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Hong Kong, Monday, May 4, 1931.

When the 'plane reaches this port, the most difficult part of the flight across the Aleutian Islands will have been com- peted.

From Dutch Harbour Yoshi- hara will continue his flight over

MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931.

HOW RICH HE IS.

Simon Patino, the Tin King.

SPRING IN NEW

YORK.

Seen from the 14th Storey.

To a

Briton, who associates

country like Japan and of its suc- HE DOES NOT KNOW cess I do not entertain the least doubt. All my colleagues in the' -institution I represent in Japan I join with me sincerely in trust- ng that Mr. Yoshiwarn will get across safely and tender to the American people the goodwill message that the fight sponsor-in of dish, fruit or provisions Don Spring with March winds, April

Every time a 'housowife opens a ed by the Hochi Shimbun repre- Simun 1. Patino, the "Tin King" of showers, and finally, May flowers, 'sents."

the world, growe richer, says a Bri-Spring in New York scoms a most The Hon. Herbert Marler, tish United Press Paris message. extraordinary one, writes A. K, in Canadian Minister to Japan,

To-day Don Simon Bolivian the Manchester Guardian, states:-"The bridging of the Minister to France, lives in แ From the window of my tiny flat Pacific Ocean by air is a logical luxurious home, in the Avenue Foch high up-but not above the house because this fourteen-story development of the contacts al- in Paris, and it is claimed) Is one tops,

of the world's Ave richest men, building la low for New York~~~~} ready established by steamship. His fortune fluctuates in direct pro- look out over the sloping park of cable and radio; and any pien- portion to the price of tin on the Riverside. Through the trees gleams

Not

Don the Hudson River, full-flooded with eers in this modern effort to kmt London market.

Simon himself knows just how rich the melted snows of winter; be the nations of east and west to he is.

yond are the Palisades, those momu gether by air deserve the most

mental crugs where the Indian Fewer than 30 years ago, how sentinel kept a sharp look-out for wholehearted encouragement ever, Simon Patino was a bill col the Yanokee, the name by which and support. The proposed lector in La Paz, Bolivia, his home-the Indina called the white flight, therefore, of Mr. Seiji land.

His rise to fortune is "three hundred years Yoshihara, sponsored by the romance:

windows are open because Spring Hochi Shimbun of Tokyo, from Not only do the tins of preserved has come in sordy, They can be without the fear of street Japan to the United States of fruits, vegetables and other food. rased

stuff's contribute either directly or dust or the invasion of the house- America by way of the Northern indirectly to his fortune, but he fly, which refuses to come above Pacific and Canada, is a pioneer-takes his toll on many cheaper the seventh floor. The first sign ing venture for which I extend motor cars (some parla of which of Spring here is not the mating of tin), storage batteries and the birds, nor yet the buds on the my sincere good wishes. I am wireless sets, and many another trees. Except for a few sparrows, confident that such a goodwill article which owes its origin to tin there are not many birda in the flight will not only make a valu-are.

city, and the trees bloom very late. able contribution to the develop.

If Spring suddenly appears it is the A £25 Strip Of Land. It is said that Don Simon accept work of a kinema company. About ment of aviation in the Pacille!

ed a strip of mountain land in pay a week ago i looked out of my win- area, but will also contribute toment of a £26 bill. For this he dow, and got quite a thrill when i

are

even

mua

ago. The

a further strengthening of the lost his job.na a bill collector, but saw trees and shrubbery out in full good

relations between the he retained the land after reimbur, bloom. I felt like a regular Rip Van Winkle, until I saw farther neighbouring countries on the sing his employers.

down the road what looked like u eastern and western shores of the He had heard that the Bolivian

young forest on wheels and men mountains were filled with riches, still in the act of bedecking the Pacific Ocean."

The best wishes of all in this Colony will go out to Japan's "Lone Eagle" for the success of his pioneer flight!

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the

trees on the Drive, all this for the

in their catch and the breezes waft

and he read all the books en subject. Then he recruited some sake of "shooting" a few thousand Indians, took all his small savings feet of Spring scenery. and started for his £25 worth of

Spring 13 here, however, when the mountain. He found

his land, ghadnets have been stretched across 12,000 fect above Sea level- the river.

There is a tinge of real News in Brief.

barren wilderness devoid of vegeta-fresh Spring in the air when by tion, with the nearest human beings early morning the fishermen bring 100 miles away. The lowest open, air temperature Whs 69 degrees. The to Alaska, down the coast of Bri-yesterday

The prospect was one that would a promise of a fat, luscious shed for This is the one month humidity at 10 am. was 86 and at have terrified the bravest of men, breakfast. tish Columbia, through Prince p.m. 34.

but Don Simon was made of stern In the year when the New York Rupert and along the Queen

stuff.

housewife can have this most ex- Charlotte Islands to Vancouver. A curious misprint: "Everton

Food and water had to be taken clusive fish. It enters the warm At Vancouver he will inter-lose to Leeds: Of course it was up the mountains to keep the Indian water to breed, but is trapped be

Preston North End who swallowed workers alive, and, as fast as

hefore it can get up to where the rivor change the float undercarriage Everton Toffee.

could Patino staked claims

on becomes

fresh. This particular for a land undercarriage, and

other Government lands.

fish I have seen only in New York. then fly overland to Seattle, and from the country, reported to the diaging.

Po Kap-ting, a Chinese merchant | His Indians spent their time, although there is a smaller, distinct Their first discovery was type of shad found in the Mediter

later

of material like bronze.ranean. In shape and taste it is

visit Tacoma and other Police on Saturday that he was roba vein cities on the Pacific Coast where bed of $1,720 whilst he was asleep They were discouraged and stopped like a combination of mountain there are

many Japanese resi- in room 36 at the Empress Hotel. work. dents. His good-will journey

will end in San Francisco.

Kept On Alone.

Don Simon, however, kept

| lake trout and Scottish salmon, and

In spite of its tiny bones, which

can't be filleted (na my Jewish fish-

on monger says, "It's worser even den

Receiving a bodily injury through falling down the gangway of the Yoshihara in a recent maga-sa. Kwong Hip Loong, a man, alone and was rewarded by making der herrink"), it is very popular.

zine article admitted the enor-Chung Kwong-lan was on Saturday a big find of tin.

not His condition is

most

He took a sample The roe nella for as much as 5s, or mous difficulties with which he removed to the Government Civil back to La Paz and went from door 63. & pound, will be confronted during the

Hospital.

to door, getting prices. One dealer. The Americana *aro serious.

who offered the biggest price, also methodical people aud must have flight, especially along the Kurile

offered to take all the tin that "days" on which to do things. Archipelago, the Aleutian Islands The forthcoming wedding is an- Patino could bring to him.

Winter overcoats are discarded on Then, with

Patino March 21, just as a few men, and the north-western tip of nounced of James Young, electrical

straw hats are engineer, of the China Light and set to work again. They had no put away on September 15.

A man Alaska, where there are, dense Power Co., Ltd., Kowloon Tang, and tools to crush the rock containing may get the hat knocked off his head Japan's "Lone Eagle." fogs almost all the year around, Annie Mary Victoria Bennett, en the ore. Working a large stone otherwise. Spring-cleaning IN but he declared that he would route to Hong Kong on the motor by hand, they overcame this diffi- usually a Spring-moving. May 1 stake his life to make the flight a vessel Yasukuni Maru.

culty. There were no roads or rail- is the day when nearly every mov- ways, and it was necessary to catching-van in New York is put into lamas in the mountains to haul the operation. Papering and painting Pui-lan, tin to market.

go with the new lease on the fint, are so usually it is just as easy to move Each year into a new plazo ns to be bothered The result

ww

success.

Yan WAS convicted "દ the Kowloon Police Court

mountains To-day these this scenes of busy activity.

The very brief cablegram sent by Reuter from Tokyo to-day

Three months' imprisonment was

on This goodwill fight, which is inflicted naturally fails to convey any iden of the enormous interest created sponsored by the Hochi Shimbun, who

and much fur- one of Tokyo's best known morning of the larceny of $1.90 16 miles of galleries are excavated cleaning the old one. all over Japan ther abroad -- by the solo flight and most enterprising news from a Chinese pedestrian who was one of the 12 mines produces 1,800 is that on the first of May New across the Pacific by Seijlpapers, has already elicited the watching a street show, Yoshihara, Japan's "Lone Eagle." warmest hopes for its success.

dian Pacific Steamship stated:

**The

This perilous flight over Mr. Edward Hospes, of the Cana

A

route which bus as yet never been flown castwards, although a fow such during pioneers as Lieut.

Co

tons a month.

York is in a turmoll, with every When it was necessary to restrict | block cluttered about in a shuffle of Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong, has called other producers into confer-

A Chinese restaurant keeper of the production of tin, Don Simon furniture.

Thus comes Spring in this tidal, notified the Police that whilst disence. The result was the creation but very beautiful, city of New embarking from the C.P.S. Empress of a cartel, which dominatee the York, of Russia, he lost from his baggage! world tin market, A year ago the

Producers' Associa length of black allk, measuring 50 British Tin feet and valued at $10.

tion, which has a great interest In the production, of tin in the His Highness the Malmraja of Federated Malay States, made him "Gibson gir?" days, promise to at- hato, reminiscent of

Jind and his suite

tain great popularity, this Spring.

Sailor

SAILOR HATS.

to flight

America Bromley and Harold to be performed by Mr. Seiji Gatty have made the attempt in Yoshihara and sponsored by the vain, is being made in the same Hochi Shimbun is something type of machine as the "Hochi," that appeals to each and every morrow on the B.s. Cracovia. Dur-

are due to-lan honorary president. the plane which Yoshihara used human, particularly to those of ing his three days in Hong Kong, fame, he moved to Paris during the made of coarse shiny straw with a Aspiring to social and diplomatic The new version of the sailor is in his Berlin-Tokyo journey. It us who live in Japan, have such His Highness will be staying in the War and became Bolivian Minister shallow round crown and five or six is a Junkers all-metal A.50 light close business and other rela-Peninsula Hotel, where a whole

He bought a legation inch brim. monoplane, fitted with an 80 h.p. tions with her people and know wing has been reserved for him. Genst engine. The machine has her.

-

no

to France:

for his country, which is the envy Some of the models are accom- of all the other Latin America panied by three-inch vells, hanging Chan Tai, an unemployed Chinese, States. He pays all the expense straight down from the brim.

and the salaries including his own. Daughters' Dowries. Twice ho offered to resign when revolutions resulted in a change of Government, but Bolivia has never permitted him to give up his diplomatic post.

Ten Years Ago.

Trom the "China Mall" of

May 4, 1921.1

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conyartible under-carriages for "Mr. Seiji Yoshihara is was sent to prison at the Kowloon both land and water flights. Its mere novice.. He proved how Magistracy this morning for three total weight is only 380 kilo airworthy he was and his skill weeks for stealing a pair of shoes from a stall in Kowloon. He was grams. Yoshihara figures that as a pilot when he flew last year chased by the stall holder but escap the total flying hour for the from Berlin to Tokyo, cleverly ed. Later he was again seen and journey will be about 77 hours. negotiating that vast distance, chased by a Chinese detective, but car got away. He was finally caught|

Each daughter has received ∙A Owing to the limited fuel capa- especially the immense steppes by a Sanitary Officer.

Today's dollar is worth 2/6y« marriage dowry of £320,000.. city of the machine, the flight of Siberia, This, makes one feel

Don Simon possesses six, luxuri-] Commenting on the increased will be made in stages. His first confident that he will achieve his A Chinese girl named Hung aus motor cara. His home in Parla) liquor and tobacco duties in Hong stop outside of Japanese terri-present objective and that the Kwok-chin (18), living on the is without an equal. Once he sold Kong, the Japan Chronicle notes second floor of 54, Robinson Road, some authentic antique Louis XV. that the policy of the freedom of tory will be at Petropavlosk, the glory of triumphant success will was on Saturday removed to the furniture, condemning the salon in the port is to be maintained ac port on the eastern coast of Kam-erown, his efforts.

Government Civil Hospital suffer which it had been used. In the cording to the Governor, but ob- chatka. Thence the monoplane The Hochi Shimbun is, to being from severe injuries received place of the salon he built a reserves this appears to be like cling will fly north-eastward to Cape warmly congratulated on its through falling into the street from plick of a Moorish harem he had ing to the shadow after the cub- the verandah..It appears that the seen in Morocco-complete with stance has gone. When the duties Kronotski, and from here it will public-spirited and far-seeing girl was having her real on the mosaics and a babbling fountain in were first imposed at Hong Kong it take an eastward course toward vision, for Mr. Yoshihara is util-verandah when one of her chor the centre.

was understood that passengers Commandorspy Island.

leing man's latest invention for sticks slipped from her hand and In Bolivia he is known as Don landing there would not be search-

in trying to retrieve it she over Simon the Just. At Attu Island on the western annihilating distance

and an balanced. cena extremity of the Aleutian Islands, American invention at that to m where there is a fishing village, convey to the great people of the Yoshihara will rest the wings of United States the eve

ed, and according to the Governor- no change in this policy is intended,

The new plant of the Canadian H. C. Schofold, chairman of the although he gave warning that if Potteries, Limited. at St. Johns Saint John Harbour Commission, the increase in duties resulted in a has been formally opened and announces that the Federal Govs large amount of smuggling it might his plane, and then will starting friendship of the Japanese inspected by hundreds of persons ernment, visioning vast develop necessary to reconsider the mat off on a 1,700 km, hop across for them, in

including a party of jobbers and ment in Canada's trade in the next ter. The historical thin end of the the Aleutian slands. The next The undertaking is a very architects from Montreal. The quarter of a century, has decided wedge has been inserted and it wil! Plant is on a 22 acre plot within to make an early survey of the probably be found impossible for stop will be made at Dutch H

Har ambitious one, well worthy of a the city and will manufacture harbour with the idea of project Hong Kong to maintain the freedom

progressive and forward-looking vitreous china sanitary ware. ing large-scale improvements of the port.

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