There is not a little food for amusement in. the reported experi ments at present being, conducted by the chemical section of the ith Manchuri tive method has as yet been discovered for dealing with the nuisance, but efforts are now being made to discover a powerful odour that the gad-fly will not like, and which will keep it away from its intended victims. The chances are that the remedy. will be worse than the disease in this instance, for if beast and man has to be anointed with something smelling sufficiently dreadful to keep the gad-fly away, (gathering of the clans at any ime in. Manchoukuo should: be. so illy "odorous as. to. relieve the police of any necessity of breaking it up. "There should be some dil culty' in ascertaining exactly what Sort of smell a gad-fly does not like, for" having no nose, sas "it Were, it is a matter of impossibility for It to wrinkle 4 in disgust, anoint a goat with the suggested remedy sand watch to see if. the gad-fy goes elsewhere-to bite may rove nothing, for the fly may nave discovered some rather more entrancing smell elsewhere. But, anyway, during the summer, 1 looks as though in Manchoukuo it will' be a case of every prospect Pleasing "and only man Smelling vile.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.