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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6th, 1928.

IN FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO.

DR. CRESSEY'S EXPEDITION TO INNER MONGOLIA,

AN INVESTIGATION OF UNKNOWN AREAS.

MR: OMSBY GORE

ON JAVA.

THE GARDEN OF THE

EAST...

WHERE MALAYA HAS AN ADVANTAGE.

WHAT THE KING'S' LANDS

YIELD.

£1.100,000 INCOME FOR THE NATION.

REGENT-ST. VALUE.

Few estates are being more proft ably developed than the hereditary domains of the Crown. From them the nation derived, during the Ginancial year which ended official figures, the record sum of March 31st, according to the latest £1,100,000, or exactly double thes yield of 1915.

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acres, of which 108,000 are agricul

The King's lands comprise 276,000 tural land bringing in about a pound an acre, several thousands are waste or seashore, and the rest, devoted to house and shop property-the gold- mine of the Commissioners of Crown Lands, which produced last year a gross income of £1,150,000.

Leaving Shanghai College three weeks before eammencentent, Pro-

SINGAPORE, May 29th. fessor George B. Cressey will start Under-Secretary of State for the Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, on a three months' tour to the un- Colonics, returned to Singapore known regions of the Ordos. and this morning after his three weeks Alashan deserts beyond the Great tour in Java Giving his impres Wall from Kansu in Western Inner sions in the course of a special in Mongolia. The journey to his base, terview granted to a representative the city of Ninghsia, Kansu, will of the Straits Timer at Government occupy three weeks, and will be House, he said: "I had always by boat to Hankow, thence by rnil heard Jara described as the Gar 'vid Chengchow to Shanchow, den of the East,' but I had no idea Honan; from there by motor car to to what a high pitch of perfection Sianfu and to Pingliang, Kansu agricultural development had been and then by pack mules to Ninghsia. carried. In Java, with the excep The area which it is proposed to tion of a few forest reserves, the

Woodland City... study lies in western Inner Mon- whole of the land which can be golia, north of the Great Wall from cultivated is fully occupied, and proceeding at Eltham, Hainault, and Building on the royal lands is now Kansa Except for irrigated strips has been so for a very long time. Windsor: In the midst of Windsor along the Yellow River all of this To-day, there are roughly 16,000,000 Great Park a little woodland city of region is a desert. In the centre of acres. under arable cultivation by 1,900 acres is beginning to, take the area lies the great Alashan natives, 4,000,000 under other cul-shape, and, if it proves successful, Range of mountains, which rise to tivation and 2,000,000 of planted another 2,800 neres may be devoted over 10,000 ft. and divide the desert forest, namely teak; so practically to it. into two distinct regions; the the whole area of the island is Alashan desert on the west and the being developed. The Ordos on the east. The Ordos in features are the irrigation, which great cludes the district within the great enables the greater part of the area northward bend of the Yellow River to be under permanent crops all outside" the Great Wall

the year round. and the various scientific stations,

Scientific Stations.

The greatest care being taken of house will, occupy at least an acre, course, of the amenities.. Every and for every tree destroyed an other must be planted. Two new golf courses just outside the park, which are being made chiefly for the future residents, will be ready for play this summer.

Although an ancient Mongolian trade route crosses this district, it has seldom been followed by West- erners Except for a few trails most scientific stations are maintained Few people realise how many

It is timely falling-in of London of the Ordos and Alashan is quite in Java, both by government and leases that has so swelled the revenue unknown, both geographically and private enterprise. By far the from the King's lands. The inconse geologically. Marco Polo crossed finest is maintained entirely by one from Regent Street has multiplied this area on his journey to China, industry-the sugar industry-at seven times since the rebuilding, and over much of the summer Dr. Passoeran, which is the finest of athely, from £44,070 to £315,999. Cressey's expedition will be follow-its kind in the world. There is &

Here are some increases! Crite ing in his footsteps.

permanent staff of 30 Europeans rion group, from £1,760 a year to and it costs the sugar planters over; Plaza Theatre block, £5,895 £110,000 a year, but the planters to £10,120 block in Regent Street, are the first to recognise that they Kingley Street, and Foubert place. get their money's worth.

£735 to £8,380. Nor has the utmost revenue from the London lands get been reached.

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by the tea and rubber industries. Partly owing to the fact that a large part of the scientific work on they have reached a pitch of per different crops is interchangeable, fection which I have not noticed elsewhere. Furthermore, the Euro- pean planters, both Dutch and British, are eager to consult the proof stations, as they are called, and ready to adopt the latest dis

Object Of The Expedition. The chief geological problem deals with changes in the climate of Central Asia during the last few geological periods. During the I also had the opportunity of glacial period in Europe and North visiting the Government atations America Asia was tree from ice.

and research stations maintained Mongolia at that time apparently had much more moist climate. This problem is of more than theoretical interest, for climate cna- trols vegetation and thus influences animal life. Since Asia seems to have been the centre of human evolution, climate throws light on the habitability of this area. The record of climate is written in sedi ments and erosion cycles, and the preliminary studies made by Pro-: fessor Cressey in 1924 indicate that this area contains critical informa "With regard to the future of tion. While no direct search is to East Indies, there can be no doubt the rubber industry in the Dutch be made for ancient man, it is im-that the abandonment of the policy portant to note that the best evi- dence of early man so far found of restriction in British depen in Central Asia is on the borders dencies will affect production in of the Ordos near Ninghsia.

Dutch territory, particularly Sumatra and Borneo,"

The Alashan Range presents some interesting problems in structural geology, for they are formed as the result of a great thrust from the west. Similar mountains are known

in other countries, but no detailed studies of this type have been made in China. It is planned to examine the general geology of the range and map, its structure,

.coveries.

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The Rubber Position.

appointed to take charge of the When commissioners were first royal domains in the time of George III, the total revenue was £11,000 a year.

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*Income Burrendered.

As is well known, it has long been the practice of monarchs on their from their lands in return for a fixed accession to surrender the incomè allowance from the State, though any new monarch would have “a 'perfect constitutional right to re- sume the possession of his finds it he preferred this to a Civil List

revenue from the lands was £11,000 It is noteworthy that when the King George III had a Civil List of £123,000 (though there were charges on it from which the Civil List of to-day is free).

William IV.'s Civil List, with these charges removed from it, was £610,000, which was much greater, than the sun he would have obtain- ed from his lands; and Queen roughly the same as the income Victoria's Civil List of £385,000 was

At anything like present prices the industry in Java, where there is a plentiful sup ply of free labour and where will continue to be profitable, thanks to science, yields are high,

but there are already signs of & falling off in native grown ruhi from the lands her in Sumatra and Borneo, due

When King George's Civil List

The desert is the geologist's paradise. All the agents of erosion" and transportation are actively at work, for despite the limited rain- fall with which they carry on their work there is no protecting vegeta-estates in East Sumatra are likely "I am told that even European tion. Geologic processes are demon- strated on every hand, often in text-to be short of tapping labour. book perfection.

"It must be remembered that Many writers have pointed to Sumatra and Borneo both very Mongolia with its great expenses labour and this labour is only largely depend upon Japanese of empty land as the place to which available when economic pressure people may emigrate from the over in Java stimulates emigration. crowded plains of China proper. It This stimulus is not apparent at Millions" are being used by two is hoped to study the agricultural present as there is a record sugar possibilitice of this area.

to the fact that British restric-was-fixed at 2470,000, the dimount tion stimulated production, par from the Crown junds was £480,000. at which it remains, the revenue "ticularly native production, he

yond the available labour for

In a few years time the last figure tapping."

will have been tripled."

Dr. Crossey's Other Trips. Dr. Cressy visited both the Ordos and the Alashan in 1994 on the return from an expendition to Koko or in Thibet... There was no op portunity for detailed studies at that time, but hasty examination in- dicated several promising areas. Since that time the lew available reports of carlier explorers have been examined and definite projects mapped out.

crop this year and, the tea and coffee industries are very active. The rice erop also in good and generally prosperity in Java is high

"The rubber industry is not likely to extend in Java, as prac tically no more vacant land i available. Many of the Dutch planters in Java have always been somewhat suspicious of rub- her and like to have two strings to their bow.

HIDDEN HOARD LURE.

KRUGER MILLIONS QUEST REVIVED.

What are known as Kruger's

young men as a lure to persuade people in England, to invest in an expedition to recover this hidden money, which, it was reported, had been secreted somewhere in North Transvaal at the time President Kruger fled from South Africs to Europe. The sum was stated to be about: £11,000,000.

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evidence to corroborate this story. There has never been definite The men now in London profees to know where the "millions" are buried and say they simply want a p.m. few hundred pounds to equip a recovery expedition.

They tried to get money out of were quickly convinced that they a South African for this object and

were wasting their time.

An attempt to continue this work "In many places one finds coffes in 1928 resulted in an attack by interplanted with rubber, or a brigands, before the area was reach estate is given half to rubber and ed. Mongolia itself is characteris-half to coffee.. tically peaceful, but the Chinese British Malaya has one ad borderlands are often in JZ un-vantage over Java which is likely settled condition. Reports now in- to be of considerable importance, dicate that conditions along the namely the very short wintering route which it is proposed to follow period in Malaya as compared. The roads are not as good as are quiet.

with the comparatively long dry those in Malaya, but, the main line This is the land of wandering period in Java from June to Sep of their railway is wonderful. I nomads who pasture their flocks of tember. sheep and camels on the sparse desert grass The rainfall is less than ten inches, and wella are few and far between. It will often be necessary to carry water for drink ing and other purposes of the ex- pedition. Camels commonly

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Squad Drill,

All recruits of the Chinese and.

Central Police Station on Thursday, Indian Companies will parade at

June 7th Fall in at Central Police Station at 3.30 p.m. sharp for Squad Drill under Bergeant R. J. Hunt. "Dress: Mufti.

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Indian Company. Constables R247 U., Ismail' and As to the general attitude of Went from Batavia to Djocja in an the Dutch official and unofficial ordinary train at an average speed B.230 A, Hamid have passed their. community with regard to the of 40 miles an hour for 400 miles," examination in Part II of Training future of rubber, I found, Mr. Ormsby-Gore went on to say Courts (Police Duties and Regula generally speaking, & very strong how much he had been impressed tions),

Arta and culture.

Flying Squad.. local mistrust of any forms of by native

and The weekly instructional patrol Government control or Govern Javanese dancing, acting used, but they travel only at night

ment interference. I found very music were very striking. The of the Hong Kong Section will take and only ten miles a day; for the

little local support for the idea Buddhist monuments of the ninth place on Thursday, June 7th. Fall of a pool.

and tenth centuries were especially in at Central Police Station at 8:15 most part mules will be employed.

remarkable. He had the oppor-p.m. sharp.‹ Dress: Khaki. Geologically the map is white, and

tunity of attending the opening of large areas are geographically un "I had the opportunity of visit the Volksraad, which was a digni- known as well. Prejevalsky and ing some of the educational institufied and impressive sight

The regular bi-monthly rifle prac Obruchey, two Russian explorers, tions in Java and I was very much." Altogether," he said in, conclu- tice fixed for Sunday, June 10th, is visited the region sixty years ago, struck by the facilities given for sion, gathered an impression cancelled. Revolver practice will be and most of our knowledge: dates agricultural education.

of soundness of administration. and carried out instead, at Kennedy back to them.

Another, department in which progress, in all activities, of life Road range at 10 am.. Uniform Dr. Cressey has previous to this Java has made great strides is in which deserve the study of all optional. Members are requested to already travelled more than 20,000 hydro-electric development for students of,colonial development. get as much snapping practice as miles in Chins on various explora power and light and also in wire I found the relations, between the possible before funday, in both tions. This trip will presumably less. I spoke with my wife in Dutch and the British communities rapid and instantaneous fire. be his last before his furlough is London from the hotel in established in Java to be most due, and thus will mark a culmina Bandoeng and also with Mr. cordial, and nothing could exceed tion to his valuable service along | Amery.

the courtesy with which I was this line-NC. Daily News.

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