HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-04-05, Page 7Koala Rear* Aro
Banned As Pets
Australia's cuddlesonie real.
life "Teddy Bears" - the kloa)aa
- love to be petted. 13ut the
government is strictly enforcing
its law prohibiting their being
kept es pets - for the bea*ll'
own protection,
Recently Herman Schmidt, a
diesel fitter of Oaklelgh, Mel-
bourne, found a koala lying on
;its back, groaning, in a country'
lane.
He thought it Was ill, took it
home and built a cage for it in
his back garden. He made the
cage three feet square and forty
feet high to give the bear ample
climbing space.
But soon neighbours talked
and the police arrived. Schmidt
was taken to court and fined
$50 for contravening the bear
protection laws. His pet was re-
iatored to the forest.
Had not Australia introduced
n special section to her Game
Act, prohibiting the keeping of
koalas as pets, the little bear
would possibly have been hunted
out of existence and exploited,
in captivity, by pet dealers,
Australia Is determined that
ro attractive and remarkable a
creature shall never become ex-
tinct. And, in fact, in eastern
regions, the koala bear is in-
creasing in numbers.
Naturalists describe the koala
es a marsupial, one of that pri-
mitive family of mammals
whose young, when born, are
imperfectly formed. S u B h
smothers rear their offspring In
a pouch.
Koalas like to lie up by day,
curled in the fork of gum trees.
At night they feed on the gum
leaves. Though Australia has be-
t w e e n 400 a n d 500 different
varieties of gum and eucalyptus
tree, the koala can survive on
no more than four drfive of
these varieties.
He doesn't drink, but gets his
moisture from leaf sap and dew.
His name, koala, is an aboriginal
word meaning "no drink."
Young cubs or "Joeys" are a
delight to watch. On emerging
-from their mother's pouch, they
cling to her back, and travel
with her, pick -a -back, until big
enough to look after themselves.
They Hove Slickers
in The Congo Too!
In the Congo these days, Afrl-
ean children are apt to greet
white men by, placing their palms
together and saying in pidgin
French: "Please sir, send us a
teacher." This hunger for educa-
tion not only is pathetic; it opens
the way for confidence tricksters.
Such a man was Albert Kana-
bu, a 25 -year-old' Congolese for-
merly employed by the U.N.
Working in Kasai Province, Kan-
abu canvassed the villagers, of-
fering to provide U.N. scholar-
ships for university education
• in Nigeria. For a mere $9 -still
a fortune to most Congolese -
he sold them a package deal: Air-
, plane ticket to Lagos, vaccination
certificate, and entrance forms to
a Nigerian college, His creden-
tials: A blue U.N. hat and a big
official -looking rubber stamp.
When Kanabu had sold 300 en-
trance certificates for $2,700, he
disappeared, leaving the would-
be students to line up one day
;recently. outside U.N. head-
quarters in Luluabourg, clutch-
ing their luggage and entrance
certificates. Eventually, U.N. of-
' ficials told the crowd they had
: been swindled. Many of the stu-
dents broke into tears, Fifty of
them refused to believe the bitter
truth, and at the weekend, they
Still Were Waiting for the plane
o Lagos.
1 U.N. soldiers soon tracked the
1111cling Kanabu to a suite at Lu-
luabourg'a best hotel fie was
hauled off to jail, his pockets lit-
' orally bulging with the defraud-
ed students' cash, Only a few dol-
lars's worth was missing but this
Iliad been well spent. Kanabu wag
wearing a brand-new suit, and
an his feet was a pair of bright -
yellow leather shoes.
Q. How can I straighten out
a warped phonograph record?
A. One often -successful me-
thod is to place the record be-
tween two pieces of glass, and
set it where the aun will shine
on it for an hour or so.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"Yes, .A lovely Couple -but I
Wonder how they ever hap•
paned to meet:"
COMMUNIST COMRADES? — No; resemblance to Fidel
and Nikita Is strictly coincidental. The look-alikes are beard-
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Gluskin, who is musical director for CBS In Los Angeles.
"World's Best
Bloody Soldiers"
Just before the fall of Tobruk
in 1942, an Australian soldier
who thought he was out alone
on a night patrol suddenly
froze in his tracks. in the almost
total darkness, a hand had brush-
ed his face. Then the fingers
moved on to trace out the metal
letters on his shoulder insignia.
After that, the stranger whis-
pered, "Nice Aussie, nice Aussie,"
and vanished into the night.
For weeks after that the Aus-
tralian shuddered every time he
thought about how close he had
come to having his throat cut.
For he knew that his nocturnal
visitor had been a Gurkha, out
hunting Germans with his kukri
- a heavy, 12- to 15 -inch curved
knife that is the Gurkhas' favor-
ite weapon and the symbol of
their legendary skill as fighting
men.
Stubborn, sturdy Himalayan
tribesmen, the Gurkhas have
been recruited into the British
Army as mercenaries ever since
the Indian Mutiny in 1857.' In
World War I, their war cry, "Ayo
Gurlehali" ("The Gurkhas have
comet"), threw terror into the
heart of the Germans. In World
War 1I, they supplied more than
40 battalians which served in
Europe, Africa, Iran, Burma, and
Malaya, suffered 24,000 casual-
ties, and won ten Victoria
Crosses. Today, the Gurkhas are
the mainstay of the British
Army's forces east of Aden. There
are two battalions of them in
Singapore, four in Malaya, and
two battalions in Hong Kong.
The Gurkhas are also considered
the best fighting men in the In-
dian Army, which includes six
Gurkha regiments and at least
one Gurkha bagpipe band. The
Indian Army is now represented
in the Congo by the toughest
single outfit in the Tinted Na-
tions forces - the first battal-
ion, third Gurkha regiment.
Last month, army commanders
in both Indian and Britain were
quietly worrying about the fu-
ture of their Gurkha soldiers.
There were dismaying reports
from Nepal, the tiny Himalayan
kingdom 'where the Gurkhas
make their home, King Mahen-
dra, who dissolved his elected
Parliament fourteen months ago,
is currently threatened by in-
creasing guerrilla action, sup-
ported from New Delhi. 1Vfahefi-
dra's respon a has Dean to draw
closer id his neighbors on the
north - the Chinese Commun-
ists. Should Mahendra take Ne-
pal into an all-out alliance wtih
China, both Britain and india
may be unable to recruit the
1,000 or more Gurkhas a yeas
who comprise Nepal's majpr ex-
port (and its main source of for-
•ign exchange).
The mere thought that Gurkha
recruitment might be cut off
was enough to make the British
Army - perennially hard press-
ed for recruits - become alarm-
ed, There were suggestions that
this was what lay behind last
week's announcement that the
63rd Gurkha Brigade would
.shortly be redeployed. After
twelve hard years in Malaya,
where the Gurkhas did more
than any other outfit to defeat
the Communist guerrillas, one
group of the Brigade has em-
barked aboard the commando
carrier Bulwark for retraining in
the latest air amphibious com-
mando techniques, Simultaneous-
ly, the, Sixth Queen Elizabeth 5
Own Gurkha Rifles are being.
readied for transfer' to Britain,
where • they will be stationed at
Tidworth on bleak Salisbury
Plain. The advance units are due
in March, and on June 27 Queen
Elizabeth will officially welcome
the Sixth Battalion at a recep-
tion at Buckingham Palace,
The prospect of having a per-
,
HERO -Beau, a mongrel,has
been named Research Dog
Hero of 1961 for his contribu-
tiori'to a new heart operation
developed at Yale University.
Hugged by little Kent Murray,
Beau has lived vigorously for
several years without the use
of the right side of his heart.
It was bypassed surgically to
pioneer an operation to aid
humans with heart defects,
manent Gurkha contingent sta-
tioned in Britain inspired former
British officers to reminisce over
the legends of these Gurkha com-
rades. There was Dewan Sing
Barnet who cut off the heads
of four Afrika Korps men in the
Western desert, There was Ki-
Erhanbahadur, who charged a Jap-
anese patrol in Burma single-
handed, and killed twelve men
before falling dead himself. Then
there Was the time a Gurkha pa-
trol crept through the Nazi lines
in Central Italy, and, finding
three German soldiers asleep in
a barn, decapitated two of them
and gently tiptoed away. In the
morning, the third German went
mad when he found his comrades,
to right and left, with their sev-
ered heads resting on their kit-.
bags.
Preceded by such gory tales --
which the British delight to tell
- the Gurkhas were assured of
a warm -welcome on Salisbury
P 1 a in, British quartermasters
were rounding up goats and
lambs which the Gurkhas love to
eat (as strict Hindus,. they won't
touch lseef) .while mess halls all
ever the island rang with praise
'lar the newcomers -- "the Gurk-
has will never leave a wounded
eomrade on the.battlefield"; they
have "remarkable discipline in
battle, a hilarious sense of hu -
Bor." The Gurkhas, said on•
ritish officer, "will cause no
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