A NEW FISH STORY
PATH FOLLOWEIm"bI\ INSTINCT From Our Own Correspondent. (By Air Mail.) LONDON, Feb. 9. There are still fish in the sea who do not know that the English Channel separates England and France. They still take the long route round the north of the British Isles to the North Sea, following by instinct the path taken by their ancestors, many thousands of years ago when Britain was still part of the Continent. M. Le Danois, director of the French Scientific Bureau which deals with sea fishing says that when French scientists went to, trace the original estuary of the Rhine they found it off the Shetland Islands. The Forth was 7 once a tributary ,of the Rhine. . Perhaps the Nazis—according to their “racial” theories and their slogan “the Rhine, .Germany’s river, but not Germany’s boundary”—will now. consider they have a claim to Scotland! '
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 March 1935, Page 7
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146A NEW FISH STORY Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 March 1935, Page 7
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