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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 18, 1940.

MAGAZINE PAGE

SHORT SCANDINAVIAN STORY

NRIC saw a moving picture

last night.

At least he thought he did.

He fell to sleep over his books and as his eye lids went down, a curtain went up-on a mar- vellous drama.

Eric is a high school stü- dent. He lives in a log house in a little forcat town of tower Sweden, milks a cow, chops wood, dally tramps five miles to school, does his home work in a bare room on a rough table, sleeps on a rather hard bed under coarse blankets,

and is surrounded by snow six months of the year. It's a monotonous life with nothing moro exciting than fighting storms or sending giant loga down ice-covered slopes. Eric dreads spending the rest of his life in such

a place; he

longs for a great day, when he will go places and sec things.

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LAST night he saw things. They were Vikings, in grace- ful ships with high deflant prows, billowy sails and rows of long strong ours.

The men had stringing mous- taches, flowing hair, high fore- hends, bristling eye brown, blue eyes that plereed through intets and clouds, read all the stars, lept over all horizons.

The Vikings bore such names as Eric the Hed, Olaf the White, Knut the Curly, and were wild adven- turers. They carried swords, clanked about In wide-topped boots, whistled through their teeth, yelled "heave ho" here, "heave ho" there, and sailed seven seus, in raids on half the continents.

Fierce nen, accompanied by flercier women with long braids of golden hair, were discovering America, invading Ireland, plun- dering Scotland, subduing England, ruling Russia, overtuemselves in Ger- many, establishing France, preparing to reign over Britain, penetrating Into Turkey, sacking Italy, exploring Afrleu,

That was a grand sight for Eric, If he had known he Was asleep he'd have asked never to bo awakened. He'd have wished he might climb into one of those Viking bouts and sail through the centuries.

of long, strong cars.

Spotting The Rank

VICE-ADMIRAL

The rank of Vica-Admiral, Lieutenant-General equal to

in the Army, has especial interest because it was hold by Nelson when he fell at the battle of Trafalgar.

There are 20 Vico-Admirals now on the activo list, in-

cluding the Commander-in- Chief of the Mediterranean Floot, Sir Andrew Cunning- ham, who is an acting Ad- miral by virtue of his appoint- ment. On the retired list there are 145.

Though tho form Vico- Admiral Was originally in- tended to imply the second- in-command of a ficat, only ono now on the active list was actually in such a post when war began. He is Vico- Admiral Geoffroy Layton, second - in - command of the Mediterranean Floot.

An Admiral on the retired list, Sir Montaguo Browning (known in the service as "Hooky" through having lost a hand), holds the anciont appointment, normally a sino- curo, of Vico-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Liouton- ant of the Admiralty.' Wero

the whole of the Board of Admiralty to be wiped out by some calamity, he would be Tegally entitled to reign over the Navy in their stoad until succossors were in office.

INSTEAD of that a big tall Viking left the singe and came to him, stamping grandly down the aisle, lofty helmet on his head, swinging sword at his Aldo.

"Hello, mate," he sald, stopping before the

THE

youth.

*Hello, chlef," the young wood- chopper exclaim- ed a-quiver from the honour that

VIKINGS

COME

BACK

had been given him.

"What's

your name?" Viking asked,

"Eric."

our

A grand name," continued Viking, "ile Was greatest explorer. Re discovered America. Be proud: of your name."

"Aw. Chief," objected the inle-boy sighing

"I can't be proud, I'm ashamed. Here I am an Eric. But all I do is milk a cow and study geome- 1ry, I want to be a Viking, stand up in a bont, discover new worlds, conquer England, rule Russla. I want adventure. I came a thousand years too late."

"NO, my son." Viking Interposed. "Now is

the time for adventure."

"What do you mean, Chief?" protested Erle, rising respectfully, but puzzled. "I'd like to go down into Germany, na Gustav Adolfus, to save somebody, or invade Russin, as King Charles, to drive back barbarians. We Norsemen used to be a mighty power, but look at us now, cooped up in this little country, milking cows and sawing Wood!"

We never were a greater force than to-day." Viking said firmly. "Now is our epoch. This is

the moment for adventurous Norsemen

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"WE old Vikings destroyed; you new Vikings build. Taku from us old pirates daring, self-reliance, love of new paths, and a passion for freedom, but nothing

more.

"We robbed people; you give to people. Be- cause of us, Norseman menni terror; because of you, Norseman means blessing. Where we went, lights went out; where you go lights are kindled, We brought wor; you bring peace. Our songs were battle hymns; yours are hymns of love to God and man.

"We old Vikings turned things upside down; упи

new

Vikinga consolidate and stabilize. Norse poets set the hearts of the world a-singing. Norse story tellers put half the world's children to sleep; reforms, Norse prophets inspire mankind to Norac scientists snatch golden secrets from #nture

we snatched golden plunder from churches,

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"Norsemen give an example of centennial harmony to a warring world. They show machine-ridden epoch how capital and labour may be friends. While others deepen the abyss that divides rich and poor, Norsemen close it. Tis they who best show a quarreling world the way of brotherhood, Among Norsemen clty helps country, state helps state, nution aids nation, the factory supplements the form, buyer and seller clasp hands at the market place; the artist sits at the pig herd's hearth:"

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THE old Viking grew eloquent and his faco glowed-as though he were sailing into a morning sun, or cleaving a raging

деа.

"We old pirates saw but the edge of life,” he snid. "We only skirted winding windy shores and clung to straggling rivers. We kept on the fringe of things. But the whole world is yours. The nations come to your doors to learn. They stop at your thresholds to listen. They pause at your gurdens to gazu.

Erle the Red, discovered a new continent, but didn't know it from a sen Kull's cove. You modern Erics make new worlds. You squeeze atoms, Jure them out of neons, Charm them out them out of ether waves. We old Vikings are as toy adventurers beside you; our ships, for ponds where kiddies play. I was born a thousand years too soon!"

A book dropped. Eric started, He rubbed his eyes and sighed and sadly sald, "What do you think of that?"

How You Look To Your Dog

THE

world as the animal kingdom sees it is a vastly different world from that seen through human eyes.

These remarkable scientifle pictures, which reveal just how startling are some of these differences, are the results of years of intensive research and have just been placed on exhibition in the American Museum of Natural History,

Study In Black And White

Here is how your study ape pears to your dog.

The dog. like all animals be- low the primates (humans, opes, tarslers, and Irmurs) is colour- blind and so this room to him is black and white.

In addition the dog has a poor discrimination of line and thus the pattern of the furniture and the lines of the room self are modified.

A Fly Looks At The Barnyard

The fly's world is broken into honeycomb pattern spots because it has mosaic eyes.

A fly's eyes can utilise the short waves of ultra-violet light, which is invisible to -us,-but--they-aro-very--in--- effective where the longer- rayed light, visible to us, is concerned. Thus to a fly the red barn appears as 80 many purplish spots.

QUIZKRIEG

TERE is a furiler batch of questions about the war which

most of us think has been so uneventful.

Give yourself two points for each correct answer, and if your total passes 20 you can pass the Ilst on to your friend, with a feeling of superiority!

The correct answers are printed sideways at the foot of this panel.

(1) Who is the First Sen Lord and Chief of Naval Staff? (2) Who is his French equivalent?

(3) Has the French Navy sustained any losses since

war began?

(4) Is Britain bound by any guarantee to go to the sid of Rumanin if she were attacked?

(6) Did the Russian invasion of Finland take place be- fore or after December 17

(0) What was the name of the British armed merchantman sunk by the "Deutschland" after a gal- lant fight off Iceland?

(7) Which ship was the first published casualty of the war?

(6) On what day did France declare war?

(0) Was the "Graf Spee" the first Gorman.warship (apart from submarines) sunk in the war?

(10) Which city is the present capital of Poland?

(11) Who is Chief of General Staff of the German Army?

(12) Who in Chief of the Im- perlof General Stai?

(13) Who is his French equiva-

lent?

(14) Who las in charge of Lon- don'a air refences?

Answers to Quizkrieg

1. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound.

Two warships totalling

4. Yes, a guarantee given in

5. Before.

April, 1939.

November 30, 1989.

6. "Rawalpindi," formerly of the

P. & O. Line.

7. S.S. "Atheria," torpedoed on

9. No. "Graf Spee" was sunk on December 17, 1939, "Leipzig" and another cruiser were sunk on Decem- ber 14, though not announced till December 19.

General Edmund Ironside.

14 Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh

8. September 3, 1939.

11. General van Brauchitsch.

10. Angers, in France.

13. General Georges.

September 3, 1939.

2. Admiral Darlan.

ICS.

5,822 tons. 3.

12.

Dowding.

Hans Have A Social Scale

This is how the barnyard looks to the hen in the fore. ground on the right.

There is a social scale or hierarchy in the barnyard and each individual hen is larger or smaller psycho- logically than other hens.

Because of this hierarchy, which owes its existence not to strength but to psychic factors, one hen has the right to peck a second with- out being pecked back.

When two hens.meet, the one which carries itself with the greater poise has the "peck-right" over the second.

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The Angler- As A Fish Sees Him

This is how a fish sees a wading angler.

The physical condi- tions of the stream distort the figure of the fisherman.

He appears to have no middle and the head is broadened out of all proportion.

The angler, however, appears to a fish in all the colours a human sces, because, unlike dogs, fish are not colour-blind.

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Spend Half Lunch Hour In Church

When factory lunch-hour bells clong In Tunstall, Staffordshire pottery town, they not only signal the break for the mid-day meal, they also tell the workers at the time for worship is approaching.

The factory hands rush home, has- Lily eat their meal, and then, still in their overalls, hurry to Christ Church n twenty minutes service--n hymn, a talk and prayers conducted by the vicar, the Rev. 5. L. Linsicy. The talks are illustrated by lantern alldes in the blacked-out church,

Most of the worshippers are women

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