here, was told the Evening | hii.Russian and Chinese "wives Standard by Mr. L. Cura, of Bath- and a Russiari Jew, court, E.C., who won the second prize in the foreign dog class with them.

"I received a consignment, of reptiles from Abyssinia." he said, and when I opened a crate full of snakes, these two extraordinary little dogs, jumped out,

"I did not know whether I had to deal with a new variety of four -legged reptiles or baby dragons,

but I found they were puppy dogs: which by some extraordinary mis take had been mixed up with the snakes.

Some one on board the ship had fed them, and the anakes * & Co.Ltd

lethargic, and had not hurt them.

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I called 'theni Ture and Nemo,

I have had inquiries made in Abyssinia, and find that they are Abyssinian and terriers.

They are used for guarding camps in the desert, and the duck-like webbing between their toes enables them to get a grip for running on the land."

The dogs are the size of small

fox-terriers,

Great Fighters..

In startling contrast were the Pyrenean mountain dogs, specially trained to fight wolves, never shown before in England.

"I got them from peasants in the Pyrenees, Sir Cato Worsfold, their owner.

This Portuguese is said to have been approached by the Soviet au- thorities through his Russian "wife," an active secret agent of the Embassy, and offered the sum of $100,000 to get Madame Borodin but of the bands of the Chinese authorities. An important factor was the Chinese wife," who is alleged to be a relative of the Fudge by whom Madame Borodin was being tried.

A Cash Payment.

With the Chinese woman as medium, negotiations were opened a

with the Judge, and after much bargaining the deal appears to have been clinched, presumably by a cash payment.

The local farmers are thus saved from the eluches of money-lenders, who in the past lont them money at the exorbitant rate of 36 per cent per nanum, 'where the Commis- sion makes loans to the co-opera- tive societies at 3 per cent. and they relend the money to the in- dividual farmers a 10 per cent. Farmers are thus enabled to pur- chase seeds, agricultural imple- ments and other necessities at rea- sonable rates and as the money is returned to the Commission they can reloan it to other farmers.

tending this course number about The young farmers at present at-

twenty, but this will shortly be increased to sixty and they will be

course, covering not only the prin- given a three-months' intensive

ciples of co-operation but account. ing, auditing: pretical methods of model farming, etc. They can then return to their nativé villages and

principles taught them. establish societies and develop the

regards Chinese justice, the Pertu- Having thus arranged matters as guese next turned to making . Fares And All Expenses Paid. . thorough preparations for the re-

Teachers from the Yen Ching ception of the fugitive and her sub-and Ching Hua Universities are sequent escape from the country, giving their services fred.

The

house in an obscure district of farmers attend these courses as the Capital was carefully chosen guests of the Commission, which and a real or fictitious Portuguese pays. their travelling expenses and passport was somehow obtained or offers to pay for the time taken borrowed for the sum of $3,000.

Irrigation.

On her release under amnesty," the course so that the farmers do not suffer, too much of a fiz- Madame Borodin was secretly concial burden while receiving the veyed the refuge prepared, and training. stayed there for ten days, alter which, with face painted and hair dyed, she was conveyed to Tientsin, They have double claws on in the company of the Portuguese, their middle toe to enable them to his Russian wife" and a Russian climb mountains. They are tremen-Jew. dous fighters, and the father and mother of this dog, Jer de Soum; killed many wolves single-handed."

Sir Cato's dogs won the first prize in the foreign class

The 5,803 doga at the show the Viggest number ever entered-were worth about £100,000..

H. G. WELLS TALKS TO AMERICA.

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"A PROUD BUT ISOLATED OSTRICH,"

Mr. H. G. Wells, in an article published in the Sunday Express, styled "Some Plain Words to Americans," says it is time Ameri- cans realized that they are not a saered people and that they are as much entitled to be criticized as they like criticizing others.

Assets Liquidated.

At Tientsin she was taken to quarters in the French Concession, and a few days later took beat to Shanghai, i Dairen, to which port the Portuguese accompanied her. For arranging this passage, he received a further 810,000 from the Soviet authorities.

The Portuguese returned Peking from Dairen and liquidated all his assets in the Capital, prior to taking up residence elsewhere and is now said to be spending 4 very happy time with his newly acquired fortune.

An irrigation canal is being con- structed from the eastern bank of The main the Yung Ting Ho. caant and drainage caani will be more than twelve kilometres in ength and with laterals and sub- laterals the water will be conduct- ad altogether for over 30 kilometres and will irrigate 70,000 now or 11,000 acres.

veyed and constructed under the The entire system has been sur- Commission, which has advanced about $120,000 to an Irrigation Association, which will repay this sum in seventeen years out of the water rentals it obtains from the farmers arcund, who will pay 81 per mew per annum for the water they use.

A great many persons who would It may be recalled that in the otherwise be unemployed are work- revelations of Captain Eugene ing on the construction of these Pick, which appeared recently irigation works while the scheme the North China Daily News, he when in progress will increase food stated that he was sent to Shang products and case the question, of hai in April laat, with the special food supply in that and the sur- object of devising ways and means rounding areas.-P. and T. Times. of getting in touch with Madame Borodia and if possible to secure her eventual release by bribery.

He adds that when he reached There is 4 clearer sense of Shanghai he was told that Soviet freedom and frankness "personified | agents were already in touch with in the discussions on the European Madame Barodia through agente side of the Atlantic," he states. in the North, and that there was It has been possible for Ameri- no need for him to spent money on enns to discuss the rights and the bribes as she would be released any wronga of British justice in India, | way-

Ireland and Egypt, without pro- It seems possible that the Porta- voking vehement denial of their guese passport in question reached Tiberty to do so.

North China from Hankow.

"I admit the immense superiority of the Americans in most things; to mention only a few, they win hands down on films, divers,” steel construction, advertisements, debt collecting, Bunker Hill and bath-rooms."

Oxford" Bags." Oxford bags were a plagiarism from America.

INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE,

INCREASE OF BRITISH CANDIDATES.

and quality of British candidates The improvement in the numbers

for the Indian Civil Service last year and in 1923 is shown to be well maintained by an analysis of the results, Of the 235 candidates who put their names down for In- dia in the concurrent

open examination for the Home, Indian, and Colonial Services, 112 were Europenas, as compared with 83 VIGOROUSLY ATTACKED BY last year and 71 in 1925.

BISHOP GORE.

BIBLE STORIES!

Of the candidates who obtained the first 50 places in the 1.0.5. competition, 38 are Europeans and Bishop Gore, in a remarkable ser 14 Indians. Of the 38 Europeans mon delivered in Grosvenor 16 were at Oxford, 15 at Cam- Chapel, Mayfair, spoke of the bridge, three at Edinburgh, and credibility of some of the old one each at Glasgow and Trinity Testament stories, and quoted College; Dublin. Of the at Oxford Tolstoy's saying that the Jews and Cambridge men, 21 were either

scholars are masters of story tolling."

or exhibitioners of their colleges, and 20 took either & first or a second in their triposcs. The were represented in the list:-Eton following schools, among others,

(two men), Harrow, Winchester,

I was not at Bunker Hill when Senator Borah stormed that position and licked chaps like me to Hell," states Mr. Wells.

Friendly European gritics of the United States were impressed by the fact that the elementary educa- "We are nourishing a vain hope tion of the American citizen was if we suppose that the early chap

poor, and unfitted him ters of Genesis or the stories about cheap and for his proper role in the world. Daniel and Enoch are ever going

The methods of democracy used to be accepted as history.

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by the United States were crude "They have none of the charac- Rugby, Marlborough, Cheltenham ing the moral and the intellectual has learned to detect them, and it chant Taylors, Malvern, Bedford, and ineffective; they were hamper teristics of history as real science (two), Haileybury, Clifton, West- minster, Bradfeld (three), Mer- development of what is still the is no good kicking against facts. Sedbergh (two), and the Edinburgh greatest and most promining of We will merely delay the necessary, human communities.

adjustment of Christianity to the Academy (three). Clumsy Sense Of Justice,

new world of ideas by going on Another satisfactory feature is murmuring and perplexing the the further re-establishment of the "Finally, he adds, "the Ameri- minds of our children, instead of family tradition in continuity of can sense of justice is clumsy and being perfectly frank with our own service in the LC.S. The placed confused. It does not dispose of minds and with others.

candidates include a son of Sir such criticisme merely, to, say that

Havilland Le Mesurier sometime they come from a poor boob,' or

acting Governor of Bihar and that the whole world outside, the

Orissa: a son of Mr. C. A. Kin- United States is just a wilderness

caid, late Judicial Commissioner of poor boobs."

in Sind; and a son of Mr. A. H. Vernede, date of the Bengal Civil Service, and nephew of the poet Mr. R. V. Vernede

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Indisputable Verdicts. "When we make that heroic fe solution we shall find that, if we lose something, we shall have gain- ed more.

Mr. Wells winds up that he has such a loyal feeling for the Ameri- The Old Testament will become enn eagle that be is unable to think not a less profitable, but a more

of the bird A anything but profitable thing, when we admit A competitive examination will aquiline, and does not want that that, by its nature, it is imperfect vision replaced by a butt view of and contains a vast deal of "bar- a proud but isolated ostrich, in batisz vincibly immense, which has awal- lowed all the gold in the world and is now keeping its head resolutely buried in the sand.

"It is no good playing the Canute. You must have the cour age frankly to accept the indisput- alle verdicts of historical science."

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