PERSIA'S DESIRE FOR A NEW NAME
To Be Known In Future As "Iran"
REASON FOR CHANGE GIVEN
The Persian Government has notified the Diplomatic Corps, in Teheran of its desir that the name of the country should from March 21 be described abroad as Iran. and not Persia, as the Weat-: ern world has called it at least 2,500 year
The authorltics of the Imperial Persian Government, having' on geographical, historical and eth nological grounds found that the word Persia with its equivalents In other foreign languages is not an all-embracing Word for the country of Iran, have after due "consideration of the case decided to make efforts to have the word replaced by the country's histori cally correct name Iran.
With a view to giving universal
One for the records. For the first time a member of the Hockefeller family is Angerprinted as John D., Jr., dels an example In the Federal drive to secure digital records of all citizens, L. C. Schilder (right) chief of the identification bureau of the Depart ment of Justice, makes the Rock efeller record in New York.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1935
publicity to this rem st the Im FOR STAMP COLLECTORS
perial Government of an have in- stracted their representatives' abroad to inform the Governments and public institutions of the countries to which they are accré- dited of this decision and request them to use the words Iran and "Iranian whenever they have occa- alon to make references to the country of Iran and its people..
2,500 Years Old
Hawaiian Rarity Causes Speculation: Obsolete. Colonials Withdrawn
By A. E. L
NE of the world's greatest, on April 23, 1935. Any applications Parties in the drst 3 cents for sustics must reach the island stamp of Hawaii, which is cata- [logued by Gibbons at £5,500 unused, for £4,500 used. Although the
before that date. ·
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To-day's Short Story.
Mr. Magee's Sweet Tooth
By Jasper Power
Mocounts for the tits when was
TISS Quince was hanging out marble clock That, unfortunately, now Impossible, ・ for Miss the telegraph-boy 'propped his Quince knew what the doctor's sis- bicycle against the gate and ter had suffered from those awful plodded noisily up the gravel Customs, and that only about a pair drive. At once she began to of shoes which she really had worn whimper apprehensively, for the the day before she left Paris. Jarrival of telegrams in Lower
Micklesham usually fore-shadow- But trust, the quick wits · of al ed black-edged stationery and woman. Suddenly there crept over the reappearance of sombre gar- her face an expression of furtive [ments redolent' of moth-balls. cunning like that of a saint chent- When she had deciphered the ing himself at Patience. Oblivious pencilled message. Miss Quince of the assembled long-tailed tits] broke down and wept in earnest.now cheeping impatiently for their Any right-minded spinster would customary free lunch, Miss Quince have done the same, blood being of hastened to her spacious kitchen, a higher specifle gravity than water her voice rising as nearly to a shout and kind hearts of greater ultimate as is possible for a gentlewoman on value than the metal headgear of the committee of thirteen local the peorage.
charities. The cook pushed her The telegram had been handed in crossword puzzle into a drawer, and at Tilbury, and ran as follows:-
stood up, respectfully..
his
Married this morning stop sail today sa nimtollah stop tea- planting assam stop loving nephew donald stop.
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "Gossip Wind," by Michael Home.
Drying her eyes, Miss Quince thought how careless it was of Donald not to mention the name of bride. How little he had changed: last time she had seen him he had carelessly sat on the There has been a growing inter-ucumber-frame and fallen right "Hurry, Rose, hurry, and get the The Government of Iran expect catalogue illustration purposely
through.
largest cake-tin,” ordered Misa that the change will become un differs in certain essentials, from est in the collection of ship cancel-
But she did wish that she had Quince excitedly. "And mind you versal not later than March 21, the original stamp, the mail gives lations on stamps and covers, and known in time to send the young grease it well, giving it a good 1935, corresponding with the 1st, us that a forgery of this stamp this
will receive a filip in con- people some little present acleaning first. And get everything Farvardia, 1314, the beginning of after being offered from different the Iranian year. The Consulate parts of Europe in the past, har sequence of the recent publication vacuum cleaner; perhaps, or a black ready, Rose--peel and currants and eggs and everything; and when the General trusts that the institutions appeared in London. Whether this of a handy tile book entitled
postman comes ask him in and give and societies of India and the pu- particular stamp has ever changed "Ocean Malls," by Philip Cockrill. blic in general will bear this honda ra genuine cannot be said, This branch of collecting is un- change in mind, and in future re-but collectors would generally be doubtedly of very great interest and for to Persia and Persian as Iran too wise to trust to their own certainly makes a welcome change. and Iranian,
judgment in purchasing - such "The book mentioned deals with only The action of the Persian rarity. In any case a stamp such sea and ship marks of the present] Government has a sound historicaljaa. this would be, of no value untess century and leaves the field, open and geographical basis, though certified as genuine by a recognised for a more extensive work whether the word Iran will ever expert committee.
similar postmarks of earlier times. oust a name that has been in use among Western nations for 2.500 years is perhaps doubtful.
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It is announced that the obsolete Issues of British Guiana and slee
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NEW DIRECTOR OF him a cup of tea, or elderberry
PUBLICITY
Mr. Yeh Chu-Tsang Takes Appointment
Nanking.
wine, if he likes that better, and ask him all about this new Air Mail they have how, but don't say. I told you to. I'm going up to town at ance, but I'll be back before dinner. Just leave everything ready, Rose, and then you can have the evening Mr. Yeh Chutaang, Secretary-off, and mind you don't come back. General of the Central Party Head-smelling of spirits the way you did HERE is an interesting item in quarters, who was recently appoint-on Armistice night the year before
"Godden Gazette" on
the ed to the concurrent post of Chair-last, Now, Rose, you fully under- The word Persia comes to us Granada (except the 108. value) essays for the first issues of China man of the Central Publicity-Com- stand 7” from the ancient Greeks, who call have been withdrawn for the par- According to Mr. S. G. Jupp, the mittes, assumed his new office this "Yessum,"
"said the cook unen- ed the country Persis and the in-pose of destruction. There is not writer of the article, the first Chin-morning. Mr. Yeh addressed the thusiastically. habitants Persia, as the first Per-10s. denomination in the new ese Post Offices were opened in 1878 officials of the publicity department sions with whom they came in Granada set, and the old stamp is alongside the Customs Post, the and outlined his policy in regard to contact were the inhabitants of presumably to be kept on hand to mails being carried by Customs the work-Chekiní "Agency.*** the western province of Fars, meet requirements, which are main-couriers, and the service was now which contained the capital of ally fiscal. great King known to Greek his- torians as Persepolis,
Arabs Version
Even at that time, however, the whole country was called by Its Inhabitants Iran and the name has
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thrown open to the public..
This nécesaftated the provision of Post Office postage stamps, and the familiar notifies that the centenary stump, depicting the rather fear- Issues, will be with awn from use some-looking Dragon, made their
TH St. Helena
THE
WUCHING DISTRICT
FLOODED
Hope Abandone For Spring Wheat
Tientsin.
FOREIGN JOURNALS IN CHINA
Government Register Shows 63 In All
"More laut," chirped the purser, bustling up with the bluff, salty smile which characterises wireless operators, stewards, and other rat- ings who follow the sea without being sailors. He handed Donald a large box ostentatiously embellished with Air Mall stamps, and rolled aturdily back to his desk. In the privacy of the nuptial cabin the memsahib tore open the package According to statistics compiled with just the faintest trace of to light a few years ago, and were by the Journal Department of the eagerness.. Not that either of them acquired by Mr. J. A. Agnew, in Central Kuomintang Headquarters, was unduly mercenary, be it under- whose celebrated collection they now there are now 887 Chinese news-stood, but hope springs eternal repose.
papers, 509 Chinese news agencies, even in the Mediterranean entrance 168 foreign newspapers (mostly to the Suez Canal..
11 appearance. But before these materialised, several designs were submitted to Sir Robert Hart, and!
the original drawings of these came
Nanking.
"Aunt Charlotte, of course," Donald growled bitterly, "She's bombarded me with her beastly home-made abominations ever since
persisted to this day and is, incl dentally, the word for "country" in the Urdu and Hindi languages. When the Arabic invasions oc- curred the province became known as Fars, the Arabs having word in their language correspond- ing to the sound "Peh" and 28
It does not appear certain who Japanese) and 47 foreign news "Cake!" said the memsahib, in `a such it is to be found on the maps
was responsible for the designs. It agencies in China, which have been flat voice. “And in this heat. How of the Western world to-day, its The Wuching district, near Tien-has been atated that the first issued registered with the Government nauseating!"- capital being the city of Shiraz, sin, is now flooded as a result of stamp was the work of a Mr. H. B. Chekial Agency. famous for its men of letters. the sudden rise yesterday of the Morse, an official of the- Customs;
It is understood that the Govern-Yungting River.
but Mr. Chow, the eminent Chinese CHINESE LEGATION ment of India has not yet receiv- Despite the
measures philatelist, declares that Mr. R. A. intimation of the adopted by the authorities here to de Villard, who produced the Dowa- hasten repairs to the breached ger Empress of 1894, also designed dykes, it seems that all hopes for all the earlier issues. However it the wheat harvest this spring in may be, they are certainly the work. Wuchang are wholly lost-Chekis! of an artist who could catch the Agency.
true Oriental spirit, and who was
Nanking. an adept at Chinese caligraphy.
There are three essays,
The Initial expenses for the Chi- and it.
Ten minutes later they were will be noted that the general fixed at $40,000: The annual bud- Ismail Street in the gathering nese Legation in Turkey have been walking very quickly along Caliph INTER-PROVINCIAL-scheme is the same in each case,
HIGHWAYS
get, however, has not yet been deduak, vainly trying to shake off the only the central device and the
elded upon. denomination varying. One depicts
ed official Change.
KIDDIES' CONTEST
Theatre Tickets For Paintings
The following are
the three
relief
IN TURKEY
Annual Budget Not Yet Determined
I went to my first prep. school. Just think what it's cost to send
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
"ELIJAH"
(Mendelssohn)
will be sung by the HONG KONG SINGERS: on THURSDAY, March 28th at 9.00 p.m.
Conductor: J. ANDERSON: MILLER. Organist: FREDERICK MASON. Proceeds to be devoted to
THE HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY Admission by programme, to be obtained from Messrs... Moutrie & Co., The Anderson Music Co. and Tsang Fook Piano Co.
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INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED
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KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
HOUSEHOLD COAL
ANNOUNCING REDUCED PRICES
Peak District -
$18.00
Bowen Road & lowel level
$17.00
Pokfulum
$18.00
Repulse Bay
$23.00
Kowloon
$15.00
Shek-O & Stanley
$23.00
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
Head Office: TIENTSIN
-DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agenta, Hong Kong,
that sticky lump of stodge right BALANCE OF POWER GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS
across Europe! Why the devil couldn't she send a cheque." Donald had been playing poker in the smoke-room.
HAS PROVED A FAILURE
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The appointment of Mr. Greof- trey Studholme Wilson to be an Assistant Superintendant of Po lios, with effect from March 1, 1935, la aleo gazetted.
His Excellency has been pleas
Of late, he said, there had been General Ho Yao-tou, the first Chimelmed, halt, and blind lying in not disarmament, but increases of what is presumably an elephant, nese Minister to Turkey, is under-wait for tea-planters who have not armaments on the part of Japan, ed to appoint Dr. Agnes Lillas
winners of the kiddies painting Szechuen-Hupeh Road Jsupporting on its back an object stood to have postponed his depar-yet planted tea. A long descriptiye Russia, United States and other Jenkins Dovey, M. B, C B.,
contest, details of which were pu blished in the China Mall last Wednesday and entry for which closed at noon yesterday:
1. William Oswald Sousae No.. 26 Johnston Road Ground Floor
2. Enid Fung › No. 218 Apllu Street Shamshulpo
Mariazinha F. da Lux: No. 26 Granville Road- Kowloon
Under Survey
Survey parties are now working modifications in the details, and the overtime on the route and it is ex-denomination was changed from pected that the work will be com- mace to candarin.
pleted early in April, when con for
truction work will at once be start- ed. Chekiai Agency,
resembling a plant-no doubt posses-ture until the middle of next month, account of what they saw that nations. And among countries (Edin). to be Inspector of Schools, sing some symbolism. The value isChekla! Agency, de
night went home by the next mail,that were rearming was Germany, with effect from February 1, 1986. Chungkinge stated in "eash." Another essay
but that has nothing to do with this "What," asked the Foreign Secre Under orders from General shows a view of a pagoda, with the
MCCARRAN AMENDMENT
story. Urged on by fate and tars, "is the cause of this rearma- Chiang Kai-shek, the Szechuen Pro. value in "candarin." The third!
original sin, Apostolides Magee ment in so many countries." The have so long striven. That in its [vincial : Highway Administration gives a representation of the Im-
IS REJECTED
henceforth, dominates" the ssene.
jonly disarmament that will last is turn will strengthen the League of Bureau is hastening the survey.of perial Dragon, the value being in
disarmament that is freely agreed Nations and the collective peace the route of the Szechuen-Hupon "mace." This latter was obviously
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lupon, and in order to bring about lsystem. Mr. Magee was a ̈pock-marked Inter-Provincial Highway.
the accepted design, but with slight
SIGNIFICANCE an agreement about armaments it la 850 MONTHLY OVER-RULED Cypriot with Turkish tendencies absolutely necessary to increase The visit. I shall be paying to Berlin, upon which the Lord Privy This rules out the limit of $50 and Levantine lesnings, nicely the sense of security. monthly provided for in the original blended with an Abyssinian- bisa FORTHCOMING VISITS: Seal will accompany me" is of
and sympathy for the Grecks. There
“The Lord | Privy Seal, Mr. course quite independent in origin. Before the vole a letter was read was no question of his Cypriot Anthony Eden, and I are, in a few from that which my colleague will Outside the left margin of each from President Roosevelt stating origin, for that was on the distaff days, setting out upon visit to Ber- pay subsequently to Russia and drawing are four vertical rows of that the existing wages would be alde; and a certain genealogical lin, Moscow, and Warsaw in efforts Poland, s writing, giving the alternative protected in administrating the bill pride had enabled him to narrow to promote a better understanding ““Let me make it clear, however, wording for four values other than "During the debate Senator Carter down his possible - sires to the between the European Eations and that His Majesy's Government at- that on the left elda of the drawing Glass said he had good reason to be, nationalities mentioned. Maree he in the hops of contributing towards taches no less signifcance to the itself. For example: "I fon yin" lieve that the President would vote had simply adopted in the days the settlement of those outstanding latter visit than to the former (one, candarin, silver); "er fen yin" the $4,880,000,000 bill if it reached when he had peddled Turkish de- problems which at present impair They regard each visit as of excep. Jemader D. K. Chitnis, L.M.D. and
(two candarin, silver) etc., that on him containing the prevailing wage light from his own bumboat, finding international confidence
tional importance and welcome. Nanking Jemudar Rama Naad, LH.D. of the
the drawing being-wu fan yin" amendment
Europeans dealt with those whose| "I am under no Illusion as to the most sincerely the opportunity Indian Subordinate Medical fitat, have Mr. Wang Ting-cheng, former (five candarin, allyor). The In The Administration contend that, names they could prenounce. That, "dificulties of our task, but any mea- which will thus be afforded in three *bsen: authorized.. by the Director of Chinese Minister to Portagual and scription on the right side reads: If the prevailing wage: amendment, however, was long ago, before his sure of specete would be hot only great capitals of - the
pe to pro Medical and Sanitary Services to sign Charge d'Affairs in Mexico, has “XU CHENG CHU”: (post office), La Included in the bill, the emerge light-fingered activities had ven a contribution to the appeäser mote that international: under- medical certificates of the cause of been appointed an adviser to the and the characters at the top work programmes will death for the purposes of the Birth Ministry of Foreign Affairs read
standing which is the Government's concern, British Wireless CHING
Two dress circle ticket Shirley Temple in "Bright Eyes" which opens at the King's Thea tre to-morrow, will be forwarded to each of the winners by Fox Films Inc.
WAICHIAOPU APPOINTS NEW ADVISER
and Deaths Registration Ordinance;
1800
Choklat Agency.
ecome too even the tol "right to left;""""TA costly and the whole relief scheme war him off the
will collapse
(Conti
but would be the
of renewed posibil.
that arms agreement for which we Service.