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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 20 STOP-PRESS NEWS UNIVERSITY NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TO-DAY'S WEATHER Showers and Bright Intervals The Meteorological Office issues the following forecast for the period from 6 a.m. to-day till midnight to-night General Inference. A complex depression remains stationary oPE the north-west of THE GREEN BIRD By Elisabeth Kyle Here, in the heart of the island, that semi-tropical vegetation which nourishes along the Adriatic had been allowed to grow wild. The palms, the cypress trees, and giant flowering shrubs made a deep tangle of undergrowth which smothered one. shut THE STUDY OF HEREDITY GREATER RHODESIA? The Vexed Question of Amalgamation To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister may be leaving for Great Britain next week.

His primary reason for his intended visit was, so he told our Legislative Assembly, to discuss with his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom the report of that Royal Commission of which Lord Bledisloe was chairman in all its implications as far as it affected the colony." Speaking in our Legislative Assembly on May 16 with regard to this Royal Commis- Final Honour School of Natural Science OXFORD, July 5. The examiners in the Final Honour School of Natural Science (Chemistry) have issued the following class list Clas I. G. J- M. Bloom.

St. N. Brown. Exeter; G. E.

Cottes. Queen'i; P. V. Danclcverts. Balliol; T.

Henshall. Kettle: w. j. Kramers. Jesus: s.

Pearce. Oriel: G. M. Phi 111 pi. F.

F. Ross. Mtnon Thomas, Balliol, D- Vlcmry. Trinity; wagstale, wadham: A. a.

wwisms. umv. Ctzzs 1 1. C. Bibbr Merton: J.

S. Bowman. Lincoln. C. Jf.

Danby, St. J. B. Guy, B.N.C.; J. Hirst, Balltol; M.

G. L. Joy, New CoU J. Leignton, Jesus; R. M.

Lodge, Trinity; J. 1. Owen, trus; facicer, St. h. Raine, Exeter; J.

Scott. Queen's; J. A. Sherred. Balliol: G.

B. Stancer. Mred H. W. Stern Line: C.

Stevenson. Jesus. K. J. Tully.

Exeter. C. H. Vasey. Line; W.

D. WhiUker, Jesus. J. F. Hendley.

R. B. M. Yule. St.

Hurh' Class III H. J. C. Abercromble. Ma N.

M. Bets. A. Bird. Kebie.

F. ii. Dixon, K. R. Farnsnorth, C.C D- B.

Furlong, Jesus; A. Talbot, Exeter. i. MunJc. St.

Hilda's Fellowship at Corpus Chrlstl Collert. Mr. Charles Wilson. M.A.. Lecturer Political Science at he London School of Economics, has been elected an official FellowshlD In hlstorv at Corn us Chrfsti College, Oxford.

CAMBRIDGE AWARDS CAMBRIDGE, July 5. Miss E. M. Hill, M.A.. Girton.

has been reappointed University lecturer in Slavonic. The following appointments have been made By the Chancellor Mr. F. W. Thomp son, M.A., formerly Pembroke College, to be a member of the Court of Governors of the University of Sheffield.

ay me council or the Senate Sir G. B. Canny. Queens' Collfsf tn the Council of Malvern College the Rev. C.

o. uineu, a governor of Chichester High School for Girls Sir j. a. j-iursr, iion. L.L..U..

Trinity, a governor of Horsham High School for Girls and they have nominated Dr. T. S. Hele, Master of Emmanuel, as a governor of the Dominion Students' Hall xrust Lord Hood. Trinity College, has been appointed to represent the Secretary of State for India ae a member of the Board of Indian Civil Service Studies.

urants have been made for classical research from the Craven Fund to J. Carnegie. ts.A. (St. John's).

J. A. Rowen. B.A. (Trinitvi.

anH Tuckey. B.A. (Magdalene), and from the Winter Warr Fund to J. Leckie (tmmanuel R. H.

Martin Sidney Sussex), and H. A. Wheeler (Trinity Hall). Grants from the Theolocical Stnrtips Fund have been made tn (1 Currall (Sidney Sussex). R.

M. Jeffery (Jsi-iwyn). and N. E. Mitchell (Queens').

The followine elections to Sauire law scholarships are announced G. H. Coan. St. Bede's College.

Manchester P. R. Oliver. Leys School. Cambridge and D.

H. Spark. Leys School. The following recommendations to visiting Fellowships in the United States have been made M. M.

Green-berg, B.A. (Trinity), to Choate Fellowship at Harvard, and A. H. Stone. B.A.

(Trinity) to Proctor Fellowship at Princeton. Elmore medical research studentships have been awarded to A. M. Jones, Manchester University, and R. E.

K. Levick, Christ's College. Thev are valued at 300 a year for two years The Wrenburv scholarship for study and research in economics, value 100 for a year, has been awarded to R. S. Howard.

B.A., Otley Grammar School and St. Catharine's. THE HEALTH RESORTS 24 hours to 6 p.m. yesterday. Sun.

Hain. Temperature snine 1.111 Lou align. WEST MnriH-ambc Fleetwood Blackpool Southjport New Sribton. Prestatyn Khyl Hrs. Inches est p-t.

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mv isles T6 INLAND Amt-le-slilf 0 2 Harrs-eate 2 6 Ilklev 3'1 lluxlou 3 0 2 2 I.l-i-iilrm.iitl 4 0 4 4 l.eHim:i-tcn spa 4'4 Mtilvcni 4 9 3 5 58 57-70 22 68 72 58-70 91 57-64 -55 60-68 42 57-64 34 59-63 -17 6170 60-63 60- 67 69-68 61- 6S 6470 -40 -24 -59 -27 -05 Cheltenham 37 nth 4 2 Luu-iim iKew 5 9 EST Hern ickon-Tw eed 14 18 Tvueinuutta 06 35 lieiletir 05 -14 Whitby 12 -01 SiAltH-rim'-'h 18 '02 Hri.llmisum 2 1 04 Withcrn-cn. 3 9 02 Cleot borpes 36 Mnblethuri-e 4 0 -06 SheneFs 40 5 7 '03 5 9 Yarmouth 5 2 53-60 55-F4 62-70 55-71 57-71 5771 5S-73 57-73 6072 61-73 62-77 61-75 61-69 6163 62-6S 63-69 62-68 62-68 6272 63-73 Lou 60 5 5 fl 6 3 59 4 6 52 50 4-4 4 0 3-3 3-1 I acton 03 01 02 01 01 Mic-eme Homo K-inicite Dm er 62- 62-73 Ram 61-68 Ra-n 03 62-66 Haiu SOUTH llastin-? 04 60-67 Bain C9 59-66 Bright 12 60-64 Bright 10 6067 Mlower 05 5S 64 BriEht 4-1 K.ti.'ume... 4-1 60 6 0 '08 60-65 Ham 6 -10 60-t6 Hain I.ittlchanniton 66 -12 611-3 shower lWnor Kesii 5 6 09 6064 Shower 12 59-67 Shower 25 60-6S Hain 39 6067 Th'storm 34 69-65 Hain 30 5S--64 Th'storm 36 58-62 Rain 40 5S66 Hain Sel-ey Bill 6 9 Siuthsea 60 Hyde 64 Satidown.Shanklin 65 Vent nor 5 4 Totlaml Kay 6 64 1'oWe 57,... Swanage 6 Sidmouth 4 KMlicutb. 54 Dawlish 5967 Showers SI 51 -56 57 -57 5S-S4 Ham 57 62 Hain 6763 Showers 5S-64 Ratn 58-64 Showeii Torquay.

51 47 69 85 25 30 31 58 58 56 -95 -61 "67 97 5763 Hain 5763 Hain 6965 Ham Jersey rly mouth. Falmouth 62 Th'storm 5661 Ham 54-62 Rain 5463 Hain SCOTLAND Lerwick 57 Nairn 0 8 Fortv 22 Lossiemouth 20 llanlt 6 3 Aberdeen 37 Stonehaven 23 Montrose 03 Arbroath St. Andrews 09 Lundin Links 03 Dunfermline 01 S. Berwick Dunbar 16 Oban 05 Dunoon 10 Troon 16 Trot wick 23 Turabcnry. 29 02 5359 Bright 12 5770 Th'storm 06 5873 Shower "01 5673 Sbowei-a 5673 Hain 14 5364 Haia 16 62-61 Ram 16 5459 Hain '38 5459 Th'storm 29 55-60 Th storm 46 5562 Th'storm 71 5564 25 5566 Th'storm 25 5467 Th'storm "52 5760 Rain 62 58-62 Rain 5S 58-63 Rain '30 57-66 Hain '38 58-65 Ham Sot Available wise we should be ghosts, strayed from a past which recent history has rendered as obsolete as the eighteenth century There was no wind at all.

and yet the thick, glistening leaves before us opened suddenly, then closed again, as though a volume of air had passed through them. And at the same moment a shrill, harsh cry. like a laugh which had no mirth in it, echoed loudly about us. The Baroness stood rigid, listening; then stooped quickly to pick up something that had floated lightly downward tc her feet. Otherwise we should be ghosts." she repeated mechanically, holding the long green feather in her hand.

GERMANY AND DANZIG The Principle at Stake To the Editor ol the Manchester Guardian Sir Things appear to be boiling up for another crisis unaer circumstances rendered neither more nor less dangerous bv a steady improvement in the moral health of this nation since the last crisis. a caiuesiiy xo oe hoped that we may not see another demonstration of the fact that, prepared nnnron-trpii. we are afraid to eo to --v i war in support ui unuLi-jica ucucveu in by all who call themselves Britons. No one denies that Danzig is mainly a German town. inai.

nowever, is noi thf nnint at isFue. Our Government has repeateaty luiu iii-r ucimaii Government that soon as the latter is prepared to lay aside its intimidatory and bellicose rasiuuus ui international affairs ive, on our part, shall be only too glaa to settle as many of Germany's grievances as possible. even at exDcnse to ourselves, by methods of conlerence ana co-operation. The neonle of this country believe that all the major problems of the world can be settled by the method ol conference between nations who mutually respect eacn otner. Before Herr Hitler became the head of the German State Germany was not respected by the victorious Allies, and consequently she "lost" all her conferences with them.

To-day things are very different. We respect Germany for her virility and strengtn, even if we do not admire her political system. The German Government should take this consideration into account before it con tinues its polics- of deriding our desire for friendly discussions. It is not too late for Herr Hitler to remove the immediate threat of war now hanging over the world and to express a desire for a European conference. JJanzig is only tne symbol or an important principle, which is that we, as a nation, will no longer be intimi dated by gangster methods of diplomacy.

Let Oermany lay such methods aside and behave like the great civilised nation which at heart she is, and she will gain much, both in material wealth and in spiritual great ness. Considerations of honour, the value of Danzig itself, or even of the whole of the Polish Corridor, may not justify the slaughter of millions. But the value of the principle I have outlined, which is believed in by all true men ana women in tnis country, does mstify it. Those who believe are pre pared to make the sacrifice, should they oe anven to it oy tne wniul obstinacy or uermany leaaers. xours, A.

C. Gardner. Overseas League, St. James's, London, July 4. A Contrary View To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, Lord Tavistock has stated what many others feel.

War, if the citizens oi declare their desire to be re united with Germany, is morally inde fensible. It is admitted that Danzig is overwhelmingly German. Its people were forcibly separated from their lellow-countrymen. They were not permitted to express their preference oy a plebiscite as in the Saar. What ever interests others may have in the political status of Danzig they are not greater than those of its citizens.

There is little doubt that a plebiscite at anv time since the war would have resulted in a decisive majority for reunion. Poland received a large loan from Prance in 1924 not the first and spent it in building the opposition Polish port of Gdynia. Apparently she was not' tnen greatly concerned for the well- being ot uanzig. If there is to be war against aggression the case need to oe a great aeai clearer tnan it is iiKeiy to be with reference to Danzig. And Poland should not be the sole judge.

Yours. Sic. Thomas H. Champion. 97, Harvey Lane.

Golborne, near Warrington, July 4. THE PLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES Plea for an Open Door To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir. There is talk of a Parliamentary election in the autumn. Would it be possible for all who feel strongly on the question of refugees to set party politics aside and to vote only for the men who would pledge themselves to do their utmost to procure an open door for these poor victims of injustice Or. better still, as the need is urgent, and a delay of even a few days or weeks may mean death to many of those who look to us for help, would it not be possible to move more rapidly May I suggest that every voter who feels a brother's responsibility for these poor sufferers should write at once to his (or her) member of Parliament, asking that, in the name of humanity and for the ultimate welfare of this land, immediate steps should be taken to receive these exiles before they are beyond our help? This would be but to follow the lead of those wiser and nobler countries who give ready hospitality, without waiting tor unprocurable papers, or bargaining as to guarantees of money or future emigration.

In dealing with so vital a matter it is always well to be sure of the grounds on which one argues. May I advise that any of those who have not already-done so should read You and the Refugee," by Norman Angell and Dorothy Frances Buxton I have no interest in this book beyond the fact that it strikes me as a particularly clear and convincing statement of the case for the refugees both from the humanitarian and the political points of view. No one can call it happy reading, but it is intensely interesting, and it may be that it is our duty to look into these terrible depths of tragedy that we may be the more inspired to our part in giving help the need of which has now gone far beyond the mere gifts of sympathy or money. It may be that there are some who are honestly troubled as to the ultimate reaction on our own land and people if these strangers should be admitted without restraint. Even were we to ignore the moral compulsion to save life at all hazards, those who have seriously studied the problem assure us that such an act of Cnristian charity can only result in additional prosperity and in added opportunities for the employment of those who now lack work.

Yours, Sec, Missionary. London, July 4. "The Bembridge Diploma." Mr. C. Severs, head master Senior Council School, Blackrod.

near Chorley, writes The new diploma or distinction at the Bern-bridge School described in Tuesday's issue of the Manchester Guardian appears to 2ecent as its basis a ulan which has been in practice at this school mce its opening in January this year. The four main divisions of school life ar.d work the intellectual or academic, the creative or practical, the physical, and the moral are here recognised as the natural foundation for a house system. Four troph.es to symbolise the divisions have been presented to the school, and each is awarded periodically to the house gaining most merit points in its particular phase of school activity. It would appsar. therefore, that the Bembridge diploma is an application to individual members of the school of a scheme which here is used in connection with social groups.

To A be to International Research the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, The letter you published recently from Professor F. C. Bartlett creates an opportunity for reminding readers where tney may seek for lurtner lniormation on tne tacts to wnicn ne referred irom tne Bureau of Human Heredity. in 1937 vou nuolished a description of this institution, then recently opened. It is an international clearing-house for data on the inborn constitution and traits of man, both normal and abnormal, or pathological.

recent survey of progress showed the collection of the results oi research to sufficiently complete for the council invite inquiries (which are dealt with without charge). lhe bureau has over corre spondents distributed over all civilised countries. Human differences cover about 1,000 sections contact is mam tained with 472 research centres. The sections dealing with crime and social deviations contain a fair proportion of ecent work this is extensive tne general public are probably unaware of the considerable amount of research, both accomplished and proceeding. Inquiries on such data are welcome from individuals and lav people, as wen as from institutions.

The honorary officeis of the bureau invite accredited workers who desire to study any section ot human genetics to work there on the nies. It is to be hoped that the general public will take to heart the sentences trom Professor Bartletts address in which he stresses the importance of knowledge on inborn characters for a proper understanding of the human constitution. The bureau has a particular value in this connection. At the moment work is hampered and the workers struggling under acute anxiety The bureau nas no sound financial foundation. It has a plan ready for maintaining skeleton services during war-time, war cnould come.

Current work and this future plan in either case require a minimum income of 1,000 per annum. The international situation makes it impossible at this time to secure this as occasional gifts. Regular subscriptions or major grants promised tor tnree jears are now sougnt. A thousand pounds is a small sum ta sacrifice for the practical gains that the work can achieve. Those who know the facts are aware that there is not the slightest exaggeration in Professor Bartlett assertion that the data on which constitution can be accurately assessed are necessary in order to prevent crime and insanity being the overwhelming menace to human efficiency and to human happiness that they are at present." Professor Bartlett is nimselt one of the council of the bureau.

Yours, C. B. S. Hodson, Hon. General Secretary Bureau of Human Heredity.

115, Gower Street, London, W.C. 1, July 4. SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION One of the Questions To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, A question set in the English Literature paper in the School Certificate examination of the Northern Universities Joint Board reads (al Wha evidence does "Paradise Lost I and 11" provide to show that Milton was a learned man? (b) How does the learning he displays add to the grandeur of the poem I should be grateful if your more erudite readers would give me a satisfactory analysis of this evidence. It must be written out in fifteen minutes. I should be even more grateful for an explanation of question (b).

As the question is worded I consider that its only answer is In no way." Should this answer be correct there is, naturally, more time available for question (a). Yours, L. D. Cosgrove. Senior English Master.

Cowley School, St. Helens, Lancashire, July 4. NURSERY SCHOOLS IN "SPECIAL AREAS" Appeal for 1,000 To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, At the present time we are all agreed the welfare of voune children is ot dominating importance to the nation. I write to draw attention to the work of the Nursery Schools Committee of thf. Save the Children Fund which has marip tne task of providing nursery schools in me special areas peculiarly its own.

The nursery school offers for some of the youngest children of the unemployed and low-wage earners in our industrial areas that background of health, happiness, and security which the penury of their own homes denies them. Thus, in providing nursery schools, we are rendering an important national service in promoting the welfare of some of the nation's children during perhaps the most critical years of childhood between the ages of two and five. With the co-operation of the Board of Education and of the Commissioner for the Special Areas, the Save the Children Fund has been instrumental in building twelve nursery schools in the special areas, but many more are needed to meet adequately the need. Moreover, we also need help to make good the falling off in regular support of our work which has been caused by the exceptional international conditions of the times. More particularly we need 1.000 to maintain schools already running and to complete two schemes, one of which is nearly finished, while the progress of the other is impeded by lack of financial backing.

The support available from the Board of Education and the Commissioner for the Special Areas is an invaluable and indispensable aid to the fulfilment of our task, but it must never be forgotten that the work of providing these nursery schools is essentially a voluntary one and cannot be carried on without the co-operation of the general public. I therefore appeal to the generosity and far-sightedness of your readers to help us in this task bv providing the 1,000 which we immediately need to carry on and to extend this work of fundamental and urgent necessity for the children of the distressed areas. Subscriptions will be gratefully received by me at the address given. Yours. H.

D. Watson. Chairman and Hon. Treasurer the Save the Children Fund. 20.

Gordon Square London. W.C. 1. July 4. "SOLDIERS THREE" A Request from the N.W.

Frontier To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, For the past two years we have been readers of your paper, and we tonsider it the best paper for home news. We look forward to it every weeK. At our present station we receive our mail by air, because tne S.E. Ireland. There will be snowers generally and perhaps thunder locally, but with bright intervals.

London. Wind southerly to south westerly, moderate brignt intervals, dui local showers, perhaps with thunder in places average temperature. and E. England, E. and W.

Midlands. Wind soutneriy to souin-wesieny, moderate bright intervals, but local showers, perhaps with thunder in places average temperature. S.W. England and S. Wales.

Wind southerly to south-westerly, moderate or fresh fair at first, rain later in the day average temperature. N.W and N.E. England. N. Wales, N.

Mid lands, a.t. ana scouana. wwa southerly, moderate or fresh locally showery, with thunder locally, but some bright intervals average temperature. Irish Sea. Wind southerly to south westerly, moderate or fresh showers but bright periods good visibility sea moderate.

Further Outlook. Unsettled rain spread ing from the soutn-west. SVX MOON Rises Set Riles Sets To-diiy 4 48... 9 39 11 20 p.m.... 9 59 n.rn.

To-morrow 449... 9 38 11 40 p.m. ...11 09 a.m. For every ten miles north of Manchester sunset Is later by 49 seconds. 1IGUTISG.UP TIME TO.DAY 10 39 p.m.

In summer time ligbtlng.up time Is ons hour alter sunset. YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER Whltwortb Park Meteorological ObicrratoTT Wednesday, July 5, 1939. Unsettled Barometer Tendency i Rising To-tlny 1,0061 Yeiterday Barometer 9p.m. (Millibars) (The millibar la the international unit of barometric pressure. One thousand millibars one bar) equal 29 53 Inches ol mercury.

One Inch ot mercury equals 53 85 millibars.) Shade Temperatures Tn.rtnv Yrt. I To.rtay Test. Dry 8... 70 5 1 Maximum 70 77 DryUulb9p.ni.5T5... 637 Minimum 57 57 To.dav Ycstordav Humidity (percentage) 9 a.m E6 Mi oi Rainfall (In millltnettea) 9 1...

5 4 Sunshine (hours) 13 51 G.M.T. A COUNTRY DIARY Yorkshire (North Riding), July 2. Hen pheasants, especially those that have been penned up for the early part of the season, are apt to add a few eggs to the well-filled nests of Many years ago I found a nest on Alderley Edge which contained eighteen eggs of the common partridge, deserted although on the point of hatching. Also in the nest were one addled pheasant's egg, two empty pheasant shells, and just beside it a dead pheasant chick. The keeper's theory was that the pheasant had driven away the partridge and had incubated the whole clutch herself, leaving as soon as her own eggs had hatched.

If that was so the remarkable thing was that the eggs of the pheasant, although presumably laid last, had hatched off first, the incubation period being about the same length in each. To-day a farmer tells me of another, though rather different, case. In his paddock he found a pair of partridges at a nest of about eight eggs, and beside the pair sat a young pheasant which had either been adopted by the partridges or hatched by them, but in this case the birds remained in possession, and were waiting for their own eggs to hatch before moving off. The cock partridge is often ready to annex stray chicks of his own species, but it must surely be unusual for him to collect a pheasant chick instead. Both cock and hen are excellent parents, as my cairn terrier discovered when he chanced to get among a brood while running before the car along a grassy lane, for he was at once attacked by both the parent birds, and, returning with his tail between his legs, was glad to jump inside as quickly as he could.

No doubt the birds took him for a fox, which in shape and size he somewhat resembles. R. M. G. TO-DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS House of Commons: Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Bill, Report and Third Reading.

House of Lords: Civil Defence Bill. Third Reading: Ministry of Supply BUI, Report. Presents tioojof Portrait Bust to Mr George Lansbury. Health Congresg borough. (Rojal Sanitary Institute).

Scar- Koysl Arricultural Show, Windsor. N.U R. Conference, Clacton-on-Sea. Transport and General Workers' Conference, Bridlington. Mineworkers' Federation Conference, Swansea.

Mr. O. Stanley at Government Dinner to Swedish Business Men, London. Lord De La Wjrr at Museums' Association Conference, Cheltenham. The Thetis Inquiry, London.

Manchester and Salford Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Kent to Op-n WhaJiej Hich School for nip Rlnguay 11 30: Inspect Wythenshawe end Arr.i,e Town Hail for Lunch 12 -i5: Leave Town Hall 2 10; Arrive Sen School 2 30; Leave for Warrington 3 10 Manchester County Court, 10. Manchester Assizes, 3 0 30. Chancery Court. Before the Vice-Chancellor Action for Trial, chain Bar Mill Co Ltd. William Wild, Ltd.

i-jart heard). Assize Courts. 10 45. Rotary Club Luncheon: Rev Han-jsor. (President's investiture Address).

Victoria Hotel. 12 4b. Soroptimist Club: Business Meetln, Grand Hotel. 12 43. Manchester and District Barkers' Institute: Annual laeetme.

Marble street. 5 30. Sport Cricket: Yesterday's First-class Matches (Continued). Golf: Open Championship at St. Andrews (Second Round Proper).

Lawn Tennis: Wimbledon Championships (Women's Semi-Snais. Rowing: Henley Centenary Royal Regatta (Second Day). The National Baby Week Council announce that-the Imperial Baby Week Challenge Shield, awarded for the best Baby Week campaign in the Empire outside the United Kingdom, has been won this year by the Lagos (Nigeria) Health and Baby Week Committee. This is the third time that Lagos has won the shield, which was first awarded in 1926. The runner-uo for first Dlace was Kongwa (Tanganyika Territory), and Freetown (Sierra Leone) was placed tnira road leading to the camp from Rawalpindi, which is the nearest Government post office branch, is very y-i -i mriTri 1 j-i-m nr tna tribesmen.

Any vehicle on the road is name to oe attacked, so lor tne satety of the mail it is sent by air. As you can see by this we have no amusement of any kind here, so we should be very grateful if you would publish this letter, as we should like to correspond with pen pals from all over England so please do not disappoint us. We are interested in all kinds of sport, and like to exchange snaps. Yours, W. Ivory (Driver), F.

Painter (Driver), G. Scragg (Gunner). 80th Field Battery, R.A., Eazani Camp, Waziristan, N.Wf, India, June 24, out the sun, and made the never- ceasing murmur of the hidden waves sound like an endless breeze stirring the foliage together. Yet those fat and slisfenine leavps npvpr stirrpH. but hung, points downward, towards the path.

And the path itself was hooped overhead with branches of that grotesque greenery which, with us, would not have grown higher than the knee. So that when the three children appeared at the other end of it they seemed to be entering a tunnel, the hooded light above them ayeing mem greenishly as though with some poisonous essence. They were wearing lone holland pinafores exactly similar, which with their short-cut hair made it impossible to tell boy from girl. It was the uniform of the school of orphans now inhabiting what was once a royal pleasure palace of the Habsburas in the centre of the island. An order of nuns had taken it over, even before the fall of the empire, and the children's were the only voices which now broke the silence of this abandoned territory.

They had not seen me yet, but were playing at stalking something. It was a good game to play in such jungle-like surroundings. Thev came forward crouching, one behind the other, and some stray petals of the orange flowers that scented the air floated down upon their heads like snowflakes, released bv the struggle of their passage. Presently the first of them saw me and straightened itself. What are you hunting I asked brightly.

Lions We are looking for the green Dira, the child answered. I never heard of green birds in these parts. Tell me more about it. What size is it "About this size." The skinny arms shot out with the width of an invisible fowl between them. "It is big much bigger than the birds on the mainland, and it has a sort of crown of feathers on its head.

And it laughs." "Sounds like a parrot," I said. It was queer that of all the fiercer, more romantic jungle beasts they should have chosen such a thing to stalk Have you ever seen a parrot "No." Then what makes you look for one here Because there is one here. A big green bird. And it laughs. His brother saw it once." The pot-stick arm shot out once more, pointing at one of the other two.

Perhaps a parrot escaped and flew over from But I said it dubiously, for several miles of water lie between Dubrovnik and the island of Lokrum. Is it long since his-brother saw the bird "Years and years." the child said promptly. His brother is a grown up man now. But he saw it once when he was a little boy. And some of the nuns have seen it too.

But it never comes near the house." The social expression died out of the three faces. They looked past me once more absorbedly. They walked past me. crouching, on guard. One tw three.

They had forgotten me. And now I realised with a slight shock that their crouching attitude was not one of make-belief but of grim intention, There are no parrots along th Adriatic. I fought my way out of the undergrowth in the opposite direction and stepped from thinning cypresses and loose pebbles on to the beach. Here the scented air smelt of rosemary, which grew in the cracks of the rocks, instead of orange blossom. The sea stretched flat and almost navy blue.

Opposite one could see the line of the coast, the smart hotels and bathing beaches. And leaning against a rock, looking towards it with her back turned to me. was my companion, the elderly Austrian baroness. I went up to her and leaned against the rock too. "Did you reach the palace she asked without turning her head.

"Not that there's much to in -it nnw No. but I met some of the orphans plaving about. Tell me. how long is .1 tt-1 i it since any 01 me naoicuiss came here Long enough. They think Lokrum is an unlucky place for them.

This was the Emperor Maximilian's summer place you know. He was shot, of course, and his wife went mad. Then the Archduke Rudolph inherited it, and look what an end he came to! No wonder the family -were clad to get rid of it. Our boat was waiting at the landing-stage on the other side of the island. We began to walk back again towards the woods.

''Have you seen Meyerling I asked idly. "No. It would be too queer too funny, to go and watch shadows playing on a sheet at what was once part of my life. Many a time have I watched old Bratfisch. the coachman, drive through Vienna.

And the sound of the Capucmer bells tolling on the day of the Archduke's funeral is still in my ears. But one does not like to feel part of a past so distant that already it has been made into a film' "The children I met seemed to be looking for I told her. They say one has been seen here." She stopped dead in the middle of the path. "The Archduke kept parrots and all sorts of fancy Mexican birds here at one time." she said slowly. He liked to set them free and watch them flying through the orange trees.

But it is so long ago they must have all died out." Why should they The climate is good "The guide-book doesn't mention them." she said obstinately. ''And the children hunting for one as if it were a rarity shows that they have merely become a legend." She began to walk faster towards the landing-stage. I hurried to keep up with her. "You don't seem to like parrots," I said, panting slightly. She turned and looked at me, and her eyes were dead.

"I don't like links with the past." she said. "Everything else that made up our life has vanished. Politics, territory, social background. What else can we do but embrace the new world, with its equality, its summer cruises, its lack of good manners? Other- F. P.

i. to I I sion hndings the Prime Minister said that there were about seven major recommendations in the report, and that the most important of the lot is on page 214, and that is the recommendation that the Imperial Government should accept the principle of amalgamation, and that if this view should commend itself also to his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom it should take an early opportunity of stating its acceptance of this principle. I want to make an appeal on behalf of African interests out here against such an appeal as Mr. Huggins may be likely to make at home urging that a pledge of amalgamation be accorded. 1 appeal tor a non committal attitude at home with regard to the vexed question of amalgamation.

I believe that there are many in Great Britain who may share my own distrust of any proposal to amalgamate territories at present under the Colonial Office with Southern Rhodesia. As one of the Royal Commissioners (Mr. W. Mainwaring, M.P.) says bluntly on page 252 of the Bledisloe Report a note which he has appended It is the fear that the balance is not held fairly between the two races in Southern Rhodesia that alone prevents a recommendation being made for immediate amalgamation the avowed policy of segregation under the name of 'parallel develop ment' and the institution of a colour bar clearly stand in the way." On page 250 of this same document another Royal Commissioner (Mr, n.rnest iwans. M.f.) says (in an appended note of his own) about the native policy of Southern Rhodesia that it is in some respects one which it is not easy to reconcile with the declared policy of successive Secretaries of State for the Moreover, prolonged negotiations in which we have been involved with the Union of South Africa as to the desirability of amalgamating three protectorates with that Union- may supply us with impressive warn ings against any impulsive acceptance of the principle of amalgamation with Southern Rhodesia for either Nyasaland or Northern Rhodesia territories, which are now under Britain's own policy of disinterested trusteeship.

Already I have quoted two notes of Royal Commissioners which have been printed in the Bledisloe Report Let me now quote two paragraphs from the appended note of another Koyal Commissioner (Mr. T. Fitz gerald) which are printed upon page 250 and which read thus Future developments in regard to native policy are, in my judgment, too uncertain to enaDle me to my colleagues belief that political unity, sooner or later, is inevitable. In the circumstances I feel that it would be unwise for your Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom to commit iteelf in principle, at the present time, to the idea of amalgamation in other words, to a policy which it may not be in a position to implement in the future, with due regard to its special responsibility for the interests of the native inhabitants. In my opinion the most that your Majestv's Government in the United Kingdom can be asked to do at the moment is to reaffirm in connection with the statement made in the House of Commons in Julv.

1931 (which we quote in paragraph 274 o'f our report), that the question of amalgamation is still an open one. and that it is prepared to encourage and facilitate in every possible way. either by measures such as" those we recommend or by other measures, that closer co-cpsration between the three territories which all the members of the Commission wish to see. I wish to base my own appeal for non-committal upon the firm foundations of these far-sighted and memorable counsels given over the signature of Mr. Fitzgerald.

Yours, Arthur Shearly Cripps. Enkeldoorn. Southern Rhodesia, June 23. A REPAIRED ROAD IN LAKELAND Spoilt for Walkers To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir. I have recently been over the Newlands-Buttermere road, and feel constrained to write you regarding it.

A few years ago when we found the Cumberland County Council were starting work on it we raised a protest, for we feared that this road would be spoilt for the pedestrian as the Honister one had been. The council assured us that only necessary repairs would be made. Now we find that, whilst the width of the road is much the same, considerable alterations have been made in some of its gradients and bends to meet the interests of motor traffic. We do not object to this, but it has been covered with the hardest granite chippings. which make it purgatory to the feet of a walker.

No attempt has been made to provide a grass track alongside, and I feel we have a duty to protest. It appears to be a case of thoughtlessness the reasonable needs of the wayfarer have simply been ignored. For nearly the entire length of the road there is sufficient space at the sides unmetalled to afford a narrow track if it were left free from material and levelled. The cost of this improvement would be but small, and would restore to the. walker one of the most delightful of our Lakeland passes, which at present is closed to them save at the price of considerable Dain and exasperation.

Why has the Lake District Association allowed this sort of thing to happen Yours. T. Arthur Leonard. President of the Ramblers' Association. Newlands, Keswick, July 3.

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