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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932.

HONG KONG

HOTEL

ROOF GARDEN ·

Chinese Restaurant

DAILY SERVICE of

OPENING TO-NIGHT

CHINESE TIFFIN and DINNER a la Carte and Table d'hote

CHINESE DINNER-DANCE NIGHTLY MUSIC by the POPULAR BAND

"The Revellers" ·

SPECIAL

CHINESE

DINNER - DANCE

FOR

GRAND OPENING

TO-NIGHT-TILL 1 A.M.

THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. Found in clothing sent to Benevolent Society pair gold cuff links. Owner

can have same on application at the City Hall on Monday or Thursday morning between 10.30 and 11.30.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by "an expert bat our readers Gra warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.}

2 3 2+ 15

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7

8

12

118

120

22

23

26

30

32

HORIZONTAL 1-Not costly B-Blumber

11-Malody 12-Wisdom 14-Ald 16-Elliptically

18-Pronoun

19-Separates, as a mats

of throada

21-Indefinite artigle

22-Printer's measura

(pt.)

24-Penetrate

25-Buatio

26-Mature Y

28-Half 2 score

29-A feathered animal 80-A bird

31-A plant of the arum

familly

32-Ariz

33-Taate

95-dves shelter

37-Answer (abbr.)"

47

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) SB-A bundle of straw

(40–Expire

41-Egyptian sun-god 42-Boxed

144-A continent

- Instrument

45-A drawing

47-Fancles

136

VERTICAL (Cont.) -Elongated fich |10-More docile |13-An #cclesiastjóni.

council

(abbr.)|15-Crescentio

17-Realstance by

ladrones (P. 1.) 20-Studio (Fr.)

40-Glass in a window 28-Extende over

60-Yarbal

61-8cura 62-A number (pl.)

VERTICAL

-Owne -3-Graak goddess of

discord 4-Passageway 6-Evident

6-Not neat Admirer- -Epochs

(The solution of the above with a new sppear in to-morrow's "fzsuz,

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

125-Vantilated.

27-Befare

(29-Nocturnal mammal [32-Small pastry. (pl.)

{33-Portions

34-Acqult 36-Torment 38-Exhausted) 39-Combining form

denoting the presenos of Iron 42–To scrutinize. 43-College oMcial 146-Largo, 'monkey. 146 A beverage

cross-word puzzle.) will

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY

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PRICE $1.00.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE MOTORISTS' PAGE

CHEKIANG PROVINCE

HIGHWAYS.

1,000 Kilometers Now Completed.

BIG PROGRAMME AHEAD.

Cheklang Provinces motor high- Ways aggregate approximately'| 1,000 kilometers and reprosent on investment which is estimated to be in the neighbourhood of $6,000,- 000.

A

Two years ago Cheklang had but

486 kilometera of motor roads, to-'

day it has about 1,000 kilometers

gramme

$6,000.

"Over-Heating Bogey' In Modern Cars.

Hints For Engine Care

In Cold Weather

DILAPIDATED CARS MENACE SAFETY.

2,000,000 8-Year-Old Vehicles in Use.

U. S. STATISTICS.

WOMAN BARBER'S SHOP ON ROAD.

Drives Old Model Here And There.

London.

Miss Muriel Warburton, of Bris- tol, claims to be the only woman One of the foremost obstacles to Her barbershop is

travelling hairdresser in England. promotion of maximum safety on second-hand motor-car, and in it she a converted pablic highways is the large number not only dresses the hair of women, of antiquated, dilapidated motor; but she shaves cars to be found in every section of their beards.

men and trims ·

+

USE OF RADIATOR MUFF the United States, according to "The women of the South have N. E. MeDarby, vice-president in the best heads of hair in the coun-. charge of sales of the Auburn Auto- try," she said engineer who is mobile Company,

in an interview. "Next came the women of the

"Probably nothing alarms the

motorist 80

To the motor

uneconomical in

much as jealous of the good wearing qualities These ramshackle vehicles con North, and then those living in the of highway and by June of 1988 average the province's (construction pro. the "over-heating" bogey which, of a car in which he is interested, stitute a genuine menace in normal Midlans. But the, women of the

will have boosted that presumably, in a survival of early there is no more distressing sight traffic, Mr. McDarby said, because Midlands are the most particular." figure to 1,500 kilometere, accor- motoring days," writes L. R. T. in than that of one of his "children" they are not physically equipped to Miss Warburton, who has her

standing in the street, naked and cope with the emergencles ding to statements made by Mr. T. the Shanghai Sunday Times

every regular customers throughout Eng- The early engines were either exposed, on a cold day; or perhaps driver must face in C. Chen, director of the Cheklang

the course of land, sometimes opens up her car in air-cooled or water-cooled, but often at work facing a real North-Easter, daily driving. Highway Administration.

the market towns and announces to Questioned as to construction the provisions made were quite with radiator not even partially

Weak brakes, worn gears, doubt the populace that she will He senses the harmful tyres, loose steering knuckles, costs, Mr. Chen declared that the inadequate and thus over-heating protected.

Wave a woman's hair för 2s. 6d. the cause of which is being wrought and the leaky gas lines, smoking exhausts, average kilometer of motor road occurred and was

Shave a man for dd. ** efficiency which is being lost-all for reluctant, engines-these are only a represented an outlay of $4,000. considerable anxiety.

Trim a man's beard for 20. Added to this was the lubrication the sake of a little thoughtfulness few of the factors which render Inclusion of bridges of all types,

This plucky woman, who was hit such cars unsafe, he said, not only by the economic slump and left he emphasized, would involve at difficulty-mineral oils were more or and care.

To digress for one moment, the to those who operate them hut also without a job in Bristol a few years Jenat 50 per cent. more and bring less in their infancy, and an oil the Lvorage cost per kilometer to really suitable for the job had yet starting-up problem in relation to to the careful drivers who must ago, budget herself a bicycle, and to be evolved. Altogether, this un- wear and tear raises the important travel the same highways with those started out looking for orders. In Road To Shanghai.

happy combination of circumstances issue of the grade of petrol used. (obsolete vehicles.

two years she had saved enough to definitely

The Average Life

buy a motor-car. When Miss War- Of Chekiang's total of 1,000 kilo- raised a prejudice which exists even it is

ordinary circumstances, to use com- "Although statistics compiled by burton dresses for work she wears meters of completed highway, 139.s to this day.

Thus it is still not unknown for mercial grades of petrol in touring the National Automobile Chamber coloured overalls a different colour kilometers stretch from Hangchow

Whilst there is, of course, a of Commerce place the average life for her new and women customers. to the Kiangsu berder and consti- an owner-driver to ask for informa- cars.

the causes of "serious saving in initial cost, the leas of an automobile at seven years," Reuter. tuted that province's section of the tion as to Shanghai-liangchow road. Another over-heating which renders it im- volatile spirits are apt to cause he said, "a recent survey of the 139 latometers extend from Hang-possible to keep the hand on the endless difficulty when starting up automotive field showed that appro-RAIL SPEED THRILLS- ehow to the Kiangsu border on the radiator top after a run of 20 from cold, and, as has already been ximately one out of every ten cara explained, other and more deep-in operation on December 31, 1931, rooted troubles follow.

was eight or more years old. In discussing Cheklang's plans Our object in this article is to put For consideration of our second "In round. figures, 2,000,000 of for a chain of roads which will link before our readers the other side of point we go to the crankcase to the 22,800,000 automobiles register-

L.M.S.R. Sets New the leading industrial and agri the story, and to make to some ascertain what is happening there ed on that date had passed their

Record. cultural centres of the province people the somewhat surprising in a cold engine.

alloted span of life, while another Mr. Chen displayed boundless en* (appeal to run their engines at a

Oils Thicken.

[1,200,000 had just reached the Railway transport gave a sly dig' thusiasm for his work and impres high temperature and to conserve

It is well known that lubricating seven-year mark. This means that at road transport by setting up new sive confidence in the ability of very carefully the heat which the oils tend to become thick or viscous more than 14 per cent. of all cars speed records when a party of nearly the provincial administration to engine itself generates.

at low temperatures, and that whilst on American highways at the out- twelve hundred motoring experts curry its present programme of con- Now, when the days are getting the majority of modern motor car set of 1982 were ready for perman- were conveyed from London to struction to completion by June shorter and Winter conditions are engines have their bearings lent retirement.

Coventry and back to see a special rapidly approaching, in a very ap lubricated by ell under. bigh pres-"It is impossible for such cars to show of 1933 amator cars, i propriate time to consider bow sure, the platons, cylinders and be operated with absolute safety •Two special trains were run by the engine of a car is likely to be gudgeon pins rely upon "splash regardless of the care the driver the L.M.S. for Meters Rootes, of affected by the cold, and why. lubrication." In this process of is may exercise. When the car is the Humber-Hillman-Commer Com- Let us commence at the beginning thrown up on the pistons, gudgeon mechanically unrellable there is al-pany. They were drawn by the of events when we go in the morn pins and cylinder bores by the re-ways danger of failure at critical locomotives Royal Scot and Royal ing to our car in preparation for volving crankshaft journals and the moments at street intersections, on Engineer, The 800 tons, train the day's work.

connecting rod big-ends.

steep grades, at railroad crossings, attached to the Royal Scot did the

route to Nanking."--

1988.

Strips of modern highway are being built or extended along numerous routes which will link the leading cities, ports, towns and agricultural centres of fertile Che kiang,

Scenic Spots Too,

. The beauty spots of China's most beautiful province are not being

miles!"

FOR MOTORISTS.

Conserved The Heat

It will be appreciated at once, narrow bridges, or any of the scores outward journey of 94 miles in We need not 'consider here the however, that it is not easy to of hazards which must be faced 86% minutes and the return jour- overlooked, for roads are being beat means

employed to start up "splash" a medium having some every day. built which will take the motorist from cold, since the subject is fully thing of the same consistency as

Worn Out Control.

to places whose praise has been dealt with in the car Instruction treacle, and here again our heat "Then, too, such a car is neces- told in song and legend. Eventual-Manual. We are concerned, how-theory plays an important part. As sarlly difficult to operate. Controla by all of these will be placed with ever, with the important question of an engine warms up, some of its have been worn to the extent that in the reach of the motorist via engine temperature and its effects. heat is transmitted to the lubricat their use requires definite offort; Hangchow.

The wise motorist will have ing oil in the sump, and gradually poor springs and excessive vibra-

The Cheklang capital, under the thrown a heavy rug over his both engine and oil attain their tion rob the car of its riding com- present administration's plans, is to radiator and bonnet before leaving normal working temperature and all fort. These factors mean quicker be the hub, and more and more his car, for this very simple precau- is well. Obviously, the oil in the fatigue for the operator, with roads leading in different directionation makes all the difference to sump will get down to its work consequent loss of that alterness to its borders are contemplated or starting up the next time. He has much more quickly if, by contact which makes him a careful and under construction. In several taken the trouble to "conserve" "with a warm engine, It retains its efficient driver. cases those are being extended be heat, which is so important, and his fluidity. This, then, constitutes our "In this way, the perilous com- yond the provincial borders into immediate reward is an engine second argument for the conserva-bination of a physically handicap- Klangeu and Antwei provinces. A which springs to life in an instantion of heat. ⠀ further step contemplated will

link Hangchow, and thus virtually and has not suffered in the starting- all of Cheklang-with Fukien and "P process. Kiangai provinces, thus hooking up the leading cities of the five south eastern provinces of the Republic.

MOTOR SPEED ACE TO CHASE THUGS.

Sir Malcolm Campbell's

Flying Squad."

When an engine does not start readily, charge after charge of petrol-vapour is drawn into the cylinders, where, being, unignited, it

AUSTRALIA CIRCLED BY MOTOR.

ped driver in a mechanically un- reliable car is created, to threaten the safety of other care on the

"It is true that a small number

road.

ney in three minutės lesa:

HOTTER Sparks BETTER Lighting-

with

Firestone

of antiquated motor cars are stillÉRÉ

construction methods and proper

Notable Driving Feat in good condition, due to superior BATTERIES

By Two Women.

condenses again; Into Hquid petrol upon coming into contact with cold

| care and service throughout their A clrcult of Australia, which the minority and it is safe to class life. These cars, however, are in cylinder walls, cyclinder head and pistons. It requires very little although undertaken as a pleasure the great majority of cars which imagination, then, to understand trip included some harrowing ex have passed the average seven how this liquid patrol sets about Its

two intrepid sisters, Mrs. H. Fyear span, as unsafe for daily nefarious work of diluting or wash- Periences, was recently completed by ing away the oll from the platone Holman and Mrs. D, W. Cummins, |operation. and the cylinder walls. When The entire trek covered more than oventually, the engine fires, the pro-12,000 miles, yet nothing more MALAYA MOTOR SHOW. Sir Malcolm Campbell, British teeting off film has disappeared, garious happened to their car than a speed champion and holder of the permitting metalle contact and broken ignition wire and four The possibilities of organising a

Arvada 19

world's motor speed record of 253

rapid wear.

kpunctures.

This is shown by a cablogram

combined Motor Show and Rally to This process" is repeated every The travellers started out from bo held early in 1983 are being in- miles an hour which he established time a cold engine is started up Sydney. On Deception Bay Road, vestigated by the AA of Malaya in Florida early this year, plans to under difficulties. Wear and tear on not far out of Brisbane, they en The rally habit has spread from assist the police in their campaign the battery-and the owner-driver countered the first stretch of had the Continent to England, from against motor bandits. * ta -

Sir Malcolm is to be appointed are further considerations. road. Between Townsville and England to Scotland and finally to

Thus we formulate our first Ingham, in the course of 100 miles South Africal chief of a volunteer flying squad of special constables organised by the argument in favour of keeping they had to ford 200 breeks, and to chief constable of Reigate, a Surrey jengine warm either by conserving negotiate the Ubanagle Swamp be from Johannesburg, which states very carefully heat which it has tween Cardwell and Innisfall were that the first South African Motor town through which runs one of the already generated itself or by obliged to corduroy the boggy Aur Rally has just been concluded. At main arteries from London to the

artificia

means such as a warmed face with soya vines and chopped the moment only the barest details south.

Mombers of the sqund with the garage or placing a safety lamp saplings as they went along are available, but it appears that In the Gulf country they visited competitors were required to cover. cars are subject to call by the police tut will not work unless they are:

under the bonnet.)

Use A Hun

the farthest north station in Aus- 1,500 miles of surfaces which would

Lotus show you Fire- stone Batteries with both rubber and wood Insulation, extra hekiht or high oversize plates and other fea tures for extra long and dependable service under harddriving con- ditions.

Firestone

W. L. HANDYSIDE. M.A., B.Sc. accompanied by the regular traffic We cannot carry heated garages tralla. After a few days shooting have horrified many of the drivers The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

NOW ON SALE AT: THR

Naw

PUBLISHERS.25

China Mali Oman

round withi During recent months motor we can use

police.

on our travels, but bonnet and radiator banditry in England has been muff or heavy rug when matter of grave concern to the car is stopped-it quickly authorities and the pursuit of these a matter of habit, and this sim bandits is one of the prime reasons for the formation of the new forse

along the East Alligator in the recent B.A.C., and Scottish

in Arnhein Land adven ralilea. One of the most success

the turers began their long drag from competitors was Mr R. Lu Evans

the northwest coast. The mad a

the wheel of a 9 hp. zig-zag track-cuts inland through Triumph saloon, secured three pre- the Kimberleyn- und trosses, the

rd trophies and a gold meds Margaret River to Derby

33, Wong Nei Chung Road The Amatic American Co. 70, Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong, and at Canton ^and Wackow.