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BERLIN LETTER.

THE OPERA HOUSE REBUILT.

[By Gunther Gericke,]

taken place.

THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928.

DO INSECTS HEAR?

EXPERIMENTS WITH CRICKETS & GRASSHOPPERS.

REBEL CHIEF'S CURSE.

SOLOMON MASSACRE FULL STORY.

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Have the familiar noises made by crickets and grasshoppers any meaning except as warnings to the superstitious or as signs of suma- Berlin, May 3.

mer to the wanderer by the coun The concert season now nearing tryside? Some fascinating experl-

Bydney, Apr. BU, Its end has once again shown that ments made by Professor Regen, Many of the natives in the party Berlin is becoming more and more of Vienna, prove that they are also which killed Commissioner Bell, the musical, centre of Germany. of high importance to the student Cadet Lilles, and twenty native In this letter, however, it will not of entomology. Do these noises policemen at Sinarango were re be possible to give more than a imply that the insects have a sense luctant conspirators. cursivo review of the many musi-of hearing, and

are they of cal happenings of note which have biological importance to the species? They had no desire to take part In the killing, but Basinna, That the cricket and the grass their chief, hnd uttered the most Wilhelm Furtwangler gave us a hopper possess a sense of hearing terrible antive curses against all number of delightful concerta. has always been very generally as-

who refused to go with him, and le conducted, in a simple and sumed by scientists. The organs the fear of the curse prevailed. San Francisco & Bay Cities

fleeting manner, Bach's Passion. of hearing were also believed to be

Mr. W. H. McCarthy, the Other Offices in Califoruls & other Pacile States With the ald, too, of his philhar- the antenne, because the insects Sydney solicitor who defended Mountain States U.S..... monic orchestra, he produced, in a were observed to turn their wonderful way, that complicated antennie, roughly, in the direction Basinna and other natives at the Central States U.S....

murder trial and who has just re- Eastern States U.S. masterpiece of Robert Schu- of the noise that called them. At turned to Sydney, made the fore- British Columbia lat Zene only mann's, the Second Symphony, the time, indeed, when the presence The "Gesellschaft der Musik was discovered of a curious drum going statcinent in giving moro Alberta, Saakaiskowan & Manitoba

Newfoundlandi freunde," a Berlin musical society membrane in the front lege just dramatic detalls of the murdera, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Quebec

Commissioner Bell, said Mr. Mc- of long-standing reputo, under- below the band, it was at first and reprisals.

who did not took the bold enterprise of per- thought that this was the organ of forming Gustav Mahler's Eighth hearing. No experimental proof Carthy, was a man Symphony which had not been of this could, however, be found, know what fear meant. In 1926, heard in Berlin for five years. and mest men of science returned when he went to Kwatambee, there Heinz Unger, the conductor, aur to the original assumption that was a demonstration against him. mounted all the difcuities of this the hearing faculty lay in the Basiana was the chief figure in that also. He approached Bell with a gigantle "Symphony of the 1,000;"

Professor Regen has now brought barrel raised above his head, rendy with his choir, his orchestra and methods to bear on the pro- to strike while the other natives his numerous soloists well in em. He took a species of grass-waited. Mr. Bell drew his revolver, hand, he gave us a most impres-hopper, the thamnotrizon unterus, held Basinna back, and pacified, the sivo performance.

which is conspicuous by the loud horde of three hundred natives Then there was that unforget mess of its chirp. Two mules of without firing his gun. The na- TER, 1st Floor, Government Building. table Schubert Festival arranged this species, he found, will chirp intives paid the tax and went home. for us by the admirable conductor regular allernation to one another Last year, before Commissioner the of the Municipal Opera, Bruno aixout 20 times, and then both Bell came to the place again, by Walter, who produced, in perfect pause. If he removed their drum Basiana called a council of war at style, the two famotis of Schu-membranes they could no longer Faisumbe. The council was ad- bert's symphonies; the evening carry on this alternating duct, dressed by four chiefs, and it was formed a worthy prelude to the however close, they were to one an-decided that the time for venge- Schubert Centenary to be cele-other. If he removed only their ance had conic. It was here that brated this year in remembrance antenne the alternation of sounds Basiana utttered the curses.

Of the four chiefs, Mainton was of the great composer's death in proceeded as perfectly ns before. November, 1828; above all, there This established that the drum later killed in a fight, Unuru died will be in Viennn great doings in membrane was the organ of bear-in prison of dysentry, Basiana was sentenced to death, and Fufuae the coming autumn in the way of ing.

was acquitted. memorial concerts, choral feat!- vals and such like.

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Answering & Bell. Berlin seems, once more, to be Professor Regen further proved exercising great attraction upon that this drum membrane was not fordign musicians. Among merely attuned to sounds emitted others, Schaliapin and Piccaver by other members of the species. have been here and have earned a A male would make a regular re- storm of applause. Then, there sponec to a music string, a bell, by his own police. Nevertheless vin Siberia if so superscribed. were the two glorious concerts various whistles, and even to the when the three hundred natives Riven by Pablo Cosalo, the human "S" sound. This would came down the pass, Mr. Bell sent resumed. Spaniard. Half a generation had seem to open up distinctly promis-all his policemen into the tax-room

From passed sinen he had last been ing possibilities to the enterprising with the exception of four, two of whom were at his table and two

then ad- Shanghai and Amoy heard here, and many of the audi- side-show-manager at a fair.

Still more interesting were Pro- with Cadet Lillies. He ence must have felt extreme astonishment and delight in fessor Regen's experiments to dressed the natives, telling them Japan and Shanghai

London 3rd May listening to this great master of show the effect of the male sounds that the fact of his sending away Europe via Negapotem letters only the violoncello with his wonderful on the female, who is dumb. He the police was a sign of friend-Europe via Negapatam letters only

London 3rd May beauty of tone and his elementary selected for the purpose the female liness.

Some of the natives then threw Amoy..... grandeur. The appearance of this of the ordinary field grasshoppers

Up to its sexual maturity the away their arms, but some did not. Shaurhal and Europe via Siberia. Jeypore famous master evoked enthusiastic demonstration in his female lives in the ground at some They formed into two lines and Shanghai and Swatow honour and became a societ event distance from the male. How then paid the tax. Basiana himself U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- do the male and female find one an- went unarmed and paid the tax to in Berlin.

other? Observation proved that Mr. Bell. No one saw him go, but Canada, U.S.A.; Japan and Shang-

for about 30 By a most curious coincidence, the female seeks out the male. The dipppeared

Australia and Manila the German metropolia was

In order to settle the matter Pro-seconds.

U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- enabled to celebrate on one and fessor Regen placed a male and a Suddenly Baslana appeared

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President Madison the same day the birthday anni-female so far apart as to eliminate again in front of Mr. Bell's

Saigon

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D'Artagnan Japan and Shanghai. prominent the possibility of any influence by table, musicians. On April 19, Siegfried smell. He laid down a telephone,missioner writing struck | U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shang-

Was

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President Pierce on the head with the Ochs, one of the most outstanding and found that the female ap-him Agures in German musical circles,proached the receiver when the male barrel of a Snider rifle, killing

OUTWARD MAILS. completed his 70th year; on the chirped into the transmitter. 1f him instantly. Then he yelled the same date, Max von Schillings, he cut off the current the female no nignal for a general attack, and, who conducted the State Opera longer approached the receiver. bounding into the tax room, killed Swatow through the worst post-war years, This proved that the chirping of the four native policemen in about Shanghai

Somshut and Wuchow completed his 60th.

the male grasshopper la an integral three minutes.

According to Basiana's own Holhow, Pakbot and Haiphong The servlees of Professor Ochs, element in the propagation of the as. choir conductor, and of Prospecies grasshopper.

story, reports Mr. McCarthy, Cadet Amoy fessor von Schillings, as orchestra It was also established that the Lillies was struck on the head with Straita and South Africa

New Zealand win Thursday Island Conductor and composer, have drum membrane is the hearing or 16in. copra knife, which inflicted Manila, Sandakan, Australia and

terriblo wound. With blood made their names known far began of the female as well as of the

gushing from the wound, he escaped yond the frontiers of Germany, male.

lo, the tax house, where some time Inter he was shot in the chest from 25 yards range.

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At the first general meeting of The police were house is doubtless the one built by the. Chung-shen Athletic Associa-pieces with spears, arrows, Knobelsdorff and Langhans in tion on Tuesday afternoon, the knives. Those who were not dead Hofhow, Pakhoi and Haiphong Berlin in the middle of the 18th following officers were elected for crawled through the bush to the Shanghai century. For two or three years, the current year. Hon. President, beach, and, terribly wounded Straila, Ceylon, India Mauritius, its walls had resounded to the Mr. Ng Tui-ping: Hon. Vice-Pre though they, were, swam out to the trend of hundreds of workmen and sidents, Mra. Teo Tung-sang, Mr. boat in which they came. No one the hum of building appliances. Wu Hay-long; Chairman, Mrs. Lim can understand how they lived a la reconstruction, which had long Hing, B.A.; Hon. Secretary and minute with the wounds they re- since become necessary for rea-Treasurer, Miss Violet Wu; nons of public safety, was recently General Committee, Miss Yu Ol-kee cefved, yet most of them have since

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It had originally been intended teristics, has been increased by rested for the crime. The prin- Bangkok via Swatow to rebuild the Opera House, from 200 seats and ia elegantly decorat-cipals had been tried, and when Swatow, Amoy and Formosa .... absolutely fresh designs; but Ger-ed in white, red and gold as hero- he left two batches, with about 70 Wel Hal Wel inany's economie situation and the tofore. The purity of style has in each batch, were to stand their Amoy financial status of the metropolis also been carefully safeguarded in trial, being concerned in the second Shanghai, Japan, and Europo vis did not permit this to be carried the considerably enlarged crush- degree.

room. An idea of the technical Despite reports to the contrary, improvements fs best obtained he declared, the Telagi gaol was a from the following figures.

healthy and hygienic place. Bome of the prisoners were. hair starved. when they were first captured, but since they had been imprisoned. most of them had put on weight. Their ration was one pound of rice, a lialf pound of biscuit, and a quar ter of a pound of meat per day, Manila with four ounces of tobacco a week.

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Consequently, we had to content ourselves with remodelling the old structure. Owing to the limited The stage consists of three site occupied by the bullding he- soetions arranged one behind the tween the thoroughfare of "Unter other and each consisting of two den Linden" and the Roman independently movable platforms Catholic cathedral known as the three metres broad and 10 metres Hedwigs-Kirche, it was impossible long.

"One day," added Mr. McCarthy Bangkok "my interpreter asked a prisoner Shanghal in pidgin English if he had had Swatew enough kincaal (food). The na Jasa vid Bourabaya tve rubbed life stomach. "Me full Straits and Calcutta too much," he replied.

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for the architects to find an Ideal These platforms are sinkable to solution of the problemi presented a depth of 10 metres, which is to them.

rendered feasible by the existence The southern half of the edifice of a space below capable of re-

This arrange had to receive additions on either ceiving all three, side, and an enormous extension ment provides a fivefold posal had to be made for the new and bility of shifting the scenery, and, up-to-date stage. As a result, as the change can be effected in this part of the structure is now a minimum of time, operas which

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow out of proportion to the almost make the most severe demands

Straits, Ceylon, India, Maurities; unaltered northern half, and thac upop technical feasibility can be The Persian Legation in London, and S. Africa, Adon, Egypt and wonderful harmony characteristic staged with put any difficulty. states that the recent Press reports Európe via Marseilles Connecting of the masterly designs of. The entire stage construction concerning a rising in Luristan,

with the s.i. Natkunda at Colombo Delta Frederick the Great'a architect, had to be enclosed in a concreto the nomination of the Crown Prince Knobelsdorff, has been lost... casing 8%. metres thick, owing to as Regent, and the taking over of But, whatever criticism may be the enormous pressure of water in the command of a so-called puni- exerclaed upon the exterior, the the soil of Borlin which would tivo force by the Shah in person, interior has been most doverly otherwise have jeopardized the are without foundation. The Shah remodelled. The room enclosing safety of the entire structure; the frequently travels to various parts the stage is a huge but excellently labour, involved was enormous, of the country, and is at present devised fron structure. The sudi-since 600,000 tubid mütrea of visiting districts in the west. Law torium, while admirably pre-water had to be pumped out daily, and order prevail in Luristan.

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