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...which flew the Royal Standard (embellished with seven lions and a harp). At a signal from the King Emperor destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were heard 120 mi. away in London...
...Malaya Beastcatcher Buck trapped three black leopards for Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the New York Zoological Park. Black leopards are sports, are constantly being produced by Malaya's spotted leopards. They, too, have spots-under the fur. A Buck theory: that all the leopards in the Malay Peninsula will be black in a few hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby...
From ship to ship the message passed, from the Rodney to the Nelson, the Hood, the Repulse, the York, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Warspite and Malaya. All eyes were on the Valiant. Would she obey orders? If she did it seemed certain that the rest of the fleet would follow. But on the Valiant boatswains piped themselves blue in the face. The crew remained below decks. Officers had an anxious huddle on the quarterdeck. Conscious that the eyes of Britain were on them, they attempted to hoist anchor themselves. Forward they found two pickets of thick-necked sailors standing guard over...
...second semester is held on board the 20,000 ton steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York City's Bronx Zoo, widened the eyes of a St. Louis audience last week with stories of a snake that can fly. It is the rare, seldom captured Chrysopelea ornata of India and Malaya, a black snake with a yellow dot in the centre of each scale and a series of yellow, red centred "flowers" along the back. These snakes climb trees, fling themselves off and by extending their ribs and sucking in their bellies, create air pockets on which they glide safely to the ground...