THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY NOVEMBER 17TH, 1919.
"The New Ship of the Desert"
Far away, in a remote and litle heard of corner of China, just below the Siberian border, glisten the sun-bleached sands of the Gobi Desert.
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Desolate, void of vegetation, and almost void of human beings, excepting for Mongol nomads, warlike and romantic in the extreme, it has for many centuries thrown an almost impassable barrier across the way between the important cities of Peking and Irkutsk.
Travelers, if caring enough, might cross the six hundred miles between the two, points by camel. caravan. But the tales told of the desert, with its trail markest by little leaps of bones, cleaned of flesh by fighting dogs and howling wolves, and whitened by a gleaming sun, were too foreboding to the average person, and a more circuitous route was usually taken.
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Impossible as it seemed to shorten the trip between Péking and Irkutsk—unlikely as it was that any mode of communication might be estab lished between, these two places exceping that
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furnished by the picturesque, but torturously slow, camel, the Chinese Railway Commission deter- mined that it must be done, for the Gobi Desert had too long restricted the progress of commerce and civilization.
The automobile furnished the only other prac- tical means of navigating the arid waste, and so experiments were made to determine the value of this solution of the problem. One make of car after another was tried, and the stranded dulomo- biles, which loom up like gravestones to an un- successful endeavor prove the need of a car of extreme sturdiness and power.
In order to overcome the difficulties which were presented by this route, it was necessary to secure a car which would bear the brunt of traveling through deep sands, scorching hot over rocky passes, treacherously jagged and through hub deep mod and flowing rivers.
It appeared impossible, but just as the attempt seemed on the verge of failure, the right car was tried, and so, at last, we discovered
"The New Ship of the Desert"
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WATCHMAN'S CONFESSION.
At the Magistracy, on Saturday, six Chinese were charged with travelling on the Fatihan, between Canton and Heng king, without paying their fares. Two watchmen were charged with aiding and abetting the offence.
The Chief Officer of the vessel stated that during the voyage from Canton on Friday, a tallyman informed him that he had a dispute with the watchmen over the latter having men in their quarters who had not paid their fares. Witness. went to the watchmen's quarters, anw the men and put them and the two watchmen under arrest. The accused said they had each paid 30 cents to the watchmen. The Iare for third-class passengers was 90 canta,
Mr. Lindsell fined cach defendant $10. The watchmen were then charged.. One of them confessed that he was to blars and the other was then discharged." The defendant stated that the men were bis acquaintances and had promised to, pay the money on the way.
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VAUDEVILLE AT THE VICTORIA.
"The Great Brackens," who open a season of Vaudeville at the Victoria Theatre for three days commencing to- morrow, are a pair of very clever artists. They have with them, excellent "Press notices of their artistic display from the mary large cities of the different coun- | tries through which their tour of the world has taken them. Their rope-walk from the stage to the balcony and back is daring performance. Mr. Bracken does some astonishing feats, also, on the wire with the bicycle. The double jugy gling, ladder-climbing on the wire, and muscle dancing to music is a marvellous exbibition of physical training, and abows to what a degree of perfection a thorough course of physical culture will bring one.
THE FRAWLEY COMPANY.
The Frawley Company kept a crowded bouse at the Theatre Royal in a constant state of laughter on Saturday night with their production of "Parlour, Bedroom and Bath" The farce depicts the awk- ward complications that result from the well-mernt efforts of" a mán, whose wildest form of dissipation as a bachelor hai been a gala night at a Y.M.C.A., to live up to a false reputation for a lurid past in order to satisfy the peculiar yanity of his wife, who likes to believe that she has captured a veritable Don Jan Mr. Homer Barton plays the part of the imposter to perfection. The clever, est performance of the evening, however, was that "of "Miss Charlotte Fletcher, as Polly Hathaway," a Society journalist, pho consents to take supper in a private Foom with the innocent husband in order q strengthen the wavering faith of the wife in his gaiety. There two were the principal factors in making the success bi the play, but they were ably assisted by Miss Beatrice Prentice (the wife), Miss Claribel Fontaine, Miss Vera Dorin Mr. Albert Morrison (the busband's coach "and Mr. Rodney Hildebrand. “Scandal,” Cosmo Hamilton's society piece, which the Frawley Company are 190 presenting this evening, is a play which has enjoyed one of the longest Broadway. reas of any production in recent years. 14 has been described by New York critics ag being among the cleverest high-class comedies of the past several seasons. "It' id based on an extremely novel situation, one/productive of a series of amusing, eren startling, developments. The bulk of the action devalves upon Miss Beatrice Prentice and Mr. Albert. Morrison-
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