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We Can Still Talk About

The

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By ROBERT LYND

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Hongkong listeners must have thrilled carller this week to hear the Daventry broadcast of the arrival of the new contingents of Australian and New Zealand troops in England. Although they are by no means the first Anzaca to cross the.oceans for the war area they are the Arst to Jand on English soil since the 1914-18 war, the carlier contingents: proceeding to Palestine and Egypt.

The arrival of these Diggers in the Homeland again emphasises the world significance of Australia and New Zealand, particularly in the event of a sudden development in the Pacific.

British-murtured Australia is the antipodean stronghold of democracy. In arcu, als continent is approxi mately equal to the United States; in population it approaches seven mil- lions. Australia is rich in gold, silver, lead, zine, lin, copper. It yields coal, dry chemicals, fertilisers; is world famous for exports of wool, beef; wheat and mutton. But these are only material symbols of its underlying wealth of clear-thinking exemplified in a democracy,

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Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand stand as bulwarks for the smaller democratle units of the Preise: Dutel; British and French possessions In the East Indies archipelago to the north, and farther north, the Philippines, French Indo-Chinu and the British Colonies, in one of which readers of this news- paper reside.

It is said with reason that the future of democracy in the Pacific may be shaped in Queensland. This rich Slate is vulnerable to attack directed through the largely unpro- tected hinterland of the west. And Queensland is the gateway to the cholee domains of routh-onstern Aus- tralla.

yet

But totalitarian invasion has noti

come. Australians prayerfully hope that it may never eventuate. Their democratic civilisation has been achieved through peace and order; force has been alien to the Austra Han. By the same token, deification of the State is incomprehensible to him. In no country of the world would totalitarianism. meet tougher resistance than in Australia. For Uils reassuring fact many peoples whose lands border the Pacific Ocean may one day be thankful.

Luckily, though the news human being; and another. papers and the wireless have How Inony fruitful conversations been silenced on the subject we have begun with a simple "Seems to are still allowed to discuss the be getting warmer I was once in- troduced to an intellectual young man who, when I said to him that it weather by word of mouth. It

replied: "That's not when we greet an acquaintance a very original with "Beautiful morning!" or, original remarks are worth making give him for casting doubt on the alternatively, "Filthy day we prefer a man who on meeting me meteorological influence of St. Swit

tells me (what I know alrejdy) that hin's Day, but I wish he had not are indulging in careless talk, the wind is cold to one who starts tried to shake my faith in the old

a Chinese cracker of and perhaps, giving away vital of with

rhyme about the ash and the voic Nor is it only in the weather of have always believed that this rhymo

was scientifically true: Even if the stranger in the the moment that human beings have saloon bar to whom you mention

if the oak's before the ash, from the remolest times been in-

Then you'll only get a splash, the fact that it looks like rain terested. They have always also future in cager

But, If the ash precedes the oak, is a German spy, it is very un- peered into the

Then you may expect в soak. likely that you are telling him anything that with a little effort

accrets.

ASK ME ANOTHER

By IUBERT PHILLIPS

1. Of what European states are the following cifies the respective capitals?

epigram.

On

quest of the weather that was coin- og to them. Some of the first poetry that we learn as children in poetry that tells us how to forecast the weather,

A red sky at night

Is the shepherd's delight

A red sky at morning

Is the shepherd's warning,

make sure

I

statements such as that snow is a

black body that impress me in scientific writings.

I should not have the same faith

in meteorology if know what an Isobar was

to authorities on forestry, "priority recaster is not he who once in.

by Mr. C. R. Benstead, and published it.

by Messrs, Robert Hale, which covers called illusionists.", the whole range of weather pro-

As it is, I am a confirmed bellover I confess that during the present spring I have been keeping my eye in the accuracy of modern weather pains me to read. on the oak and the ash in order to forecasts, and

such high authority us Mr. what kind of summer on we Iney expect; yet here conies Mr. Benstend's hat "the really success- Benstead to tell me that, necording ful

predicts the weather ic- curately, but he whose predictions of budding depends on the nature

This may be a are couched in language that admits the sub-soll." 01 I have just been reading a new scientiae fact, but I cannot believe o sullicient interpretations to cover book, "The Weather Eye," written

any variety of weather that may

situa synoptic There are music-hall performers come along when the

tion is obscure, or even when it is Mr. Benstead, entertaining na any of not. The art of forecasting is thus phecy, from the early rhymes and who is as

Indefinic," proverbs to the suppressed weather them, might be described us a dis- the art of being plausibly forecasts of the B.B.C

illusionist. He will not ever allow To une who has been plously read- Many of these early prophecies, us to indulge in the common belief lag and listening to weather forecasts

"The for years this is shattering. s he points out, were based on the that gunfire

Mr. Benstead, however, will not. behaviour of

ailow anyone bul himself to laugh- animals. These insects and other Great War," he declares, "shook no le the old belief, for tain from the skies." example, that if seagulls fly inland Nor can we produce rain by any at the meteorologist. "Odious as the

The scientist as meteorologist undoubtedly is," be bad weather. Pigs are artificial method. supposed to see the winai

approach raininaker appears to be as great writes, "there is one person more ing and to take shelter from it. The a failure as the magician. "Better," odious, and that is the ignorant lay- the man who is for ever making fun of goose has also been endowed by the says Mr. Benstead, "stick to

him." It Is clear that Mr. Benstend methods of rain-

sound at heart and if you want to country imagination with prophetic simple proven (b)

powers. Even the flen has been making, such as washing your car

talk or arranging a Test match in Man- tively, you could not ask for a better

about the weather authorita- hailed as a weather prophet:

(a) Tallinn, (b) Belgrade, (c) Riga, (d) Sofa, (e) Kovno.

2. Who occupied the British throne one hundred years ago? Whe was Prime Minister? And who, Foreign Secretary?

of

3. The Christian names of five Grood popular composers Opera are: (a) Wolfgang Amadeus,

Giuseppe, (c) Richard, Georges, (e) Glacomo. What are their respective sur

namest

exhibition

(d.

4. The Royal Academy's annual opened, as usual, inst the Royal month. When was

And who Academy founded?

was its first President?

5. Three scientists lunching at the Athenæum described themselves

of

chester."

Causes

rain.

ho

When eager bites the thirsty flea Clouds and rain you sure shall sec.

have learned from his book, Of all living creatures, however.

many things that I did not know, the leech seems to

to be the most

FTER this orgy of seep- inckiding the fact that the pro- highly

Mr. A Team it is not surprising cesses ineteorologist. skilled

of evaporation by which Benstead tells how at

at the Great to find Mr. Benstead speaking lightly water is absorbed into the atmos Exhibition

an appropriately of the barometer. All those "Fair," phere proceed at an average rato 1851 named Mr. Merryweather had an

the whole world of about one on the face of the instrument he dis- 18,000,000 tons each second, a rate apparatus on show "by which "Set Fair" and "Very Dry" legends for of at least 12 leeches

confined in misses as amiable fictions.

that is equivalent to the evapora bottles rang a little bell when a

a meteorological tion during one day of a layer of Though himself a Apparently, officer on

Inch thick tempest was expected."

an aircraft carrier, la- water one-tenth of an sub-even to-day, Girl Guides are taught deed, he treats the science of meteor over an area the size of the world."

how to forecast the weather from ology with cheerful irreverence. You must admit that there are "Frankly," he says, "I cannot take few more exhilarating subjects. thum

fellow seriously who talks about the weather, bolometers and solemnly declares

ns: (a) an ichthyologist, (b) a bryologist, (c) a herpetologist. That were their

ere their respective jects of study?

6. "Why Is raven like a writing-

desk?" Who

put this

7.

and, when asked_the

was his reply?---

riddic:

answer.

What Jeckey rodn the Derby

winner three years

running?

And can you name the three winning horaca?

8.

Who

wrote:

(a) A Passage to India,

(b) The New Arabian Nights.

Mornings in Mexico.

(c)

(d) A High Wind in Jamaica. (e) The Story of An African

Farm?

9. According to the old Greek story, a daughter of the Sun became a sorceress and was banished, to the island of ea. Here, visited by a famous traveller, she turned his companions Into swine. Who was the sorceress, and who her visitor?

10. Who said:

·

(a) The evil that inen do lives

alter them;

The

good is oft Interred with their bones.

(b) To-morrow, and to-morrow,

and to-morrow,

Creeps

In this netly pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of re-

corded time.

(c) Farewell the tranquil mindi Farewell content!

Farewell the plumed troop.

and the big wors, That make ambition virtue!

ASK ME ANOTHER Answers

1. (a) Estonia, (b) Yugo-8lavia, (0) Latvh. (d) Bulgaria, (e) Lithuania. 2. Queen Victoria, Mek- bourne, Palmerston. 3. (a) Mozart, (b) Verd!, (c) Wagner, (d) Bizet, Puccini. 4. 1768, Sir Joshua Reynolds

(b). 5.

fishes, G. The Blad reptiles. (0) mosses, Halter. "I haven't the slightest Idea" 7, Steve Donoghue, Humorist (1022), (1921), Captain Cuitle

(B) E. M Papyrus (1925 8.

Stevenson, (e) Forster, (b) B. L D. II. Lawrence, (d) Richard Hughes, (e) Olive Schreiner. 9.

Sergeant And Bride Cree, Ulysses 16. (a) Mark An-

Wed A Week: Gassed

tonr. (b) Macbeth, (c) Othello.

Air Cadets Aid Defence

The Air Defence Cadet Corps,

A week after he was married, and a'day before he was due to return frorn leave, twenty-year-old Ser- geant Paul Gregory Paca Moore, and his wife Olive were found dead in a numbering 23,000 boys between the gas-filled room in a Handsworth Wood-road, Birmingham, nat."

ages of 18 and: 19, have been placed They took the fat and were lost at the disposal of London authorities seen alive the same evening. Ser geant Moore, was in the Royal En

giacers.

and Air Force commanders for duties

in connection with the protection of the country against parashooters.

the behaviour of leeches.

R. BENSTEAD is more snow to be a black-body-as-the- MR.

sceptical than I like about meteorologist does!" Oddly enough tulk about bolometers and some of the traditional methods of is

BR

ISLES.

NECE

"HESE two maps both show Thick territories which

have been overrun by the Nazis, but they tell different stories.

The larger map illustratos how far Hitler's intention to draw a semi-circle of German occupied territory round Great Britain has succeeded.

It explains his tremendous effort. Until he completed his conquest of France's Atlantic seaboard he had no hope what- ever of carrying safely out his

MILES

HOLL

GERMANY

SID

plans against England. And there drawn after the Armistice was is still that impregnable stretch signed. But even if Germany

of water...

has the whole of France," she'

Orators Lucky To Be Arrested

TWO Hyde Park speakers. who were said to have angered. a crowd of 250 by their remarks were told by the Marlborough. Street magistrate (Mr. E. Boyd) that they were lucky to have been arrested.

"It is not unlikely that later it: would have been dimcult for the police to prevent the people around you from taking the law into their

own hands," he said.

Both men were accused of using: insulting words Ernest W. G. Gosling (42)

aircraft engineer, of Batoum.

Shepherd's Bush,

ель

wps.

over for 12 months, with the alternative of 21 days' imprisonment. In default of finding a surety.

Norman Kennedy (31), carpenter, of Lawford Road, Kentish Town, was remanded for a week.

Sont to Prison

"When this country is fighting for our very existence, you must be taught that you may not suy these things," said the Stratford, E., chair- man (Mr. F. J. Reeve) to Walter Nicholls (17), clerk, of Kenilworth Avenue, Walthamstow, who was sen¬ tenced to a month's imprisonment for using insulting words at Waltham- stow.

NAZIS DRILL IN

SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI police have beem warned of alleged arms secre- tion at the Kaiser Wilhelm school by Shanghai Nazis and. of Fifth Column formations. which are militarily drilled, daily.

Germans are busy, in Toklo with plans for joint action in China ande elsewhere.

German refugees have been cele... brating reported Iller victories in camps provided with money mainly raised by Brlions, says the News: [Eighteen thousand exiles swept:

Chronicle.

The small map shows the still has not conquered the Eng- from Germany, Austria and Czecho area of France which Germany lish channel. The area of France Slovakia by Nazis found sanctuary

invaded. The line was is 213,000 square miles, ..

has

inShatighal International Settle-. mont, making third largest foreig group in elty.]