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CURFEW AT SUNDOWN

Apart from the troops stationed

Statistics contained in the in the Tower of London, about) Annual Report of the Superinten-250 people have their homes with- dent of Imports and Exports show in its solid walls.

This little, community that, during 1935, the Depart-

HMS. Berwick arrived" here

of the sentries.

of

U.S. AIR LINES IN OPERATION

HIGH SAFETY RECORD DISCLOSED

ALL-IMPORTANT RADIO DEVICES ELIMINATE RISK

(By Major C. C. Turner)

mental officers seized 86 cunces Government employees and their of heroin, capable of producing families is rather like a feudal

AST year the air lines of the, There are various reasons for more than 25,000,000 pills, in ad-village; every evening at sundown

it hears the curfew bell,

United States, including Pan-the fine American record, among dition to the 517,490 prepared

A darkness falls. the Tower American extensions abroad, few them the, on the whole, safer ter- pills. Altogether, 173 seizures

takes on, a soothing, restful at-360,569,431 passenger-miles, and rain, and certainly more favour- took place, 170 of which were in mosphere. You have the feeling 22 persons-passengers, pilots, or able weather. On the other hand, respect of the 517,490 prepared that it must be easy to go to bed crew-lost their lives.

it must not be overlooked that had pills. KIM-At the French Hospital,

there, hearing only the footfalls For British regular air trans-weather is frequently encounter- on Wednesday, August 26th,

port, including all Imperial Air-ed, and there are vast regions of 1936 at 5.35 pm. J. P. L

There had been an enjoyable ways Empire routes, the mileage difficult mountainous and desert Kim in bis 54th year. The yesterday afternoon from Singa-concert on Tower Green, a gesture figures cannot yet be given, but 16 country. funeral will pass the Monu- pore and will proceed to Wei-Hai-for tribute by the residents, passengers and pilots were killed] More Night Flying

Night flying is regular all over The Berwick is command-through their club, to the 2nd for a passenger-mileage which, on meat at 5.30 p.m.

to-day. Wei. (Australian Papers please ed by Captain E. R. Bent, D.F.C Battalion the West Yorkshire Re-the assumption of nearly 100 per the States, but on British lines it giment, which is popular in the cent, increase over that of 1934, is at present comparatively rare. copy).

The Hong Kong Scouting Gazette Tower.

was about 55,000,000.

As I have before pointed out, The picturesque King's House It is unfortunate the exact America has the advantage of one Hong Kong. Thursday, Aug. 27. 1936 August number. which has just

been published, as usual, contains with its geranium-bordered bal-British figures are not yet avail-big territory, as large as Europe. many items of great interest. The cony, the tall Jewel Tower, the able, but the Annual Report on under one flying administration | announcement is made in the execution block. St. Peter's Cha- Civil Aviation for the previous throughout, with one language Wise Concessions

magazine of the fact that notice pel and the Bloody Tower impres-year is never published until the and one currency, and without To Egypt

has been received from Imperial sively surround this expanse of first week in October. In the international frontiers. Full ad- Headquarters of the following ap-fine tur, while high plane trees United States the report for the vantage has been taken of these Agreement on the question of pointments to "the Hong Kong give it shade.

second half of last year was pub-favourable circumstances, and the the Sudan, following the Branch: A. Grad. Deputy Cámp

months The Tower ravens were of the fished four

ago. The air lines have been so liberally

brious way, to perch upon the old in much greater detail than the contracts that they have been able

British.. Tombs beside the Chapel!

'to direct their energies to organ- Broadly speaking. there isisation, almost regardless of ex- İ the United States 2 pas- pense,

for or a pilot killed

Europe cannot provide anything senger shires lent its aid with the con-every 151⁄2 million passenger-of the kind. Each European cert programme and played among miles, as against Britain's one in country is comparable only to one of the Capitulations. as on all The R.MS. Empress of Canada other things bits from Gibert and every 33 million passenger-miles. of the American States, and its the other civil matters. agree is due here from Vancouver on the Sullivan operas, not omitting "The

contribution to the science of air ment was reached in the abor-morning of September 11 She Yeomen of the Guard.” tive

of negotiations

the 1930. will leave for Manila

Same There is, therefore, no reason evening.

MANFIELD SHOES ning of Article" varmt tunt andise; he Perkson, Assis audience, choosing, in their lugu- American reports, moreover, are supported by subsidies and mail

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all military matters in Egypt|tant Commissioner. proper, has brought the ego-

An unclaimed telegram is lying! tiations for a definitive Anglo- Egyptian Treaty within almost at the Eastern Extension Tele- OF COURSE "THE YEOMEN" immediate prospect. What graph Co, Ltd., for James Addief The band of the West York- remains should be comparative-Horsford from Sydneypo. y simple, since on the subject

Figures Compared

It has been calculated that an operation is perforce limited: it is Lady Younghusband, wife of sir traveller on the USA. services in the position of a small shop by the Keeper of the Jewel House, could By 1,000 miles every day for comparison with a huge depart- to suppose that they will cause

came to join the Chaplain of the 60 years before a fatal accident ment store, any hitch as between Sir Miles Among the passengers who re- Tower-who is also Chaplain became "due" to him.

Good Organisation Lampson and the Egyptian returned to the Colony this morning General of the Forces and Mrs. You might be killed on the first The organisation of American presentatives It is to be re from the North by the ss Prest Thorold and Lieut-General Bor-trip," explained an Irish friend, membered, of course, that the dent Coolidge were Sir William ret, Lieutenant of the Tower then you would have 120 years to last stages in the conclusion of Hornell, K. Vice-Chancellor of Lieutenant-Colonel Faviet, the reo before it was due again!" the Treaty are taking place in the University of Hong Kong, who aident governor, and Mrs. Favil London, and Mr. Eden, not long has spent a short holiday in Shang- came late from Hurlingham Ma-satisfactory, but the disparity be

Statistics are seldom altogether ago, suggested that unofficial hai. and the Rev. H. W. Baines, of jor H. U. Richards and other of tween the USA. and Great Bri- statements purporting to set St. John's Cathedral.

ficers of the West Yorkshires rain in this respect, making all al-

out the points of the Articles

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Mrs. Bell, wife of the Hon. Mr. the ed with the greatest caution."İw. H. Bell, also returned to Still greater caution, it may be Colony this morning by the 5.3. added should be exercised in President Coolidge. accepting the interpretations

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Wireless ranges, which form a definite but: "invisible" path through the air, and are follow- ed by the air liners when the light beacons are not visible, and on some lines even though. they may be visible.

lowances, is not to be ignored..

No matter on what basis the A scheme for the construction comparison is made it is greatly

in favour of the United States. The radio compass,” or bea- of new barracks for the British For example, the number of aero-

con receiver, always carried, in forces stationed in Hong Kong plane miles Дожд last year placed upon the Articles in Mr. Anthony Billingham. Now the outskirts of Kowloon

duplicate. This shows the pilot will in the States Was

the exact position of his "ma- quarters where the chief desire York Times' correspondent

chine. It' as against the British

can also Colony soon be launched by the War 233, seems to be to discredit the Shanghai, arrived in, the

receive British Foreign Secretary, and this morning by the s. President ice. A sum of over $20,000,- |(estimated) 8,000,000. On the broadcasts indicating the direc- tion in which the broadcasting represent all timely British Coolidge for a week's stay. He 000 will be expended, but this ex- United States lines 860,761 passen concessions in the light of weak will "core" the Kwangsi-Kwang-penditure will be spread over agers were carried; on the British station lies. surrender.

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Until the actual text is forth- coming many important speci- fic points of detail must re- main in doubt. But there! Human beings first used edged need be no hesitation in accept-rocks as cutting instruments 100,000 ing it as a fact that agreement years ago, which shows how all women has been reached on the very who sharpen pencils with razors have points which led to the break-progressed. down of all previous negotia- tions since the Unilateral

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Jackson: "I wasn't working, BÍT.” issues unresolved. observers, probably, were pre- pared for the smoothness with Smith was showing a friend round which the present negotiations his garden. In a comer they came

across a flower just opening. have moved forward. They "Ah," enthused the friend wer begun after a period of wonderful how a tiny seed becomes acute unrest in Egypt and such a beautiful flower.” violent displays of anti-British "It is replied Smith, reflectively. feeling on the part especially The sparrows must have missed that of student demonstrators in fone." Cairo and elsewhere. But cir- cumstances alter cases. Some

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sion in previous Treaties which the most intransigent Wafdist Nationalists, who in encouraged such an impossible claim as that of Zaghlul Pasha 1930 were in opposition, are that the Sudan was "an in- now responsible Ministers of King Farouk and the responsi corollary of which was that the separable part of Egypt," the bility of office has made these British were merely temporary Iready to abate their more ex-intruders. The British object, treme claims. On the British steadily kept in view, has been side recognition of the urgency to obtain a of placing Anglo-Egyptian re- lations on a permanent basis friendship with the independent Kingdom of Egypt. The situa- of mutual confidence and good tion is bound to be delicate will has convinced most people when a foreign force is station- of the wisdom of making the led on the soil of an independent utmost concession to Egyptian

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been accustomed for long cen-1. powerfully helped by the recent events on the Libyan border of turies. When her free consent Egypt and on the Ethiopian be overcome with good will, and is asked the difficulties can only frontier of the Sudan.

the fact that this new Treaty We hope that the text of the is. being freely negotiated as Articles relating to the Sudan between equals and on the will set forth clearly its juridi- Egyptian side by represents- cal status in respect both of tives of strong Nationalist Great Britain and of Egypt. views gives ground for hope Most of Britain's diplomatic that a solid instrument of per troubles with Egypt have been manent alliance is now being intensified by a lack of preci- hammered out.

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