The Cairo bulletin., 1912-06-03
COURTESY DOES
NOT APPEAL TO
TURK CAPTAIN
Ignored Query Concerning Gun
Used to Fire Schrapnel at
Italian Dirigible
HOUNDS GIVEN GOLD" TEST
Depopulation Of British Isles is Be-
coming Serious Menace to
United Kingdom
HOUNDS GIVEN GOLD" TEST

hing In CoultesieS between DeliGer-
cnts has just been provided by Com
mander Deuti. chief of the dirigi-
bles used by the Italian army in
Triool.
Some time ago while circling the
Arab position Deuti photographed
the explosion of shrapnel which
was fired at him, On developing
the negative Deuti found that he
had a rare picture and his curiosity
regarding the gun which had fired
the shell was aroused. He knew
that a Turkish captain of artillery
was in command OF the battery
which had asliled him and circling
over the position again he dropped
large envelope which contained a
copy Of the photograph and polite
request that he be furnished with
the type and caliber of the gun
which had been used in firing the
shrapnel He also asked what means
OF aiming was used and the inter-
ests of aviation was given as the
excuse for the unusual request.
The commander closed the note
by thanking the Turkish captain
and expressing the hope that they
might meet on earth. No reply has
been received from the Turks.
Trials for the purpose of testing
the usefulness of bloodhounds ON cola
trails held on Salisbury Plain have
proven a striking success. The
honors fell to two young hounds
owned by Captain Hoel Llewllyn,
chief constable Of Wiltshire. Moon
light, a puppy of fifteen months,
was put upon a six hours cold tran
and in spite of the fact that it was
bad scenting day, she ran her
quarry to earth in four miles and
picked out her man from a group,
Frail the second hound, six months
older than Moonlight, was equally
successful. The pups are the pro-
geny of shadower, noted in the
Midlands as a great manhunter.
The depopulation of the British
Isles is becoming a serious menace
to the future Of the United Kingdom
and just now the press is devoting
much space to it because of the
large number of emigrants pouring
through Liverpool on their way TO
America. Many hundreds are
| leaving evry week and not one in
hundreds comes back except for a
holiday. Many of the emigrants
are stout healthy looking girls with
out a chance of marriage in their
own villages and the lure of almost
Immediate matrimony on arriving In
America has made them respond
promptly to the circulars of the
emigration agents,
One Of the agents declares that
since the beginning OF the season
5000 domestic servants and farm
laborers have been taken to Canada
| by a single steamship line. He fig
ures that the total for all the lines
must be at least $4,000.
|
The hot summer Of last year and
the present dry spring has produc-
Cd crop of insect pests which
threaten to overwhelm the usual
fruit and vegetable output of the
season. The great hopfields of Kent
are menaced with blight which
only the most persistent spraying
can keep In check and even the OAK
trees are suffering from plague OF
small green caterpillars which
threaten to destroy the foliage
Some of the trees have already been
stripped and in the ancient natural
park at Richmond scarcely tree i:
immune.
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To complicate matters plague
has attacked the bees of the king
dom and there aye grave fears thai
a lack of polarization may cause
the complete failure of the frui
crop, Unless there are bees to car
, ry the pollen from the anthers t.
the stigmas there will be blossoms
without fruit on and it Is estimated
that with the assistance of rela
lively small number of other insects
practically all of this work is done
by the ordinary honey bee. A
plague known as the Isle of Wigh
disease has wrought such havoc
> among the bees that the fruit grow
err has been forced 10 take over thu
task himself and many Of them arr