1934-11-27 — Page 3

BIRD IMMIGRANTS IN-BRITAIN

FROM A CORRESPONDENT

It is several weeks ago now since] In a West of England garden, they were set completely free, and high up on the ridge of the hill, they have not gone away, but still in an exposed position, was a very live in the garden and in an adjoin- large aviary containing a variety ing garden; but in the late,auramer, of the hardy kinds of foreign birds. they returned to the aviary to Most of them had come out of tiny build and even brought building enges, and because their owner materials there from the fields. loved them a large place was net The weavers have chummed up aside for them where they would with a flock of chaffinches and they have, as far na possible, natural always fly together. The green conditions.

and rest created cardinala "keep In this wired-in sanctuary there themselves more to themselves, were tall trees, birch, poplar, may, though they are perfectly friendly lilac, and different kinds of coal with the wild birds too. It is. 1 fors. There were also thick, low very pretty sight to see them feed- growing bushes of stellamarising out of the same need pan with Juniper, box, dogwood, veronicas, the blue tita and yellowhammers. and escallonia, making a thicket and to watch the gorgeously of undergrowth between the trees feathered orange bishops and which opened out to a wide space. Napoleons swinging on the sun- grass-sown and planted with flowers, or pocking seed among a flowers. Here WAS a tiny rock crowd of green-finches and chaffin- garden and a large shallow bird ches

bath of rugged stone sheltered by¦ IMPROVED BY EXILE, thickly growing monthretin, thei One thing is noticeable: all the! hase of it overgrown with blue foreign birds have Improved in; campanula. A little path led tu condition, are far strunger on the the bird house, the pigeonhole of wing, and have grown in size since !

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, ́ 1934.

Nanking Road was crowded as the general pa hlic thronged the streats to watch the arrival of the lat. Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who landed recently to relieve the 2nd. Battalion. The Worcestershire Regiment. The above photo shows the troops marching along on their way to barracks.

which atnud always open, night they have had their freedom. AMERICA'S air telda atretching from coast to

and day.

They are still partial to meatworzz,)

All the birds became acclim-and come for them to a whistle tise, and after a few years they from any part of the garden, bul returned to their wild state and the cardinals all go, wild worm would not roost under any roof.hunting with the rushes and Early in the autumn of last year|binck-bfeds. Dishes of seed are severni sacks of heather were kept always in the aviary and in brought in and piled up between different parts of the garden, also, the bushes, making an almost Im-bread sopped in milik and squeezed penetrable thicket some 2ft, or aft, almost dry, which the young birds" deep. In this they roosted through devour greedily. bitter cold, ice, snow, frost, fug.[ The amusing part of the experi

AERIAL DEFENCES

STRONG FORCÈ OF FIGHTERS

MOBILITY AN ESSENTIAL

Washington, Nov. 10.

const. The formation-of this nir force, according to members of the General Staff, means that Ameri- cans everywhere may look forward without fear of seeing the wings of foreign ale raiders.

48. UNITS

The plan was announced by thi Secretary of War, Mr. George H. Dern, who orders the grouping of practically all the serviceable army planes into 48 combat unita,

The General Headquarter Air Force will be counted upon to repel hostile air attacks, keep attacking warships at bay until the navy can arrive on the scene, and hold the first line of national defence generally until ground forces can

mobilised.

and heavy rains without coming tofment is this, that the wild birds the least harm. Not one was sick arem to prefer the aviary to the or sorry. Early in the spring they garden, for two pairs of robins, a¦ began to think about building and wren. several greenfinches, and were supplied with hay, straw, and three thrushes have taken up per-; combed-out clean hair of whitejmanent residential quarters there.| The war department is planning dogs, ends of coloured knitting And if there is a storm, or much an aerial defence for America com repel attack wool, moss, and hair. Very tiny raft, or fog, it is always found prehensive enmigh twigs and more substantial ones full of foreigners once more.. 11 from any quarter. were scattered on the ground, but is hoped that they will naturalize?

to be accomplished

Putting the plan into execution as a rule the birds preferred 14 and that perhaps in the future, through organisation of the new salert and pock off twigs from the

there may be new hybrids among under direct command of the Chief an opportunity to even a number general headquarters. force, at this time affords the general staff trees and heather.

British wild birds.

f Staff of the Army. This new of okl scores, in addition to giving

CARDINALS' HOME.

A pair of green ratilhnals werel

the first to go to nest. They hatch-j

ed and reared six strong young

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air riadn in to be capable of pelling the must determined in vasion of Instile air forces, and mohits enough to be concentrated

It is calculated to weaken, if not birds, of which the cock partien- To the South-West of Berlin a in any part of the Baited States silence, the proponents of the inrly взгля inordinately pravil..

neve German wireless station is within three or four days of heparate air force service" com- Their nesi was closely woven.

prising the air forces of both the beautifully made of twigs and mosey in construetion which is to be sounding of a general alarm.

The

plot was announced at almost

U.S. Army and Navy, and to head' and lined with dogs' hair and the biggest in Germany. Accord coloured wool. They built it bighing to the pins of the German the same moment Hrigadier General possible recommendation of the Federal Aviation Commission Reich Post Office which is respon-William Mitchell

was charging or creation of a separate air force. up, in the top of a fir tree, but!!

faible for German wireless the new before the Federal Aviation Com pulled the Best nest tu pieces au station should be finished in about mission that military airrralt built another with the

MORE CONTROL materials for their second family,we wears. The aerials are to be tievelopment was being frestrates

Seven by "oy svetits" in the War Depart. The phu also strengthens the A pair of red-crested cardinals ected in quite a new war.

(control of the General staff over the built a boat-shaped nest entirely musis each 775 feet high are to hement.

*jerected so that they form a efrels The Grmerad Hendylarters Air army air corps. of very fine heather twigs in in the middle of which is the een Force is to consist, for the present. The General star thereby pays middle of a may trew. It was tend nisi. This method is con- Log some 450 fighting planes af Major General Benjamin lined and quité transparent, al

sidered to be the secret of a perfect bombers, pursuit ad altack ships- bulots, chief of air corps for past though evidently very strong, for wave radiation.

voncentrated at seven or eight arms, criticism by Uniting the scope aml. it weathered some rough winds. At half-gast 5, or thereabouts on a warm spring morning the rock, would take his hest's place on the ----nest and sit there singing, joyinsly to himself, while she hunted for spiders and grubs, or preened her feathers in the sun before. Bylng fac the bird table for seed, Wenvers of various kinds in the aviary were hardly expected to breed, but one! morning, sitting in a row along a ruddy dogwood twig, were three or four tiny youngsters, impudent." and fully fledged, the first of sever- al later broods. No one ever die. covered where the nests were that they came from, but one day sume- one found a lovely weaver's next;, closely woven of long grass and slung like a pockelte between fotir] tall Shasta daisy blossoms. It wan quite beautiful and unlike the tuy nests that these little birds so often make.

THE EXPERIMENT

Spring passed into summer, and It was then decided to try an ex periment. The sides of the aviary were taken down and all the birds were allowed to go free. Would they stay on in the garden.or would they disappear, They were hardy enough to survive the win- ter, and they were not likely to bei caught or shot in that neighbour- hood, but they would still have ta be fed; and herein lies a difficulty, for there are many wild. British i bird friends who take it as thelri right to share all and everything | that is put out for the foreigners, which makes feeding a very expen-{ sive busineaa.

nuthority of his office to

super- vision over servicing of planes and. the operation of air depots and air corpa schools. Gen. Fulois pub- liely favoured the creation of a separate army and navy ale force.

Mr. Miftcholl, one of the most atlapoken of the army's air policy critics, recently recommended to the Aviation Commission the building, of a fleet of 60 dirigibles, flanked by bombing planes able to cruise king distances and "capable of at- tacking Japan."

"Japan is our most dangeroua enemy," he said.-United Press.

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