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THE CHINA MAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1336
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publication.
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London Office:
HEAVY FINE
Fireworks Maker
Sentenced
Wong, Wan-sang, a maker of
Here There and
fireworks, who was yesterday Everywhere
7. Garrick Street, London, W-C2 charged with unlawful posses- sion of gunpowder without a
Notice To Contributers
licence, unlawfully manufactur-LORD MAYOR, COPELAND All communications intended for publication should be addressed to ing fireworks, and with posses-
sion of fireworks containing 127- In Merchant Taylors Hall Last the Editor, and be accompanied lawful ingredients, appeared on month the Marine Insurance Com- the Writer's Name and Address not necessarily for insertion, but remand before Mr. W. Schofield pany celebrated its hundredth
this morning when he was fined birthday. as a guarantee of good faith.
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IN MEMORIAM
COM-
BORDER BULWARK OF INDIA
AFGHANISTAN'S PRESENT ROLE OF ACTION
CHALLENGE OF PEACE TO WAR
MAKING FRONTIER TRIBES
(By Rosita Forbes)
$50, in default one months' im-! Its frst chairman was handsome ¡prisonment, on the first and Alderman W. T. Copeland. » Lord third charges respectively, Mayor in 1836, at the early age of
FGHANISTAN provides our Pathans are being encouraged to while on the charge of manu- 36. He presided at the meeting at
longest foreign frontier. Jexperiment with fruit and cotton- facturing fireworks he was fined which the forming of the
Way For approximately 800 miles her growing. Broadcasts in Pushtu -$500, in default six months' pany was discussed, and it
held at the Mansion Hoase.
land adjoins territory controlled or provide the amazed villagers with hard labour.
on agricultural reform. Sub-Inspector Ritchie was in A portrait of this Lord Mayor influenced by Britain, and the lectures charge of the case and Mr. J. shows that he seems to have been boundary, known as "the Durand trade, sanitation, and the suppres HOLLANDS-In loving memory C. Fitz-Henry, inspection officer as elegant in his robes as a piece Line." divides tribes which have sion of unnecessary murder, and
For the
blood. religion and the older men, who love speech as of Guy Hollands who died on of the Fire Brigade, was also in of his own biscuit porcelain.
much as they love “a beautiful he was in his time head of the language. the 28th August, 1934. Ever Court.
war" are furious because they Spode firm of London and Stoke-
On both sides of a frontier with cannot in our memory.
argue with the
loud- on-Trent, and seems to have had
out geographical or ethnographical speaker. something to do with the invention significance the hillmen regard the of the porcelain known as Parian King of Afghanistan as their Dipping into the history of the Badshah," a Father in Islam. For
Darby has
ed to making a living by raiding with the security of India and the the biggest the Indian plains and the sub-
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Hong Kong. Friday, August 28. 1936
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Dismay In Kabul
Meanwhile, the "Forward
Work And Prosperity is due here from Manila at 7.00 company he has managed since centuries they have been accustom-Policy," dear to officials concerned
The R.M.S. Empress of am: Text Wednesday and Approximately half a mil-berth at Kowloon Wharf. lion more insured persons were will leave for Vancouver B.
at work in Britain last month via ports, at noon next Friday. than at the same date last year.)
will 1922, Mr. G. A. T. She found that two of
C. ships aflost a hundred years ago sidies they now receive, nominally defence of such frontier towns as were the windjammers George for the protection of the new roads Peshawar, vulnerable in a plain and the Earl of Balcarres," each of
That striking figure means Lo Lai Hing, aged 58. residing them between 1,400 and 1.500 tons thrust into unadministered terrrounded by mountains, is re where the Government is primarily towards the Afghan border, are that, notwithstanding the dea: No. 11 On Lab Street, third Compare this with the $0.773 tons tors and stretching like fingers garded with dismay in Kabul, cline in export trade in the floor, was admitted to the Govern of the Queen Mary!
A comparison of rates then and insufficient to make up for the loss interested in the peace of Asia
For Afghanistan is a Switzer- In of loot. years of depression, there are ment Civil Hospital yesterday as
land inhabited by fiercely in- Since 1919 Britain has followed dependent peoples, their isolation more people in employment in the result of injuries received now is equally surprising. Britain than ever before in her when he fell down the stairs of 1836 the rate on produce in a ship history. Growth in population the above address. He succumb homeward bound from China was what is known as "the Forward secured as much by the fears of 8 per cent; to-day that rate, in a Policy," which consists of making Russia, Persia and England as by explains the fact that with ed to his injuries at 1250 am modem liner, would be about six successive drives into the belt of their own courage and experience 1.652,000 persons on the regis-day.
shillings per cent.
tribal territory averaging 50 miles of war. ter of unemployed the factories.
to
ad.
Your Daily Smile!
Warriors On Wheels
Or, take wool from Sydney: in in depth, which separates the The modern kingdom, with its and workshops are actually Chat Yong, aged 40, was
1836-7 the rate was 2 or 3 per "Durand Line" from the “Ad-population of perhaps ten millions, busier than ever they have mitted to the Government Civil
cent; the rate to-day is something ministrative Border" of India.
gradually
the forming under been and are turning but more Hospital yesterday suffering from like seven shillings and six-pence.
guidance of the Prime Minister, goods. Half a million increase an injured leg sustained when he
his Royal Highness Sardar Hashim in employed only reduces the was knocked down by taxi No. 754-
This belt is inhabited by 240,000 Khan, Asia's wisest politician and number of unemployed by 320,-in Queen's Road Central.
free hillmen who have hitherto one of her strongest men, has 87 000 because of the new hands!
regarded Afghanistan as a refuge army of some 50,000. So many re-
arnong their cruits are supplied by each tribe. your and sought allies
brother Mohmands, Shinwaris and (Continued on Page 6.) with Safs, across the Durand Line.
Keeping Warm
that have come into industry. I Driver T. Cushnie, R.AS.C., In the Midlands Britain has the was this morning fined $25 by Mr. busiest area in the world, with W. Schofield at the Central Magie-greatest ambition?” the factories working much tracy for driving a military lorry twin beds every hotel I stop at overtime and unable to over-at the rate of 40 miles an hour in take the demand for manufac- Gloucester Road at 10 a#2, on Au- tures. Cotton is employing gust 18.
For effecting a public mischief
First Salesman: What is
Second SalesmIMETIZ "A room
First: "But why twin beds ?" Second: "That would make
just the right amount of blankets for one bed, from my experience."
* After Shaving Test.
*
33,157 more workers than {year ago. Coal, hard hit by
world conditions, has sufficient by falsely reporting that he had Man (after a shave): "Barber, ly recovered to give employ been robbed of $1.20 by three men will you please get me a glass of ment to 59,652 more workers.
in a nullah
St Joseph's water" Dear
Such drives have been followed by HERRING" FLEET
the building of roads and forts, with the result that the wild Wazirs and Afridis are beginning) to develop needs that can only be satisfied by trade.
Rifles are no longer the only tools of the frontier tribes.
A
Prosperity is extending from Church, Chung Wai was fined $10 Barber: "What is the matter, a tradition has arisen which makes
the South and the Midlands to! the stricken areas. In the North-Eastern districts, main- ly concerned with the heavierge was also ordered to be sent
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Couldn't Bear the Sight
TROPHY
Championship Test Inaugurated
Lowestoft. Mme. Prunier, the Paris and it had form to commit murder on one week's imprison-little hair in your throat?” in default
restaurateur has in Man: "No, I want to see if my the main roads, with the result London ment, by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the
Deck leaks"
that a number of warriors have augurated a championship of the Central Magistracy this morning.
turned themselves into mechanics. British herring feet. She is give Waziris have captured the lorrying a challenge trophy for the ing and shipbuilding the fall!
Two men were seated in a crowded traffic to Wana, a fort surrounded drifter making the best catch dur- in the number of those on the
trancar. One, noticing that the by barbed wire on the edge of ing the autumn herring season at The Y.M.C.A. fortnightly picnic other had his eyes closed, said: "Bill. No Man's Land, and Afridis drive Lowestoft and Yarmouth, in which unemployment registers has been 37,910 in a single month. will be held to-morrow, the launch are yer feelin well?"
"I'm all night," said Bill, "but two-ton A facile, but strikingly incom-leaving the Police Pier. Kowloon,
On Sunday, the do ate to see ladies standing" plete, explanation would be the at 3 rearmament programme. As YMCA discussion group, led by yet the effect of that must be Dr. Matthews, will meet in the small; most of it is still to West Lounge at 9 pm, the sub- come. British capacity in iron ject being "Christ the Saviour of and steel production has been Men."
P.Et
greatly increased, but the de-
A whist drive will be held in mand for ordinary commercial purposes has filled order books the Y.M.C.A. West Lounge on for months and probably years Monday, commencing at 9 pali, ahead. Tyne and Wear and and from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Tees are busier in building new mixed bathing will be held in the by а commercial vessels than they swimming bath, followed
the roof. and have been for years. When buffet supper on the orders for warships are dancing in the West Lounge. Tic added the revival that iskets are $1.20 each. already manifested through the
whole district will be intensif- John Cameron, an Australian, ed. Up to the present what is residing at Phillips House, who being seen is the effect of an was reported missing last night, increased home demand, with jreturned home not long after the growing confidence in the early report of his absence had been expansion of export trade and made. the consequent need for more carrying capacity.
Sporting Challenge
races will be a sporting event, for yachtsmen they have the special interest of putting, to the proof the theory that a Hope springs eternal where yacht with the largest dimen- the America's Cup is concern-sions admissible may
prove ed Eighty-five years of, un-faster than a smaller boat successful striving to win back carrying the same spread of II is the trophy has not shaken con-canvas. Endeavour
and heavier than fidence that it may be recover- longer ed. The challenge from the Endeavour I., and speedier Whether Eoyal Yacht Squadron, made through the water. possible by the sportsmanlike she will prove so in the light! spirit of Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith, breezes. in which the races on should ensure another series of the other side of the Atlantic races next year. Not until usually take place only her Endeavour L has been put to actual performance can show. serious test has the decision In issuing the challenge her been taken to try her against owner, her designers and the the best yacht that America Boyal Yacht Squadron all show can build in the next 12 their belief in her prospects months. Before the disaster against the best vessel that the to her mast the new yacht had Americans can build. So much shown herself faster in heavy persistence and courage · as yachtsmen have breezes than any possible rival English
on this side of the Atlantic shown, generation after gérera- Whatever the result next year tion, is in itself deserving of the she is a competitor worthy to success that would bring call forth all the skill and in American vessels bo the Eng- genuity that the American lish Channel in renewed quest builders possess.
of the Cap that has become the If to the general public on symbol of international yacht- both sides of the Atlantic theling supremacy.
trucks from Peshawar the combined English and Scot-
tish drifter fleets take part through the Khyber to Kabul
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT? by Robert L. Ripley
IT IS POSSIBLE
TO CARRY A
FULL: FLASK
OF
QUICKSILVER (90 LBS.) BUT
& FULL
(30185)
CANNOT
わざ
CARRIED!
THE SURCE OF THE LIQUID METAL 15 SO STRONG: AND SUDDEN THAT ST-WILL THROW A MAN DOWN.
-MARS LILLIAN ALBRIGHT
of LOGAN, Kan.
WAS A
SCHOOL TEACHER-
HER MOTHER WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER- GRANDMOTHER WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER-
·HUSBAND WASA SCHOOL TEACHER-4 SISTERS WERE SCHOOL TEACHERS-4 SISTERS-IN-LAW WERE SCHOOL TEACHERS, AMD 2 CHILDREN WERE TEACHERS
The
ASHING FISH!
Size
Lasiognathus
A DEEP SEA FISH EQUIPPED WITH NATURAL ROD, LINE, ILLUMINATED LURE AND 3 HOOKS.
MRS. GERTREDE LANGSSTAFF Aarrer, Cuit
A
• HAS DRIVEN A CAR MOST EVERY DAY SINCE 1914.
AND KAS NEVER HAD AN ACCIDENT-BEEN STOPPED EN ATRAFEK-OFFICER-OR RON OXSEOFGAS IK 22 YAS.