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SUNDAY, JANUARY 4
Gallipoli Failure by Hair’s Breadth
Turk Capital Near
Fail Twice, Saved
Revelations Show Gallipoli Drive
Failed By Hair's Breadth
| Editor’s Note;—Dr. Bing, an Oxford
• nivers.ty man of pure Scotch ‘blood, the
■on of a naturalized Hungarian citizen
End subject to draft in the Austro-Hun
jarian armies, hoping to avoid fighting
igainst his own bloc d on the west fronts
.‘nlisted in the Turkish army for service
n the Caucasus against the Russian
armies.
A recognized authority on the politics
and economics of the Near East be
fore the war. Dr. Bing saw extensive ser
vice in the Dardanelles campaign and
throughout Asia Minor, where his com
plete knowledge of the Turkish and Ar
abian languages gave him opportunities
•njoyed by few English speaking news
papermen.
('By Dr. Edward J Bing.)
Vienna,—One of the signs that the
Great War is over the flood of ‘ me
moirs” and retrospective publications of
[famous generals admirals and statesmen
all dealing with tne most important tea
lures and campaigns of the war. Ana
yet, many an incident in this great strug
gle for world supremacy, although seem
ingly unimportant and often unknown,
decided the preservation or the downfall
of important cities and even empires.
| Here are some untold facts about the
.•Gallipoli campaign which will show how
■ near the capital of the Turkish empire
was to being taken by the British*and
j how they managed, after the campaign
had led to failure to withdraw their
I forces from a most perilous position,
’ practically without loss of life.
It will he remembered that the Brit
ish military measures aiming at the con
quest of Constantinople, went hand in
hand with a terrific bombardment of the
Turkish forts controlling the entrance
to the Dardanelles. The artillery of
these forts consisted, to a considerable
part, of German long-barrel guns of mod
ern construction, and although the
' Turkish strongholds were built on rather
I antiquated lines, they certainly were
very hard nuts to crack, the two forts
at the very entrance of the straits, that
of Sed-il-Bahr on the European side and
? Port Hamidieh, on Asiatic soil being the
i strongest and strategically the most im
t portant. When the British fleet began
j shelling the forts N the vigor of the lat
ters’ resistance came rather as a sur
prise. .
During the course of the groat battle
between the British is -a of war and the
Turkish defenders, quite a number of
*’ 7 4Portant ships of the attacking fleet
sunk bv Turkish gunfire and sev
frortiothers like the super-dreadnought
n Elizabeth,” seriously damaged.
*1 If. the same period of the Turkish
onlf uign. allied submarines undertook
left! iring raids on Constantinople. One
nt ill eneli submarine ‘‘Turquoise.” was
, "it bv the Turks the crew being sav
ller British submarine, however, after
the I : ul dive under the Turkish mines,
rteiftded in reaching the capital, and
' .1 v emerging in the Golden Horn
: -i«t of the city, shelled a few ships
could harbor and then managed to get
even ato safety. At that time a rumor
. Circulated in Constantinople, that
na\e»f, ( . ers G s submarine, mooring
coultS oat at an undetected spot, went
I in mufti to have a ‘‘good time’
lae places of amusement of the en-
I, «apital!
whi e, the British fleet outside the
port# lelles had suffered painful losses
glinir \ entually decided to break off the
the 1* retiring to the islands which serv
;m as a base.
J ® it. would the British admiral nave
thef nad he known that at the moment
chid he gave up the attempt to force
f passage to Constantinople, the gun
in Fort Hamidieh. the key to the
stoc whose fall would have decided the
lam of the Capital and of the Turkish
. pire, had only eight shots of ammu
**S«>n left with their guns! Another
■hour of battle, and the British flag-ship
could have hoisted .the Union Jack with
in eyesight of the Aja Sophia, the jewel
of Stamboul! . , _ . ,
Soon however, attention had to bo
concentrated upon Hie terrible fighting
of which the Gallipoli peninsula was the ,
theatre. The Turks had offered right
- from the outset, stubborn resistance to
the attacks of the British, and when the
joint attack of Field Marshal von Mat k
eneen and General Joekoff, crushing the
heroic resistance of the Serbs, nad open
ed the way from Berlin to Constantinople
the question of supplying the Turkish
forces with war material was solved,
rendering the defence of Stainboul more
systematic arid offe* ttve. The new sit
uation, however, although of great ad
vantage to the Turks, did not bring about
any considerable increase in the num-
Uii r of their guns. It was tb» n generally
ahJiwed, in neutral and allied circles.
. V the Austrians bad brought down to
ipoli a considerable number of their j
** 4 >us twelve-inch mortars. As a mat
p of fact, the whole of the Austrian
■ ilery that ever took part in the Gal-
Pfloli campaign, consisted of a battery of
IMrinch morttWs and a battery of 6-inch
howitzers. And these two batteries had
been sent to Gallipoli before the way
through Serbia had been opened. the
gum being taken to pieces and smug
gled through ‘‘neutral” Rumania with the
knowledge of certain Rumanian authori
ties. while the officers and men ♦ravelled ;
through that country m plain clothes,
passing for commercial travellers, work
men. etc. In view of the very limited
railwav facilities for transport—the Bal
kan railway is a one-track line —the con
quest of Serbia had rather a moral than
a material effect on the outcome of what
the English newspapers later called the
'‘Gallipoli adventure.”
There was another incident during that
campaign which again saved the Turk
ish capital by a hair’s breadth. In the I
murderous battle of Anaforta a Turkish
battery was posted on a bill which
dominated the route to Constantinople
and. if lost, would have opened the way
there for Sir Tan Hamilton's army.
The Turks had been pressed hard and
as there were no reserves available, head- I
quarters —under the command of Marshal i
Liman von Sanders l'asha—ordered the j
troops who had up to then held the hill
to withdaw during the night. The Turk-'
isb captain In charge of a battery of
field-guns on the summit refused to obey
orders, and while the rest of the Turk
ish forces evacuated the position, he
Opened a murderous quick-fire on the.
Brltirh lines. Ho lively and bewildering
was nils cannonade that the British were
misled# and thinking they were up
against a number of oatterlcs with cor
respondingly strong Infantry, withdrew
from the fire zone. As poon as tills had
come to the knowledge of the Turkish
army headquarters, frantic and eventual
ly successful efforts were made to hur
ry reserves to the spot and next morn
ing the hill was found to be firmly held
by the Turk
It is generally known that the British
•vacua t ion «»f the peninsula was favored
by «a log which made it possible for the
troops to embark practically unseen by
the enemy. Very fe v people, however
will be familiar wPh the fact that a very
Clever “camouflage” by the British was
a» least «'‘ y prreat a help to the execu
tion of their plan as 'hat fog. During
the last few day* which preceded the
ITCH! ITCH! ITCH!
It Seems Sometime* A* If You Would
Fly Oiit of Your Skin.
Ecierm n* salt rheum not only lichen,
but It also burn*. oo*e», dries arid scales
over and ov>-r again. Sometimes It cov.
err the whole body and causes in ense
Buffering.
You have found that local applications
have no lasting effect, and you want per.
manent relief.
Take Hood'* Sarsaparilla, give It a
go. d fair trial, b ause you must thor
oughly purify your b'ood or the eruption
will continue to annoy, fn-rhaps agonise
you This great ic-di'inc has bcn sue.
cessfully used In ' housund* of esses.
To make and ke.»p the bowels normally
active, take lb-od's l*llla. they arc gentle
and thorough.
evacuation, the British fleet would, in
broad daylight, land a division or two;
• n the dark of the night, however, two
to .four otiier divisions would quietly em
bark and he removed from the battlefield
This skilful game was carried on for
several days, and before the general with
drawal was effected, already about twice
as many troops had been removed during
the night as had been landed in day
time. Finally, the last night had come
and an exceptionally dense fog gave the
British forces the long hoped for oppor
tunity' to leave the scene of some of tho
bloodiest struggles of the war. While
some of the war material and foodstuffs
were made useless, time was 100 short
for the work of destruction, and enor
mous quantities were left behind.
Thus ended the Gallipoli campaign
which ha both foes to admire
each other’s courage and tenacity, and
the Turkish empire had successfully
withstood the terrible strain of the
British attack, only to be smothered,
three years later, by Lord Ailenby’s
warriors in an offensive campaign which
was crowned by what was surely the
completest victory of the war.
CART DRIVERS SIT IN
ITALY'S PARLIAMENT
Rome—To say that following the re
sult political elections the
Italian Chamber of deputies has become
the most picturesque of all European
legislating assemblies from the point of
view of the profession and social status
of its members. Is to state simply half
of the truth. The other half is that
the last elections have radically changed
the composition of the Italian Chamber.
For nearly fifty years only the aris
tocracy and the liberal professions were
represented in the Italian Parliament,
Even the return of the first socialists
did not add new elements to its compo
sition as they' were mostly lawyers, urti
versity professors and writers of renown
The change began early in 1890 when a
porter of the Milan railway station was
elected; but he only served for a term,
and his place was later taken by Pietro
Chiesa, a calker in one of the Riviera
shipyards. Chiesa soon discarded his cap
for a shining derby, and when he died
he was one of the best custumers of
one of the most fashionable taylors of
the Capital.
Hut without the war and the new elec
toral law' tlie present revolution would
never have been accomplished. First of
all, a large number of deputies who had
served for fifteen or twenty years re*
fused to run again under the new law
owing t the tremendous expenses con
nected with a political campaign. Thus
the Chamber was automatically deprived
of a substantial number of trained leg
islators whose place has now been taken
by newcomers. mostly socialists and
( at holies of whom, as yet, nothing can
be said.
•The results of the election were a com
plete surprise for every party in the
field. The socialists who claimed 100
seats secured 156 and the Catholics who
would have considered themselves lucky
If they elected fifty or sixty, elected in
stead 102.
Another surprise came in the nature of
the men elected by each party. Many
names were included in ihe ticketswim
ply to obtain votes, the leaders believ
ing the preferential votes would by east
for them. But in most instances the
reverse was true. The voters invariably
preferred those mentally and socially
near to them and this accounts for 'he
fact that where there one day sat Depu
ty Slchel, a prominent socialist lawyer,
there sits now Barberies, a wagon driver.
A humble Catholic farmhand from Tus
cany has replaced Marquis Gerini, a
wealthy landowner, with spelndid family
connections. Pilati, a stonemason from
Florence, has taken Baron Sonnlno's
place. The seat once occupied by ex
minister Daneo belongs now to Abbo,
who enjolce the distinction of being the
most picturesque deputy in a picturesque
parliament.
The fact that Abbo attended the royal
sitting in a black sweater, a red necktie
and without a collar immediately at
tracted the press's attention. It was at
first believed that Abbo had meant dis
respect to the king, but later *t was as
certained that Abbo is really as poor as
his clothes betrayed him to be. During
the political campaign his party paid
his expenses, and his colleagues relate
that the price of his meals never exceed
sixty cents, which today hardly buys
more than a cheap soup, a vegetable and
a glass of wine.
The day after the election he called
at the house of his colleague Serrati
and the latter’s mother pointed out to
him that, when going to Rome he should
wear new clothes. Abbo thought for a
moment and then said:
‘•yes, my brother has promised to give
me his new Tiat.”
WOOLEN PRESIDENT
FOE OF HICH PRICES
Lawrence, Mass.—A now era in the re
lations of employer and employe is
dawning here as the plans of William
M. Wood, president of the American
Woolen Company, change from a big
business man’s dreams to realities.
One big dream took tangible form in
the growth of Hhawsheen Village, a town
of model homes, now in process of build
ing. Here empoyes of the American
Woolen Company will have homes un
surpassed in convenien t- rind architec
ture by many city dwellings.
Shawsheen Village, the name given
the spot by the Indians who lived there
in the Colonial days, lies between this
city and Andover, a short trolley ride
from the great textile mills of which
Wood is the head.
In addition to quaint, colonial type
Torres, the village when completed will
Ik. a modern post-ofUco, .tores
.* .Pools, a hospital and an ice plant.
The latest pan of Wood Is to erect
a ten-story department store in the
heart of Hav/rence, where everything
“from, soup to nuts" and clothing will
be sold to his employes at oat. Wood
plans such a store with the object ot
lowering the cost of living for the work
ers in his mills He recently charged
that the mcrchantr of Lawrcra *•
their prices every time the textile work
ers are granted a wage increase, and
warned that he would take steps to
stop such a "vicious practice."
Wood rose from the lowly position of
a elerk in a textile mil! to his present
position ns head of the greatest ‘extile
organisation in the world by persever
ance and hard work. He was horn in
Kdgartown. Mass.. In 1161. and af'er at
tending the public s hool there, went
out into the world to earn his living
After working as a clerk ard doing
od-l jobs about textile mills, Wood be
an e paymaster of the Washington mill
here, now one of the 1!3 great mills con
trolled by the American Woolen (lorn
pany. I-ater his ambitions carried him
into the world of finance, where he
entered the bar king and brokerage busi
ness. Hls sur f ess as a broker and
banker fired him with new ambitions
'•nd In 1900 he Joined the merger of
woolfcn mills whlph became the Ameri
can Woolen Company.
Wood is a short, heavily built man
with a shock of black hair and eyes
that always appear to be watching for
something new* A look from Wood’s
eyes Is a mental analysis.
Wood is the type* of buslnes man, who
while conservative, is far-»#eing and brtl
liant In his grasp of affa»rs He acts
quickly ard with a purpose that sweeps
iHidc opposition He is democratic, kKd
hcarted, and a student of human nature,
who Is leading the way tha» points tr, In
dustrial eontent—happy, loyal workers—
by tangib e and intelligent inter. sta in
their welfare.
FIRST AIRPLANE FLOWN BY ARAB IN
YEAR 783 A. D. IS ARABIAN CLAIM
By GENERAL NOURRI SAID, I
Commai.der of the Air Forces of the Hodja*.
PARlS.—America'.; claims to too c, rim,' distinction In the IU;Ul of
heavier than air flight ignore the ob ure but none the less authentic fact
that the lirst human being to invent ud fly in an airplane was an Arabian
scientist and mechanical engineer n mod Abbas ben Farnas, N '”° ( ‘iod
in the lirst airplane accident recorded In history, in the year 783 A. l>..
during the reign of Ua.iph Haroun al Raschid.
Abba;--, who not only was famed a an astronomer but as an inventor
as weil. conceived, according to historical documents still in existence at
Bagdad, the idea of effecting median. *al flight as a means to approaching
the heavens and aiding astronomical observation.
With the consent and assistance of the Caliph, he sot to work to con
struct a machine, in the likeness of a bird, with a clockwork motor to ac
tuate the wings.
When tin contrivance was comp hied Abbas, In the presence of tne
Caliph and a great multitude, actuary effected a sustained flight oi sev
eral seconds, but in landing hi.; mac >lne \vas wrecked and the 'inventor
was hurled headlong against a tree a d killed instantly.
The secret of the first airplane ?* construction died with the inventor.
Al Raschid offered lnigft inducements to other eminent scientists to
pursin' the study of aviation and res.ore and improve tho Abbas ben Far
mis machine but none was found with sufficient genius to re| at the pi
oneer's first exploit, although scores of attempts were made, and at least
one other eminent contemporary of the great Caliph met his death in at
tempting mechanical flight. ,
This second vieitim of aviation was the famous encyclopedist Tshmaei
ben I lam mad El-Jaouehari, who in testing a primitive form of glider fell
from the roof of Nesabour mosque and died of injuries.
Declares Europe May
Become “Desolate Waste
of Seeding Thistles' ’
London—Sir William Goode, British
Director of Relief, who recently returned
from a tour of the war impoverished
countries of Europe declares that unless
the Allied and Associated governments
provide credits for food and raw mater
ials, Central Europe is likely to become
‘‘a desolate waste of seeding thistles.”
England, he declares, cannot do any
thing likely to be effectual unless the
United States extends credits in propor
tion to her means. The crisis in Cen
tral Europe. Sir William declares, is of
such dimensions and complexity as to
defy isolated or individual effort.
Speaking before the American Lunch
eon Club recently, he said: ‘‘You can
not heal the wounds of Europe by drib
lets of government relief or dabs of hu
manity. The day for palliatives is past.
Emergencies such as that in Austria will
not wait for the emergence of the League
of Nations. Little nations generated by
the self-determination incubator of the
Peace Conference are likely to disap
pear even before they are old enough to
sow their wild oats.
*‘A comprehensive and far reaching
financial arrangement must be quickly
arrived at by the Allied and Associated
governments unless half of Central
Europe is to be a desolate waste of seed
ing thistles. The key to the economic
arch is organization of credits for food
and raw materials and the export of
manufacturers on a regular and ascend
ing scale from the countries receiving
such credit.
“With the present, value of the pound
sterling and wHh the present position of
French and Italian exchange, it is evi
dent that any such comprehensive credit
scheme will be futile unless the United
Sates takes a generous part. Great BiK
ain has already borrowed, in partnership
with France and Italy, S4B OOO.dOO from
the United States to feed Austria I
dare say we could borrow' more and fur
ther discount our own exchange, but
that would be only a palliative whirl, in
the long run would do neither Austria,
ourselves, nor the world any good.
“It is not a case of saying to the
United States *v/e will not do anything
more if you will not.’
‘‘The fact of the matter is that we
cannot do anything which is In the least
likely to be effectual unless the United
States is also prepared 1o extend her
credits in proportion to her means. It
is r.o good being ‘mealy-mouthed’ qbout
admitting that we, who before the war
were rich, are now poor. Personally. I
am inclined to think that the nations
participating in some such Comprehens
ive scheme of credits will in the long
run suffer no material disadvantage.
“Of one thing 1 am quite certain and
that is that if Central Europe and the
new nations are allowed :o stew in their
own juice, the whole world will suffer.
In any case, whatever r emedy may be
adopted, it. will involve on both conti
nents a demand for common sacrifice
and for % :nnio . stimulation of produc
tion. To use Mr. Hoovers blunt ex
pression .‘Europe must work or starve.’
‘‘l think J am authorized to say that
if ,'he United States can see their way
to take part in oru- such comprehens
ive pro*, islon >f credits as 1 have sug
gested the British government and the
British people will be prepwred, and 1
think rightly prepared, to strain still
further H resources which have been
so impoverished by war.
”If that oppor unity is rot taken T am
inclined ‘o fear that the gr« at relict
work done hv Mr. Hoover, of which
America is justly proud, will go down
to posterity as a task only half done.
I realize that there are many difficul
ties in the way such, for instance, as
the unison of unofficial American fin
ancial effort with operations that may be
under the control of European govern- |
ments, but I have unwavering faith that I
these ar« not Insuperable.”
Describing the •ondhions prevailing In ;
Central Europe as he observed them in ,
hts recent, journey. Sir William contin
ued: “Locomotives from one country
dared not' budge across the frontier of
another. r ’oal trains with their cargoes
are liable ?o be seized tin.* minute they I
come within th** grasp of a neighboring!
army. The only real safeguard for a |
supply train going from one country;
through another is the presence of a lone;
British Tommie who perched on tho j
caboose and kno wing no language bu # his ;
own, placidly escorts the ft w exchanges j
of food and raw materials which have
so far enabled several of tho countries to
keep body and soul together.
“The new Allied states exhibit a nerv- :
ous independence In dealing with their
former enemies with whom, rernemlmr,
they still are technically at war. This
constitutes one of the principal obstacles
to the re*-'oration of the equilibrium of.
Central Europe.
If you had the whole British Cabinet
rolled into one superman, be would be
powerless to achieve appreciable prog- j
ress so long as by the de ay of pence '
a state of war prevails in Central Hu- I
HiaTCfiH
In
. "Fome peopt# dislike to call It the Itch, but candor compels m* to admit
I h d It badly Your Hunt’s Sslve. however, cured me after many other
gen edits had totally failed One box completed the cure-tho first application
relief My advlc* to those who have to scratch. Is to
Hunt's Halve la especially compounded for th* treatmont of Itch Ecssm*.
Rlngv • rnr. Tet*er «r»: other It. I In.- In dls-.i»e ß »„.| t, sold on our
tan not luppiy. Prfce’^Vr'bi* ‘ * d,r * c ‘ ,f your ,0<: * 1
Sold locally only by
HOWARD DRUG CO.
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
rope.” After reviewing the enmities
which exist Vn the Balkans and Turkey,
Sir William said that Industrial and
commercial activity virtually had been
paralyzed by political difficulties, by de
creased production, demoralization »>f
railway traffic, shortage of coal, food
and finance.
Czeclio-Slovakia, Boland, Hungary and
Austria, he declared arc all confronted
with large shortages of food. In nearly
all Central European countries the pro
duction. of cereals had been reduced at
least one-third by lack of cattle, fertil
izers and fodder.
Even if credits were supplied, there
would remain a vicious economic circle to
be broken. Shortage of coal halted trans
portation and caused industries to slack
up or stop. This prevented export of
goods and, ineonaeuenqce, the countries
had no exchange with Which to pur
chase in foreign markets the food or
raw materials on which they rely to main
tain existence. For lack of Polish coal,
people die in Vienna. Jugo-Slavia ana
Rumania which have a surplus of food
stuffs for export do not want to sell It
to nearby countries which need it but
prefer to sell it for dollars, sterling or
francs so as to establish credits for raw
materials with which to restart their
industries.
The greater part of the SSOO 000,000
worth of foodstuff: which hacl been de
livered in European relief since the
signing of the armistice was supplied by
the United States, Sir William said.
‘‘Our own part,” he added, “Was limited
bv our almost empty purse. Neverthe
less, the British government was able
to allot 12,500,000 pounds toward relief in
Europe apart from credits to Allies.”
Sir William said that it must not be
thought for :i moment that nothing rem
edial was being done. Tin* Reparations
Sub-Commission sitting at Jenna was
endeavoring to deliver coal to Austria,
and middle Europe. Other Allied or
ganizations were aiding in this and In
supplying food, notably the American
Child Food Organization, one of ‘‘Mr.
Hoover’s finance legacies to Europe.
The Allied authorities in Paris also
were bringing pressure to bear, in order
to create a freer Intercouse and ex
ehange between rthe states of Central
Europe.
HITS MINE.
Gothenburg.—‘The Swedish steamer
.Temtlaml. bound from Buenos Aires to
Gothenburg, laden with corn, struck a
mine in the Kattegat and sank imme
diately. Five of the crew of twenty-six
were drowned.
FOR TEE
KIDS
Daily in The Herald, lots
cf Good Reading—
Good Night Stories
Uncle Wiggily
Adventures of the
Twins
Roosevelt’s Letters
to His Children
And best of all. a 4-page
Colored Comic Section in
Sunday’s Herald.
A WARTME nL THAT’S SPREADING
HUMS SALVE CURES IT!
BRKT) in the war tren'hes of Europe, a wave of ordk
nary ITCH is spreading over the oouutgy. This skm
<i, e.,se, history shows, has alwayt prevailed, following
w»rs and the concentration of srmies. It was common
during the Civil War and following that conflict. There
was an op identic of the Itch after the (Spanish American
y, ar Now history is repeating itaelf after tbe great
European struggle.
He turned soldiers snd those with whom they eome ia
contact will find a recognised remedy for tbe Itch in
Hunt’s Salve, commonly known a. “Hunt's Itch Cur*.
Mnny s vet. ran of the late '9o's will te.tify to its roerir*.
If dire, iions sre followed HI'NT’S SALVE will
prove * newrr failing core for all forms of the ftch and
your druggist will tell you so lie sells HUNT'S SALVE
under a str"t guarantee to refund the purchase price to
sny d f*i nt*r
A M»d'urd. Old*horns man, among thousands whe
praise HCNT'S HALVE. . *
Dinosaur ‘Not Impossible *
in Unexplored Africa, Says
Eminent British Zoologist
By SIR HARRY HAMILTON JOHNSTON
K. C. B.
(Life member New Yoik Zoological So
ciety. leading British geographer and ex
plorer who has written some ol' the host
known zoological works of the present
day. In the so lowing article he discusses
the possibilities of dinosaurs and other
nn historic monsters and leptiles being
found alive in Central Africa today.)
| London. —The newspaper story, trnns
! initted from South Central Africa via Port
Elizabeth, in Cape Colony, of a monster
■, -9 feet long, compact (in appearance) of
reptile and elephant—in other words, a
! surviving Theriodout or Dinosaur from
the Cretaceous period of three or four or
live million years ago—has once more
aroused the lingering hope that Central
African swamps and forests may hold In
store for us some reptile, mammal, bird,
or frog more marvelous than the suffici
ently astounding revelations which have
occurred at frequent intervals since the
gorilla was first definitely established as
a new genus of anthropoid apes eighty
years ago.
Mys iclsm Hinders Perspective,
But such travellers' tales require to bo
received with a prudent and discriminat
ing skepticism. Most whin* men travers
ing Africa have a very poor acquaintance
■ with zoology. They art* imaginative and
easily scared. The unknown Is the mag
nificent. tho altogether-peculiar and nev
er- before-met - with.
i A rogue elephant dashing through a na
tive village with extended or reversed
trunk and expanded ears cannot, surely
be an ordinary elephant; a python, un
coiled. must measure 30 feet—till tho tape
is applied.
The eroeodi’e is also well-nigh 110 feet
as you saw it stretched on the Hand bank,
though It turns out to he little more than
13'when fairly measured.
Then the natives’ stories are so mis
leading. The demon monster of the pools
turns out, when tracked down, to be an
unusually cunning and vicious bull hippo;
th** unldenl ilinble carnivore which from
collated evidence you cannot dess as lion,
leopard or chita, is finally established us
a veiy largo and bold spotted hyena, Just
when you weie trembling with the hope
that the sabro-tooth “tiger” .still survived
in Darkest Africa.
Must Sift Reports.
On the other hand, if you pay no heed
to Europeans” reports and Impressions
or to natives’ stories, you will not dis
cover an okapi, a great forest pig, u hairy
frog, a Goliath beetle, a three-horned
chameleon or five-horned giraffe, a zebra
antelope, a Grioy's zebra, an East African
goril a (much more remarkable than a
West African In appearance), a gerenuk
gazelle standing on its hind legs, a man
drill baboon, a whale-billed stork, or a
host of other marvels In beast, bird, rep
tile, frog, fish or insect life with which
Africa is endowed more than any other
continent.
only about fifteen years ago dwarf ele
phants of one or mure species were re
ported to exist in Liberia. Ihe Uameroons
and Conti al Heligoland The Liberian form
I has not yet been obtained, but these pig
my elephants of Caineroons and Con go
land may In* seen alive in the New York
Zoo and stuffed and set up at the British
Natural History Museum In the Crom
well road.
The pigmy hippo of Liberia, a survivor
of the Ollgocene, was a doubtful proposi
tion down to eight years ago Now you
ran tender a bun to the reality In Re
cent’s Park, London, if the keeper will
let you.
Doubts Probability.
Do I think Dionasurs—gigantic dragon
like reptiles-—could have survived In Cen
tral Africa down to today? I think It
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scarcely possible, yet rot Impossible. It
set ms probable from th finds made h
"German’’ East Africa jus. before th v. r
that gi .*antic Dlnnsau s continued to **xlsi
there t ill the Eocene p rlod. at or t han
in Europe ui.d North .'nvrirn
Why. indeed, this ord r of ox.v.r crate,
preposterous, terrible and *x • • .<»;>• q>e
elalized creatures disappeared w! h appa
rent suddenness from the land surface of
the globe between Hu* close of th** Chalk
Age (Cretaceous) and the Age of (’lay
(Eocene) is one of those enigmas w.» hav**
not yet solved, and, fal ing any adequate
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Proofs Lacking At; Yet.
The Dinosaurs nmy have lived on longer
in Africa and Madagascar, but wc have
as yet no proof whatever that they wore
contemporaneous there with modern
mammals.
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