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$50,000,000 '20,000,000

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Chairman,

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1935

THE MONGOLIAN PROBLEM

Commerce and

Finance. Opium Taxation And

MANCHESTER WEEKLY · REINDEER HERD'S

Uncertain Tendency In Cotton

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Cevapors

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(Poking)

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Ottawa, Canada.

♫

Danger Of War

STEADY ADVANCE ON PAILINGMIAO

U.S. TOURISTS TO CANADA INCREASE

Motorcars Bring Many

AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF REVENUE

Ottawa, Canada.

..

the

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

TRAFT PROGRAMMES

and

ENTRY FORMS for the SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEET- ING, to be held on SATURDAY, 18th May, 1935 (Weather permite

By Order,"

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, May 6, 1935.

SOLDIER INVENTS

NEW MACHINE-GUN

Controlled By Electricity

TWICE AS FAST AND

CANNOT JAM.

An electric machine-gun has

Peiping. Five Years Across The immediate problems of Sino- The fact that Canada borders ting), may be obtained at the Secre Japanese relations have for the the United States for more than tary's Office, Gloucester Building; "Roof Of World”

moment been relegated to the 3,000 miles, a large part of which the Club House, Happy Valley; the back-ground by the Inner Mongo- consists of merely an "imagin Hong Kong Club; and the Stables, FOOD FOR THE CANADIANlian question which has assumed a ary line," "is important in the Shan Kwong Road,

very threatening aspect in recent tourist trade of Canada. In 1934 Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON. weeks. There have been continual the number of automobiles com-on-THURSDAY, 9th May, 1985. Although there has been little) Alteration in Yaw cotton values

meetings between Mongol dele-ing across the border into Canada during the past week' the general After a trek of nearly five years gates, ond General Ho Ying-chin was no less than 3,250,000. This tone has again been casier, and an acres the "roof of the world" from who is busy trying to find one of was about 200,000 more than in uncertain tendency has prevailed. Alaska, north of the Rocky Moun- those miraculous formule to meet 1933. kocouple opened and Flad Depi Sentiment generally has been ad-tains, across the great delta of the the wishes of all parties. It is

Most of these cars came intol capital for them a sherlar parlada at tala verse owing to the mill curtailment Mackenzie River, a herd of about difficult to see, how such a solu-Canada for 24 hours or less, but

plans and the continued shrinkage 2,400 reindeer have finally been de-ition can be found, seeing that the others were declared to be enter of exports, which is expected to belivered to. „the Canadian Govern- views of the disputants are la ed for two or three months. uccentuated by the prevailing con-ment.

direct opposition, Unless, how- When times are prosperous, ditions abroad. Weekly statistics

from ever, some such eleventh hour solu-the tourist trade is one of the They were purchased jare on the unfavourable side and Alaska in 1929 and have since been tion can be found, or unless the most important sources of re- THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. show that demand for the raw cat-carefully driven over 1,000 miles Central Government can bring the venue for Canada. In the peak Lon is very much of the hand-to- of the most difficult country in the Shansi generals to heel, an out-year of 1929 the amount of mouth variety.

world within the Arctic Circle, in break of hostilities seems inevitable money spent in Canada by Trading Conditions Difficult which temperatures of 60 degrees within the next few days.

tourists was over $300,000,000. Authorized Capital ... $11,000,000 Trading all round has been diff-below zero Fahrenheit are not un- A strange and ominous feature Canada has set up a Senate com Paid-up Capital Total Resources

8,655,000 cult and buyers seem to be with common, experienced, except for of the present Sino-Mongolian die mittee to work in conjunction 82,170,492 Branches: Canton, Tolahan, Shanghai, holding any large commitments un-moonlight. Among the hazards pute is that, it is not a quarrel bewith tourist bureaux and other

London Bankers: Lloyds Bank, Ltd., jeomes a little more difinite. A fair was the negotiation of mountain-ment of China at all. The former ¡11 is hoped that in the future this a 21-year-old private of the 2nd. til the future trend of prices which the drivers had to overcome,tween the Mongols and the govertors to come to the Dominion. been invented by James Bagnall," Hankow, Bangkok & San Francisco,

organizations to encourage visi Foreign Exchange

and Banking amount of enquiry has been dealt ous country, the crossing of wide for their part, are not anxious to industry" will be worth about Royal Warwickshire Regt. HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK. Sineas of every discription trans with from the world's largest cum rivers epvered with glare ice, the break away completely and would

Current Accounts opened and Fixed tren, but actual business has been attacks of timber wolves, the threat have preferred the loose

$500,000,000 annually to and Deposits received for one

Private Bagnall is now station- year or difficult to negotiate.

Dominion-Reuter. [of disease, and in the summer the nominal control under China to the shorter periods ab'rates which will be

ed at Woking; has been in the Of the Indian outlets Calcutta pesis of insects which are parti- much stricter regime of the Japan quoted on application.

Army only ten months.. It was of dhunties and anries, with odd prairies. has shown more Interest in prices cularly unnoving in the Arctic ese or Manchukuo connection;ing the western portion of the Pel-three years ago, shortly after he for hire.

while the latter was apparently preping-Suiyuan Railway. Little im-left school, when he was work- Lokings of light. fancies. Scatter- Word received here from the Far pared to grant almost complete agination is required to envisageling in an electrical engineer's Chief Managered sales are reported of light North indicates that despite all local autonomy to inner Mongolia, the kind of complications that, office, that he first thought of whites for Karachi and Madras, these hazards, most of the herd has provided the suzerainty of China would then ensue. While, in either jmaking a machine-gun which and there has been more trade been successfully brought to its de- was accepted.

case, any severe fighting is bound could be fired electrically. offering in large quantities of mulls stination, on the edge of the Arctic

Opium In Transit.

to spread to the neighbouring pro Since then he has spent all his and fucconets. Dyed goods have prairies,

Fu Tao-yi has started the trouble, vince of Chahar, which would un- spare time in making and revis- been sold in smaller luts for Bom-i

and behind him is Yen Hsi-shan of doubtedly bring about Japanese in-

ing plans. - Now he is almost bay and Amritsar, with some bids)

Shansi. At first sight this may tervention,

Isatisfied. for fancies.

Indifferent Outlook

"Ever since I was a boy I have China Market AT Stand Stin

To those who have been watching stated.

been interested in guns," he With the exception, of a few cated reindeer is a most Interest with the Japanese these days, and the gradual development. of the OUR SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT fancies booked for Hong Kong ment realised some time ago that would approve of an attack on the cent months it almost looks as if led speeds up to 1514 rounds per ing one. The Canadian Govern-it would appear unlikely that they Sino-Mongolian dispute during revun electrically fired at control- "My invention is a machine- Located on the Mezzanine Floor China trade has Our New building is Specially Con-still, but there has been some en Eskimo territory, supplying him to be in accord with their policy of their way to lose Mongolia. The

the invasion of the white man inte Mongols which would scarcely seem the Chinese had specially gone out minute. stracted to provide all of these Im-quiry for. white. {portant Qualities.

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Colombo and for fancies for the civilized dress among other things, ever, actually suggest that the is one of complete indifference. munication with the War Office with modern weapons and modern these parts. Certain circles, how-feeling among the general public

In Touch With War Office Box in this most up-to-date Vault for Straits Settlements and Rangoon thus made it necessary to

"I have been in constant com- your own use at a very moderate Ben-Grey mulla, have been in request for new resources to the Eskimo coun-to take up this intransigeant at- and depression up here that nobody

bring Japanese are allowing Marshal Yen Such is the popular dissatisfaction for some time." the Near East. together' with blea Inspection Cordially Invited, chers and tanjibs for Egypt. Both try. For example, the invasion of titude towards the Mongols, with Is in the least surprised at any hap-trical apparatus weigh only 271b. "The gun complete with elec- prints and coloured goods have been dern ritles have either diminished drive them into the arms of Manchu-of one piece of territory mora or ordinary machine-gun.

the white man and the use of mo-the Machiavellian idea that. it will penings any more. Nor is the loss This is much lighter than an booked in fair quantities for the West African markets.

for driven far afield the herds of kuo, In view of the dominating less regarded as of any importance, Trade for the

caribou from which the Eskimo position of Japan in North China seeing that the general expectation or D.C. current for Dominions has used to derive a good deal of his this would appear an unnecessarily is that the whole of North China fortifications. It is cooled by a "The gun can be used by A.C. been patchy, but some useful lines living. To replace these invalu-round about method. The explana-will go the same way before-long. combined air and chemical pro- permanent of heavy drills and dress goods able animals, it is hoped to develoption is really much simpler: the have been placed for South Africa,

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own's more than two-thirds. In ad- vans of opium, from Kane that Summary issue at 12.30 p.m. Satur-have been slaughtered during those untaxed Fu Tso-yi is now preparing

pass through Inner Mongolia on Head Office day, 4th May.

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40 years to supply meat and cloth to fight, and his troops have been ing for the Eskimo natives Alaska.

of

had

steadily advancing on Pailingmino, If the experiment succeeds in

Serious Consequences Likely anything like the same messure in,

The Mongols might have northern Canada, it will not be some difficulty in raising national long before the Canadian Eskimosa

enthusiasm

over the tax-stations have at their command an unfail. alone, but the Pailingmino Council ing source of food and raw materia); has been provided with a, piece of for clothing and bedding--and the useful racial propaganda by the spectre of periodic famines will kidnapping and murder, of a well- have passed-Reuter..

known Mongal official, Has Feng- lin, in Peiping last autumn. This

VALENTINE “JOKE" ENDS IN TRAGEDY Double Shooting Affray

was

carried out by the special political police who are under the direct orders of Nanking, so that the Central Government would seem to have added considerably to its own troubles.

The reactions of an outbreak of hostilities of Mongolia will, need- less to say, be fraught with serious Someone

consequences for China; indeed the with a touch of only certain result will be the pro- malice sent a comic valentine to verbial "joyful third party." The Labour leader. Mrs. Koop, wife of an Akron, Shansi troops would, of course, have Now, as a result, Koop is dead, by themselves, for under the politi to conduct this fresh little war all and Mrs. Koop is blinded. She cal conditions reigning in North shot her husband and then turn China, the

ed the revolver on herself.

The valentine-rend:..

Central Government would not be allowed to send any "Say, don't you ever get a desired to do so. Even If. Fu Tso- forces north, even pasuming that, it

break?! Step out some night, for

heaven's sake.

vi succeeded in driving back that Mongols and taking: Pailingmiao, Take in a show or go some

that would only make matters placé,

worse, for the Mongols, make no And lose that awful house come to open hostilities, they will secret of the fact that if it did wife face." Scrawled in pencil on the botsistance. In any case, it is very be forced to turp elsewhere for as- tom of the card was the promise: doubtful whether the Chinese "I can tell you who your man!

PRINTING steps out with, and I will." troops would be successful.. If

Problems to Us

"THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRIEK "LTD,

The valenting led to four they were not, and if the Mongols weeks of argument and accusR-

drove them back, they are not likely tión; and ended with the shoot-to stop until they have taken the Ing.

whole of Sulyuan province, includ-}

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cess, and this cooling system, I contend, is much more efficient than water cooling, although the speed of my gun is'twice as great ́ es that of the machine-guns now being used..

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impossible for mechanised defects to occur. It has no jams.

"The gun has been construct H.K. Oceed and tested and works satia- Asia Life (factorily.

1 think, however, Balkisg

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