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An item of particular importance to the well turned out man is the dress tie.
The double-ended tie is still popular-there are many differing styles in batswings and thistles in this variety, then there is the single bow, ope I knot with equal ends, such as illustrated above.
in the new "Park" Shape.
We can show you no less than twenty four various styles of dress ties in black and white. so you will fud it a simple watter to select that one which satisfies your own idea of what is **jast right.”
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13th,
DAIREN AND THE S.M." RAILWAY.
WHAT THE JAPANESE ARE DOING TO DEVELOP MANCHURIA.
THE POLICY OF THE OPEN DOOR.
"MURDEN, Oct. soth. which such a great variety of pro- Dairen is a city without ancient ducts are made, and how the traditions, writes Mr. Rodney Chinese adapted themselves to this Gilbert in the North China Daily rigidly orderly, peaceful And New Thirty years ago when the strangely quiet environment, None Russians first planned a modern of these undertakings presented commercial city there their much any great difficulty. The executive coveted warm water port-Talien- | heads of the S.M.R. were to be seen wan was an insignificant Chinese and informally interviewed with fishing village. To-day it is, a surprisingly little preliminary thoroughly modern and very large negotiation, a bean oil mill was city with a population of more open to inspection on request, and than 200,000, of whom more than the Chinese were to be encountered 130,000 are Chinese. The Russians everywhere, merchants. farmers set out, not to let a town grow, and well known political refugees but to create one that would meet of all factions by the score. all future needs. The Japanese Apart from keenly intelligent came along, saw the Russinu plans secretaries and departmental chiefs, and the work that the Russians the writer had conversations which had started, grasped the idea and impressed bim not a little with Mr. Y. Yamamoto, the President of the proceeded to carry it out. To any one who likes tradition and atmos South Manchuria Railway Com- phere the result is rather depress-pany, and with Mr. Y., Matsuoka, ing.
Considering the enormous the Vice President. business done the harbour seems almost empty, the streets deserted and the whole artificial fabric soul- lesa. It is like a stupendous and impressive new mansion with a young married couple in it who ought to be living in a cottage But that is only an impression, for the big ideas behind the building
selves and the trade that flow through it from all Menchuria, in creasing annually by leaps and bounds, will undoubtedly be taxing all its resources before many years
THE DRAGON İN CHINA.
PEOPLE'S ROOTED BELIEF
IN EXISTENCE..
A BENEFICENT CREATURE.
1928.
MANLA WELCOMES BRITISH FLYERS.
AERIAL ESCORT.
TO VISIT GOVERNOR GENERAL STIMSON.
MANILA, Nov. 7th.
At a recent gathering of the
The British Far Eastern good Tientsin Rotary Club, Mr. L. New- ton Hayes gave a most interesting will fight, under command "of Captain Cave-Brown-Cave and a talk on "Dragon in China." National Assembly of China voted their first port in the Philippines Although, some 16 years, ago, the crew of 11 officers and men, made
the abolition of the Dragon Flag. a 11.00 a.m. to-day. Early reports emblem, it would require, be said, Zamboanga reported the four flying and this was no longer the national emanating from the vicinity of
much more than the legislation of boats to be making good time in # Assembly to banish the Dragon the direction of Puerta Princesa." from Chinese life and thought. As At 11.00 a.m. through the courtesy great a proportion as 90 to 3 per of the radio communications divi- believed as firmly to-day we learned that the planes had arrived" cent, of the people of this country sion of the bureau of posts, it was existence of the dragon as West- eraers believed in the tigers and at the Palawan barbour. distant lands. Indeed, so firmly left Manila on Monday and now is elephants roaming the jungles of
The airplane tender U.S.S. Jason rooted and widespread was this be-reported to be standing by at lief among the Chinese that it was Puerta Princesa. According to the necessary to get a firm and clear latest advices reaching here, the idea of what the Dragon was and fight is making schedule tirze un- what it meant if we were to under- der excellent dying condition... stand the remarkably sympathetic. A tentative programme for the people of this land
The King Of The Beasta. Popular zoology placed the dragon next to man at the head of a living creatures, thus occupy
welcome to be accorded the British flyers indicates that the govern- mental, military naval and com- mercial communities of Manila will respond wholeheartedly in greeting the airmen.
From what could be gleaned from several sources, practically every group will be represented to some degree in the ceremonies attendant upon the arrival and stay here of the four flying craft.
such a comfort while Hal is
at the office"
"SOME mornings I used to feel awfully lonely after my hue- band had left for the office.
that is, before we bought our Orthophonic Victrols. Now I find that a couple of good, snappy dance records go $ long way toward banishing the carly-morning blues. And they certainly do help lighten the housework."
You'll find your Orthophonie Victrola a real companion dur Ing the day. And in the evening, it becomes a versatile entej tainer for your friends, your family and yourself. We have models 10 match every home. See them---hear them play the latest Victor Records. Come i-toon!.
of Dairen are justifying them but as expenses, because they have. It was a popular legend that two machines, comprising & observation. S. Houtrie & Co., Ltd.
have past...
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A large Dying formation of Army ampibian, and 1 photographic plane, will take of shortly after the British fyers leave Puerto Princesa and salute them, with an aerial welcome while the latter are, crossing the China sea, remaining to escort the visitors in to the Manila landing.
It is expected that, provided the British officers reach here in time, courtesy calls immediately will be paid to Governor General Stimson at Malacañan Palace and also to Major General Douglas MacArthur
The Railway And Its Policy. The company is capitalized half by the Japanese Government and half by a public bond issue. Qning the position of the lion, the tiger, and the elephant in Western one group of bonds we pay 4.3 per naturai "histories. The dragon was cent. on the other 10 per cent., an regarded In China as the ruler of average of 7 per cent. per annum.all creative life below man. The The balance of the earnings of the
gecmancers referred to the dragon as a means of determining the fates company does not appear as profts and fortunes of the song of Han. for many years been spent upon a dragons visited the home of Con- facious as guards of honour on the great variety of new enterprises of day he was born. There was scarce almost every character which mighty a city without a temple to the lead to the improvement and de- dragon before the Revolution..
The dragon was not a conception velopment of Manchuria, ranging of the Chinese alone. It also oc over such diverse 'undertakings as cupied a great place in the litera The city is built on flat land be city building, public sanitation,ture and folk lore of the European races. The Chipere conception of tween low hills, which the Japanese hotel management, coal and iron the dragon was vastly different are making picturesque through mining, experimental farming, from others. There was, however, afforestation and park develop-sheep and hog breeding, and so one noteworthy similarity, namely, ment, and a bay that provides a forth. Among other things from in the dragon's reputed keenness of
vision. It was held to be deaf, but. at Fort Santiago. natural deep water shelter for which no profit is derived we main- by some natural law of compensa- shipping. Within this natural tain many schools for both Chinese ton, to have phenomenal powers
of vision. harbour the Japanese have develop and Japanese and have under our ed with their dogged, humourless direct control 29 hospitals. Hither- energy, an artificial basin
Dealing with the difference beNavy Club. surto our function has been that of rounded by about four thousand an East India Company in Man- tween the Chinese and English con- guests of honour those expected to ceptions, he said that in the West attend are: Major General Douglas MacArthur, Colonel Charles D. yards of breakwater, dredged to a churia. Now we want to liquidate the dragon is pictured as a horrible, Herron, Major John H. Birie,
loathsome animel. The Chinese depth of thirty feet and have pre- and retain the railway, the docks dragon, on the other hand, is z British Consul General Harring vided onerete quays and wharves and the semi-charitable institutions beneficent creature and a friend of ton, the Kayal officers comprising the flying personnel of the U.S.S. that can handle an aggregate of under our management.
Jaton, and the Army commissioned 220,000 tons of shipping at once,
Nichols, personnel from Camp and there is no modern device for
Clark Field and Kindley Field. coaling, loading or watering ships
The non-commissioned members of the British flying crews will be en- that has been omitted from the
tertained at the time hour at Camp Nichols.
port equipment.
Efficiency Palis,
man.
A Friend Of Man.
The belief in the dragon had been
After mentioning that the idea Belle! In The Open Door.
of the dragon was probably derived We sincerely believe that the from one of the antideluvian species soundest policy for Japan in Man-
open door is not only the which was equally at home or hand and water, such as the brontosaurus churia but that we should prove on the picturus, Mr. Hayes it by offering facilities for foreign said that a dragon was always investment, bringing in and foster- good nugury, and when Yuan Shik ing the enterprises of other nations The city, in keeping with the and guaranteeing them first by re-
Kai was trying to become Emperor some of his friends tried to unearth Russian plan, radiates from turns on capital invested and
soine dragon bones. It has been centres. The streets are wide, ex-our policy in the past, whenever a
secondly protection. cellently kept and marvellously subsidiary company, a tram com- part of the life of this race for clean-but strangely quiet and
over 40 centuries. It was neither pany, & gas company, a hotel or lifeless, as we have said before anything of the sort has begun to
the symbol of the Manchu Dynasty One misses the bustle and confu pay a respectable profit, to cut
nor did it represent a type of sion of China and effeiency palls adrift, turning it over to private absolute monarchy. It was a heri- You take a taxi from the docks to the Hotel and instead of a the Japanese enterprise. Now we are age of the Chinese race and would Not until modern science hand car of cheap make you get a prepared to take foreign capital probably persist for a long time to into partnership in the remaining finely appointed limousine of some enterprises, on a fifty-fifty basis,
was taught in every hamlet and expensive brand-fare 80 cents to
pledge the investors peace and Jittle coastal village would the in- any part of the city. You see no security, and guarantee un in- fuence of the dragon be banished, traffic police but you also see noterest as high as such investments and T. Times. struggling pedestrians ambling diagonally across the street. What would cara in America or Europe so long as there is any doubt of
in
come:
RICCI HALL.
is know in America asjay-walk these enterprises being paying pro- NEW UNIVERSITY HOSTEL: ing is strictly prohibited, the
Neither the Japanese prohibition is written in the little Government bor the South Mar
positions. books of rules that the Japanese churia. Railway believes police memorize, and what is in
monopolistic policy those books goes into effect, no ex churia on political, economic or in Man- ceptions being made for human any other grounds, and this is the nature, natural calamities or acts
way we are prepared to prove it.
The S.M.R..
STONE LAYING CEREMONY THIS AFTERNOON.
This afternoon His Excellency
On Saturday the British commis- sioned personnel of the flying fleeb will be the guests of the American Army Air Corps at the Army and In addition to the
Sunday morning it is expected that all members of the British flight will attend the special Armis tice Day services which will be held at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John.
ARRIVAL AT MANILA.
MANILA, Nov, 9th. Four huge, snow-white seaplanes, bearing the British good will Far East, fiers, struck the water inside the breakwater in the Manila Bay at precisely 11.2 o'clock this morn ing, as the deafening cheers of a monster crowd, numbering nearly 10,000 and extending from Pier No. 7 around the Luneta, and for Dewes Boulevard split the air. several hundred yards along "the
The British flight had arrived.
(Victor Distributors) Chater Road.
PRISON AND BIRCH FOR SNATCHER, CAUGHT BY A DISTRICT,
WATCHMAN
A snatcher received heavy punish- ment when he was brought before
Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday morning.
The victim of the robbery was n widoy living at No. 12 Hill Road in the western district.
She was walking along Queen's Road West on Sunday afternoon when a dis- trict watchman observed the delen- dant following the woman in a suspicious way. The watchman, who was in plain clothes, shadowed the man. The defendant snatched an ear-ring just as she stopped out into the arms of the watchman In the thief's right hand was the stolen ear-ring.
side a shop and bent a retreat,
Sentence of six months' hard labour was passed, and the man wag" also ordered to be given 90′ strokes of the birch.
THE CRAFT AND THEIR CREWS.
The squadron which makes * to Manila is seven-day visit
"Southamp equipped with four ton "type flying boats, built by the Supermarine Aviation Co., Ltd. Each vessel has a span of 75 feet. a length of 50 feet, draught of about 3 feet and a weight, under normal load, of approximately seven tons.
The aircraft are similar in type to the standard "Southampion" The planes became visible to the flying boats used by the Royal Au erowd about 11 am. Preceded by Force in home waters except that a few pursuit planes of the United duralumin bulls are used instead States Army, and accompanied by of the usual wooden hulls, and the nine army and nine navy aminterier equipment has been con- phibian planes, they sailed majes-siderably modified. No armument tically, across the bay, flying at an or cameras are carried over foreign altitude of not more than 500 feet, territor with the little pursuit craft diving The crew of each flying boat con- around and over them. They made sists of two officers and two airmen the circuit of the hay "inside the Facilities are provided so that this breakwater once, and, following the crew may live on board the plane three amphibians which took the when necessary. A crew
of one water as guides, simultaneously officer and four airmen from the split the calm surface of the bay as unit always are on duty in the they made perfect descents.
craft; and all officers and men sleep An enthusiastic delegation of on board the night prior to the members of the British community, take-off. Apart from this the estab- in launches chartered for the occa- lished programme allows the officers sion, were on hand to greet their and men off duty to sleep on shore- countrymen. Other small craft, un-in ports where accommodations are der the command of Major J. H. available. Pirie, U.S.S.A.; containing a num- The visiting air craft are the ber of Army officers, joined the de-S-1162, the "Hagahip," the 8-1127, monstration.
the 5-1150 and the 8-1151. The squadron leader is under the direct command of Group Captain H. M. Cave-Brown-Cave, commanding offi. cer of the flight, with a crew of
of God. When you reach your We shall not only cordially wel- destination the chauffeur hops down, bows you out with the usual come independent foreign enter- inverted sigh, accepts bis. fare and prises but we are prepared to sell the Officer Administering the Gov crament, The Hon. Mr. Southern, a half interest to foreign investors refuses a tip!
in every going concern but the rail-M.G., is going to lay the founda
tion stone of a new Hostel for way itself and Japan guarantees University students. The site is the the security here which is now
old Fly Point Battery, a promin lacking in other parts of China.
ent spur on the right of Fokfulam Road just beyond the He Tung Workshop. The name of the hostel is Ricci (pronounced as Ritchie) Hall Behind this addition to the University is the Society of Jesus, who are undertaking it at the wish of Bishop Valtorta. This, indeed, explains the name which com memorates a very remarkable man, the first great missionary to Chinn of the modern, post-Renaissance period. China from Macao in 1882 and, in
Fr. Ricci, E.J., entered Earlier in the day it was an
nounced that the British fying the West River, Shiuchow, Naa-Princess at 5.30 am, a scrire of "hops" (Shin Hing on boste had taken off from Puerto
So things go everywhere. Huge buildings in modern style dominate the Centre and the principal streets Without going into details, the and as you go about you learn that writer was assured that Japan was this is the 8.M.R. office building, fully prepared, without interfering that is the S.M.R. hospital, this in Chinese administration. or again is the 8.M.B. experimental domestic polities, to say with laboratory. Who supplies the gas effect: "No nonsense in this area, The S.M.R, Who supplies the please." electric light? The S.M.R. "Who
Vast Improvement For Farmer. established the tram system with its cara bigger and better than the
The Japanese have done much railway carriages in China? The experimental work in agricultural S.M.R. Who built the big hotel improvement, attempting to teach with bathrooms that look as though the Chinese farmers the use of in they were installed for the old proved fertilizers, seed selection, Russian aristocracy? Naturally use of improved implements and the S.M.R.
the
the like. Mr. Matsuoka cited for chang, Nanking and so on) succeed- Upon reaching their mooring Flight Lieut. H. G. Sawyer, Corpl. It is not long before you get the example some experiments that had ed in reaching Peking where he places at a point some distance off J., A. Coyne and Leading Aircraft Correct impression that the S.31.R. been made in stock breeding on the firmly established himself in 1601. the Army and Navy Club the com-man F. S. Nelson. bailt and is still building Dairen Mongol frontier. The railway is and realize that it is one of the obviously an enormously profitable He was a two big vital forces in South Man concern, but it is also obvious that, churia. The other being the soya as its oficials say, its enterprises bean. Before consulting any of the profit the Chinese of Manchuria a usual sources of information, with hundred times more than they do their formidable arrays of statis Japan. During the past 25 years tics, the writer rambled about on the population of all Manchuria his own, for two days and then de has grown from about 12,000,000 to cided that there were three things about 25,000,000, more than doubled worth learning in Dairen what in fact, but, in the Japanese con- kind of people directed the manitrolled areas, that is the Kwan- fold operations of the South Man tung leased territory and the rail- churia Railway, how the soya bean way zone, it has multiplied sixteen, was converted into the oil from times.
man of extraordinary missioned officers of the Far East- In the S-1127 are Squadron linguistic and scientific ability andern fight went directly to the Leader G. E. Lirock, Squadron China, exerted an unparalleled in-ness of the hour did not make their W. Cushing and Leading in his twenty-seven years of life in U.S.S. Jaron and because of the late Leader P. E. Maitlands, Bergeant Air- fluence on the attitude of the learn courtesy call at Fort Santiago." It craftman J. Williams, ed men of China towards Western is expected that this will be done The 8-1150 is manned by Flight Lieutenant D. W. Carnegie, Flying culture. His affability, hishumanity to-morrow. and his piety were not less appre- Tomorrow, beginning with a Officer G. E. Nicholetts, Corporni cinted than his mathematical and luncheon which the American Air W. McMeeking and Leading Air-
Corps officers are giving for the craftoan E. H. Myerz." scientific learning.
The plans have been designed by visitors at the Army and Navy The 8-1131 carrics Flight Lieut. Messrs Little, Adams and Wood, Club, an extensive programme of C. G. Wigglesworth, Flight Lieut.. 8. D. Scott, Sergeant J. K. Semple the construction is in the hands of entertaining will emane." Mesure. Lam Woo.
and Corporal. A. H. Hart
(Continued on next Column).