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MONDAY, MAY 5, 1930.

„A GERMAN'S TRAVELS

-IN TIBET.

TREMENDOUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF HUMAN ENERGY & ZEAL.

LIFE IN A CELLAR.

KAISER AND DREYFUS.

OVERRULED BY HIS CHANCELLOR.

THE CHINA

MAIL.

WHEN THE PYRAMIDS WHEN WHITE WAS

WERE BUILT.

PAST AND PRESENT: RITUAL OF THE FORMAN'S WHIP,

THE ECONOMIC LASH.

BLACK.

LAWYER'S 2-HOUR SPEECH

FOR WRONG MAN.

A Ceylonese lawyer, Mr. H. V. Perera, recently argued a case for more than two hours In the Appeal Court, Colombo, and then discover ed that he had been retained by the other side.

WATER RETURN

Lavel and Storage'of water in Re- servoirs on April 1, 1900:- ·

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.

1920

- 1930 SP PB 17′′B Tytam Tytam Byewash .. 24'10"B. 22' 0"B Tytani Intermediate 30′′B 55' 7"B Tytam Tuk

00'11"B 53′ 5′′B Wong Nei Chung 35' 5"B 26' 3" Pokfulam

30' 7"B 17′ 7′′E (Note: B. denotes "Below Over to dismiss the appeal, but they re-flow"; A. denotes "Above Overflow"; marked that he had nearly convinced denotes "Level with Overflow."] them that the appellant should aue-

Storage in millions and decimals of gallons.

He immediately asked the judges

Tylam Tylam Byewash Tytam Tuk Tytam Intermediate Wong Nol Chung Pokfulam

1029 229.27. .73

179.30

1930 272.35 1.07 14,50

38.42

497.00

5.08

20.00

761.10

1.88 7.00

Total

457.20

Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de cimals, of gallons during the month of March.

Paris, Apr. 5.. New light on the obscure German

One afternoon this year, writes end of the Dreyfus affair is thrown Arthur Ransome in the Manchester "Om mini pudme hum"-this is by Dr. Bruno Weil, historian and Guurdian, before I returned from the most splenin prayer of the legal adviser to the British and the warmth of Egypt to Britain's Tibetans, intoned by thousands at French Embassies in Gerlin, in obstinate late winter, I got out of the highest religious holiday, the statement pultished by the “Matin.” a motor-car on the edge of the desert Butter Festival Alling the air like Dr. Weil, who has consulted the and moved about a quarter of a the monolonous roar of the sea.archives of the Wilhelmstrasse and mile in space and about 5,000 years Through all of Tibet, from the is writing a book on the Dreyfus in time. I moved in three dimen- ceed. Chinese boundary to the tropical [cusa, shows that a word from the sions, up and down, across and The court, however, directed that fields of India, these mystically German Chancellor, 'Prince von round sandhills, and then auddenly, the appeal should be reheard before sacred words accompany the ex-Babaw, would have saved Dreyfus in the fourth dimension, time, 5,000 two other judges. plorer who wanders over the Inhos-at his first trial. The Chancellor, years backwards in a single second. pitable plateaus of that land of he says, then knew that Dreyfus and was thus enabled to be present part of the work of these very early was innocent and that the culprit at the building of the Pyramids.builders in stone. I was surprised mystery.

This is why Wilhelm Fitchner (guilty of communicating French This extraordinary experience was to see futed pillars in such work gives that rather unintellible title military documents to the German the last of a series of illustrations and wondered why they had taken to his book on Tibet ("Verlag | Military Attuche in Paris) was of what seems to be a principle of the pains to weaken their coluning Brockhaus"); not until we have Major Esterhazy, an officer in the human progress, of which the first by such elaborate ornament, until 1

his same accompanied the author on

department of the War

was the photograph of a new rail-learned that the mud-buildors were voyage of exploration do we grasp Office as Captain Dreyfus, Rut its significance. A horribly cold the German Chancellor held that for an Egyptian dignitary descending of tall reeds to support their light way engine, the second the sight of accustomed to use upright bundles plateau is Tibet, with but scanty reasons of State a. Government from a mechanical chariot at the roofs, and perceived that those who Consumption

1929 1930 pasture land, and that only in should not give away its

176.38 216.01 secret gates of the Chamber of Depties were building for the first time in Estimated population 430,840 441,200 Summer, for sheep, yaks and a few agents.

in Cairo, the third some, fragments this new material, stone, were so Consumption per cattle. There men live a poverty- Maitre Labori, Dreyfus's counsel, of stone walls, and the fourth some held by the old tradition that they

head par day

13.1 stricken existence at a height of telegraphed to the Kaiser, then in tuted pillars. The principle is that made reed bundles in stone for that Main Districts were disconnected and Services to houses in the Rider three to five kilometres above sea Strasbourg, asking that permission man does not immediately perceive purpose, fluting them to copy the a supply was given by public street level; the enuntry is practically de- be given to the German Military the implications of his discoveries.reads, carving capitals to represent fountains only during March, 1929, void of vegetation. The first Euro-Attache, Major Schwarzkoppen, who Applying something to a new use, the drooping heads of reads, and

From March 1 to 31, 1930, a 12. pean to risk his life by crossing its know the truth only too well, to he does not at once free his mind even carving raised belts round the given to all Rider Main Districts hours supply (8 a.m. to 6 pm,) was frontier, which theretofore had give evidence at the trial at Rennes from the thought of the purpose for middle of each pillar to take the Principal Mains closed been closed to every stranger, was The Kaiser.

B p.m. to Sven Hedin. Now, however, Tibet graphed to Prince von Bulow in ing in

tele which it was formerly made. Workplace of the wrappings that had 6 am.

a new material. he still held the bundle of reeds together, From March 25 Shing Mun Water has become fashionable, in a man Berlin. Von Bulow was adamant thinks in terms of the material to

From the fluted pillars I went on of the City.

was supplied to the Central District ner of speaking. America has and the Kaiser submitted. but in one which he is accustomed. sent

to crawl down a long, narrow, low, great expeditions thereof his marginal notes on the reports

the secrat equipped with

sloping passage into All conceivable of the case which he received, Wil scientific lustraments and suppli-helm 11, wrote. "This Dreyfus 13

chambers of a pyramid, to light

innocent."

ed with large funds. The expedi tion of Joseph F. Roek is describ

embarrassed,

Later, Schwarzoppen wrote

his widow.

ed in the National Geographic confession, which has just been Magazine in an article illustrated with many pictures, Dr. Filchner's lished by Frau Schwarzkoppen, book also contains excellent photo- graphs of interesting national types and characteristic lands- capes.

Privations.

Dr. Wilhelm Filchner, a German

tions them by name-and the list [is very long.

Reports of Filchner's

The Rocket's Funnel, What was remarkable about the

Now

photograph was that the locomotive

15.3

KOWLOON WATER WORKS

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fragments of magnesium wire, and

1029 to admire stone walls that imitated

1030 Kowloon Reservoir 32′ 3′′B 5' 0"B came out of the pyramid that I was It was when I hanging tapestry.

Shak Lai Pui

Reservoir

8' 0"B shown that what is true of man's Reception Reservoir 22′′E progress in engines, earriages, and

Storage in millions and decimals architexture is also true of the

of gallons.

1929 1930 changes in his relations with his Kowloon' Reservoir 99.25 802.40

shown in it had no furinel. of taking a stationary engine and a whoh Stephenson conceived the iden boiler, setting them or a carriage, and so connecting them with its wheels that they could move them- selves about, he still thought of his boljer as a stationary boller, needing | kind. a long funnel to ensure a draught.

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Consumption of water in Kowloon easing in millions and decimals of gallons

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The Rocket had a very pronounced I had been thinking of the human Reception Reservoir reached Europe; for a long time chimney as might be made.

death funnel, as near a thing to a tall labour that had gone to the Grad- building of these colossal it was thought that he had been ally funnels grew shorter and monuments

of of dead kings, murdered. He had to pass through shorter, atrophied away. But until the gangs of slaves the territory of the Ngoloks, quite recently the Cannel was the their work by the singing of during the month of March. savage predatory tribe.

1629 But as first thing noticed by little boys chanties and urged to effort by the Consumption 100.37 1030

dismayed, and went ahead, al-sinca Filchner's expedition was mentary funnel, small

though his funds were inadequate far from rich in appearance he and he was supplied with only the escaped their lust for loot. harest necessities of life and scientific research. But he had an

Great Privation.

por

114.80.

geologist, physicist and explorer set himself the task of tracing magnetic currents in Contral Asin. à locality of which nothing was known in this connection. In 1923, when he started out, Germany was these Ngotoks are Buddhists, with who

drew pictures of locomotive whips of their overscers. Walking Estimated population 190,480 174,520 not in a position to defray the ex whom murder is contrary to re-engines. Even the monster engines round the base of the pyramid, 1 Consumption penses of an expeilition such as ligious principles, Filchner Was

20.7 head per day...

21,2 his. Filehaer, however, was unsafe short of actual combat.

of the last few years have a rudi- came, with my friends, toward the And

Constant Supply in all districts but excavations that are being made by during March, 1920 and 1930. adequate, $3 the dragon archaeologists to-day. Suddenly, The Government Analyst's reports saki of his tail. (If there are not far ahead, among the sandhills, show that the quality of the water is

who do any

not know the I heard a rhythmical, grunting satisfactory,

Total rainfall: March 21, 1929, dragon to whom I allude, who do noise. We turned a corner. Close 2.02; March 31, 1030, 10.89. ardent idealism and an iron will Previous to this Filchner had not know Kai Lung, his "Wallet" | before us was an endless hurrying when he set forth to face the hor.pent a winter of great privation and his "Golden Hours," let them crowd of Egyptian labourers, : rible privations of the next few in the vicinity of the enormous immediately obtain possession of shortskirted, bare-footed, hurrying, years in that poverty-stricken land mountain cloister Kumbum. Fre- these works of Ernest Bramah and tottering under the burdens they where aid of any sort was impos-quently his food consisted of only be thankful that by reading this carried on their heads from the sible to find, where religious a little milk; he lived in a cellar article they have learnt the way to diggings. As they swayed along Esher Place estate, Surrey, the fanaticism and weird superstition whose windows were merely holes; a perennial fountain of felicity. For they sung a long, grunting, heavily home of many famous people, has combined to meet every stranger his hands and feet were frozen; he a hundred years, I say, designers of punctuated, rhythmical song. The been purchased by the committee of

fell seriously ill. But with hostility.

he locomotives have thought in terms song was said to be improvised and the Shaftesbury Homes, and is to When he travelled

dome through found

faithful and self of stationary bollers, until at last topical, and at the moment to have take the place of their home at Russia and Siberia he was firat sacrificing friends-a Chinese, Lu, the truth has not so much burst as some reference to the spectators, Sudbury, Middlesex. subjected to persecution as a spy; an American missionary family, a crept upon them that moving and I dare say, five thousand years. but later the Soviet Government British physician. They nursed boller can very well do without ago, It made complimentary refer- proved helpful to him. When he him and collected funds for him funnel at all.

ence to the King when he came to crossed the Chinese border he had so energetically that by the end

The Court Chamberlain (if that see what progress was being made exactly 6 rubles left of the money of the winter they were able to was indeed his office) drove up to in the excavations for his tomb, he had taken along. His expedi- give him about $500, which he used the Chamber of Deputies (not into At intervals along the route of the tion consisted of two covered to purchase equipment and sup the yard; that honour was reserved hurrying labourers stood the fore wagons, one of which he drove plies for the next lap of his for the King) seated in a motor-car men, tall Arabs, each with his long himself, ils exceedingly sensitive journey.

It was of an interesting type. It whip. I had gone back five thou scientific apparatus, with which he Now he was joined by an Aus was exactly like the victorias that sand years in good earnest. And intended to measure the magnetic tralian, Jack Mathewson, who later people of my age knew in childhood then I realized that the picture was tops of the was of great service to the expedi- and people of a younger generation na instructive as it was monstrous, wagons--this in order that it tion by reason of his connections have had few opportunities of ob- and that I had here another Ul- might be protected from the worst with the Viceroy of India. For in serving. Ita driver sat on a high|ustration of the way in which the of the jolt. Filchner adapted addition to all the difficulties and box in front, unprotected from the mind of man lags after him... himself to the mode of life prac sufferings to which practically wind. The Chamberlain, magni-whips were in constant motion. ticed by the natives, living on tea every explorer in savage, unchart-ficent in gilt uniform, sat in a wide Their owners shook hem, swung and butter and a disgusting sorted territory is exposed. Filchner armchair seemingly connected with them, and played with them. Now of dumpling that is created by long was prey to the greatest fear of the box by the footboards only, and then a foreman would allow his hand-kneading of a mixture of all. He was not certain whether The victoria was an elegant wasp whip to touch the skirt of one of the tsamba, butter and tea. As wash- he would be permitted to travel

His book wasted form of horse-drawn vehicle. hurrying, chanting slaves. ing is a custom foreign to the de- through Tibet at all. lightful Tibetans we can easily im- contains some thrilling and even This motor-car was just that, only took the slightest notice. agine the colour which this ap- dramatic pages that describe how moved by a concealed motor instead perfectly clear that this was a piece petizing food assumes after con- the lamas agitated against him be-of by a pair of horses. The driver's of ritual, and that the burden- siderable kneading. The wooden cause he might pull the sun down sent, on that bigh box, had a pre-bearers had nothing to fear from bow! from which it is eaten must to the earth by means of his carious, unbalanced look about it. the whip. I knew, too, that nons of be licked clean; every one carries telescope and thus cause great heat Something was missing from in them were slaves. Another Lash That something was than one made of leather urged his bowl with bim day and night, and the drying up of large streams front of it. keeping it hidden inside his fur (which occurred every year). Poor the horses.

currents. canvas

The

No one It was

I looked at it and re-them to their labour, and that was coat. Meat as an article of food is Dr. Filchner, sitting in his tent membered other early motor-cars at one of later invention, the economic very rare among the Tibetans, and with frozen hands and feet, broken which horses shied, as well they lash that whistles in your ears and green vegetables do not seem to ribs and gall-atóna colic, did not might, for they were so like horse mine. Five tubeands years ago thrive in the icy heights. of their dare use his telescope except at drawn carriages that any horse the diggers in this place shared country,

night, when he could adjust it at might be forgiven for thinking that domesticated urinals security

a hole in his celling and thus ob-he saw in front of them ghostly against starvation and were driven None Too Pleasant. Although the treatment he re-serve the course of the stars. He horses between ghostly shafts, For by the whip Today they know ceived was none too pleasant, Fil-was surrounded by battalions of a long time designers of motor-cars that if they did not work hard they of would not be allowed to work at all, chner deftribes the Tibetan char-soldiers until, at long last, there continued to think in terms

arranged that But the weapons of the old system acter as friendly and kindly. As came the letter of the Dalai Lama horse carriages so

cannot of Lasgn which recommended that they could run about without the survived as signs of office in the we read his account we help thirking that a European the authorities give all possible horses. could bear the privations of that aid to the explorer and permit him life only if he possessed perfect to travel over the Himalayas to .health. Poor Dr. Filchner, how-India..

ever, was sick all those years-he suffered from gallstones; it seoras

Deeply Moving.

Workers in Stone,

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.

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new. The driving force was fear of starvation, but the overseers And then at Sakkara I was shown carried whips. How else could they the earliest stone buildings known, be overacers? Their whips were as raised by men who had previously necessary as the belts on the fluted Filchner's book, which is written known no other materials than mud stone pillars, carved there because almost unbelievable that he manag. In the form of a diary, contains the and reeds. And behold, these bulld-pillars not of stone. but of reed ed to spind eight hours a day, at notes he made during his years in ings carefully Imitated in stone what needed to be held together. his apparatus, making the China and Tibet. Though it seems had been done in mud. Immense measurements and observations somewhat monotonous at times It labour had gone to the making of for which he had come. Almost is deeply moving, because of the stone bricks of uniform size, to tha miraculously he always, whenever simplicity with which it records carving of the stone walls when his need was greatest, received those tremendous achievements of built into the shapes to which mud. assistance in the form of money, human energy and scientific seal. walls had accustomed the mind. The Instruments, horses, victuals and The charts which Filchner has architects, exulting In their new even medical aid. Again and made the first to have been con material, had tried to show that again he gives credit to men of all structed of these regions will they could do with it exactly what nations Americans, Britons, soon be published by the Perthes they had been able to do with the Italians, Chinese who helped him Verlag In Gotha scientiae old. Not far away' was a bit of a and proved to him that science can publishing house in Potsdam will, wall with none of this fine finish, unite all peoples. At the end of in about a year, publish the selen- but showing for the first time, a his account Fiichner expresses his tific findings as well as a book that surprised discovery that you can do deep-felt gratitude to all the deals exclusively with the Tibetan with stone what you cannot do with governments, organizations and in-religion and its curious rites, such matid. dividuals that alded him; he men- as the prayer milis.

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