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OLD BATTLE SCENES REVISITED
NEW TOWNS ARISE ON SHAMEFUL DESERT
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Mr. Barron Collier the American advertising executive, who is accom- panying General Ryan, of the New York police, on his visit to Europe, has had a romantic business career? Thirty years ago he started tram car advertising in Memphis, Ten-
⚫ London. Iterpart of the ancient way of beat- into ploughshares. nesses, with a young Scot, Joe Ram-
TWENTY years ago, leaving ing sword say by name.
the impressive old town of Here, for instance, is a farmhouse, They worked single-handed. In Ypres behind him a little to the newly built of bright red brick; but the morning they placed straw on south, a man might pause at aits garden is fenced with the loop- the car floors to keep the passen-cercain road-junction and admire ed posts once used by the British gors' feet warm; in the afternoon wide prospect of trees and Army for its Earbed wiro entangle- they sold advertising space; In the cornfielde
ments, the outhouse is a converted evening they printed and changed It was not, perhaps, an excit-Nissen hut, and demobilised corru the advertising cards,
ing vista, for the land was flat gated fron is being put to a dozen From this beginning, Mr. Colller and rather featureless; but it agricultural or domestic uses. At built up a business which now con- had atmosphere and memories the next farm, a conveniently-sited |trols" advertising on 40,000 tram He had been battles long ago. "pill-box" is doing duty aa-a barn. cars in America as well as the New 1 far from here the fate of Sooner or later, too, one begins York subway and on the Brooklyn-Europe had more than once been to notice the trees. Manhattan Transit Company. decided. But for almost a hun-case it was sooner, for I came up He deals only in car advertising.[dred years now this land had had to Ypres not by the normal route peace to mature in dignity among by Ostend, but by the route from its rich crops.
Calais which our armies used. A few months later that stretch From the railway. I could of country was a notorious sham-nothing that suggested battlefields Mr. Collier is # picturesque
'bles. Its fields had been pound-till I had changed trains at Haze Agure with white hair and a bene- volent smile. He is a fearlessed into a mess of swampy mud-brouck. Here, as we left the town, flats. Its trees were stumps, its I noticed a row of old houses which speculator,
He paid U.S.$20,000,000 for the buildings had almost disappeared. had come in for trouble, for some advertising rights
The road-junction itself had were patched with new bricks and on the New York subway. He charges three achieved a sinister Individual fame, one had been completely renovated. cents a day for a small advertising No man dared pause there now to After that there was nothing till look at Ypres, but had he done so we ran into Poperinghe Station,
SOUVENIRS OF THE WAR
(By W. A. Darlington.),
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TWENTY MILLION DEAL
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$650
.75 each
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The China Mail
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In New York poster advertising he would have seen only a heap of once enormously important as rail- head for the salient, now just an is forbidden within the precincts tortured ruins. of the city. By taking on. free of Miracle Of Ypres Rebuilt lunassuming, tidy little wayside To those who first kno Ypres station, decorated with beds of to direct the stream of orders charge, the police advertising cam into a more even flow. Mr. Robb paign against crime he was able to in the war years and have not seen bright flowers.
it since, the Ypres of to-day is a It is from here, that the Trees believes that if coastal trade overcome this obstacle.
His hobbies are motoring and miracle. The morass of mud has begin to tell their tale. The Ypres Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 10, 1934. were confined to British vessels
vanished, the country is yellow road, which before the war was a both the owners and the smaller land reclamation.
He owns Collier County In with corn, the shattered houses fine continuous avenue of trees, was shipbuilders would be helped.
This is a huge area of have risen again. The observer on harried without ceasing. British Shipyard Skill The evidence already given by Florida.
Some of the trees survived. the Government that it does not about 11⁄2 million acres which he the roadway can turn and look be-
see British shipping drained from swamp land. When urging upon British intend to shipowners the scrapping of driven from the seas meets with now a flourishing property. older tonnage and its replace-appreciation from these quar- ment by new vessels, Mr. Walter ters. That is, ao far, satisfac Runciman called attention to the tory, and it may be hoped that imminent danger of losing skill- the various shipping interests ed labour from the shipyards will quickly devise a scheme The older men, after long periods that will enable them to take full
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la hind at a town no less impressive Many of them did not, and have --at this distance than of old. recently been replaced by thin He can see woods and scattered green saplings, which have a sadly Your Daily Smile! trees. At a casual glance he may inadequate air beside the lofty imagine that all is much as it was veterans, Towards Ypres the avenue is regular once more, for "Your husband is sulking again, before the war.
Not for long, however; for at his there are no more veterans. What's wrong this time 7"
"Oh, it's just because I used his silly elbow stands a significent reminder; If I had not happened to notlée
of unemployment, are losing advantage of the help that the old tennis racket to strain the pota-It is an unobtrusive sign bearing that avenue 1 doubt if it would
heart and migrating, where they Government is prepared to give. can, to other work. Graver than In this matter Mr. Runciman this; far too few. young men are has the right vision. Aid to being trained. Trades that for shipping would be only partially years have been notable for a effective If it did not benefit the trades, without high percentage of unemploy-shipbuilding Iment offer no inducement which British shipping could not
to the lad leaving school be maintained. He has only one Investment to make that of his capacity for labour and he prefers to seek a market that promises him some continuous return. The young are pushing into the newer trades that are prosper ous and that in most cases de mand a shorter training.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
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It will be pleasant, too, when girls' fingernails get out of the red.
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the words: "Shrapnel Corner." have been borne in on my very I have just been making a pil-quickly that in the areas which grimage over practically the whole suffered worst there is hardly of the country that was once the tree left of any size. To the casual - Choose Ye
British front in France and Flan-glance the country seems normally "My dear fellow, there are two sides ders. It is a journey that I have well-wooded, and it is not at once to every question="
"Yes, there are two sides to a sheet long wished to make, but somehow apparent that all these woods are of fly paper; but it makes a lot of dif- the opportunity has never present only the counter-parts in miniature ference to the fly which side it chooses." ed itself. I did not see the de- of what went before them.
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vasted area in process of reclama- Here and there an ancient stal- Customer (in jewelry store): "-tion, and therefore my mind has wart, stripped of boughs, thrusts [ah—er—um~!!
been presented everywhere with its way up among them like a naked Jeweler (to clerk); "Bring that tray the same sharp contrast of impres Gulliver in Lilliput, and demon- sions--the memory of destructionstrates that there were glants in and chaos, the sight of fertility and the old daya.
A highway robbery occurred at of engagement rings." Aberdeen yesterday afternoon when
Chinese female hawker was rob- Facts You Did Not Know order Thus bed of $72 in cash and a quantity
Rubber molds with
which school!
That signboard at Shrapnel Cor-
Trenches Left In The Woods
It is in the woods that one must
in the South, where the lighter of valuable jewellery by three men trades have shown a tendency who accosted her on Island Road, children can make their own maps her first told me, what I was to be look for what is still left of the to settle, youth finds employ-west of the Golf Club at Deep/have been invented to aid in teaching told again and again at every turn, trenches, for even the industry of
ment without much difficulty. Water Bay.
In the area of the heavy indus
tries the "gons of the men who
fortunes elsewhere.
country.
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mall service in that
that the effects of the war have the French and the Flemish pea- geography.
almost everywhere been eradicated, sant does not impel him to clear The Brazilian government has
except where they have been con land that has no agricultural value. Isako's Circus and Menagerie created a department of civil aviation served of set purpose..
Except for this, the trenches sur have brought unmatched skill to said to be the biggest ever to visit to control air
Harvest Where Thousands Fell vive only here and there. Part of their work are either idle for lack the Far East is due to arrive in
To me and such as me this is, Vimy Ridge now belongs to Canada, of opportunity or seeking their the Colony semetime during the Carpenters' tools used on shipboard I repeat, a miracle. If anything and a pork at Beaumont Hamel to
middle or end of October, The are being made of stainless steel, to
it was that the scenes of the big the opposing trench` systems are At the launching of H.M.S. Circus is at present in Java, and as protect them from the action of salt seemed certain to us in those days, Newfoundland, and at both places Galatea recently Mr. Scott, of soon. as shipping arrangements are
trench battles the Sallent, Arras, preserved as a monument. At the firm that has built this new complete it will be transferred to
the Somme, and the smashed vil vimy, Indeed, a section of trench British cruiser, claimed that al-Hong Kong,
Sentence of aix weeks hard lages along the straight road that has been sand-bagged and duck- ready there is a shortage of
labour, was imposed on Leung Shiu, leads from St. Quentin to Amiens boarded in cement, skilled men. Ten years of stag.| The R.M.S. Emprees of Japan unemployed, by Mr. E. W. Hamil-would never again be put under nation have made it impossible left Kobe this morning and is due ton at the Central Magistracy this cultivation. Not only was the land to train the requisite number at Shanghai on Wednesday morn-morning for the theft of $1 from churned out of all semblance to na of apprentices, while older mening. She will leave for Hong Kong Ho Ying at Tai Yuen Street. have drifted away from the the same day. at 10 p.m. shipbuilding trades. Ten years
Pleading 'guilty to the charge of
We pietured it after the war as represent two generations of ap
The R.M.S. -Empress of Russia stealing a radiator cap, the pro-
a naked, shameful desert, prentices. Were there a sudden left Shanghai on Sunday night and perty of Ip Chung-leung, a motor
grown here and there, perhaps, demand for ships, either for the i due at Nagasaki to-morrow driver, was this morning sen with some sort of monstrous weed. Navy or for the Mercantile Marmorning. She will leave at 5 p.m. tenced to three months' hard labour That a few years could see it once ine, they could not be built as the same day for Kobe and Yoko- by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the more smoothed out into nest acres Island, Lal Sing, a 46-year-old un- they were in the war years. As hama. affairs are now trending it is doubtful whether in a year or
Central Magistracy.
ture; we felt that it was poisoned, that no seed could live in it.
over
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TRESPASSING ON STONECUTTERS
Unemployed Fined $25.
For trespassing on Stonecutters
of corn and sugar-beet was far be employed, who pleaded that he went there to find a job, was fined yond our wildest hopes.
The R.M.S. Empress of Japan After having been bitten by a Yet so it is. You may look $25, in default three weeks hard two the building yards and the left Yokohama on Saturday and a dog, owned by Mak Yuen, of No. 1 engine shops could meet any dus here on Friday at 5 am.
across Passchendaele, or Delville labour, by Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones She Hok. Sze Terrace, Kung Sze, a
Wood, or Villers-Bretonneux at this at the Kowloon Magistracy this sudden demand, for yards are being closed down after waiting will sail for Manila at 6 pm. on woman. also of the same address,
Inspector W. F. Stafford, of the hopelessly for orders. Speaking the same day.
Civil Hospital yesterday for treat Placidly getting in their harvest: Naval Dock Police, stated that they was admitted to the Government moment and watch the peasants morning.
The dog was sent to and only the men who fought over took the defendant to the contrac-
those widely-separated stretches of
tor who was unable to recognise ground can know fully what pro him. He also stated that they had digies of patience and of heroic Yo Cho-shi, a 58-year-old woman, hard work have given those pea had some trouble with people com ing on the island without permits.
But though the worst effects of The Garrison Entertainments
on the same subject, at the
For snatching a silver banglement. launch of the S.S. Manmorah at Leith, Mr. Henry Robb pointed from Yuen Mui, a 4-year-old girl, Kennedy Town for observation, out that the number of students Yau Wing, a 26-year-old employed,
in the Institution of Naval Ar-was sentenced to six months", hard
chitects has fallen in twelve labour, with twelve strokes, of the of No 41. Bonham Road, who was years from 372 to 80, and in the birch, by Mr. B. I. Wynne Jones rommied for keeping an unregissants their fields again. Scottish colleges from 200 to 65. at the Kowloon Magistracy this tered mui taai, Tam Ngau, aged 11 Ships cannot be built without morning, men to design them
years, was fined $25 by Mr. Ew the war have been so largely blok Committee's dance in the Garrison Hamilton at the Central Magistracy ted out, its signs are everywhere. Lecture Hall on Friday was attend- After the first astonished glance ated by over 200, the music being a landscape which seem
to have supplied by a dance orchestra of eleven drawn from the Band of the 1st Bn South Wales Borderers,
The_m.v. (“Silverteak," from New York, salled from Los Angeles on quito August 20 and is expected here on coun- or about Tuesday, Septe
Remedies for a condition of Au Cho, a 45-year-old unemploy-this morning. affairs that threatens a coned, was sentenced to twelve months tinuing decline of skill in trades hard labour by Mr. E. I. Wynne
A dog which had bitten his divested itself of all likeness a cannot be suggested off-land Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy mistress, Au Siu-king of No. 562 battlefield, the oys of the ex-sold
begins to note familiar, deti
Admission: 38400 $2:30. 81:10,80 cts., & 40 cts even by the exporta. Mr Scott this morning for returning from Nathan Road was sent to Mataukok Young Trees Growing Up.
hinted that something might be banis ent without an authorised for done by the shipowners, of whom perm He pleaded that he had the the Government is the largest come to see his parents,
observation
oman was admitted to the Kowloon Hospitals for treatment.
Everywhere is going on, unobstrusively, the modern