FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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GREAT 800-MILE ANOTHER & GREATER
PILGRIM RAILWAY.
WAR.
NOTES FROM
CANADA.
Possibility That It May Soon Re-open.
Ex-American Minister The Toronto Exhibition
Fears Machinations,
communism
Alfred J.
Pearson, dean of the college of liberal arts at Drake University in an address before the Des Moines chamber of commerce.
Buildings.
POLICY IN EAST AFRICA.
Crude Handling of Delicate Problem.”
London, Oct. 15.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
TN connection with TO-NIGHT'S BALL at the Peninsula Hotel arrangements have been made to run à 15 minutes: Ferry service Des Moines, Oct. 12. Another permanent huilding is
In an editorial, the East Africa] between 1.15 a.m. and '3 am. A Eight hundred miles of railway
A bitter
between to be erected at the Toronto Ex- struggle
A cost Inhibition grounds at that begins in a desert, runs through
of Times, while pointing out that as five minute servico will be main- capitalism and
far as substance goes there is really tained between 9 p.m. and 9.30 a desert and ends in a desert, Europe, initiated by Russia, will $1,000,000, to be used for exhibit carries no freight, and whose only eventually lead to another and ing horses and cattle. The build-nothing in either of the two papers p.m. Late Peak Trams will run potential passengers are pilgrims, greater war than the last unless Ings already present in the grounds issued Jast June embodying the every 15 minutes from 1.10a.m. Government's policy in East Africa until 3.10. a.m. The Omelst Sup- may soon be running again.
Mohammedans of all complexions, pace moves are made was pictur- are valued at over $20,000,000,
Gold production in the Province to justify the present uneasiness, per will form immediately after by Dr. ed to-day Persians, Egyptians, Turks, Syrians,
of Ontario for the first eight blames the Colonial Office for its Dance No. 8 and those wish- Moroccans, Algerians, Iraqui,
months of the year is valued at crude handling of a most difficult Ing to be present at the Official Supper (Dining Room) are re- Javanese and Tunisians have pet
$29.287.785, an increase of over and Zelicute problem. tioned Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz.
$1,260,000 in value as compared It says the Immediata problemquested to be seated in good time 10 reconstruct the Damascus-
Dr. Pearson, formerly United with the corresponding period of it to give the European coloniats before this.
a firm sense of security without
E. M. BRYDEN, “ Medina-Hadj Railway, that was States minister to Poland and 1929.
Joint Hon. Secretary, destroyed during the World War.
Finland, outlined the troublesome The Toronto Industrial Commis- parting irrevocably with the powers
Hong Kong, November 26, 1930. Glistening black "Abdul Hamid," questions affecting the Old World.sion announces an extension of the that the Imperial Government pulling and blowing smoke, with its le named the Russian attuation plant of the Northern Plymont Co. ought to keep and exercise. whistle screaming to an empty firit, especially in
relation to Ltd. New Toronto, manufacturers It was a very real problem and desert, pulled its first string of Rougianis, Finland, Estonia, Lat- of colouring substances for such constituted the chief task of the conches, loaded with robed shelks vin, Lithuania, Poland and the commodities as paints, cements, joint committee of both Houses,
which was to be established when Chemical Diamonds are equal to real from the desert and fezzed, be-Baltic States. Other dangerous stuccos.and rubber. There are to
Parliament meets.
diamonds in brilliancy, lustre and. Aworded, gilt-braided Turks from questions, he said, were the Polish two new colour tanks, a new
The committee should be able im- hardness. Cut glasses like real dia- Damascus into Medina in 1908, but Lithuanian situation, Hungary and drying and other processing equip- only after three sheep had been the old monarchy, the Austrian ment before October 30, which will mediately to re-arm British policy monds. Proof against fire, steel file and natrie acid, Price per carat sacrified by high priests in front of Germany, Italy's problems with double the plant's capacity. The and to re-state it in such terms HK. 5 nett Terms Cash or C.O.D.) ita "camel catcher." Medina, the question in regard to union with company began business in the to remove all auspicion that the Bri-The American Chemical Diamond P.O. Вок 300. PENANG, terminus, is only 200 miles north of France and Yugo-Slavia, Soviet Queen City in August last year and tish colonists in East Africa are. Co., Mecca.
propaganda in China and India, already has an export business regarded as intruders and not wel. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
come ploneers. the Bulgaria and
Macedonian with 15 foreign countries. question, and hostility between Jewa and Arabs in Palestinc.
Position of Italy.
Railway for the Faithful.. Ordered by the Sultan, paid for
Bond Sales. by faithful Mohammedans through cut the world, designed by a German
Canadian bond sales for the year) engineer, built by Italian, Polish,
Mussolini is building a "power-ta date are given by A. E. Ames & Hungarian and Turkish engineers, ful military machine, which, if it Co. at $480,410,883 as compared using Italian, Greek, Turk and continues to grow, might be a with $101,827,385 for the similar Montenegrin labour, the completed menace to world power," Dr. period of last year and $330,073,316 pilgrimage. express ran regularly Pearson asserted. He does not until Bedouins began planting believe that the Italian dictator le consciously taking any such steps, however,
bombs in 1917.
for that of the year before. Canadian purchases amounted to $290,515,388;. American to $185,- 150,500 and British' to $4,745,000.
A large.construction programme
RECORD FOSSIL FIND
EXPEDITION'S RETURN FROM
GOBI DESERT.
Peking, October 7. Bringing a record number of fossils, the Central Asiatic Expedi tion returned to Peking to-day after five months of intensive work in the
Some of its rails were made in America, sonic in France, some in Eelgium, the ears the pilgrims rode longer a thing that has to come. is in sight for the winter months Interior of the Gobi desert.
in were manufactured in Belgium,
She: "The man I'r engaged to won't be able to marry me for twe
years,"
He: "Well, how about marry ing me till he's ready?"
Smith's Weekly, Sydney.
"War," Dr. Pearson said, "is no
but to prevent it from coming, an in
Hamilton. At the present open and frank discussion of anticipation more than $7,000,000 an will be spent for building and differences, together with eternal vigilance for the preserva-possibly as much as $10,000,000. If tion of world peace is necessary." all projects approved and, con The Upited States, as proponent templated are included. This is of the Kellogg Pact, carries a exclusive great responsibility in regard to work on new homes and industrial the peaceful settlement of inter-plant expansion and will include national dificulties, he said.-Unit the T. H. & B. grade soparation pro- gramme and new station, building of the filtration plant, reservoir,
ed Press.
STUDY OF RELIGIONS
SYLLABUS OF LECTURES FOR THE WINTER.
The Society for Promoting the Study of Religions, which was founded in London last February, has prepared its first syllabus of lectures.
Mr. C. Rhys Davies, lecturer on Included are Early Buddhism, by
Studies; Mahayana Buddhism, by Buddhism, School of Oriontal:
Professor W. E. Soothill, Professor of Chinese, Oxford University; and Chinese Philosophy, by Professor
while "Abdal Hamid" and the other J. P. Bruce, Professor of Chinese, engines that whirled them through School of Oriental Studies. desolation were German.
Lord Zetland is president of the Christians bullt it, Christians Society, Sir E. Denison Ross chair- but they could not man of the council, and Sir Francis equipped it, ride on the railway of the faithful. Younghusband, chairman of the
The pilgrim railway banished executive committee. one of the most remarkable proces.
sions in the world, one witnessed by few Christians, because the great
Mecca caravan, whose weary, toil-food and where Bedouins of the ing legions once numbered more desert flocked to buy cloth and than 10,000 men and thousands of bright trinketa.
Mohammedans.
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camels opened its tents only to At night the camp twinkled in the plain as hundreds of candles were lighted within paper lanterns that swing from poles before tent doors,
The Camel Line Formis.
etc.
of
the normal winter
In the opinion of Mr. Walter C. Grainger, chief paleontologist, who directed the operations in the field. this year's collection is the largest and the most important scientifical- fy, since the expedition atarted out
in 1922.
Fossils representing, about seven- ty-five species several of which are
new to science have been discovered.. They are expected to shed much light upon the evolution and dispersal of pre-historic animal life.
No human remains have been The Canadian Pacific Railway found but Mr. Roy Chapman has placed an order with the Andrews does not consider that this Hamilton Bridge Co. for the supply rules out the possibility that the and fabrication of 1,500 tona of forerunners of the Peking man may steel and the erection of two big viaducts in the Empress sub-divi-, yet be found in the Gobl region. sion of the Canadian Pacific, near "SUFFERING SAINTS" Calgary.
“OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
FRENCH INDIA'S GRANTS TO
***EX-SERVICE MEN.
Madras, Oct. 6.
The Governor of French India, in pursuance of an order from the President of the French Republic,! has issued a notification in the
announcing
official Gazette
the
creation of an Association of ex- service men who served in the late War and have been disabled through active service.
Members of the Association will
receive certain privileges such as penalons, frea special, old-age houses, grant of Government land at low rates, and a special plan of life insurance.
The cost of the scheme will be met by special grants voted by the French Indian Assembly under the pension budget and from public donations,
NOBEL PRIZES.
AWARD FOR MEDICINE TO DR. LANDSTEINER.
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ARREST OF MEMBERS OF NEW SECT.
The arrest of two young girls. who were found by the police per forming weird "snake dances" be side a spring near Kishime than that afforded them at birth by Roumania, with no other costume Mother Nature, has led to the dis- covery of a new "religious" sect, whose members call themselves Statements obtained from the the "Suffering Saints." two young girls enabled the police to make further investigations, in the course of which they discover
temple. ad that the new sect had its own
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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL
Social Functionis. To-day-Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel..
To-night-Dinner Dance at Hong
Kong Hotel.
To-night — St. Andrew's Bali Peninsula Hotel, 9.80 p.m.
Entertainments.
· To-day- Queen's "A Lady of Scandal,"
To-day ---Central The Wolf of Wall Street." "She Goes to War."
To-day
Theatre,
Theatre
Theatre,
Theatre.
Theatre;
To-morrow--St. Peter's Garden
To-day-World
"Ritzy."
Star
To-day Majestic
"The Coconuts." Fete, 3 p.m.
Home Malls. To-morrow-Inward from Europe via Nagapatam (Hong Peng);
from America and ports (President Garfield); Outward for Europa via Marseilles (Hakozaki Maru), 10.99
a.m.; for Europe via San Francisco, 5 p.m., and Europe via Siberia, 8 P.m. (President Taft).
Miscellaneous.
Monday At P.W.D. offices, three lots of Crown Land at Shamshulpo and Lal Kok Tsui respectively, 3
p.m.
Monday-Street Sale of Roses.
GUESTS OF REPULSE-BAY
HOTEL
November 28, 1930. Mr. A. S.. Abbott, Dr. M. E. Asger, Mrs. H. and Miss E. M. Adair.
Mr. H. P. Balley, Mr.. N. C. Here they discovered two elderly Barber, Mrs. M. Bird, Mr. W. G. women, also unclad, performing Bree, M. Brennan, Capt. and Mrs. the offices of high priestesses, Brodie, Mr. and Mrs. while ten young girls, in the same Brostedt, Mrs. J. Stratton Brown,
Mrs, L. Blandy, Monday state of undress, prayed the before Mr. E. Busch, Air Commodore and
the altar.
These and all the other "Suffers ing Saints" will now have trial on charges of being improperly dress, ed added to their sufferings.
Mr. H. A. Campbell, Comdr. and Mrs. V. Rivett Carnac, Capt. and Mrs. C. Cantile, Mr. E. J. Collins, Miss K. Crombie, Miss K. P. Curtin.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Drouth, Mr. RT. Down, Mr. A. K. Dimond.
Mr. D. S. Edward, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards.
Miss N. Fedorova, Mr. B. C. Field, Misses S. and J. Farmer."
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Na-Granty Mr. g. A. Gregory, Miss
W. M. Goldsworthy. Jed
Mr. W. D. Harris.
Making the Hadj. Every true Mohammedan burns with hope to make, the Hadi, that is, the trip to Mecca.. and. Median, holiest of Islam holies. If the Before dawn. # Cannon shot journey costs his life, as well as echoed over the camp. The signali Men cursed in many tongues-:69 his fortune, so much the batter.
There is greater glory in para- they stumbled over tent ropes.in
"APPEARANCE MONEY.” dise for those who die making the their haste to be of... Hadj.
Squealing...camels bent their
Amy Johnson Sues Dance-Hall Many of those who travel by knees, protesting against the riders
Proprietors. land gather at Damascus, in Syria, climbing up. Dogs barked, 'stray] To go by sen, as
thousands do in Damascus dogs that went with the
Stockholm, Oct. 30.
Solleitors acting for Miss Amy our softer civilised days, earns the caravan annually to Mecca like dogs
The Nobel Prize for Medicine Johnson in Sydney have accepted pilgrim lesa merit than to make the that ally themselves to hunters
for 1080 has been awarded to Dr. the sum of £108 155, 28, the strength-sapping overland journey walking through forests.e
Tied nose to tail in long flea, Karl Landsteinar, of the Rocker balance of £200 which the air Mr. R. S. Jenyns, Mr. and Mrs. through sunburned valleys between black walls, balanced on an evil the camels swung along to the tinkeller Institute; New York. woman claimed from Mesars. J. O. C. V. Jensen, Messrs J. E. and
ng music of a pilgrimage sung by member of the Backafeller Insti- the Palais Ryal dance-hall, as so. P. Korr
*** Dr. Kari Landsteiner has been a Dendrodt, Ltd; the proprietors of F. A. Joseph, Misa Johnson, Mrs. the bells tied to the ugly beasts.
The great caravan was on the tute for Medical Research since called "appearance money.".
Miss Johnson has given the sum march no journey for a weakling. 1922. Racketeering Among Bedouins.
He was born in Vienna in 1868 accepted to the New South Wales Once outalde Damascus, the great Sometimes it travelled as much as
D. M. Maynard, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. caravan used to halt until all com- 50 miles by steady going 22 hours and after graduating at Vienna, Aero Club as a mark of opprecia- Mr. G. May, Mr. and Mrs. University practised medicine tion of the help extended to her by Mayhew, Mr. Geo. Mellis, Mr. T. panies assembled and until the out of 24. caravan leader had "oiled" the Littera for the Dying. til 1909 when he became profes- the Club while she was in Aus Megarry Mrs. A. B. Major, Mr. paim of the desort Bedouins, to
and Mrs, E.-N. Monie. Some of the camels carried huge or of pathological anatomy in trolls. ***
Mr. FH. Neale. paas safely through the desert, curtained. litters on their backs for that university, a post which he
MTV J, O'Connor, the women of wealthy pilgrims and held until 1919. free from attack..
Mrs. E. M. Prescott, Mr. and: Convoying a pilgrim army 1,000 for dying pilgrims When a pil-He has written largely on varied
medical subjecte
Mr. H. C. Fullen, great, miles through an almost waterless rim felt the spirit leaving his body desert was no easy task be willingly spent the last of his Everything was minutely organis savings to die in luxury, so be hired ed. The tents were grouped to one of the camels bearing the gether, Syrians kept to their sec-lurching compartment reserved for tion, sects and tongues and na dying men.
tempered camel, drinking the luke warm water of desart wells and ylaking cholera. [
HUBBY'S APPEAL Joey take most frong "CAN 1 STAY OUT AS LATE AS 1 LIKE?"
CROUCHING FIGURE.
A policeman noticed a man behaving In what he thought was a suspiclam way outside Leeds Gen eral Infirmary during one night.
As the man went down in the shadow under a Tay coming from a lighted window the policeman seized
Mr. J. B. C. Lamburn, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Fangston
Min. M. S. Rose, Mr. C. M Roberts, Mr. D. 0. Russell.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Schabeek, Comdr. and Mr. R, Shelley, Mr. P. Smart, Mr. P. Smith, Mr. W tionalities aplit the seemingly Friends lifted his sickens mark
Vander Steen, Mr. and Mrs. E. confused mass into manageable ing body in. When the caravan
Stone, Mr. A. F. Bimmio, Mr. units.
4 stopped they would look in,
The man had no collar and the Block to Camel boya waited for orders to find him dead, out the "Can I stay out as late as I like? Under the old rainergof, be wore he He, J. A Tarrant, Miss E. C bring their
boasts to body bury: It
knd that a husband asked the Lambeth mag had an electric torch in one band Tarrant, Lady H. M." (ethill, Mr,"
ther and
A Tully, Mr. and Mrs. corps was has received so many bodies of men fitrate," Mr. Sandbach, KU
and a screw driv camp and and, camels, and pare the litter in The man complained that his wife Peeping fræn his pocket was a pair J. H.
for
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