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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1921 Holy Land Routs a Locust Army Night Attack of Devastating V Horde Turned Aside ( by v Flame Guns in a Weird Conflict With Ancient Enemy * Jerusalem,--Why do hungry locusts migrate In Incredible hosts? Science Cannot tell us with certainty, though tha plague goes back to Moses and whole libraries have been written on this cloudy curse. Palestine has al-Ways known this aerial visitation, so have Syria, Arabia and India, The Bible is full of allusions to agricultural havoc wrought by the locust, swarming in numbers wherewith no j effort of man can cope. Orientals seeirt j from of old to have accepted these de- | zareth Field Companies sallied forth vastating swarms as au "act of God," , again with more than seventy of their But today the afflicted Holy Land has special flame-guns. A great round a modern Department of Agriculture! moon, serene and pale, showed eerily which is not fatalistic, but able and now and then through dark drifting anxious to accept the hissing chal- j locust-clouds. Into the thic!! of these lenge, going forth to battle against the rose a squad of Royal Air Force locust with every engine of war known planes. But these were soon forced down, with their radiators blocked and choked by enemy masses. FLAMES ROUT ENEMY. Was anything ever more wonderful as the moonlit advance of scientific terrific ' troops against this recurrent Plague Wad, at the edge of the Shephalah farming districts, Even the roving Beduin wen ried and afraid. It was strange gayly clad patriarchs down in Jericho at the telephone, praying fei? deliver ance to white magicians up there ii Jerusalem, where all knowledge was enthroned, and troops of khaki 'iors armed with strange guns that shot out inextinguishable fit So ours was a harrassed Department of Agriculture, And at high disheartening battle swayed back and forth, there were human casualties in our scattered ranks, What seeing that tho temperature, thick orange groves, was then above 106 degrees? "We shall fight all night!" Commander-in-Chief, And e pitiless sun sank over a poor and stony land, and faint airs played in brief stifling twilight, the Tiberias and Na- to the modern laboratories of destruc- A MOONLIGHT BATTLE. In age-old Jerusalem--a well-drained, well-lighted and prosperous Holy Gity--I have been watching a terrific rout by moonlight of the aerial enemy, j of Egypt? The hot Eastern night was with the Haifa Defence Corps and the, soon rayed an* pierced with broad Tiberias and Nazareth Field Compan- j tongues of dazzling flame, a mile long ies in full offensive array using, it seemed, that wilted and withered the flame-guns and new chemical bombs of j locusts in countless myriads. We were special design. | now concentrating the assault on some Advance forces of the aerial foe ten square miles of invaded farm lands were first reported just north of Am- j between Semakh and Daganiah. Here man, in the lonely tracts of Trans- j burned and scorchedMocusts lay in in-jordania. The defenders advanced at. credible heaps. once, spreading out over a space of j Our flame guns, strategically placed 18,000 Palestinian dunums, or about tc anticipate new out-flanking motions seven square miles. Here the fray:of the invader, shot long bars of kill-was fiercest. We had soon taken no ing light in all directions, like the less than twenty-seven tons weight of searchlights of a naval squad] live prisoners, together-with more than J searching out unseen attaekers ir 100 bushels "of eggs. These last, in dark and stormy sea. And to all this clusters of from 25 to 125, are laid the howls and yells in Arabic, Hebrew lfy the females in little holes scraped and broken English, and you will v: in the sandy soil by their hind legs. j aulize the weirdest war scene ev Behind our flighting lines we had t staged in the Holy Land since Josh 500 modern ploughs, fuming ,.r?er the1 advanced upon walled Jericho with his ground where the eggs had Wen <ie- destructive jaz posited. And our Arab and Hebrew; Toward dawn intelligence officers camp followers were seen dumping telephoned to the fighting front that these eggs into empty wells for tin- the endless hosts were no longer con-sanctified burial, with shrieks of ex-1 tinuing to settle on the crops and trees, cited triumph. The enemy Were routed at last. More AN ARMY OF DEFENCE. | clouds of him seemed to turn back at There were daylight campaigns with'Jisr Mejaniah, as though afraid to British engineer officers in command advance into our far-darting fire-zones. Macdonald's Tour of Canada An Antarctic Giant Ready for Shipment DISMANTLING FLAGSHIP OF BYRD'S AIR FLEET Preparing the huge Ford all-metal tri-motor "Floyd Bennett' for crating and shipment to the Antarctic regions. Arrow points to huge gas tank specially construction wing. of the attacking forces and soldier-chemists and naturalists in trim khaki as well. The true migratory locust was in full force against us, darkening the Palestine sun in powerful yet curiously leisurely flight. The whole country appeared alive and covered with twinkling adults, and with young wingless 'hoppers" too, in various stages of moult. Native Arab farmers say that the whole life of a locust is no more than a year, with only one or two broods. Eggs laid in the fall hatch out in the following Vast columns of locusts were soon flying north-eastward toward the Syrian frontier. And immediately our own authorities, from their aeries in age-old towers in the Holy City, telegraphed news of the enemy's defeat and retreat to the French Ministry of Agriculture in far Damascus. THE WEARY VITORS. At down the Tiberia^ and Nazareth Field Companies packed up and left the field. On their way back to camp and barracks with their queer-looking ballistic and chemical gear, they spring. When quite young, the "hop- j "mechanized" forces lumbering out to pers" show a gregarious habit. The j bury the dead--whose numbers no families will mass together until they j caravans of noughts could convey, are "as the sands of the sea for multi- j There were many weary days and tude." But by what laws they migrate ; nights of work for those steam plough in the search of food, and how they ] and mechanized shovels, and for gaso-ere led and directed on the march or j line trench-diggers and fussy Ford in flight, still remain among Nature's j tractors. baffling secrets. J Nor were the human victors gay For all the tons weight we took, and j after routing these migrating swarms all the bushel baskets of eggs, those of devastation. Many of them had enemy forces continued to advance as though they had suffered no losses at Never have I imagined such spectacle as we witnessed on the classic Plain of Isdraelon between Megiddo and Nazareth. My horse was often fetlock deep in red insects which hafi changed their color like chameleons, from a dull yellow-green when preparing to swarm in search of food. At times, indeed, my Arab mare was past her knees in the living, feeding masses that struggled upon grape vines and ripening grain and fruit, Our scouts, both official and volun-teer, continued to report fresh inva-plons, descended apparently from the blue without warning, New swarms were down and feeding greedily between Jaffa and Haifa, Othai" ssi'lai army corps were devastating tha ei'ah, ards of Tuikeram, and alse tha Una fr^m Hebron to Ai Uf find tha. Bab ei= fought in bloody campaigns of the World War, from Gallipoli to White Russia, and from Antwerp to the jungles of East Africa. And what our flame-gun experts said about swarming locusts in the Holy Land-- in* pure cockney and many other lingoes--as they lurched home at sunrise, weary and grim--cannot be printed in the story of the Insect Campaign. |N. Y. Times. Marie Kissem--Hod do I know your love, will be everlasting? Willie Neck-er--That's the way I always love 'em. "Do you think being able to get motion pictures over the radio will help any in getting families to spend more time at home?" asked the Curiour Qna, "Na^' growled the father, "they would rather go somevrtiere and spend 60 eents to see them than stick around tome &&& see them for nothing." i Prayer of World for Peace Planned on Armistice Day Official Sanction Sought by International Order and Woman's Organizations During a two-minute silence at 11 o'clock on the morning of Armistice Day, citizens of more than 40 coun- Major Seagrave Will Attempt to Beat Record Car Being Built Which Is Designed to Travel 240 Miles Per Hour London.--Further particulars are now available of the remarkable automobile with which Major Segrave, who was the first man, to travel at over 200 miles per hour in a car is to attempt to establish a new spe"Sd record on Daytona Beach, Florida, next March. Many features of the mechanism still remain a closely guarded secret, but it is designed to travel at least 240 miles an hour. The body is only tries will individually offer a definite prayer for peace, if plans now formulated are successful. Committees are now at work in 28 states, seeking official sanction of the plan, as the United States' contribution to this simultaneous world prayer. Work is being done mainly by committees of the International Order of Service, and by women's organizations reaching all parts of the world, it was learned in Boston at a meeting sponsored by Mrs. J. D. Leland, one of the originators in the United States o£ the moment of silence, and attended foy Capt. Max Wardall. secretary >f ire-International rder of Service. * In Massachusetts, as an example effort is being made to have even traffic stop during the two minutes endorsing this move. Radio, public speaking, church service's and motion set aside for silence on Nov. 11. Alvan T. Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, is being asked to sign a proclamation pictures will be called into use to further the plan. Captain Wardall believes that a brief silence, devoted to prayer, will tend to make a more fitting observance of the day than more martial celebrations and displays of arms and troops. The International Order of Service, he said, is also trying, through j mea;sured mne „„, its chapters in 43 countries, to estab- j wlu De made lish an international Peace Week, to J Each targei wln llave a nuge bull>s. start on Nov. 5 and end on Armistice eye The driver when gatnering speed Day- . I will get the car's sight aligned with "People must think in terms of the bulr-H.eye on the first target and peace and in an atmosphere of peace," j then driye straight for it> sighting said Captain Wardall. "Even --' 2 feet wide, the length weight 3% tons. The Napier engine has been developed to give a maximum of 1,000 brake horsepower without forced induction. The brakes are specially designed to reduce the risk of heat, since they will have to enable the car to pull up from 240 miles in four miles. One of the most remarkable features is the equipment of the car with telescopic sights. When traveling at 200 miles an hour or more it is impossible to steer by ordinary objects, and flags marking the course appear merely as a blurred line. With the aid of telescopic sights similar to those used with a rifle, the car will be steered much as a bullet is aimed. Two huge targets will be erected at Daytonia on a scaffolding above the electric-timing wires, one at the start and the other at the finish of the which the attempt . „ t, „ uj the second bull' the magnificent gesture of the Kellogg the measured mUe, treaties the work of establishing perm- i rgr anent peace has just begun. The firing of guns, parades and the constant showing of war films are but a few things that keep alive a war sentiment, indicating the romantic side of with little hin of th< successful Major Segrave's car is completely assembled. Its cost, which amounts to many thousands of pounds, is being borne by two London business men. The week after his attempt on the land speed record, Major Segrave proposes to attack the the voluntary retirement of | water speed record in a motorboat. | Coolidge and Tunney. British Labor Leader Finds Mining- Families Well SetHsc; an Farm? In his last speech before leaving for home, J, Ramsay MaoDanald,' British Labor leader and former Premier, said he objected to the vovd "Empire" as plying force, while in reality the great genius of the British Empire its ability to maintain itself in an -growing atmosphere of understanding, sympathy and self-respect. Canada's outstanding problem today, he said, was immigration, a prob-"'m which was solvable if taken up ith Great Britain in properly con-Acted council. Referring to recent -itieism of Canada's handling of the 8,500 British miners who had been brought over to harvest the western crops, he declared that according to his knowledge not more than 8 or 4 per cent of them had any just grievance, which was a remarkable record. He had talked personally with some of those who had immigrated under the family .settlement scheme and had, found them greatly contented with their lot. The question of the relationship between the dominions and the Motherland, continues Mr. MacDonald, was superseded by the Empire's relationship to the world at large, as based trade. In this direction little progress had been made as yet. He suggested that the man who would work out the problem of the relationship of the co-operative wheat pools to imperial trade might discover how to stabilize trade relations as between the self-The notice declares that after the governing dominions and the rest of the world. Which should come first, imperial trade or international trade? It was a question which demanded considerable thought. expiration of one month from the date of publication the company will apply to the Minister of Public Works for permission to construct the dam, locks and gates and carry on the develop- Happiness is not in getting what you want but in not wanting what you can't get. Beauty and the Beast LEAD DOG OF BYRD'S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Marion Haynes, with Blair, chief husky of Commander Byrd's dogs, ma from Canada, who will serve him on his trip to the South Polar regions. Japs in Brazil things; Nineteen twenty-eight will be re- Tokyo.--Thirty thousand Japanese membered by history as the year of, emigrants will eventually go to Brazil each year, according to Ikutaro British Artillery Keeps Its Eye In Boys are keenly i England. ARTILLERY IN ;sted in this incider Aoyagi, who has just returned from South America as a representative of the Federation of Foreign Immigration Associations. Although Japanese immigrants are welcomed by the Brazilian Government, he declared, they are slow in taking advantage of this opportunity, there being only 60,000 Japanese settlers in Brazil as opposed to more than 2,000,000 Italians and 1,000,000 Germans. The federation has just bought 30,-000 rectares off fertile land, a'bout 200 miles south of Sao Paulo. Mr. Aoyagi expects to have 900 Japanese families settled on this land during the next three years. Another plantation of 130,000 hectares in the same district is to be purchased soon. The work at first is not easy, he says. "The settlers have to cut iewn all the tress first and use the timber ir. building houses. This requires about a year's work. When the trees are felled and the land cleared, cultivation can begin. Coffee, rice, beans, corn and miscellaneous vegetables can be planted for the use of th? colonists. "Any Japanese who wishes to emigrate to Brazil should possess at least $1,000 in order to start life there. He needs it for traveling expenses, to buy the necessary agricultural implements, and to provide the first year's food for his family. After one year all that the settler has to buy are kerosene, oil, 'SOMEWHERE IN SUSSEX" &alt and clot^es> for hig fie]d? wil] r;r0. sional military operation of the Aldershot command in duc9 all the grains and vegetables '■ ' necessary to feed him."