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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 15, 1988.

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Hongkong the

other day, by air-mail from a lonely farm in

Kenya Colony, came a tiny

a Pest

whitewood box no larger tor of the death swamps of the than'a matchbox and smaller Panama Canal zone and began to than the linen label attached, study the habits of the mosquito, which had killed 22,000 workers to it.

in eight years.

It was delivered to a Pan

His triumph is now history. American Clipper and taken But what is not so well known across the Pacific to complete a is the fact that at that time there 14,000 mile journey by air.

was scarcely one officially ne credited entomologist in the Bri- These Insects came from the tish Empire.

headquarters of one of the To-day there are over three strangest armics on earth, the hundred highly-trained spc- army of expert campaigners of cialists sparing neither time the Imperial Institute of Ento- nor effort in finding new means mology, whose invisible war of defence and attack. Their against marauding insects is work is not confined to the laboratory; their active service TRY THE 10 AND 12 H.P. saving the world £100,000,000 a takes them into the remotest year, and on the winning of places in search of the scientific which depends our very exist proof of the theory upon which ence, physical and economic.

The

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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 December 15, 1938

War on Cancer ·

BRITAIN THIS WEEK de- clared war on an enemy which claims more lives than any war she has previously en-

gaged in.

THOSE

insects were

samples of the 8,000,- 000 insect specimens housed and catalogued at the Natural His- tory Museum in London.

From all over the world come

they are staking everything, the theory that (to paraphrase in old rhyme)

If big fleas have little fleas

Upon their backs to bite

em,

Then little fleas

fleas,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Lichty.

"He MUST care a little-didn't he name his new bacteria dis- covery after me?"

This is

OUR EMPIRE

Most of these

SHALL be dealing to-day with a string of Colonial have lesser territories inhabited by Euro- peans-such as Gibraltar, Malta And so ad infinitum

and Cyprus, or by Asiatice, such That is why this year prepara-and Hongkong.

as Aden, Ceylon, British Malaya appeals to the "Parasite Zoo" tions were made, well in advance, and very

soon a battalion of for defensive action against an British government for, a hundred have been under warrior parasites are recruited attack of the desert-locust. years, ic. much longer than tropical from the breeding station and Years of field-study have shown Africa, but not nearly so long as the

West Indies. sent off by the air-liner, safely that the locust, whose damage is appalling and incalculable, enclosed in special cold-storage

swarms in cycles of ten or eleven containers, with rations for the journey composed of such tasty-

raisins and sugar

years.

stretching from French Equa- East."

HIS

(x- Elven the

artfele comprises 1. traels

from a talk by Lord Harlech from microphone at Broadcasting House, London, recently.

Lard Harlech, an Mr. Ormsby-. Gore was Secretary of State for Colonies.

The manuscript of the folk was suppiled by the courtesy of the British Broadcasting Cor- poration.

for

chain of British

There can be nu denying that this Colonies through the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and

British Hongkong has been the Indian Ocean became British because of our Navy, and primarily close on one hundred years and is:

headquarters of the China But there are and Financed to a great extent bits as

locusts and for the needs of a Navy that had to the locusts. South of the desert-pollee the great maritime trade Squadron of the Royal Navy. water.

The overwhelming majority of its from philanthropic sources, a

locusta are the tropical-locusts, routes from Britain to Indin, Aus-

tralia, New Zealand and the Far million inhabitants are Chinese,

Aden became valiant campaign

a British port and has been

fortress before the opening of the torial. Africa to Tanganyika; In the 19th century they were Sucz

Canol. waged for many years in Eng-

THAT is but one

brief south of these are the red- often culled "coping stations." To-

and protectorate of The Colony natal · require- land against cancer, 'man'a

chapter in the story locusts, then the brown-locusts, day with the same

Aden, of

of course, brings us into direct ments, and the added · réquirement greatest scourge.

But the faci- of man's ceaseless war against whose terrifying hordes cost the of air bases, civil as well as military, contact with the Arab world.

Cyprus, ceded to British adminis- marauding insects-insects Union of South Africa £2,000,- this chain of British Colonies is of lities hitherto provided are, in which represent sixty per cent, a year and can strip arens larger as vital importance, to the Dominions tration by the Treaty of Berlin more than filly ycore ago, is inhabited partly by Turkish, and partly by the words of the Minister who of all living things on this earth, than England completely clean

Greek speaking Cypriots. introduced the Bill in the Com-and which would soon over-run of green life.

us, killing our sheep and cattle, mons this week, "manifestly destroying our crops, cutting inadequate."

down our trees, blighting our vegetation, and spreading anni- Less than one in four of those hilating plagues, if permitted to

destructive way,

ARMIES

of

insects,

as to Great Britain.

Utility To Empire

Malta And Gibraltar

Of all parts of the British Empire,. is the archorologists' porndise,

of the

The prosperity and good govern-. ment of these islands and fortresses is as essential as their physical de-it fence, for the Interną)......... peace and

each of them is as im- with the sull visible remains of progress of known and unknown, portant in peace and war as their and monuments of Venice, of the Lusiguen Kings, of the Crusaders, of Messrs. S. MOUTRIE. & Co., Ltd. who suffer from cancer have in have their own irresponsible, are always attacking. They cost defence against foreign aggression. the 3yzentine, Roman and Hellenis- Their utility to the Empire as a tle Empires, back even further to Canada £25,000,000 a year, India Every week some 2,000 letter. £160,000,000 a year, and America/ whole-depends in no small.. degree Persia, the Hittites, the Myceneang":"

on the good relations of the people and the ancient Egyptians, and based arrive from every corner of the tain's farmers are not without £400,000,000. At home Bri-

ultimately on apparently rich in digenous Neolithic civilisation of its

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world at the Imperial Institute their insect troubles. Because BY LORD

HARLECH

own.

Malta, our chief naval base in the Mediterranean, was, for two roman- tle centuries before it became British In the Napoleonie wors, under the rule of the international order of the Knights of St. John.

The Mallese, who are of European which is at the self- race, speak a

language the root Semitic, and many go back far

England the opportunity of cure: or amelioration which modern methods provide.

day Cancer, like many other dis-of Entomology; every

of the prolonged drought in the packages of all shapes and sizes cases, must be tackled early if cigar boxes, cigarette tins, attacked for the first time by the spring British sugar-beet was

hand-made there is to be any hope of cure, bamboo tubes,

wooden containers-arrive with deadly black aphis, whose total. and the extension under Govern-wpecimen corpses of bandit in annual damage here cannot be also attacked ment auspices of the network of sects. And almost

every day computed. It

Dominions and legions of anti-pests are sent out mangels and beans, while legions of both Britain and of'

governing treatment centres is a matter to the remotest part of the world of caterpillars devoured acres of peoples who inhabit these vital links beyond the Saracenic occupation of the early Middle Ages to the time cabbages, and deadly armies of between us all long overdue.

to battle against the hordes.

when Malta was predominantly un- wireworms moved across our

We have now had a partnership der the influence of Carthage ond and Sanctions in Sydney

did A popular parasite emigrant wheatlands

untold with them for several generations, the

and on the happy and willing con Is Alysia Manducator, an insect damage to the cereal crops.

unuance of that partnership AUSTRALIAN WORKERS which is in great demand But the fight goes on.

Each pends the ultimate security of India Australia. The grub is sent out new type of crop produces a new

and Australia even more than the have declared economic in the chilling-room of a steam- insect enemy for whom there

security of Great Britain Itself, Singapore, our land sanctions against Japan, and re-er, dormant in a bed of earth. At must be found a parasite, or fuse to load shipping carrying the end of its travels the grub anti-post. Man cannot rest in

hatches into a fly, which likes this world-wide war. what they suspect are materials nothing better than to feed on which may be turned to use in the grub of the blow-fly which can kill sheep to the value of the war with China.

£3,000,000 in, one year.

The boycott weapon, as Hong-: kong people know only too well, is the most powerful that the masses can employ.

in

It was Sir Guy Marshall; in his capacity of Director of the Imperial Institute of Entomology For C.-In-C. of the ́Anti-Pest

:

homeland Carthaginian

Phoenicia.

The extant remaina of a high civilisation in Malts go back even carlier than those of Minoan Creśc. The Rock of Gibraltar has been fortress British for over 200 years, that sen- at the south-easternmost_corner of tinel of the entrance and exit of the Asla where the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean, the smallest of all the China Sea converge, is also one British Colonies, but one of the most of the greatest commercial ports significant in our naval and milli- of the world, and is now by far the tary history, stiil vital to Imperi 31 largest city in the British Colonial defence. Empire, with over half a million inhabitants.

The Dominions and Malaya, her

Local Patriotism

self have helped Great Britain to This talk has inevitably been but. Army--who once said that if the defray the cost of this the largest a descriptive sketch in outline. insects were allowed to have oversea naval and nir base in the Our scattered Colonial Empire in- THEN there is the saw. their own way they could destroy Empire new bulwark of all Em- cludes in addition to the links of this chain, many lands in the Paci- fly parasite, which is the world's vegetation in one pire defence opened last year. plentiful in Britain but which, year.

Incidentally, British Malaya, which fe Ocean, Mauritius, St. Helena, the includes, in addition to the hundred Falkland Islands all the conse But it is a dangerous and two- until recently, did not exist in

That gives you some idea of year old annexed colonies of the quence of British maritime adven

ture in generations now long past.. sided weapon. The Australian Canada. Unfortunately the saw the debt we owe to those scien- Smits Settlements, the protected Each and all are other links with

of the Malay Sultans and fly has the annoying habit of tists whom we facetiously call suites, is by far the richest territory the great self-governing Dominions, workers have got to square tunnelling inside wheat stems "bug-hunters." But the true administered under

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are pre- the parasito egg is also hatched

WED IN HASTE

Ofice.

Rubber And Tin

the Coloniale mortar between the great stones which are the ramparts of the Em- {pire; they are the nerve centros öf Tour vast Mercantlis: Marine; but not. [only that, they, are centres whence: It is the largest producer of both spread the knowledge and examplos rubber and tin in the world. As the of British political and cultural Idens.. United States of America is the lary-Each unit has its own life, its own est consumer of both these two in-local patriotism, its own distinctive portant raw materials, and as the culture

United States and fla dependencies

do not, and cannot, produce them. Loyalty To King

the state of the American market is

La bound together by threa af vital intercet to Brášish: Malaya." | things; first and most important, a Bandsman Charles Thomas, of the

Although larger in area, and for common and generous loyalty of the Royal Scots Fualliers, and Marie richer to material resources, Malaya varied peoples of these Colonies to Docherty met in the Ideal Home is less populous than the island of the person of a single King: second.. trade by pursuing with their its unwilling host until there is he was working, she was playing habitants and is often called Britain' don't let ne forge 15 by the Royal pared to risk the loss of Japan's and proceeds to feed itself upon Exhibition at Edinburgh one Monday. Ceylon, which has x million the 17% a sense of partnershipala s great blelogio enterprise “and” thirst, and panorama no bawfly loft to feed upon there. On the sky day he pro "Premier Crown Colony sanctions they have set an exam ABA

Do Dosed. ~ On the Wednesday they ample which, it followed by the this war, araimiby insecting destands Fiji workere, of other nationtrol really took practical rapidly bankrupt Japan.

**kit" which is known as 4);

shape in 1904 when But it is a risky experiment. Gorgas became sanitary

In thinich ove

Astree on the Economically Ceylon is famous 19 Hent, Edinburgh by for tea plantations and for its danas our world and dente elbilen Ceylon ranks third after British visits to these groups of Colón ina #semeddin apples, Richard Coconut products AN

brought his invit from his Gretna, sawings and the Dutch East Indies varied in climate, in type, and de

wid: producer of rubber.

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