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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931.
RAILWAY TRAVEL IN
ASIA MINOR.
THE THIRD-CLASS SCENE.
дре
TRANS-SIBERIAN TRAVEL.
EIGHT DAYS ON SHORT COMMONS.,
AND A GOOD MEAL IN CHINA.
A correspondent writing in the North China Daily News, describes a recent journey across Siberia na follows:-
"INSULTING AND FALSE HISTORY BOOK.
AUSTRALIA TURNS TABLES ON
"RIG BILL" THOMPSON. -
Melbourne, Doo, 4.-"Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chiengo, did hot like British history books for American schoolchildren.
Now the tables have been turned on him, for an American modern history, which was adopted as the standard textbook in schools in the State of. Victoria, has aroused the wrath of Australiaeis, who declare it to be an insult to the Coromon wealth..
Even English and Continental trains have their incidental discom. forts. Incidental discomforts in Tukey are quite another thing. Some of the railways there owned and run by English people, and therefore, however acute may be the rage of the passenger at
While the impression of the some detail of organisation, he can no longer put it down to the in- journey still wonnine very vivid it efficiency of the foreigner-which would be well to record a few notes would explain everything,--but that may be of goioral interest
The Australian Natives' Associa must attribute it to that of his We were able to start on the re own countrymen. The traveller in turn journey to China on Satur- tion, a national organization of Turkey will have to grow accustom day November 15, at 8.15 p.m. Australian-born citizens, han pro- ed to the anomaly of British-control. Peiping was reached on Friday, tested that the book is "biased, led railways with low platforms, November 29, at 10,15/4.m. so that | untrue and, insulting.” The Vic- crooked telegraph poles, and strangely accoutred guards. Hay the journey from London to China torian Minister of Education is ing done that, he should find rail. was complete within a fortnight, threatened with opposition, at the way travel in Turkey rather enter Train was taken at Liverpool next election unless he gives orders taining.
Street Station for Harwich und for the hook to be withdrawn thence we crossed to the Hook of immediately. Holland.
Two passages in the book which Within twenty-four hours after have aroused' the ire of Australian leaving London we had left Berlinas insults to British and Australian behind and we were spoeding on troops are:-
There are three main railway routes in Asia Minor linked up to Stamboul by ferry from Scutari. The Bagdad line runs from Scutari through Afton to Konin and Aleppo, the Angora line direct from Scutari, and the Smyrna line from Abon through Alashehr and Kasaba, An important branch runs south from to Warsaw and Moscow. Through Smyrna to Aidin. In recent years Germany and across the frontier it has been customary to send some to Poland was the easiest part of of the Egyptian mails from Turkoy by rail over the Afion-Aleppo route the journey and especially as re- and through Syria and Palestine, gands food. When we reached the instead of shipping them all from eastern frontier of Poland border- Stamboul and Smyrns. This in-
Exchange Procedure,
Our
At the frontier Russiam railway station wo change trains. baggage is taken to the customs house alongside the railway station and there very carefully scrutiniz
cow which is reached on the fourth day about noon. We arrive before noon and do not leave again until six o'clock so that there is sufficient time to inspect the city.
"The British collected a motley army, composed chiefly of colonial troops, and landed it on the tip of! the Gallipoli Peninsula, close to the Dardanelles.
"The United States was the only great Power that fought in the war without demanding or even desiring She territorial gains for herself. should be credited with a loftiness of purpose and unselfishness that could rarely, be matched in all his-
tory."
NO PARROTS, NO DISEASE.
RESULT OF BAN ON IMPORTATION.
Since May 20, when the imports- tion of parrots was prohibited, not a single fresh base of parrot disease (psittacosis) has been reported in
Britain.
itself implies a greater degree of ing on Rússia our troubles com efficiency in the running of the commenced. railways, and efficiency has been achieved without resort to the army, as has been done in Italy. Indeed, the most severe critic would be impressed with the adherence to time-tables-though he might rea sonably complain of the bad spring. ing of the coaches, which is made
Protests have also been made to seem worse by the roughly laid ed. For use in Russia we are ragainst this book in America, and track. Trains run infrequently be
after seven years use it was with- cause there are few passengers, and guested to exchange sufficient to
tend to crawl in con- carry us to the Chinese frontier. drawn from use in New York State "expresses sequence, again, of badly laid tracks The exchange is made at d ́fixed
schools. and steep gradients on many routes. rata and a reocint, is given. At the The stations, for the most part, are pleasantly built. In country dis-Chinese frontier they are prepared tricts they serve as a club, with to exchange back at the fixed rate. the stationmaster as its omniscient Russian money is not allowed to hend. His room, if any, is cool even at the hottest times of thebe takom in or out of the country. day and is fragrant with flowers and Other foreign money has to be de rosewater.
clared at the frontier and checked again on leaving the country!. An Eastern Gramophone Record.
When all' is if order fand we have The most interesting feature often allotted our sends in the Rus railway travel in Turkey to thesian train a start is made for Mos- stranger in the travelling itself, not in the first or second class com- partments, monopolised by officials, merchants, officers, aud clerks, but in the third, where he can see the real Turkish people who do not pretend to fit into the Western clothes they are obliged to wear. In the long corridor coaches with no partition to block the view can' be seen a most unusual and inter- esting collection of men-the women eit together in their own coaches. In one corner three young men, dreased rather better than their fellow-passengers, are laughing to
Queues for Food. gether, their teeth noticeably even with gold fillings. One asks a ques- Outside the government stores tion. The others nod. lu a mo- there were long queues of people ment all the passengers tura to the lined up waiting their turn. Food corner and smile or frown as they was rationed and each person could вес a gramophone drawing out only draw the ration on presenta music from a record. The tune,tion of the food card. This was the high-pitched, monotonous, thin, the rule throughout the whole cours song of an Eastern pipe, comes of the journey through Russin and
the strangely from mechanical Siberia. The only food that the Western instrument which repro- ordinary people were able to draw duces it. The music is interrupted was bread, potatoes, carrots, and by the sound of incessant chatter beetroot, and loud laughter coming from the far end of the conch, where a fat priest, dressed in the white habit of his orders, seeks to convince his companion that it is good to be alive. Next to him sprawls a soldier with untidy boots and coarse gaiters made of cloth, and filling the rest of the compartment are conn. try folk, their caps made of imita tion tiger skins and their shirts ending at the collar-band.
Some of the party took the op portunity to make a tour but they turned very disappointed. There seemed to be little of interest to be found. Th Kremlin was not open to the public. Most of the churches had been closed or put to a secular use. There were way few shops open as all goods had to be pur- ehasad at the government stores.
At the hotels in Moscow then was great scarcity of food and also of fuel. In the day time there was no heat at all but a little was allow- When we coate ed at night: through the ground was covered and ice. One can with snow imagine what the poor people had to put up with
On the Trans-Siberian train it was a common sight to see some of the passengers come into the dining ear and order, a glass of tea. With the tea they undid a parcel and took out a portion of black broad and this constituted their meal.
This striking fact is mentioned by Sir George Newman, Chief Medien! Officer of the Ministry of Health, in a prefatory note to a report on investigations for the Ministry by Dra. E. L. Sturdee and W. M. Scott. From a rare and obscure disease, psittacosis in 1929 became of world- wide interest, and 130 cases in human beings occurred between the beginning of 1930 and May 20, when the ban on the importation of par- rots came into operation.
This report showe that the old idea of its cause, infection by a microbe of a group which is notable in certain food poisoning cares, is wrong. The new view is that par rot disease is due to infection with an agency so small that it can pass through a porcelain filter,
Rare Opportunity... "A disease of this natur," says "certainly calls for Sir George, anxious and patient investigation, and the reaalts so far achieved by the English workers are extremely timely, especially as the opportunity for a consideration of the problems involved is happily but a rare occur. rence."
This mysterious diseasa, has been successfully transmitted to other birds and animalsparrakeets,
At a Small Junction. The train has now stopped at a small junction, and the attention of all is drawn to the low platform. Before the war when travelling hens, mice and guinea pigs-but The centre of attraction is a small through Siberia it seemed to be a pigeons appeared to he résistant. decrepit cart with a flat top, on land of plenty. At the railway: All investigators have failed. so which a charcoal fire grills.choice stations the peasants brought the far to grow it in artificial media, morsels of meat, epiked together in farm produce to sell to the travell but a remarkable discovery has In the virus were. groups of six or seven, on wooden era. The restaurants at the stations been made, skewers. Some of the passengers were loaded with supplica. To-day found minute bodies, singly and in: bargain with the vendor, and, with it is impossible to buy any thing pairs, and occasionally bacillary: a akower in one hand and a chunk at the railway-stations and there forms were seen. Whether they are
the virus or not it is impossible yet
of bread in the other, enjoy a hasty are no peasants with food supplies lunch. Up and down the platform for sale. We found that the goy to say. walk little boys, laden with tips of ernment claims three quarters ef
Attempts to obtain an immunis- water in which bottles of minerals all farm produce. While the famining serum are still heing made, are being kept cool. They advertise ere have to make do with ene their goods with shrill cries of quarter. Many of the poor people "Gazous! Gazous!! A beggar une covered in rage. The outer woman enters the carriage. Her garments are made of a course sack pity for the people of Russia and right side is paralysed and her looting. We found the food supplied. Siberia. The condition of the drags along the floor among the on the dining car very poor and terpeasant class is much words than torn rags of her filthy clothing.ribly costly fortunately we had under the old régime. 8. Tho priest gives her a coin; the been fore warned and took along. others ignore her, ***
supply of food for the journey,
On reaching Peiping we reated for a few days and then came on to Tatung. It is now the depth of winter and travelling is out of the shall move our headquarters to Kalgan. It is easier to move out question. It is probable that we
Motor car and bus are becoming
A Meal in Ohtun, increasingly popular as means of
When we reached the frontier and transport. At the present, however, competition to face from them, for minden rush to the refreshment the, railways have no very serious came to Chinese territory we all What he now and for the first time for Kelpon, and than anotherus On the other hand, there is a tight days were the to sestry ont e struggle to capture and keep the hunger and found an abundance of goods traffic. Firms who consider food that we could enjoy. China that railway rates are too high was, to us, land flowing with milk make their protest by sending goods and honey Wo were truly full of down from the interior by camel. (Continued at foot of next column.)
Anushbot. of Controle who have just
arrived from the interior with their mehandise and are waiting ta. effect an exchange. The adminis tration for Mongolian, affaire, is also centred ab Kalgan,
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