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A New Era For Rubber.
on
HERE, THERE
Band
EVERYWHERE
Harmony In The Ogpu
Vyacheslav Menjinsky, the auto- crat of the dreaded Ogpu, died re- cently just before achieving fame as Ja musician.
He dabbled in all the arts, and one of his compositions is to be per-
DESERT SEARCH FOR
.
GOLD REEF
FAMOUS MOTORIST IN SOUTH AFRICA ·
INACCURATE MAPS BRING FAILURE
grad Festival of Music. A piano] T
(By Sir Malcolm Campbell.)
a
formed at the forthcoming Lenin- THERE is no doubt that only a landing ground, carried out a brief tithe of the mineral wealth of geological survey of the locality, sonata of his has been pablished in South Africa has so far been dis-and as by the late afternoon Paris.
covered, and there are still large howling gale had sprung up, blow- He has been included in the Festi-tracts of the country which bare ing the sand about in all direc val strictly on his merits. So im not yet been penetrated by the tions, I decided to find shelter be partial a critic as Mr. Albert Contes prospector.
hind some racks and go to sleep. has a high opinion of his music.
president.
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Poles Preferred
When some years ago certain in- Awakening an hour or so later, formation came by chance into my I found to my astonishment the possession concerning the location footprints of two wild animals, Menjinsky's probable successor in of a large outcrop of gold in the which had apparently passed by the Ogpu is Jagoda (accent on the Namib desert, I made up my mind while I had been asleep; the spoor second syllable), the present Vice- that I would visit this spot fever looked like that of a leopard's. I
a suitable opportunity arose.
followed it for some little way, but Jagoda supervised the construc- Our party consisted of myself, loat sight of it among the rocks.
Dr. Bleeck, geologist. and Messrs. By this time the sun was beglu- organised the gangs of political pri-Fulford and Ogden, pilots and en-ning to set, so I looked round and
gineers. soners who dug out the canal bed.
We took with us two found" a sheltered spot behind He is a sturdy, bright-eyed man. light acroplanes, camping equip some recks on a kopje. As E He will be the third chief of the ment, and scientific Instruments, watched
shadows steadily Ogpu and the third Pole to occupy
We salled from Southampton ear-creeping up, pandemonium broke that position.
ly last February, arriving in Cape loose. I shall never forget it. It There has never been a Russian Town 17 days later. On making sounded just like feeding-time at at the Ogpu. Since Lenin's death inquiries at the Cape I found that the Zoo.
tion of the White Sea Canal.
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Africa, and its southern extremity
the
no Russian of pure stock has ocau. the district we wished to explore It was by now almost dark, and pied any high position in the Mos-had recently been declared a pro- with the howling of the wolves and cow hierarchy.
hibited area, diamonds having jackals growing loader, I decided been discovered there. When to climb to the top of the kopje. made known to the Union Govern-Never can I remember the hours of Iment that it was gold, and gold darkness passing so slowly as they Following in the footsteps of Mr.jonly, that we were after we were did that night! It was terribly. H. G. Wells, Mr. Maynard Keynes given the necessary sanction pro-cold, as the gale was still blowing, has sailed for the United States. vided we took with us an inspec-and the sand fairly bit into my gulated by a committee,
He will deliver an address at tor of police aa guardian.
face. I was dressed only in shorts which all producing interests will Harvard University.
The Namib desert is situated in and light tropical attire, and this be represented, but that commit- The real reason for his visit is at the mandated territory of what added still further to my discom- tee is to have at its elbow an ad-jurge to study the American situa- formerly was German South-West fort. visory panel representing the tion on the spot. (consumers of rubber. Precaution
Night Of Terror is taken against the creation of oracle in the States.
Mr. Keynes is something of an lies approximately 60 miles north Sleep was impossible, as I could In a sadly of Luderitz, which we chose as our hear wild beasts on all sides, and new rubber-growing areas out-chastened Wall Street his views will base. The terms of the restriction side the field of restriction, and be listened to with a reverence which
it was only by continually flashing As the assembly of our second my torch that I kept them at a agreement recently reached by an agreed cess is to be devoted was incking in the days of pros-machine was holding up our little safe distance. Time and time all rubber-producing, interests has to research after new uses for perity.
party, Fulford and I decided to fly again their eyes shone out bright- been
rubber Administered with pro-
up country on our own. Ourly in the beam of light: it was cer months of negotiation, but in the per precaution, such a plan
stores and equipment had been tainly eerie. end has been accepted with should give prosperity to an in-
Paris is to erect a plaque to the previously despatched by train.
However, dawn eventually broke, unanimity. Under
distry that has recovered much ground under the sunshine of its memory of Hortense Schneider, the the journey taking three days and and, except for feeling terribly anticipation, and at the same operatic engine and famous beau-three nights, the light only six cold, I was none the worse for my time should ensure the consumer 14 years ago, aged 87 and prosper had an opportunity of seeing what previous morsing.
ty of the Second Empire. She died
jexperience, I had eaten and drunk When we arrived at our base I nothing since a light breakfast the obtaining rubber at prices that lous.
It was not mean no more than a fair profit production in the Dutch East to the producer. All concerned voted admirer. When in Paris he ever what we were "up against" sibly Fulford might have crashed The Khedive Ismael was her de- the country looked like from the until late the following afternoon air, and we realised more than that I began to realise that pos- -and not least the hundreds of thousands of British investors sought to make her acquaintance. Having reported ourselves to the on his return flight, and that if he
the outcome of many
the pro-
vious restriction plan not only did the price of rubber rise at one time to four shillings aud eightpence a pound, to be suc- ceeded by a catastrophie fall, but
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Forgotten Beauty
point at which it seemed to who have sunk some £160,000,000 An attack of liver laid him low.magistrate and the police, we de-had not succeeded in getting back
Any
sent telegram, out &
once.
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Arms And The Woman
Indies, which were outside res- triction, was stimulated to " threaten the continuance of the of capital in the rubber-growing and he had to go to Vichy.
From there he older British industry.
industry-will welcome the ap unilateral restriction for the proaching end of a long period of begging her to come future was out of the question.
uncertainty. In the present long-drawn nego- tiations the anxiety of the Dutch and French planters to come to terms has been greater because.. their estates, being still on a gold standard, have been at a disadvantage in competition. Nevertheless, the schedule of quotas does not suggest that they had Iost their bargaining instinct.
THIEF FAILS TO
CONCEAL HAUL.
Sheets And Blankets Discovered.
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cided the next morning to carry both of us were lost.
reconnaissance and not to Vichy at waste time and wait for the se-chine came in sight and landed Soon, however, the little MA- cond machine to join us.
perfectly on the spot I had select- That first flight I shall never ed, and in it we returned to forget. We started off at the crack Luderitz before dark. By mistake the Khedive's secre- of dawn, our object being to locate
The aeroplanes proved indis- tary sent the telegram to M. Sch-a mountain 150 miles away and to pensable.
By making numerous neider, head of the French arma- find a landing ground as near it journeys we transported all our as possible. For the first hour camping equipment, food, rifles, Schneider, intoxicated by visions and a half we flew over impossible and personal gear up country, of a large munitions order for the country, the sand dunes being any. We trekked on an average never Egyptian army, hurried to Vichy.thing from 300 to 600 feet high-less than twenty miles a day, and He was taken by the hotel man- atretching as far as the eye could sometimes more, over very difficult
ments frm.
The door opened, and in came the Khedive in a dressing gown.
The explanations which followed were naturally embarrassing.
Your Daily Smile! Smith: "Have you noticed how
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ly arrived over the spot where the map showed the mountain should be, we could find no trace of it all, so we turned back to investigate u spot which we had previously seen THREE GAOLED OVER and which looked like a possible landing place. From the air the surface looked smooth and hard-
became embedded in the sand and but when we landed the wheels
we turned over.
SUM OF $29.50.
Previous Convictions Lead To 6 Months.
Liu Fung, a stone coolie of the ager to a magnificent auíte bedeck-see. When, however; we eventual-country where the going was ex- However strong the arguments Government Slipways, was sen-led with flowers. against the limitation of productenced to six months hard labour tion of an essential raw material. by Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the It has long been plain that some-Kowloon Magistracy, this morning, thing had to be done if rubber on two charges. planting was to survive. Sensa- On May 31 Liu was seen carry- tional economics have been made ing a bundle outside the slipways, In the cost of growing rubber, and when searched a blanket was but these could not keep pace found in the bundle and
a bed with a fall in price that brought sheet under his clothes, in addi-Blank drops his aspirates?" rubber down at one time to be- tion to some pawn-tickets. low 2d a pound. Wages on the When the stores had been check he drops his vowels.
Jones: "It's nothing to the way estates have been reduced, deed it was found that there were more than a dozen of his 1OUa!”
I've got Miles From Civilisation velopment has been arrested, nine blankets and five bed sheets capital has received no return, missing. Six blankets were
We were now indeed in a fix, 18 and yet the world stocks of the covered through the pawn-tickets.
Rich: "What would you do if you lisation; no one knew where
we wera 160 miles away from civi- and a white metal cigarette case, commodity have been rising. The But the remainder are still miss-married a rich woman?”.
we valued
at $29.50, formed the recent increase in price has beenjing. The value of the blankets is
Poor: "Nothing. I expect."
were; our second machine was still charge against three unemployed based on the hopes of restrictive stated to be $12 a plece, and they
at Cape Town, and unless we Chinese, Yip Ling Shing, Ko Kau negotiations rather than upon were pawned between $2.50 and $5.
could get off again we were done any change in market conditions. Unless some fresh demand for
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rubber on a heavy scale could be "AIRFLOW” DE SOTO 6 created it was plain that produc-ON VIEW TO-MORROW tion had out-run the world de-} mand. Yet the maintenance of}
the rubber industry is a matter of deep concern to a world that runs a large part of its transport
Car Sensation Of New York Show.
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Gert: "Why do you want to go the fancydreas ball alone?" divorced husband."
Bert: "I must-I'm going se
A gold watch and white metal chain, a white metal wrist watch,
to for. It took us three hours bard and Chik Ho at the Central Magis- work to dig out the nose of the tracy this morning before Mr. E. machine and to right her-but it W. Hamilton.
Client: "Have you told the
is extraordinary what you can do when you are put to it.
gentleman that I am musical-tal propeller was 54 inches out of
could only
be
We found, however, that the me-
that I play five Instruments?” truth, and this
Matrimonial Agent: "No; I am straightened in a proper presa; we breaking it gently to him." could do nothing whatever to rec
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The defendants
were charged with theft and, alternatively, of unlawful possession of the pro perty, from 11 Seenkin, Terrace, being the property of Mr. Lay- Chau Kwok.
upon rubber. The problem has A preview of the new “Airflow" been to enable a reasonable re De Soto 6 motor car is being held
tify the trouble. I realised at once The first defendant, pleaded turn for capital' and labour to be at the National Motor Car Com He: "She thinks she is, but by getting the machine back at all to the second defendant admitted a She: "If your wite a butterfly?" that the only chance we had of guilty to the theft of the articles; obtained while avoiding the pos-pany's showrooms. sibility of the consumer of rub-Hennessy Road to-day from 2 p.m. pockets she's more like a moth."
NOB. 71-75 the way she goes through my carry out repairs, was for it to be charge of unlawful possession;.. ber being held to ransom.
Ito. 6. p.m..
flown with the least possible and the third pleaded guilty to The scheme devised appears to
weight; and I decided therefore receiving the property at 41 Port meet all the criticisms that such ed audience, prior to exhibiting the with Smith and would have punch-while Fulford made his way back
The preview is opened to a limit Tones: "I had a fearful quarrel to stay by myself in the desertland Street, a plan must Incur. It covers all
Yip Ling Shing, whose police re- the countries in which there is a car to the general public in the led his head if I had not been held with the crippled machine as best cord showed three previous con- considerable plantation industry. Gloucester Building Arcade, to-off."
he could The quotas fixed for each are morrow.
more than large enough to pro- The "Airflow" De Soto, which vide for any probable expansion created a sensation at the Now of demand in the five years for York Automobile Show this year which the agreement is made. absolutely new in dealga and fancier who let the The actual export in to be re-construction
Brown: "Who held you off?" Jonea: "Smith."
victions with long terms of im My rations consisted of a small prisonment, was sentenced to six tin of bully beef, some blacuite, month's hard labour. and a water bottle. I had with The second defendant
B4)
cat
Asked for Trouble: The dog. me an electric torch, a small Colt sentenced to one month's hard
out of the automatic pistol, and a camera, labour, and the third to two,
That day I marked an excellent months hard labour,