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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Thursday, May 4, 1983,

This Age Of Violence.

HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

That's Glory That Was.

THURSDAY, MAY 1933.

ATTACK ON EVEREST

MAJESTIC SCENERY OF PERILOUS HEIGHTS

A

GALE-SWEPT COUNTRY

A man wearing the Victoria Cross, and other medals, was taken before the magistrate at Marl borough Street for alleged obstruc- tion by playing a barrel-organ in

Of the three semi-independent Coventry Street, W., recently. He Mr Robert Byron, the well-known,

tcriter and traveller, describes States sheltered by the Himalayas, gave his name as James. Clarke.

in this article the ground over Sikkim is by far the smallest. The He told the magistrate that he took

which the climbers of the Mount capital is Gangtok, a pleasant little full responsibility." "I am an ex-

Evercaf - Expedition, now at place on a wooded spur. sergeant-major," he said, "and hol-

their basc at Darjeeling, will Here the Maharaja has his palace,. der of the V.C. I have a wife and

pass.

ja building unique among the Royal three children at Rochdale. I

Mount Everest, though visible homes of India in that, though re have been out of work and have from Darjeeling, must be approach-sembling a seaside villa without, it been trying to make an honest lived by climbers from the North. has been furnished inside with con- ing, but have not sent anything Kampa Jong, in Tibet, scene of the siderable taste, under the auspices of home lately: I owe £3 on the or fruitless parleys that led to the Mesdames Bailey and Weir, the gan and have 23⁄41⁄2d. in my pocket. British invasion of Lhassa in 1904, wives of the last two political offi. I have had no breakfast. I am is their real starting-off point. cera. Near by, in a large garden

supposed to be one of Lloyd George's heroes.”

Railway Station Cinema.

ensier route,

Mysterious Tibet.

A pasa on the northern frontier famous for its orchids, stands the of Sikkim leads to this place British Residency, in the same style direct, but is more than 17,000 feet of architecture. high and remains snow-bound till Missing one's train and having to full summer. The Everest Expedi-

Two passes lead from Sikidm Into wait an hour for the next may pre-tion will choose an

be reached in two sently be a pleasant experience, which cuts across the south-east the Chumbi Valley. The lower, the One can even imagine children corner of Sikkim and ascends to the Nathu La, can |manoeuvring their parents

into Tibetan plain by means of the days from Ganglok, after a night at Changu on the edge of a lake; and Chumbi Valley. being late or, more probably, in

Gangtok itself, at certain seasons sisting on making such an early To persons familiar with those of the year, is accessible by car. start for the station that an hour's parts it la a hackneyed route, ac-But the second pass, the Jelep La waiting is inevitable.

companied by a telegraph wire-on though 14,400ft. above the sea, and

of Central Asia.

Mountain Rampart

Are

It is all the fault of Victoria, its way to Lhasan-trodden by mail- having an abominable deasent on the West-end terminus of the runners, and carrying more than the further side, is more generally Southern Railway, for work has half the whole trade between India free from snow, and is that used by actually begun on the first rail and Tibet. Yet no route can seem the mail-runners... way station cinema, and this exam- hackneyed which shows a man, as

From Darjeeling, where the ex- ple is sure to be followed not only it will show some members of the pedition formed ita caravan. It is present expedition, his first view one day's ride to Kalimpong, the by London termini but by many provincial stations.

chief entrepot of the Tibetan wool More than 100,000 people pase by the distressful house of Haps-

trade Thence the stages vary, sc burg. Nor have the British Isles in and out of Victoria every day. Seen from the Bengal plain, the cording to the effort employed. I themselves been exempt from and hundreds of them are at a loose Himalayas disappointing-a myself stopped the next night at colourless rampart, Indis-Pedong, a charming rest-house in a civil strife these latter days. In and for an hour or so, either walthard, Dublin quite recently were wit-ing for the arrival of friends or tinguishable from other mountans. meadow, hung with baskets of nessed scenes unparalleled since for their own train. Soon, instead But upon their northern face there orchids; and the following day, on the desperate days before the of shivering in waiting-rooms or opens another world, where the producing my pass to the Sikkim signing of the Irish treaty while under the clock," they will step clouds curt as they do on Chinese frontier guard, proceeded to Ari, on A visitor from Mars, reading the Clydebank and Trafalgar on to the escalator-after putting screens, and the sky is so bine that the opposite side of the valley.

From Ari, after crossing the in the papers of the world the Square have not failed to uphold a small silver coin into the auto-ne brush could ever paint it; where constant references to "Peace" their traditional reputation for matic ticket machine and a mo-the bright light halves every dis-Rongli river at 2,700ft, the path Ioment later will find themselves in tanec and the aniow-peaks glitter ascends 10,000ft, during the fifteen and "Disarmament" and "Con-violence and commotion, ciliation," and so forth, with Asia, Japan and China are at one the foyer of a cinema whose pro-like crystals above the golden hills; miles to Lingtu. This is an ex- which their columns have been another's throats, while India, gramme consists of news items, in- where the yak ploughs and carries, hausting climb for the ponies. The the cross-roads are marked with traveller generally spends a night filled of late, and noting in con-with its problems of Mr. Gandhi terest films, and cartoons.

An auxillary screen inside will prayer-wheels, and the lama in red on the way at Sedonchen, a tiny vll- nection therewith that these and the Untouchables," is no things are continually being held sooner out of the frying pan of keep patrons informed about all robe and yellow hat maintains a lage clinging to a precarious ledge. up as consummations most de-lone uprising before it is tumbled trains. voutly to be desired, might well into the fire of another. Crises express his astonishment, if he political, Anancial, and indus continued his perusale a little trial - have worked their evil further, at the great gulf which will upon the exasperated citi- seems to separate our desires zens of the United States to the! from our achievements. · The point of assassination, and in the A mother-in-law is a person more we talk of peace, the more southern republics of Bolivia and responsible for many a husband's

In every Paraguay the Gran Chaco has shortcomings and long goings. we practise violence. quarter of the globe the people provided both an arena and a

In high places hold in one hand cause for fierce and cruel- fight- What is the cause of it an olive branch, and in the other ing.

was

Your Daily Smile.

DEFINITION.

+

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COURAGE.

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LUCK

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**jsecluded theocracy,

There is one more halt, either at This is the Tibetan upland, a Gnatong er Kapup, among the treeless, gale-swept country, from sedges and rhododendron scrub, and sea-then comes the Jelep La, frontier 10,000ft. to 14,000ft, above

old Celestial Empire level. The English climbers will between the take but a cursory view of it, on and the Empire of Hindostan. their way to more heroic adventure. From this knife-like ridge & glis Yet there can be none, who will not sade of 2,000ft, leads down into the respond, be he novice or veteran, to Chumbi Valley, where yaks, black as hearth-rugs, are the ever-recurrent thrill the end shaggy

of

grazing among woods of larch and Central Asian landscape.

The first momenta in Tibet' are a way up, delights the eye with all a sword. The ex-Kaiser, now all? Why has the world gone Facing up to a tiger; swimming The scenery of Sikkim, on the shumack.

Why, once again, do in a raging torrent; or chancing a that Tibet has not. Here are no strange experience. I shall never polishing up the imperial regalia berserk?

interminable plains, no radiant forget my private excitement when, with a hopeful wash-leather at the nations rage, thus furiously cheque for another five about this

the size of skies. The landscape is vertical on rounding a corner Doorn, was wont in pre-war days together? One would think that time of the month.

and carried to such heights that the Skiddaw, fl'rode straight into a re- to be condemned for his too con- the experience of the Armaged-

firmament, when visible at all, religious procession. In front march- stant references to the "mailed don years would have bitten so A Changed Man.

A Soho waiter has been a sides sembles the orifice of a chimney seened women carrying the sacred books fist," as being the argument he deep that a century would fail to

And yet within two man at his church for twenty years from the fireplace. In the whole in bundles on their backs. Behind most preferred; but at least he erase it.

open in his expression of decades we find an almost uni-habit of handing the plate and ask State there is scarcely flat land came a gold Image in a palanquin, attended by monks in red robes that preference indeed, too versal revival of the spirit which He has now quite broken his little enough for a football field.

Among these stupendous hills, and high, pointed hats, to the beat open, often, for the Chancelleries made possible that dreadful outing "Thick or clear?"

It is

beneath these cathedrals of trees of drums and the clash of cymbals. -and, making no secret of the break of hate and horror.

that rise 50ft, before they spread a'

Avalanche Peril, matter, probably did less harm an anomaly which is as perplex-

A London financier is reported to branch, the human traveller be- At Rinchengong, a prosperous than is effected by those presenting as it is saddening; an ano-

of tall, broad-eaved day advocates of "peace" to maly whose consequences, unless have made £50,000 in one deal. E.C. comes infinitesimal. Even the de community

tails are exaggerated.

houses grouped round a golden whom we have referred, and it can be removed, may go far noney t

The flowers are as unlike nature chorten, the path joins the river whose persistent talk upon the towards the destruction of our

as the design of an ancient wall-Chumbl, and proceeds along nariow subject, coupled with deeds dir-civilisation.

It is reported from Johannesburg paper; the irridescent batterflies, meadows to Pipithang. Here that a girl there recently ran noting across the sunspots, are as dangerous track twists up the weat shorter a distance than 66 miles big as sparrows. The spiders' webs fate of the valley towards the Nathu History fails to record whether she so tough that they knock the a

shriek like housewives at a-bargain Peace and good will in Scan-got her man or not.

rider's -hat crooked. The parrots upon these generalities. It is not dinavia should be restored by the

sale. The noise of one cicada would difficult to do so. Indeed, the decision of the International

outshrill the whistle of a steghi puzzle ja, with such, an embar-Court at The Hague that East

engine. rassment of choice, to know Greenland belongs to Denmark where to start. There is hardly and not to Norway. There are a nation in Central Europe, for very few portions of the earth's instance, which cannot be utilis surface that can still be described ed as an exhibit in the case as no man's land. On the face of Stars and Swipes! Germany, perhaps, is the star it Greenland appears to have few example. That unhappy country attractions, either residential or is not only at arms' length with industrial, though it may have a majority of her neighbours considerable importance in the Russia, Poland, and France-future of trans-Atlantic air ser, but is riven with an internecine vices, But if two civilised na- strife whose expressions are so tions can quarrel over East bitter and so violent that one can Greenland, there are obviously Pulling down metal slide and silver firs, and at 12,000ft, the good behaviour for one year, again hardly believe them possible in a potentialities of hot dispute even brings all of the keys, în nation whose reputation for in the Polar circles. Many people pocket case out of the bottom, terspersed with dank yellow sedges when he pleaded guilty before Mr. philosophy and commonsense must have wondered why the ready for use.. once stood so high, Germany's British Government, in con

ectly antithetical thereto, natur

jally leads us to the belief that,

like the player queen in "Ham

let," they do protest too much.

Let us for a moment particularise

Polar Possessions.

Endurance.

GARDEN STATUARY Jobbing gardeners,

RE-CHRISTENED.

Beer is legalised in America. The

THE HIKER'S LIFE A walkover.A

Facts You Did Not Know

A-Royal Home.

At Jength the cobbled path reaches the bottom of the valley,

(Continued on. Page 7.)

$50 BOND MONEY FORFEITED

Loiterer In Gloucester Building.

bre

crosses the inevitable river, and begins to ascent. The forest grows. less dense. Bamboos appear, grow- ing taller and more robust, till they give place to rhododendrons and the Lui Mul, convicted before dr. whole mountain-afde) in ablaze with Schofield in the Central Magistracy their postes, qu

on April 18 for larceny, and bound Then the conifers begin, cypresses over on one bond of $50 to de of

new rhododendrons become a scrub, in-appeared in Court, this morning,

Peaks that once usurped the whole Wynne-Jones to loftering, on the sky have receded into hidden depths, third floor of the Gloucester Build- The conifers themselves thin out, in ing at 2 am, yesterday morning,

political persecution of the Jews function with Australia, Look The farthest north observatory reached a stage where it argused the trouble to declare Bri-in the world for study of muroras gaunt, jagged regiments, till the The accused was found asleep by alike the alarm and the condem-tish sovereignty over Victoria has been established at Tromsos, nation of the world. In Poland, Land and adjacent areas in Norway, the question of the "Polish Cor- the Boss Quadrant of the ridor" has roused the peoples of Antarctic, where a succes two countries to dangerous and sion of British explorers have insensate desda, Austria, again, done a great work The Green- seething with Nasl and anti land case shows that the Fore Nazi Zactionism; and the unhappy did not act without reason, experiences of Germany jin, that though.

would seem to be

the bounds of rep Itión

est is gone, and only the pass lies the floor watchman, who fashed his shead, the naked threshold of a new torch light at the former who pre- tended to be asleep, Lui'a- Inst A scythe operated by one half Two cairns stand on either alde, conviction was in connection with

power electric motor has been adorned with pra

to which larceny of some electric wiring from Be the Bank of Canton Building? nted for cutting high grass and the servants tween them.

His Worship said the socused'

country, so recently

to be more than a

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