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STORIES OF THE WAR OFFICE
In a certain corridor of the old War Office in Pall Mall there once stood a messenger who from 10a.m. to 4 pm. instructed passers-by to "keep to the left.":":"?
It remained for an alert-minded young official, to discover a few days before the building was vacat-
LUCK NEEDED AT DAYTONA
CONDITION OF BEACH PRIME FACTOR
SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL
·AND CAR BOTH FIT
(By Reid A. Railton)
ed in 1906 that that particular Cable messages received during the last two-
days have brought us the news that Sir Mal-
corridor had had its right-hand wall repainted In 1878.
Then, there was the enthusiastic colm Campbell has made two trial runs with his- cavalry subaltern who devised a
new pattern of saddle and submit famous "Blue Bird" at Daytona Beach. At any ted it for approval. He received moment now we may hear that he has achieved fermal acknowledgement. No more. his great ambition - to be the first human being
Thirty years later, as Inspector- general of Cavalry, it fell to his lot to travel at 300 miles an hour on land. Now let when going through a cupboard in the designer of the car tell you something about. the War Office to unpack an un- it and Sir Malcolm's chances. opened parcel
It contained his saddle.
EASY MONEY?
Imagine yourself at the cinemas, samples built, its makera subjected. watching the comic film in which it to rigorous road tests for many the villain's motor-car is being thousands of miles, and for many
Thrills Of Speed
A writer in this paper on Tues-chased through narrow streets at months, before it became available day on squirrels begged the reader what looks like at least a hundred to you. In addition to this the car Įto shoot grey ones, as they do great miles an hour,
you buy is always given a test" on damage to trees, but to leave red
the road. Even after all this as squirrels alone.
The bulldings and the traffic most of us know, to our cost-new The borough council at Southgate seem to be rushing towards you, cars sometimes require the atten- evidently agree, with the writer and the whole thing has an air of tion of service stations They are trying to get the grey unreality. You know all the time
But Blue Bird la designed on squirrels out of their parks, and that it is only a photographic trick, paper, then hullt, and then sent replace him with the red.
and yet It gives you a peculiar 5,000 miles from the factory, with- There should be good casual work thrill at least it has that effect on at any serious test, until at Day- here for the local unemployed me.
tona. Sir Malcolm has neither the Every grey squirrel has a price of I imagine that Sir Malcolm time nor the facilities to remedy ten shillings on Its head.
Campbell geta the same
sort of any major defect which may ap- thrill when he is travelling along pear. that narrow, stretch of Daytona Tyres Gives No Anxiety
Your Daily Smile!
A young artist: was inspecting the beach at 270 miles an hour or more. Naturally his handicap is always re-works of an older man and was much It may not sound, a very hazard-present in the minds of those re-
Hong Kong. Tuesday, March 5, 1935, cent diplonisey if he forgets that impressed by the wonderful colouring ous undertaking to drive a car fast aponsible for the construction of
Cash And Control
The work of "safeguarding the Peace of the Orient is apparent
Marvellous effects, Sir," said the "Whatever do you mix young man. your colours with to obtain them?"
"Braina, my boy." was the reply.
*
Perhaps
the telephone between the oil in
along stretch of sandy beach. the car, and tends to discourage dustry and Washington is always
One Imagines the sands at, say, them from trying out new ideas. attached. We have found that
Southport or Bognor, at low tide unless the results can be predicted in Venezuela; in Central America,
for mile after mile, with a width of fairly accurately. in Persia, in Iraq. How many contracts have poor Lord Cow- Teacher (to class): "Everything perhaps a quarter of a mile between Curiously enough, the one part of the car which might reasonable be dray and his friends had to can say to you goes in one ear and comes the sea and the promenade.
out through the other.".
Difficultice Of Daytona
expected to cause the most anxiety ly a very intricate and puzzling cel in order to admit some
Pupil "Is that why we have two
Unfortunately the beach at Day. has in previous attempts given no Lask. It involves the cancella American interest? Does it need ears, air??
tona is not like this. The sand trouble whatever. I refer to the tion of the only successful ata Sherlock Holmes to explain the tempt to limit warships; the re- Manchurian Oil Monopoly? Two actors, both exceedingly jealous that is firm enough to run on is tyres. They are, of course, special-
of each other. met..
only about forty yards wide-about ly made for the job, but they do Ipudiation of at least the spirit if
Great Britain had to be dealt
"Hulio,” auid, ons, "How are you twice the width of a modern arterial not differ in principle from the not the letter of the Nine Power with next, and the vulnerable getting along
road, and it slopes towards the sea, ordinary motor-car tyre of to-day, Treaty. under which the existing
"badly." sold the other:
Furthermore, the best parts is and they certainly representa boundaries and Independence of point was the enormous British to
investment in Railways" and "keeping alive." the Far Eastern countries State loans secured on the Cus-moment, then, as he turned away, he low tide; so that the attempt can part of the British company which The first man eyed his rival for uncovered for only few hours at very wonderful achievement on the rested for over a decade; the for- toms. At this point we can try asked casually: "Is that so? What is be made only at a certain hour of makes them. cible occupation of territory that to understand the quaint in your motive?"
What are Sir Malcolm's chances: was undisturbed by any unrest; cident of General Smuts' speech
the upsetting of the Bankers' and the ferment of discussion it INDECENT ASSAULT Consortium which was devised to caused.
Why should so shrewd prevent any one Power obtaining and businesslike a man, with his by financial strategy advantages hands full of difficult negotia that would be likely to cause ions about African territories, friction; and an attempt to set go out of his way to warn the
Cook Granted $100 Bail
friendly Powers by, the cars. It Foreign Office against yielding Charges of indecent and com-
the day.
The arrangements for policing of success in his forthcoming.at- the course and for preparing the tempt? time apparatus have to be made at The Factor Of Lick least six hours ahead,-which means He has not concealed the fact that the beach. Is under water when that the object of his present ex- Sir Malcolm has to decide whether pedition is two-fold. He hopes, of kels going to run.
courde, to beat his own record of. In the meantime anything may 272 miles an hour, established at
he has
seems like a paradox to say that to Japanese temptations and mon assault were preferred a solution of the self-imposed running the risk of estrangement against Ma Cheung-fu, & Cook: happen. A high wind may spring Daytona Beach exactly two years task of maintaining the Peace of from Washington? Though in before Mr. W. Schofield at the up and leave the beach rippled or ago. At the same time the Orient could be found by do-a somewhat detached position he Central Magistracy this morning to be postponed, and the expense of ambition to be the first man in the soft, in which case the attempt has confessed that it la his aupremo" ing nothing at all; but that is the was, it may be taken as certain. It was alleged that accused the preparations has all gone for world to exceed 300 miles an hour simple truth. Leaving wall alone completely behind the scenes. Is indecently assaulted a married is the last policy that is likely to it not clear that he knew that an woman, Wong Kau, on the stair- nothing.
[be accepted.
offer had been made which case of No. 257 Des Voeux Road When you realise that the hard- ness of the beach varles with the Let us take for granted that would, if accepted in London, West yesterday afternoon.
all the denials and contradictions have created resentment In On the application of Sergeant tide from day to day, you begin to are justified as being what used Washington; and so neutralised Reddish the case was remanded get some idea of the risks and during the war to be called the that rather formidable combina- until Saturday for further in- difficulties of racing on the sands, "diplomatic truth," and look at tion? And the offer? What but vestigation. A bail of $100 was compared with a permanent track the situation as it reveals itself that if Manchukuo should be fixed. (without official comment. We recognised there would be no need not go further back than Mr more trouble about the Naval Stimson'a, Note in which he stat-Treaty, the Nine Power Treaty,
HAWKERS SHOUT
ed that the United States would and the Open Door? And in TO PRISONERS never recognise the Government case of refusal Mr. Hirota in-
of Manchukuo so long as it reforms England that he has "im- Fined For Trespassing At mained In the status of territory plicit confidence in General conquered by force and retained Chiang Kai Shele" which can Yaumati Police Station
for road.....
Another risk attaching to Day- tona beach is that it is not feally long enough. Blue Bird needs a considerable distance to work up, toj 800 miles an hour. The beach fa
on land.
(Continued on Page 11)
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TRESPASSER GAOLED
Found On Premises Of Siemssen & Co.
about six miles long. theoretically Charged with being found in and if we allow this, plus the Room No. 6, on the fourth floor measured mile, there will be only for an unlawful purpose, Cheung of No. 6, Queen's Road Central
three and a half miles for the car
against the will of the Chinese only mean that in that case there Republic. That declaration was will be trouble about the Open Fines of 88 were imposed on two to pull up in afterwards. Hing, 24-year-old unemployed, Intended to fortify the policy of Door,
female hawkers, Leung Li and Mak This is none too much, and may was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour by Mr. E 1, Wynne-Jones the League as expressed in the This style of diplomacy con Fong, by Mr. A. W. GH Grant- easily be too little if the surface at the Central Police Court this Lytton Report, to which England sists in first making a difficulty ham at the Kowloon Magis not in perfect condition or if any morning t is pledged. The Report itself ap- and then demanding a price for tracy this morning when they ap little hitch occurs.
Detective Sergeant Fowlie peared far too late to be much removing. It. It is a kind of ex-peared for trespassing in the Yau-The risk is minimised as much stated that Messrs. Siemssen and more than an academic expres-tortion by menaces and threats; mati Police Station, as possible, but there is no doubt Company occupied the premises, sion of opinion; but it did em- It is effective when the victim Is Detective-Sergeant Allen stated that if we could find a longer in which seven fokis: slept at phasise the previous anarchy in a very weak position; but it that yesterday afternoon the defen- stretch of sand with a clear run of
At 4.20 am. yesterday night under Marshal Chang Tso Lin and has some drawbacks. The first daute stood in a passage war of fifteen miles the whole undertaking one of the fokle got up and fopna his son, and the League policy is that by its very nature there the station and shouted to the pri- would be very much easier. accused near the safe in the com. may be said to be one of dis-là no end to it. The first payment soners in the cells. approval of aggression along with to a blackmailer only begins a
No Real Test Possible
a complete lack of enthusiasm for series, The second drawback is rise in the price of silver need What of the car itself? Surely any restoration, of the previous that it is very exasperating to not have caused lockouts in the here is something which is regime.
the victim And the third is cotton mills of Shanghai, and the pendent on the forces of
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pradore's office. Defendant hað" - apparently entered the room through the open window..
A fortnight ago a large amount These refusals of diplomatic that it is checked as soon as it fore-closure of mortgages if the which ought not to give trouble of money had been stolen from recognition are a time-worn is met by a flat refusal to pay Treasury had had adequate re the designer has done his Job the same place, but, added Ber- geant Fowlie, the police are not method of proteat, but they are Chinese credit is good, The serves. Defence has always the properly? practically very inconvenient. In mischief is that in order to meet two aspects, military and finan- To a certain extent this is quite Suggesting that defendant was Manchukuo it has already been interest payments the customs cial, and it is the latter that re true. If the designer has unlimited responsible for the theft. found necessary to make arrange duties are continually being Inquires most attention just now money at his disposal, and is given ments for the transit of mails creased, and that about eighty It is the Nanking Government it sufficient time to do his job care and for the appointment of con- per cent of the receipts available self that must maintain its inde fully, then there is certainly, not eula, diplomatists are not appal- for general purposes, goes to the pendence by stopping the finan- much excuse for any mechanica) led by the prospect of making Army without securing any im- cial leakage, The European fallure in the car arrangements with a" „dzist. munity, from mi! ary pressure in Powers are all well disposed but A car like Blue Bird ent State, but they are red the
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