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The Indian Experiment tinued to rule India, and never

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

POWER OF BUGGESTION

Of all inflictions that yield most readily to the power of suggestion| none is more susceptible than the disfiguring wart.

BY TUBE ACROSS THE DESERT

1,150 MILES OF STEEL OIL PIPE-LINE

WONDERFUL

ENGINEERING

FEAT COMPLETED

(By H. D. Ziman)

Two American doctors, Salzber- ger, and Wolf, describe cures they have made in the "Medical Re- Cord,"

The patient is blindfolded, and TN. a newly constructed building aeroplane, crossing the desert just led into a room where color, to 150 miles north of Baghdad, young off the line of the pipe, gave, un- running as loudly, as possible. ⠀⠀ King Ghazi of Irak one day last pleasant testimony to the severity The warts are then stained with month pulled a lever which start-of the storms when the rains do come vivid dye. The motor is ed on its journey down 1,150 miles come. As to the road surfaces, a turned off, the bandage is removed of steel tubing the most extensive hundred miles of the pipe-line from the eyes, and the patient is of his kingdom's treasures. Irak's traverses country covered to confronted with his brilliantly-ofl has been given a Royal route to depth of hundreds of feet by coloured warts.

the West.

volcanic lava. When the surface.. King Ghazi takes an interest boulders (of anything from a in folklore he may observe that pound to a hundredweight)" are Kirkuk's inflammable gushers first removed, vehicles still fall into burst forth in earnest, as late as deep pot-holes of abrasive and 1927, near the traditional pioneer blinding dust.

He is then told: "The warts are dead now and will soon fall of":

Eventually they do.

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OLD WIVES' TRICKS

Skake "Girls don't Interest me. I think

"Shake, I'm broke, too.”

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*

It's a Tight Game

Amman, the capital of Transjor Įdan, to Ma'an and further.

Our casualties were four good- size punctures, two tyres complete |ly blown out with several square,

the lava belt, on the main road

the

in the control of a "burning fiery This lava country is, admittedly, There are many old wives' tricks furnace." If (and this is more like the worst part of the route. Last for making warts disappear.

ly) he is a student of polities, he autumn I myself, spent four days One well-known remedy" is to have the ears pierced for ear-rings. may reflect that it was the quest for in Tranajordan upen the "good" Irak'a oil-wells which moved German roads which the pipe-line skirts or A French way is to remove one

ambitions Middle-Eastward and crosses from time to time. Skilled wart and tell the patient that the others will vanish because the brought the Turks into the Great desert drivers and cars equipped War, out of which Irak emerged for such conditions took us along "mother wart" has gone.

Gipales pluck out hairs from the with the Turkish suzerainty thrown the pilgrims' road to Mecca from

off. nape of the neck and bury them

1,100 Miles Of Pipe under the threshold at full noon. If a snail can be induced to crawl Irak's neighbours, too, were cut over a wart a cure is guaranteed.off from the Turkish Empire, and All these methods rely on sug-the great. Trans-Desert Tube which gestion and there is no doubt that will conduct Irak'a oil to the Med feet of rubber severed sheer,

broken back axle,, and, a broken suggestion works. How it works terranean forks by twin branches, chassis-spring. This was well of nobody knows.

the northernmost through the Syrian and Lebanese Republico| Your Daily Smile! Kunder the French mandate), and along the border between the de- layed; und, all due precautions

the southern through the Emiratert and the sown and we were having been taken, confidence

fon of coal very much, of Transjordan and the mandate thought to have got of lightly. should dictate the mood for the father?"

Such were the "good" roads over territory of Palestine (both the re- Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 14, 1935. setting out upon it. Only by "That depends, my son, on whe-sponsibility of Britain). The out which, and over the new tracks

the desert, demonstration of courage and re-ther you are shoveling or buying it."let of the former is at Tripoll, and made across solution have the British con-

builders, of the pipe between the of the latter at Holta.

French and British capital unites autumn of 1982 and last summer were those qualities demanded we men get along better by ourselves." with large oil interest from the Carried 430,000 tons of material,' With the general tone of the more surely than at this func-

United States to finance the Irak the pipe itself accounting for lese

·In all the more advanced ture.

Petroleum Company, whose chair than a third of this weight. Twelve address by the Secretary of State

regions of Asia, Western educa- for. India on Indian reform plans. tion and the fruits of it have

Co-ed (at baseball game): "Oh man, Sir John Cadman, normally major pumping stations, each

had to be built, nine of them `f'm ̈ ̈ most people will be in accord. gone too far to be reversed now. look, we have a man on every basel meets his fellow-directors in Lon. township with elements of a fort,

Another Co-ed: "That's nothing; so don. Britain has been the most pro-

Two hundred miles The sincerity of the efforts of By the attitude of Westerners has the other side.

minent partner in this international Pure desert. successive British Governments towards their development, the

undertaking, which has drawn to of pipe-lines were required to carry water from wells to the men vat leaders of the new Asia

the building of the pipe-line super- and Parliaments to devise a judge the white races as all face A good many people would be only visors from 16 countries and

work scheme for opening the field of the chances of the future. The too glad if perambulators were abolish

Water can create difficulties other self-government in India is be-Weat has awakened Asia;' upon; But babies would soon be up

in through which it passes. yond cavil. Indian leaders are at the goodwill and assistance of arms.

Euphrates had to be crossed, and To lay a pipe-line, even to lay 50,000 tons of material were slung last impressed with it. Britain's Western nations will depend the

one pipe-line over 600 miles long by a cable across the Euphrates responsibility in this great work future relationships of enormous

and another of more than 600 miles. From one tower 1801t high to an Jis manifold. There is the dual possibility for weal or woe, be-

does not sound difficult. Who has other of the same height a third Jobligation to the Indian peoples tween European civilisation and

not seen a gang of British navviesf a mile away. themselves in the fulfilment of irrepressible new Asiatic forces. wartime promises, and in the That popular movements in Charged with cauelug annoyance digging a two-foot trench along highly delicate problem of secur-Japan, in China, in Turkey, in and obstruction by exposing theatre stretch of road and burying ing fairplay and opportunity for Afghanistan should be, Impelled tickets for sale on the roadway at neatly jointed sewage conduit in

its tomb of clay? all Indian races and castes.by success of the Anglo-Indian Kau U Fong near Aberdeen Streat. Therein is, of course, included experiment to desire the friend-Lui Chung, an 18-year-old, unem The Irak pipe-line has had, in the desert in a straight line, as far the prestige of the princes ruling ship of Britain, on grounds which ployed, was fined $10, in default 15 the first place, to be somewhat as the eye will carry. A slight the native States under personal unprecedented numbers of a new days' imprisonment by Mr. W. M. soldier, if it is to stand the pump-earthwork bulges from the ground allegiance to the King as Em-generation will appreciate, is in- Thomson at the Central Magistracying of oil up hills and down valleys above it, and a telegraph and tele- Jona' course which rises over phone line belonging to the com peror of India. For India is an deed an ideal worth striving for. this morning.

8,000ft above the level of the sea pany who have built and empire itself, and in "no other When all pros and cons are part of the British Empire does weighed against each other, will be held to-morrow from 4 to below it,

The Peak School Sports Meeting and sinks at one point nearly 900ft maintain the pipe-line follows its

track all the way.. Communica its Sovereign use the title of there can be no doubt of the 6.15 p.m. in the grounds of Tander-

Moreover, the line has not been tion along these lines can," of Emperor. There is a further course Britain, must take for her British responsibility in face of own sake as well as India's agee, No. 872, The Peak (kindly dug in the soil or gravel beside an course, be cut and broken, so there dominion interests,

especially The plan recommended by the lent by His Honour the Chief English road. Two-thirds of it is wireless for emergencies.

lies through

(Continued on Page 11) those of Australia and South Joint Select Committee after six Justice and Mrs. Macgregor.) Mrs. Way Africa, that the new era in India years of exhaustive inquiry is Macgregor has kindly consented to steppe or barren, desert. Here SUIT FOR 60 CENTS: shall offer reasonable hopes of one leading towards an

give away the prizes. Indian content to the Indian peoples, Federation; but in ita preliminary while not endangering either the stages its operation will be ex-Prince Edward Road, was fined $5 sometimes great boulders of lava.

Mr. Wallace Harper, of No. 199 ground itself sometimes solid rock, Pawned To Provide Cash prestige or the military security perimental and educational of

For New Year

will

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The Reaction

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES:

labourers from all the territories than by scarcity. The Tigris and

uninhabited

* roads were non-existent, ・ water lacking moat of the year, and the

+

Straight To Horizon

The pipe-line is now, fialehed. I saw: It in October stretched across -

A!

now

For the unlawful pawning of a

upon which the fate of the whole the Indian electorate and native by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kow. One stretch of the line had to be Empire may perhaps depend. political leadership Full domi-loon Magistracy this morning for laid between railheads nearly 500 Again, there is the good name of nion status, at one stroke of the allowing his dog to wander in miles apart. Another bridgeda Britain throughout the world and legislative pen is impossible. Prince Edward Road on February 1 similar gap of some 400 miles Tesult of clothing, Mui Kwok Lam bring the lengths of pipe into peal. an unemployed, was fined $10 in dé especially in Asia as a courageous There is still far too much to be without a muzzle

tion for laying, roads had to be fault 15 days" hard labour. by Mr. asd sagacious leader in political left to proof in such matters as development, for all "awakening the tolerance to be evinced to-

For allowing his dog to wander specially built scross the desert W. M. Thomson at the Central

What of the climate? I quote Magistracy this morning. Asia" is awaiting with intense wards each other, by races and unmuzzled in Cameron Road at

Detective-Sub-Inspector J. O'Do Interest this great experiment, castes, and the efficacy of the 3.40 p.m. on February 1, Mr. E. from an official account of the lay-

novan stated for the prosecution ready to weigh its results with provisions for representation of Christenson, of No. 3 Kimberley ing of the pipe-line Its own measures and for its own collection of peoples so diversified Villas, was fined $5 by Mr. E.. W. Прогровев.

as to make India a continent in Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy There is no longer any doubt itself rather than a nation. this morning. of the real improvement in re conciliation of Indian opinion

during the past twelve months INDIAN MERCHANT

The Viceroy and all Governors

Fined $25 And Given Expulsion Order

are unanimous on that critica) WITHOUT PASSPORT have not ceased to criticise, but hostile agitation has diminished, and Britain's good faith in this Saskia becoming recognised. The passage in his address In which the Secretary of State Dhama Ram, an Indian merchant appeals for co-operation in the from Canton, wa

was fined $25, în ad- cause of good govern

and dillon to having an expulsion order

declares that the old system of made out, i paternal government,

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The RMS. Empress of Britain,

In mid-winter the temperature that complainant, Lo Fo, gave de descends far below freezing fendant a suit-length of clothon point; in summer it attains a January 29, to be made into a suit. shade temperatury of 120 de Accused pleaded that he had no green, and the noon heat can re money for Chinese New Year so he

proceeding on her world cruise, main (in Irad at least) between pawned the completed ault for 60

arrived at Bombay yesterday morn ing, and is scheduled to sail for the Colony on Wednesday next, arriving here on March 23.

LOCAL ESTATE

Chinese Merchant Leaves $162,800

Kin Cali

retired mor lied on May 9, 1984 at

Nó 8 Hi Bang Left@local tate to

105deg and 120 deg for weeks on cents. end. No, shelter of any kind

High winds are very common at exists against heat and cold MENACES ALLEGED

times continuous and in summar frequently take the form of severe and almost Intolerable dust-storms.NE

"Summer and autumn are com

radu pletely rainless, and falling! during the half-year is unforesee quantity and times of Violent rains of rendering placer

while dro

Tin-Smith's Bail Reduced

Alleged to have demanded, with menaces $150 from Chan Kam Plu

naging director of n-glass firm No. 256, Queen's Road Central, Tong, a 88-year-old tin- was remanded for a week by Thom at the Contraį

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