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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1038,

JAPAN GROWS RESTIVE

When Washington news- papers express the opinion that discontent

reasons for it. To some extent,

I

HAD to climb a high step-ladder to see it. But when I had climb- ed this step-ladder in a back garden in South London I saw something that only a handful of men in the world had seen.

It was a new star-a Nova-

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I VISIT

the

MOON

By Roderick

Morison

As seen through the telescope

A world torn by the

impact of great meteorites...

where canyons freeze to death.

Pitiless Blaze

CLIMBED down the. ladder gingerly, and

you

would

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No Living Thing

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A Double Star

big EASTWARD the

cylinder swung. "I

am going to show you a double star," said Dr. Stevenson.

I misheard him. "Devil atar?" I queried.

He laughed. "Devil star?" Yes, I'll show you the Devil Star. It happens to be a double star as well."

And in a moment I was look- ing at Algol-the "Ghoul" or "Demon Star"-which excited in the- superstitious wonder minds of the ancients because it waxed and waned eternally. are looking down

Algol still loses and regains on Nature's grimmest three-fifths of its light once in is widespread in and the step-ladder led to the Japan they may have strong eyepiece of the great 20in. re- with two fingers the astronomer battlefield. You are looking at about 70 hours, but we know perhaps, the wish is father to flecting telescope with which swung the huge, howitzer-like world torn and scarred in past now that the Demon has an in- ing round it, partly eclipses it the thought; but there is no Dr. W. II. Steavenson, Fellow cylinder, weighing half a ton, ages by the explosive impact of visible companion which, circl

every three days. doubt that certain elements in and past President of the Royal round on its fulcrum till it point- great imeteorites. the Japanese Diet are restless. Astronomical Society, carries ed at the nearly full moon.

Immense circular depressions,

"Now for a good-looking dou- Their restiveness cannot be out his nightly researches.

some of them over 100 miles ble star," said the astronomer, wholly due to the slow progress

drop-earring two seared and solitary peak up- glittering thrust from the centre; desert Jewel points, one golden-hued, The sight of the moon in a after desert, grey or burning the other pale blue. Millions of great telescope beggars descrip- white; gullies, and clefts, and miles separated the two great gether by the invisible chain of tion. You are no longer on canyons, down which no living suns, which were yet bound to Earth. You have risen mira- thing ever leapt or will leap. gravitation. culously, supercharged and oxy-

A shading-off at the moon's gen-helmeted, to the empyrean huge rim, the highest peaks al-

of Japanese armies in their cam-

climbed the steps again.

A pin-point of reddish light,

Pain shot through my eyes as paign on the mainland. For this was the new star which had the hard, pitiless white blaze across, with here, and there a and in the field of view I saw a actually, the Japanese successes sent à ripple of excitement flooded them. have been, or should have been,

through the ranks of astro- sufficient to satisfy the most ambitious.

nomers when it was discovered, few days before, by the Swedish observer, Nils Tamm,

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It is all to China's advantage if the erities of military tactics cry loudly for more victories and

A sudden, stupendous explo- deeper penetration of the sion of gases, many hundreds Chinese republic, however, for

of years ago, in those far confines their demands may result' on a speeding up of operations in spite of the universe, and now. the S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. of the necessity for caution; and rent star had just flared out generals may be inclined to redly in the fields of our teles- Bucrifice safe communications and sound consolidation for the reckless sort of warfare which pleases the public because it is spectacular.

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THE "VERY IDEA"

And next it was. Nova Her. You are within a few hundred ready trapping the first rays of culis, the star which blazed out miles of a country where jagged sunrise, the valleys still black, suddenly in December 1934. mountain peaks cast deep, stark where you would have frozen to Through the little cyc-lens shone shadows as the sun beats down death almost before you sufio- lamp of purest emerald. A scope yet made will show the through a cloudless, atmosphere- cated in the horror of the lunar point of light only. No tele- -less sky.-

true disc of a star.

night.....

ALL IS NOT GOLD-FISH THAT

GOES INTO THE FRYING-PAN

A

By EDDIE "FISHFACE" KELLY

Unlike most Novae, this star in the constellation Hercules re- fuses to sink back into obscurity, and it is now but little fainter than it was a year ago.

A gentle nudge of the tole- scope, and I came upon a great scattering of diamonds, the "grand light-stain"-as Sir Ro- bert Ball once called it of the Hercules star-cluster.

There are 50,000 stars or more in this group, and I was (and

READER of the South China Morning Post wants to know how to still am) hurtling towards them bring up gold-fish.

at some twelve miles a second. But as they are a little matter of miles

away....

Faces upturned in a South

and ten London garden....leaves whia- pering...terrestrial sandwiches and cakes waiting...

He should have written to us. Let us tell you that anything we don't 204,209,350,000,000,000 the cause, the effect is not de- know about gold-fish, the gold-fish don't know about it oither. trimental to China; for there

Our missus and us, we once sat up all night with must be a certain amount of and must be recognised by the

authorities-is the a sick gold-fish. Whooping cough was the trouble. anxiety among Japanese when Japanese they consider that the general, moral effect of this piercing of

We did everything in our power, but the Grim Reaper claim- whose armies have been adver-the Japanese inner defences by

It ed our little Jim, and he passed over the Great Divide with one as invincible and whose a daring Chinese squadron. ensualties infinitesimal as com- does not matter that the raiders faint, final whoop. pared to those of his op were led by an American and

Our wife, with the desperate insolence borne of grief, turn- ponents, has been suddenly that Russians and other Euro-

The ed to us and said: "I told you that rum you gave him wouldn't recalled. It is not unreasonable peans probably took part.

is that Japanese citizens do him any good." to suppose that they may won. fact

as will not feel themselves .80 der whether the picture is bright as it has been painted: secure, for already the air raid sounded in many

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Winter Clothing whether the newspapers in alarms have is and whole, die WE just glanced at her and left the room.

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whether the army's and navy's tricts have been warned of an spokesmen are quite accurate approaching enemy raider. when they tell of Japanese air is not too much to 'say that few: raids which destroyed scores of Japanese over expected this sort Chinese plance without the loss of treatment at the hands of the of a single one of the attacking Chinese. . - force.

fore we would speak to her again.

Says She Was Sold For £30

A19-YEAR-OLD American glti

to the San

It was months be-Francisco police how she was sold

as a white slave for £30.

Following her revelations, police made 40 arrests in lightning ralds on while slave dens in San Francisco and cities round the Bay.

We now pursue our studies alone. We have watched the fish through its life span.

Cradled it through birth, nur-Jim, we spent many an interest- sed it through the anxious stages ing hour together, teaching the of adolescence when its charac-little chappies to swim. ter was being formed, watched

Here, then, are a few of the The Impregnable Japanese air reasons why Japan's politicians defences have been broken, and may be reative and why there

it grow bigger and bigger unt It got curvature of the spine UNTUK VIVEIRO Chinese planes have reached are indications of discontent in Formosa. On one alde the the country. The symptoms

swimming around the bowl. Japanese-the casualties are mean that the Japanese are

We saw it develop the homo minimised and the impression is awakening to the fact that the glyen that the bombing raid was war in China is not exactly a instinct as it reached its teens.

complete failure Insofar as series of manoeuvres and easy One. fomalo gold-fish we had |

con- victories and that they may military objectives were

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Among those arrested were several names

policemen, it is stated, but

are being withheld (reports the Dally Herald San Francisco correa- sidepondent).

We would stand on one of the bowl, making paddling

motions with our hands and une foot, and the missus would sinnd on the other side encouraging the fish "Come along, bulsie.... Bubsie-wubsle, como to mamma.

Jeanne Marjorie Walters, is borne The story of the 19-year-old girl, out by another girl, nged only 15,

Film-struck, Jeanne left home for Hollywood, but her money ran out, she took a job as n barmald, and was tricked by a man called Me- Gregor into white slavery,

"Ile offered me a job," she do- They learnt in no time. Theyclared, "but actually he sold me for

$160.*** weren't an hot on the American crawl, but you should have keen Before the missus loft us them on the breast stroke..

So there you are. after our quarrel about littiol

cerned. The Chinese state that have to pay dearly for the land climbed out of the water every they destroyed a number of air- they have seized in Asia. But day to polish the outside of the craft and important fixtures at they do not monn that a poll- bowl. the baso they attacked. This tical upheaval is imminent, and discrepancy is rotatively unim- that is what Washington papers portant. What does count- seem to imply..

Moved continually from one place to another, she was kept under watch all the time-until the day when she managed to escape and tell her story to the police.