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JAPAN GROWS RESTIVE
When Washington --news- papers express the opinion that
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.
I VISIT the MOON
By
Roderick
Morison
As seen through the telescope
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A Double Star
EASTWARD the big cylinder swung, “I
am going to show you a double
A world torn by the star," said Dr. Stevenson.
impact of great meteorites
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I misheard him. "Devil star?" I queried.
He laughed. "Devil star?" Yes, I'll show you the Devil Star.
canyons where you would It happens to be a double star
freeze to death ..
Pitiless Blaze
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as well."
And in a moment I was look- ing at Algol-the "Ghoul" or "Demon Star"-which excited superstitious wonder in the minds of the ancients because it No Living Thing
waxed and waned eternally. It was a new star-a Nova-
CLIMBED down the
are looking down
Algol still loses and regains discontent is widespread in and the step-ladder led to the
ladder gingerly, and
on Nature's grimmest three-fifths of its light once in Japan they may have strong reasons for it. To some extent, 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 a world torn and scarred in past now that the Demon has an in- the thought; but there is no Dr. W. H. Stevenson, Fellow cylinder, weighing half a ton, ages by the explosive impact of visible companion which, circl- ing round it, partly eclipses it doubt that certain elements in and past President of the Royal round on its fulcrum till it point- great meteorites.
every three days. the Japanese Dict are restless. Astronomical Society, carries ed at the nearly full moon.
Immense circular depressions, Their restiveness cannot be
"Now for a good-looking doù-- climbed the steps again.
some of them over 100 miles ble star," said the astronomer, wholly due to the slow progress of Japanese armies in their cam- A pin-point of reddish light, Pain shot through my eyes as across, with here and there a and in the field of view I saw a paign on the mainland. For this was the new star which had the hard, pitiless white blaze geared and solitary peak up- glittering drop-carring - two actually, the Japanese successes sent a ripple of excitement flooded them.
thrust from the centre; desert jewel points, one golden-hued, have been, or should have been,
The sight of the moon in a after desert, grey or burning the other pale blue. sufficient to satisfy the most through the ranks of astro- ambitious.
nomers when it was discovered, great telescope beggars descrip- white; gullies, and clefts, and miles separated the two great few days before, by the tion. You are no longer on canyons, down which no living suns, which were yet bound to- gether by the invisible chain of Earth. You have risen mira- thing ever leapt or will leap.
gravitation. Swedish observer, Nils Tamm.
culously, supercharged and oxy- gen-helmeted, to the empyrean. huge rim, the highest peaks al- A shading-off at the moon's
out his nightly researches.
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Millions of
And next it was Nova Her-
It is all to China's advantage if the critics of military tactica cry loudly for more victories and
A sudden, stupendous explo- A deeper penetration of the
sion of gases, many hundreds Chinese republic, however, for
You are within a few hundred ready trapping the first rays of culis, the star which blazed out their demands may result on a of years ago, in those far confines miles of a country where jagged sunrise, the valleys still black, suddenly in December 1984. speeding up of operations in spite of the universe, and now the mountain peaks cast deep, stark where you would have frozen to Through the little eye-lens shone of the necessity for caution; and rent star had just flared out shadows as the sun beats down death almost before you suffo a lamp of purest emerald. A generals may be inclined to redly in the fields of our teles- through a cloudless, atmosphere. cated in the horror of the lunar point of light only. No tele
sacrifice-safe communications 1.
copes.
and sound consolidation for the reckless sort of warfare which pleases the public because it is spectacular.
It is not known with any cer- tainly why General Matsui was recalled from China, It is possible that he was removed from command because of his outspoken hostility to protracted negotiations over the fate of the Chinese Customs revenue. It is possible that he was wanted for some other work. Or it may be that in Japan, as with other nations at war, politics, play
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not unimportant part in appoint- ments in high places, and General Matsul has been "axed" like other able men in other armics. Here again, whatever
THE "VERY IDEA"
-less sky.-
night........
ALL IS NOT GOLD-FISH THAT
GOES INTO THE FRYING-PAN
By EDDIE "FISHFACE” KELLY
scope yet made will show the -truo disc of a star.
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 tele- 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 milea
away....
Faces upturned in a South London garden....leaves whis pering terrestrial tea and sandwiches and cakes waiting...
He should have written to us. Let us tell you that anything we don't 204,299,300,000,000,000 the cause, the effect is not de- know about gold-fish, the gold-fish don't know about it either. 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---15 the a sick gold-fish. Whooping cough was the trouble. among Japanese when Japanese anxiety they consider that the general moral effect of this piercing of
We did everything In our power, but the Grim Reaper claim- whose armics have been adver- the Japanese inner defences by
It ed our little Jim, and he passed over the Great Divide with one
faint, final whoop.
PIKERRAARUKARAMYAZARAGAYATAQWANAKATWADINEKAVAK fined as invincible and whose a daring Chinese squadron.
Needed Urgently
'MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S
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casualties infinitesimal as com- does not matter that the raiders pared to those of his op were led by an American and ponents, has been suddenly that Russians and other Euro- The recalled. It is not unreasonable peans probably took part.
is that Japanese citizens to suppose that they may won- fact der whether the picture is 05 will not feel themselves 80 bright as it has been painted: secure, for already the air raid have in many
Our wife, with the desperate insolence borne of grief, turn- cd to us and said: "I told you that rum you gave him wouldn't do him any good."
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Says She Was Sold For £30
A
19-YEAR-OLD American girl has just revealed to the San
Winter Clothing whether the newspapers in sterms hayo, sound whole als WE just glanced at her and left the room. It was months be-Frances, police how she was sold
Hongkong Benevolent Society
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It
fore we would speak to her again.
We now pursue our studies alone. We have watched the fish through its life span.
Cradled it through birth, nur-1Jim, we spent many an interest- ned it through the anxious stages ing hour together, teaching the of adolescence when its charac-little chappies to swim. ter was being formed, watched
it grow bigger and bigger until) It got curvature of the spine) swimming around the bowl. We saw it develop the home
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 ever expected this sort Chinese planes without the loss of treatment at the hands of the of a single one of the attacking, Chinese. force.
Here, then, are a few of the The impregnable Japanese air 'reasons why Japan's politicians defences have been broken, and may be restive and why there A JN JAN ZENAKJES JESJELEJEJAAN AWEK TURKUMA ZE ZA JAS JAChinese planes have reached are indications of discontent in
Formosa. On
alde the tho onc
country. The symptoms Japanese-the Casualties are mean that the Japanese are minimised and the impression is awakening to the fact that the given that the bombing raid was war in China is not exactly a instinct as it reached its teens. a complete fallure insofar As series of manoeuvres and easy
One fomalo gold-fish we had con- victories and that they may military objectives were 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 fixturen at they do not mean that a poli- bowl. the base they attacked. This tical upheaval is Imminent, and discrepancy is relatively unim- that is what Washington papers portant. What doca count seem to imply.
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE.
Before the missus left us after our quarrel about little
We would stand on one side of the bowl, making paddling motions with our hands and one foot, and the missus would stand on the other skle encouraging the fah "Come along, bubslo.... Bubslc-wubale, come to mamma.
as a white slave for £30.
Following her revelations, police made 40 arrests in lightning raids on white slave dens in San Francisco and cities round the Bay,
Among those arrested were several policemen, it is stated, but names are being withheld (reports the Daily Herald San Francisco Corres- pondent).
The story of the 10-year-old glr), Jeanne Marjorie Walters, a borne out by another girl, aged only 15.
Film-struck, Jeanne loft home for Hollywood, but her money ran out, ahe took a job as a barmoid, and won tricked by, a man enlled Mc- Gregor into white slavery.
"Ha offered
me a lob," the de-
$100."
They learnt in no time. Theyclared, "but actually he sold me for weren't so hot on the American crawl, but you should have seen them on the breast stroko.
So thoro you are.
to
Moved continually from one place apollier, she was kept under watch all the time-until the day: when she managed to escape and tell her story to the police..
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