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THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1925.

PLANTS FROM TIBET.

MR. KINGPON WARD'S RE-

-CENT EXPEDITION.

NEW BUS CO..

ABERDEEN KAIFONGS'

ENTERPRISE.

'AMBITIOUS SCHEMES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

'NO FRIEND IN NEED,

LONELY BRILLIANT"

CHANG.

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STILY_COOLING HIS HEELS..

Chang Poh-looog ("Brilliant" House of Datention awaiting the Chang) is still confined in the pleasure of the Governor in Council as to his destination.

Mr. F. Kingdon Ward, F.R.G.S., the naturalist and explorer, who was just returfed to England after. a year's travelling in Bastern Tibet,

Four new Dennis'buses with brought back with hin the seeds curtain windows and spring seats, of a number of fascinating now each to hold 23 Sassengers, are hardy plants collected during his being placed on the Hongkong It in two weeks since Chang was Journey. Mr. Ward was accom- Aberdeen run by the Aberdeen placed behind bars on his arrival panted on the expedition by Lord Kaifeng Bus Co., who, it is report as a deportee from England after Cawdor. They haul thave per-ed, have appited for permission to serving a term of imprisonment for „manent --Bhutan, servants and alextend their service to Stanley being concerned in the dope traffic, nimber of porters. Exating ad- with which there is now no direct He was transferred to the House ventures were avoided, but the communciation***

of Detention after bis interview travellers broke new ground by An Interesting history lies with the Secretary for. Chinese traversing the full length of the behind the placing on service Affairs a week ago.. Although the tremendous gorge through which

of these now and up to date authorities are prepared to allow thy Tompo river piores the buses. Formerly Aberdeen wan him out on ball of about $500 Hinulayas.

connected with the city only by pending the final decision, so far Jaunch. One such vessel was no friend of "Brilliant" has come operated by the Kaifongs, Le, forward to give him temporary the community of the village, freedom. they failed because of but they ceased running when keen competition. Their competitors

Permission to mke the journey W obtained at the beginning of hat yete from the Indian and Tibetan Governments, and the ex- pedition was in part financed by the Government, Grant Committee then put up the rates and the of the Royal Society, and by the Kalfongs commenced the 'bus Percy Sladen Memorial Fund A service. The first company did not start was made in March, and Tibat was antered from Darjeeling by the ordinary Lhasa route When the sanpo was reached the party followed the river for 22 miles and then began their botanical work in Eastern Tibet, May, June and July were spent in searching for new plants. Some unknown country was afterwards explored, and in October and November the seeds of the plants which had been specially noted were collected. The return was then made by the gorge of the Taupo, the Tibet plateau, and Assam to Calcutta.

Speaking of the results of the ex- pedition, Mr. Kingdon Ward said Aberdeen is rendering good that he and all those interested in service to the community, it is also the venture were perfectly natis.proposed to allow the sisters and fied. The large collection of seeds waff to travel free as will all police brought home was now being gone through.. Kew and Edinburgh had received & share, and others had been distributed privately through. on the country. Some of the seeds had gone to New Zealand and Africa

The scientific resultá would, he thought, be interesting, It had long been recognised that Tibet might provide the key to

Because the Convent

noar!

HUTS ON FIRE.

Chung village in the Castlepeak A fire occurred at Au Tin district at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and destroyed eleven grass estimated at $1,140...

huts. The damage is

FALL FROM TRAM;

CHINESE FATALLY INJURED.

DANGEROUS

CYCLISTS CHINA MAIL'S CROSS-WORD PUZZEL

KOWLOON RESIDENTS” 4COMPLAINTS.

Acting on complaints received

A Chinose of middle age was f seriously injured in the head and by the Kowloon Residents Asso- tramcar al Kennedy Town yester who by ignorance of the rules of body by a fall from a moving clation, the Police yesterday kept a watchful eye open for cyclists day. The man died soon after admission at the Government Civil the road and recklessness con Hospital.

stitute a danger to themselves and pedestrians and motorists.

HOME MAIL.

As a result, of their observa- tions several penitent lads ap- peared at the Kowloon Magis- The London letter and news-tracy this morning and were paper mail of May 14. via Suez given a few words of advice by

Mr. E. W. Hamilton, the Magis arrived this morning by the s.s. Kashmir and delivery comtrate. They all got off with a fine menced at 10 o'clock,

of $5.

The total mail comprised 219 bags and three baskets, 31 bags mail and 12 bags parcels being for Hongkong and the balance for transhipment.

QUAINT PROBLEMS.-

MRR-MACDONALD AND HIS TROUSERS.

SHOULD THEY BE CREASED? - Mr. Ramsay MacDonald address

WONDERS OF PACIFIC.

MESSAGE FROM ARCTURUS EXPEDITION.

Extraordinary good luck is at- tending the Accturus expedition in the Pacific The New York Times,. prints a copyrighted message from Dr. Beebe, the leader, of the axpedition, in which he reports the discovery on April 10 of two volcanoes in violent eruption of Albemarle Island, in the Galapagos group. No eruption has ever beeb witnessed there before. In honour

prove a success and the capital has nearly all gone. Now a new com- pany is being filcated with a capital of $200,000, In shares of $t each so that nearly every inhabitant in the village can become shareholder. The cause of the outbreak hased a series of May Day demonstra

In the new concern, shareholders been traced to the act of a small tions in his own constituency and will pay special rates, viz., 15 cents girl in burning grass near then the adjoining division of Neath, Instead of 25 cents for first-class, doorway of a but A breeze Having been overnight the guest of of the two patrons of the expedic and 12 cents instead of 15 cents carried the burning grass inside Mr. J. D. Morgan at his villa near tion, Dr Beebe has named the for third-class. Аб there are the hut and set alight a dry heap Uniff, the ex-Prime Minister volcanoes Mounts Williams and English schools, at Aberdeen, the lying in a corner: The hut was motored in the early morning to an Whiton. He expresses the belief! company will issue monthly tickets soon ablaze and the fire spread to old farmhouse, Plus Watford, near there there is some connection be at $2 to studente proceeding to the others.

Caerphilly, where he breakfasted tween the eruptions, the Japanese school in town and special 'buseA will be run for them.

at eight o'clock, A thirty miles earthquakes, and changes in the drive brought Mr. MacDonald to Humboldt current. The Arcturus Cytmer, where he addressed as standing by the islands to meeting of miners. "I have just photograph the eruptions and be come over the mountains," he re-ready to give aid, if needed, to the plied to their greeting, and every-tiny settlement.on Albemarle. thing is beautiful and inspiring Before the discovery of the except the slate roofs of the habita volcanoes the Arcturus came upon tion of man

a gigantic tiderip where the Some people imagined, he said, Panama and Humboldt currents that the Labour Movement was a meet. Io the mass of foam which sordid affair, but is was nothing of extended for scores of miles the kind. The significance of their wallowed great numbers of whalee May Day festivals was that the land porpoises. Wreckage, cover Tabour Movement was filled with led with organisms and fish of all the spirit of spring. It represented sizes feeding on them, provided The happy unison at which they the scientists with an unexpected wers uling among the workers of opportunity for observation. For the world. Not the miner alone, the first time, they found there the not the engineer alone, not the eggs of halobates. the only marine Britisher alone, but the French-10sects in the world. The eggs 1ussian--all must be banded toge-credible numbers of jelly fish ther in one constructive purpose if coloured the water purple for

completely, they were to win the workers battle many square miles. The expedi

tion has caught, more than 150

licers in uniform or on duty.

Hitherto spite of its chequered career, the Kailong Co. has rep. dered public service by placing its vehicles, free of charge, at the dispasst of the Police when the strike was a progress, in coonec- and for Volunteer proceeding out tion with fres and serious crime to that part of the island.

The new company intends to

many problems of the distribution ask for land on which to erect a of flora. The difficulty was to get modern workshop and when the

to the country and to carry out concern is paying its way, it will

exploration in a very mounkanons establish a free English school in inclined to all kinda of stupid man, German, Czecho-Slovakian, are being hatched in tanks. fa

AIR MAIL STAMPS.

44 TO 4160 FOR SINGLE SPECIMENS.

RELICS OF EPIC FLIGHTS.

"You are very young, and are actions. But, as my daughter is so fond of you, you have my per- mission to marry her. must perform no more stupiditles But you

after that.”—-

Meygendorfer Blætter, Munich,

Newspapers were doing their species of fib, among them being best once again to raise the old transparent founders, deep-sea Russian bogey. We had had our mackerel with blue and yellow revolutions here; France had had lights, many kinds of jelly.fish, them; blood had run; wickedness and fish which live only on

jelly-Ash. had been done. Where there were TOLSTOY AT HIS DESK.

Dr. Beebe reports that while tyranny and oppression, revolution drifting in the neighbourhood of REMINISCENCES OF SURVI-minded men dispensing justice, edly, but vainly, attempted to was inevitable, and instead of calm the tide-rip, the Arcturus repeat

break through "the saturation of the

static" with its powerful wireless apparatus.

VING. DAUGHTER.

MR. E. BROOKS.

ROYALWARRANTS

CANCELLED...

DECORATIONS ÄNNULLED.

The following further notices appeared in the "London Gazette" St. James's Palace, S.W. 1,

May 5, 1925,

(These cross-word puzzles have been made by experts but our readers are warned to watch out for oddasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho;)

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HORIZONTAL

JBounding

Parechal pronoun

7-One of the great prophets.

'(Bible) (abbr)

TO Pacino .count State of U. #.

(abbr.)

11-A export in N. W. Algeria. 12--An Egyptian goddess 13 Abraded

14-A day of the wank (abbr.) 16-Boy's nama (familiar) 17—An imbialin

18 Personal pronous 20-Personal pronoun

22A tooth projecting from the surface of a wheel

23--A track of wasta fund 24-Prefix meaning "two" 25-Unit

26Enough (post.) 27-A male sheep 29--Cunning

·32-A broad afhile

34-To frost, as cake, with loing. 38-Prefix, meaning "toward"

VERTICAL 1-Actuated by a low, deský

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23-A great leader and lawglver

(Bible) 28-Homely

30-Yonder

38A wide-mouthed earthenware } 81—The egg-case of spiders, sta

33-Floating, as leaves of aquatic 40-To talk nonsense (slang)

pianta 41-Latituda north of the squator.34-To pass unnoticed

(abbr.)

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43-To baar; tolérate 44-A drink

4-Old English (atbr.) 40-A type measure (pl.) 43-A_maclay

61-Giant goddess. (Norse Myth.) 52-Latitude (abbr)

'63-And not

54-French word for "and" 56-Moral science

| 27—Strong wind (pl.)

20—interjection

43-Point of compass (abbr.) 44--Préposition

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47-Prafix meaning "son," in Boots

and Irish 4-Behold

50——Prefix, assimilated form of King

(The solution of the above cross-rd puzzle will appear in to-morrow's "China Mail" along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

PASSENGERS.

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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region. Much of the work last year Aberdeen. was conducted at high altitudes, and at times the party climbed to machines, the company had nine Before the advent of the Dennis 17,000 ft., und 18,000 ft.

When 'buses with solid tyres. As the the sds were collected there was authorities tosist on poeumatic

good deal of snow.

# iyres, this stipulation has been Among the discoveries was a complied with in the new 'buses, magnificent hardy rhododendron with full orange flowers. The bushes grew to a height of about 20 ft. They were beautiful not only for their bloom, but also for their brilliant bluey-green foliage, which could be seen miles away in the snow. Dwarf rhododendrons with roal penalet blossoms were

they had ruthless men going straight to their goal not caring about the another feature. Whole mountain

After her previous lectures. methods. slopes were covered ankle deep with

Tolstoy's daughter, Tatyan. this plant,

BRUTALITY TO WIN FREEDOM. An ivory-coloured Since the war the growth of the Lvovna Suchotin-Tolstoy, deliver Himalayan poppy,

was rather now collecting cult of air-posted an

"That," he said, "is the nature interesting lecture in of the beast. Do not let us deceive startling, and they had found some material has become phenomenal. German at the Russian Embassy ourselves, but understand that wonderful prininlas. One speci- Its ullerents to-day are numbered in Vienna, thereby opening a when masses of young virile men series to be given within the and women are pressed down by "nien grew to a height of 4 it. We it thousands 3 ft., was common. The flowers So writes Mr. Alan Turton, air scope of the Austrian Society Cars and rulers, then the inevitabla were remarkable not only for their post specialist, in "Air Posts of the for promoting cultura! and

Per D. S. L. 4.8. "Pren. Liocola" size and colour, but for their World," which he has just publish- economic relations with Russia consequence is brutality in order to

on June 11-Mr Chas. G. Alford, fragrance. A golden yellow variety ed, and which contains more than She stated that in his will bring freedom more within the

Mrs E. M. Alford, Mr Yip Bing, corried 100 flowers on one stem, and 100 illustrations.

Tolstoy provided that everybody Practical reach of the people.

Mr and Mrs C. Y. Dickson Chan, In his gallant attempt for the should have the right to print his

That is not justifying anything The following announcement Mrs C. Chan Fu, Mr Jackson Chan, it grew so profusely as to clog up streams. A sulphur yellow bloom Daily Mail, £10,000 prize in posthumous work, writings; and Sooner or later we have got to get 1 Issued from Buckingham Mr Thomson Chan, Mr and Mrs was extraordinarily fragrant and May 1910, which ended in a com- letters without paying royalties, into relations with Russia The Palace.

Wilson Chan, Mr Y, K. Chan, Ms filled the air with perfume. Aston- pulsory descent, the late Mr. He had fallen dangerously ill, and trade ions here have got to get The Warrants of Appointment Chan Chi-lan, Mr James Charling, ishing gentians 18 in. to 2 ft. Harry Hawker carried a special bag at that time said in a letter to his into relations with trade unions as Photographer to the King, the Mr Woo T. Ching, Mr and Mrs bigh had each five or six spikes of of letters. These were retrieved family : The fact that my writ- there. The one thing I warn you Queen, and the Prince of Wales Arthur H. Elliott, Master Arthur sea blue trumpet-shaped blooms, afterwards and are marketed now atings were sold for money has been about is that you must see to it Issued to Mr. Eraest Brooks have H. Elliott, Jr., Mine Rosemond P. They also had some good saxifrages, from £40 to £60 each.

one of the worst reflections for me that in getting into friendly rela been cancelled.

Elliott, Mr F. M. F. Gutierez, Miss In addition to the seeds of the Three pounds of mail was carried during the last years. But he did tions with Russian trade unions,

M. Gutierrez, Mr R. Hemmi, Mr plants described they had brought when the late Bir John Alcock and not definitely dispose of his work you do not eat youre ves off from

Wong Hin-lim, Mr K. Ho Wing, back bulbs of a pink lily of the Sir Arthur Written Brown on before the year of his death. He French and German trade union!

Mr W. Wong. Hong, Mr L. Ro Martagon type, which bore 12 to June 4-15, 1919 made the first then wanted his literary work ists.

Hop, Mr C James Walter, Mr Leo 20 flowers on one stem and was direct Transatlantic

to belong to the whole of Speaking, of what he described as seroplane

Kee, Mr Francix X. Lee, Mrs E. R. delightfully fragrant. The seeds fight, winning the Daily Mail

Lee, Mr Oliver Lee, Mr Herbert Were germinating well now that £10.000 prize. These Alcock

The King has directed that the Ling, Mr Ly H..Sang, Mr C. T. they were here, and this was very covers are now worth £36 apiece. that course was impossible accord policy was one of negativism. Award of the Medal of the Civil Shangn, Mr Y. Wai Young, Master SHADOWS BEFORE. satisfactory, as they had been three or four months on the journey and had to abandon the Atlantic Bight daughter Alexandra. In consider way satisfactory to both.

The Martinsyde machine which to leave all his writings to his convinced, could be settled now in a Order of the British Empire to Mr Y. L. Sae, Mr Ng B. Sum, Mr ing to the law did Tolstoy resolve Egypt, if handled properly, he was Division of the Most Excellent W. Chun Young, Mr C. Shirazce,

had passed through extremes of cold curried a bag containing about 60 ation of her illness, however, he

Ernest Brooks, which was gazetted Chan W. To, Mr K. S. Tec, Mr H. and heat. The seeds were kept letters. A fow of these were over ordered that, in the event of her shad Hindenburg, he asked, "Did and annulled, and his name erased M. Weinberg, Mr. Wong, Mr Referring to the election of Mar on June 3, 1918, shall be cancelled. B. Turbott, Mr Leo Weinberg, Mrs alive on the way to Calcutta by printed in manuscript Aerial demise, his posthumous work anyone expect that anyone das from the Register placing them in thermos flasks and Atlantic Mail J. A. B. the should pass over to his eldest would be returned ? The Allies,

***** Geo. W. Yipp, Mr RI P. Yung, Mr occisionally pumping in carbon- initials of the Bostmaster-General daughter Tatyana. During his lost he said, had been strengthening appointment of Ernest Brooks to P. Tin Yung, and Mr Chung PZee. The King has directed that the P. L. Yang, Mr P. Luen Yang, Mr dioxide.

of Newfoundland. They are priced years he could not be prevailed Nationalism in Germany by their be an Officer of the Civil Division Per P. & Oas. “Kashmir!! on Speaking of the exploration of at £100 each to-day.

Coronet. Theatr upon to publish anything, since he own policy. the Tsanpo, Gorge, Mr. Kingdon

of the Most Excellent Order of June 11-LE, G. Milnery, Lt. The Lover of Camille. might give way to the desire for Ward said that two Indian officers An error in, a single sheet of fame

"CUTTING TOO RESPECTABLE,'' the British Empire, dated January G. Clifford, Mr and Mrs J. Bald

June 11. World Thes penetrated part of the gorge 13 stamps in the early days of the Tolstoy used to write gatil late improved healthy, Mr. MacDonald annulled, and his name erased Hunter, Mr. A. A. Lewis, Pay, Lt Frompted by a reference to his I, 1920, shall be cancelled and win, Pay Comdr. Coombes, Mr P..

"Slave of Desire." years ago, but did not go right American air mail made those at night Every morning he would told a story of how on his recent from the Register.

Rees, Rev. E. Rigdon, RN, Mr H. June 11.Queen's Theatre through. He and Lord Cawder stamps worili £160 each.xive the MS. to the members of his holiday he took out an old pair of Mr. Brooks, who accompacted Goodier, Mr G. Adams, Mr N. Two Minutes to Go," were the first Europeans to make Lettera cried on the return family to copy out; on the follow trousers and found, when he put the King and Queen to India for Bonner, Mr. A. Walker, Mt G June 11-Star Theatre, the passage. With its windings flight of R34 from New York are ing morning the fair copy had to them on, they had a beautiful the Coronation Durbar, and latere Jamieson, Mr C. Davies, Mr G. Silent Command." the gorge would be nearly 100 miles listed at £88. in length. The river contracted

crease He happened to be photo the In August 1910, at Blackpool, would begin to alter, correct, graphed in these. It was then said Connaught on their South African Sternton. Mr G. H. Fletcher, Mr from normal breadth of 600 to Man White camed Ir prove, and complete, which fint he had deserted the workers tour, was the first of the ticht C. Chapman, Mr H. Patrickson, Mr June 20 Fortnightly dans 800 yards to a tumultuous torrent mail leg by seroplate in very bad inrocess he repeated on the next because the crease in his trousers photographers appointed to the W. Thatcher, Mr J. Campbell, Mr. at the Peak Club, 9.16 p.m... ́* 50 to 100 yards, wide. abruptly to a hoight varying from 7 miles. These rare pieces change chapters hitherto unknown, belong respectable. On Friday be went He held a commission and the Davies-Colley, Mr H. Morris, Mr. Asation's Afth tourname

Cliffs rose Weather conditions for a distance of day. This a large number of showed that he was getting for too Forces by the War Office and the A. D. Adams, Mr. R. Burdell, Mr

A. Carolo, Mr JW.Forbes, Mr G. June 18-Hongkong Admiralty during the late war. 1,000 to 2,000 ft., shove the water, hands at £10.

ing to "My Childhood," "Resurrecinto most respectable company, and and the full depth of the gorge Air-borne cards in connection tion," and the Kreuzer-Sonata, had since read in the nowepapers rank of lieutevant.

and Mr G. Widdowson, Mesurs the reason, at Theatre Royal would about 10,000 ft., whore it with Mr. Grahame White's "Daily and many versions of short stories that he had turned up in a bat cut through the Himalayas. It Mail water-plane tour of the south and ideas, were found among mucis worn, and a pair of trousers was only occasionally that the party cousin 1913 fetchi as much as £12. This posthumous papers. It free sould get down to the rives and During the Tempoe light aequently occurred that he puz some not pressed for some time mostly they were climbing up and plane meeting of 1923. Mr J. F. work aside and did not resume Now, what am I to do?" he down the cliffs. The scenery was James carried about 125 lettera in long time after; often be worked asked: How old must my bat be?

edition: finished

test Mrs C. Reumpel, Mr C. Gardner, *"*"superb,” and at one point enter his machine frm Dympus at the same M-Seforiyan Mayerhet and the inner of Cymmer fr

Ha to Boston carad.right-down to the water Hastingdaigh, dipping them in a allowing it to he, printed he that respect? When-you-have.../ of their journey Northward Bell, Mr AA Balmanos, Ma Rumours had been heard of a great bag near the post-office.

was very economičar in the use of settled that would you prefer me Tight Commander Byrd, who will 8. Pillaim,” MiseTM M. Watcho fall of the river somewhere in the covers, dened by the plot are writing papes, he would sore to go shout in trousers that are make the trip to th gorge, but they discovered only two priced at £4.

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