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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

∙1927.

LIEUT. KOPPEN.

STUNT FLYING.

MANILA CARNIVAL.

'PROPOSED EASTERN AIR SERVICE.

THE CRAZE FOR SENSATION.

INTERVIEW IN SINGAPORE.

FRENCH EDITOR'S VIEWS.

Lieut. Koppen, who with an-:

Major L. A. M. Jones, Economic other pilot named Frankis, pass- Editor of "Le Temps," writes in the ed through Singapore on October "Sanday Graphic:-

the Holland-Java flight, carrying the first air mail to the east arrived in Singapore on Octo-| ber 17 on the return journey,

9 on

of the homeward journey.

Two great French chefs once broke up a life-long friendship over

BUSINESS MEN POOL 100,000 PESOS.

PLANS FOR FEBRUARY.

KANDYAN KING.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE UNDER DISCUSSION.

EDUCATION OF YOUNGER FAMILY-

Prominent Manila business men, At the request of the Com- headed by Willam Anderson, con-mittee appointed to report on the tractor, and Nicasio Osmena of the question of financial assistance People's Bank and Trust company, to the descendants of the last have pooled P100,000 to hold a car- King of Kandy, the Government nival in February, 1928. The full of Ceylon have, now applied to the amount is on hand.

Madras Government for a report. on the present condition. of mem- bers of this family.

The organisers of the movement met at the Plaza Hotel on October 21, says the "Manila Times" and

upproved plans for the festival.

a discussion as to the value of pepper in cooking; one maintained that it helped the appreciation of Lieut. Koppen, who experienc-fine foods; the other, that it tend-This is to be a strictly business their alttings on receipt of the The Committee will resume ed no trouble of any kind on the ed to detroy the finer perceptions proposition and will be for one oc- report and it is proposed that outward trip, had the same good

casion only.

members of the Committee should · report to make, on the first stages of the sense of taste.

who is to act as secretary-treasurer, obtain first-hand information on According to Nleasto Osmena, undertake a visit to Tanjore to this is not a movement against the the subject. carnival association, and is being done only because we think wesult of an appeal made in June The present enquiry is the re- can make money and give the mer last by the present head of the chants an opportunity to do bust family, T. Venkatarama Sinhala ness, and the people what they Raja, for a grant of Rs. 2.500 want.",

Officials of the carnival associatowards the expenses of the mar movement. Carlos Barretto, carni- tion co-operating with the riage of his son.

The Finance Committee, while

Bro

Now, there is a kind of "moral The flight was to be a test of pepper" which the public of 1927 the possibilities of a regular has acquired the habit of taking Dutch air mail and passenger ser- by the spoonful, so to speak, and vice to the East, a proposal for regarding the harmfulness of this the institution of which is now brand of mental seasoning there under consideration before the can be no doubt. Dutch Parliament. It is of in-. A flavour of “naughtiness" in terest therefore to record that so certain books and plays is not al- Har the flight has been attended demned, for it helps some of us to together to be' despised or con- by no untoward circumstances. nasimilate The

As stated in the "Straits otherwise we sometimes find rather plans.

Good" which val architect, is to prepare the granting the application, felt that

Councillors Guevara and a final settlement should be made" Times" some time back, the pro-a heavy diet. It also acts as an Regalado and local newspaper men in the matter of recurring claims posed air service will be, so con- excellent contrast to the cool attended the Plaza Hotel meeting made by members of the family, trived that flight will be by day soothingness of better things-like

It was decided to hold the carni and after a conference at Queen's only, and the charge by passen the pepper on the tarts in the Ara-val at the old carnival site if the House, the present Committee

bian Nights story.

city will grant the permission,

was-appointed. Promoters of the Service. But we are growing to need this Councillor Guevara promised to De Heer Albert Plesman, direc- unwholesome flavour more and work toward this end. tor of the Royal Dutch Air Ser- more. It is leading us into a kind event the permission is not grant- vice, which if the proposed ser- of blind scramble for artincialed, it will be held at Santa Ana, vice materialises, will be the pro- strange brands of excitement, both stimulation and to the adoring of moters, is in the Dutch Indies of which, as history has proved, are conferring with the Governor-the fatal forerunners of national General of the D.E.I. on the sub-decline. ject, and was one of those who re- ceived the aviators on their ar- rival in Batavia.

ger will inclule hotel costs,

The First Machine.

Appetite for Excitement.

Heroism in Daily Life.

auditorium. using the Santa Ana cabaret as the

- In the Another proposal which has already been discussed is that the Ceylon Government should un- dertake the education of the younger members of the family, if there are any of a school-going age. It is learned that members of the Committee are generally agreed that the pensione now paid should be increased, but their final decision will depend on thei report from the Madras Govern- ment,

Sharea will be sold. At the close of the festival, proste will be divid- ed equally among the stockholders The group will break up and let the carnival association continue

work,

"LAW OF KHAMA.”

RECHUANA PARABLE TOLD TO,

MR. AMERY.

bill of

NORTH BORNEO'S PROSPECTS.

H. E. THE GOVERNOR· ·

INTERVIEWED.

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The

NEWSPAPERS TO-DAY.

HOW IT DIFFERS IN VARIOUS

COUNTRIES.

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We are becoming gluttons-avidits The machine was specially built for this stimulating pepper of ex- for this flight with money collect-clted sensations and sensational ed for the purpose by the com- excitement.

Even our once healthy appetite mittee appointed by the Dutch Government to go into the prosit.

for sport is becoming affected by and cons of the proposal. Of in-sterical public delight over these The present shameful and terest is the fact that the engines glory-seeking trans-orean

'death-

Mr. Amery's visit to the Bamang- uscd are Armstrong-Siddeley. nights-the frequent disasters pro-

wato tribe of the Bechuana at The machine is equipped with voked by high-speed maniacs, the Serowe was notable, Hays the three of these, and is a product of recent tragic deaths of certain Johannesburg correspondent of thi Foch Aeroplane Works. racing motorists and the appalling "The Times," for the strong de-DEVELOPMENT ON SOUND LINES.

Lieut. Koppen resumed his list of Alpine accidents-makes j sire expressed by the chiefs for the Light at 6.30 a.m. on October 18, one wonder how many of us really maintenance of the Imperial von- His Excellency Mr. J. L. Hum- His next stopping place will be know the difference between fool- nection.

phreys, C.B.E., Governor of British Bangkok,

hardiness and courage.

Chief Tsekedi, the Regent of the North Borneo, who is at present

Government It requires bravery to win the Bamangwato, expressed gratitude staying at

House, V.C.. or to serve the cause of for Mr. Amery's visit. In former Singapore, gave some interesting When asked by a Press man human progress, by trying upon times, he said, Mr. Amery was details with regard to the develop- about his plane, Lieut. Koppen oneself a dangerous and unknown acquainted with them on paper ment of British North Borneo, in said that it was the linest machine serum or testing a new form of only; now he knew them having an interview with a "Free Press" he had ever flown. It was the parachute; but to do a short-arm seen their faces.*

representative on October 18. finest machine in the world. balance on the parapet of

The country has now turned, the He expressed the satisfaction of a "Give me the Fokker with British 60-storey building is merely fool his people at being within the corner" said Mr. Humphreys. We engines and I am certain I shall hardiness--in other words, the British Empire. They had griev-have a new President, Sir Neill break all world records. Yea, they burdiness of a fool.

ances, but these were minor things Malcolm, and the Court of Direc are British engines the Arm.

Wisely adventurous pioneers that were unavoidable in the ad-tors have now revised the financial Gold Prospecting on East Coast.

A good philosophical article is there must always be, and they are

Returning to the question of min- strong-Siddeley Linx. Trouble?

vance of n people. Several head-arrangements and put them on

sure of a place in an Indian paper: perfectly sound footing. The re-erals, Mr. Humphreys said that at Not a bit of it. They have done an honour to their country. Captain men gave short addresses.

im- F. T. Courtney is one of these. A notable parable was drawn by venue last year was a record, and the present moment there was a syn-

English readers would turn 30,000 miles already without

patiently from "such stuff." When I read the now almost daily one chief named Peto. He said we shall almost certainly at least dicate engaged in prospecting for giving trouble and they will do list of missing transatlantic for that in the time of Khama, guinea equal that record this year." gold on the East Coast. He had

The French leader writer pr. another 30,000.

SOME COMPARISONS.

dinarily signs his articles. Speaking of the plans for the seen the prospectus and data last |transpacific) "planes I am moved to fowl took refuge in the

The Mr. Allerman who is one of ask myself who benefits by these Serowe, Khama ordered that they Humphreys said the territory had selves as very hopeful, but that was development of the country, Mr. month, and they epressed them-

signed article is coming, or bas the best mechanics in Europe will things.

The great writers of Action sre

come, into vogue in England, with were not to be killed. Dogs hunt-suffered in the past from insuffi-characteristic of most prospectuses really the best expounders of their disastrous results to the dignity of see to that. Yes, the machine it

ing on the feld were to be des-cient communications. In the early he had met. self is of the same type used by

journalism. troyed.

country's history. In four lines of The opium traffic was entirely "King John Shakespeare has given

To sign in France is a privilege the famous American Comman- Quite wrongly, as I think, it When engles came and alarmed days of the Company, they bad

hopes of finding minerals. Where controlled in North Borneo by the more information about the under-won, and retained only by good der Byrd when he flew across the seems to be the accepted belief that the guinea fowl Khama sont some minerals were found there would of Geneva Convention and they were lying causes of the English oured simply as a journalist.

work; the clever jourzallet is hon- Arctic and crossed the Atlantic men are braver than women-pro- one or went himself and shot the

course, be an immediate revenue moving exactly in step with Malaya ecclesiastical reformation than one recently, but Byrd had a Wright bably because there are more re-engles, so that the guinea fowl live which could be put into develop-as regarded the abolition of opium. can find in a library of controver

Signatures First. engine.

corded instances, of men's bravery in pence,

In England the signature is now than there are of women's heroic The birds ery out when alarm-ment. The Federated Malay States The whole traffic was now complete- sial theology. The Wright is a good engine deeds. And here it should be re-ed and protection is afforded! was built up on mineral revenue, ly under Government control, and So for the understanding of no- much more important than the But it's not a stayer. It is a fine membered that the woman who them."

The revenue obtained from tin gave they anticipated no difficulty what- tional mentality at any given work above it. A recent sugees- This was the law engine for a 2,000 mile dash but flirts with death in a crazy search Kbama, carried

of the Government the means imme-poever in carrying out the obliga- moment a daily newspaper hot from ful "scoop" has been the exclusive on by the late diately to set about making roade tions nto which they entered in ac- the press is more instructive than engagement of a notorious swindler for consistent hard going give for novel emotions is not a hereine. Chief Sekgoma and now by the and railways. It was the same in cordance with the Geneva Conven- volume of carefully meditated to write his experiences of penat me a British engine on a Fokker. On the other hand, there is much Regent Trekedi. You cannot beat it."

Trengganu, where he had spent tion. They had o actual Reserve essays. The newspaper is a mirror servitude. real heroism in daily life. The

They (the Bamangwato) were eight or nine years. They imme- Fund such as the Malayan Govern which reflects with uncanny fidelity fashion for the penny illustrated. A short while ago it was the Trans-Atlantic Flights. stoical courage of the miners' the guinea fowl, crying out when diately obtained revenue from the ment.

the pissing show danger threatened. They had been minerals the country was so rich in, Discussing trans-Atlantic wives, for example, is every bit as

of popular Gambling was another thing they thought.

papers at once the droge and the flights Lieut. Koppen said: "They great in its own particular way as afforded protection first hy Queen and were able to put that revenue had now decided to abolish.

A learned, French friend once

most profitable product of English are foolish. It is not a fair test that of their men and, believe me, Victoria, then by King Edward buck into the country in develop-Court of Directors had approved a gave me, says I Charles Molony journalism, to announce that next of a machine and proves nothing, there is no foolhardiness in the VII, and now by King George V, ment. In the early days in North scheme which he had drawn up for in the Madras Mail, a discourse on Saturday's issue would be edited

Borneo, they had great hopes of them early this year, wherebly Americans. I think they are quite right in miner; he is a plain hero with a and for this they felt gratitude.

"They are a strange

by charming Tootsie Twinkle-toes capital. "H."

After Mr. Amery had replied, finding minerals, and did find in gambling would be abolished in people," he said: "material refine of the Frivolity. stopping the flights,

The bad effects of what the doc- the Chief said there was one word small quantities tin, gold and iron; three stages in the course of three ment they have brought to the last A queer competition in Inanity, "We hope to be of use to the tora call high-speed living on the that he and all his people wished but up to the present they had never years. From the first of January pitch of perfection; and yet, spirit- and an acid, if unintentional, com- aviators of the world by the ac nerves and constitutions--not only to hear, and that word they had found them in workable quantities, next year, it would be confined en-

ment on English taste and intellect. complishment of our

record of the present generation, but also not heard: the assurance that they the result being that the country tirely to the Chinese, and confined they are savages." flight.

generations to come amount to would always be incorporated in has had to look forward to agricul-still further toseven centres, where Bill) had engaged some Russian newspaper had a very frigid recep- The late Colonel Cody, ("Buffalo An essay in this line by a French The public opinion of the world selling our birthright of Empire the British Dominions and be un-tural development, which of course there was a considerable resident horsemen to perform in his Wilation. is against such needless, risk of for a mess of pottage.

der British protection.

was slow, and could not be proceed Chinese population. From the first. West Show; and one of these men The Englishman is just; and Mr. Amery gave this assurance.ed with until the Government itself of January 1929, it would be still died on the voyage life and after the first flight, it Empire needs and the call of un-

to America, this quality is reflected in his news- developed into a. foolhardy race known lands have bred deeds of The Chief smiled with great satis-had laid out money in making som-further confined to the two capitalHis body was packed in ice to awaft papers. Indian and Irish paper

faction.

towns of Sandakan and Jesselton, burini ashore. į munications. for glory and fame.

can be ungenerous at times; some- Agricultural Areas. "The time has not yet come--!

and at the end of December 1990,

times they will attribute discredit- a white rhinoceros for the Zoo or

The Court of Directors had now it would be abolished entirely. This may never

able motives to straightforward come for crossing setting out to drown oneself and TRUE TEST OF MERIT, approved a scheme of road and gradual process would enable the the Atlantic in small machines," one's companions in mid-ocean, or

An American newspaper report | action, or refuse credit to good You judge a man not by what he bridle path development that would Chinese community to adapt itself Straits Times."

breaking motor speed records (and premises to do, but by what he has be spread over the next ten years, and educate, up to the change, and ed the occurrence thus: "Cossacks work fairly and squarely done. An English, Comment, on Judicial Trials somebody's neck in the doing of it) done. That is the only true test by the end of which beriod the best would avoid the difficulties and arrive-one on ice."

French papers can be cruel; and are things of any real value to the Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Judged agricultural areas would be opened dangers, with regard to the police French, Irish, Indian mob quite

no superior.up nation at large, or merely the un by this standard has

for development. There was and detective forces, which a sud- conceivably might wreck a news-apparently there is no legal check paper office in reprisal for sich in France on licence of expression. necessary risking and wasting of People everywhere speak of it in the plenty of magnificent land behind den charge would involve

highest terms of praise. For sale Sandakan and in the neighbourhood Distinctly Favourable Prospects.

brutal vulgarity and inhumanity. All newspapers written in English nationally valuable lives..

of Tawau on the east coast. The Concluding, Mr. Humphreye said

And yet a single headline some refrain, honourably from any at- work of tracing these roads had al- that with the abolition of gaming, times finshes forth the pawky tempt to prejudice judicial trials, ready begun, and there was an im- and with a fixed road scheme for humour that is a charming Ameri- and English speaking Courts deal mediate response in the demand for development for ten years, and can characteristic.

very sharply with occasional de- land. An extended scheme like this new

terms which were French news reporting, I think, Jinquents. with the certainty of continuation, guaranteed to remain unchanged in bad but French newspaper reduced costs had enabled the land for a period of ten years, the pros articles are ordinarily very well, and survey department to make pects for agricultural development written. The French journalist in proper arrangements for dealing and general progress were dia happy in the range of subjects on with applications. The Court had tinctly favourable, The country which he may write. guaranteed the money nécessary for had a great advantage in being

The "London Times"

And no literary or pictorial de- this development, and in connection practically free from crime, with an speciality of one article (among vice was omitted which might ren- with this the terms for land had industrious, indigenous population, three or four) on some subject under him odious and contemptible.in been revised and new terms were und having a considerable settle- connected with the happenings of the eyes of all men-including the now in force.

ment of substantial Chinese small- the day; but as a rule the English jury The terms for land for small holders and farmers, so that the leader writer is restricted to com- holdings not exceeding fifteen acres problem of the country was "slow ment on what appears in the news were called "peasant terms and and quiet development on bound columns. under these, there was no premium lines," and a very low rent for a period of The connection between Malaya The French writer may select as to say in momentary heat much

The French Writer. ten years. The second class was and British North Borneo has never known as "proprietor terms and been so close as it le at the present his subject an international naval more than they really mean; covered areas between fifteen and time. His Excellency Sir Hugh conference, or the teaching of Frenchmen at once provincial one hundred acres. For these there Clifford, Governor of the Straits elocution at the Conservatoire Na minded and intellectual sometimes was a low premium and the same Settlements, was Governor of Bri- tional, The Frenchman, that is to coldly cruel and coldly unjust, rent as that provided for the peatlan North Borneo in the year 1900) say, the French newspaper reader. sant class. The terms for areas and BB Governor of the Straits Set- fe at once narrow-minded and in-, exceeding one hundred acres, were tlements he is Brileh Agent for tellectual.A MAVENUE called "company terms. They British North Borneo. Sir Neill He likes to know the latest newe involved a low premium of one, two Malcolm, Presdent of the Court of about his own parish pump; bat For three dollars (the maximum) Directors, was General Officer Com- he also appreciatos; clever - dia- per acre, according to the situation manding the Troops in the Braits cussion of abstract questions which and quality of the land, and a rent Bettlements: from 1920 to 1925, may not rconcern” him directly at Lof fifty cents an scre fór six years, while I myself have been a member alt am inclined to think that 82 an acre for the next four years, of the Malayan Civil Ervice since Indian interest in this gensa in and thereafter. $3 an acre

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* wider than English,

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COLOUR BAR.

BAN' ON NATIVE MOTOR DRIVERS RESENTED.

Johannesburg, Sept. 16. The executive council of the African National Congress has sought legal opinion to test the legality of the Motor Vehicle (Further Amendment) Ordinance, which prohibits natives from driv- ing motor vehicles, except those owned by non-Europeans.

The ordinance was discussed to- day by the executive, who, declared that it would throw hundreds of natives out of employment and create a feeling of hostility againat white people.

It was pointed out by several speakers that natives had in the past helped in the development of the industries of the country, and consequently were entitled to the fruits of their labour.

The prohibition of men driving motor vehicles solely on? grounds Hof colour was a gross injustice and ́siviolation of the principles of

Christianity and fairplay.

After a long discussion the coun- all, adopted a resolution protesting Against the ordinance, which, they fargued, would add fuel to the falready fpming: native unrest in the country, tand, would certainly "accentuate race hostility.

which England is rightly proud;

but one wonders whether obtaining

everywhere.

RESIDENT OF AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR

TAKES AN AIR JOY RIDE Trus

Wüllam Grech, President of the American Federation of Labor (left), and, Trubed: Davison, Asolatant Secretary of War in charge:of, aviation, photographed at: Boling: Field, ons of the most advanced

· Army Air Corps stations in the United States. Mr. Green was invited by Secretary (Davison to inspectsthe Ariny dying field and glye film * an opportunity to fly in one of the latest Army planes. His pilot, wire, Llaut. "Léner Maitland, U, 8.] N., who kilccessfully made a "non-stop flight to Hawalk, VABA

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land.

"One on Ice."

Recently in: France a man was accused of strangling his mistress; from the first day to the last of the trial he figured in the papers as "The Strangler." makes a

It would be a reasonable deduc- tion from wide newspaper reading that Englishmen are alow, thinking, cautious, impartial; Irishmen and Indians suspicious, passionate, apt

POLAR CAKE

TTS QUAEM THAT