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¤¶Ã¶¶¶T HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1937. * S**¶GAĦ Price
NEW AIR LINK MADE
Peiping-Hong Kong Service Inaugurated
CROYDON OF FAR EAST
Hong Kong is fast becoming the Croydon of the Far East. Yesterday afternoon saw the inauguration of yet another im- portant air link when the Eurasia Avlation Corporation's Junkers monoplane landed at Kal Tak Air Port at 6:15 p.m. from Peiping. The plane carried twelve passengers Including oficials of the Eurasia Aviation Corporation.
"A large gathering was present to welcome the plane including His Excellency the Officer Administer ing the Government (Mr. N. Smith). attended by Capt. G. P. Rickcord, A.D.C., Herr H. Gipperich
Consul-General)
German
Коп. Commander J. B. Newill (Director of Air Services), Mr. A. J. R. Moss, Superintendent of the Air Port, Mr. Erick Nelson.. Assistant. Super- intendent. members of the Con- sular body, heads of Government departments, and members of all sections of the community.
After the monoplane had landed, His Excellency, in a short speech of welcome said that the British Government were very pleased to deceive the Eurasia Aviation Cor- 'poration, which was a German and Chinese combine, on British "ter- Ţitory.
Herr Gipperich expressed appre- clation on behalf of the German community to the Hong Kong Government for their splendid co- (operation. Ships of many nattens, he said, call at Hong Kong harbour and now it seemed possible that atr liners of all nations would "call here. He appreciated very much the fact that, the plane was able to land in Hong Kong and he assured listeners that the Eurasia Aviation Corporation would do their utmost to maintain the schedule of regular fights between Pelping and Hong Kong.
Mr. C. B. Tang, Superintendent of the China Travel Association, niso spoke and endorsed the re- marks of the German Consul.
(Continued on Page 9.)
The above picturs taken at the reception given by the Reich Minister of Economics and Reichsbank President, Dr. Schacht, to the Chinese Minister of Finance, Dr. H. H. Kung, in the stateroom of the Berlin Friedrichstrasse Station on June 6, includes such personages as Coun- sellor of Embassy Tann. Ambassador "Cheng, DR. H. Kung, Minister von Buelow-Schwante, Chief of Protocol, Colonel Thomas, Lt.-General Knelyänd Dr. Schacht.
DEFENCELESS
WHERE RACIAL
SENTINEL
CURRENTS WHIRL
HOTEL OFFERED "I HAVE NO Picturesque And Pathetic Thursday Island
AS SURETY
Sensational Turn In Court Case
4
OPIUM CHARGE.
There was a somewhat sensa~ tional Court sequel to the arrest of C. D. Evans, carpenter of the 3.5. Javanese Prince yesterday zuorning.
Charged before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy was a 'well- dressed Chinese, 61 years of age. said to be a well-known merchant and property owner, Wong Yau, Yer Wong Kwai-shun, who was ac- cused of being the supplier of the orlum to Evans. It will be re- called that Evans was detained in Manila on arrival of the Javanese Pince there.
Continued on Page 2.)
FUTURE""
Says G.B.S
Broadcast To Schools
Mr. G. B. Shaw in a broadenst to sixth forms of secondary schools a week ago, declared that he had no future, and need not "care what he said or did. They thought they were growing up, but after 81 years of that expectation he found he was not grown up yet. "You will escape from school to discover the world is a bigger school," he added.
You are back in the first form, and before you can work your way to the sixth again you will be as old as I am.
By
ALEC. EINAR PRATT Editor Of The Hong Kong Daily Press"
Facing the Orient, a lone dot in a wealth-holding, death-dealing sea, stands Thursday Island Australia's northernmost outpost. This defenceless sentinel must rank as one of the most picturesque and pathetic places in the Empire, maybe in the whole world, for here one witnesses aspects of tropical beauty sullied by racial ugliness, and a deplorably defeatist sentiment on the part of the mere handful of whites who regard, with depressing apathy tinged with deep-rooted fear, the casual and blatant penetrations and poachings of the increasingly venturesome foreigner.
Volcanic Dump
With the pure white population having dwindled to a little over three hundred tired men, women "Your examiners will be elderly and a very few children; and with gentlemen, and their knowledge is the mixed coloured population sure to be more or less out of date. outnumbering those whites by If you want to get into the Navyave to one, the position is, to say you must get specially trained for the least, exceedingly difficult. It some months in practices that are is, however, the sadest commen- tary of all that the administration
Air Mail Rates quite out of date.
‘AMAZING
FACILITIES”
London, June 14. From Sft. MAURICE JENKS To the Editor of "The
Daily Telegraph. Bir-Ins, recent issue you de- Voted some space to a brief sum- mary of the new agreement be- tween the Secretary of State for Air, the Postmaster-General, and Imperial, Airways Ltd., providing for the carrying in the near future of all letters and postcards pass- tag: between Great Britain and certain other parts of the Empire by atrage dood t
As a member of the public sery- ing on the Post Office Advisory Council at the Invitation of the Postmaster-General I feel I would like to emphasise and help to bring home to the minds of the public generally the amazing facilities with which they are being provid- ed as a result of these arrange ments,
The scheme is being brought Into operation in three stares: the first to East and South Africs, at the end of this month; the second, to India and Malays, about the end of this year and the third, to Australia, parly in 1938.***
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"If you don't you will be turned down by an Admiralty dreaming
"Once you are freely through your examinations you will begin Hie in earnest, and you will dia-
of the Nelson touch.
cover that your education has been very defective.
"I was born with what people call an artistic temperament. I could read all the English master- pieces, but could not read school books, because they are written by people who don't know how to
write,"
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CONDITIONS OF WORK IN CHINA
APPEAL TO I.L.O.
FOREIGNERS ACCUSED
OF EXPLOITING CHINESE
From Geneva, June 13. The Director's report was discussed by the International La- bour Conference for four hours yesterday. A mere handful of speakers and press representatives remained to hear the last speaker, Mr. Chu Hsueh-fan (Chinese workers' delegate), make a strong plea for the abolition of extra-territoriality in China It was, he said, due to extraterritoriality that foreign-owned factories and business concerns were exempt from Chinese la- #bour laws, and that all efforts to improve Chinese working condi-
tions had met with fallure.
It was impossible to force the which hindered and abstracted the Chinese factories to comply with improvement of working conditions: the sanitary and safety regulations | In China. He called attention to when the foreign-owned factories the fact that it was an easy matter defied the regulations and could for foreign capital to How Into refuse to be inspected, Chinese Chin. Factories were established workers expected that some action by foreign capital and the Chinese would be taken by the LLO, to were exploited and a world market to ret rid of extraterritoriality," flooded with cheap-labour roods,
"Faint Hearts!" IMPROVING NAVAL
Freezing Commentary By Local Professor
In the course of his address, on "Iceland," at the Rotary Club yes terday, Professor W. Brown saldi-
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CONDITIONS
Accommodation And Messing
Admiralty Decisions
Hong Kong, one of the world's ediralty have now given great seaports, distributing points, decisione on a further batch of and "aly Snigdha weurtre, hasa adore than 200 reguests submitted population line, limes that of all by the men of the Navy at the Iceland and thirty-nine times Review of Service Conditions held that of Reykjavik. Yet it was a in all commands in the autumn of' year behind in establishing a 1936, The subjects again cover a University, and then started wide range, but are chiefly concern. timorously with three Faculties, ed with messing, clothing, and ac- And there are faint hearts among commodation. Many requests con- "us who think that for Hong Kong cerning accommodation were sym- a. University was, and is, super- pathetically considered, but it in fluous luxury, and its promoters Pointed out that the space available guilty of reckless ambition."
on board a ship of war is the Timiting factor which preludes an extension of facilities,
HONG KONG TO LONDON IN
THREE
Several minar concessions are to be made at the shore establish-
DAYS?nts. A trial is to be made with a small number of lockers at, each of the RM barracks. Two addi
liquor and food (and in that or- subsistance. namely
gir, The recent spectacular der) against their earnings Gov-night, by Russian airmen from ernment and otherwise.
the island. "Everything leaves here cause he advances sundry souls the that is of value-even 'people." Even the most elementary pearl shell handiwork is done, not by
the skilled hands of the people of the people of the island, but by
the Orient, to whom the few store-" keepers send the natural shell for treatment, such as polishing and fashioning into "souvenirs of Thursday Taland."
"Hell Of A Time?” Whilst I was chatting with a local identity of over forty years alanding, a tall lean tanned man
(To The Editor, "The Hong Kong tional long baths are to be fitted
Daily Press.");
In each seamen's bathroom in the R. N. Barracks, Portsmouth. A request for dining halls to be in- troduced in all shore establish- ments, so that meals need not be Perved in sleeping and living quaz.--. ters, would involve considerable expenditure, but the matter is to
Moscow to Vancouver in a single hop, compels attention to the rapid progress being made in aviation. The distance was given in the press as 5500 miles, and the time as 50 hours, so that the came up with a grim smile and a average speed was only 119 miles by the Government of Queensland beachcombing and Government have nineteen bob for a quid?" he
Apart from notel-keeping, cheque. "How about letting me per hour, a very moderate figure, and the lethargy of the Common-relief work are the main activit suggested. The money passed, and exceptional load of petrol taken doubtless explained in part by the wealth Government have, accord-les which provide tag to the general opinion of the
a meagre and so did the mau
on board at the start. The route white inhabitants, contributed the handfull of whites and the in-
totally inadequate Livelihood for Nodding after him, my inform followed" is said to have passed
coloured Australians. What forming game. The Japs have cleaned mately of two meridians, and Ita ant sluggishly observed, "He's hav- close to the North Pole. It must
him out time and again, but he's length is therefore, easy to as got guts enough to keep on, and, timate. In round figures, Moscow he added with a wink, "apme from the Pole Vancouver is 49 N. is 56 N. Lat, or about 2040 miles times he gets in, first."
Lat, or 2460 miles from the Fole. (Continued on Page 5)
examined. Improvements are being made to the landing places in Portsmouth Dockyard.
In reply to requests concerning accommodation, the Admiralty. point out that it is not within their powers to undertaké sny direct responsibilty for housing
proposals for the mitiation of a local housing scheme must come from some form of local committee who are prepared to form a public utility society, as was done at Portsmouth.
mounting heap of trouble which no email measure to the gradually creasing swarm of half and full ing a hell of a time in the pearl, therefore have consisted approxi- the families of naval ratings. Any
has made Thursday Islaid a vol- canic dump
Olla Podrida
the relief work takes is difficult to ascertain, for the streets, of which one is known as the main," are but dusty patches flanked by de- There are, amongst other forces lapidated bungalows and shuttered purposeful army of approximately ing kept by Europeans the re- In this outpost of Empire, a very | shops, only three of the latter be-
five hundred expert Japanese peart { mainder of the trading, apart from divers and about two hundred in the hotels, being the unchallenged dented tugger labourers and non- privilege of Chinese p
descript workers from various "Last year the Queensland Gov. islands in the Papuan group. Iterament took £8000 from us in is estimated that the export of taxation, and gave us £800 for pearl shell from Thursday Island relief work," and the man who totals £200,000 annually to Europe, tendered that plece of information America and Japan. They my on maintained he ought to know be
THE DOLLAR
T.T. ON LONDON: L 2-11/16d T.T. ON NEW YORK:-30-1/8- (From Our Own Correspondent)
London Silver Murket
Mr. Harold Green, Superinten Department, who is shortly pro- dent of the Botanical and Forestry
ceeding on Home leave prior to retirement, was the guest of hon our at a cocktail party given at the Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong Hotel by the Hong Kong up 1/16 for "Spot" and unchanged Horticultural Society: last evening, for "Forward", as follow: when glowing:tribute to the ser
vices rendered by Mr. Green sa a spot
Forward
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London, June 28
GUILTY?
#! Pearl Poaching
THE WEATHER
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SIR CHARLES ADDIS'S DAUGHTER Wedding In Sussex
Then an amazing story was un- folded. It appears that after some Muthentic luggers have made. their halis, they put-in to one of shell, and subsequently a depot the many falands, deposit their ship goes the founds of these by the Royal Observatory yester
The daily weather report tasued islands and picks up the pearl shell day shows that the temperature.atz EERST
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10 am was 85 degs as compared with 84 degs. at the same hour yesterday, with humidity at 79. The barometer reading was 20.15, The maximum temperature yes terday was 88.3 degs. at 3 pm. but at 6 p.m. It had fallen to 86.1 deg. The maximum temperature on June 29, 1936, waa 80,5 ders and the minimund 75 dega,
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