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HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
ENGLAND'S GREAT MAN
Recently Mr. Winston Churchill and Colonel T. E. (Aircraftman| Shaw) Lawrence met at the country house of a British Minister.
The two men had a discussion, in which present company was except- ed, on the dearth of great men in the post-war period.
FOLLY'S TOLL OF LIFE IN THE ALPS
DISASTROUS SEASON FOR MOUNTAINEERS -
ANTON SACRIFICE”
(By H. Challinor James.)
TEVER in the history of the Somewhere on the north face of
"NE Alps have human lives been the Matterhorn lle the remains of
Mr. Churchill scouted the idea that there were any great men in more wantonly sacrified as during a German student who a short time England at the present moment.. the present season." Such was the ago.conceived the foolhardy idea of Aircraftman (Colonel T. E. Law-comment of a well-known Alpinist finding a new route to the summit. rence) Shaw was mere optimistic. when asked to explain the epidemic The movements of the solitary He claimed that he had discovered of fatal accidents which has cast-a climber were visible for an hour cloud over the alimbing fraternity or so through telescopes... then one great-man in Britain.
he suddenly disappeared from view His name is Cecil Day Lewis, this year.
"Many lives are loat,' he said, and has never since been heard of. He was, of course, unknown to the
"because tourists have no longer Edelweiss, that much over-rated other guests. WADHAM WORTHIES
;
BCOTB
:
the means to hire guides as in the plant, has claimed at least a old days. But unfortunately a of victims this season. Sheer Mr. Lewis was born at Ballin-large proportion of accidents is due waste of life when one remembers tubrer, in Ireland, in 1904. He is to the modern craze for speed, and that edelweiss can be bought in a scholar of Wadham, which in the to the willingness of the younger sheaves in most Alpine valleys. late Lord Birkenhead, Sir John generation of to-day to 'take a risk,'| It is to the honour of that Simon and C. B. Fry has already no matter how one-sided it may magnificent corps of men the Swiss three modern celebrities on its roll.jbe.'
guides that night or day, sunshine
Lord David Cecil, another literary Time was when an expedition infor blizzard, they are always ready idol of the younger generation, was the high mountaina was only to go to the help of tourists in dis- a don there for some years after undertaken after the Itinerary had treas. the war.
moon;
I say it in a bottle
advice.
been carefully studied and all the Their self-sacrifico is all the more Mr. Lewis's claim to greatness is technical details minutely planned. praiseworthy because as often as based on his poetry. He has four In every Alpine centre climbers had not they are obliged to risk their volumes of verse to his credit. their headquarters, where the lives with only a problematic pros-
Here is a sample:
neophyte could always obtain the pect of reward, and in some cases
and Farewell again to this adolescent best professional amateur ecen without thanks.
On one occasion watchers at the But the youth of to-day has no Riffelalp saw lying in the snow at time for studying Alpine craft as the foot of the Monte Rosa the practised by pioneers of the bodies of two Germans who, despite Whymper type, and ascents that the entreaties of the guides, had set were-once-considered-as-an-out-out_the_night_before_to_climb_the__ The heart a record for the grams- standing achievement are now fre-mountain alone. A search party
phone.
quently treated with the scantiest was immediately despatched to the respect.
spot.
For hapless poeta to feed their
fancy on.
Once mine sucked there, and
dreamed
In sterling on condition that the interest should be paid in sterl- ing. Owing to the fall in the Mr. Lewis is a schoolmaster.. The wedding of Miss Jessie price of coffee, maize and so on, McPhail to Mr. Kenneth F. Noble, and
15th, at 4.30 p.m.
The China Mail
particularly wheat,
When he is not writing poetry,
Your Daily Smile!
was
terrible they returned to
A typical example of this
After encountering provided by a young American who, hardships,
a
сп
the
on alighting from the train at Zermatt two days later with their has been unavoidably postponed, Banks were compelled to say
Zermatt, pointed to the majestic lugubrious burden. In addition to and will now take place at St. they could not get the exchange. "Look here," the poet gasped to the Matterhorn and asked, "What's the risking their lives, each guide had
on and the interest had simply to be editor. "I wrote a poem to my little name of that big rock?" Andrews Church, Kowloon,
When probably missed remunerative Saturday afternoon, September held in deposit account until and began the first verse with these words: 'My aon, my pigmy
I explained that it was one of the client while absent. prices rose. They have risen re- counterpart,"
most famous summits in Europe Their fees were only Fra. 50 per cently, and payments have been "Yes?"
{he replied, "Do you think I could man, but when the bill was sent in made; but the effect of the pay- "Read!" he exploded. "See what get up there this afternoon?" to the club to which the victima be- ments will be to retard the re your compositor did to my opening
Everywhere in the Alps mules longed, it was returned with the line." covery of the peso.. Without The editor rent, My son, my pig are fast giving way to motor-cars. intimation that "festivities" these commitments the financial my counterpart.""
sad mission were in ex- It is a heart-breaking experience to such a recovery would have been much
the old-fashioned mountaineer to tremely bad taste and consequently more rapid. What is there in our The "sticks that region where find that after a gruelling climb of on payment could be made for the Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 19, 1934. Hong Kong finance correspond-people can't enjoy hot rolls without three or four hours he has been bottle of wine each guide had con
taking some to the neighbours. ing to this?
Someone defines a vacation as the forestalled by a fleet of moter-cars! sumed and which, incidentally, had Let us take a year in which our time when it is possible to sleep late If roads are available so much the saved him from being frozen to dollar dropped heavily, 1930. In in the morning if one could.
better, but I have seen cars labour-death! January the rate was well over
ling up a mountain side where even An Implacable Rule The other day one of our con-eighteen pence, and in December
Just Between Salesmen
There is an old Swies adage tracks were non-existent. temporaries made more or less it was only one shilling and a First Salesman: "See that fanny-]
looking bird across the street! That's The revenue in dollars the head buyer of Jones & Co."
which says, "The mountains never contumelious comment on a re-penny.
Our Commitments
"How
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Instances Of Folly
A Fresh instance of this kind of forgive bravado." But that there
women
I
mark that in considering the was 27,818,473, and the expendi Second Salesman: "Yes, I know; he folly was provided recently by two are exceptions even to this implac future of our dollar it was ap-ture 28.119,646; leaving a deficit doesn't buy any goods from me
Annecy men, who, after driving able rule is shown by the following posite to remember that "we are of over three hundred thousand either." [not burdened with large conimit- dollars. This deficit was dealt
their B-h.p. car up the trackless story, told to me by one of the most ments to be paid in foreign coin-with by cutting down the pro-
slopes of the Col des Annes in famous Swiss guides. ages which rise and fall through gramme of expenditure, partic-along?" asked a friend of his neigh-parked it near the edge, of a pre-guide, "a young German
is the incubator geiting Upper Savoy to a height of 6.000ft., "A few years ago," said the reasons that are not under our larly in the way of foreign pur-bour who had recently bought one. control." Writing on the eve of chases. "Several works provided "All right, I apppose; but I've had cipice while they went off to climb came to me and asked me to con- the production of the budget. for the estimates," we are told it for two weeks now, and it hasn't the Pointe. Percee, 8,000ft. above duct her up the Matterhorn. there is no benefit to be derived in the annual report," were lald a single egg."
I know of a woman who, scorn-pointed out that it was July 13, the from speculating about figures postponed or curtailed thereby
Ing advice, climbed the Diablerets, day on which Whymper's Ill-fated which we shall so soon know ex-effecting substantial savings un Facts You Did Not Know in highheeled shoce. She had to be expedition started out on its con- actly and in detail; but the point der Public Works Extraordinary.
carried down by her friends, the quest of the mountain in 1865. raised as to the commitments etc." In other words, the ex- Easier to operate than an instr-soles of her feet being lacerated "She only laughted and chided me for being superstitious. In the and their effect on the value of penditure was under the controlment of the usual rm. a micrometer almost to ribbons.
has been invented that is shaped like a I have also known a young man end I agreed to accompany her, the dollar is not dependent on of our own Government. the figures of the budget; it is Another big consideration is
from Chicago who, in a spirit of simply a question of the balance that our debt is revenue produc- Argentina was the largest foreign bravado, rode in a dinner jacket of payments and receipts in' for ing. It is "dead-weight" debt purchaser of cotton yarns from the and "pumps”, on muleback from] eign coinages. For the exact that ruins the conditions of the United States last year with Cuba in Zermatt to the Schwarzee at the figures we are content to wait a exchange conditions. From the Becond place.
foot of the Matterhorn. Only a few hours, and in any case the figures published for the first
Scientists have found that under heavy fall of snow prevented him The acting Treasurer of the St. Government transactions only half of the current year it ap-continuous rune automobile tires some- from carrying out his suicidal John Ambulance Association and form one part of the total deal-pears that with liabilities of eight times hest up to 200 degrees and truck boast to climb the glant monolith Brigade wishes to acknowledge ings that affect the price of the and a half millions we have tires to 230.
in this strange kit.
Iwith sincere and grateful thanks dollar.
assets of fourteen and three
Since the present season opened the donation of $500 from Mr. the Alps have claimed several J. E. Joseph, England, "for the victims every week.
benefit of the poor villagers of the One girl perished while climbing New Territories: a glacier near Chamonix in rubber ---
watch.
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Exchange quite clearly cannot quarter millions. The service of MAGISTRATE CLEARS be affected by any payments that the debt was half a million dol- are made in dollars, for if the lars. The Railway receipts show value goes up the value a good increase; the results of of the dollars received goes land sales in recent years appear up at the same time. For ex-in a rise of rents. In the Joint ample the recent loan, which was Colonial Fund there is a balancej raised on very favourable terms, of three hundred and thirteen' cannot have any direct effect; thousand pounds.
Public Excluded From Sordid Case
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
slippers. Another went to her During August the St. John death while scrambling alone in the Ambulance Brigade, New Terri- precipitons cliffs above the Bar-tories, dealt with a total of 18,244 berine, in the Rhone valley.. Yet cases, of which 105 were maternity An order was made this morning another met with a terrible death cases, 4,265 new cases and 8,874 the interest will be paid in dol- when the budget figures have by Mr. E. W. Hamilton for all while following an unfrequented old cases. The Doctora saw a total lars. The loan was, of course, been digested everyone will have spectators at the Central Magle-route up the Saleve, a treacherous of 1,654 cases, 12 of which were raised locally; but for the sake some criticism to make; and dis- tracy to leave the Court when the mountain outside Geneva where sent to hospital.
Of course
of argument let us suppose that cussion is healthy; but the point case against Kwok Yeung, a sand many lives are sacrified every year.
the whole amount was subscribis that there are no signs of any coolle who was charged with in- She had left her dog at the foot An unclaimed telegram from ed by people who lived abroad, in commitments that are likely to decent exposure of his person. In of the mountain and it was his Singapore, addressed to Sassoon, Singapore, London or New York disturb the natural process of public before a 16-year-old girl at pitiful howling outside her home at Hong Kong, is lying at the Eastern In that case the loss involved in exchanges finding their natural Gloucester Road, yesterday was midnight that brought the sad Extension Telegraph Company, a fall of the dollar would fall on level according to the business brought up.
The gour After evidence was given by the A few days previously two young
tidings of disaster, to her parents. Limited.
the stockholders. The amount to done. 2
be remitted to them would be The trade exchange balance is girl, her mother, and a workman, men, had crashed to their death at After being bitten by a dog at less in their own coinages. What self-adjusting. A rise in cost accused was sentenced to two almost the same spot in full view of the Victoria Girls Home, Lee
disturbs the exchange is a con- goes on to the price in the long months" hard labour. tract under which a definite sum run. There is, of course, a cer-
scores of people who with bated Sing, a coolle, was admitted to breath had followed their struggles, the Kowloon Hospital yeaterday. has to be paid at a particu-tain lag; but the lag works both tions these are within his own Impotent to help
for treatment. The dog wAS lar time in ansther coinage which ways. In the end it is the cus- control. High prices make bad
Self-Sacrifice Of Guides sent to Mataukok for observation, may have appreciated A good tomer that pays the cost of trade, but so long as the pay- Instance is the recent experience everything. He is inconvenienc-ments can be reduced in respect More recently tourists on the]
of the holders of debenture stocked by rising prices, but of the goods ordered and bought Blonnassy glacier, in Upper Savoy, A dance will be held at the in the Argentine Railways. The can to a large extent in the same proportion as the came upon the frozen corpse of a Garrison Lecture Hall to-morrow Railways themselves are well ease the strain by making price level rises, the exchange is French youth
imre evening, commencing at 8.30 o'clock managed, and had no lack of fewer purchases. In a propor always tending to keep level. It minday of the folly of going into Admission will be 81:50 for men
the mountains alone. earnings to pay the money had tion
any moderate varia is under our own controka
and ladles free. Refreshments will be served.