. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 206 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jime 29,1916. feet their apiaries and appliances, and so stamp out tlie disease. This is one of the finest honey-producing counties in Eng- land I Can we be surprised at the spread of bee diseases? Can there be any doubt as to the need for legislation? Can we wonder at New Zealand and other coun- tries capturing the honey trade?—George E. H. Pratt (Rev.), Sheinton, Salop. BEES AND BULLETS. LANCASHIEES' HOT TIME IN EAST AFRICA. The Natal Mercury publishes an in- teresting account of the difficulties con- fronti
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 206 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jime 29,1916. feet their apiaries and appliances, and so stamp out tlie disease. This is one of the finest honey-producing counties in Eng- land I Can we be surprised at the spread of bee diseases? Can there be any doubt as to the need for legislation? Can we wonder at New Zealand and other coun- tries capturing the honey trade?—George E. H. Pratt (Rev.), Sheinton, Salop. BEES AND BULLETS. LANCASHIEES' HOT TIME IN EAST AFRICA. The Natal Mercury publishes an in- teresting account of the difficulties con- fronting the British fighting forces in East Africa, furnished by an officer in the East African Mounted Rifles. "Of the ingenuity of the Germans," he said, "there can be no doubt, as the following incident will prove. The natives have a device whereby they place hollow logs up in the trees to enable the bees to construct their hives, and from these the natives collect the honey. In one place the Germans tied a whole lot of these logs together and attached them to a wire in the long grass. They also invented a device which caused a white flag to jump up above the grass when any one came into contact with the wire, this being the signal to them to turn a machine-gun on to that spot. A party of Lancashires had the ill-luck to stumble over that wire, with the result that dozens of the bee hives fell to the ground, and up sprang the white flag, revealing their whereabouts. The poor Lancashires immediately had bees and bullets to contend with, and between the two they had a hot ;. Correspondents desiring an answer in the next issue should send questions to reach this office NOT LATER than the FIRST POST on MONDAY MORNING. Only SPECIALLY URGENT ques- tions will be replied to by post if a STAMPED addressed envelop", is enclosed. All questions must be accompanied by the sender's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good fait
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