CHELSEA SHOW
Gold Medal Rock Gardens
(Special Air Mall Service)
..London, June 8. The Chelsea Flower Show, which is being held in the Royal Hospi- tal Gardens, was open yesterday to the public, and at attracted s large attendance without being op plessively crowded.
weather, tempered The Sunny with a pleasant breeze, was part cularly favourable for viewing the been many gardens which have laid out in the opet, and which are always one of the most popular features of the exhibition. Only two have received gold medals this year, and both are rock gardens The standard of the formal gar- dens is somewhat disappointing, but it has to be borne in mind that
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SECURITY AND REARMAMENT
Scene Shifters at Geneva
The international scene shifters are haid at work preparing the stage at Geneva for the next act of the disarmament drama. Itul will take them all their time to
HONG KONG DAILY
SHING MUN TRAGEDY
Lost of Six Lives Feared
PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934.
LIFE AS FARMER CABLE NEWS IN
Dreadful Rumours Of Opium Executions
BRIEF
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright)],
Taichow, Ku., Juar S.
Berlin, June 20. The farmers in Talchow county
The weekly report of the German Although the heavy rains that are now busy gathering the wheat Institute for Business Research, fell on Wednesday afternoon crop. The yield is said to be good, an official Institution connected brought very welcome replenish-Feace and plenty loom in the ear with the Reichs statistical service. Several weeks ago there publishes leading article on ment to our reservoirs, tragedy future.
was considerable anxiety among the Wednesday entitled **Postpone- also came in its wake, for, ac-
agriculturists over, the beavy fall of zording to. a report from Shing
get ready if the Bureau of the Mun. six men who were engaged / rain. It was freely predicted that men; of Transfer." The more sall-
Conference is to meet on April 10 as arranged.
*
Much has happened during the past week or two to clarify" the issues, but Hile to remove the defaculties.
one more day's rain would mean ent passage state "since Septem- on the Gorge Dam sites is believed the complete destruction of the ber 30, 1933, the total amount of to have lost their lives as a re-wheat crop These dire prophecies Foreign indebtedness has probably suit of the heavy downpour, and were not realized and so Taichow been considerably reduced partly but for the gallant work of Mr. can look forward to the usual food as a consequence of" further de- H. M. Findlay, a British engineer supply whieb is always less than preciation of foreign currencies ciso engaged on the site. another the population needs at least it and partly as a result of repay- workman might also have lost his is so distributed that do not get.
enough. life.
It was stated that as soon as
the rain commenced to all,, the customary warning signal was given for all men to come out of the gorge which is so narrow that the water rises quickly and ren- ders the gorge an extremely dan- gerous spot at any time when rainfall is abnormally heavy.
in
ments.
1934.
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COX-
After interminable delays, the French reply to the Brush mem-
The farmers of China, if not Interest obligations. have orandum of January 29 has at last been published. Its text. running
countries, certainly strongly resem related by blood with those of other tespondingly also been reduced so that the" savings in. foreign to more than 2.000 words, con-
ble Enters of a different colour exchange que to the pust- firms the impression created dur
their dispositions. They are ponement.
of the transfer they are. more seriously handling Mr. Eden's European tour that
always ready to say that all crops amounts to about 250 mil- Seal found the
weather, capped than the rock gardens by the Lord Privy
will fail. The
that hon marks for the second half of the united amount of space avall hardest part of his task in Paris.
phenomenon about which they tak
The temporary interruption The able.
first thing to which the
So much but about which they do French Cabinet objects is the as-
nothing" (Mark. Twain) is for the of cash transfer means a consi-" Chinese farmer an excuse forderable relief to the German cap- sociation of "Immediate reductions
Ignored Warning.
everything. He condently believes ital balance for the current year of armaments Imposed on certain
There were about forty men that the weather is his constant and erects, in "Germany a barrier Powers with immediate increases working in the gorge when the sig- and relentless foe. One might think against further withdrawals of
to other in armaments granted
naj was given and all but Ave it his best excuse for never do gold and foreign exchange. Even Powers." Following up this theme,
These Ave farmers complain of their own this relief, however, will hardly be men came out of it. reservations" are most explicit
men were warned, for the second lazines or their own foolish mis
suficient to balance the foreign made to the German claim for a
the gorge foreman but takes. They in all theif "tailures exchange situation in Germany in regular army of, say, 300,000 men.
on the weather.
What comfort it would be to che coming months. Unusually with a proportionate amount of they said that they thought the
rain would soon abate and that men in other fines of work if they drastic measures will be necessary they would be quite safe where could carry their affairs out into to prevent the exports from drop- they were.
the open where the winds and raina i ping still further below the im- In the short space of a few could beat upon them-then there ports, The transfer of payments
of
can be resumed only when this AD minutes, the water in the gorge would be no more confessions began to rise at such an alarming weakness or of foolhardiness.
problem Is solved."-Transocean rate that it was apparent the men could print out what might have
Kue Min were in grave danger, but nothing happened had the weather been fair could be done for the men who instead of cloudy or had the earth are advantages in following "the ran to a small rock Island with been damp instead of dry. There water rushing down on both sides plough which arc not always
apparent. of them...
For the second year in succession. Mesers Dartington Hall, Limited. have been awarded a gold medal rock garden. This exhibit is carried out in water-worn Devon limestone and takes the form of a rocky ravine through which flows à mountain stream terminating in a pool. The great feature of this garden is the meticulous care with which the planting has been car-war material, ried out. Hundreds of rosettes of the cobweb house leek form a cas- cade down the sides of the larger boulders, while it is dificult to belleve that the close carpet of veronicas, campanulas, and rock pinks has not been established for
some years.
Alpines.
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Question of Security Yet technical considerations pale into insignificance compared with the French political arguments, all the essential are "dominated by problem of guarantees of execu- tion." It is a modern orientation of the old question of security.
France wants the strongest assur- ances that "frm "action will be The other gold medal rock, gar-
nation which den is that of Messrs. G. G. White-taken against any legg. and is built of pleasantly co- loured stone from the Cheddar
may break the disarmament con- verition. The British proposals
time by
It was indeed a piteous sight to see the men stranded on the
Talk of Railway Continues The talk of "a railroad from
DEATH SENTENCE FOR OLD "CRIME
Gorge. From near the top two for consultation are "a step for. rock, conscious of the danger they Taichow to the Yangtze River co- (Special to the Hong Kong Daily
mountain rilis wind their way down to a rocky pool at the bot-' tom, by the side of which are to be seen globe-flowers, bog-primy- las. and the brilliant little monkey flower Mimulus "Whitecroft Scar-
tinues but there is perhaps & little lessering of the former enthusias
will connect with all river launches When the railroad is complete 16
and ever steamers, A hulk will be anchored to Kao Kong and all the dangers attendant on grabbing
This railroad will be avoided
let." The garden is well planted for further negotiation Certain fortunate than the rest, was car- a moving boat from a sample wil
with attractive alpines, a pleasing- touch being a fine clump of the salmon-pink LewLia Howellli growing out of a large rock, and ↑ miniature meadow carpeted with the bird's-eye primose P. farinosa. The principal feature of Messrs. Clarence Elliott's rock garden s the faithful representaiton of an has been alpine moraine which constructed and planted extreme- ly well. Some brilliant patches of colour are occasioned by the in- clusion of alpines such as Pent- 'stemon Roeziil, Erinus alpinus, and which the Wahlengergias, with pale blue of Campanula Alllopi and Phyteuma comosum makes a good combination.
A silver cup was awarded to the Hocker Edge Gardens for a rock garden which is of a form well suited to the requirements of the majority of garden enthusiasts. It is stocked with a good selection o dwati shrubs such as Japanese azaleas, and contains a good show of easily grown rock plants such as rock violas.
ward," but they are not enough, were, ir.. and conscious also that At this point, the Freach Note although their comrades were in appears to relapse into an obscur- sight, nothing could be done for them. They were eventually swept ty so spontaneous as to be pro-
off the island and carried through bably deliberate. The object is
the tunnel. but one of them. more probably to leave the "docr open ly Italy will be one of the countries ried to the corner of the tongue consulted by Great Britain when trench where he was then out of the main swiftly flowing current, the Cabinet has been able to digest all the Implications of, then a sort of backwater, and with One of the engineers. Mr. Find In conclusion, France emphasises that the League of Nations re-lay, went down on the derrick and mains the only organisation eap-
Two Bodies in Gorge able of furnishing a collective, guarantee of peace. There could
French reply.
In reach of a derrick.
rescued hiri
At first it was thought that the
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Budapest, June 20. Condign punishment was meted out on Wednesday for a crime committed in 1919 during the days of the Soviet Republic in Hungary under Bela Kun when the ring- leader of a group of desperadoes, unite the great centren of the world
named Gador, ordered six innocent. with Tichow and advantages will be evident to both the Occident and farmers to be shot by Red Soldiers. the Orient. What will be the effect When the Soviet's rule in Hungary in Londen when the citizens of that was broken. Gador Aled to Austria metropolis learn that they, after but when he tried recently to cross. making the trip to Shanghai, can the frontier into Hungary again. then take a river steamer to Keo. he was recognised. arrested An, and from there make the rest
tried... of the journey to Taichow by ruil.
when the World's Almanac bave isted on the largest city in the death by strangling-Transocean world-Talchow !
Kuo Min
And
The penal court at Miskolek on
be no better guarantee than Ger. four, men swept through the tun- The day may not be far distant wednesday sentenced Gador to
nany's return to Geneva.
hel
were the only victims, but when the flood had subsided, two bodles were found: leading to a fear that the total loss of life was six.
Donald's grass gardens, the work- manship of wich is always ex-
Rescue of the men when they cellent. Ins year a rectangular
ran to the island was unfortunate- lawn of perfect tur! nas peen jala-
as the rocks were out with two smau fountains angly impossible.
A thirty feet too far away for the beds of ornamental grasses. ́ paved pain pounds the lawn, and derrick to reach them." beyond are turner borders con- Laming Ioliage plants, and grasses, packea wan a yew heage.
In the same section a represen- tation of
a bathing pool with a garden setang" nas been laid dut By Messrs. wunam wood au sol,
plani Limited." Purication
nas
been installed, which is housed in a snelter of an ornamental nasure.
while the aeration of the water 15
carried out by means, or a stone jar, from which is gusnes out into a stone basin,
which is mests. Dutions exaibit. and this has gained a gold medal. is extremely The arrangement
will
"DARKNESS
The Taichow Magistrate is doing tome work on the city streets. The main street has been greatly im proved and now this progressive CONFINEMENT IN TOTAL official is turning his, attention to some streets of smaller importance. Automobiles aře not in use here but the citizens may not feel it neces
to follow the gradual developments of other countries. They may make one giant stride from wheelbarrows to aeroplanes. Who knows?
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]
Vienna, June 20. Two National-Socialists were
Wednesday condemned on..
by
There is considerable excitement, clever, win is elegant spires" or in this section of the province now stummary court to sentences tomatoes, peas, and beans, and the because of a renewed inquisitiveness amounting altogether to twenty six baskets with their great assort- | hy the police into the habite of the years. After six hours delibera- ment of uncommon varieties, such people. Inquiry' is being made as tous, the court, sentenced 21-year as black-skinned potatoes, black to who does and who does not enjoy old Leopold Kann to twelve years' Among the informal gardens in
Spanish radishes, purple-podded the fumes of the opium pipe hard labour with confinement in the open, that of Messrs. R. Wal-
peas, the bright red tubers of Dreadful tales are being spread to total darkness and compulsion to Jace deservedly won a silver cup.
Oxalis crenata, and the egg plants the effect that some old offenders sleep on bareboards once every who have been given a chance to Seen over a stretch of undulating
with fruits of the size of vegetable break off from their pleasant three months, while the second "turf, a high rock bank occupies
marrows. In addition to the ar-dreams may have to pay for their accused. Anton Bretzinger, got the far corner. It is composed of Because of last year's hot sum-
rangement, the excellent condi- continued indulgence with their fourteen yeary hard labour. some Ane. waterworn boulders of mer, when caused the thorough tion of the specimens, ds for ex- lives. It would be a fearful thing The sole piece of damaging evi- Westmorland stone and surmount- ripening of lowering wood, there
ample the large onions, is no less if all the oplum smokers in this dence the court possessed against" ed by an old plant, of Taxus cuspl-has been an exceptional amount noteworthy. Although it could not county were executed. Floods and the two National-Socialist accus- data, a particularly hardy species of blossom seen on dowering trees be expected to compare with the famines have in times past taken of yew from North America. Alsó ana saruos this spring, and, as latter exhibh, the group of veget. their toll of human life here but ed was the ownership of a casė used in this exhibit to advantage might be expected, these subjects ables staged by the Cheadle Men-compared to the destruction which Transocean Kuo Min,
these calamities would be trifles are several other conifers of a are being shown to particular ad-
tal Hospital is a remarkably good would be caused by sending all spreading type and suitable
vantage at Chelsea, Almost the
one and has received the Button those who down the pipe into draping rock-work, together with whole of one side of the central vegetable cup for the best group another world suddenly with the some large sized Japanese maples avenue is devoted to their exnipl- "of vegetables shown. by,, 1.1 aid of a gan lend a bullet. Few "and a huge standard rhododendrontion, which naturally helps to en- amateur.
would be left to ride the railroad. In full bloom.
hance the appearance. of the Superb cultural skill has been the grounds.
shown by Mesrs. Blackmore and
for
A simple but effective garden of
an entirely informal nature is that
Formal Gardens,
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ASSEMBLY IN SYNAGOGUES
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dalis Press" (Copyright).3
Kovno, June 20.
material. containing expicalve
KARIN GOERING'S
FUNERAL
A gold medal group has been Langdon, who have been given a
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally of Messrs. Percy E. Cane.
It staged here by Messrs Hilliers. gold medal for a mixed group of
Press" (Copyright).) consists of stretches of grass over made up of numbers of varieties glodnias, begonias, and delphin- which are grouped flowering trees of Japanese cherries, ornamental jums. The gloxinias and begonias
Eberswalde, June 20. The burial service of the late and shrubs. The latter are sup-crab apples, and brooms in stan-are easily the largest and finest to plemented by groups of iris and of dard form." As the majority of be found in the show, while the
Karin Goering took place solemn- Lilium regalé, a species of y
ly on Wednesday when the Prus- these plants have long been over delphiniums are seen in far better A special decree proclaimed by sian Premier's wife was consigned which has risen to popularity in a in most gardens, a high degree of condition than is usually to be ex- the Lithuanian Government on remarkably short time.
to her final resting place. The cultural skill must have been pected so early in the season. Wednesday strictly forbids any Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, and necessary in order to show them Some of the best spikes of the lat-kind of assembly in synagogues cx- many members of the Cabinet at- Among the formal gardens, in full bloom at Chelsea. A gold ter are those of Sir Neville Pearcept Jewish religious rites. The tended to pay their last respects. Messrs. Gazés are showing some medal has also been awarded to son," having large blue and mauve reason for the decree, believed in Among those noticed at the cere wide herbaceous borders well Mesars. Charltons, of Rotherfield, blossoms, "Mrs. Foster Cunliffe" oficial circles, is that the synago- mony was Prince August Wilhelm, planted with hardy flowers which for a similar group of trees and (double mauve), and "Duchess of guies have recently been used for brother of the ex-Crown Prince, lead up to a raised terrace. As the shrubs. In this, some very tall Portland" (violet-blue). As well as political meetings, some of which who is now group leader of the back is a wall built in bricks of standard Illacs, bright-hued the comprehensive collection of consisted of boycott demonstra Stormtroop detachments. Trans- various shades. It has a semi- Azaleas and rhododendrons play a giant flowered begonlas, of which tions against New Germany and ocean Kno Min. circular archway with a wrought prominent part, Among less "Marjorie Porton" and the deep protests against the British Pales- iron gate in the centre, and a familiar shrubs contained in this red "Alan Clarke" are outstanding tine policyTransocean Kuo Min. garden house in the corner. A group is Hydrangea Sargentiana | examples, the same firm have used garden atranged on rather similar and a very good speelmen of freely some of the basket begonias lines has been laid out by Messrs. Cozokia virgata with Its twisted Waterers, but with a thatched gar- stems and starry yellow flowers, den house as the central feature!
Vegetables, No, Chelsea Show would be com- plete without one of Messrs. Mac-
Several groups of vegetables are being shown this year.
among
for the decoration of their group. their group of florists' flowers, and The Sherwed Cup for the most the Cain Cup, for the best exhibit meritorious exhibit in the show, shown by an amateur, to Mr. has been awarded to Messia. Car- Llanel de Rothschlid, for his group ters Tested Seeds, Limited, for af hybrid Hippeastrum.
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