This is a harmless form of collecting, but there are others, I notice thia week that some visitor, must have been a connoisseur, annexed another little figure dis-Hlayed in' the Tanganyika. section. 'The other day the theft was of an ivory' elephant, On. this occasion T think it was a silver rhinoceros with ruby eyes, worth about £35, from which T gather that quite poseible—arguing on Sherlock Holmes lines—that it must have deen a Seotshman who took it, out of a wish to get his Exhibition ox-pontes back. There is one other uch figure, {beieve, in this section, they promptly put it in a case and chained it up. I would be quite prepared to hear that small thefts of this nature were innumerable. You cannot imagine a person going there and trying to walk off vith a piece of furniture or a chunk fof rude rubber, or even a handful fof maize, which has won the first prize at! some Bast African Exhibition, but there are plenty of tiny objects of skilful manufueture which can be dexterously acquired when po. one is looking. And in many sections it seems to me that no one ever is looking. In one section T saw the other day there' was not one single solitary attendant, Certainly Not Brummagen.
Most people do-not know that Birmingham is making a great effort at this Exhibition. Personally should never have thought it was Overseas, but then, of course, you Ni. The Exhibition mounds are littered with kiosks and imilar erections which dispose of Kittle manufactured articles mostly made of cheap metal, some of which they give away and some of "which they sell.
T think they must and idea lies around us in unexplored tracts more vasty far than this earth was to our seamen, and the Commonwealth of Nations centreing in this Motherland still hears the call to go out in an Elizabethan spirit of gallantry and doughtiness in search of liberty, justice, and) peace."
Lord Res Viceroy of India, jin his message' said: "It is the pride of India to have fought for the Empire, and in protection of the might of the Empire India looks to shelter and to progress in peace. To-day, in India, men's minds will dwell on the strength of those common ideas which bind all parts together an a single whol The Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of Souti Africa, declared: "The interests of South Africa and of the whole Empire require that every step should to taken to improve intercourse between its people, and I am much impressed by the possibilities of broadcasting for achieving this end.
Lord Byng of Vimy, Governor-General of Canada: "As we come realize more fully the diversity of -peoples gathered under one flag—themiselves free from wars and rumours of wars—we have a clear vision of what a happy world this would be if all the nations of the earth were living in a great confederation patterned after ours. Then, indeed, the universal brotherhood of man' would be in, sight."
Mr. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand: "Another Empire Day, finds still unsolved many of the problems arising from the upheaval caused by the Great Wat [Only by steadfast adherence to those principles of truth, justice and righteousness," which are mainsprings of British life, will these problems and difficulties be most effectually grappled with."
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