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THE CHINA WALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1936
Ninety-fist` Year of Publication.
34 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20052. London Office:
7, Garrick Street, London, 17.02
DISCOVERY OF Here
There
ROMAN COINS
Thousands Found In
A Box
IMPORTANT FIND
Dorchester. The police have
and Do Everywhere
A MISPLACED WORD
A somewhat mystifying para-
Notice To Contributers. All communications intended for taken possession of some thou publication should be addressed to sands of Roman coins discovered graph in the Lord Chamberlain's the Editor, and be accompanied by last month while excavations were
anlations for the Chains
the Writer's Name and Address taking place on a building site at rums: not necessary for insertion, but South-street, Dorchester. jas'a guarantee of good faith.
Subscription Bates.
One Year... HK$36.00 6 Months
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£10,000,000 DREAM COMES TRUE
SINGAPORE BASE AND
NAVAL STRATEGY
COMES INTO BEING AS WATCHDOG OF THE EMPIRE
Hong Kong. Friday, June 12, 1936. addition he found an urn of beau- "present" his meaning would be Britain.
tiful workmanship in an excellent plain.
Situation In China
state of preservation.
"At the end of the third
A gentleman presented for the The discovery-was made near the foundations of a Roman villa
first time can only present his son on the occasion when ke which was uncovered the previous himself is presented
Tis and have come power stations, and scores of is officially announced that been built, water works and week A workman, driving his
The plain meaning of this seems pleted the main works of the huge oil tanks. Altogether, on pick into an iron-bound box, was to be that unless a gentleman pre-Singapore base, which the Ad- the S.000 acres of land given amazed to see a stream of bronze sents his son on the occasion when miralty engineers have taken by coins fall out
he is himself first. presented, he over."
the Government of the Col C. D. Drew, curator of the cannot do so at a subsequent.Jevee.
Straits Settlements, nearly £9 IN MEMORIAM
Dorset County Museum, who con-
So much stated a cable mes-million has been spent, and an- In fact, it is intended to mean sage received a few months ago lather £2 million at least. will be ducted the excavation, said the that, on his first presentation, a What it means is that already needed before the base is com- In loving memory of our dear find was the most sensational of gentleman cannot present anyone Singapore is an effective link in plete. "Kennie Boy" who died on June recent years.
except his s01. 12, 1935. Ever in our thoughts
Packed Tightly
the defensive chain along the A misplaced adverb is the cause Empire's life-line the route from the British taxpayer, but Most of the money has come Mum and Daddy.
The box was packed tightly with of the apparent oddity of Lord from New Zealand and Austra-Hong Kong, the Federated Ma- coins, and a bronze howl 14 inches Cromer's regulation. If "only" lia, past India, through the Red lay States, the Sultan of Johore, in diameter was also filled. In followed instead of preceding Sea and the Mediterranean, to and New-Zealand have contri- buted largely the Dominion Singapore is like no other the sum of £1 million spread great British strong-point.jover 10 years. cen-"PAM" TO "PILGERSTEIS"
Aden, Malta and Gibraltar have tury AD. this type of coinage was Among "British
Birth Of Scheme statesmen developed slowly through the demonetised by the Emperor Dio-Palmerston's supremacy in one years into the formidable de Singapore, almost disowned by It was Stamford Raffles of recletian and therefore became val-particular has never been chal-fensive centres that they are, Britain, who first saw the possi mains as obscure as ever, mostjueless," he said to me. "It was lenged. No public man ever ac- equipment being modified or re- bilities of the site for a naval of the "news" which is being probably buried in the hope that quired more nicknames.
newed as changing fashions of base, and declared that strate- retailed to the public coming one day it would regain its Here are some catalogued by war have demanded. Singapore gically it was worth more than from Japanese sources. These value."
Mr. H. C. F. Bell in his two-has been pushed almost to com-a continent reports tell us of mobilisations The coins are *10 denarii volume life of that Victorian pletion in 12 years. in Kwangtung and. Kwangsi, of pieces. Some are of silver, but statesman. which appeared
Now British
During the Russo-Japanese guns command War, when Russian ships were invasion of Hunan territory by the majority are bronze with a
cently:-
the narrow crossroad where in the Pacific, the Admiralty Kwangsi forces and of move- silver wash..
"Pa" (the best know).
East meets West. Great docks (first felt that there had been iments of Nanking troops
"Lord Pumicestone," to those and piers are at the service of some truth in his words. After who crossed his path politically, the battleship, which makes the Great War the Navy decid-
"Cupid." to the ladies.
such heavy demands for service-led that he had been its prophet. "The Romsey Dandy." to the Workshops, stores, barracks, and that the land he had added vance of the Southern forces.
-connoisseurs of fashionable houses all those things need-to the Empire should be used Other reports from Southern
tailoring.
jed for a powerful garrison into justify his words. sources tell us the wish be-
Abroad. Metternich. in a mo-war and peace
have appear- So work began at the end of ing doubtless father to the
!ment of wrath, called him the ed in little more than a decade. 1923. Then, early in 1924, the thought of the growth of
"son of the Devil"
Gigantic Task
first British anti-Japanese feeling in Shang- Ceylon's first "Flying Flea" christened his niece's redoubtable upon, its site was. much as ited to
King Leopold I. of the Belgians
Labour Govern- When the base was decided ment came to poiver, determin hai and the North.
is now almost ready to take the Minister "Bex."
end naval rivalry, and Out of the welter of wild and air, but awaits the arrival of self, Queen Victoria, writing back, Stamford Rafes, with the Nel-Australia and New Zealand, The niece her-had been a century before when against the violent protests of conflicting reports there the engine some time in the expressed her dislike for him by son touch, overlooked his or abandoned work on
em- erges one that seems to bear course of this month.
Teutonising his name to Pilger ders and raised the British flag That was, a gesture in the the base.
The situation in China
to:
strategic points whence they CEYLON'S FIRST can operate if it should become
necessary to oppose the ad-
the stamp of authenticity
that
2
"FLYING FLEA"
Now Ready To Take The Air
―
Your Daily Smile!
To the Point Sign in restaurant: "You may for credit Our refusal will polite."
in its!
*
*
+
*the
The body has been assembled įstein.”
at Singapore. Coconut planta-Washington Treaty tradition, Kwangsi
by the Eastern Motor Garages, troops have crossed the Hunan border and Colpetty. This midget aero- Minerva House, Stewart Place.
tions and mangrove swamps though at Washington Britain covered the tongue of land that, had made it clear that she in- occupied Hengehow, the Nan- king troops of the garrison re-able of attaining a
plane has a 24 h.p. engine cap-
the Admiralty decided, must bejtended to go ahead with the tiring, no doubt under instruc-speed of 60 m.p.h
the naval base for the Pacific. base, and Japan and the United maximum
ask
Since then 8,000 coolies, Ta-States had agreed. tions from Generalissimo Chiang!
be mils, Malays and Chinese, di- Kai-shek in order to avoid
Local Wood Used
The Labour Government was clash. Meanwhile General Ho construction are baulks of local
The materials used
rected by British engineers and short-lived, and once the Con- working with the most modern servatives were, back in office, Chien, the military and civilian wood particularly
Busy Lad
equipment, have excavated 9-dredges and scoops were set to head of Hunan, who is reported (Berrya ammonitta), sappu (V. I've won several magazine puzzie dredged 5,000,000 cubic yards, swamps this time against.
Applicant: "Am I bright? Why.1000,000 cubic yards of soil, have work again on the (with what truth it is impossi-attisimum) and domba (C. ino-contests"
mangrove ble to say) to be favourably dis-phyllum) These have been used art during business hours 1.500,000 cubic yards of con-who contended that the plan jand have mixed and put in place the protests of haval theorists, Employer: "Yes, but I need a boy posed towards the South-west, for its wings sits on the fence, neither oppos- The sides
Applicant: "Well, this was during Crete. of the body are business hours."
was a strategic misfit. ing the advance of the Kwangsi covered with venista boarding.
Railways and roads have" (Continued on Page 10) army nor declaring for them as The wings are covered with they perhaps hoped. And Can-imported fabric.
halmilla
ton. which seems to have been It may be stated that nothing doing the major part of the but a crash could smash a "Fly- talking hitherto against Japan ing Flea" to pieces. It has and Nanking, has, at present, been described as a "sturdy in- not gone beyond talk of mobili-sect."
sation
What does the South-west EXPLANATIONS
want? The leaders declare with one voice that they do not want civil war that civil war. at such a time would be unthink- able merely that they dis- agree with the policy of Chiang 6th Kai-shek vis-a-vis Japan and wish to bring him to a sense of j duty; that unless he declares
war against Japan the country must perish, etcetera. There
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON Governor Of Texas
In One Year
Décember 31, 1935, Senator
Delbourne B. Collie of East-
the is not so much harm done so land, Texas, became
6th long as these sentiments
Governor of his State during the confined to talk; but it is a dif-year 1935. Gov. Allred succeeded
ате
ferent matter when troops be- his predecessor, Gov. Miriam Fer- gin to move and take posses absence, Lt. Gov. Woodul has been guson, on January 15. During bis sion of towns. For the 10- ment the movement seems to
Governor at various times. How- have come to a standstill; but, ever, when both are absent, the should it be resumed, the Gen-State Senate assumes the execu
President pro tempore of the] eralissimo will be under the netive post, and Senators Regan and cessity of arresting it by force Redditt preceded Senator Collie as for it is certain that he will acting Governor during the year not yield to the clamour for 1935. war against Japan --and the South-west will have provoked the civil war which they them- selves declare would be. mad
"Farmers' Folly".
T Ahwick, Northumberland,
ness. It is, to be hoped that A England, there is a monu
even at this eleventh hour, the ment erected in 1816 to the then South-west leaders will see that Duke of Northumberland by his they have made a mistake and farmer-tersats, in recognition of will withdraw.
bis having reduced their rents Wars, especially war against when they complained of the
ruïnous season they had suffered
correct
a well-equipped and powerful and the impossibility of their be nation like Japan, require mening able to pay the original rent. munitions and money -- Teularly the latter, to make the name for the monument, but Far-
parti-Twenty Column is the Itwo former... effective; and mers' Folly is the name by which China has not a sufficiency of it is popularly known-because the any at the present time. China's Duke, on the next rent day, rais- future seems to be safer in the ed the rents to the old levels, re hands of Generalissimo Chiang marking that if the farmers had Kai-shek than in those of the money to build a useless hotheads who clamour for warment, they could afford to pay him without considering the cost. (the full rent
MILLER
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
Senator WILBOURNE
COLLIE
WAS THE 6th GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
IN ONE YEAR
1935
A HEN LAID
AN EGG IN THE SHAPE OF A HEN.
Owned by
R.B.COMLEY
Greenwood, Ark
FARMER
FOLLY
England
„ALNWICK,
Charley
Famous Guide
TO ATTEND TE-
SPORTSMENS
WALKED 223 MILES
ON SNOWSHOES!
FROM
MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND (1816)
IN RECOGNITION OF HIS HAVING REDUCED THEIR RENTS
THE DUKE IMMEDIATELY RAISED THEIR RENTS PORI
# 1956. Ting Patan Agadam. M., Cras, Haman'ughte