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Unotekline 172 Sacriston of stadhtuary of Raghnacing Zink an appointing.

"DODWELL. & CO. LTD. Machinery Dept.

THE HỤNGKONG DAILĂ PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 618, 1922.

LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S TOUR,

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NETHERLANDS INDIA.

COAL MINING IN KWANGTUNG,

GOVERNMENT,

In the messages, which have been pub-4 SUGGESTION TO THE CANTON lished in The Times describing Lord Northolite's tour in the Far East, there

A report submitted by Mr. Yung Chin- are many passages which should prove of interest British readers. Writing about ung, who was sent by the Mining Depart Java, he says: "1 was urged to press districts also the North river some time ment to investigate coal-mines in the upon British renilers the great opportuni- ties that Java offers to British enterprise ago, draws thoattention of the Government On the Germans they need no pressing, to the desirability of operating a coal- German firms are full of activity, and are mine in the district of Kukiang. The rapidly recovering lost ground in Java; report says that the output of the coal- the districts of Lockchang, as elsewhere.

I was prepared to mines in find Java very pro-German: and in this Kukiang, and Jia-yuen are promising, to some extent I was disappointed, and and suggests that certain coal-mines agreably so. Dutch sympathy with the should be operated by the Government to German, the close trade connection be support the enormous daily consumption tween Germany and the Dutch Indies, do (the Yet-Han and Kwang-Kow railways) not forbid fair treatment and courtesy (the Yet-Kan and Kwang Kow railways) to British visitors and British tradera. and the gunboats in the Canton..river.—

Canton Times.

EDUCATION IN CHINA. LADY DIRECTOR FOR HEUNGSHAN DISTRICT.

**A HOME FROM HOME": **These old Dutchmen came to Java to settle, not to make fortunes quick- ly and return home. Even now the Dutch, appear to be less anxious than our own Far Eastern exiles to go home on leave. They take many beautiful homes for themselves in Java (where access is The Canton Times-states that Miss Lin easy to hill stations), homes unlike any L. Shew is formally appointed by Heung- other Europen houses in the Far East, shan District Magistrate, Wu Tit Shing. the great feature of them all being the as Director of Education. Miss Show was large open saloon, exactly like the selamlik educated in America. receiving ber B.A. where the host receives his men friends degree from the University of California,, in the big houses of Turkey, and Egypt. and her M.A. degree from the Teacher's In the same spirit their forerunners on the College in the University of Columbia, 17th century built for home and perman- In Chinese students' affairs in America ence. Their forts, their canals, their high-was has been very active. She was one gabled brick houses were all exactly as time vico-chairman of the Western Section in Holland. The old parts of Batavia are of the Chinese students' alliance of Holland in Java, with all the charm that America and chairman of the California lingers about the English-built parts of Chinese Students' Club. She is now in, Boston or Philadelphia. And theas, thick Cuba raising funds for the catablishracat walled 17th century buildings, designed to of a Memorial Hospital in Heungsban."* unite comfort with safety against attack, are far cooler than some of the newer buildings that are being run up apace ali over the Far East-in Singapore, Kuala Lanipur, Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko. bama. The great, cool office buildings have walla as thick as some in the Tower of London. These first Netherlanders laid well the foundations of their Insulinde.

"And their modern successors take verent care of their legacy--the Dutch kirks with their old church plate the gravestones from Holland; the portraits of early notables, and the specimens of every kind of old furniture from home, which they cherish in their excellent museums. One object that particularly attracted my was 17th century child's cot, with its little mosquito curtains. Owing to the increase of business, many very suitable and artistic modern build- ings are being put up in Batavia, as well as in the modern districts; but the men of to-day are not tearing down old Batavia as they have torn down old New York; and I don't believe they ever will.

ROA SI INDO-CHINA. "Rich as Tado-China is in her abun. danch of exports, excellent as is her organisation, practical, energetic, and fur seeing as is the management of her affairs by Governor-Gentral Long, still her chief glory "Lies in her roads. A marvellous network of perfect roads has been spread in a very few years over the whole of Cochin China, and runs westward through Cambodia and north right up to Tonkin. Practically wil these roads, thousands of] miles in extent, are of the same construc tion and quality as those which delighted the motorist in France before the war came to mar the great routes nationales. Smooth, wide, properly cambered, mile- stoned, and sign posted in true, practical French style, running sometimes for 20 or 30 miles as straight as an arrow, now

PORT ARTHUR GIVEN UP AS NAVÄL BASE.

JAPANESE COMMERCIAL

SOHEME

official quarters in London, says The News has been received in Japanese Times, that the Japanese Government has decided to convert the Japanese naval

port.

of Port Arthur into a commercial

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Agents:

EX-ROYAL MARINES,

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CARTERS,

It is unofficially reported from Tokyo that it has been decided to reduce Mai- zuru, hitherto one of the most impor-THERE will be MEETING of all Ex. ROYAL MARINES in the Chaplain's Room, tant naval station in Japan, to the RN. Dockyard at 11 am. SUNDAY, th raak of a naval port.

A RIL. All Ex ROTAL MARINES are cordially invited to attend."

1959

THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONGKONG.

Port Arthur, formerly a Chinese naval arsenal and fortress, was captured by the Japanese in 1991, who destroyed. most of the defensive works. After its lease to Russia in 1908 it again became A powerful fortress, and its defence by Generul Stoesse! and eventual surrender to the Japanese on January lat, 1503, formed one of the most important opera tions of the Russo-Japanew War. The harbour is icefree all the year round.. It will be recalled at the port of Wei- Haj-Wel being restored by the Bri- tish and Tsingtan by the Japanese to Chine.

name,

Maizuru, on the bay of that lies on the coast of the Sea of Japan, nearly 100 miles from Osaka,

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INDIAN SERVICE

UNATTRACTIVF,

NO CAREER FOR YOUNG ENGLISHMEN.

The Assembly at Delhi, on February

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

ACTION No. 2 or 1790.

BETWEEN LAU TSZ TSAY, LAU TANG BEL LAU SHE SHI, LAU YIU SHI-

and LAU LI SHI, Plaintiffs

and

LAU SHIU CHUEN, Defendant.

By order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong and

Under the direction of the Registrar,

Supreme Court.

́ESSRS. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Nola, Chater Rood.

PREPAID

Tel. 3549,

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Letters are lying at this Ofs for Bar A, L, JWB, WX-

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LET-Two Office Rooms, Prince's

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occupied by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Barrister. Possession mid-April. Apply to occupier.

To

O LET-PEAK HOUSE OR BUNGA-

LOW for about two summer months.. Lindsay, Vicarage, Kowloon.

ANTED-Young British couple share- charming house high level. Telephone, private baths, tennis court and garden. "Early tenaney. Apply P.U. Box 484.

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Mhave reeised lustrnctions to sell by CHEUNGCHOW: To Let-Fully Furni

PUBLIC AUCTION on WEDNESDAY, the 12th day of April, 1995, at 3 o'clock ra

WITHOUT RESZEVE.

shed, modern five roen Bungalow; immediate posession. Apply F. M. Crawford, c/o Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

All the eight title and interest of the above- nawird defendant LAU SEIU CRUEN alias Lau PROPERTIES situnte in the Colony of Hungersion. Apply A. Davis, cio Hughes & Hough. WAY CHEN OF (CHAN) of and in the following FOR SALE-House situated Magazine Gap near New Motor.Road Immediate poes-

lying out across the "open plains like a 11th carried a resolution recommending kong 102 & 401, Des Ven Road West and

ruler, now buried in the dark of the jungle, they are an everlasting monument to French foresight,

inquiry into reaps for more rapidly. ladinuizing the Services.

Victoris

397A & 3978, Queen's Road West, being Inland Lot No. 1742 No. 27, Boubam Strand, Victoria being Sub-rection 2 of Section B of Marine Lot No. 4.

The above first named property is sold sub- jeet to all existing mortgages and charges.

Particulars and conditions of sale can be obtained from

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Sir William Vincent made a powerful speech warning the Assembly of the dan- One of these grent roads must be

gers attending too rapid an elimina- among the longest in the world. This is tion of the European element frem the MandarinsWay, which rans without the Services. He said that the hos a break (except, at present, for ferries) tility being shown to English officials from the borders of China, round the all over the country decreased the ameni peninsula past Hué and Saigon. into Cam-ties of life in India, und this, together bodia, through the capital, Pao Peoh, with pay inadequate to meet the in- and up to the frontier of Siam. Ita brigin creased cost of living, had had a seri- goes very far back, to the days when the ous effect upon the sources of recruit- many-spoked cart-wheels of North China ment, sc that the Assembly's problem left their narrow tracks over most of the would probably solve itself, as young inhabited East. The French kept to the Englishmen now declined to look to an

Colonial service old path, but very quickly transformed it Indian career.

was into a first-class highway, over which you more attractive.

Forty officers from two Services alone ean drive your car at any speed you please. It is about 1,800 miles long-had already applied for leave to retire about the length of the distance between because of the reforma

Eight officers Antwerp and Gibraltar. It is a king amor Service had resigned their appointments appointed from England to the Civil the ronda of the world, And the sensation before assuming them. Out of 86 candi rates, as from APRIL 1st, 1922, onthe following of finding yourself at kilomètre-stone 2,200 dates at the last examination only 25 (say, milestone 1,83) is very strange. It

were British, and of these three only was my good fortune to be driven over some 900 miles of the Mandarins Way were successful, as against 18 Indians.

India could not attract the same type when H.E. Governor-General Long iavit of man as in the past, for the oppor ed me to accompany him on a visit to tunities for men of initiative and energy the, tremendous ruins of the temples of in the Indian Civil Service were now Angkor in Cambodia, where H.M. King greatly diminished by the reforms.-- Sarowath of Cambodia was entertaining | Times. Marshal Joffre.

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THE BRITISH IN BIAM.

Mesure. DENNYS & BOWLEY, "

No. 6, Dea Vour Road Central,

Hongkong, or from Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

The Auctioneers. Hongkong, 28th March, 1929.

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"We are by no means the only pebbles of the Siamese princes and leading men on the bench. Siam's foreign adviser in send their sons to English public schools, political matters, for example, is Dr.whence they return home deeply imbued Eldon Jumes, an, American, und of the with the English spirit. Prince Pure- Harvard Law School. For all that, the chatra, of the Royal House, the organiser English colony in Bangkok has an excep of the excellent Siamese railway system, tional character. Here I raet propor is a Harrovian. Recently there has been tionately more public school meu than in some little change in this matter; and, as any other part of the Far East that I have with the Chinese, a number of Siamese Through Bill of Lading fened for Bataria, visited, except perhaps "Malaya. Good

Ferian Gulf, Continental, American, sportsmen, jelly fellows, liked by the students now go to the United States.

The Siamoso are a remarkable and a

and South African Porta.

AND, approximately 7,000 square feet on Siamese, energetic, and resourceful, they

waterfront at Swatów with modern £2. have made a little British settlement out very agreeable people. Their sense of

Captain storied brick and concrete building zitable for hero which, I am sure, has a great share hospitality is surpassed by that of non Steamship "SICILIA,

Jenkins, carrying. His Majesty's Mails, office and godown, in maintaining both the long-established nation in the world that I know. They comradeship between us and our delight are the perfect hosts. Never is there any will be despated from this Port on or about Farther details apply!

outward sign of the trouble which they SATURDAT BEATBIL 1922, taking ful Siamese friends, and also, incidentally, hears take to make you feel at home. Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports. British prestige in ́a far-off land," «

Silk and Valuables, and Tes for Italy, France You merely live in perfect comfort in the "I spent a particularly instructive oven-easiest possible companionship with very shipped at Bombay i

and London (under i artenges will be tran- ing at the British Club in Bangkok charming and well-read folk.

the Mail Steamer pro- Many of

ceeding direct to Marseilles and London. Listening to the talk all round me, I was the Siamese that I have met speak Eng Parcels will be received at tins Office until deeply impressed with the atmosphere of fish faultlessly. Some know the language, the day before salling. The contents. youth and energy. All agreed in having a wall that they think in it; and no and Telae of a packages are required. nothing but praise for Bangkok and for idiom in our very difficult tongue. Ands the fair and friendly treatment they in-thom at a loss. In art, and especially in variably received at the hands of their architecture, as well as in practical mat Siamese hosts. Much of this friendliness ters, aviation, engineering, and Law, the is due, of course to the fact that manySiamese are already the full equals, of

(Opntinued at foot of next column.) ' many Furopean peoples."

For further particular apply to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE

Ageata,

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Hongkong, March 22nd, 1992,

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