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FORBIDDEN WAY TO
SAMARKAND
ROAD WHICH CLIMBS
BY ROCKY DEFILES
LEADS TO HOLY CITY AND SOVIET RUSSIAN FRONTIER
(By Rosita Forbes)
miles) is double the extent of the Thirty-three cars went over in THROUGHOUT the ages bound for Turkestan and, cross- State of Rhode Island added to the Queen Mary, and the club is 1 there has been a route ing the frozen Shibhar, turned. the area of the State of Delaware now making a 1,600 miles tour of from China across the legen-off the north road to look at
The Man Of 488 the USA and Canada.
dary Oxus into Afghanistan Bamyan. The tourists should not have and India. But the old "Silk Here the blood-red cliffs. difficulty in maintaining their road" by Baikh, where Alexan-porous with caves which were average of 40 mph.der camped, and Bamyan, Val- once monastic cells, rise sheer Alfredo Trombetti a native of scheduled Local Health Questions Bologna (1866-1929), taught him-But the drive across New York ley of the Giant Buddhas, against the snows. The valley self French, German, Spanish. Fer- from the Cunard-White Star land- destroyed by Genghiz Khan, widens into fields flanked with willows, and 3 For some
time past this sian, Latin, Hebrew and Greek, ing-stage to their hotel proved so circumvented the main massif poplars and
all con- of the Hindu Kush.
wind-swept village huddles at paper and its allied publication, boyhood. He occupied the chair of discouraging that they
for Only the Afghans have had the foot of the giant Buddha, the Sunday Herald, have been Semitic philology at the University signed their cars to garages
fling 150ft. high. stressing the need, in the form of Bologns and enjoyed world fame the rest of their stay in the city sufficient enterprise to
New Yorkers will approve their their new strategic road direct- From the excellent Govern- of special articles, leaders and for his great achievements in the
Although traffic there ly scross the Shibhar Pass, and ment resthouse there is a com- He was re.decision the publication of correspon-field of linguistics.
denser to force it for some 34 miles prehensive view of the rock dence, for some closer regula-ceived and decorated by the King has always smed to be
cleft of the face, cleft by the niches of tion of questions of health and and by Mussolini. The number of than in London. fewer private through the
Surkhab, with at times scarcely colossal statues, and honey- is cars are used. the slums in Hong Kong- It languages Prof. Trombetti
The chief reason for New York's more than a lorry's breadth be combed with the remains of is gratifying to find, therefore, credited with having mastered is
several monasteries which, flourishing that at this afternoon's meet-siven as 488, plating the Master traffic troubles is that the city is tween cliffs rising to
in the earliest centuries A.D. en-so planned that every street is a thousand feet. ing of the Urban Council ain, the van of this field
main road. There are very few! The total length of the road gave shelter to merchants and series of questions is to be deavour.
of the quiet side streets by which between Kabul and Mazar i pilgrims from the Far East. addressed to the Government
in. London, a knowledgeable driver Sherif, the holy city of
Turkestan Types can reach his destination and avoid Afghanistan, is 382 miles. Iti In Central Asia every country the crowded main thoroughfares is, of course, a fair weather begins before its geographical track, impassable during heavy frontier. Thus Peshawar is Your Daily Smile! snow, and in places it degener-|Afghan rather than Indian, and ates into a couple of ruts run- Dowshi, a market by the junc- the steppes of tion of the Surkhab and the Every man Prost have some ing across ehievement to boast about, if only Ghori, or climbing between a Andarab across the first range the fact that he wears summer andies succession of frozen aud of the Hindu Kush but still 200 breakers over the Mazar Pass, mile from the Oxus, is already but, given the spectacular dif-Turkestan. For here we met
by Dr. Li Shu-fan and Dr. S.
of
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
N. Chau on the matter of the prevalence of malaria and tuberculosis in the Colony. We Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 have no local Parliament here, hours ending at 10 am to-day and therefore no back-benchers was 0.03 inch. The total since to ask pertinent and sometimes January 1 has been 54.96 inches, embarrasing questions of the against an average of 67.71 inches. authorities and to badger them
It
jail winter.
It is reported that several people ficulties of the terrain, it is a the first Turkomen, Mongol in chopper who propose to cross the Atlantic inagnificent achievement and type, fair-skinned and almond- the Queen Mary are demanding cabins also the "forbidden way” to the jeyed, wearing "chapans," which situated not more than 10 minutes Soviet Republics of Central resemble flowered dressing-
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into action when required. Yuen Fat was admitted to the The nearest approach to those Government Civil Hospital yester conditions is the privilege the day suffering from 2 members of the Urban Council wound in the throat. have of asking questions, especially on health matters, J. C. Williams, driver of pri-jwalk from a view of the sea.
gowris, knee-boots of Russian since it is within the duties of vate car No. 3062, was fined $20
Cut Through Snow leather and huge fur hats. the Couricil to superintend the by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central
Another hour brought us to issue of eating-house licences. Magistracy this morning for fail which way the crowd is going and After leaving Kabulin a the first steppes, great rolling the supervision of
offensive ing to obey a traffic signal at the then steps in ahead.
three-quarter ton lorry laden plains, with the grass short and trades and allied matters.
junction of Jackson Road and
with food, bedding, fuel (for lush, and herds of wild horses is therefore more or less pri- Des Voeux Road, Central.
The elevator attendant in a New the Afghan mountains are tree-stampeding. The round felt- marily concerned with the pub-
York millionaire's skyscraper homeless), spades and planks for use covered huts (yurts) of Central lic health of the Colony, and Mr. E.
wants to marry his employer's dang in deep snow W. Loveless
or mnd-we Asia took the place of the He says he can bring her’up in it is in exercise of this duty fined
at the Central the way she's been used to.
traversed the fertile "skirt of Pathans' black- tents. Like towards the public that Dr. Li
the hills" valley, from which rings of mushrooms they spread this morning by Shu-fan: and. Dr. S. N. Chau
Mr. พ. Schofield for plac-
came the brigand Batcha Saqai wherever there was water, or, were no doubt infiuenced in
ing his car. No. 1474, in a road The vicar had received a couple of and his revolutionaries to over-neatly packed on bullocks, were asking this afternoon's ques- closed to traffic. The car
Eastwards transported with the first flocks was tickets for the opera from one of this throw Amanulla. tions.
parked about a quarter of a mile parishioners. Finding that he was we could see the famous "Sing-of caraculi sheep. There are surely no
two pass
to go, he rang. the Military Hospital in Junable
up some mg sands," which shift and Gone were the splendidly for- opinions about the importance Bowen Road.
friends and said: "An unfortunate drone in the wind, and west-tified villages of the south with dinner engagement keeps me from wards the Gorbund Valley, rich their watch towers and their to the general public of the
attending the opera to-night; could questions involved. The Gov-
have you use the tickets?"
miles of mud rampart. in coal and lead.
For At 10,000ft. the road ran be- the fighting tribes are Pathan tween banks of snow, but we or Afghan. passed the first camel caravans (Continued on Page 5)
$10 Magistracy
accidents Several motor
was iter.
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"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
ernment's answer this after been reported to the Palice as hav- noon will presumably establish ing occurred yesterday. Yuen the reply, but we are your unforto whether it is a fact or not that Snen-ping, a female, was knocked nate bosts." there was been an increase of down by bus No. 628 in Shanghai malaria during recent months; Street and a 68-year-old widow, in any case there is a wide-was injured when she was knock- spread suspicion among the ed down by lorry No. 716 in Castle public that this is the case, As Peak Road Both were sent to the far as the tuberculosis figures Kowloon Hospital Chan Ho, A are concerned, they are there. female, was injured yesterday when week after week, for all to see she collided with a bicycle ridden It is an established fact that an by Private Payne of the East average of 50 to 60 deaths are Lancs. Regiment. recorded each week in the year
rise
from this disease, and that it what they propose to do about is individually responsible for it, if anything. They cannot more deaths than any of the wash their hands of responsi notifiable contagious diseases.bility in the matter. If Dr. That malaria is A terrible Chau's questions lead to a scourge cannot be denied; that breaking of the apparent it has been practically eliminat apathy with which these things ed from some other British are considered, he will have Colonies, notably Malaya, by performed a signal service to vigorous action by the authori- the community at large by ven- ties, is no less well-established tilating a serious state of a fact. Any special measures affairs. of control taken locally will no
The question of the prohibi- doubt be outlined in this after-tion of spitting requires a noon's reply to Dr. Li Shu-fan's vigorous campaign, relentlessly enquiry, but it is very desirable pursued, and intensive educa that there should be notion of the Chinese public in slackening of these efforts, the Cohnny. Again there is no especially if, as appears to be excuse for apathy. Tastefully the case, the incidence of the worded prohibitory notices and disease shows a disposition to the provision of spittoons in
boarding-houses are all very! As regards tuberculosis, "well, but they only touch the there is not a single medical fringe of the matter. What is authority anywhere in the required is that the notices shall world which would deny that it be heeded and the spittoons is encouraged by overcrowding used. Here again action is and the "filthy habit of spitting needed something positive, in public places which Dr. firm and decisive. Chau condemns. Whether And finally we commend to either of these conditions can the public-spirited members of be bettered is a matter for the Urban Council another careful enquiry; but in the matter for ventilation by long run some sort of action is means of pertinent questions: called for. The authorities the question of lepers in the cannot plead ignorance of the Colony. The requisite data for filthy, overcrowded conditions framing their enquiries, in case in some of the tenement-ridden it is not in their possession: slums in Hong Kong; they have will be found in a leading been only too openly exposed article published in the China by a series of special articles Mail" on August 20 ás a sequel recently appearing in the to an interview with the Sunday Herald and a voluminous Director of Medical and Sani- correspondence in that paper tary Services, printed in the 23122 from interested members of Sunday Herald of August, 16. the public. What is much Here, in our opinion, is ample more to the point is that the scope for the righting of a authorities should indicate grave state of affairs.
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