1935-02-11 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY,

UARY 11, 1935

LITERARY NOTES

THE WHITE MAN IN THE EAST

An Informative And Amusing Book

'FOUR YEARS OF TRAVEL

Major R. V. C. Bodley is an en- tertaining guide. This record "In discreet Travels East of his four years' travels in Java, China, and Jupun has the engaging quality of being personal in a modest way.

For once we are given u falr in- dication by the publishers of what to expert in the book. They refer to its "light and humorous texture," and then draw our notice to some of the final chapters as "deserving. of serious attention by readers - terested in international politics and the problems of the Far East." In this way the book has an appeal; to two types of render. Neither

will be disappointed. ⠀⠀

It was an invitation from a friend

in the Dutch East Indies that led') Major Bedley to make his tour in the East. He meant to remain in the East Indies some liree months; he not only stayed a year, but ex- tended his tour to China, which hell; him for eighteen months, and to for two Japan, which held him years. That is the way of the East Having decided to make a recorvi of his journeyings Major Bodley sought to give it a rare quality in travel books-a background illus trating how the white man lives and fares in these faraway lands, writes J. 1.. in the "Daily Telegraph The result is that we are presented with pages which contain not little that is indiscreet and much thus is Informantive and amusing. Some of the indiscretions, indeed. will be club talk for many a day east of Suez,

Praise For Japan

Major Bodley is a warm admirer.

"

of Dutch administration in the East;

Japan. On the other hand, seldom

berdean of S

Troops of four nations over police duty in the Saar Basin prior to the January plebiscite that" determined the disputed 'arca's' future allegiance to Germany. The top left shows Dutch marines,·· top right, Italian troops and centre, British Tommies arriving at Saarbrucken. joined them later.

CHARLES II

AND

HIS SISTER

LETTERS WITH LIGHT ON HISTORY

NARRATIVE ARRANGEMENT

MASTERLY

(Reviewed by Arthur Bryant)

Bwedish soldiers

DIOCESAN MISSION"

St. Andrew's Group Report

INCREASED MEMBERSHIP

ANNOUNCED S

DISCOVERED AFTER Assisting China's Silk Industry

30 YEARS

Woman Who Dressed As A Man

ONLY KNOWN AFTER FOUR YEARS IN PRISON

(Continued From Page 6)

cloth. According to this plan, there will be 22 working hours 2. Silk' making department. per day. It is estimated that This department occupies an area $656,200.68 of net profit will be of 6,600 square feet of land. It gained every year. started operations on October 1. 5. Cotton spinning and wear. 1984. The capital authorized is ing department - This depart- $170.800. which was advanced by ment occupies an ares of 110,144 the Provincial Reconstruction square feet. The capital author A: 30-year-old woman who had Department. This department ised is $2.916,060, which was ad- masqueraded as a man from has one department head, two vanced by the Frovincial Recon- childhood has been discovered engineers. seven assistant en-struction Department. Prepara- serving a life sentence for homi-gineers over 200 apprentices, tions for its inauguration is now cide in a men's prison in Lisbon and nine machines. The daily being rushed. There are 379

She is known as Luis Alves do output is 360 taels of raw silk.jennies, 232 motors, and 17 dust Rego. But it has now been The work is handled by three sub-lers in this department. proved that she was christened divisions, namely (1) cocoon] 6. Power, house. The pow Loutka."

simmering, (2) reeling, and (8) fer house was completed läst Oc- Four years ago, she was found packing

tober and it has four generátors, guilty of homicide as an accom- It is estimated that after the three steam boilers and one gus plice of her father, who was found apprentices are trained and effl-producer, Ito be insane.

ciency is increased the annual It is seen from what is stated She dressed as a man at the expenditure and income will be above that this factory is organ- trial and no one suspected her to $168,807.24. and $173.889.60, ised on a large scale and has bea woman.

leaving a balance of $508:36 as sufficient funds as capital. She was well-known to Lisbon net profit.

Needless to say, it is a model facă taxidrivers who called her 3. Waste silk and hemp fibres tory in the country; and It will

Rufus" on account of her red

department. This department play an important role in the de- hair. They are now astounded occupies 19,200 square feet of velopment of Industries. — Cen- to learn that their Rufus was a land. It started operations on tral Press.

October 1, 1934. Its capital is $646,288.80, which was appro- COUNTERFEIT COIN priated by the Provincial Finance

SEIZURE It has three cal- TUNGCHOW PIRACY Department.

drons one water pump, 40 jen-

Further Week's Remand nies, and 38 motors, and is organ- Pirates Thought Making ised by one department head, two Asked And Granted

directors, one engineer, two as- Isistant engineers, and 18 opera- Charged with the possession tors. There are two sub-divi-fof '590 counterfelt Chinese 20- sions in this department to han-cent pieces. Pun Po Yair, alias dle the work, namely dressing Pun Yuk, and Liu Tak Ching of the and re-dressing.

were again remünded in police

woman.

"

For Hong Kong

WARNINGS ISSUED

Information that some

WEDNESDAY, 13th

A report of an increase member- ship and a credit balance of $5.42 pirates are now making for Hong. This department is ready to custody for a week by Mr. W. M. as against $50.30 the previous year, Kong with bonty obtained from enlist a number of apprentices: Thomson at the Central Magis-

It is estimated that after, the ap-tracy this morning. was made by Mias Armstrong,

was broadcast

are trained. up, the prentices secretary and treasurer of the St. the 8.8. Tungchow

Datective-Sergeant Clarke, for Andrew's Group of the Diocesan by radio last night. Frontier pa monthly expenditure and revenue the prosecution, asked for a date Missionary Association, held at the trols have been ordered to exer will be $22,001.77 and $24,885. to be fixed for hearing.

unnual profit' ........ will Church Hall yesterday. The Rev. cise special care and the Yaumati The

be Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the and Tsimshatsui police will p$34,598.76, |J. R. Higga presided.

first "accused. to' parke 4. The following officers were elected particular attention

Wool spinning and wear- for the ensuing year: Secretaryera alighting from trains. All ing department. The area of and treasurer, Miss Armstrong boats from Canton and Macao land of this department occupies -- is 45,428 square feet. Operationa The Commodore's Office, Hong have not yet begun. The capital Indios and an enthusiast about Charlos 11 and Madame. By Cyril fish destiny. Mr. Hartmann Is committee, Mesdames C. W. Bishop, will be watched...

Hughes Hartmann. (Heine-content to let his documents tell Jefferies, L. L. Nash, V. Petherick,

their own story and seldom in Miss M. Nash and Drs. H. D. Mat-Kong, issued the following notif-authorised is $948,000, which was

cation last night:

advanced by the Provincial Re- mann. 18s. 6d.).

"Concerning the Tungchow construction Department. This Mr. Hartmann's "Charles II ferposes his own view. Only at thews, and K. H. Utiley.

pirates, for whom a large redepartment has 105 machines, on which corruption sprawls like a and-Madame," though a master-the end of this extraordinary

ward has been offered, the na-five testing instruments, and -99 Yet, in some ways, these chapters piece of narrative arrangement. narrative does he for a moment

vál authorities have received in-motors. The Installation of these ¿formation that the pirates ort-machines was finish in January are the most interesting. There is perhaps not a book for the comment--when comment is al- are admirable description of life in ordinary reader. Modern readers most superfluous;--

usually

ginally intended to make for this year.dk do not

through the some of the principal towns.

Kowloon in order to dispose of This department will produce their booty."

serge and other kinds of woollen Many of the portraits of Chinese follow a story. and Japanese statesmen are shrewd, medium of letters, and they and show that Major Bodley has are apt to be made impatient by taken neither the oriental nor the antique Variations of spelling, which in this case Mr. Hartmann white man ut his face valate,

hux a more unhappy picture been' painted of China. It is a canvas

marsh.

care

to

source

many

It is to be hoped, however, that has rightly retained. This is in the next edition-for "Indiscreet primarily an historical Travels East" should travel eastbook-and one of the most im- for many a moon-Major Bodleyportant published for will bring some of the finai chup-years.

Yet it is a great deal more! ters up to date. The "unchanging East" is a misnomer today at than a mere collection of letters; none is in a position to realise this for it is those letters-and they are vital to any proper under better than the author of this en

standing of our history-inter- gaging and witty volume.

Ipreted and explained in their every bearing. without a loose sentence or an unnecessary word. And it will appeal not only to historical readers, but to all- and they are fortunately many- who are interested in the per- Isonality of that loveliest of Stuart princesses, Madame of Mr. Andre L. Simon's little book, France, and of her relations with "Port," reveals the august tradi- her enigmatic but fascinating tion of a venerated vintage, Mull brother of England. Mr. Hart- ed port, says Mr. Simon indignant-mann's obvious understanding ly, is dead port. It may be given and culture and his quiet. illu-

A CONNOISSEUR'S BOOK OF PORT August Tradition Of Venerated Vintage

CANADIAN MINING INDUSTRY

(Continued From Page 6)..

When

It is too easily forgotten that The supremacy of Great Bris fair in the East and in the New World upon which the year. The output of lead passed greatness of the British Em-that of 1928, and copper and píre rests was built up and zinc reached the high level of consolidated in Charles II's 1930. Production of metals of reign largely by these very the platinum group, which oc wars with the Dutch for which cur in association with copper be has been so bitterly re-nickel ores, was much larger than proached and tht the commer any annual Canadian output cial and colonial expansion of heretofore recorded, England during this period was During the calendar year 1934 in grent part due to the policy the estimated value of Canada's initiated by the King himself mineral production was $278.337,

He sided with France 1000, an increase of 25 per cent. in the war against "Holland, on the 1938 value of $221,495,- not because he was paid to do 253. Metals as a group were so, but because he considered worth $192,668,000 an increase it to be to the interest of Eng-of 31 per cent. over 1933 and a land that the naval menace gain of 25 per cent over the from that quarter should be value of the metallic production removed. That he managed of 1929, the previous best year. to get handsomely paid for do- While the high price of gold was ing exactly what he wanted to an important factor in the gain. do was perhaps not very hon-the prices of the base, metals eat of him, but it was very were lower: and the quantity of clever..

production compared very favour-

And of his greater schemes ably with the previous record

to the dying, but is not fit for the minating wit will make their that failed the author writes;

dinner-table..

pers. The

romance

+

pleasure the greater.

year.

Non-Metallic Minerals What was true in the seven- Fuels, including coal. natural teenth century is equally true gas, and crude petroleum were in the twentieth. Charles I valued at $54,781,000 as against was, before his time in perceiv- $47,778,486 in 1933, an increase ing that in the main interests of 15 per cent. Coal production of Great Britain, through her increased 17 per cent., in quanti- geographical situation neces- ty and 18 per cent. in value; sarily a great naval power, crude petroleum advanced 26 per and those of France, for the cent..in quantity and 20..per cent same reason necessarily a in value, g

..

The worst port is better off than-

Secret Treaty of Dover the

No best author.

author

Historically nothing could be can copyright his name, but port is a wing with a name strictly more important than the theme preserved by law. However, they of the book. No event in our have this in common: they can be history has been more misunder stood than the secret treaty of fortified with brandy,

Mr. Simon takes ЦБ swiftly Dover. From the archives of "Ministere des Affaires through the political history of the

great military power, are 80- Non-metallics other than fuels port, the story of Methuen, Forres-Etrangeres" in Paris, the Eng- ter, and Burnay. He gives a re-lish State Papers, the muniment widely and so essentially dif- and, including such minerals as ferent that they are unlikely asbestos, feldspar, salt, gypaum. view of modern port vintages and room at Lambeth Palace, and

to clash, and that, therefore, sodium sulphate, etc., increase 6 a brief history of port wine ship-the manuscripts preserved by the

a cordial friendship and a per Clifford family at Ugbrooke, the

cent from $10.004.537 to 'of trade, especially of foreign trade, comes full story of those momentous liance with our neighbours $10,557.00

negotiations is simply and au- over the Channel is much more Structural materials

which thentically told,

feasible than one with a power include cement, lime clay pro- Many of the documents: have that has the same aspirations ducts, stone, sand and gravel ad- any been printed before, but not in and ambitions as ourselves. vanced 22 per cent, from

$16,690,687 to $20,361,000. Triumph of, an “Amateur”

An, interesting feature of the 50 years, from 1840 to 1890, there been properly realised, that had Like

of the finest discovery of pitchblende con- so much were pix fine vintages. The port Charles's plans succeeded, they English scholarship of all time, taining radium near Great Bear specialist, can give you the dates, would have changed the whole Mr. Hartmann's book is the work Lake, which is crossed by the and a special specialist can tell future of the world. The vast of an "amateur," unsupported by Arctic Circle, is that large quan- them with his tongue, in both colonial and commercial empires the backing or cramped by the titles of radium salts are being senses of te word. But few get to of Holland and Spain would have prevailing pedantry of the purchased by the Ontario Gov- tables where they can display this in turn fallen to England, and "Schools." It is accurate, modest, ernment, which has instituted a knowledge.....

the Roman domination of civil- of wide culture, and quite free series of cancer clinics through- igation been revived in a union from that rather showy, allusive out the province.

to life in these payes.

All things, considered, It miracle that there is ever

is a

port it to drink. The grape their entirely or proper sequence. gathering is a desperate gamble. In They reveal, what has never

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LIFE STORY OF TEACHER of French military and English ness, which tends to make a good tra

Zakave naval and commercial power deal of modern professional orders to his brother to have La The Deliverer of Helen Kelleri Cromwell himself never con- scholarship so confusing as to be Roche's ships attacked, and a Anne Sullivan, Macey," by Miss ceived anything more grandiose, almost useless. I have only been misur Nella Bradley, is one of Frederick Admit Charles's dream as psy-able to find two mistakes char Muller's books for this month chologically, impossible, and it n

neither material: an apparent

ing of Falmouth's which a wider, reading temporar sources would.

It tells the story of Helen Keller's still remains curiously prophetic failure on page 205 to realise have corrected. teacher and their life-long asso- of the subsequent course of Bri- that Charles had actually issued ciation,

beyond

the rest the

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