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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933.

HERE, THERE CONQUERING EVEREST

and

EVERYWHERE

Mr. Robeson Learns Russian Mr. Paul Robeson may shortly Buceced Chaliapin as first People's Stager in the Soviet Union.

The American negro actor, who is now in London, has received an Invitation to sing the name part in "Boris Gódounoy" at the Moscow Opera House.

FROM THE

THE AIR

DETAILED PLANS FOR BRITISH ATTEMPT

LADY HOUSTON'S GIFT

...Final preparations are now being Olympus of cheery gods and god-- He is studying the score with en-made at Purnea, Northern India, desses, fairies and sprites, most thusiasm, and for some past has been taking lessons in the an attempt to fly over the world's vivial and even amorous. It is in- months 160 miles from Mount Everest for benign, and full of kindly sympathy for the foibles of Aryan man, con- Kussian language.

A person who saw him recently, highest peak. The expedition, fin-deed to the newel post of two worlds stated that he has made consider anced by Lady Houston, is led by that the little band of airmen hope able progress in Russian and that Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes, which are an epitome of the craft to convey themselves in machines. hla accent is almost perfect. with Lord Clydesdale as Chief Pilot of the British acroplane maker and

Your Daily Smile.

un

Two machines will take part in the of his scientific skill.. attempt...

•Mount Everest, which was HE'D BETTER LEARN. The southern face of Everest has known even by name to most of our TEACHER: I give you 16 nuts never, been climbed and has rarely minating pinnacle of all the moun- grandfathers, is not only the cul- to share with your little brother.been approached. All previous attains in the world but, as befits its How many will he' get?

BOBBY: Six.

like an

tempts on the great mountain have tall majesty, marks the boundary TEACHER: Nonsense, you can't been made from Tibet. From the between the two most numerous count

south it rises

races, the two

great cultures, the anormous two great philosophies, the two BOBBY: Yes, I can, teacher, bastion. A ground assault from great ways of life, and even between but my little brother can't.

that side would be impossible. The the two great primitive economic aeroplanes chosen for the forth-systems of this planet. To reach

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Lost.

A train was brought to a stand-coming flight over Everest may be the mountain the airmen leave the still by striking a snowdrift:

expected to reach the summit in less ground in the rich fat alluvial

Simple Precaution.

"I'll be darned if I know," said More than half the world, not the farmer. "Im hunting for my satisfied by military war is en-[barn.” gaged in an economic war, and Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 29, 1933. the prosperity of 1913, built up

enterprise, is destroyed by State Employer: "John, actions with which shipowners brought home drunk last night. How have nothing to do. Nor has do people know where you live per Shipowners And State Britain fallen into the mistake Butler: "I always carry some of

Errors.

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A farmer carrying a long pole than an hour and a half. But in plains of Bihar, at Purnes, a town- showed up on the scene. He would the course of that climb they will ship on a branch railway about 250 walk a

few steps and stick the pass over what is virtually unknown miles north of Calcutta.. Purnea has pole down in the snow.

country. No surveying party has a magistrate, à police officer, and a Finally he came close to the train ever attempted to map it. No small colony of planters. and a passenger opened a window geologists or naturalists have made

From here they will fly north for and asked the farmer: "How deep expeditions on this country. Is the snow out there?".

For the first time men will take tions of jule and of fields of indigo some 40 miles over ebequered planta- in their stride a huge piece of this that still survive the synthetic pro- dangerous country. It' will be their cess. Then comes the frontier of task to reveal to the world in pre-Nepal, a innd to which very few cise terms its nature and character. European have had access. It is by Exactly what lies ahead of them on the special favour of the Maharajah this attempt they cannot know that Only with the help of the aeroplane Houston's gift are permitted to cross the two aeroplanes of Lady can this great barrier between two this jealously guarded border, and worlds be surmounted from the the grant of this favour is itself a made elsewhere of overbuilding, your visiting cards on me, sir.”

south, and only by means of a most testimony to the value of the scien- She has at the present time much

carefully planned expedition can the tific work which the Expedition has In the general survey of the the same amount of tonnage as

Advice.....

risks be so reduced as to make this planned. Here is a great change in state of the shipping industry in 1913, whereas the United should not marry a man until she take.

A woman, says a contemporary, attempt reasonably, safe to under the face of the country. The fields which he gave at the annual din-States, France, Italy, and Japan is sure she is his mate, or, at least, ner of the British Chamber of have each about three times as we venture to add, until she is sure and its surroundings from the air savage wilderness of almost pathless

The project of surveying Everest Indian peasantry give way

and cultivation of Bihar and its Shipping last month, Mr. Walter much, and uneconomic subsidies, she's a match for him.

to a Runciman explained that he was as he says, have now become one

arose, not in the minds of present-jungle, given over to the tiger, and not speaking as President of the

of the vices of a great

day airmen, as might have been exito the rhinoceros unknown elsewhere Board of Trade, but as an unfor-i

Powers.

WISE LAD. It is against unfair TEACHER: Jimmy, why do we and initiative of two men-Colonel

pected, but through the imagination in Asia. tumate shipping man suffering competition of this nature, which call English our mother tongue? like the rest from the faults of mercantile fabric, that Mr. Runci-gets a chance to use it.

might endanger the whole of our

P. T. Etherton, well known in the JIMMY: Because father never field of Central Asian and Himalayan other people. It would be difficult to over-estimate the value to the declared, no hesitation in saying man is up in arms. He has, hel

travel and exploration, and Colonel MISS country at this particular moment that the feeling in this country

L. V. Stewart Blacker, an airman jwith similar experience of the high- of the practical expert know-would be behind any Government ledge of everything to do with which would protect in the

lands of India and one of the early pilots. shipping that Mr. Runciman has broader sense-- British mercan

The wedding took place on. Sun- day, of Mr. Jose Batalha da Silva, taken with him to the Board of tile marine against its damaging poisons, sodium and chlorine.

Table salt is composed of two the possibilities of using aviation in of the Economic Research, Depart- Both have always borne in mind eldest son of Mr. J. A. E. de Silva, Trade. The British mercantile effects. So positive a statement, marine is just now in a highly coming from a man of his politi

relation to the great problems of meft, and Miss Julia Tong, daugh- critical position, Never in its cal standing and reputation, is have perfected a noiseless airplane the patriotic generosity of Lady Kong and Shanghal Banking - Cor- A Danish engineer claims to

Central Asia. It is due to theirter of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Tong of history, as he said, have British the clearest possible warning of propeller that slips through the air

energy and enthusiasm, coupled with the Compradore Staff of the Hong shipowners had to face grave misfortunes or such a com-emergency.

such the graye dangers of the present instead of slashing it.

Houston, that this expedition has poration. plication of difficulties entirely that he would be one of the inst Every one knows

come into being. An influential The wedding was solemnized at beyond their own

Economy of water used features committed was formed to support the Chapel Mr. W.

control. to advise entering upon a fiscal a new gold washer that resembles the scheme; the College of Aero-permission

of Penha, by special J. McAlister used

of his Lordship the equally serious language in his cut hope that negotiations now invented for use in arid lands.

jor subsidy war, and he is not with-a cream separator that has been nautical Engineering placed its staff Bishop, a family reception being presidential addreas to the mem-in progress with a view to get-

and resources at the disposal of the accorded the bride and bridegroom bers of the Chamber. Their very ting rid of restrictions to trade Organ pipes of gigantic size and launched

promoters, and the plans were later at the residence of Mr. and lives, he said, depend on their between Britain and a few other unusual shape bave been installed

Mr. J. A. E. da Silva, at luncheon. facing the ugly fact that the countries may have useful re-in an institute of accustica cataclysmic fall in world trade sults. But of this one thing he Berlin for study of sounds. is continuing at an alarming is certain. Britain cannot, he

Australia in the Antarctic

worse and end in disaster. The depression and the danger of. its} increase are not, of course, con- The

Facts You Did Not Know.

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JULIA TONG WEDS MR.

J. B. DA SILVA

News In Brief.

From time immemorial adventure has stamped her impress on the length and breadth of the historic, kingdoms of Bengal and Oudi!. Here Captain F. E. Anderson, of the

A

rate, and he gave it as his opin-cays, afford to see her greatest la jurisdiction is based on exist the roving blades from the heart of President Hoover, was yesterday on that unless the various Gov-industry wiped out. ernments make a radical read-]

ing British sovereignty over the Asia, the lieutenants of Baber and fined $10 by Comdr, Newill, at the justment of their policies the

area in question. This sover-jof Humayun carved for themselves Marine Court, for having used tha position must go from bad to

eignty accrues máinly. from provinces and principalities. Here steam whistle of his vessel for rights acquired by discovery and the bold venturers of the Honourable purpose other than navigation exploration, but to some extent Company, Cilve, the Skinners, and about 6.15 pm, on March 21st, from the control exercised over the Hearseys toppled the Mogul fined to one country. Every na large part of "His Majesty's Australian desires for the formal and rushed their own frontiers to No. 3186, was driving his lorry announcement that a whaling and seal expeditions. Proconsuls from their jewelled seats Chun Hung, driver of motor lorry tion engaged in the shipping in-Dominions in dustry is suffering severely. In Seng" has been placed under the Commonwealth would have been of Nepal.

the Antarctic transfer of the region to the the matches of the velled Kingdom along the Stanley Road when it Swedish porta vessels totalling authority of the Commonwealth met years ago had not a small

plunged over the embankment. more than half are now lying unemployed, and with pleasure by every Austra ed as French.

a million tons of Australia has been received portion of that area been claim- prize of generations of knightly injured, and was sent to hospital, This remote realm was itself. the Chinese male, Tse Ping, was alight- the situation in Malmo harbour, lian interested in, the Polar re-that Dumont D'Urville, salling land in thefr quests for honourable

It was in 1840 Rajput rovers who conquered the but he was not detained there. which cannot hold any more gions. It has long been the am--from Hobart to the great South- advancement. ships, is unparalleled in the mem- bitlen of the Commonwealth to ern Ocean, discovered an ice-bullet-headed Mongol clans of Gurk driver, was driving private car No. ory of man. But that is only possess a share of Antarctica, an bound shore which he named has, surging up to the cast about 12.20 p.m., yesterday, when

They subdued the

Wo Wing Hing, a leenced motor Jone example. Similar conditions, ambition

for the same reason, are to be stronger since in 1923 the islands sion," not by landing on

620 along Queen's Road East, at which has become Adelie Land and took posses, and to the north till only the found everywhere. The total and territories of the Ross Sea-mainland -- that he found im- forced them to call a halt..

the stupendous rampart of the Himalaya named Muk Su Sum. The woman he knocked down a Chinese woman trade of the world last year was territories stretching to the possible only about half what it was in South Pole were put under the off the coast. Any French claims but on a rocky island

was not injured." 1929; various Governments, in{administration of New Zealand. arising from this visit have now

Frontier Of Two the endeavour to protect their (Another area of Antarctica, it been met by excluding Adelle Ses runs this tremendous chain, a volvers and one with a dagger,, at-

Worlds national interests, have set up a may be recalled, has been for Land from the grant to the Com myriad ranges athwart half a planeti tacked To Ying Tal: 86, married From the Euxine to the Yellow night, six men, two armed with re

Shortly before, midnight, Inst throttling network of barriers many years a dependency of the monwealth. As to the practical and here Mount Everest towers woman living in an unnumbered nut and restrictions on business; Falkland Islands) The part of value of the vast area now to be above all Nepal, above all Asis, and at Cheung Wan, Kowloon,, and rob- and, to make matters worse, Antarctica now assigned to Aus-ruled from Canberra It is dif- above all the terrestrial aphere. For bed her of a quantity, of clothing. there are far too many vessels tralia, which it is believed will deult to judge. Only its outer the mountain forms the very bound- The men escaped by entering a boat efloat many of them unecono henceforth be known as King fringe, is known. But the ad-ary pillar, and through its apex on end rowing towards Quarry Bay. mically subsidized - for the George V. Land, adjoins that facent waters contain very valu-which the eye of no man, possibly amount of cargo available. In under the jurisdiction of Newable fisheries, and the researches the eye of no created being, has ever pointing out the existence and Zealand, and much of it has been of Discovery II. have shown how looked down, runs the frontier be 27. & district watchman, was charg effects of these misfortunes Mr, discovered by Australian expedi- much depends on seeing that tween two worlds. To the north lies od with: (a) Demanding

The case in which Lo Tat Kong, Runciman repudiated the charge tions of living explorers, it is proper methods for their presers the stark glacial, wind-blasted Wong 'Ping sometimes, made that they are unnecessary to name any except vation are observed. Much use plate due to private enterprise. It is Sir Douglas Mawson, who now ful knowledge may also be ex not shipowners, he maintained, for fully a quarters of ca bat, State errors, that are the has devoted himself to Cause of the mischief. The facts, exploration and research as he stated them, are undeniable. Order In Council giving Austra

pected from the rep meteorological stations

remote and The in proposed to establish sin these

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