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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 27TH, 1907.

Your Committee would enggest that the legality of selling Government stores in this way should be tested by a car in the courts, and that if a conviction is secured atops should be taken, by advertisement or otherwise, to warn all persons in such trafia." If they are from engaging

they are drawn by pity and not by common interests. They had rather that their protiges or their patients should pass out of their lives as soon as they bare done what they can for them, and they are ever ready to expend their onergies upon new material. women, they had rather do anything in the world than philanthropic work in a country village, but they will work themselves to death among the seething mass of the town poor. If they are doctors, nothing short of dira necessity take them a country practice, but in a

on consulting-room they never as an brur of ennui.

NAVAL SCANDALS..

CONTRACTORS IMPERIL SAFETY OF A

BATTLESHIP.

FROM PEKING TO PARIS.

[BY HARRY DE WINDT.]

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I once made the overland journey from Peking to Paris by the mid of exniels, borson, sad males. Leaving the Chinese capital on June 28th, reached Paris on the 27th of October, travelling by the same route, and at the season, a tho Automobile Expedition," now on the way from Over onlinary roads, the China to Franco.

odd wilos far more rapidly than I did, but thes intricate machines were scarcely designed for my humble record of 12 days. In any case I doubt whether they will cover the distance in "from three to four weeks" which has boon estimated as the time for its socomplishment.

From Peking to the Great Wall of China I a mode journeyed for five days in a male-litter, a of envoyance rendered compulsory by the bopeless nature of the road. No one ever it is a mere track, in places honeycombed with attempts to negotiate the latter on wheels, for alternating holes, deep rats, and quagmiros, alter with stretches of soft, yielding sand, in «thers submerged to a depth of severs! inches by irrigated rice and willet felds. As I anticipated, the brat serious alumbling-block ensountered by the "chauffeurs" has been the Cla-Ho bridge- which consists of huge granite blocks piled up soyhow cut of the river, where our mulos continually fell headlong on the slippery uneven rooks. The cars must hava fared badly here, for even my light, pliable mula-litters were A similar bridge is almost dashed to pieces. encountered a short distans from this one, bat both these are minor diffeulties compared with the obstacle which (about forty miles from Peking) bars the way to Mongolia, viz., the formidabis Nankow Pass. Before reaching this I traversed the oily of Nankow, and my reception was anything but conlial, the litter bolag occasionally pelted with stopen and rub

While prossing Siberia. I encountered heavy rains, and floods were my bugbear, for they sometimes detained mo for days in some filthy post-house surrounded, like an island, by a waste of waters, Let the reader pictars an English plongbed field after a week's steady downpour, and he will form some idos of the Grost Siberian Ioat Road in wat weather, of which there is plenty there in summer time. I frequently bad to drive throng miles of water, well above the axles of the Tarantase, which occasionally plunged even deeper into beles and inequalities from which it was only extriented with dißculty. But this trouble I

my now be avoided if, be I imagine, the mot

Siberiau meu are permitted to utilise the Treas. Railway lo ang sireumatanoon, however, this well be called a stupendous undertaking, those who accomplish the feat should certainly explorers of the day.

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A fusti relive dislike of strangers can exist with a very real love of socioty, and a strong desire to be in their company gues often with very little social gift. A great many propte are at their worst with those they do not know, Seme as shy, some, perhaps, are not the y to break new ground, while upon others The effect of the presence of a stranger is to locren seme babitual cord of d-control and render them indenly aggresive. The abytiess which moly man a fear of strangers is a simple kind of shyness, and an ante causes

For a few elect Fouls in all classes strangers little suffering. It is nothing but the remount of a childish timidity which mo men and serin hardly to exist. They are instantly at women arrer entirely grew dat of. It makes home with all whom they may come across. 1hem uncomfortable for the moment, but Thay seem mats at esse in whatever surroundings motors should accomplish this journey of 5,000 the enterprise, pluck, and endurance of

and woman, and it haves no recollection of folly to sling than the ordinary man

semetimes one is fempted to wonder whether them in the future, for who really cares what is really their first life on earth, or whether work in the wild and way not thereforo boat entitle them to rank among the foremost impression he has made open strangers as soon

stored somewhere in their minds beyond the as the strangers are gone, though he may car:

power of the memory to bring to light Many people, who are acutely ni the time? seriously handicapped all through life by a shy. there exists a board of social experience. They Dis which never attacks them except in the seem never to be exactly old or excolly young. presence of those with whom they are well They are typical of no class, and, as a rule, Requainted, enjoy among tata!

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somewhat oblivions of thexe mucis] distinctione a nics interest in which tends always to proface immunity. This is specially the case with these who are expressed by a sense that ignorance of human nature. The ant of the eaunot do themselves justice in company, materners fort to preserve, fille them with modern comfortable, who curse an existence they and who are, so to speak, self-conscious of con siderable ability. Alterrata fie of conceit and amazement and consternation. For them the Lumility destroy their pence in life, and only charm of every new day in its familiarity. They are the real men and woman of the world, for among friends who know all about thom, or strangers who kuus rothing, ore they at their whom times goes too quickly and whose only Pass Timidity among strangers, on the other rol with life is its inevitable end.--- hard, basnothing to do with a man's opinion Spertatur, of biconelf. It is slot, as much apart fra character g the possession T want of a strong bend for heights. For the nicment the timid person is incapacitated for all social work, but no sooner is be back in familiar atmosphere than bis friglt in forgotten. But quite apart from shyness, a sinking of heart is very commonly experienced by the who and themselves obliged by sircumstancer, or a hosteer, to be agreeable for an hour or so to some one they never saw. before. It means s considerable effort, and for social effort even these who love society are not always prepared, The game of conversation, like so many other games, has been brought to loo great a pitch of perfection in certain circles, and to play with <me one not accustomed ie the rigour of the game, or accustomed perhaps to observe the by. laws of another club, is hardly worth while But putting all affectations aside, one must give tee's whole attention and be conetantly en the alert if one is to meke acquaintance te any purpose, and if ons regards social life in ply in the light of recreation, thai, gain, may seem to be not worth doing. Co arquently there are delightful talkers who never take the trouble to talk at all, except to those they knew, rr, at any rate, know about. The wider their reputation for charm, the deeper tLe disappoint. ment they couriaally cause. But the man who in silent with strangers je pet half no trying to his hosts as the man whom they reuse to kind of aggressioA.

Some mea are possessed of a demen who is exercised by hiendship, and indeed by all the sericus affairs of life, but who in strauge company becomes s tyrant. This spirit of mischief insiste that they should makeut the conduct the firm would appear to To pecuniary loan in this case was small a bad impression. Their hearts may be ever

prossuation so kind, but they must pose as brules; they may have offered proper matter for Le ever so tolerant in reality, but they must act for fraud, end your Committee, the part of an opinionated partisan. The odd evidence before them, do not understand why thing is that this particular type of demon rome attempt was not made to bring these trial. It is stated that the Bria almost invariably ficts delightful people, persons which is why the man with many devoted strenuously denied the existence of any defect friends has often more strange enemies. There in the fire casting, but when after some and the cast. up whom at: angere render months the ship was opened

Again, it BeЄmB informer was discovered.. that for some purpose, when the work will not be subject to strato, eletrio welding is a but good and proper remedy in case of Bawa, if the firm held this opinion it was unneces sary to do the work secretly on Sunday-and when the Admiralty impectors were not op

Favere omments on the manner in which firm of contractors carried out a portion of their work on the hatil ship Edward VII. appear in the First Report of the Committee on Public Accounts on the Navy Appropriation /ccount 1906. The Commities accuse the firm of a gross and deliborate piece of de ception" in plied to regard to the radder casting sup

It appears," says the report, "that twelve bieb, for no apparent reason. It took me aver village in this part of China is generally about months after this r dder casting was received to beurs to get clear of the place, for even a and built into the ship the Admiralty were in the size of Birmingham-and the strosts of

of the firm is

Nankow were densely crowded. The Pass is formed by a diemiesed employes question--the Ayrabira Foundry Company-sboat tirteen mies in lungit, and the road is dried-up stream, rendered that in a cartain Sunday the management imply the bed of collected some of the bands and by means of almost impassable by huge rocks and boulders, In autumn heavy rains convert this malttal electric welding concealed a large fault in the carting in from notion of that bon's story thoroughfare into a mighty cataract, often prima facie evidence that such a defect destructive to life and property. Precipitaus did exist, and the Admirally decided that the crags overhang the delo, and falling rooks have casting must be replaced. The firm denied that so cbstructed the road that I was compelled to there was anything wrong, but offered to walk and lead the front muls while the litter replace the casting by a new one. 3 bis offer rolled about like a ship in storm. A stiff climb and descent of about five hours brought me to a was accepied, but the weand casting was full of

plateau," where I travelled over hard sod ws and defecir, and a third proved no better. The Admiralty then decided that the ca ting tarsi ground to another ravine where the should be made in the dockyard, and the cost track is roughly hewn out of the Felid rock charged in the contractors. This was done, and Here we crept carefully along for tone hours. now only a few inches, new a hundred fet or the balance irrecoverable of £48 represents the

so above a foaming torrent, for there was o extra cost of fixing the new casting.

seagh for a male. Having sily negotiated guard rail, and the path was barely wide

this, we travelled, with comparativo esse, scross fertile plains to the town of Kalgan, by the Great Wall of China, sud on the confines of the great Gobi Desert.

on the

is third type will never believe that these ing zetor d the defect spoken of by the scarcely be called a desert, for there are only

platitudinous. They with whom they are unacquainted are not neresuarily very stupid, bat are often able to understand conversation not confined either to the weather or the copybook. Old fashioned men and women commonly address these they beneath them in this strain, and, Laring nsider kuited their sentiments to the imagined sim. plicity of their beaters, succeed in donvincing The loss of Admiralty orders," add the themselves that education has been a failure, and that the working clerson re mentally just Committer, "and the rumours of this par ticular transaction brought such Brancial lose where they were before primary instruction was

No es an authority upon the to the Ayrale Foundry Company that it compulsory Feor thar Miss Losne assures her readers in shortly became bankrupt. Your Committee Ler last brok (The Next Street but One") hope that it will not again be their duty le that poor people often feign ignorance and investigato a case where a British firm for stupidity ent of politeness to those interlocutors any commercial advantage will callonely hazard the lives of hundreds of their fellow country. who expect it of them, and we are sure that many upper-class strangers half acconsciously men." do the same.

The

From Kalgan to Kiakla (on the Siberian frontier) is about 500 miles, and I now rods ia & camel cart. This porti n of the Gobi can about 50 milee of deep sand midway across (it was over the axle of my camel cart) aud the rest of the way is seldom devoll of vegetation, from rich pasture to withered Boyub. Fourteen days of grassy plain, four days of loose drifting sand, interspersed with two rocky ridges ahont 3 feet high (so steep and rough that we could wareely get the carts and five days of gravelly soil think your with the sharp transparent pibbles for which Gobi is famous (but which will hardly improve motor tyres), sach is a brief description of my camel cart journey across the desert to Urga.

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Crossing the sandy portion we encountered one of the violent sandstorms, which are dreaded by the Mongols, for they occasionally destroy an entire caravan. For throw hours we lay helpless before the fury of the tempest, and after it, were almost buried beneath gigantic Attention is also called to "an unusual proce-and-drifts. During this twenty-three days It is certain, however, that if a large number dure" in connection with the contracts for journey we passed only four Yurtas,”

H.M.S. Invincible Inflexible, and Indomitable, Mongol touts, while the wells were about twenty of peracts are depressed by the presence of

te thirty miles apart, and their water generally strengess, there are many opposite natures to fer which (without Trensary sanction) zu com.

petitive tenders were invited. The admiralty ex-brackish. The natives both ince and at Urga whom strangere eesre ne a tenie, and on whom, physically, mentally and morally, the presence plaited that they particularly desired to keep the were friendly and even hospitable, and there was

no lack of food in the shape of antelope ef those whom they de rot know has a rory designs of this case of vessel secret sa long as good #ffect. For some common place but possible, and therefore only invited three firms wild fowl,

This desert journey will probably be fairly very good women seial pleasure is only of proved meril to tender. Moreover, they came to be hed among strangers. They go in pared the lenders with their own estimates, and easy for the cars-if we except the rocky practically identical," they ridges afore-mentioned (which are maavoidable, search of them when they feel tired just Snding them

Their

accepted them. On this the Committee state and the crossing of which occupied nearly my ethers go in search of ezone. idea of happiness is to be in some place of public that they "give due weight to the importance a day), and a region of enormen mote- entertainment and look around upon the faces of of keeping the design of thoss vessels as secret bills two to three feet high, where my camet The sight really does as possible; but they desire to point out that eart was continually overturned. It took me an a prosperous crowd. them god. They feel immediately an increase when any such departure from the usual practice entire day to get clear of these which, like th of energy both of mind and body, and they have is proposed the sanction of the Treatury should

try that they cannot be circumvented. a genuine pleasure in the sight of other falk's at one be waght. It the arguments urged in rocky ridges, cover such a large extent of favour of the proceeding are not good enough At a distance, Urga creates a pleasing gsity. For them intimacy means too often

nical confider ce of care. Their minds never to influence the Treasury at the time, they can impression with its green hills, blue and gold arvat is the consideration of the abstract. be of little valas when offered as excuses after temples, and gaudy pragar dags. It is a city find

of tents, with a fluctuating population of Among their friends they cannot forget their the evant." troubles, and it is caly smong strangers that

case of sporst commission paid to four from fifteen to twenty thousand inhabitants- Again, there are they feel light hearted.

stewards (who have since retired on pension) in mostly pilgrims who travel here from for one of the Naval depota, is also referred to. "This Thibet to do homage at the shrine of the some third-rate zatares of both sexes whom

Case," says the report, accidentally brought to Kostookta, a living God of the Buddhist only the presence of a stranger can cove to forget themselves. Their families leng light grave irregularities which were very pro- faith. Bat Urga is a diamal place, notwith-

He or perly made the subject of severe disciplinary

ite gay exterior, for, even on the to keep one permanently with them.

offer no Committee measures, upon which your she may not to very interesting, but any uu

depressing atilloess reigue, known person will act as spur. They are criticism, but they recommend that by the dis- broken only by the melancholy chant of

pricats, and

the eternal areaking of a thou- immediately less siling, less dell-minded and less play of actices or other uwane mere care shall

Deal: and prayer-whenle,

fatare selfiab They need an audience, and an audience be taken to impress apen all employees

state are the chief tape of onversation in that does not know them, before whom they

or offering asy and danger of accepting or

uever baried, but thrown pêle-mêle on's piece things, they would like to ba. The fina venti- kind of commission." The stewards received his weird city, and the fast that the dead are from the contractor 5 per cent. on all thoclothing of waste grennd adjoining the prime ipal square ments they expressar really theirs, only the

to f 66. examined, the payments amounting to does not conduce either to the gainly or health effort to act up to them is too great. They are really capable of an interest in outside things, rated ti at "he thought it as the ouster," and tain ranges must be growed between this and

When oalled upon to explain, the contractor of the ever-changing population. Three moun but they must be led to them by a strange guide.

It is no, however, by any means only inferior the ten pleaded that they were doing what Kiskhts, slso two broad and rapid rivers: the

Kharra and Irul. The mountains were so their predecessors had done. Both these state-

steep minds who had an nufailing tonic in the com

that bullocks were substituted for camels, and pany of strangers. Very often lovers of stran zaats. the Committee state, appear to be true.

only oreased them with great difficulty. Indeed, gera are xmong the most genial of man and the The Admiralty by an alteration in the wording

of the contract have made it clear that the con- the second range was about the stiffest bit of best and most constant cf frionds Thera are

and fatore tractor must avoid suob practices in

mountain work I have ever done--and infinitely plenty of adventurous spirits who intensely

worse than the Naukow Pass. In this region enjoy a voyage into any kind of society the question of more clearly warning all em-

of commissions I satured severely from mosquitoes and sand. which they

and ployees against the Board for considera-Hias, which, combined with hard physical labour aro unaccustomed, whom interconte with Buy fresh will be brought before the acquaintance is fraught with delightful tion. The disciplinary messures" referred to (for I frequently had to turn to and help to pull the carts over the worst places) rendered this possibilities They are always hoping to pick are mentioned by the Comptroller General in his

the most trying and unpleasat portion of the up something of value, porbapa an amusing report issued last February. They include the

desert journey. The Kbarra River was sters, perhaps a piece of desirable knowledge, stoppage of the men's pnsions for a year. and

the removal of the contractor'e aims from the fordable, bat the sreasing of the Iral, mach possibly even a friend. Old friends, now arquaintance"," is their motte. They con- Admiralty list.

swollen by heavy rains, nearly resulted in the stantly seak fresh experivaces among

Another matter which also called forth the loss of one of my carts. This river in nearly a people, gladly losing sight of those they have oriticism of the Comptroller-General was the mile broad, and runs like a mill-noe, and if the never known well, and eagerly exploring new

unanthorised sale of Government ammuuition by rotten, insecure ferry was able to sustain the ground. This love of strange faces often leads private pereous. The Committes tell the story, woight of a lightly-built camel cart, how will

and comment upon it as follows! —,

it Gohave under a metal-laden motor! But excellent w men whose social berizon is rall into the by-paths of philanthropy, and we bare

general dealer at Portsmouth was dis-

este transit of them across the Iral--one of heard it given a one of the attractions which overed to bare in bis stook 350 cartridges precautions have perhaps been taken to apenre for use with the Morris tube, sad of this amount the most serious abstacles of the entire journey. 12.400 were marked Government property. It From here to Kirkhta 1 traversed a level, f appears probable that this ammunition was sold aandy region which presented no spacial to him in small lots by men who had pilfered it diloalties, and on the 22nd day out from st the ranges, and steps have now been taken Peking I entered the Russian Empiro at the to safeguard the ammunition issued for practice, Frontier town of Kinkhts.

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