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The 9.10 from Manchuli
ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S MOST EXCITING RAIL JOURNEY by Lawrence Impey
TWICE a week, at 9.10 of a morning,
T
there pulls out from Manchuli, on the Manchukuo border, one of the world's most remarkable trains-the Trans-Siberian express.
"
I have just travelled home from Peiping to London by this exciting overland route, and my diary of the trip has some strange entries now I come to look back on it. Here's a sample:
We are a motley gathering as we leave Maneliukuo. Mostly women, some with children, wives or daughters of men who are remaining in Dairen, Tientsin, Shanghai, or Hongkong, to watch their business interests at this critical time. One or two among us are business men dashing to London, Paris, or Berlin to inform our office headquarters of conditions in the Far East.
We have our baggage turned topsy-turvy by
Hongkong Telegraph the Manchukuo Customs officials, and now submit
Wyndham St., Hongkong
- 'Phone 26615 June 28, 1939
Blockade Threat
to the same critical examination at the hands of the Soviet "comrades."
What they expect to find in it is hard to imagine, as the items which attract most atten- tion are a book of family snapshots and any form of personal letters, which they endeavour to read with the utmost interest.
Money, of course, is counted and recounted and entered on an THE REASON for Hongkong official form signed by both apprehension that Britain parties. And then we change will not insist that the Japanese our sterling at the rate of 12 blockades of Canton, Kongmoon, roubles to the £18. 8d. per Kulangsu, Tientsin and the rouble at frontier value. Yangtse River ports should not be extended to the treaty ports
One unfortunate woman has
of Swatow, Foochow and Wen-unguardedly allowed her porters chow is evident when an examin.to carry a box of chocolates, a ation of the trade figures for tennis racket, a bag of oranges,
these three centres is made.
Any stoppage of shipping with any of these southern ports will have a serious effect on this Colony, not merely from the point of view of trade, but by virtue of the fact that we are now almost entirely relying on them as our sources of food supplies for the abnormal popu- lation we have to support.
plus her suit-cases, and protests bitterly at a bill of 12s. for porterage.
We who are wiser festoon our- selves with packages. A police officer from Hongkong strides manfully along with a duzen bottles of beer in one hand and
supply of whisky and gin will have the laugh on us later, dangling from the other. He
where beer costs bs. 6d. a bottle when we get to Soviet Russia, and is unbelievably-bad-at-that. -
Trade figures for the first six months of 1939 are not available. But an examination of the official figures for 1938 is illuminating. A Woman Alone The total import and export irade of the three ports last year
WE sort ourselves into was £5,743,530, comprising £1,-
our compartments, and 647,962 imports and £4,095,568 fresh complications arise. A exports. Of the exports, Hong-British woman is alone in a kong look over twenty-five per compartment, as also is a British cent, this Colony's total being down on this waste of space and man. Soviet authority swoops £1,717,932.
demands that they share coupe.
turn.
If you wanted to travel from the Far East to London you could choose one of these three
routes:
-By TRAIN to Manchull, there to join the Trait- Siberia Railway to the Polish frontier. Total time, Hongkong to London, 16 days. Fare £32 if bought in yen, or £55 if bought in sterling,
2
3
By SEA liner to Englan via Suez, Total time 51⁄2
weeks. Fare £115.
By AIR Hongkong to Bangkok and flying boat to London. Time 7 days Hong- kong to London. Fare £145.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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"We may as well be practical while teaching Junior
to walk!""
£16 a Pair of Shoes
said to be at least half
1942
will see this
BALANCE
of Naval POWER
By Lt. Commander HUCH LONGDEN, R.N., Retd.
HE United States is taking THE
steps to become the Mis- tress of the Seas, and it is suggested that she is going to form an Atlantic Fleet-which might be an excellent thing for the peace of the world.
We must admit that she is Mistress of the Pacifle, but Great Britain is still Mistress of the other Six Seas.
America has just announced officiul- ly that she has ordered three 35,000- tons battleships, and we can assume they will be ready in about three years. In addition to this I learn though it, has not yet been omcially stated that she is about to lay down two 45,000-tons batleships, and these will be the biggest in the world.
AT
T present the United States Navy has 15 battleships in commission and two almost completed, the North Carolina and the Washing ton, which are similar in size and armament to the three that have just been ordered.
The United States Navy has no battle erulsera comparable with our own Hood and Renown.
Great Britain has 12 battleships and three battle cruisers in commission. five battleships building (due to be ready In 1040), and wo more authorised and about to be laid down. Thus in two years time we will clearly be superior to the United States Fleet in capital ships, though they will have enught up with us by 1942.
Starting with the future and work- ing backwards, we have the Lion and Temeraire, the two battleships authorised by the 1938 programme, but not yet ordered.
They will be of 40,000 tons- slightly smaller than the two unborn but projected American ones-and will carry 16in, guns.
THEN last year we luld down the five I have mentioned, which are known as the King George V. type. They consist of the King George V., the Prince of Wales, Anson, Jellicoe,
Beatty, which wil be 36,000-tonners, mounted with
14. guns and 21in. torpedo tubes. and will carry aircraft. It is officially staled
" but I
that "their anti-aircraft
ermament will be exte cannot yet tell you their
Then we came to the latest batle- ships in commission, the Nelson and Rodney, twins, both just under 34,000
tons.
Lons.
These are of course," the "most" powerful battleships in the world, which is not surprising as they cashi cost £7,500,000 to bulld, and the on- nual cost of their maintenance in full commission is approximately £350,-
000
It is Interesting to note that they are the only ships in any Navy with torpedo tubes of more than 21in. The range of their guns is 17% sea miles, and the cost of firing one tri- ple salvo is £700, (In the event of war, taxpayers please note!)
Next in order of seniority we come to our three battle cruisers, the Hood, Renown, and Repulse, of which the latest is the Hood, completed in 1020 the most powerful battle cruiser in War Emergency Programme at a cost the world. She was built under the is 42,000 tons. of £0.000,000, or £145 per ton, as she
old
THE Renown and Repulse THE
are smaller, 32,000 tons. Next are the five Royal Sovereign
It is an interesting fact that, during 1938, Hongkong took 95 per cent, of the total exports of The suggestion is bitterly Foochow and Wenchow-food-opposed by the woman. The stuffs valued at.£514,348 out of Soviet reply, "In that case we a total of £520,825 from the may have to put a Russian man and not only caviare but cham- and lorries are to be seen at all former, and valued at £402,180, in your coupe at some stage of pagne is on the menu of three the larger stations. The crops out of a total of £444,483 from the journey; you had better put officers at the next table. Awed are better, there are cattle in the latter,
up with your fellow-country by this extravagance, we whis- the fields, and peasants are Any Japanese blockade of man."
per to each other that they working on the land which was these ports, means, therefore,
must get a rebate or a pass, the untilled before, To which the woman, confus more so when we discover that that Hongkong has to turn clse-ing the issue, skilfully counters, the champagne costs £3-10s. a counted for by the new Soviet class, the Ramillies, Royal Sovereign,
Much of this is probably a£- where for its food supplies. And, "A Frenchman or a German or bottle. with the Japanese net graduallya Russian conceivably, but an drawing tighter along the China Englishman never.
policy of sending divisions out Royal Oak, Revenge, and Resolution, But the three officers seem to the East together with their completed in 1916-17. It const, there is nowhere else to get all round town, and my re- the meal they produce wads of them on arrival certain tracts ships of the Queen Elizabeth class would quite happy, and at the end of womenfolk, and allotting to And finally we have the five good putation would be The United States, Nether-ever."
ruined for notes and pay up in the normal of land, which they are en- Elizabeth, Malaya, Valjant, Barham, Jutland fame--the Queen lands East Indies, United King-
manner, which leaves us more couraged to cultivate for their and Warspite. They all carry four dom, Australia, Canada, Ger- wilders the Soviet, who retire larly when we are told that a
This diplomatic evasion be- bewildered than ever, particu- own benefit.
aircraft, with catapults, except Bar- many and France are all inter- to consider the matter, and colonel gets only 1,000 roubles Troops Trek to the East build
ham, which corrica ono.
These ested in the import trade of the finally compromise by producing or so per month.
ships cost £3,000,000 to three treaty ports threatened by a Russian woman with two chil
build originally, but since then they SIX months ago there were modernised. Japan. Last year the United dren, all three to occupy. the
have been considerably altered and Kingdom exported goods to the
We have five aircraft-carriers in a million Russian soldiers in commission, including the Ark Royal THE whole way across Eastern Siberin. And to judge cluding
finished), and five bulding, in- £7,630 to Foochow and £34,108 The train departs well behind
Russin this problem of by our own experience, this ordered), The new ones will be Implacable (Just to Wenchow. Her imports from time, but nobody seems to care, prices arises to confuse and number has been largely aug 23,000 tons-slightly bigger than the the three ports amounted to and presently we go along to wayside stations costs 1s. 8d. a four days which our train takes will ench
aggravate 218. Milk at the mented recently. During the Glorious and Courageous-and they £86,274,
the dining-car. Here we pro- Next to Hongkong, however, duce food coupons bought out. pint, and even bread is about to cross Siberin we pass on the
States Navy has only the principal country interested side Russia, which entitle us to 18. 6d. a loaf. Cabbage is sell. average three trains an hour three callers
carriers in commission and in the blockade is the United a meal at reduced rates,
ing at 10s. a lb., a pair of shoes proceeding eastwards and carry- States, which from Swatow alone
cost £16, and no one outside the ing munitions, aeroplano parts, ing in. guns, and 45 mounting din.. As for cruisers, we have 15 mount- imported goods to the value of
Army wears boots which are fit tanks, lorries, and to be seen. £1,132,057.
motoruns, as well as 14 building and launches fitted with light arma States has 10 mounting Bin. guns seven ordered of theso. The United Women's dresses must fantastically dear, for we can-
be ments, not find a single well-dressed cavalry and one infantry divi-
To this must be added one guns
(one building) and 18 mounting din. woman-by European standards aion, plus various auxiliary ready late next year), whereas tho
not completed). *Of destroyers, we have. 187, and 321 building (most of which will be during the journey.
whole of our troops.
United States has 210 in commission It seems that the Soviot and 35 being built. provement in conditions all a self-contained military area, There is, however, a vast im- authorities intend Siberia to bo
Lastly we come to submarines, along the line since my last trip for the railway from Manchuria
torpedo
rpedo boats, and submarine in 1937.
We have 62 submarines, and to Omsk is double, track, with building. America has 91, and 10 Roads are being built, houses tunnels and bridges, doubled bullding. She has 15 submarine are going up everywhere, cara •PLEASE Turn To Page 5.
chasers, and we have:8 M.TES, and! -24 building.
value of £308,900 to Swatow,
upper bunk.
Caviare-With Luck
THERE are even two It is this very important trade
categories of tickets ob- that Japan is now seeking totainable, the better grade en- destroy and divert to herself, as titling us to caviare with our she has already done in other meal, supposing there is any parts of China.
Today our luck is in, and the It behoves not only Great Caviare is forthcoming, enabling Britain but all the interested us to look down our noses at the Powers to see that the rape of passengers whose tickets do not their trade in Canton and the Yangtse Valley is not repeated on the coast.
entitle them to it.
But, to our astonishment, the proletariat are up and coming,
the
The Unite about 00 'planes.
three
sera.
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