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JAPAN GROWS RESTIVE

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.

out his nightly researches.

I VISIT the MOON

By

Roderick

Morison

As seen through the telescope

مم

A Double Star

EASTWARD the big cylinder swung. "I am going to show you a double

A world torn by the star," said Dr. Steavenson.

impact of great meteorites

where would

canyons

you

freeze to death...

Pitiless Blaze

climbed the steps again.

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

He laughed. "Devil star7" 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 the superstitious wonder in minds of the ancients because it No Living Thing

waxed and waned eternally. When Washington newa-

It was a new star-a Nova-

CLIMBED down the papers express the opinion that

You are looking down

Algol still loses and regains discontent is widespread in and the step-ladder led to the

on Nature's grimmest three-fifths of its light once in Indder gingerly, and 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 reasons for it. To some extent, perhaps, the wish is father to flecting telescope with which swung the huge, howitzor-like a world torn and scarred in past now that the Demon has an in- no Dr. W. H. Steavenson, Fellow cylinder, weighing half a ton, ages by the explosive impact of visible companion which, circl- the thought; but there is

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 Diet are restless. Astronomical Society, carries ed at the nearly full moon. I

Immense circular depressions,

"Now for a good-looking dou- Their restiveness cannot be

some of them over 100 miles ble atar," 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 ncross, 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-earring 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, through the ranks of astro-

The sight of the moon in a aftor desert, grey or burning the other pale blue. Millions of suflicient to satisfy the most ambitious.

nomers when it was discovered, great telescope beggare descrip- white; gullies, and clefts, and miles separated the two great gether by the invisible chain of It is all to China's advantage a few days before, by the tion. You are no longer on canyons, down which no living suns, which were yet bound to

gravitation. if the critics of military tactics Swedish observer, Nils Tamm. Earth, You have risen mirn- thing ever leapt or will leap.

culously, supercharged and oxy- A shading-off at the moon's

And next it was Nova Her- ery loudly for more victories and

A sudden, stupendous explo- gen-helmeted, to the empyrean. huge rim, the highest peaks al- 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 1934. 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 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 and nound consolidation for the reckless sort of warfare which pleases the public because it is spectacular.

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copes..

THE "VERY IDEA"

lesa sky.

night.....

ALL IS NOT GOLD-FISH THAT

GOES INTO THE FRYING-PAN

A

By EDDIE "FISHFACE” KELLY

scope yet made will show the true 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 60,000 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.

MARINASGQUANTARANYAANAAWAGUERAKAUNtised as invincible and whose a daring Chinese squadron.

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Our wife, with the desperate insolence borne of grief, turn- ed to us and said: "I told you that rum you gave him wouldn't do him any good."

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

Faces upturned in a South London garden....leaves whis- pering...terrestrial ten and sandwiches and cakes waiting...

Says She Was Sold For £30

It is not known with any cer- tainly why General Matsul was recalled from China. It is possible that he was removed from command because of his foutspoken hostility to protracted negotiations over the fate of the Chinese Customs revenus. 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 not unimportant part in appoint- ments in high places, and General Matsui has been "axed"

He should have written to us. Let us tell you that anything we don't 204,939,360,000,000,000 Uke other able men in other farmies. Here again, whatever the cause, the effect is not do 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-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 out little Jim, and he passed over the Great Divide with one casualties infinitesimal as com- does not matter that the raiders faint, final whoop. pared to those of his op were led by in American and ponents, has been suddenly that Russians and other Euro- The recalled. It is not unreasonable peans probably took part. to suppose that they may won-fact is that Japanese citizens der whether the picture is na will not feel themselves bright as it has been painted: secure, for already the air raid the newspapers in alarms have sounded in many Japan tell the whole story: cities in Japan and whole dis- whether the army's and navy's tricts have been warned of an It 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 Chinese planes have reached are indications of discontent in Formosa. On ono side-the the country. The symptoma Japanese-tho casualties are mean that the Japanese aro minimised and the impression is awakening to the fact that the.

We saw it develop the home given that the bombing raid was war In China is not exactly afnotinct as it reached its teens. ja complete failure Insofar na series of manoeuvres and easy

military objectives were con-victories and that they may Ono female gold-fish we cerned. The Chineso state that have to pay dearly for the land climbed out of the water every they destroyed a number of air-they have seized fn Asia. But day to polish the outside of the craft and Important fixturco at they do not mean that n poll bowl. the bane they attacked.. This ticnl upheaval fa imminent, and discrepancy is relatively unim that is what Washington papers Eportant. What doen count seem to imply

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WE just glanced at her and left the room.

fore we would speak to her again.

It was months be-

We now pursuo 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 charne- little chapples to swim. ter was being formed, watched it grow bigger and bigger until it got curvature of the spino swimming around the bowl.

had

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 side encouraging the ish "Come along, bubsio.... Bubale-wubsie, come to mamma.

They learnt in no time. They weren't so hot on the American crawl, but you should have econ Before the missus left us them on the breast stroke,

So there you are. after our quarrel about little

10-YEAR-OLD American dri has just revealed to the San Francisco police how the was sold as a white slave for £30.

Following her revelations, polico mado 40 arrests in lightning raids on white slave dens in San Francisco and cities round the Bay.

Among those arrested were several

names

policemen, it is stated, but are being withheld (reports the Dolly iterald San Francisco corres- pondent).

Jeanne Marjorie Walters, is borne

The story of the 19-year-old girl,

cut by another girl, aged only 10.

Film-struck, Jeanne let! home for Hollywood, but her money ran out, she took a job as a barmaid, and was tricked by a man called Mo- Gregor into while slavery,

"He offered me a job," siia de clared, "but actually he sold me for

place

$100.

Moved continually from

to another, the was kept under watch all the time until the day when she managed to escapo and tell her story to the police.