1938-12-15 — Page 8

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War on Cancer

a Pest to Catch

ΝΤΟ 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 awamps 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.

RC-

IL was delivered to a Pan

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

was scarcely one officially credited entomologist in the Bri- These inscels came from the tish Empire. | hendquarters of one of the

are over three To-day there strangest armies 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 saving the world £100,000,000 n laboratory; their active service 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. they are staking everything, the theory that (to paraphrase an old rhyme)

THOSE insects

were

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

THAT is but one

and

If big fleas have little fleas

Upon their backs to bite

cm),

I

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"He MUST care a little-didn't he name his new bacteria diz. -

covery after me?"

This is

OUR EMPIRE

SHALL be dealing to-day

with a string of Colonial

Then little fleas have lesser territories inhabited by Euro-

Neas,

Mest of these have been

under British

government for a hundred

West Indies.

the

CX-

us article comprises

tracts from a talk given by Loril Harlcel from the microphone at Broadcasting House, London, recently.

Lord Harlech, as Mr. Ormsby- Gove was Secretary of State for Colonies.

The manuscript of the talk was supplied by the courtesy of the British Broadcasting Cor- Doration.

for

Cyprus, ceded to British adminis-

Malta And Gibraltar

by

peans-such as Gibraltar, Malta And so ad infinitum! · and Cyprus, or by Asiatics, such From all over the world come

That is why this year prepara-and Hongkong.

as Aden, Ceylon, British Malaya appeals to the "Parasite Zoo" tions were made, well in advance. BRITAIN THIS WEEK de-and very soon a battalion of for defensive action against an

warrior parasites are recruited attack of the desert-locust, years, La. much longer than tropical clared war on

an enemy from the breeding station and Years of field-study have shown Africa, but not nearly so long as the which claims more lives than sent off by the air-liner, safely that the locust, whose damage

There can be no denying that this is appalling and incalculable, enclosed in special cold-storage

chain of British Colunies through any war she has previously en containers, with rations for the

swarms in eyelés of ten or eleven the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and

British Hongkong has been years.

Ocean became British Indian kaged in.

journey composed of such tasty-

because of our Navy, and primarily close on one hundred years and is the headquarters of the Chine But there are locusts and for the needs of a Navy that had to Financed to a great extent bits as raisins and sugar

locusts. South of the desert-police the erent maritime trade Squadron of the Royal Navy. water.

The overwhelming majority of its from philanthropic sources,, a

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

tralia, New Zealand arth the Far million inhabitants are Chinese.

Aden becanic stretching from French Equa- East.

British port and valiant campaign has been

fortress before the opening of the Lorial Africa to Tanganyika;} In the 10th century they were Suez Canal. waged for many years in Eng-

brief south of these are the red- often called "coaling stations." To-

The Colony

and protectorate VI day with the same naval require Aden, of course, brings us into direct land against cancer, man's

chapter in the story locusts, then the brown-locusts, ments, and the added requirement greatest scourge, But the faci- of man's ceaseless war against whose terrifying hordes cost the of air bages, civil as well na military, contact with the Arab world.

marauding insects-insects Union of South Africa £2,000,- this chain of British Colonies is of tration by the Treaty of Berlin more lities hitherto provided are, in which represent sixty per cent, a year and can strip areas larger as vital importance, to the Dominions than Afty years ago, la inhabited

partly by Turkish and partly the words of the Minister who of all living things on this earth, than England completely clean as to Great Britain."

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

The prosperity and good govern-} us, killing our sheep and cattle, mons this week, "manifestly destroying our crops, cutting

ment of these islands and fortreases

Of all parts of the British Empire, is as essential as their physical de-

is the archaeologists" „paradise, inadequate."

down our trees, blighting our

ond fence, for the Internal peace insects, vegetation, and spreading anni- hilating plagues, if permitted to

ARMIES

progress of each of them is as im- with the still visible remains of the known and unknown, portant in peace and war as their Lusiguan Kings, of the Crusaders, of urt and monuments of Venice, of the own irresponsible, are always attacking. They cost defence against foreign aggression. have their

Their utility to the Empire as a tie Empires, back even further to the Byzentine, Roman and Hellenis- destructive way.

Canada £25,000,000 a year, India

whole depends in no small degree Persia, the Hitites, the Myceneans. £150,000,000 a year, and America on the good relations of the people and the ancient Egyptians, and based Every week some 2,000 letters £400,000,000. At home Bri-

rich in- ultimately on apparently arrive from every corner of the tain's farmers are not without

digenous Neolithic civilisation of His world at the Imperial Institute their insect troubles. Because

DWB. Entomology; every day

of the prolonged drought in the packages of all shapes and sizes spring British sugar-boet was cigar-boxes, cigarette tins, attacked for the first time by the bamboo tubes, hand-made

deadly black aphis, whose total wooden containers-arrive with annual damage here cannot be and the extension under Govern- specimon corpses of bandit in computed. It

The Maltese, who are of European also attacked

of both Britain and of

language which is at self- race, speak the ment auspices of the network of sects. And almost every day mangels and beans, while legions

Dominions governing

the root Semille, and many go back for legions of anti-pests are sent out treatment centres is a matter to the remotest part of the work of caterpillars devoured acres of peoples who inhabit these vital links beyond the Saracenic occupation of

cabbages, and deadly armies of between us all.

the early Middle Ages to the time when Malta was predominantly un- to battle against the hordes.

wireworms moved across our

We have now had a partnership der the influence of Carthage and did untold with them for several generations. the Carthagininn homeland A popular parasite entigrant wheatlands

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

tinuance of that partnership do- pends the ultimate security of India and Australia even more than the security of Great Britain itself.

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

Cancer, like many other dis-of cases, must be tackled early if there is to be any hope of cure,

long overdue. Sanctions in Sydney

of

or

AUSTRALIAN WORKERS which is in great demand in But the fight goes on.

Each Australia. The grub is sent out new type of crop produces a new have 'declared economic in the chilling-room of a steam- insect enemy for whom there sanctions against Japan, and re-jer, dormant in a bed of earth. At must be found a parasite,

the end of its travels the grub anti-pest. Man cannot rest in fuse to load shipping carrying batches 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 war with China.

The boycott weapon, as Hong- kong people know only too well,

the grub of the blow-fly which It was Sir Guy Marshall, in can kill sheep to the value of his capacity of Director of the £3,000,000 in one year. ..

Imperial Institute of Entomology -or C.-in-C. of the Anti-Pest! Army-who once said that, if the insects were allowed to have is the most powerful that the THEN there is the saw. their own way they could destroy fly parasite, which is the world's vegetation in one masses can employ.

plentiful in Britain but which, year. But it is a dangerous and two-until recently, did not exist in

BY LORD HARLECH

and

it

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

a

and

The extant remains of a high civilisation in Malia go back even earlier than those of Minoan Crete. The Rock of Gibraltar has been Hingapore, our island fortress British for over 200 years, that sen- at the south-easternmost corner of tinel of the entrance and exit of the Asia 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 nayal and mill- of the world, and is now by (se the tary history, still vital to Imperial largest city in the British Colonial defence. Empire, with over half a million Inhabitants,

to

Local Patriotism

The Dominions and Malaya her-

Great Britain self have helped

This talk has inevitably been but erraz the cost of this the largest a descriptive sketch in cutiine oversea naval and air base in the

Our scattered Colonial Empire in- to the links of all Em cludes in addition Empire a new bulwark

this chain, many islands in the Pack- flc Ocean, Mauritius, St. Helena, the pire defence opened last year.

Incidentally, British Malayn, which Falkland Islands the cofise- includes, in addition to the hundred quence of British maritime adven-

colonies of the

ture in generations now long past, That gives you some idea of year old annexed

Straits Settlements, the protected Each and all are other links with sided weapon. The Australian Canada. Unfortunately the saw the debt we owe to those scien-states of the Malay Sultans and the great self-governing Dominions, fly has the annoying habit of tists whom we facetiously call rulers, is by far the richest territory the mortar between the great stones workers have got to square tunnelling inside whent stems "bug-hunters." But trie true administered under the Colonial which are the ramparts of the Em- their desire to assist China In and mowing down acres of grain value of their work can never be Office. its fight against aggression with long before the harvest is due. assessed in terms of 2 ..

It is an expensive pastime, cost- the possibility that boycott may ing_Canadian farmers millions bring reprisals by Japan. Aus-of dollars a year.

tralia has only two better cus- But England's "Parasite Zoo" comes to the reacuo by supply- tomers for her goods than Ja-ing parasites which lay eggs in- pan-Britain and New Zealand. side the sawfly grub so that

WED IN HASTE

Rubber And Tin

Loyalty To King

pire; they are the nerve centres of our vast Mercantile Marine but not only that, they are centres whence It is the largest producer of both spread the knowledge and examples. rubber and tin in the world. As the of British political and cultural ideas. Each unit has its own life, its own United States of America is the larg- est consumer of both these two Im-local patriotism, Its own distinctive

the culture, portant raw materials, and United States and its dependencies do not, and cannot, produce them, the state of the American market is It is bound together by threw of vital Intereat to British Malaya, things, first and most important, a Bandsman Charles Thomas, of the

Although larger in area and fur common and generous loyalty of the If the Australians are pre-the parasito egg is also hatched Royal Scots Fusiliers, and Marle richer in material resources, Malaya Varled peoples of these Colonies to pared to risk the loss of Japan's and proceeds to feed itself upon Exhibition at Edinburgh one Monday, Ceylon, which has six million historie enterprise, and third, and

Docherty met bi the Ideal Home is less populous than the island of the person of a single King; second

a sense of partnership in a great 130 trade by pursuing with their its unwilling host until there is she was working, he was playing habitants and is often called Britain's don't let us forget it, by the Royal, sanctions they have set an ox-o sawfly left to food upon there. On the Tuesday he pro- "Premier Crown Colony,"

Navy, which created it and which On the Wednesday, they

Inga- Economically, Ceylon Is famous is its material ample which, if followed by the This

against insects, were married under a tree on the its tea plantations and for its dangerous which is known, as biological Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh, by

Oretna's wedding, primat," 2's Richard coconut products.

In thinking over my themories of shape in 1904 when General He brought his anvil from his Greme Malars and the Dutch East Indies varied in climate, in type, and dexter Gorgas became sanitary inspecs smithy,

As world producer of rubber.

(Continued on Page 5.)

when the sawfly grub is hatched

·war

"posod

N

workers of other nations, will control," really took practical Rennison, who was at the exhibition Ceylon ranks third after British visits to these groups of Colonies-so-

rapidly bankrupt Japan.

But it is a risky experiment.

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