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16 MINUTES MADE
ENVY the Lord Mayor
of London. He is now
in Vancouver taking part in those Jubilee cele- brations which have been streets with filling the bunting for some time past. I have only a 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
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 Montenlm on the other, with a Latin inscription saying: "Valour gave them a common death, history a com- mon fame, and posterity a common monument" (Mortem virtus communem, faman his-
Hongkong Telegraph.toria, monumentum posteritas
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1936.
SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS
dedit).
A NEW CITY
VANGOUVER-"No other city that I have ever seen seems to live quite 80
I was lucky enough to be in Quebec when the Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Mackenzie King, stood under the shadow of this monu- ment, and made a speech wel- coming President Roosevelt to
Lake 6,000 feet above sev level- through. passes and canyons Superior. impassioned plea to Europe to recognise Summer Time, though penting Despite fears to the contrary, the city. His speech was
and above rushing waters-I it is reported
learn two lessons from America everybody else docs.
So in-and-out is the track realised for the first time in my Japanese Government has no in--the lesson of the 3,000 miles frontier that tention of allowing the recent of unguarded
that
the
the union of two traditional
enemies in peace.
A young man in the hotel,
close to the water."
track above
genius.
Round the bend of the Road; Take me away from the river Shanghai incident, in which a unites the United States to felling me how to catch the next that sometimes as you look out life that a railway, like an epic, marine was murdered, to inter- Canada, and the lesson of the train, said: "You leave here at of the window the engine and may be a work of imaginative rupt the negotiations for n settle-single shaft which symbolises o'clock and your train goes half the train are out of view station saying 6.30, but take no of these corners in top gear, so notice of that. That's your to speak, is a highly exhilarat- ment of other incidents of a like
at 5.30. You'll see a clock in the in the next bay. To take some ing experience. "This," said I
the among train all right."
to a neighbour, as I was flung against him by the motion of mountains-where the lift-boy not railway- may be a classical student who the train, "is scem to be all travel, but dirt-track racing" is going to the university to
of time
in "Yes,"
he replied; "haven't become a lawyer, and where the ongino-driver the waitress at your table may, seen you
character. The Ambassador to Little man, you've had a busy day; I ain't lazy, I'm just China is to take up these ques-
dreamin'
B-8372 Swing Low sweet Chariot: On ma Journey
B-8423 Gloomy Sunday; Honcy
Plantation Songs, Part 1 & 2
B-8438
Shenandoah; Jes' mah Song
C-1585
C-2517 C-2621
There's a Green Hill: Nearer, my God to Thee Paul Robeson Medley, Part 1 & 2
S. MOUTRIE &
York Building.
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THERE they ap
An ironist might have ob- the audience applauded none of tions with the Generalissimo, who, served that the French part of after a fruitful stay in the South, these lofty sentiments quite so has now gone North again. enthusiastically Even before the Shanghai incid-plauded ent, there was a threat from when, breaking from English Japanese Army, quarters that into their own language, he force would be employed, should began: considerations of "self-defence"
Army leaders
seem
to he
President
Roosevelt
"MI. le Premier
kinds
AN
ND so past the holiday
hotels
the Great Divide, where a small a few others. So puzzled was round the bends?" Canada Summer, Standard,
stream forks into two, sending Mountain, Pacific and probably putting out his leg as he goes be an undergraduate. Then to one traveller by the time ques-
The prairie-wasted this year one rivulet to join the Pacific Ministre-"
tion that he tried to argue with
some and the other to join the Naturally enough I missed my me that on some nights you had by drought strikes
make it necessary. Happily, the 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 Co., Ltd. held in check at the moment. ensy city in which to miss one's ward, and on others an hour prairie that you get your first the slopes towards Vancouver.
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NOTES OF THE DAY
great race
well-known South African business
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
in language so Carrollish, the office might think I had gone mad decided not to cable.
I found a fellow-journalist train, partly because of its backward, as you crossed the view of the Rocky Mountains
reason or continent. He became reduced a barrier of pearl in the dis-
whatever the on the train preparing to cable There can, of course, be no clocks. For some justification for terroristic other-probably a good one to despair when one night we tance. And,
Vancouver, in that strange lan-
.of
words composite and after a long delay left it the are not dull.
guage activities 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 from
only fur-
same night at 9.20. Such tactics can
"An American train," wrote known as "cablese." I asked ther increase the tension be
1, 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 tween China and Japan. It may
time, days and need be, but it is not pleasant to. I, too, might wish to cable. Ho Greenwich be, as has been suggested, that
British airmen have been busy the organisers of these recurring 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, from England to be so endurable. The truth is, also climb the side of a house We are all going to Van- to induce Chiang Kai-shek to Johannesburg, which commences however, the days seemed too if need be, but it is exceedingly couver." In cablese you could the vancouverwards." It struck mo 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- Generalissimo has a far shrew-the first prize being $4,000. The tired as one hurtles after a train forged its way up der appreciation of the situation money has been provided by a powerful engine along the ser- mountains, between 5,000 and that, if I sent a cable couched than many of China's self-styled man, Mr. 1. 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 an opportunity to show what they to attract them to from extremist clements marks
can do and him as a man who is thoroughly Johannesburg during the great being held conscious of the fact that discre- Empire Exhibition 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- allowed 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 will birth to the Nationalist Govern- be divided into four prizes, to be awarded on a handicap favouring ment. Thus, it is contended, the machines which carry large use- Chinese Government must funda- ful loads. No time allowance is mentally change its principles; made for refuelling or repairs. that all com- otherwise, there will be no im- With the proviso provement in Sino-Japanese rela-petitors must fly via Belgrade and tlons. 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 congete. Among question, have their origin in the entries is a new De Havilland Japan's policy of aggression to-machine-the ninety-second design firm and the of this famous wards the Chinese. If the cause Double Eagle, which won third 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 a natural death. In any event, 181 miles per hour. China's form of government and
the principles on which it is based
of
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 seo peace 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. on a better footing. But that In the conditions at present end can never be achieved so long
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.obtaining, these periodical, out as Japan continues to assume a
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breaks are not surprising. Ad-policy of dictalion to China, mittedly, they cannot be defend- There must be "give" as well as "take" if a satisfactory adjust- ed, and they provide just cause for protest by Japan. But they ment is to be reached.
"I'll be here late, dear. The taipan got back to-day, gavo me a lot of extra work, and then spent the whole afternoon tolling: ma about his hollday in Japan,
As for Vancouver Itself, it has many notable sights-its
its
its waters, mountains, 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 to come on people bathing. No other city that I have seems to live quite so close to the water.
Been
It is a city with only a brief history. When Kipling visited` It in 1889, he wrote: "Van- couver three ydars 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,
a
to
too
A fine, open-air city arrive at on a fine, not warm day. "You can always sleep
under
blanket in British Columbia," an old in- habitant boatted to me of the climate. I did, and had break- fast under a blanket, too.
ROBERT LYND