SANMENWAN BAY
AS A PORT
CONVERSION SOUGHT
BY CHEKIANG
PROJECT AID TO PROSPERITY
Hangchow.
As a step to enhance further the prosperity
of Chekiang, the Provincial Department of Reconstruction is planning to develop San- menwan, a bay on the east coast of Chekiang, into a port.
The suggestion for convert- Siangshan, Ninghai Nantien ing Sanmenwan into a port was and Maghai districts. the bay made as early as the Third Year occupies a strategic position of the Chinese Republic (1914) Forts have also been built along But owing to various diffical-the coast here. ties, the plan has not been
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1935
་་
This architect's drawing shows the massive building which guards the elevator shaft leading to the underground gold vaults which the Government, plans to baila at Fort Knox, Kentucky. When the concrete and steel subterranean fortress is complete, bitions in U. S. bullion will be transferred to it from treasuries and mints along the Atlantie seaboard.”
DAY OF ACTION AT FOR EMPIRE WAR
GENEVA
TO OUR ENGLISH FRIENDS" Paris: An article headed
~To
MEMORIAL
Australian Marble For Monument
THE
SILENT GUIDE TO
HONG KONG.
WHAT IT IS. The "Silent Guide consists of a large illuminated street map of Hong Kong (18 feet by 6 feet).. The map, which is coloured, is painted on a ground glass- background, behind which are over 5,000 small lamps. At a convenient distance from the large map is a small switch- board containing a number of six inch glass panels for sub- scribers' names, addresses and telephone numbers, each with
its own button switchi
WHERE IT WILL BE At the entrance to the Star Ferry wharf (Hong Kong side) where it will be seen by 90 per cent. of the tourists and other visitors arriving at Hong Kong, besides the many thousands of residents who, make daily use of the Star Ferry on their way to and from business. WHAT IT WILL DO: Anyone wishes to find the location of an office, hotel, theatre, bank, shop or other business in Hong Kong. He goes to the switchboard where he finds the names of subscribers, properly classified and arranged alphabetically. He presses the appropriate button and the subscriber's name on the panel board immediately lights up. At the same time. on the large street map, a coloured lamp will show the exact position of the office or shop, etc. he is looking for, and the quickest route will also be indicated by lighting up the road to be taken right the way from the Star Ferry to his destina- tion Bus and tram routes will be shown by special coloured lamps. Subscribers' names will be in Chinese as well as English if desired and an attendant will be stationed at the switchboard to give assistance to strangers if required.
To keep back the surging realised. The Provincial Dewaves of the sea a strong stone partment of Reconstruction is embankment has been built now, however, determined to along the coast, while light carry out the plan.
houses have been erected off the
WHAT IT WILL COST: The service is free to the general, A preparatory committee. it coast to facilitate navigation.
public, and only a nominal charge will be made to subscribers is understood, will shortly be According to the latest
of $36 per year per name panel. This fee will include a free . organised jointly by the various census taken, there are about Continued from Page, 1)
insertion of the subscribers' name, address: particulars of departments of the Chekiang 75,000 households in the bay.
his business, agencies carried, etc, in THE “SILENT. GUIDE Provincial Government and numbering about $70.000 per The representatives of Austria Our English Friends,” which
Canberra.
DIRECTORY” which will be published in conjunction with Australia has fallen into line) other government organisations sons. Most of the inhabitants and Hungary made reservations, is thought to have been inspired
the "Silent Guide" and which may be obtained from the concerned. The director of the are farmers and fishermen.
the the latter stating that his country by the editor of Le Petit Parisien, with
other Dominions in
-attendant at the Star Ferry for ten cents The Directory Provincial Department of Re-
Agricultural Boost
as in the position of a debtor protests against the idea that the assisting with the monument to
will contain a small replica of the large illuminated map for construction will be er officio
country and unable to grant credit friendship of Britain and France be erected at Boulogne by ex-recording, with a pencil, any position or route located on. chairman of the com-
The mild climate, abundance and therefore uninterested in the is in any way clouded by serious Servicemen of the Empire to com
the large map. mittee while- the repre-of rain. and fertile soil in San-sanctions, but would refer the differences of opinion.
memorate the landing on French: sentatives of various other pro-menwan are most suitable for matter to his Government. The Certain divergencies between soil of the first British troops in vincial departments and govern-agriculture..
per Austrian delegates expressed the the public opinion of both coun-1914. ba cent of the land here is cultiv-game views. ment organisations, will
triest it declares, are only due to A piece of Australian marble able hilly land, while the re- menibers.
The chairman announced that it the fact that the press is insuf has been provided by the Com- maining 40 per cent is com-
understood that
Red clently informed about diploma-monwealth Government
Labour-Relief
About 60
3325.
·for in-
the posed of watery fields and sandy Cross and humanitarian institutie negotiations being carried on corporation in the menament
According to a scheme now isles. There is at present being worked out by the Provin-total 270,000 mow of farmland. the sanctions. Mr. de Valera misled by outward appearances.
tions in Italy were exempted from behind the scenes and is being cial Department of Reconstruc-and uncultivated land measures hoped that the same would apply FEARS IN FRANCE tion, the first stage of work will about 35.000 mow. Rice to religious institutions.
be reclamation by labour-relief-wheat. cotton,
.beans.
It is estimated that a total of tobacco grow in abundance!. $500,000 will be needed for this here.
purpose.
30
this
amount
Pines,
There were Frenchmen, for in-
which the British delegation is applying to accelerate the enforce- ment of sanctions is the result; ofį a relentless decision, as concilia-
stance, who feared that the energy
and! M. Litvinoff urged the League to consider the position of mem- ders not participating in the sanc firs, cypresses tions $200,000 will be appropriated and plum, peach and orange IMMEDIATE APPLICATION from the labour-relief funds of trees cover the hills in the bay. The French proposal was adopt-tion is impossible, to kill Signor the province, while the remain-Tientai Tsiushui, Kaitsanged that the Committee of Eighteen Mussolini politically, and, if
ing $300,000 from the proceeds Pichia. Szetze, and other hills from reclaimed lands.
here may be easily turned into
Each of the other Dominions has agreed to supply a slab of stone to represent it.
WOLVES TERRORISE
PEIPING
Pack Attacks Group Of Children
should immediately start an ex-necessary, to go to war in order
A pack of half-a-hundred ravenous wolres descended on a On the other hand, there were small village outside. Peiping last
Improvement of communica-big forests with the adoption ting the sanctions into practical
amination of measures for put-to achieve this end.
coast
two
Holland,
{newspapers.
energy dis-
THE "SILENT GUIDE" invention is the property of the Tell- The World Publishing Co., Button House, Daddell Street, who will be pleased to reserve name panel spaces on application. Patents have been applied for. The installation, which is expected to take six weeks from the time when the names of intending subscribers have been collected, is in the hands of Messrs H. W. Buckingham & Co., Tai Ping Building.
PUT YOURSELF ON THE MAP!
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES
Oct. 13 Oct.
Oct, 13 Oct
1935 193
* 1935 1918
Cts. Cts.
Cts. Cta
POULTRY:
BUTCHER MEAT Beef Sirloin
迈
Prime Cat
Capons, Small
46
Corned
Large
Roast
か
24
each 25
22
Eggs, Hen (cook-
ing)
per doz. 30
#
Th. 40
55
30
each
Fowl, Hainan
Geese
Canton
tions and irrigation will also be of scientific afforestation application, for which two sub-Englishmen who believed that month and according to terrified Chicken important items in the scheme. methods. These will be undertaken step Fish and salt are the
committees were established ear-Laval's attempts to bring about a villagers, bit some 30 children Fer. The meeting concluded at conciliation was for the purpose and carried three of them off. by step, when sufficient funds biggest products along the
of masking other 7.10 p.m.
plans against are raised
More than 3,000 inhabi-
The wolves had been roaming Duck The sub-committee to examine England and the League of Na-about in the mountains near by. Doves Situated south of the Siang tants are engaged in the manu-
In Paris, declares the for some time. Shan Harbour at a point just facture of salt from sea water. measures for putting the sanctions tions. about the middle of the ea An average of 7.500.000 into application will consist of the writer, there were no dark plans coast of China, Sanmenwa. piculs of salt are manufactured United Kingdom, France, Poland, of this nature being hatched. holds
a key position in com-every season Fishermen also Spain, Russia, Canada. Switzer- There was only a steady deter-satisfaction by the Italian Sunday Eggs, Hen (fresh) munications, coastal and inland occupy a high percentage of the land,
Belgium apdmination to seize every oppor- Referring to the Both the South China and the population in the bay. Large Sweden. The Mutual Assistance tunity for concluding the drama in North China coastal navigation quantities of fish are daily Committee will consist of the which France, England. Italy and played by Mr. Anthony Eden in
ignoring any opposition routes lie through this bay-shipped from here to other United Kingdom, France, Poland, the League were the chief actors British proposal, the Voce d'Italia More than 30
steamers citiesCentral News Agency. Russia. Spain. Greece, Rumania, The British Fleet has given proof protests against the British Minis- Turkeys, Cock make regular calls here, besides j
Yugoslavia, Mexico and South of its existence.” continues the
ter's assertions. of England's a large number of coastal
Africa-Reuter.
newspaper. "It can now return to
Snipe steamboats and junks plying
FRENCH SUGGESTION its base without any danger, and friendship for Italy, and only re- between here and various points
Geneva: At the suggestion of by so doing would only add
gards such affirmations as ridica Pheasant
Qual lous... The British nation itself Partridge the French delegate the Committee British prestige." along the coast.
might be friendly disposed to of Eighteen decided to establish
Italy, but the attitude of the
ocean
Land Communications
2
new
NAVAL BASE AT SELETAR Test Of New Dry Dock Successful
BATTLESHIPS CAN BE RE-FITTED
tion of trade.
Singapore, October 5.
Another sub-committee will be
request that account shall be tak-
NO FIENDISH PLAN
to
tile.
to the Pigeons, Canton Haibow
TANGIER VOLUNTEERS
The
32
Han
each 18 patr
each
FRUITS
Almonds Lemons, China Carambols Bananas (bride's)
Coconuts Apples (California) Lemens, American Lichees Dried ... Oranges (Canton). Oranges (Sweet) Pears (Canton) Persimmons, Large Pamelo, Siam Walnuts Grapes
VEGETABLE
Artichokes Beans, Spront
Beetroot
Long
Brinjals, Green Cabbage, Chinese (Shanghai) inliñower. (Largs)
Carrots
Red
(Medium) (SI)
each : 14:
18
ETC. Ib.
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10
26
10
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Breast
Soup
Steak Steak Sirloin
Sansages
Ballock's Brains
» Tongue, fresh
Head
corned
Heart Hamp. Salt
Feet
Kidneys
Tail
Liver
per set
each 24
Tripe Calves' Head
set 1.88 10G
15. 44
+4477-26
Feet
Mutton Chip
Leg
Shoulder Saddle
Beams
Pig's Chitlings-
Feet
Fry
Fead Kidneys Liver Pork Chop
Loin Leg
Sheep's-Head - &
Fat or Lærd
Feet
Heat
Kidneys
Liver
Sucking Pigs to
Order Spet, Beef Suiet, Beef
Mutton
Sausages
FISH.
none
Barbel ~Brea
„Canton. Fr
1610
255
18 16
10
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two sub-committees, the first to ex- The whole affair depends on the Government was nothing but hos As to land communications.
amine simultaneously a general negotiations being conducted, but boycott of Italian exports and the for months nobody has known how! Ninghai, in the vicinity of the
The British warships in the bay is directly connected with
application of an embargo on the to negotiate. There had been Mediterranean, asserts the news Hangchow, capital of Chekiang.
sales of certain key products to much talk, it is true-sometimes paper in this connection, already by a highway. Plans have now
Italy; the second to examine the too much but the parties concern-do not return the salutes given been formulated to extend the
question of mutual assistance and ed had not come together or even them by Italian vessels. help to States hit by the interrup suspected one another of malicious Italo-Abyssinian colonial war had highway from Ninghai to San- menwan, and to build
intentions. highway, linking Sanmenwan
become a question of world im- The test of the great dry appointed to examine how soon the London to depose Signor Musso/Portance by a movement being set Oranges (American), each 10
There was no fiendish plan in with Haiyu, about 10 kilometers east of the bay, where a road dock at the Naval Base at Sele measures agreed in principle can lini from his ministerial chair. in force against Fascist Italy, .connects with Wuyi on thetar, into which 68,750.000 gal be enforced. It is hoped that the
which it only desired to destroy, MISINTERPRETATION lons of water were pumped last financial sanctions may be Chekiang-Kiangai Railway.
because to-day the Italians had en- Paris: Commenting On the Flanked on the north west month from the Straits of forced by October 21
statements made to the press by again become a nation, conscious and south by hilly lands in Johore, has been successful. **ARGENTINE'S POSITION.
Premier Laval at Clermont-Fer-of their rights and strength. This terrific pressure of water The Argentine delegation's rand on Sunday evening, when the on the sides and floor of the statement says that the Argentine Premier reported that he had dis-two Italian residents here left for Tangier: One hundred and fifty dock proved that it could take representatives will vote "affirma eussed military sanctions with "NUDE DEAD CLIMBER the most powerful ships in the tively ad referendum" for the Mr. Anthony Eden, Le Jour writes teer for service in East Africa
Italy on Sunday in order to volun- British Navy HMS Hood sanctions, but declares that there that this statement has been mis- GERMAN LEAGUE WITHDRAWAL STANDING IN SNOW Rodney and Nelson
are certain steps which the Exe-interpreted to mean that M. Laval Paris: When the gate of the dock is entive cannot constitutionally put had been contemplating such sanc-from the League of Nations, 'Germany's" withdrawal German Tourist Found completed and placed in position into effect. The delegation also tions.
which became a legally accomplish- Britain will be able to bring her On Alps
It is, declares the newspaper, ed fact Festerday, restricts her fleet east of Suez in an emer-en of the special position of the by no means the case, as only Mr. from any obligation towards the Celery, Chinese
Argentine with over 1,000,000 At present the nearest base Italian settlers. The statement is entitled to do so just the same as pointed out Le Jour in a leading
Eden contemplated them. He was dispute between Italy and Geneva, Chillies, Dried
My Red The discovery of the nude with a dock to repair and refit interpreted to imply that the Ar-France is entitled not to partici- article. body of a Germany tourist battleships and cruisers is at gentine will press for special con-pate in them in any form.
The question of the re Curry Stan, Eng
Cucumbers standing upright in the snow Malta
rarm of the League is once more was made by Colonel Udet, the
sideration and possibly delay in
Garlic Engineering Triumph
Turning to affairs at home, it raised by Germany's effective
Ginger, Young. German "ace after a fight The test of the dock took the enforcement of certain mea is stated that, while at Clermont-withdrawal, the journal continues,
" Old along the base of the Alps near nearly a fortnight Two 12. sures of the sanctions-Beuter.
Ferrand, M. Laval agreed to stand adding that even if the League Horseradish, Sha inch pipes were used, giving a
as candidate for the department socceeds in coming through the Indian Com Accompanied by a Swiss guide capacity of 6,000 gallons a min- EARLIER MESSAGES Puy de Dome in next Sunday's trial of its strength, as imposed Lettice Colonel Udet made a flight at a ute. Observations were taken
Senate election. The Premier by the Abyssinian dispute, it can height of only a few yards from after every lift of 4ft 6in by
already heads the Radical Party's not exist without the assistance of the mountain face searching for the aid of 4 posts, more than 60
list for the Seine department, but the strongest power in central
wer traces of two Alpine climbers feet high, fixed along the floor
since his prospects there are con- Eurupė... from, Munich who had been re- of the dock.
sidered to be very unfavourable, ported missing, e Age. The dock is 180 feet wide by
Rome: The prices of all comme- his political friends have per- Finally, the question must The dead man was found on 1,000 feet long. It is broader dities, especially those from suaded him to accept also the can-examined as to whether the Pumpkin the Eiger Peak, facing the Lit- than, but not quite as long as, abroad, are rising uninterruptedly didature for Puy de Dome, which Locarno agreement, which
was Radish the Scheider, with snow up to the graving dock at Southamp and the Secretary of the Fascist is held to be a safe seat. concluded between the League Phutarb (Fresh) his laces. 1
Turnipe Petí members, and is within the frame (Long) 1. SATISFACITON EN ROME: No trace could be found of The successful completion of control of prices.”~ ~ Strong -mea- Rome: The differences of opinion work of the League Covenant Watercress his clothes or of his companion this dock, which had to
will be taken against all which have become apparent at does not automatically lapse on? though it is thought that the built on teacherous ground.
who are found to be hoard- Geneva as regards the nature and the day when one signatory ceases latter probably lies buried under regarded as a triumph for
the exi application, of the econontic same to "be a member of the League/ the snow.
tions:
Grindelwald:
Genera.
gency.
ton
Commodity Prices Soar In Rome
Party has ordered a new and strict
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Onions, Bombay.
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Codfish
Crabe
Cattle Fish
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Frogs-
Bels Conger
Fals Fresh
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Oysters
Perch
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