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The Wella-Stalin conversations,|| which produced some controversy la England, have been taken very seriously in Moscow..
The Bolshevists are annoyed with "H.G." because he did not praise their progresa. They are now pre paring a film entitled "Our Achieve- ments."
OF BARI
INTENDED TO COMMAND ALBANIA
GATEWAY TO ORIENT THAT SUPERSEDES BRINDISI
(By G. E. R. Gedye)
It will have a special Wells pro logue and epilogue in which a Bolshevist actor will impersonate came here, six year ago, it was for example, deserted of tourists...
always an adventure. Last time Ied discomforts. It showed Venice, the English author.
abandoned to pigeons, schoolboys,
10 reach Albanid, land of few But such a winter trip bringe
blazing summer.
→ The 'prologue will show "H.G."s" first visit to Moscow shortly after Flume, but was compelled to disem-frost rimed the Palazzo Ducale and! I took a Jugoslav steamer from students and other Venetians, while the war. It will refer to his pro-bark and wait two days at Ragusa the Lions of St. Mark mise to return in 10 years time for a Greek cargo ateamer-Jugo
There will follow a panorama of slavs did not call on Albanians, or an Academy of Fine Arts, for I saw,
The Akademia, I found, is really. the achievements of the Five-year at their ports, not swarms of tourists, but scores Plan. "H.G." will appear again in
the epilogue, the text of which is sheep and the goats-600 sheep ning from the steamboats to study Eventually I arrived between thefor Venetian art students disembark-
What Wells did not see."
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HE DOES NOT READ "SHOP".
the bows, 600 goats astern, and I there. The Piazza San Marco was the only passenger, in my cabin deserted, swept by the icy Born, amidships.
while waves angrily lapped the
Bari's Quick Growth
Only schoolchildren, hastening
Mr. Seward Pearce, who is retir This particular example of na- Plazetta. ing after carrying out his appoint- tionalism run mad no longer obtains, ed task of putting the legal course but, at the start of my present jour- in the London Police College cur-ney from Vienna I. had evidence and ahivering beneath the Arcades. riculum on a sound basis, handled enough of others. A Vienna police to lunch, shared the famous square at least 100,000 criminal cases sergeant accompanied the train to with the pigeons. Two frozen ven- while he was Assistant Director of the Jugoslav frontler, scrutinising dors of corn faced the blast-and Public Prosecutions.
everyone to see if they Wore Be the pigeons. Each had two assis
to:
et he admitted at a recent din-clalists going to join the little colony tants to beat off the hungry, birds. ner of crime expeita that there was of socialist fugitives from Fascism Incautiously I bought a packet of one type of murder case he knows at Blähed at Maribor, in Jugo-corn and threw one handful. nothing about-that created by the bivia. detective fiction writers.
With a terrifying whirring of On the frontier an Austrian wings, the entire pigeon population. "I read the Conan Doyle atries secret police. official examined our of Venice was upon me. Dozens when I was young," he said, "and newspapers to see if we carried any fought for places on my hat, scores country to supplement those I enjoyed them, although he had an which the exiles might, not read, and for positions on my shoulders and?" State functions which will take easy task. He could make the asked us alla futile proceeding, arms, One found a precarious foot--- place in London. The happy crime fit the solution. Since then obviously-"Are you carrying any hold on the tip of my nose. Long Hong Kong, Thörsch, Mar. 21, 1935 thought of his Majesty's oldest I have not read one detective novel letters to the emigres?"
son will now enable the subjects-not even an Edgar Wallace."
after the corn was gone those fero-- of the King; wherever they may
Venice Under Snow cious and starving birds, alung be, to participate in a general
He was followed by Jugoslav their perches on my clothing until I tribute of gratitude for a reign
experts armed with long steel rods, escaped from the Plazza.. in which-the kingdom has had in
with which they proceeded to prod At lunch I heard an Englishman: Mr. Walter Runciman recently most illustrious example of na-
Johnnie: "And what does" bigamy and minutely examine every corner de passage remark to his daughter, the Sovereign's personality the mean, father??, fannounced an addition to
of the carriages for Terrorist bombs."We ought to look at the shopa.this Father: "A man who makes the same the tional steadfastness and national mistake twice." very considerable number of devotion to duty.
Every seat was lifted and the backs afternoon, but I'm pos
1 positively afraid: carefully felt, for Terrorists in the of those pigeons. They know at trade agreements negotiated
From his Majesty's immediate An Irishman with foreign Powers.
mule past have been able to pack bombs tourist at sight." An ar- family it is fitting that the great which began kicking violently, and enough into passenger coaches on taught me that he was right. The My experience rangement has been entered into National family of which he is stirrup.
finally got his hoof caught in the Austrian soll, as on Hungarian soil, last glimpse of Venice was of skiers: with Boumania for the payment the head. shall receive counsel Well" exclaimed the Irishman in which have exploded in Jugoslavia, being gondolaed to the station to by instalments of the trade debts upon the most felicitous form the excitement, "If you're goin' to get causing terrible loss of life.. Telephone 20075,
owing to Britain. These amount which a gift of gratitude may on, I'll get off!" to some £2,500,000, mainly owing take. The details of the Na-
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to Yorkshire and Lancashire. tional Thankoffering will be laid While the creditor firms have by his Royal Highness before the "Who commands in your home."
"We share the management. the Lords Lieutenant, Lord Mayors, wife Losses the servants and the chil-
reason for satisfaction in prospect of payment, the agree Lord Provosts, Mayora and Pro. dren, and I attend the goldāsh.” ment has wider importance as 1osts, who would in each area
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catch the Bologna express.
From Trieste a swift hydroplane Bari, Italy's new 'gateway to the should have taken me to Durazzo, Orient from which she intends tow Albania, in six hours. But the command ́Albania, has supplanted: were raging, and the hydroplane and harbour can hardly be found. dreaded Bora was blowing, the seas Brindisi, The picturesque old town,
could not start. So the trip to amidst the yaat new city rising up
V
||again opening the door to trade receive his Majesty and offer the Young Hopeful: "Dad, please give Durazzo had to be made by train via so rapidly with its great new port,
between Britain and Roumanla gifts of his subjects were a pro-soldier."
me a few coppers for a poor discharge Venice, Bologna, and Bari, and new sea-front, and huge Govern The bulk of that trade can never longed tour of the kingdom pos- Dad: "Certainly, my lad, but where 48 hours instead of six. This is a
thence by boat to Durazzo, taking ment building and wärehouses. be large. Roumania is a small sible. Whatever the final nature is he?"
The Noisiest City country and entry to her ports of the general gift from the us. Young Hopeful: "Well, he is in the usual winter-time method of "By Incidentally, it must rank high in is restricted by quotas, but the tion which is to be put before box office at the cinema."
the selling of goods can be pursued these its representatives; the
competition for Europe's with confidence now that the response to any appeal will be
noisiest city, and 20 hours there frozen credits representing past wide and immediate. The trials
waiting for a boat convinced one- transactions are to be gradually through which the country has
made of the Eternal City a thawed.
Ing" to Albania.
that response to any appeal will be LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
be viewed with impatience by i
passed during these twenty-five
staff of the China Mail.
right the was have
city of
2087
The wedding took place on March Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 eternal silence for motorists. The series of individual pacts years of peace and war have Bat H.B.M. Consulate General at hours ending at 10 am, to-day was With the incessant squawking of of which the Roumanian Agree-served to make an occasion for Tientsin of Mr. J. E. Wilson, Acting 0,01 inch. The total since Jau horas in Bari mlagle the cries of ment is the latest example has ceremonial rejoicing into some Editor of the Peking and Tientsin uary 1 is 2.74 Inches, as against vendors of lemons, oranges and re 3proved its value in an increase of thing deeper, in which loyalty Times to Migs Gallina Krutakaya, an average of 4.55 inches.
the sale of British goods. E and affection blend in thanks Mr. J. B. Affleck, H.B.M. Consul
pulsively embryonic-looking deavours to remove the barriers giving.
ercatures, the cracking of whips against trade plank by plank may
General, performed the ceremony. In the Criminal Jurisdiction of and the shouts of myriads of chil Mr., Wilson was formerly on the the Supreme Court in 1934 there dren. The snow of Venice had
were 117 cases and 135 persons vanished; the fact that Bari's: committed for trial at the crimin illuminated fountains by night look-- The Chinese friends of Lady al sessions, as against 130 and 146 ed attractive says enough for Its Southern are holding a reception (respectively in 1933.
late-January climate. in her honour at the Hong Kong Hotel on Monday, April 1, to Mr. Wei Tat, B.A. will the muddy seas were breaking, were the "Only on the sea-front over which restrictions and strangling ACCIDENTAL DEATH VERDICT mark their recognition of the re evening continue his series of lecpalms protected against spray by cent conferment on her of the tures on Evolution, his subject be strange, top-heavy straw bonnets, O.B.E. decoration.
ing The Evolution of Form, or In the old harbour, fishermen sold----- Group Evolution. The lecture at 3d. a dozen-delicious-looking
the splendid theorists who, in SHIPYARD TRAGEDY
some manner that they never Hattempt to explain, would rid the
world quickly of, economic ña- tionalism. Platform and Press Assaults upon quotas,. currency
tariffs; proposals for Empire
mirable.
Two Coolies Fatally Crushed
open.
Free Trade or for a ring of coun-
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- tries in the sterling bloc, trading terday afternoon, a verdict," of equally with one another are all eldental death was returned by The sixty-sixth ordinary general will be given in the Lodge Room but probably treacherous oysters individually or collectively ad the jury at an inquiry into the meeting of the Hong Kong: Fire of the Manuk Lodge of the Theo ready for eating, lemon free, and
On paper they would deaths of two coolles, Teang Ming, the offices Meaars. Jardine Mathes Annex Chater Road, and will com-
Insurance Co., Ltd, will be held at sophical Society, Hong Kong Club repulsive-looking sea urchins split get: overseas trade back to the aged 28, and Mok Kam, aged 60son and Co., Ltd, the General mance at 6. p.m. normal in a week. In practice who died as the result of injuries Managers of the Company, at noon
A stormy night Journey over the there are impassable Impedi-received whilst working at the ments. If anything is to be Bailey shipyard on March 5. on Friday, March 29,
Convicted on two charges of muddy southern Adriatic, in one of done they are driven back to the Mr. Grantham sat as Coroner,
the flat-bottomed, excellent Italian breaking into No. 98s High Street, boats destined for use 28 troop plan which the Board of Trade while the jury comprised
Convicted of the theft of a end for being in possession of an transports one day, brought Al- is pursuing of individual agree-Mesars. R. H. Wild (Foreman), on board the .. Kwang Tung, a poss Cheung Se, unemployed, was at dawn-low, black, unfriendly blanket from a sleeping passenger instrument fit for unlawful pur bania's inaccessible coasts into view ments with one nation after an- Corlos Coelho, and Wong King 21-year-old coolie, Ip. Chuen, was this morning sentenced to three other. These, plodding methods chuen.
have the merit that they do open
VICTIM
In that respect they are worth closed doors and create trade. SELECTED WRONG infinitely more than all the splendid suggestions that take [no account of facts.
Thankoffering From
The Nation
Fountain Pen Stolen From Watchman
int
sentenced to six weeks", bard labour months' hard Tabour by Mr. W. M. hills behind desolate swamps, where Mr. E. L. Wynne-Jones at the Thontson: at the Central Maglered the mosquito which had given Central Folice Court this morning tracy,
malaria to 70 per cent of the popu lation. Now the Rockefeller founda-
Albania's Welcome
A total of 11,055 cases were A fine of $30, in default four tion has practically" cleaned these treated by the St. John Ambulance weeks' imprisonment, was this "P Brigade and Association New Ter morning imposed on Wong Sam, ritory Medical Benevolent Branch and amah, by Mr. W. M. Thomson A vast apparent mudbank sur during the month of February.. at the Central Magistracy for the rounded by stone walls formed the Unwittingly selecting a head dis
theft of a blanket, the property new quay, swept by a bitter sirocco, trict watchman for a victim resulted The R. M. S. Empress of Britain of Harnam Singh an Indian rain-drenched and swamped. Of all the arrangements which in Wong Wau, unemployed, being is due here from Manila, on Satur guide, at No. 105 Lockhart Roadfew white fezzed, ragged porters A have been announced for cele- sentenced to four months hard day at 6 am. She will leave
and a score of wretched live turkeys brating the Silver Jubilee of the labour by Mr. E: I. Wynne-Jones ahere, on the continuance of her Charged with the unlawful and chickens lying in the mud King, at home, none is more wel the Central Police Court this mor, round-the-world, cruise, at 8 am, possession of a gold watch, Li Sang, by the feet, their feathers: come than the proposal for a Naning, for the theft of a fountain-pen, next Wednesday,
24-year-old unemployed was res diamally in the winds, were the tional Thankoffering which has Inspector Andrew stated that ac
manded for a week by Mr. I occupants. ess of Asia is Wynne-Jones at the Central Police (Continued
from Yoko Court this morningBall of $100 ye, for. Manila]
Mr Made Silva aps while Datactiv Bonalf of the accused; prose
been initiated by the Prince of cused possessed a clear Wales It has been the wish of Colony but from the
his Majesty that local celebra on his right leg tions ahall be held fall over the had been convicted.
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