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'Phone 26615 December 14, 1938

"On My Right JAPAN'S supreme Commander-

in-Chief in South China issues £ challenge to Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek to fight a final and decisive battle on the plains of South China,

In that one paragraph you have the answer to the Chinese malcontents who still ask why Hankow or Canton were not de- fended to the bitter end.

It reminds you of a boxing ring, with brawn pitted against brain. Japan's mighty and modern armaments provide the brawn, Chiang's nimble wit the brain.

Ninety-nine times out hundred, brain will win in

of

the

The

MOCK TURTLE

or

What The Razor Blade Revealed

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almost everything about any cold. The slightest change of thing.

temperaturo causes the paper to

How these newspaper people contract or expand-hence the obtain such B comprehensive spasmodic movements." knowledge always puzzles me,

☆ but they seem to have an in-

exhaustible supply of answers THE TURTLE slowly shook his heid, I very carefully re- to such questions as: "Who

was the grand-aunt of the pre- placed him in my pocket, thank- went Rajah of Bhopawar?" or ed my friend and withdrew.

"What are the boundaries of Sudetenland ?"

I still had some doubts on the matter, but the theory seemed f possible onc, and, at any rate, i I found my friend in his sane could easily be tested. I woul UNFATHOM- rolled his head, and waggled his off hind leg.

tun with the usual telephone in subject my turtle to an exce ABLE as parts of

one hand, a typewriter (still ively high temperature ar After which, complete im- smoking) in front of him, and a watch his reactions. the Pacific Ocean mobility.

glass of ice-water within handy is the depth of Chinese ingenuity.

motion), he made kind of

ments..

Twenty seconds later, coming reach.

The hottest thing I kn works in an office in the Cent to life again (this time with head, tail, and all four legs in placed my turtle on his blotting you her address), so I took

I said nothing, but merely District (No! I refuse to g

I have seen some feeble attempt to do the Lam- pad.

turtle along and showed if He looked at it with a fixed her. strange things on sale beth Walk.

Assuring her that it would Again immobility, except for and glassy stare for several mo- in the streets of Hong- an occasional half-hearted nod

bite, I asked her to pick ip head....and so on,

breathlesan- At first I thought he was try- watching with kong -from dried of the

never repeating exactly the same ing out his powers of hypnotism, terest as she did so. cockroaches to tongue- movement twice.

but at length, as if in answer to But the turtle never sajch my unspoken enquiry, he pro- de wagged his tail! scrapers, but for sheer

nounced judgment. business acumen I have to take my hat off to the gentleman who sells turtles in Des Voeux Road Central.

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by GEOFFREY SUCKLING

BEGAN to feel baffled. You see, there was no ques- HIS "PITCH" is not a stone's tion of any clockwork mechan in

"That is a specimen of the

tuttifruttidermus, or man-eating TIME MARCHED ON bu turile," he said. "It's found in precise, exactly 24 purs. the jungles of Patagonia..., marched on-and my turwas. very fierce in its native state, no more. I mean to say it all but extremely docile when in movement had stopped, his captivity."

demise must have tak/place during the night.

"

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Another profound silence, dur-

Now was the timpor ♫ THINK AGAIN!" I advised, picked out my sharpe razor post mortem examinpal I "It is not a living creature. blade, and reverently id the How does it work?" throw from the G.P.O., and ism, for this would have

remains on an empty s dish. he does not shout his wares. He volved a key of some sort, and

What would the ra blade key nor keyhole.

Brain must be working. Then, I made a neat incin just Now I hated to be beaten by "I think we can rule out the where his collar at should. ten-cent turtle, so resisting question of electricity, internal have been, and rippedim open the impulse to smash him open combustion or remote control," as far as....well, far and lay bare his very soul, that he murmured,...."I have it! It possible. Hame afternoon I took him along contains a strip of very brittle The mystery waghlned! to the office of a local newspaper Japanese parchment paper, ex- where I have a friend who knows tremely sensitive to

Out tumbled a lab dead ily heat and of the blue-bottle té!

merely squats on the curb with the turtle was fitted with neither in which time I knew his Great reveal?

a cardboard tray beside him on which is lined up the weirdest collection of turtles you have seen.

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Each turtle is about the size of a walnut, and to all appear nnces a normal member of the species except that, instead of bearing the usual rather drab-| coloured shell, it sports one of. the most vivid and even startling hue.

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DOWN TO THE GREAT

N DECEMBER 14, 1911, Captain Roald Amundsen, the tuinous

South Pole.

Norwegian Explorer, reached the

Some are spotted, some ON striped, and some have what one might term futuristic designa.

It was two months before the newsi

WHITE SOUTH

ring. The same applies in war. They wag their heads and move of his success reached the outsidemand of Captain Scott, of Discovery | Lieutenant Bower Petty Omeer

When a boxer has brains and their feet at irregular intervals i world-a success which meant the fame, salted down the Thames bound Evans,

no brawn he doesn't stand and receive punishment for the glory of it.

He retreats, retreats, retreats.

and are sure to catch your eye.

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failure of one of the objects of the British Antarctic Expedition.

But what a glorious failure! Hundreds of years before it was actually seen by human eyes, a great continent now called Antarctica was

Provisions

began their

frough

fatal

and

sald fariell to their Inst. gain for the great White South. link with

civilison Lieutenant The objects of the expedition not Evans and his codanions gave them only included the exploration of puris three hearty chethe last appre- of the coastline, but also a further elation they woulever know. attempt on the Pole.

On January 17012, Captain Scott One of the last ports of call before and his four coranions reached the He plays with his opponent; AT ANY RATE they did mino almost invariably show on old mouthbourne, and it was here that Captain ment lay await them. Dog ele leaving for the Antarctic was Mel-South Pole. Buwhat a disappoint- allows the lumbering mammoth the other morning and I stop-as lying in the region of the South Scott received the telegram

Pole. It

from were picked u close Is impossible to say why Roald Amundsen to chase him, arms flaying, ped to investigate.

the Pole, stating briefly. and away in the

distance was these darly catographers were so cer- "Beg leave inform you proceeding Amundsen's fld fluttering from the around the ring.

Lain of its existence; they marked it Antarctic." This nows came as a top of a smallent, After a few minutes' observa-"nondum cognita," But all the time he is waiting. tion-during which time neither boundaries

Amundsen. had and placed its shock to Scott. There was only one forestalled the by thirty-four days. many degrees too for Sooner or later, brawn tires, be-seller

reason for Amundsen's "proceeding nor prospective victim North.

Anturetic, and

and that was for an Two days ler Coplain Scott and comes bewildered, exasperated, uttered

In 1758. De Brosses, President of attempt on the Pole. And Amundsen his word--my

companies reason the Parliament

Blizzards of Dijon, wrote: was no mean rival. Scott know that northward ch shouts (as Japan's army lea-forced me to conclude that, as "The most celebrated and modern lie. Amundsen, had had no previous snowstorms jrried them, and on ders are shouting) "Why don't Mother Nature could hardly have sovereign will be he who gives his experience in the Antarctle, but he February 4 Fans sustained a severe

endowed any of her children in name to the Southern World." It re-also knew that the Norwegians were concussion you stand and fight!" -

a heavy fall. mained for a British navigator

in fcecraft. to extre

ere rapidly becoming Sooner or Inter, too, brawn such fantastic garb, they must make the first scrlous attempt to

be artificial products of a very establish the existence of a continent. Captain Scott had worked out is

reaching the Antarctic, exhausted, on the 17th. Petty discovers to his dismay that he fertile brain.

Omeer Evni died. In 1772, Captain Cook was commis- has used up all his reserves,

plan of campaign. The attainment stoned by the British Government to of the Pole was not to develop into memorable is birthday by walking Du March 17 Captain Oates mude that his opponent on the con- But, then again, how the devil undertake a voyage to the southern at race at the expense of the relentle to his death in a blizzard. His fect trary, has become re-vitalised. did they move their limbs in so whatever his success may have been out the work of exploration

fand, but programme. One party would carry

were severly frostbitten, and his Next month, Japan's "China realistic a manner and at such in other directions, he failed to prove second made the attempt on the Pole, To quote

whlic 2 lameness is holding up

up the party. Um Scott's diary: that land existed within the Antarctic and this varying intervals?

latter party Incident," which was to have:

would Circle.

also

"Oates' ist thoughts were of his carry out a programme of scientific mother, be immediately before he been a glorious episode of only The mystery must be solved!)

research while on the march. The next half century witnessed Expedition set up its base at Capegiment wold be pleased

The took pride in thinking that his re- "How much?" I asked. a few weeks' duration, will be

with the efforts of an altogether different Evans, and long months were spent bold way which he met his death 18 months old. Japan is still

"Twenty cents," he replied. character, British and American in completing arrangements and Iny-

scalers in search of new and virgin ing food depots along the route to the the end. I slept through the night He is a brave soul. This was chasing her nimble for all over the map of Asia, hoping against said, and the rapidity with which Georgiu, and the South

"I'll give you ten cents," Igrounds pressed further and further Pole.

South. The Falkland Islands, South

before lad, hoping not to wake; Gut On October 24 the advance party, he woke Shetlands

the morning yesterday, hope that the decisive "knock- he accepted my offer convinced were discovered, and, though it is not comprising motor sledges, ponies and i was blwing a blizzard. He said, out" blow will be administered me that I was grossly overpay recorded, it is nevertheless believed plies, left the Cape.

not dogs drawing heavy loads of sup- I am at going outside, and may before her fast-ebbing strength ing him. However, a bargain's that those Intrepid seamen were the set up food depots both for the out- the blizzed, and we have not seen

They were to be some time.' HIG went out

Into a bargain, so I paid my ten cents, glons of the Antarctic Continent.

first to sight the mountainous reward and return Journey. On him sind....We knew that poor selected one of his wares to

November 21, Captain Scott and the Ontes way walking to his death, but In 1821, Admiral Bellinghausen, a match, as near as possible, my Russian navigator, finally proved the vance party, and on November 24 a knew it as the act of a brave man old school tic, and departed.

malu party came up with the ad- though i tried to dissuade alm, we existence of a continent; thus was part of the latter set off on the re- and on English gentleman." given the impetus to further explora- turn to Cupe Evans. Most of us have a

On the 20th i tion. Thereafter followed Weddull. Scott's farthest South on a previous childish Ross, Wilkes, D'Urville, and Borch- expendition was passed, and by De- leaning towards mechanical toys grevinkt, ploncers of modern explora-cember 11 there were but two teams on. Shorage of food, severe frost- Scott, Vilson, and Bowers fought. of any kind, and, in my case, I tion.

With the dawn of the present cen-

in the field.

bite, and the blizzard made the going

fails altogether.

"Why don't you stand and fight!" plead her military com- manders. That cry is almost one of despair.

If They Were There

ocean in search of new

I must confess that the urge to tury came the age of heroic dis- also spent the long Antitretie winter when within eleven miles of a food Meanwhile, Amundsen, who had almost impossibic. On March 21, DHRLICH, Mendelssohn, Heine, find out "how it works" amounts covery. New traditions were found in maiting preparations, and had laid depot, the blizzard became so violent

Wirchow, Wassermann, almost to a manin.

ed to be sustained and extended as down a large number of food depota on the 26th the end came. Lack of Offenbach, Koch.

the years passed by. In 1901-3 thenlong the route, was by now well on food and the distress caused by the that they were unable to carry on. All these men were Gerthana.

National (Discovery) Antarctic Ex- the way to the Pole, All these men were Jews.

Or the day. pedition, under the comand of Cnp Secte's last supporting party return intense cok were too much for these Were they alive today, their HERE I HAD a problem of the beyond the limits of past explorers, the coveted

tain Robert Falcon Scott, pushed for ed he was actually within sight of men who had already suffered. no names might have been included

first water. I took my pur-known coastline, and actually reach- nding hundreds of miles to the

eted goal.

grently. On January Captain Scott decid- in the swelling lists of refugee-chano home and placed him on ing within five hundred miles of the cd that Lieutenant Bowers should their lives, to their enterprise is bost: passengers zboard Italian ships the dining-room table for more Pote iscit, Four years later the now Vice-Admiral Sir Edward) lived, I should have endurance. passing through Hongkong each careful study.

join his party and that Lieutenant fold in Scott's own words: "Had we week.

the command of Lieutenant (inter SI Evans and the remaining men of the tell of the hardihood, The nation whose name they For the first couple of minutes Emost) Shackleton broke all pres to the Cope, And so, when within which would have stirred the heart THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. helped to raise among nations he did nothing but stare at me within a hundred miles of the Pola. two hundred miles of the South Pole, of every Eng dead bodies must tell

supporting party should return and vlous records, and reached a point does not want their kind. They in rather a stupid manner. Then

On June 1, 1910, n wend Brits Captain 'Scott and his four compan- were Jews,

suddenly he shot out his neck, Antaretle Expedition under the com-lons, Doctor Wilson, Captain Oates, the aldı...”

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