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Auction
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TUESDAY, August 9, 1932,
' commencing at 10:30 a.m.,
at No. 18, Granville Road, Kowloon.
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A Quantity of
VALUABLE MOUSEHOLD:
FURNITURE.
Terms: Cash on Delivery..
LAMMERT BROS.
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Hong Kong, August 8, 1982,
THE CHINA MAIL.
AMERICA'S HEART IS CANTON AVIATORS
IN HER VILLAGES
FACES DEPRESSION WITH REAL FORTITUDE
COUNTRYMAN'S CONFIDENCE
"Down in Kentucky I was happier, The factory had been built by the in the than I had been since I landed in community. Every man' America
FIND NO WORK
· Fukien Force Not Yet
Organised.
"RIVAL" FLYING - CLANS.
Men Who Left. Canton Posts: Åre
Going Back Again. ·
[From Our Own Correspondent.)
Canton, Saturday. There is a large and capable I had noticed something village had shares in it, and had force of airmen, who owe alle“ that had reassured me. What was shipped kitchen cabinets all over giance to the Chung Shan, party, it? could not think for the the country. They are very nice which is looking for work to do moment what it was," writes Mary inspected them I should like to
The group has as its leader the Borden in the Daily Telegraph. have one in my house in London,
Suddenly it came to me. It was "No," the banker told me, "we former Canton and Nanking Air the looks of the people we had pass-
are in no serious difficulty. The Force chief, Mr. Chang Wai- "farmers round here grow #
cheung. Hopes for action grow variety of crops. If one fails another helps. We're shipping less with each failure of the party strawberries ta Chicago now. to obtain some connection with Even this season I expect with Government officials. For one the strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries
LAMMERT BROS.ed in this fine open country.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
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Auction
ON
TUESDAY, August 9, 1932. commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Salcs 'Room,
1. Duddell Street,
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
Comprising
FURNITURE
..
The men and the women in the feld, a group of stone-breakers mending the road, and the small townsfolk. They were quite differ- ent from the people you saw in the streets of New York or Chicago.
that $80,000 will reason or another, they are not come into the village. "That wanted.
should keep us going for the At present, their main hope of| Winter."
Mr.
They were tall and ruddy and fair-haired, with lean bodies, clear eyes, strong, healthy, beautiful men.
I was very happy in that little employment is the long anti- Tap all day. That was what had place..1 would like to tell you more cipated Fukien Air Force.
Overseas Chinesc brought me my feeling. of relief.about it. I had a strange feeling Chang - and It was the look of these people.
of peace while I was there. I knew have been trying to organise it, that I had found there something for purpose of national defence that I had been looking for, and I
My Home Village.
We bought some butterscotch pic in a sleepy town on the river. When I told the pretty girl in the shop that lived in London she smiled a little incredulously.
"You mean London, America?" she said:
"No, I mean London, England." "You don't say."iler eyes were wide with peaceful astonishment.
knew when I found it how unhappy and bandit suppression." Mean- I had been for a long time about my while, some of Mr. Chang's com- country."
rades are going back to the posts
✓
What Really Counts.
will call what I found there the from which they resigned re- Poul America, or,' if you prefer, the cently in Canton. heart of America. A very
rustic There has been much friction, and simple community of very high-
ly civilised people, different from between individual powers in any other peopic in the world, but Chinese aviation affairs.
I cannot even tell you about my
To ap
MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1932.
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Teak Hatstands. Chesterfield' Couches and Armchairs, Curio Cabinets, Bookcases. Desks, Tables, Pictures. Cut-glass Ware. Carpets,
We pushed on, reached Louisville I have no space now to describe the large extent this lack of under: Rugs, Curtains. Mosquito Nets.
at four o'clock, bought a bushel of difference.
standing, a result of personal ele.. etc.
Teak Extension Dining Tables, monkey nuts for 6d to send "back
to Cincinnati, and crussed the Ohio friend the Professor. They call animosities, appears to have Dining Chairs, Wardrobes with into Indiana. The village that was him Professor out of a romantic re-been the cause of the rupture in Beyelled Mirror, Sideboards, FOR SAL, E. — MUTOR YACHT Dressing Tables, Chest of Draw.the end of our pilgrimage lay in aspect for his intelligence, though he the Cantonese Air Force.
grim valley flanked by bills, thickly is only a schoolmaster in the vil For a long time, according to Length 46 feet inches
hion Heavy Duty Glass Cabinets, Screens, Din wooded with elni, beech, poplar, lage school. He has a small farm Chinese sources, there has been fret 6 inches! Krasene Engines. Very conomical per Crockery, Tea Sets, Glasses hickory, walnut, locust trees, and outside the village. He is a bucolic trouble between two district and reliable. Spev 74 miles. Com-etc,
[maple trees-every imaginable kind giant with red hair and a slow parties known as the Chung fortable Cabin. Very romplete inven Teak Bedsteads, Gramophones of tree.
smile. He farms in the Summer Shan, led by Mr. Chang Wal tory. All in good order and condition. Records, Cabin Trunks, Table
Kentucky cardinals, blue jays, and and teaches at school in the Winter.cheung, and the Zee Yap, led by Going A BARGAIN. Write Box No.
Apply A. Lamps, Ice Chests. Ten Fox yellow birds darted across the road. He gave us sweet cider and Mr. 729, e/o "China Mä"
Wong Kwong-yui. Mr.
Letters will be despatched fortnightly by the French Mail Cloisonne Vases, Violins, Suitcases, The afternoon sun streamed over ginger cookies, and asked us about Chang was formerly chief of the King's Slipway.
steamers scheduled to connect at Saigon with the Air Mail. As the the deep meadows, planted with the National Government. He is a Canton Air Force, and Mr. Wong Air Mail Service is weekly other vessels if available will be used in Indian corn, ry
, rye, barley, and wheat. great gentleman and a democrat. is his successor.........
intervening weeks. I saw the house I visited as a He would like to come to an under- Chang went north to take Letters for this route should be marked "Saigon-Marseilles - Air child in the distance. A white house standing with Neville hamberlain command of the Nanking Avia-Service" and handed in at the G.P.O. or Kowloon Post Office.
debts and tariffs. Hetion Corps, and, at that time, Joss Table, Opium Stools. Tea-ona green hill above a white vil-about war ing the Centre of the Typhoon Price Poys. Couch, Chairs, Jardinieres, age, half hidden among the trees. knows quite a lot about corn, pigs, Wong immediately consulted with How happy and peaceful it looked, clover, and the Gold Standard. General Chan Chai-tong with re- Was I going to find here, too, the I am glad that I went back to spect to the establishment of national spectres that stalked the that village. My mind has found an aviation school. With the cities? "
something to rest on. Nothing very graduates from this school the tangible, you may say, or very im- Žee Yap party came into being,
loyal to Wong.
"FOR SALE-Hung Kong $ Directory now on sale at the offices of the Publishers. 3A. Wyndham Street.
TYPHOON MAP of the CHINA SEA. The Lundentan's Handy Guide to locat-
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A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
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China Mail" Office, 3A, Wyndham St.
"COASTWISE."An interesting book
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One Radio Set and Loud Speaker. On View from Monday, August
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AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY for schools by A. 11. Crook, W. Kay, and W. L. Bandyaide.. Price $1. on sale at the publishers, Newspaper Enter-i prise, Ltd., 3A, Wyndhu Street.
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All Happy People,
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I had a strange feeling of sus-portant. I wonder.
It is a relief to me, all the
Rivals for Power. pense as we drew up at the front
same, to think it is only one of a After resigning froin the Central door of the house where my kinsman
thousand similar small communi-Government, Chung proceeded, to had lived since 1816. If this vil-
ties. And possibly who knows organisu a, rival party, and insti lage were not, what it seemed, if
even that one village may weighgated, it is believed, u strike it, too, were haunted? But how
more in the great balance of my mong the members of the Zee trim the little houses were along
country than New York.
Yup. Each leuder sought for its, main street. Each had fresh
gnuduate-volunteers for his party.
muslin curtains in the windows, gay MAIDEN'S FESTIVAL ally, however, by weight pum-
flowers growing by the verandah steps. Half-a-dozen men in overalls lounged outalde the post office. It was all just as it had been.
EXHIBITION.
Beautiful Work On Display.
ON ROOF GARDEN. The annual exhibition of the Maiden's Festival which is being
bers, the Zec Yap prevailed.
Chang has been deserted by most
of the junior officers, though of the Isenior men many remain loyal Arnong these are Yang Koon Yu, Jau Chil Yim, Tang Yonk Ming, Chan Puk Shing. Ning Ming Kai, Choong Dick Wah, Lee Yat Fui, 3g Yu Lưu, Chan Sin Bin, Yun To Yu, Szeto Oi and Ng Man Bui. In spite of the party prejudice,
from $5.00 to $7.50 talked to the farmers and theheld on the Roof Gardens of the Wong has retained some of Chang's!
suffered, ad-
I stayed there three days. ] talked to everyone in the village. 3 talked to the banker--the village has its own bank, a branch "of” the i Indiana State Bank; and to the from $7.50 to $25.schoolmaster, and to the station
master, and the innkeeper; and 1
farmers' wives; and I discovered a from $10 to $25 number of things about the little Sincer Company, Ltd. store, is old officers in service in the re organised Canton Air Force, and place that I think are very interest-arousing much interesting among
Chang's influence thus the people of Hong Kong. from $ 3.— 10 $15.—ing? (PK
other blow. I discovered first that the people of China, and some rare pieces of Curlos and antiques from all parts
Lack of Funde Belts, Heads and other
were 'gentlefolk; second, that they
When General Taai Ting-kui were happy; third, that they were Pottery. are of note. But there are the same people who had been there thousand delightfully artistic pieces came to Hong Kong, Chang &t persuade the Com- thirty years ago.
of handicraft and workmanship to tempted to
mander of the 19th Route Army They were glad to see me. The charm the visitor.
to assist him in organising an air. stationmaster remembered me as a
The legend upon which the branch of this force. But funds small girl in pigtails. They were Maiden's Festival is founded, the were lacking, and the General was very pleased that I had come back marriage of the youngest of the not in a position to comply with all the way from England, but they seven daughters of the King of the request.
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made no undue fuss about me.
Chang subsequently sought to They were simply very friendly their separation for all but a single take his party into Nan Szechuen and courteous, and interested today of the year because of the and Kiangai, where air forces are hear about what was happening wrath of the King, is depicted in being organised, but while he him- in England, and they knew a paper and bamboo. The result is self was welcomed, his nien wern great deal more about it than startling, and most picturesque not. Leaders in those sections. Some of the relics displayed are foared that their power might be some of my friends in New York.
of great value, dating back to the threatened by the presence of so No Unemployed.
time of Confucius. Specimens of powerful a group as that which These diamonds are They even seemed to understand modern art are also featured. Chang commanded... equal to real diamonds that the English were people much The Maiden's Festival is one for It was with high hopes of being in all respecta
brilliancy like themselves. They are all dee- unmarried girls only. In parts of able to organise the Fukion force Specially of lustre, hardness, etccendants of English settlers, these China It is still observed in its of airmen that Chang left Canton Can cut glass like real Hoosiers. There was one German oldest forms. Work done by young and brought some 110 of his officers diamonds. !" Proof against" fire, fle farm labourer. He was the only ladies takes fup a good part of such with him. When the plans for the acid, water, oil, etc. These
diamonds
foreigner,
had boun, there exhibitions, opa
Fukier unit were delayed, it was berwashind" "with soap and water
The Birthday Celebration of
Chẳng to pay some of can be used for more than 100 for six
God," Carat HK$7.50
who looked Terms Cather COM
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