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Thursday,

HONGKONGS TELEGRAPH

April 18. 1940

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MAGAZINE

SHORT SCANDINAVIAN STORY

Einst night.

NRIC saw a moving picture

1.

At least he thought he did. He fell to sleep over his books and as his oye lids, went down, ä curtain went up-on a mar- vellous drama.

Eric is a high school stu- dent. He lives in a log house in a little forest town of tower Sweden, milks a cow, chops wood, daily 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 more exciting than fighting storms or sending glant logs 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 things.

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

The men had stringing mous- taches, flowing hair, high fare- heads, bristling eye brows, blue eyes that plereed through mists and clouds, read all the stars, lept over all horizons.

The Vikings bore such names as Eric the Red, 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 sens, In rails on half the continents.

Fleree men, accompanied by fercier woinen with long braids of 1:olden hair,

discovering were America, invading Ireland, plun- dering Scotland, subduing England, ruling Russia, overrunning Ger- many, establishing themselves in France, preparing to reign Britain, penetrating into Turkey. sacking Italy, exploring Africa.

over

That was a grand sight for Erly. If he had known he was asleep he'd have asked never 10 be awakened. He'd have wished he night climb into one of those Viking boats and all through the centuries.

of long, strong onrs.

Spotting The Rank

VICE-ADMIRAL

The rank of Vice-Admiral, equal to Lieutenant-General in the Army, has espocial interest because it was held by Nelson when he fell at the battle of Trafalgar.

There are 20 Vice-Admirals now on the active list, in- cluding the Commander-in- Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Sir Androw. Cunning- ham, who is an acting Ad- miral by virtue of his appoint ment.

On the retired list there are 145.

term Vico-

Though the Admiral was originally in- tended to imply the second- in-command of a floot, only one now, on the active list was actually in such a post when war began. He is Vico- Admiral Geoffrey Layton, second - in - command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

An Admiral on the retired list, Sie Montague Browning (known in -tho service as "Hooky"" through having lost a hand), holds the ancient appointment, normally à sino- curo, of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Lieuten- ant of the Admiralty. Were the whole of the Board of Admiralty to be wiped out by some, calamity, he would bo legally entitled to reign over the Navy in their stead until BUCCOSTOTS Wero In office.

... INSTEAD of that a big-tall Viking left the stage and came to Jin, stumping grandly down the aisle, lofty helmet on his head, swinging sword at his side.

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

youth.

THE

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

VIKINGS

COME

BACK

had; been given

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"What's

your

name?" Viking

asked.

"Eric."

"A grand name, continued Viking. "He Wus our greatest explorer. discovered proud

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America. Be

of your name,"

"AW,

Chief," objected the milk-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- try. I want to be a Viking, stand up in a boat, chcover new worlds, conquer England. rule Runslu, I want adventure. I came a thousand yours too late."

the

"No, my son," Viking interposed, "Now is

tine for adventure." What

do you mean, Chief?" protested Eric. rising respectfully, but puzzled. "I'd like to go down into Germany, as Gustav Adolfus, to save somebody, or Invade Rusala, as King Charles, to drive back barbarians. Wo 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 Nemly. "Now is our epoch. the moment for adventurous Norsemen,

This is

"WE old Vikings destroyed; you new Vikings build. Take 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 meant terror; because of you, Norseman means blessing. Where wo went, lights went out; where you go lights are kindled. We brought war; you bring peace. Our songs were battle hymns; yours are hymns of love to God and man.

"We old Vikings turned things upside down; you new Vikings consolidate and stabilize. Norse poets set the hearts of the world a-singing. Norse story teliers put half the world's children to sleep; Norse prophets inspire mankind to reforms. Norse scientists snatch golden secrets from nature as 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 captial 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 clly helps country, slate helps state, nation alds 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 face glowed as though he were sailing into a morning sun, or cleaving a raging sea.

"We old pirates saw but the edge of life," he said. "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 nationa come to your doors to learn. They stop at your thresholds to listen. They pause at your gardens to gaze,

"Eric the Red, discovered a new continent, but didn't know it from a sea

we. You gull's Cove. modern Erles make now worlds. You squeeze them out of atoms, lure them out of urons, charm 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?"

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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 scientific 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

Hefe is how your study ap- pears to your dog.

The dog, like all animals be low the primates (humans, upės, farsiers, and lemurs), is colour- blind and so this room to lim 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 itself are modBird,

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 are very in... effective where the longer- rayed light, visible to us, is concerned, Thus to a fy the red barn appears as so many purplish spots.

QUIZKRIEG

HERE is a further batch of questions about the war which

most of us, think has been so uneveníful,

Give yourself, two points for each correct answer, and

If your total passen 20 you can pass the list on to your friend. with feeling of superiorlly!

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

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

(3) Has the French Navy sustained any lossen since war began?

(4) Is Britain bound by any guarantee to go lo the ald of Rumania if she were attacked?

(6) Dld 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 gul- lant fight off Iceland?

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

(0) On what day did France declare war?

(0) Was the "Graf Spee" the first German warship (npart from submarines) sunk in the wor?

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

(11) Who Is Chlef of General Staff of the German Army?

(12) Who is Chlef of the Im- perial General Staff?

(13) Who to his French equiva-

lent?

(14) Who is in charge of Lon- don's air rekénces?

Answers to Quizkrieg

1. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound.

3. Yes: Two warships totalling

2. Admiral Darlan.

3,822 tons.

4. Yes, a guarantee given

'April, 1939.

6. "Rawalpindi," formerly of the P. & O. Line.

5. Before. November 30, 1939.

7. SS. "Athenia," torpedoed on

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

11. General van Brauchitsch. 12. General Edmund Ironside.

14. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh

8. September 3, 1939.

10. Angers, in France.

13. General Georges

September 3; 1939.

Dowding.

Hens 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 secs a wading angler.

The physical 'condi- tlons of the stream distort the figure of the fisherman.

'He appears to have to middle and the head ́ ́is broadened out of all

proportion.

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

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Spend Half Lunch Hour In Church

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

The factory hands rush home, has-

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by the vicar, the Rev. S. L. Linsley. The talks are flustrated by. Inntern sildes in the blacked-out church,

Most of the worshippers are women.

and; glile, and muny attend specially to pray for their men in the Forces,'

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