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MORE BALKAN BICKERINGS.
fre-
War; so has it been very quently even in Greece. All of these countries seem to be cursed! with a heritage that causes them to be, more or less; in incessant forment, The bickerings of the Balkans have long been proverbial and they hid fair to go down the ages unimpeded and carrying in their train disaster of one kind
or another.
At the present moment we have Rumania in one of its periodical upheavals, but as to what is actually taking place or has taken place during the past few days or weeks to justify the sensational news being flashed
are, 48
Hotel.
SIR V. SASSOON'S VIEWS.
fourth floor, together with the fifth, sixth" and "seventh floora. would consist of luxurious bed-
management aimed at making the "Claridges" of the Far East. An additional large lounge set back from the main line of the building on the Nanking-road
deeda of the petty Balkan States. Management Aim At A "Claridge's" frontage, the eighth floor on that.
Chang's Decision.
side, was included in the hotel ac- Of The Far East,
commodation," as was, on the Jinkee-road side, similarly set. The arrival in Shanghai from back a billiard room and other The announcement that Mar- India of so distinguished a visitor rooms for the hotel residents and
as Sir Victor Sassoon draws 'pub- shal Chang Tso-lin has decided to lic attention to final plans regard-
guests. withdraw from the capital to his ling the new Sassoon House, short-ninth floor, would be a luxurious In the base of the tower, on the: Mukden stronghold will surprisely to lend its architectural beauty a la carte dining room, while few. The open clash between the at the corner of Nanking-road, ing room.
and modern facilities to the Bund above would be a private banquet- Southerners and the Japanese, of says the "N. C. Daily News."
A number of private dining rooms immediately below course, has a bearing on the deci- Sir Vicar arrived on the the tower would make attractive sion, but as we suggested when steamer "Athos," and will re- features on the 11th floor, over- main in Shanghai. for approxim- looking the river and in the tower the civil war was in full force, ately one month, when he will itself a fire brigade watchman the Northern warlord was likely come to Hong Kong, about June 1. would keep a lookout for fires to make such a move at any time. for a fortnight before returning throughout Shanghai, this eleva- The charras of Peking, it may be to India.
tion providing, not only a beauti- surmised, hold no attractions for! His impressions about Shang ful view for miles around, but an Chang, and he has long realised hai, which are a matter of con- interesting new Municipal de- its worthliness as a contact-point siderable interest owing to the velopment. with world diplomacy. On the exceptional opportunities which
New Hotel Company, other side of the Wall he has a he has had for making compari-
The part of the premises com- vast area which, in the course of sons with business conditions prising the hotel was to be leased years, he has consolidated; he in Shanghai at present and in by the owners to a new company vast army and also years past, are sufficient to con- to be formed under the title of numerous warlike resources. On vince the most pessimistic that Cathay Hotel, Ltd., and the 13- the face of things there seems no the future of Shanghai is a glow-storey building now being erected reason why he should not withing one.
has
by the Cathay Land Co., at the: draw and allow the other side to Symptoms of Recuperation. "stew in their own juice." Whe- The most noticeable element final Mercier, opposite the French corner of Rue Bourgeat and Car- ther amalgamation will follow be-about the present situation, Sir Club, which will have 300 rooms tween the forces of North and Victor told a representative of will also be under the same direc- South is another matter. Our-the "North-China Daily News," tion. The amenities of a high selves, we suspect not. The Na-was the fact that, al-class residential hotel would be tionalists all along the line have though the fashion at present was provided in both.
WAS
been the aggressors, and it for-to be "parsimonious" and to en- It is expected that the latter. eign intervention has stopped joy a quiet evening at home in-which will be ready for occupa- their ambitions of conquest, that stead of the inevitable champagne tion about the end of this year, is their own affair. We do not parties of six years ago, there will be known as Cathay Man- think that Chang Tso-lin minds were no signs of trade depression sions. while the hotel on the Bund the Japanese or any other Power in Shanghai.
will be known as the Cathay Hotel maintaining order in Shantung.
Business, almost without ex- and will probably be ready about Through a number of years heception, was picking up, he said, the same time or early in 1929. has been dealing with foreigners and the attitude of retrenchment' In conclusion, attention and he is fully alive to the conse- was simply the healthy symptom drawn to the arcade facilities of quences of Japanese domination of recuparation.
the new building on the Bund, in territories very near his own. Another telling feature of the most of the shop space along the With those of the old Canton present time was to be found in Nanking-road frontage as well as crowd who rule the Shanghai and the fact that all Shanghai banks shops in the arcades. having al- Yangtsze scourings constituting had considerable surplus funds on ready, been leased, although the the Nationalist army it is differ- hand. Possibly, Sir Victor point- building is only just beginning to ent. They have yet to learn that ed out, this was simply the result lake shape' inside. anti-foreignism is neither a pay-of an influx of silver, as well as of ing game for themselves nor people, from all parts of China, China.
and possibly the owners of the silver were only awaiting the DR. T. W. WARE'S EXPOSITION time when, in safety, it could be
OF THE SCOURGE taken. elsewhere. But the re- netion had been the same a3
INFORMATIVE LECTURE. though it had come into Shanghai in other circumstances, namely, that the banks had plenty of money to lend.
RECORD HAUL?
ARMS SEIZURE AT ABERDEEN.
SMART CHINESE.
"
"MALARIA EVIL.”
The second part of an intereating and instructive lecture on "Malaria Evil" was given in the Main Hall of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., Bridges-
Pessimism a Sentimental Pose.
Pessimism about the situation street, by Dr. T. W. Ware, of the
What is belleved to be a record was largely a sentimental pose, seizure of contraband arms and am- Sir Victor thought. Undoubtedly Government Medical Department, munition was made by a Chinese de- the sad plight of rubber at the last evening. tective who was on duty on the moment was largely responsible
the contraband.
ease,
of slow-moving".
There is
The first half of the lecture, waterfront at Aberdeen this morn for whatever pessimism existed. given last week, dealt with the his- ing.
A thousand individuals whose tory and distribution of malaria, A sampan was entering Aberdeen rubber dreams had vanished into and with the fight against it in harbour, coming from the direction thin mist could diffuse a consider various parts of the world, the of Samwan, when it suddenly stop-able amount of this pessimism, major part of which work natural- ped on its course and then turned and Shanghai was a place closely by falls upon the Governments con- as if with the intention of sailing bound up with the rubber market. cerned. out of the harbour again.
On the other hand, however, the Last evening Dr. Ware spoke, of The detective called
out to the real assets of Shanghai, those the diseases caused by the bites of simpan to come in shore broadcast throughout the woria notice ivas taken of his order. He price of rubber shares, told quite which are malarious. The lecturer but no having nothing to do with the insects, the most dangerous of regarding the precious Prince accordingly commandeared a small a different story..
alan referred to the physical and Carol it is very difficult to state, boat from the foreshore and rowed
Land values were up-discount-economic effects of malaria. Obviously the censor has been out into the harbone in pursuit of ing all fluctuations of the ex- Dr. Ware illustrated his lecture the sampan, which was overtaken change-higher than they were
with a number of diagrams anď very rigorous with regard to
after a long chase. Rumania. Equally obvious is it
on Sir Victor's last visit two years pictures, with the aid of which he On board the sampan was a soll- ago. There was a great deal of showed how we may co-operate effl- that something very dramatic tary boatwoman. The detective Chinese capital about, and Chin- ciently in the fight against malaric must have happened to justify searched the craft and in the hold ese opinion was undoubtedly on and protect ourselves from the dis- discovered eight baskets containing the side of investing this in pay mosquito was fully dealt with by the The breeding places of the the royal exile to think a large quantity of arms and am-ing foreign concerns. In Sir of returning 'to Bukharest munition. He arrested the woman Victor's opinion the whole re- lecturer. These places vary very so dramatically after having and took her and the contraband to action was one towards foreign much, but always water, and most given his solemn promise that he Sergeant Hopkin took charge of the benefit of both in commercial cir- sent. These breeding places might the Aberdeen Police Station, where and Chinese co-operation to the frequently stagnant water la pro- If Belgium, as many believe, is would refrain from touching haul.
cles. All these things accounted be on the banks rightly termed the cockpit of Rumanian soil for at least ten Up to a late hour this morning for the continued interest in streams, small pools amongst rocks, Europe, the Balkans, with its years or only at the express in- it was impossible to ascertain for building, which in proportion as untrained nullahs, etc. incessant ferment, may well be vitation of the Rumanian Gov-and ammunition found on the sam- would be an inevitable develop which might be regarded as domes group of breeding places nature and quantity of the arms Shanghai remained a safe place also a described as the fertile source of ernment. To-day, it would seem, pan. It is understood that the haul]ment.
tic, such as water tanks on roofæ infinite mischief that rarely fails princes' promises
was so large that it would take the
The New Hotel.
of houses, empty fruit cans, fire to lead to something very much evidently they were in Shake
whole morning to sort out and count Coming down to comments on buckets, flower pots, vases, etc.
the Sassoon House, in which
The lecturer spoke in clear, non- worse. So it has long been for apeare's time, "writ. in sand." It
offices would be available for next technical terms, and his discourse- centuries past and so it was, when may be regarded as certain that
autumn, Sir Victor said that it was much appreciated. Dr. Ware's
were interpreted. at some insignificant spot in the an individual of the type of ex-
had now been definitely decided remarks Serbia of the time, a distressing Crown Prince Carol, who dis-
that the upper part of the build- Chinese by Mr. Chak Tal-kwong.. tragedy led to an even more ap appointed not only his royal RECEIVE ROUSING SEND-OFF. to have the Bund entrance of the
ing would be utilised as a hotel, the leader of the Y.M.C.A. Unit of MESSRS, BLUNDELL & WHYTE The plans were being carried out the St. John Ambulance. palling catastrophe to the Great parents' advisers but even more War itself. That was in 1914 terribly disappointed his unfor-
building for the hotel, a hand- PARTING GIFTS. when an Austrian archduke and tunate parents by reason of his
some loggia and stairway Indicat- ing this, as well as a lounge his duchess were assassinated by erratic conduct, is not now going Whyte, both of the. C.E. Depart- be on the Jinkee-road side of the Mr. B. Blundell and Mr. S. beyond. Another lounge : would a hot-headed student who instead to Bukharest except at the behest ment of the Royal Naval Dockyard, building, it was pointed out, with of foolishly imagining that in of political schemers who are who are proceeding Home on trans-an entrance also from Nanking. committing such a hideous crime using him merely as a catspaw of honour" at the Dockyard Re-lities for an eleven o'clock cup of fer on Saturday, were, the "guests road where all the customary faci he was revenging some one or for their own selfish enda. creation Club lost evening, when coffee, etc., would be available for more of his countrymen's fanciful! So far as the world generally nearly forty members of the Club the public.
From day to day in the "China grievances against their big is concerned as to Rumania's assembled to bid farewell and pre- The first and second floors Mail"' appear half a dozen questions. neighbour, Austria-Hungary, rumblings or the Balkans bicker-sent parting gifts to the two popu- would be let as offices, chiefly to of a general nature, for which would have been better em-ings these patty States might go which took the form of inscribed other professional men, and the "Dally Sketch," Answers will be lar departing members. The gifts, legal firms, doctors, dentists and acknowledgment is due to the ployed at his studies. The on wrangling until they managed gold watches, were handed over by whole of the third floor would be found on page 0 of this issue. comparatively insignificant States fo. annihilate one another. But Mr. Saint, chief of the C.E. Depart-offices of Messra, E. D. Sassoon & (1) Who dreamed of a ladder of the Balkans seem to be popu the serious part of this Balkans Sayer paid warm fributes to the firm, Arnhold & Co, Ltd., with to heaven?.
ment. Afterwards both he and Mr. Co., Ltd., and their associate which seemed to reach from earth lated by peoples who delight in business is that France, so far as good fellowship of their departing the exception of an extensive dwelling upon so-called grievances Humania is concerned, is pledged colleagues, whom they were all suite of offices which would be oc until a state of affairs is reached to help her protege in times of sorry to lose. They wished Mesars. cupied by Messrs. Hansons, solici- that the slightest spark leads to a trouble,
Blundell and Whyte bon voyage and tors Italy to succour good luck in their new aphares of The Management's 'Aims. conflagration. So has it been Albania and no doubt some of the activity, and hoped that the watches The front part of the fourth time and time again in Serbis, other of the bigger States to would serve to remind them of floor had been let to the Ameri- Rumanis, Albania; so was it when champion Yugo Siayakia. Thus Lang Syne" was sung and cheers laid out as club premises with ac- friends In Hong Kong, "Auld can Women's Club and was being Montenegro was a State before it is the bonfire speedily set ablaze. given before the gathering die commodation included for re was wiped off the map after the Ordinary commonsense and dispersed.
sidence, and the remainder of the
JOLLY GATHERING.
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To-day's List of
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(2) What are the first five books. of the New Testament?,
(8) How many plagues were visit- ed upon Egypt before Pharaoh al- lowed the Israelites to depart7.
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(5) Whose sons were named
(8) What was Othello's wife? -
Sigha?
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