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In a Narrow Street; Piccaninny's Shoes
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B-8423
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MINUTES MADE A NEW CITY
ENY x tue Lord, Mayor,
of London. He is now In Vancouver taking part in these Jubilee cele- brations which have been streets with filling the bunting for some time past." I have only ↑ limited appetite for Jubilee cel- ebrations, but how I envy the Lord Mayor every mile of his journey!
To begin with, who could fail to be entranced by the citadel
We are fully equipped for any city of Quebec? Yet, oddly
nature of service.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1936.
the i
ther increase the tension be-
enough, what moved me most deeply in Quebec was not its the blue noble heights, or waters of the St. Lawrence, but a tall shaft of stone that bears the name of Wolfe on one side and that of Montcalm on the other, with a Latin inscription saying: "Valour gave them a common death, history a com- mon fáme, ad posterity common monument" (Mortem virtus communem, faman his- toria, monumentum posteritas dedit).
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VANCOUVER—“No other city that I have ever seen seems to live quite so
T
genius.
A hotela
I was lucky enough to be in Quebec when the Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Mackenzie King, stood SINO-JAPANESE under the shadow of this monu- ment, and made a specch wel-
close to the water.” RELATIONS
coming President Réosevelt to the city. His speech waR
track above Lake 6,000 feet above so lovel Despite fears to the contrary impassioned plea to Europe to recorrive Summer Time, though pertine
through passes and canyons Superior. it in reported that
learn two lessons from America everybody else does,
and above rushing waters-I Japanese Government has no in-the lesson of the 3,000 miles
So in-and-out is the track realised for the first time in my A young man, in the hotel, frontier that unguarded tention of allowing the recent of
unites the United States to telling me how to catch the next that sometimes as you look out life that a railway, like an epie. Shanghai incident, in which a B-4352 Round the bend of the Road; Take me away from the river marine was murdered, to inter- Canada, and the lesson of the train, said: "You leave, here at of the window the engine and
rupt the negotiations for a sellle-single shaft which symbolisca'clock and your train goes half the train are out of view may be a work of imaginative
station saying 6.30, but take no of these corners in top gear, so ment of other incidents of a like the union of two traditional at 5.30. You'll see a clock in the in the next bay. To take some
enemies in peace.
notice of that. That's your to speak, is a highly exhilarat
ND so past the holiday character. The Ambassador to
ing experience. "This," said I An ironist might have ob- train all right."
among the 6-8202 Little man, you've had a busy day; I ain't lazy, I'm just China is to take up these ques-
to a neighbour, as I was flung against him by the motion of mountains-where the lift-boy dreamin
tions with the Generalissima, who, served that the French part of the audience applauded none of
the train. "is not railway- may be a classical student who after a fruitful stay in the South, these lofty sentiments quite so
THERE scem to be all travel, but dirt-track racing" is going to the university to has 310W gone North again. enthusiastically as they ap-
kinds of time in "Yes,"
he replied: "haven't become a lawyer, and where Roosevelt Even before the Shanghai incid-plauded President
Canada - Summer, Standard,
engine-driver the waitress at your table may yul1 чест the ent, there was a threat from when, breaking from English Japanese Army quarters that into their own language, he Mountain, Pacific and probably putting out his leg as he goes be an undergraduate, Then to
the Great Divide, where a small - Premier a few others. So puzzled was round the bends?" began: "M. le.
one traveller by the time ques-
stream forks into two, sending force would be employed, should
Ministre--"
tion that he tried to argue with The prairie-wasted this year one rivulet to join the Pacific considerations of "self-defence”.
drought strikes Home and the other to join the make it necessary. Happily, the Naturally enough I missed my me that on some nights you had by
he train in Quebec. It must be an to put your watch an hour for people as dull; but it is from the Atlantic. And after that, down Army leaders seem to S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. held in check at the moment, easy city in which to miss one's ward, and on others an hour prairie that you get your first the slopes towards Vancouver.
I found fellow-journalist train, partly because of its backward, as you crossed the view of the Rocky Mountains- There can, of course, be no clocks. For some reason or continent. He became reduced a barrier of pearl in the dis-
whatever the on the train preparing to cable justification" -for
terroristic other probably-a-good-on to despair when one night we tance. And, aclivities against the Japanese. the railway companies do not reached a station at 10 o'clock, Rocky Mountains may be, they a message-to-his-paper fren Vancouver, in that strange lan- and after a long delay left it the are not dull.
guage of composite words Such tactics can only fur-
same night at 9.20.
"An American train," wrote known as "cablese." I asked I had never realised before Kipling many years ago, "can him to instruct me in this that, in spite of the lapses from climb the side of a house if money-saving language in case* Greenwich time, days and need be, but it is not pleasant to I, too, might wish to cable. He the organisers of these recurring British airmen have been busy incidents are hoping by their acts for some time preparing for the nights spent in a train could sit in it." A C.P.R. train can said: "Well, take the sentence, England to be so endurable. The truth is, also climb the side of a house We are all going to Van- xrent race fromi to induce Chiang Kai-shek tonnesburg, which commences however, the days seemed too if need be, but it is exceedingly couver. In cablese you could make war on Japan. But the to-day. The prizes total £10,000, short. One does not easily get pleasant to sit in it. As the get that into one word omni- one hurtics after a train forged its way up the vancouverwards." It struck me Generalissimo has a far shrew the first prize being £41,000. The tired as
has been provided by powerful engine along the ser- mountains, between 5,000 and that, if I sent a cable couched der appreciation of the situation money
well-known South African business than many of China's self-styled man, Mr. I. W. Schlesinger, whose patriots. The restraint he has aim it is to give Britain's fastest shown under constant pressure and most modern transport planes from extremist elements marks an opportunity to show. what they can do and to attract them to him as a man who is thoroughly Johannesburg during the great Exhibition being held conscious of the fact that discre- Empire tion is often the better part of there. The race is organised by the Royal Aero Club, and the con- valour. Japanese military circles ditions are not easy. No craft is have been arguing that the res-alawed more than 120 hours for ponsibility for the recurrence of the entire journey of 6,500 miles. The first prize will be awarded to anti-Japanese incidents should be the machine which completes the placed upon the guiding principles course in the shortest time, while of the Kuomintang, which gave the remainder of the money wit be divided into four prizes, to be birth to the Nationalist Govern-
awarded on a handicap favouring ment. Thus, it is contended, the machines which carry large weg- Chinese Government must funda-ful loads. No time allowance is mentally change its principles; made for refuelling or repairs. otherwise, there will be no im- With the proviso that all com- provement in Sino-Japanese rela-petitors must fly via Belgrade and tions. But this standpoint can- Cairo, the route is left to their not possibly be accepted. The own choice. Only British aircraft anti-Japanese incidents, without and airmen may compete. Among question, have their origin in the entries is a new De Havilland Japan's policy of aggression to-of this famous
machine the ninety-second design firm-and the wards the Chinese.
If the cause Double Eagle, which won third
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tween China and Japan. It may NOTES OF THE DAY
be, as has been suggested, that
is removed, it is reasonable to place in this year's King's Cup believe that the agitation will die Race with an average speed of
a natural death. In any event, | 181 miles per hour, China's form of government and
the principles on which it is based
are China's own concern. It is are symptomatic of a strong not reasonable to expect that they under-current of feeling for which shall be changed at the dictation Japanese policy is to blame. No- of Japan or any other country. One who wishes to sea peuce pre- It is equally absurd to cite these served in the Far East can but incidents as indicative of the lack hope that before long Sino- of power by the Chinese Govern- Japanese relations will be placed ment to exercise its authority; end can never be achieved so long on a better footing. But that In the conditions at present
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.aining, these jurisdical out as Japan continues to assume a
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breaks are not surprising. Ad-policy of dictation to China. mittedly, they cannot be defend- There must be "give" as well as "take" if a satisfactory adjust ed, and they provide just causement is to be reached. for protest by Japan. But they
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
"I'll be here late, dear. The taipan got back to-day, gave me a lot of extra work, and then spent the whole afternoon tolling me about hfa holiday in Japan.
in language ao Carrollish, the office might think I had gone mad. I decided not to cable.
As for Vancouver itself, it has many notable sights-its mountains, its waters, its imposing streets laid out in blocks on the American plan; its park that is all but a forest; Chinatown, and Mayor Gerry McGeer.
TT is a city mainly sur- rounded by bathers, for, everywhere you go, you
seem
scen
to come on people bathing. No other city that I have scoms to live quite so close, to the water.
It is a city with only a brief history. When Kipling visited it in 1889, he wrote: "Van- couver three years ago was swept off by fire in 16 minutes, and only one house was left standing." I do not know who was the genius with the stop- watch who counted the minutes of the fire so exactly, but those 16 minutes turned Vancouver from a wooden town into a city of brick and stone.
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A fine, open-air city to. arrive at on a fine, not too warm day. "You can always aleep under
blanket In. British Columbia," an old in- habitant boted to me of the climate. I did, and had break- fast under a blanket, too...
ROBERT LYND