THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,
1927.
FINEST PLANE.
THE "CITY OF DELHI" CHRISTENED.
INTERESTING SPEECHES.
MUDFORD MEDITATES. SHANGHAI QUAKES
TOWN IN THROES OF COUNCIL ELECTIONS.
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WORST FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
NASTY SENSATIONS.
Two distinct earthquakes were registered by the seismograph in the Observatory at Sleenwel on
THE PARTIES PREPARE.
"Mudford-on-the-silver-sen, Sir Samuel Hoare speaking at Y.M.C.A.. garden city, is in i furore Delhi on January 10th, at the chri over the Town Council elections, stening ceremony in connection the campaigning for which opened with the aeroplane in which he in real earnest yesterday.. AU made his historie journey from parties got off the mark in great Thursday, the second day of the England to India, delivered an in-style, though the Moderatea got a Chinese New Year, says the teresting speech.
point in by seizing, the "Town N. C. Daily News. The first qunko Hall" flagpost for the exhibitin was folt at 11.54 Am. and the of their bannor.
Addressing the gathering, Sir Samuel saf"It is my privilege to ask Your Excellency to approve of the naming of this aeroplane the City of Delhi and to ank Her Excellency Lady Irwin to perform the ceremony, The City of Delhi is the first of a new type of ma- cbine that is to be used for a com- mercial flying service between Great Britain and the East. Each of the machines of the line is to be named after one of the
frent Capitals along the route,
"I am glad to think that the first machine to be named is the City of Delhi and that this ancient and historic Capital will be associated with an enterprise that may be of great importince to India and the world.
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FINEST PLANE IN THE WORLD. "No citizen of Delhi need feel ashamed of the association of his city's name with this machine, for I can say, without fear of contra- diction and with the admission not enly of our own experts but also of our flying competitors France and Cormany, that it is far
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the finest and cost efficient nero- plane yet produced by any coun- try of the world.
"II I need support for this com tention need only point to the fact that the journey that Lady Mand Hoare and I have just com- pleted was carried out at a speed
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The proceedings throughout other approximately one were marked by boisterously later at 12.53% p.m., China coast friendly rivalry, and even the un- time. prepossessing appearance of the Socialiatic candidate Mr, Munn,
"According to the authorities at whose, Sunday suit, was as usual Secawei the shocks were, not In pawa, did not unduly offend.
violent although plainly marked Our reporters gathered the fol-by practically every one in Shang- lowing in their tour of the town:
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PROGRESSIVE PARTY.
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(From Our Own Carrespondent, Madford).
Mudlord has been raised to its present state of prosperity since we have been in power, and we are looking to the electors to permit us to raise them to wehlth beyond the dreams of avarice.
The fisherfolk will then sell their fish to the trippers, instead of having a fish diel from morn
hai. The epicentre is described as being situated about 200 miles to the northwest of Shanghat, the being in the eastern part of the seismic region apparently affected
Hoshan district to the west of Nanking.
RATHER NASTY.
Earth displacement was not large, as indicated by the instru- ments of the Observatory. One minute after the beginning the pens were thrown to the ground, with the result that the available to night, the hotel-keepers will be registration indicated displace- able to afford to go out to chow,ment to have been about five mil- and even the lowiest will be in a position to stew in Mudford's own brine buths.
didn't show it until last night. Vote Progressive and exchange your votes for Treasury, notes.
We are true blue, though wo
MODERATE PARTY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.
Mudford.)
limetres. The period was very short, about half a second or less. and the impression was deymed. even by, the scientists at the Obser-
vatory and certainly by all pe sons in Shanghai who experienced the sensation, rather nasty, The first impulse of both the registered quakes was downward' which necounted for the effect of sway- ing in a rocking chair, rather than the more definite, shock describe!
of 100 miles an hour without a their day on high at Medford yes-quakes in Japan which resemble single hitch, mishap or delay in the terday, the Yellow and Black the quivering often enused by the working of the machine or any ofwaying gaily in the breeze overpassing of a heavy lorry in front the three powerful Jupiter Bristol the "Town Hall." engines. It may, therefore, be claimed that the City of Delhi, now about to be named by Lady irwin, is the most highly developed civil
The Asterate Party hoisted by those who have experienced
aeroplane in the wärld...
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the party, introduced the can- Mr. W. Baxter, the chairman of didates, in a speech of telling force,
Mr. Keates contented himself
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A resident in, the western dis- trict of Siceawei declared that he had heard a roaring which eeemed to accompany the first quake and which bore no similarity to any other sound which he personally
according to the more sensitive any seismic disturbance came from "We are already at the top of In Shanghai during the past 20 among us were felt later in the shore reports. The captain of one the pole" was the slogan which
only shocks similar years carried the Party successfully violence to Thursday's have ever
in afternoon, and the worst of the int passenger vessel, however, when through a strenuous day. A mass been experienced according to the
came at 6 p.m. Owing to the fact told by a visitor from shore that mueting was sprung
the Fathers at Siccawei, and the ob- however, that scientific instruments distinct quakes had been felt, ex-! electors during dinner, and stimu-vious conclusion is that Shanghai's of proven infallability took no note claimed turning to one of his "I believe, however, that this ting food for the mind was de-cushion of liquid mud absorbs of these later shocks, it is safe to officers, "There, I told you we had Bvered, the audience having the much of the, vibration and. acts as try to convince superstitious friends an earthquake," which would in- mneline is something more than a purely mechanical in-
that their imaginations were ran-parcat to the observant on the dicate that something was ap- vention. Your Excellency will re member that when you and I were
ning away with them.
river as well. colleagues in successive British ca binet I did not relinquish my
CHINESE, AUGURIES,
EXPERIENCES OF THE COMMUNITY. efforts not only to strengthen the with pointing out the obvious de-
Various effects were noted in the Coming as the shocks did a the air defences of the British Isies fects of the other candidates. Mbeginning of the China New Year community during the noon hour but also to open the air to the pur Mann was a fishmonger, a scaly the portents are described by the when the quakes actually occurred suits of peace and to the needs of sort of person at the best of times.
Chinese as being matters for con- In several of the high buildings human intercourse. The air müst The Socialist always imagined he feern, Some say that the carts along the Bund the swaying was had ever heard. not be abandoned the horrors of should have first "plaice was war and to the most terrible inven- always "cod"-ding the public, con-
wayes "ran" from north to south strongly marked. In the offices at
Further reports from Siccawei and that this indicates therefore the North-China Daily News blinds
Observatory indicate that 110 "May this aeroplane then be not which would eventually break and forces
inued to "skate" on thin ice, the coming victory of the northern swung out from the windows, lamp
shocks from Jupan or other only the means of carrying pussen-leave them to "doander."
over those of the south. pendants swayed seemingly in a gers and mails as quickly and as
Mr. Others augur a year full of turmoil worth and south direction, but no countries had been registered, safely as it has brought Lady Murn was fond of "whiting" the and unrest owing to the upheavels thing was displaced. An office chair, which leads one to conclude that Houreo Hoare and myself to India Socialist sepulchre, but sane per of natural forces which scientists with cartors, was described by its China with the Hoshan area but may it also be the symbol of 30s would not "roc" with them, scarcely accredit with interest in occupant to have travelled an the centre was the only region in the peaceful uses of the air and a the middle class, and they were the superstitious mind needs litla wards for what appeared to be bad temper by Mother Earth.
Their "sole" aim was to "crab human affairs. Once worked up, inch or two backwards and for- volved in Thursday's display of proof that the aeroplane is not only deserving of nothing more than encouraging, and
from several eight or 10 seconds. Less notice- a weapon of military destruction,"carp"-ping' criticism. They fell sources the information was glean, able were the quakes to the occu-
tions of destruction."
but is also an instrument of pest and stimulus to the progress and prosperity of great countries such as ludia and Great Britain,
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THE VICEROY'S SPEECH,
H. E. the
off their "perch" in the face of aed that the Chinese felt two shocks straightforward question. Mr.more than the ones registered by Joseph Long, the bus driver can- the scientific instruments. These,
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didate, used oily words. But he was a gaseous individual.
Mr. Walker, the other Moderate
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pants of ground floors, but even The first shock was felt distinct- here the sensation was one of a ly by the earlier. arrivals at definite tilting forward and back- Kiangwan race course, most ward during which rattling of whom at that time were sitting such articles in the room as metal down to tiffin. Those who follow- boxes, and the lids. of jars wased within the next half-hour did. Viceroy, replying, candidate, outlined the policy of odds in the shape of cat-calls, and who was travelling upwards in a they motored down and
plainly to be heard. One person
not notice anything unusual said:" am very pleased that I the party. The schemes of the rude noises made by supporters of lift at the exact moment of the distinctly sceptical as they listen- should have been asked to take Progressives might be useful if other parties, George Rolas, who second quake experienced, nothing-ed to tales of billiard tables in part in this ceremony. A voyage they were serapped, and revised is deputising for Albert Dand, ab: Stepping-out-on-the-floor-of-his-waves, swaying pictures and rock- ..such as Sir Samuel and Lady Maud on more moderate lines. You
Heare have achieved carries our don't ride your steed hard if you the Carpenters' Union, opened the fact that another tremor had just iffin party, when advised to "take sent on business connected with destination, he was greeted by the ing chandeliers, One member of a thoughts back to journeys in earwish to travel far, he pointed out ball in a very able speech, intra- been observed.
Some very effective impres-ducing the two candidates.
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dia when the slowfooted camel sionistic posters have been pro-stressed the fact that the Socialists and the beast of burden carried vided by Mr. A. F. May, it being were all against the expenditure Indian merchandise across the old noticeable that several of the unwisely of public money, and that land route to Southern Europe hardened Socialists shuddered when men made the discovery-when they found the eyes of the
in the advent of trippers and in- valida the cost of living would amazing in those times-of a route world upon them.
inevitably rise,
to India and finally succeeded in Another miss meeting is to be shortening the journey by the held at 8.30 p.m. this evening...
Canal which severs the Asiatic
Continent from Africa. Many
SOCIALIST PARTY.
people looked to the railways as (From Our Om Correspondent,
the next obvious step in speeding
up the communication between
has forestalled them. The politi-
Mudford.)
Comrade Jos Long next spoke, and had difficulty in making his voice feard, but his speech was to the point. ;
Comrade Sands wandered from the point but spasmodically he en deavoured to show that the policy
AT FRENCH CLUB.
more soda with it," triumphantly indicated a crack extending mo it of the way across one of the inside! In the bar at the French Club walls, but lost his point when in- where the usual convivial holidayquiries established the fact that it; gathering was in full swing, ple- was damage of long standing.. tures were observed rocking on However, an hour later, there was the walls and while not truating no, doubt about the second shock... entirely to this, as evidence of an On one side of the clock tower & earthquake, a number of persons piece of the outer casing of the started out of their places and wall, several square feet in area, stood upright in 'an 'ovident panic fell away and on the other side during the brief duration of the many more pieces/and even some tremors.
of the stonework fell of. For-
The Socialist Party began their England, and India,, but the air campaign this evening,
a man of the Progressives would lead in
One young woman is reported tunately no one was injured and
In the face of overwhelming working
the end to the enslavement of the Lo have fainted in the French the damage was ho of any real
man. Fred Muan, Club, in recollection of the Japan-consequence.. (Continued on Next Columin.)
"Munn's the Man for Mudford," ese earthquake. At the Kiang-
cal commercial and social impli-meeting being held at 8.30 p.m.
cations of this new development of travel are obvious enough, and I need rol elaborate them.
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"I know that I utter the thoughts men! A sorry state of Affairs. look back and remember the day of all present to-day when I wish in the Lounge after Dinner, at To-night's meeting will be held when this machine first landed in good luck and safe voyaging to them. and questions will be the city from which it is now to aeroplane which I now invite Lady answered from the platform. take its namo.
Irwin formally to name,
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Delhi.
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