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THE "DRAGON OF
KOMODO."
HABITS OF THE GIANT LIZARD.
AMERICAN EXPLORER IN DUTCH INDIES.
Some months ago public excite- ment was stirred by stories in the Press of the discovery of a great reptile sensationally described as the Dragon of Komodo: and the subsequent. announcement of the arrival of a couple of specimens at the Zoological Gardens attracted to the new reptile house hundreds of
visitors whose expectation of viow- ing in the flesh monsters like St. George's fabulous antagonist ended
in
the disappointment of seeing rather ordinary looking large lizards recalling small alligators in size and appearance.
A NUN'S PLAY. WHEN LEARNED WOMEN THOUGHT IN GREEK.
[BY ROTHAY REYNOLDS.]
BARLIN.
MR. BALDWIN ON RATES CONSIGNEE NOTICES, CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
RELIEF SCHEME.
IMPROVING LOCAL ADMINIS
TRATION.
UNIONISTS.
A play by Roswitha, a German SPEECH TO 40,000 SCOTTISH nun of the tenth century, was pro- duced recently in one of the Ham- burg theatres and was received with enthusiasm. -
The piece is one which, I up- pose, modern people would call daring. It contains an emotional part, which gives the actress who plays it great opportunities, a part, indeed, in which the divine Sarah would have exulted. The first act showe Mary, the heroine, as an in- nocent young girl who is being
brought up
a pious 'recluse, her relative. Like any modern flapper, Mary wants to see the world and chafes against the posed upon her by her guardian. And so away she goes to learn
what life is.
restrainte im-
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named Vessel are hereby informat that their Goods are being landed and Dealing mainly with the Govern placed at 1832 3x in the Hong Kong ment rating scheme, he claimed and Kowles Wharf and Galawa Con that it was founded on a sound Consignment will be sorted out Mark pany's Godowns at Kowloon, where each principle; that it would bring sub-by Mark and Delivery can be obtained as stantial relief to industry; and the Goods are landed.
This Vessel brings on Cargo from that it would improve local ad- Persian Gulf ex B.IN. and B. & 2...
Co.'s Steamers.
ministration.
I can honestly claim, he remark- ed, that we have done our best to reduce the burdens of unemploy-
position.
But we
But before the arrival of these When she discovered in the creatures in England, Mr. Douglas second act, she is a woman of the Burden, an enterprising American, world who has sunk to the lowest ment, and to alleviate the hard had organised an expedition to depths of luxurious depravity and ships incidental thereto. Kemodo, island just to the west of insurrounded by lovers. There have not "solved it, nor are our Flores in the Dutch East Indies, to enters a knight, the man of fashion basic industries-coal, iron, steel, * satisfactory secure for the American Museum of the period, and Mary talks to shipbuilding-in and for Bronx Park examples of him lightly thinking he is merely have suffered from a depression These basic industries Then comes the this lizard, the existence of which another lover.
The great moment of the play: the which, in its intensity and dura- had been known since 1912. story he has told us of the experi- man throws off his disguise, and tion, has never been surpassed. The ences of his party in his book The it is no knight who stands before cumulative result has been to lay has on local authorities in distressed Dragon Lizards of Komodo' is full her, but the guardian who
areas a crippling burden of unem- of excitement and interest, reveal sought and at last found her. He ing the actual facts connected with knows her secrets and her silliness this lizard to be nearly as strange and the unhappiness beneath her as the fictional reports that invest gaiety. Her laughter turns to tears and she follows him. The last act ed it, says The Field
shows her joy in a life of peniten- tial eolitude.
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by us in any case whatever.
We have attempted, in our pro- Posais now, before Parliament, to ran the worst anomalies of our A Formidable Reptile.
rating system, and to do this in Buch a way as to bring the maxi- Although this lizard is of the kind known as the monitor, with That is all. Roswitha excelled in mum help to the areas which need which sportsmen and naturalists dialogue and in depicting charac-it mast, and to the industries which are Familiar in tropical Africa and ter; but she had not the gift of Asia, it is much bigger than any of maintaining dramatic
interest the species known before 191% In throughout her plays. She learnt actual length the difference is not her art by studying Terence, but very remarkable, since the Komodo she desired to counterset the in- monitor does not seem to exceed fluence, which the plays of the about Dift. as compared with about Roman playwright still exerted on Tit. attained by one of the known her contemporaries. If he made oriental species. But in the latter vicò' attractive, the German the tail is prodigiously long, was determined to show its ugli whereas in the Kemodo lizard it ness. She wrote with an aim, and is comparatively short. Hence the it was to show the beauty of virtue. bodily bulk of the Komodo lizard
Aim Of The Proposals: greatly exceeds that of the other. This play, which they cheered the
These measures, he proceeded, This, combined with a large head, other night in Hamburg, wie wit have not been suddenly improvised great strength and a voracious tes a hundred years before Wil-
as a makeshift expedient. They appetite for flesh, makes him aliam the Conqueror came to Eng were not devised to meet the diff No Fire Insurance will be effected really formidable beast to encoun- land. They were learned women at
culties in a day, or to enlist sup- ter, The restriction of such a the Convent of Gandersheim, where port at the General Election. If Damaged Packages mast be left in the reptile so eminently capable, one Roswitha lived and died in what that had been our object we could Godowns for examination by the Con- would think, of holding its own people call the Dark Ages. Gan have devised proposals for the dis- ignees and the Company's surveyors,” anywhere in the tropics, to a little dersheim was a Girton of the tribution of largesse far more Meurs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10 corner of the world comprising, a period, and we knew the names of seductive. (Laughter.) Our pro-m.. Mondays and Thursdays. addition to the small island of some of the classical lecturers.posals are the result neither of i-Ten days of the Steamer's arrival here, All Claims must be presented within Komedo, a couple of isleta, near at There was, for instance, Gerberga, pulse nor of agility but of pro-
after hand and the adjacent western coast under whose direction Roswithalonged considerance and study, and
which date they cannot be of Flores; is 40s the least remark studied Virgil and Herace and they are put forward as a contribu- recognised.
No Claims will be admitted alter able fact connected with this lizard. Terence and the works of the tion of permanent importance to the Goods have left the Gedowar.
As a predatory beast of prey the Christian Latin poète, And they local government reform and as a dragen has no rivals in Komodo say that one day a Greek princess real contribution to the improve MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Hong Kong, 13th July, 1928. (6497 It shares the woods and jungles came to the convent and encour
ment of our productive industries. with buffalocs, wild boars and a aged the nuns to study Greek; I (Applause). dwarfed race of the sambar deer; suppose they did so, for Roswitha and since small mammals are sprinkles her Latin with Greek negligible in quantity "Mr. Burden worde, and sometimes she writes believes that it lives mainly by Latiri ecntbace which reads as if preying upon the pigs and deer and she had been thinking in Greek. cating such carcases of them as The nun's play was not acted in die a natural death. A wild.boar Latin at Hamburg. but in a Ger is a fearless and formidable anta- man translation. What would the gonist, as even the tiger knows; but learned authoress of the Dark Ages a story Mr. Burden tells of the have said to that? Perhape she successful manœuvres of a boar to was allowed to look down and (scape from one of these lizards listen. "Carissima," she must have that was after it bears out bis said to Gerbergs, they don't opinion that the pigs are habitually even understand Latin." caten by the reptile. He also quotes a trustworthy account of one of these lizards that was captured and tethered to a tree springing at a passing pony and tearing a piece of flesh from its flanks, the wound, being so severe that the poor. berst had to be slaughtered.
Canniballam
The Escape,"
It is quite true that we shall help some flourishing industries. That
REGISTER,
Bong Kong Observatory, July 15th.
[Previous]On" Date)On Date,
Day nt.
2 p.m. 6 "z.m, 1 p.m.
29.33 22,36
is inevitable on grounds of ad- HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL ministration. Any attempt to dis: criminate between what is and is not a prosperous industry, or what is prosperous to-day and may be bankrupt next year, and to fit the result into a scheme of relief would involve a host of officials and a minute and constant watching over Barometer.. the accounts of every business in Temperaturs the Kingdom. If, incidentally, we Hamidity help some business which do not | Wind--| need it, we shall help them to ex- pand and thereby diminish, anem
We have no desire to penalise prosperity, we want to re duce adversity. (Cheers.)
Basic Industries.
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Thunder.
He would have been a prize in-ployment. deed; and he was captured in due course, despite his weight cracking the tree as it jerked him aloft so thit he had to be lassoed by the head and tail while on the ground. ing industries, the Prime Minister It is the depressed basic export- But although brought safely to proceeded, that will receive by far camp and lodged in a strong crate, the greater amount of help from It is doubtful indeed if the he broke loose in the night by tear-
our reforms. Of the £20,000,000 dragon can be. acquitted of the ing a bole in the strong wire netting that is going in relief of rates, charge of cannibalism. On several of his prison and made his escape £14,250,000 will go to this group occasions when the traps set in the into the jungle, never to be seen and £3,750,000 to another industry jungle were being watched, the again. It may be noted in passing which is badly bit-agriculture. smaller dragons attracted to them in connection with the trapping of Of the remainder, some will go, to by the bait were seen suddenly to these lizards that one and all, in- those which can only be called become alert and then retire pre- cluding the monster that made its flourishing by putting a consider- cipitately to cover; and their dis- cecape, exhibited extreme wariness able strain on the use of that word. persal came to be regarded as a in approaching the bait They The overwhelming mass of the re- iore sign of the coming of a big seemed to have an instinctive aus- lief will go to those who need it one on the scene. Unless the young picion of danger, and this is not most.
We do claim that we have found- | ♬ have an instinctive fear of being easily explained except on the eaten by the old ones, it is not easy hypothesis that long continued war-ed our scheme on a sound principle, to think of a reason for their avoid- fare with the human inhabitants that it will bring substantial relief, ance of them. By what means they had taught them to fear the scent and that it will improve focal ad become aware of the approach of a of man,
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE,
From July 16th to 22nd, 1928. Hiex WATK.
Height
Low Warks.
Hong
Kong
Standard Tims.
..tn.
Hong
Height
Kong
Standard
Time:
h. m. s.la
1 20 35 3 3102 28 414a01 45 181
7.7 m 3 20 487
11 58 4,0
ministration. We claim no more Mon. 167 8 7 7 danger they cannot see is, however, When bunting for prey the than that, and no less. The depres
10 20 40 by no means clear, in the face of dragons raise their heads to look sien in our old industries has been Tue, 17 m 8 48 79m Mr. Burden's statement that these over the surrounding vegetation. so long, and so deep, that it has
11 1440 dragons are stone deaf. Possibly Sometimes even, to get a wider driven some students of economicsWed. 18 m 9 28 79 it may be scent. At all events, the range, they stand or sit erect sup- to suspect a fundamental change in case with which the lizards may be ported on their hind' legs and tail the general structure of British Thur. 19 m10 141 lured by carrion bait attests the like a kangaroo. Their feeding trade. It is impossible to say, as
Fri. 20 x keenness of their olfactory organs. habits cammot be described as refin- yet, whether, and to what extent,
m11 · 0 Part of the carcase of boar or ed. Food is bolted without mas- we are undergoing a permanent
21 m X 17 deer was commonly used as bait; tication, and since a large speci- contraction in the demand for the Bat. and the traps, constructed on the men was seen "to negotiate in this output of those great industries. spot, were on the principle of the way the entire hindquarters of a They have been profoundly affected. 921258 mole-trap a beat tree held in place boar, their swallowing capacity by the economic nationalism in by a rope with a noose at the end seems to rival that of a boa con Continental Europe, by the growth and so Exed that a tug at the bait strictor. When a carcase too large East, in India, in Japan-by dis of manufacturing power in the released the rope, and the tree re- to be dealt with in that way is gaining its normal direction jerked discovered, it is torn to pieces of armament, by the growing control
of natural forces, and by science. the noosed lizard high into the air convenient size by means of the
The long run "effects of these
It required the combined strength dragon's powerful claws and map changes may be to improve the of fifteen coolies to bend a tree serrated teeth. selected for entrapping a parti- They are good swimmers. Some wealth of the whole world. They cularly large monster that was re- that were released upon the bench may be ultimately for our advan- ported. As this king of all the to see what they would do readily age, but times of transition are
proverbially difficult. dragons advanced to the trap it took to the sea as a means of passed within handreach of the men escape, swimming far out into deep on watch in their "hide," without water either below, the surface or detecting them. The black scaly with the head and neck stretched hide of this old warrior was mark- above it, suggestively recalling ed with many a star attesting en- some pictures of the "sea-serpent," watch, study and 'devise from time counters with wild boars or with This aptitude for aquatic life no males of his own kind for the pos- doubt explains the presence of acasion of females,
these dragons on the islands where (Continued on next Column), they have found sanctuaries
All we can do at this moment is to give this help on the lines we have devised, which we believe will he of immense value, and to con- inne, as all Governments must, to
to time such steps as may be neces- sary to mit the ever changing con. ditions of that great trade by which we live. (Cheers).
40m 4 17 31 7 8 6 17 07 [41]m 5 7 |32
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