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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936

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DRAGON BOAT

FESTIVAL

2,000-Year-Old Memory

CANTON EN FETE

From Our Own Correspondent]

Here There and

Everywhere.

HUSTLING COVENT GARDEN

Canton, Yesterday. The experiment of excluding Canton to-day paid tribute to motor-cars from the portico of the the Editor, and be accompanied by the late Ch'n Yuan, Premier in Royal Opera House at Covent the Writer's Name and Address the Han Dynasty, who drowned Garden has succeededTM so well not necessary for insertion, but himself about 2,000 years ago that the new regulation will prob as a guarantee of good faith. as a protest to the Emperor for

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A Man's Job

Two accidents marred the

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GERMANY'S VAST AIR ORGANISATION

HEART OF PROPOSED

NEW SYSTEM

WONDERS OF NEW MINISTRY AND TEMPELHOF OVAL

(By Eustace B. Wareing)

the

10 to 15

his refusal to accept Ch'n's ably be made permanent. advice in saving the collapse of At previous seasons traffic hold- the dynasty.

ups were always being caused by BERLIN, which already pos-West end in from

sesses the largest Air minutes: even at the busiest Ch' Yuan died on the fifth the difficulty of manoeuvring big]. day of the fifth moon, which limousines in and out of the narMinistry in the world, will, intime of day. falls on June 23 this year. row entrance designed for horse-three years' time, also have the

Favourable Comparison most modern and biggest civil Like the rest of the country,carriages. Hong Kong, Wednesday June 24, 1936 Canton honoured the deceased Sometimes the approaches

This to aerodrome.

compares extremely Both the gigantic Ministry,favourably with the long dis official by staging a dragon boat the Opera House were blocked by

with its 2,000 offices, Irace in several watering places long lines of stationary cars.

the tances to be covered between of the city.

Before the present season open-majority of which are already the airports and the centres of Canton folks to-day forgotjed a

the occupied, and the projected air- London. -Paris. Brussels, DISTINCTION Empire Day displays of the their anti-Japanese agitations management and the police de port at Tempelhof, two miles Vienna. Madrid, Warsaw, or should set down south of the centre of the city. Rome. where I have learnt from Royal Air Force, one involving and high politics and put their cided that cars the death of two airmen minds on the dragon boat races their passengers in the street in-are the work of a single man, personal experience, the prudent the well-known Rhineland traveller must allow from half Hawkinge, where their machine Every shop and home will have

architect, Professor Sagebiel. to three-quarters of an hour to cut through some high-tension a big dinner in commemoration The effect was immediate. The

His offices are in a converted make the connection between traffic moves much more smoothly.dwelling house in the less pre- his house or hotel and the fy- cables. Unhappily on the same of the event.

Ch'u Yuan consulted a for-and it is no longer possible for tentious portion of Germany's ing ground. In London the day four R.A.F. men were re-

he jumped ported as "missing, believed tune teller before

jone car to hold up a hundred. Whitehall, the Wilhelmstrasse, official time allowance from drowned," after a collision be-into the water and

exactly opposite one of the Victoria to Croydon is 50 tween machines manoeuvring that his public career was over.

the PERFECT “WALKER-OUT""

many entrances of

new minutes. In the circumstances near Singapore. There will be The interview between

Ministry. He established his no hotel will be attached to the the seer is sympathy for the relatives of statesman and

Baron Aloisi acquired with headquarters at this point in Berlin airport the dead and missing men,responsible for a glorious page

For this practice a perfect technique in his order that he might watch his "Tam building with an eye on along with the recognition that in Chinese classics

the future." Prof. Sagebiel said. such tragedies are inseparable reason, many people in Canton, "symbolic" withdrawals from the work grow.

It now overtowers his ownThe new airport is not one Air even those in high places, beLeague Council meetings. from the work that the

On the last occasion when he windows. When it is complet-that will soon become out of lieve in consulting fortune Force has to perform. That a

walked out he succeeded in skilled he will move to a position date, and there can be no ques- measure of danger attends tellers and geomancers.

fully breaking away from a ques- nearer the Tempelhof aerodrome tion of our being called upon to tioning throng of journalists in in order to supervise the procede any part of the ground." the lobby, and went down the gress of the new scheme. broad stairs leading to the street.

Easily Accessible Calling at the cloak-room for In Professor Sagebiel's in Germany during the last few his hat, he emerged into the sunlit studios the models of the Airyears. Indeed, a glance at the

time-table portico, but motioned to an ex-Ministry are now being carried ufthansa pectant chauffeur that his car was away to make room for those that even at the present Although shadowed by these

of the airport and its buildings. moment no fewer than 70 pas-. The Imperial Airways plane not required. tragedies, the air displays of Dorado, which arrived here from In company with a few Italian When I visited him my first server machines and 16 mall Empire Day and the throwing Penang at 11.40 am. yesterday, colleagues he made the circuit of question was what area would and freight air expresses leave In reply he point-or arrive at Berlin during the open to the public of all the brought one passenger, Mr. S the old League secretariat, paused be covered. aerodromes should have the in-Nagabuchi who travelled the for a few moments on the lake-ed to an official drawing show-24 hours-a time-table which tended effect of drawing the whole way from London by Im-side promenade to admire the ing the oval plan of the new comcares with that of a busy railway terminus. Most traffic right kind of volunteer into the perial Airways planes.

view, and then sauntered to the airport. RAF

its length from end to end is concentrated during the No difficulty has

Mr." Nagabuchi, a Japanese, in League building, entering by the

will be just over 11⁄2 miles, hours of delight, but there are hitherto been experienced, as tends to go on to Canton this week door through which he had left. whilst the greatest Sir Thomas Inskip stated the where he will take a plane for

cross-several night landings and. for Ja a few minutes he was other day, in filling up the ranks Shanghai and Tientsin. His trip, again taking part in the delibera diameter is rather under one mail and freight. night depar of a service that has a special it is understood, is a pleasure ane tons of the Council, which in the mile. It is four times as largeures. In view of the present

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He drew attention to the jenormans increase in air traffic

shows

as the present field, and air-mindedness of Germany this: Joccupies 750 acres.

programme is likely to be still As in the case of the Air further expanded for the aero- Ministry the plans have been planes now fiving are very well · His five earlier exits had not approved by Herr Hitler, who filled and a seat can rarely be quite the same polish.

has shown the greatest per-obtained at the last moment. sonal interest in the scheme,

"Theatre Plane"bel from time to time making sug- The Lufthansa have even gestions of a practical charac-gone so far as to introduce a BUTTONS CLUE TO WAR DEAD ter.

special theatre plane" to bring The great new Oval will be from Halle and Leipzig passen- British military buttons found the most conveniently situated gers who wish to attend a bear the remains of four men in airport in any European capi-theatre in Berlin, or spend the Serbia indicated that they were tal, since it can be reached by evening with friends, arriving the car from the business quarter home between midnight and

appeal to the young

of He left London on June 13.

meantime had gone into public to-day. Nevertheless, with the The plane also brought 155.735 session to discuss other points on rapid expansion of British air kilos of mail and 2722 kilos of the agenda. strength everything is to be freight. The trip was uneventful gained by making the public and to schedule. familiar with the work that thei airman does and the kind of life the lives. The spectacular at- traction can be provided by pageants, but a deeper insight; is afforded into what is in its every phase "a man's job" by the open invitation Empire Day pageant. Icould be no better form of pro-

paganda.

of

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Such a case illustrates the difficulties in law that may arise from changing taste andEORGE spirited commercial develop- England walked 623 mßes in ment. Time was when British15 days, 22 hours at the six-day, railway stations were bleak, go-as-you-please walking match at purposeful and

unattractive Madison Square Garden, New places, relieved by a bookstall York, November-December 1888. and a refreshment room. The The winner·received $1,000 for introduction of automatic breaking the record, one-quarter machines which weighed the of the receipts and a.diamond waiting passenger or provided champion belt. him with sweetmeats offered

small alleviations of any tedious grace to railway life they are wait. A new era sees the not part of the railway itself great termini bright with shops Happily the House of Lords purveying tobacco, fruit, con decision will not, rob the] fectionery and other daily stations of the fascinations Shops needs, and enlivened with show-that, they now possess. cases for all manner of goods. will remain, though they be But if these things have added rated as are shops elsewhere..

both in the city and in the (Continued On Page 10)

"BELIEVE IT OR

NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

GEORGE

30 HOCHMANN-Neto Yorks

ATE 25 SANANAS IN 10 MINUTES

SOLOMON" Zovipansberg, Africa

HAS 110 WIVES

BLUE

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Ca Sen Francisco, 1985,

LITTLEWOOD

WALKED 623 MILES IN 5 DAYS, 22 HOURS.