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HERE THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

and

Guest of the King. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, who is paying his first visit| to England since the war in order' to shoot at Sandringham, must be the only Old Etonian among the

of Queen Victoria, and speaks Ger man with a pronounced English ac

cent.

MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.

JEHOL

-

PRIDE OF EMPERORS

SPLENDOUR AND FAME

HAVE DIED

(By Horace Thorogood:)

German princes. He is a grandson War has a way of bursting new religious fame. of Jehol, for names on a surprised world. The Lamaism had remained their rell- day-to-day news brings up names of gion throughout their long exile.

An› Amazing Journey The Duke has identified himself places only known before, outside

their own region, to a handful of This was one of the most amazing strongly with the Nationalist

Across 2,400 movement in Germany. He favours travellers or to a few scholars journeys in history.

united Nazi-Stahlhelm front places lost or forgotten in the bless-miles of steppes and deserts they Coburg, ander his leadership, hased obscurity of peace, but henceforth came, 400,000 people with literally become a stronghold of Monarch-to be stamped in indelible red on millions of animals, fighting battles Places like Alma, every day, wasted by famine, thirst

a

fiam.:

human memory.

The Duke has two hobbies. He Kandahar, Bunker's Hill, Lady- and disease, and after seven monthe arrived at Jehol with two-thirds of is an excellent shot; and gives smith, Mons,...”

Now it is the name of Jehol that the original host perished. famous boar and stag shooting

Jehol, It was to celebrate this feat that

he founded:

REMINDED.

WIFE: Every time you see

ried.

HUSBAND:

parties. He is a keen motorist, and is in everybody's mouth. is President of the most select never heard of by most Westerners the Emperor Chien-lung built the automobile club in Germany, which till a few months ago, to-day pro- Potala.

mises to stand as one of the signi-

The most splendid temple, Hsin- ficant names in the world's history kung (its full name means "The Your Daily Smile. While we are still learning to pro- Temple of Mountainous Good For

nougce it, Jehol has beconie the key-tune and Honourable Old Age."), word in the history of the new war was built in honour of the visit of between Chinn and Japan.

the third Tashi Lama in 1779. He' How strange and fronic its un-had made a sumptuous progress pretty girl you forget you're mar-familiarity seems when one begins from Lhasa, met at the different to inquire; when one discovers that stages by convoys of pearls and You're wrong, my for a hundred years Jehol, capital silks and other priceless gifts from dear. Nothing brings home the of the province in which the Japan- the Emperor. But the visit had a fact with so much force,

cse launched their offensive, was tragic sequel. The Holy One died renowned throughout the East as of small-pox in the city. the "City of Emperors."

For a century, from 1711, it was the sum- mer residence of the great Manchulney, the first embassy ever sent by an

English king (George IIL) to Emperor of China, arrived in Jehal. Emperors, "the Fontainebleau China," whose wealth and pomp We get from the records of his were phenomenal even in the gorge journey a picturesque account of the wonderful road-"the Emperor's Now, the Japanese have massed Road"-leading into the city from

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TOUCH ON EYES. Mabel (romantically): Gerald has character; you can see it in his

eyes.

FATHER: Humph! If I see him jhanging around here I'll blacken

his character.

HE:

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HE'D RATHER EAT

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ous East.

of

A few years later Lord Macart-

if their forces and have taken Jeho! Pekin:

City. The city is 114 miles by road from Pekin, and when the Emperor IK'ang-hai chose it for his residence in 1711, It was an obscure village on the fringe of the huge Mongolian wilderness.

"Your fiancee has money, but of course, to be made for auto-you marry her you will have to give HASELFOOT-BEWLEY.--At St.

matic increases in the cost of up smoking and drinking.” Mary's Church,

Yes, but if I don't marry her Alverstoke, England, on Saturday, March Certain services, such as Old Age shall have to give up eating.”

Pensions and Widows' Pensions; 18, 1933, Lt. W. F. Haselfoot, but these appear to have been R.N., to Dorothea, daughterj

EASY FOR HER. of Colonel and Mrs. A wet by automatic decreases in

Dearest, our engagement] the cost of War Pensions; and Bowley.

the only really substantial savis off. A fortune-teller has just inga which are in prospect are in told me that I was going to marry respect of. Education (about a blonde in a month.

SHE: Oh, that's all right, I can £1,000,000), of the Road Fund (£2,750,000), and of Irish Free be a blonde in a month. State Services (£1,100,000), If the provisional character of the

The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Monday, April 3, 1933. Ministry of Labour's estimates

British Finances.

Facts You Did Not Know.c

be taken into account, and if it be assumed that this Department will cost as much in 1933-34 na!

-i

For

purposes Bightseeing

n

it has in 1932-33, it will be seen Frenchman has designed a sub- that the services covered by the marine automobile that can carry

* With the aid of heat, and Pres-i

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for

The Cunning Diplomat - He had a political purpose in view, K'ang-hal was a cunning

diplomat.

an

It la ten feet broad, a foot high, und made of a mixture of sand and clay, so evenly damped and so` well packed that it becomes as hord It is as clean and us cement. smooth as the floor in one of our It is constantly drawing-rooms.

swept not only

J

to remova

· falleu leaves, but the small-

grain of dust. Prob

est He planned to strike awe into the semi-barbarous Mongo-ably in the whole world there lian tribes, with their Khans and Kings, by the sight of its incredible] riches, its Imperial pomp, its trea sures of art and superb buildings:) He hoped to attach them to the Dragon Throne by making Jehol a mighty centre of Lamalam, their re- ligion.

Is not' a more beautiful road when' It has been cleaned in readiness

· for the Emperor's journey to Tar- tary, Watchposts are set up along the road and no oné is allowed to step on it until the Emperor.has passed.

To-day It is probably the worst So the construction of this city of motoring road in the world...

Lord Macartney's mission was The Son of Heaven

British taxpayers were pro-whole of the estimates are cal-passengers over the bottom of the monastery-temples, forming a fair- vided with a pleasant surprise culated to cost some £18,000,000 sea the cabin being detachable to like curve of sanctuaries north and not a success. by the publication of the year's more in 1933-34 than they were rise to the surface of the water if east of the walled park of the Sum-snubbed George III. as if the latter

mer Palace, was begun..

were a disobedient: vassa). The calculated to cost when the esti-the motor should fail.

Most of the temples and pavilions mission was extremely costly, with revenue and expenditure statis-mates for 1982-33. were first tics. Britain's remarkably sound issued, though they are estimated

were built by his grandson, the lite imposing numbers and handsome. budgetary position is due mainly to cost about £3,000,000 less in sure sheet metal has been combined great Ch-fen-lung, "the Son of gifts, but, in the words of Sven

He it was who, between Hedin, the Heaven." to the splendid response made 1983-34 than they will in fact with felt at the Mellon Institute of by the taxpayer to repeated calls have cost (allowing for supple Industrial Research, forming a 1767 and 1771, made the temple- belittled by the Chinese as an almost for sacrifice, and it is earnestly mentary estimates) in 1932-33. deadening material that can be monastery called the Potala, model-comic episode." The Chinese re- hoped that the reward, in the For the moment, however, it is handled like ordinary metal and led, or the residence of the Dalal cords dismiss it with a casual form of a reduction in the crip sufficient to note that the esti-reproofed.. pling burden of taxation, will mates show the failure of the he provided at the earliest possi-close scrutiny of expenditure,

ble moment. Settlement of the which has been repeatedly pro-

Lama at Lhasa, and containing, in mention.

whole thing was

the wooden temple, with its golden However, the milssion had a mar |roof, rich, carvings, and red and vellous time, enjoying the beauty gold, walls, a pearl of Chinese spots of the Summer Palace, the

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CUSTOMS CRUISER FIRES ON JUNK

Child Passenger Killed

EXCHANGE OF SHOTS

war debt problem would hasten mised by Ministers, to produce unprecedented exigencies of our architecture the noblest of religi- names of which read almost this end and it is significant in substantial savings. This fact national finances can at this mo- ous monuments from the last sweetly as they must have looked

China's greatness," as The Cypress Wind with the Ten this connection that the budget must give rise to renewed Inquiry ment be adequately met." The periods of would have shown a surplus of whether the existing system of exigencies of 1926, when these the traveller, Sven Hedin, writes in Thousand Crypts," "The Hundred £5,250,000 but for the amount, relying for retrenchment upon words were uttered, are im- his book: "Jehol, City of Emperors." not anticipated in the estimates, Treasury criticism of the pro- mensurably intensified to-day; Throned on the altar was of £29,000,000 for the December posals of Departments, is really and, in spite of the admittedly bronze-gilt figure of Tsong-kha-pa, payment to the United States. the only possible system. It is enormous technical difficulties in "the Reformer," a contemporary of While it is a matter for congra-la truiam that retrenchment on a the way of a rationing system, Tamerlane. Eight hundred lamas tulation that Britain's financial large scale depends upon policy, the disappointing results of other served the temple, and the guest- affairs are in such a satisfactory and that policy has in the past systems do really dictate some houses, class-rooms and common position, grave concern is felt at built up a mountain of statutory farther examination of Lord rooms were always filled with a con- the effect of the drastic curtail-commitments which cannot be Oxford's view. The second con-course of pilgrims and students. ment of expenditure and the tre-evaded without a volcanic, up-sideration to which these csti- The place has been a decaying mendous burden of taxation. A heaval in policy. It is therefore mates must give rise in the ruin for decades, its treasures of detailed study of the Civil Estim-also true that the bulk of the question whether anything more gold and silk and bronze plitored, ates reveals the position clearly, expenditure of many Depart cannot be done within the present its massive masonry split by trees The total of the Civil Estimates ments is dictated by statute. But system of controlling expenditure and ragged with weeds. The An attempt by the crew of a and the Estimates for the Re- these facts have not prevented to avoid the necessity of little temple bells were ringing from Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser venue Departments for 1983-34, many eminent authorities in the calamitously unconstructive Bud-the upward-carving corners of the to board a Chinese trading junk on is just over £391,000,000, and past from believing that very get. No satisfactory answer is sanctuary roots when Sven Hedin Saturday morning, had a tragic de- shows a saving of nearly £32,000,- great economies could be effected possible unless it is realised that was there, and a hundred lama,quel, when a Chinese girl was fa 000 upon the figure, including by a system of rationing Depart whatever the exigencies of shabby and down-at-beal, India-tally injured in an exchange of supplementary estimates, for the ments. For example no one could the national - finances, the tinguishable from the beggars, current year, But unhappily question either the authority of national credit has been im-vived on the State dole of It appears that on Saturday there are factors, quite honestly the late Lord Oxford in matters measurably improved that Mexican dollars a month

morning trading Junk T2051 II left stated in the estimates them of national finance or his desire the national spirit, though it is still possible to appreciate Shamshaipo bound for Chinese fer- selves, which go far to cancel any for a progressive and enlighten- battered, is unbowed in the the effect the city must have had ritory and was followed out of the such satisfaction as a bare com- ed polley; and yet, after making sense that it would respond to upon the imaginations of the peo-harbour by the cruiser, Kwan Lui. parison of the totals for the two full allowance for the arsenal of stimulation; and that the true ples of the Mongolian plains as they As the vessels reached Lyeemun years might induce. No less well founded arguments", always canker In the Budget is the coat looked from afar upon those lofty Pass, the Kwan Lui signalled the than $20,000,000 of the saving is produced by the spending Depart of unemployment and all that walls, with the sun littering on the junk that they were about to board accounted for by a reduction in mente, and after paying, a full unemployment means not merely golden roofs, and, venturing within her.

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shots between the two vessels,

the estimates of the Ministry of Eribute to "the devoted and able, in expenditure but also in loss of the gates, wandered. In the splendid. It was then alleged by the Kwan Labour, but these estimates in men who, for often most inades revenue. But if these facts are courts and garde chude only three months' provi- quite rewards – and "uninviting borne in mind, certain conclu two-life-size stone

sion for a large class of applic

canta for that form of State and relist known as transitional ments Unless the

th our fighting alons must follow. The. Bivil Services,” he came that it is unnecessary

there was aux

cept to th

the three inmense

bed

Lal that the junk fired a few shots

seroon, the cruiser a bows and xchange of Arius then took

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