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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1925.

SANCTUARIES,

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The contradictions in a sports- Amsterdam, Dec. 27. man's life sometimes overwhelm

For nearly year house- The Congress of the National the naturalist, writes "B. T." in a breakers have boon preparing the Labour Secretariat, presided over Home paper. Those who hurt internal site of the Bank of by the Dutch Communist Heer and destroy" also "keep" an England in readiness for the great *proserve." and by far the most rebuilding oporation. And so the Snecvliet and altended by repre- sentatives of the British Minority moving writers on natural history and of the present Garden Court Party and also the Soviet, has passare the sportsmen: to mention approaches, for it has been ruled ed a resolution by 118 votes to 4a few of this gonoration, F. C,that it cannot continue in the new scheme. Thus,will pass no instructing the Executive to give Solcus, Hosketh-Frichard. C. J.1

It is arguable, though mere pleasant area of greenery, effect to a resolution adopted by Cornish referendum in 1923 to join the Red opinions will differ, that Richard For the Garden Court is embodied It Jafforios, the supreme mystic, history; it is a witness that the Trade Unions International.

of Hmall hus also resolved by 18 votes to 3 gave witness of more insight Bank, alike in architecture and in favour of the Red Trade Unions during his early days with the finance, was International issuing invitations to gamekeepers than at the end, account, comments the London

World Congress of Red Trade when he lost himself-divinoly. Obser

A "a lame oxpedient," to Unions International, of the Inter-but as inexplicably as Blake-in recording "The Story of My

quote the words of Paterson, who federation of Trade national

Hearl."

Bank Unions and of organisations nolj

This inherent contradiction be- first proposed it, the belonging to both Internationals.--

tween the delight in shooting and received its charter on July 27, Reuter

the deeper delight in observing 1694. The first meetings of the directors and subscribers were life has never been more quaintly held at Morcors Hall. At one, brought out than in two events of TURKEY'S PROBLEMS. the moment. First, the National, held on September 28, 1694, it was Trust is examining into the use resolver to begin operations at Grocers' Hall, in the Poultry of that delightful sanctuary,

January 1, 1695, having fifty-four | MAY BE FORCED TO WAR Wicken Fon, as a place of sport. The Bank opened for business on Second, a Bill for the further pro-

clerks. servation of birds comes to its second reading next wook. Sports- Despite a troubled history, the A Westminster Quzette mossage from Angora learns that the men are largely concerned in Bank at length found it both both enterprises, condomning necessary and advisable to obtain territorial loss of Mosul is in-themselves and defending them-a larger building. Accordingly, in significant compared to the loss selves almost in the same passage. 1732 it was decided to build a hall of prestige to Mustapa Kemal

Wicken Fen gives na some ovi-fand office in Threadnoodle-stroos. and his government, which is donce that helps to explain the The site chosen was that occupied still faced with strong opposition inheront contradiction. When you by the house and garden of the in Turkey. The Government

London Dec. 27.

may be forced to war to regain enter that brown, open, and yet Bank's first Governor, Sir John Nowhere the Church of St. Christopher-le- its prestige and to avert a revolu- mysterious space, you are first Houblon. It was situated east of have I heard the snipe drumming Stocks-so called, it is sad, from tion at Home. The message adds charmed by the birds. that the Turco-Soviet Trusty with more riotous zest, and no- the Stocks Market for fish and contains secret clause guarantee where found the shrike so tame.flesh which occupied the site of ing Soviet support to Turkey in

But Wicken is not a bird sanctu-the Manison House. The now in the event of war.-Renter

It is an insect sanctuary, building opened for business on ary. and therefore a plant sancturry. June 5, 1734. Almost all the rarer buttorflies

X-RAY CURE.

NO GERM OF CANCER?

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are wedded to some particular plant or plants. Happily some of visible from Threadneedle-street, the loveliest are attached in their being approached by an arched early gourmandising years to court. A writer in the "Gontlo- very common weeds, especially man's Magazine" says thut "iti small ✡ comparatively nottle. But was Dr. Ludwig Wolff, the German the ineradicable cancer specialist, in an interview others are daintier, more fastidi-structure, almost invisible

including the which appears in the Daily our; the great copper, now as passersby. being surrounded by and Srience News Bulletin Washing-good as extinct here, and the still many others," ton, makes very light of the flourishing swallow-tail, whose church, several taverne, English cancer discoveries, and, triumphant flight is comparable about twenty dwelling-houses.

Again, the passing of yoare gavo indeed, holds that "the results so almost with the snipe's. Now the sensationally trumpeted by the most earger preservers of birdering to the need for ampler Press" liad in fact been obtained quote first and foremost their use accommodation and also room in Germany some time before. in destroying insects.

Therefore, in for development. He goes on:

eat so many hundred caterpillars 1765, the Bank bought the rectory: But this is really of no import an hour; the plover and black-and garden of the neighbouring ance at sil, for, while those "dis-headed gulls clear the ploughs of Church of St. Christophor. coveries" have an undoubted grubs; the pheasant's beak is the church itself was soon to be no more. In the Gorden Riots, scientific intorest, they do not busier with wire-worms than with bring us an inch nearer the solu-vegetalles. It is very difficult to in 14780, the Bank was feebly, but keep and preserve one thing with abortively, attacked by the mob. They aim at finding and isolat-out destroying another. A "Na-But the authorities, foaring that ing the cancer germ. That is to ture. red in tooth and claw" is in the event of anothor attack the say, they aim at finding some-hardly to be avoided.

church towor might become a thing which simply does not who shoot the greedy pheasants dangerous fortress; exist. There is no such thing aston Wicker Fen are quite certain church demolished. a cancer germ. There can be y preserving the swallow-tail

None the less, the churchyard How do I know that? Sutterfly. So, too, when the Bird'

the To-day it is Due,

Very simply,

Protection Bill is discussed, it is remained.

The bones were We well to read the rather crisp Garden Court, .December 29.

Just think for a moment. December 20

tradition, the know many diseases that are allusions to sportsmen with the removed to Nunhead in 1867. .January 1,

January 1. caused by germs: tuberculosis, commentary that some of the According to January 3. malaria, a whole series of affec-most active protectors have been Garden Court shelters the bones of no ordinary being. Once, when tions of the skin, and so on. But the most eager sportsmen.

the

body-snatchers practised: January these attack man at all ages.

SPORTSMEN'S MEMORIES. their nefarious calling, the Bank January 4. Bacilli ako no account of ago; January 5. they will attack an infant or a

How many unforgettable pic-had a clerk more than seven feet youth as readily as a mature ortures of birds and boasts at their high. But he defeated the body- January 7 an old man. As you know, can-best remain with most of those snatchers by being buried, at his

cer is quite different; it never at-

who have followed hounds or own wish, in the Garden. January 7,

Gardon To-day the January Stacks any one under the age of waited and walked with a gun ?|

thirty

and extremely seldom They come up in succossion, like contains na hint of those: under the age of forty.

the story on a film. When the inhumane times. With its ancient What does this mean? vaguo far-off murmur and tap of and spreading lime-tree, means first that the cause of can-the boaters begins, the life of the bloom and greenery, it is car is not a bacillus, though it is, wood seems to move almost pleasant and restful place. But of course, possible that the cancer mechanically like a wind or its end approaches. It is true condition encourages the pro-cloud, towards the few figures that a new garden is to be provid-

But: pagation of a certain kind of waiting silent in the ride. The ad in the centre of the site. bacillus, which would, however, cub comes so close you may notice it cannot compensate for the rich- be a sympton and not a cause of the foxy smell and watch the turn

of the present.

The new building will be nine Kashima Maru Wed, Dec. 30,30am. the disease. It means, secondly, of the wary eye. A woodenckness of the historical associations Haiching

storeys high with a tower and ArkingTues, Dec. 29, 3.30 pan. that cancer is probably caused by that dipped down in a more open

a clock of 18 feet diametor and Kunchew

Well.. Dec. 30, 9.30 a.m.some change, perhaps a chemical

A whole press of

the designs, prepared by Mr. E. oak leaves.

A wireless concert from the air Kiungehow Thurs., Dec. 31, 10.30 a.m. undergoes in the course of years.winter finches, that you thought insang...Wed., Dec. 30. 10.30 am,change, which the human body space in front vanishes into the

FINE BUILDINGS. Palmer and Turner, show that Hopsong, .Wed., Dec. 30, 10.30 a mi.

Dr. Wolff proceeds to give some wore still in the north, show their was given over England the other ADDITION TO SHANGHAI'S Forbes Bothwell, of Messrs. Fook Sang

Fri., Jan. 1, 9 a.m.

The foundation stone of Shang- when completed the building will account of his own work, the root bold colours with fine salienco as evening, the performers doing idea of whichis this:

they settle in a noisy pack on the their various "turne" in an

The Cancer in the first place is not half-leafless boughs of scrub. What coroplane cruising somewhere in hai's new Custom Houso, next to rank as one of the most imposing a single, separate disease, but the generic name given to a series of strango noise a single falling the neighbourhood of Croydon the Hongkong and Shanghai and dignified on the Bund.

Wa Bank, was laid on the morning design is on restrained classic oak loaf may make as it scrapes aerodrome. So Ja discasos with a family rosom-s was through the bracken picked up at Keston and thence of Dec. 15th. at 11 o'clock in the lines and the building will con-

Nout blanco and with a common origin. How freely the red campion relayed to London and transmit

bacillus, but flowers even into November in ted. Reception was generally presence of a large number of trast greatly with the Hongkong nationalities of Shanghai.having a towering effect which some alteration in the inner this little ditch where no wind rather unsatisfactory, and the people representing the many and Shanghai Bank next door, Emp. of Russin .. Féi., Jan. 2, Noon. secretions. The way to fight it is blows and the warm loaves repel causes that may have contributed Invitations to the ceremony were will make it a landmark on the the Superintendont Bund and a symbol to Shanghai's therefore to restore these sacre- the frost! As for the blackberry, to such a result are so numerous issued by

of husy, shipping in the river below. and the Commissioner

The new Custom House will tions to their normal state. Ex-that invalable undergrowth, the that it is idle to speculate on It was, no doubt, an

Customs. haustivo tests have shown that a leaf is groen,the berries both black them.

The new Custom House is being occupy a site bounded by the Hankow Road and carefully regulated use of X-rays and red, the flowers still white achievement to have carried the

Szochuen Road and will have a A Spaniard, Jong Rascado, was has the effect of stimulating the and pink. How racy the flight of project through, and, as a curio constructed on the same site as Bund, Mme. Wu Pei-fu is reported by the Chinese prose to have passed the other day charged at Dublin secretions in such a way that the thrushes and blackbirds! eity in broadcasting, the concert the old one and after

months spent in the difficult task capacity, of air million cubia with the attempted murder of they recover their normal balance you had not before noticed how was of some interest.

of preparing a foundation for the feet. It will be a stool framod away in Hankow,

Eric Lundgrist on the steamer and chemical composition. Our big they aro and strong on tho Thon the noiso grows Fooling hungry, the giant hoa-Granero, when the vessel was off experience has, I can stato de-wing. constrictor in the Hamburg Zoo the Arklow coast. The magistrato finitely, given us the most solid oudor, the pheasants riso and cumulative among animals that thing is now ready for proceed will be much better placed than

The preparation of the the old Custom House found the end of his tail and hold that as the occurrence took grounde for the conviction that it rocket, and the world changes, are engaged, as is all the world, ing. began to swallow it, says a recent place outside the three-mile limit is on the lines of X-ray or of The rest is forgotten for the in the struggle for life. The dis- foundation has been one of the certain amount of land has been

because of the bounding it. roport. Finally he was choked he had no jurisdiction, and order-radium ray treatments that the

life-time.

Shanghai.in a few years will lying in a circle: The snakeed the man to be discharged. He cure of cancer, and evon probable moment,, but remombored for a turbance for one day may be most difficult features of con-eurrendered to widen the roads in the process and was found dead

the prevention of cancer-which

A sanctuary does not neoss- but long intervals of peace are massiveness of the building to be is perhaps oven more important symbol of eternity.

The daily postorer characterized by one interesting buildings in the East, including -is to be sought, and not in a sarily cease to be a sanctuary, necessary for humane reasons as erected on it. This work was probably have some of the finest sonsational chase after bacilli because game birds are killed in for others.

What has will drive birds from any area innovation-namely that of driv- projected Y. M. O. A. which will

be the largest in all Asia, ng concrete piles. that, at bost, are only secondary it from time to time.

to be remembered is that fear is that he frequents, manifestations of the discaso.

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