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THE CHINA MAIL "SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-Brst Year of Publication..

OLD CHINA HAND Here AAA HAUNTED

HAUNTED PLACE

IN AFRICA

PASSES

& Wyndham Street, Hong Kong Mr. R. C. Comrie Dies

Telephone 20029

London Office:

"1

At Home

There and

Well-remembered in local bust- Everywhere. VALLEY OF A THOUSAND

ness circles for his 25 years' ser-

7. Garrick Street, London, W.C2 Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for vice with the Socony-Vacuum Cor DOGGY DEAN

An amusing trifle thrown off by įpublication should be addressed to poration, Hong Kong branch, Mr.

the Lord Dunsany recently is his the Editer, and be accompanied by Richard Conrad Comrie has died

Desa the Writer's Name and Address at East Horsley, Surrey, at

fantasy: "My Talks with Duty Paid not necessarily for insertion, but age of 55.

Mr. Comrie retired in June, Stanley," as a guarunter of good faith. '.

1933, and went to London where (month.

a It describes his conversations Subscription Rates.

his children, two song and

Mrs. with the Dean, whose only lapsES One Year ...... H.K.$36.00

daughter, were at school. FLES18.00

from abstemiousness took the form 6 Mouths

Comrie preceded him in 1930. 3 Months***

... HK$ 1.00

When he first came to the Far of a liking for Imperial TokRF- Theaters Ahead Betra

East. Mr. Comrie was connected] When this happened the Dean

which appeared last

A

HILLS

SCENE OF MANY A FAMOUS NATIVE FIGHT

(By J. F Cope)

Per Case of 144 Nips. Duty Paid. Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1935. with Me Shewan, Tomes, but would talk of his experiences in sand Hills, steeping the land in an through it and because the bush

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The Progress Of Rearmament

soft blue haze of evening lies famous scenic valley, because of over the Valley of a Thou- the difficulties of building a road Hert was dense and the veld was sour atmosphere of romance. in 1903 he began as an assistant an earlier incarnation as a dog.

then Stan- "I was a hell of a dog," the fand there a column of sinoke rises for the trek oxen.

When the white men were wag- accountant with the

one such oc-slowly from its kraal fire and the dard Oil Company of New York, Dean remarked on

But when an incautious words of a melancholy chant are ing their wars with the Zulu and, with the exception of a few casion.

re-heard as little parties of native tyrants further to the North, many mouths in Amoy, spent his long scientist, after hearing his

"You must women, strung out in single file, refugees came down into Natal. Hong miniscences, said: Sir Thomas Inskip made the career with the firm at

Mr. Comrie have been a hell of a dog," the return from the mabela fields. They found peace in the Valley of Twisting among the bush-clad a Thousand Hills, lying between claim recently that by the new Kong and Canton. organisation at the War Office formed a large circle of acquain-spell was broken.

When I was up at Oxford I was hills; sweeping under towering Pietermaritzburg and Durban.. So certainly a young man of some,krantzes where the terwana build it came about in time "that the the nucleus of a Ministry of tances both in his commercial and

sticks and territory was recognised as shali I say, considerable activity-their great nests of Supply has already been creat-porting life, the latter being

But a dog in any sense of the word, mud, and cascading over rapids Native Reserve, and thus most of ed, but he deprecated going any chiefly devoted to golf and tennia wife W&5 equally fond farther at the present time to-His

Peace For 100 Years wards creating a Ministry of of tennis and was formerly Hon. Munitions. He based his hesita-Treasurer of the Ladies Recrea-

But for tribal quarrels, a few tion on the ground that the tion Club.

A native of Scotland. Mr. Com-Kipling in his insight into the the um Ngeni, for it is the great financial strain would be stu- pendous, and that it would be rie made his home in retirement canine mind with his description mother of all the waters of the stabbing cases, and disputes be the Gov at St Kilda, East Horsley, where of the Dean's experiences when Valley of a Thousand Hills Astween indunas, the Valley of a difficult to stop once the he passed away on November 12. hounds met at his master's house. the native women go down to dip Thousand Hills has enjoyed peace

tura

ernment began to

munition country into a vast

pro- camp. The plea is sound vided, but only provided, that the needs of defence are satis-! fed. As everyone knows, there are minima and maxima in

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Primitive Country

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Elephants once roamed in "the bush on the north bank of the um Ngeni, where Durban North now sprawls, Dotted about, behind their stockades, were the kraals of the aba-s-ema Ndlovini ("They among the Elephants"). They is still the wild and primitive were a.superstitious people and country that it was when Shaka's paid due homage to the spirits of warriors swept down upon the their ancestors.

The Valley of a Thousand Hills

their earthenware" pots into the for close upon 100 years. But in river, they hear the burbling the huts at eventide, when the waters with their eternal song, spirits of dead warriors come Now that the shouting is over, and perhaps the spirit of Shaka's creeping up the river, the old folks President Roosevelt has announcwarriors may rise in the evening will draw closer to their fires and ed the wide if somewhat vaguely mists and sing the royal chant tell of the times when a Sishaya- programme which once struck terror through-kasishayeki, the great "he who strikes but it never stricken,”? was which he contemplates. Local De-out the land: phrased legislative

last at candidates mocratic

Wagedageda inzwe, uyakuhlasela-pi laying the land waste for far and were returned

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wide. month's elections

He! yakuhisela-pi na! General Denain and his crew on more specific tickets.”

The life of the citizens in vari-Wahlula amakosi, uyakuhlasela-pin have not been attained. Those took off safely from Kai Tak Air-

Waqedaqeda izirwe, nyakunlasela-

pi na? who study his candid statement port yesterday at 10.45 am yes-ous States will be changed for

when these are He! he he! yakhiasels-pi na? of last month must feel that heterday, heading for Fort Bayard, better or worse is at present immersed in vital where a short stop was made for cashed in.

The plane then con- details of supply which can inspection. leave him no adequate time for tinued to Hanoi for an overnight the totally different and major stop.

The plane picked up two pas- problems of co-ordination which led to the creation of his office sengers here. Madame and Me. They are not only different: Leurquin, wife and daughter of they are new, they are extreme-the French Consul General. The ly complex and delicate, and at passengers will travel to Hanoi. once highly theoretical and of and from there catch a ship back the utmost practical conse to the Colchy-

General Denain arrived here on quence in their application.

At the present time the Brit-Thursday evening from Hanoi, ish public is thinking of de-having down from Paris in fence problems mainly in terms large bombing plane. He is on of the air, and it will certainly an inspection tour of the French' be gratified to learn that reprovinces in his capacity of In- cruiting for the Air Force is spector-General of the French entirely satisfactory. While Colonial Air Force. the number of fighting aero- planes could not be stated, the Minister said that "new squa- idrons continually being

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Mr. Wong Sin-ling brought the over, in a reference to the re- cent unhappy controversy with exhibition of his paintings to a Lord Nuffield, Sir Thomas gave conclusion last evening when he ja renewed assurance that a expressed gratification at the in- much-extended use would be terest the public has taken in his made of his great organisation work

and experience, and he added Mr. Wong's 90 charcoals, water- that "in war time, and perhaps colours and oil paintings have been jeven before war time," the sixlon view at the Hotel Cecil since factories in the Shadow Scheme Wednesday, together with some of would "go over to complete war the work of his pupils.

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Mr. Wong has shown his fully tested and proved. It is

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many to regard 1940 as a rath-fund subscribed by local Chinese. er distant date, considering the

pace at which the modern

world is moving.

The speech, as a whole, was

reassuring, though perhaps

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The golfing novice was struggling

hardly so reassuring as man comed. At last he stopped and mop- had hoped, and this quite apart ped his brow

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sheer necessity the nation looks "I saw you were advertising for a to Ministers to forget altogewife. Get any replies?” ther the reluctance with which "Yes. Scores of them.” “

"Good! And what did most of they entered on this new course! until they reach the point of them say safety. Sir Thomas Inskin earnestly disclaimed the belief 2 that war was inevitable or even probable. But throughout Dad," wrote the sweet girl, “ the speech was the conviction have become infatuated with calis that Great Britam must or therics A

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fully armed That was the spirit in that spirit that the people of the Prime Minister's re- have accepted the charge-d ference at Guildhall, and it is termined to see it through.

For instance,

one hour by Chicago will gain having daylight-saving time the year around.

North Dakota will get legal liquor.

Baling over the Elephant clas The birthday of the late Senator Debe clans who lived along the

was one Nzala, whose authority Huey Long will be a legal holiday banks of the um Ngeni, and their the among neighbours, ***They in Louisians.

was maintained with brutal.seve- Florida has barred slot machines Elephants."

aba-s-emarity and who was feared by his in most counties and legalised State Nalovini, who lived in a strip of subjects far more than the king old age persions. Legislators in Louisiana have a dense bush along the Coast be of the elephant herd, whom no special reason for gratification tween the mouth of the um Ngeni body had yet succeeded in killing.

Old "Sport" The voters have permitted them to and the Tongaat: increase their own pay.

the

When the white man first came

If you forage abroad somewhere to Durban and pushed his civiliza- tion inland into Natal, he went to the south of where the village Only one case of diphtheria oc-round the Valley of a Thousand of Tongaat is now built, you will

(Continued on Page 83 curred in the Colony during the Hills by the route that the main and a dark pool overhung with an road now follows. He skirted the 24 hours eaded yesterday.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

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