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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,) SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933 .
SIR ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN
Explorer of China Fifty
Years Ago
ECHO OF THE BURMESE
WAR
BY JULIAN BARNOLD
Among my intimate friends in the 50's was the adventurous and gifted explorer, of the southwestern regions of China, Charles Wahab, There are men to whom existence seems to give, with lavish generos ity, all things desirable, save, per haps, the one boon they desire. Such a man was my friend, Char les Wahab. At the portals of sue cess Fame waited to set her laurels upon his brows, but the shadow of a great grief interposed, and he sought forgetfulness in the dangers ous task of discovering "n road for commerce through the untrodden wilds of Yunnan...
Two Wanderers.
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To carry out that purpose he quitted England and went to Hong Koux, and from thence to Peiping. There he met Sir Archibald Ross Colquhoun, a wanderer like him salf. Both men were already fami- liar with much of the interior of China; both were conversant with the dialects spoken in the provin ees; both were experienced in ous. toms and ceremonials practiced by the natives. Disguising themselves as Chinese merchants, they journey ed southward and then into the uncharted "mazes of the Yunnan Mountaina,
sur-
After many escapes by field and flood. encounters with bandite, climbing of snowy passes, raounting wind-blown steppes, hun ger and hardship, the two comra des reached at length the then un- known borders of northern Burca. There Charles Wahab, worn by pri vations, passed on, leaving for his monument a road blazed for trad ers through the Yunnen ranges to Burma.
Royal Visit To Somerset
BRITISH LEGION INSPECTED
THE DUKE OF YORK ON COMRADESHIP
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WELLS, May 29. i so far, for this year exceeds that of The Duke and Duchess of York just year. I appeal to those ex- who are outside to received a great welcome in the Service mer West County yesterday when they come forward and join with you to visited Bath and Wells. Heavy enable you to render still greater rain fell most of the time, but thou- ; services to your leas fortunate gonn sands of people braved the down-rades. With your 197 branches in ponr and waited for hours in the the county you have built up an crowded streets to catch a glimpse efficient organization in Somerset, of the visitors.
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and know my brother, the Priner
by the 9.15 m. irain from Pad Legion will be highly, gratifled! The Duke and Duchess travelled į of Wales, as Patron of the British dington, and on arrival at Bath when I tell him of this parade and were greeted by Lord Bath (Lord of the great lieutenant of Somerset), who intro-achieved. duced the Mayor, Mr. Rhodes Cook On behalf of the Duchess of the Mayoress, the Town Clerk, the
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Chief Constable, and others.. York, who is National President of guard of honour of the 4th Battathe Women's Section, I wish to say
70, Queen's Road, Central. a word to the women present, and tion, The Somerset Light Infantry,
through which they passed when! thore they loved were away, some of whom never returned. It is only right that they should, be associated in the work" of the Legion, and we are very glad to know that the men realize the value of their co-opera- tion,
of which the Duke is Colonel-in. thank the most warmly for their l Chief, was drawn up at the entrance valuable services in the cause of to the station in skarge of Captain | the ex-Service community. We know V. E. Rowse. ^_
the-trials and the anxious times The Duke and Duchess passed through the beflagged streets to the Royal Victoria Park, where 3,000 schoolchildren, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, and others, who had waited for hours in the pouring rain, raised cheer after cheer. The first halt was made at the memorial, where the Duke, receiving a wreath from Brigadier-General H. Mont gomery-Campbell, president of the Bath Branch of the British Legion, deposited it at the base of the Cross of Sacrifice, and stood bare headed for a few seconds in silent tribute
to the dead.
At the Royal United Hospital in Coombe Park, recently constructed at a cost of over £100,000, the visi tors were received by Mr. Audrey Bateman, president of the board of governors. A tour of the hospital was made, and the Duchess received on behalf of the hospital 60 purses, containing £1,700.
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warmly congratulate you upon "In conclusion, the Duchess and this splendid, parade, which dis- plays the deal and energy given to the interests of the ex-Service men by ench and all of you. Somerset has cause to be proud of what you have done, and we hope that con- tinued success will labours, and that prosperity and your
good fortune may attend you all."
תרמי
The Duke of Somerset returned thanks, and remarked that the pre- sence of the Duke and Duchess of York would be an inspiration to them in the work of the British
At the Bath and Wessex Child. Legion. The ceremony closed with ren's Orthopaedie. Hospital, which the march past, the Duke taking was next visited, the Royal party the salute. Their Royal Highnesses were received by Mrs. Francis Mal then motored to Longleat, near lett, chairman of the hospital, and Warminster, where they were the showed particular interest in the guests of Lord Bath for the week- Princess Margaret Rose Ward, end. named after their daughter, and unveiled n, tablet commemorating the ward as the gift of Mr. Stanley
Colquhoun, still, garbed as a mer- chaut of Cathay, made his way through the Bhai States, and even tually emerged at Mandalay, where Theobow held savage sway over the extensive territory now known as Upper Barma, at that time forbid- den to all strangers. Colquhoun found that nearly the only men in the land whose sccupation had not been taken from them ware Wills. Theebaw's executioners. The street were overgrown with grasses, for few dared to use them. The mer chanta starved the peasants cower ed; the jungle trept across the farms.
A Savage Tyrant.
Four little patients, repre sonting the counties of Somerset, Dorset, and. Wiltshire, and the city of Bath, presented a doll's cradle to the Duchess for Princess Margaret Rose.
Visit to Wells,
Too ragged and travel-stained to
From the hospital the Duke and attract such attention as night give Duchess of York drove to Guildhali monetary interest to Bome over for luncheon. The weather had worked executioner, Colquhoun cleaned up somewhat in the after- reached Rangoon in safety. From noon, when they drove to Wells for Rangoon he wrote me a brief ac- the Somerset County Rally of the count of his discoveries, and on his British Legion. In the Bishop's ! arrival in London le visited me Park 7,000 members of the Legion, and our mutual friend, Edward men and women drawn from 127 Wahab, the brother of his former branches in the county, were on companion. My father introduced parade. The Duke and Duchess Colquhoun to Lord Randolph were met by the Mayor of Wells, Churchill, then Secretary of State Mr. J. F. Hamilton, and the Duke For India, To Churchill the ex plorer of the Shan States related addressed the Legionaries as fol- of Somerset. The Duke of York bis experiences, and urged his con lows: sideration of the miseries of the
annexation.
natives under the sanguinary sway "The Duchess of York and I are of Theebaw, and the dangerous delighted. to come here to-day and situation of all the British who to attend this rally of the British: dwelt in Lower Burma. Official Legion in the County of Somerset. protests were dispatched to Thee As Colonel-in-Chief of your baw and the London Daily Tele-county regiment a position I am graph gave that newspaper's in very proud to hold-I am especially Buential support to the explorer's glad to have this opportunity, of view, and to Churchill's policy of inspecting you. It recalls to my mind my wisit in 1922 when I was Theebaw's answer to the repre. present at the dedication of the sentations of Great Britain was a county memorial, and joined in the threat to massacre the British attribute paid to the memory of near- Rangoou, and to throw their bodies ly 11,300 sons of Somerset, who made into the sea, An ultimatum was the supreme sacrifice in the Great accordingly delivered by Great Bri var. It is therefore a very real tain on October 22, 1885. Tha terms pleasare to us to meet so large a were refused and the Burmese war gathering of their living corarades resulted. In three weeks Manda- and to be able to express our appre- lay had fallen, Upper Burma bad ciation of the example you are been added to the dominions of the
setting. Indian Government, Theebaw had "I am told that those present become a prisoner in an Indian bere number over 5,000. What finer palace, and the Ballads of England proof could there be of the wonder had been enriched by Kipling's "On ful force and spirit which animates the Road to Mandalay,”—Christian the British Legion, that national Science Monitor.
organization of ex-Service Men, whose aims and objects are to safe- guard and protect those who are Vicious propaganda was denounsttill suffering either from the effects ed as a threat to international rela. of the battlefield or in other ways, tions by Admiral Montgomery M. as well as the dependents of the Taylor, commander of the Ameri- fallen? You are bound together by can Asiatic Fleet, in a talk before the experience of a war in which un American-Japan Society lun-you learnt what a priceless thing choon on June 3 at which he was a true comradeship is. It is that guest of honour., The Admiral recalled that he personally had been are utilizing to-day for the common same hond of friendship which you a victim of ridiculous propaganda: on one occasion there had been good, and I ask you not to allow it rumours that he was building an to die. air base up in Kamchatka and during the Shanghai incident he was accused of sending men ashore to train Chinese aviators. He com plimented the society on its engrta ta stamp out such propaganda.
Appeal to Ex-Bervica Mex,
"I am glad to know that your emberehip, satisfactory as it is, in increasing and that your strength,
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