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LIVING OVER THE GARAGES WITH SHOPS AND

VOLCANO.

IMPRESSIONS OF MUKDEN, THE POLYGLOT.

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[BY JAMES KING, STELLE]

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RESTAURANTS.

UNDERGROUND STATIONS

FOR MOTOR-COACHES."

New wonder garages, as large as great railway stations, with wait- ing rooms, restaurants, and shops, are to be built all over London for the convenience of private motorists and for the accommodation of the evergrowing feets of motor-coaches operating in the long-distance road services.

Two of these great garages are already under construction, and the Ministry of Transport is taking an active interest in the development

£1,200,000 CLUB FAILURE.

ENGLISH CLAIMS LODGED.

FLORIDA. BUBBLE SEQUEL.

New York. Bankruptcy proceedings and law snits are all that remain of the much heralded Floranda Club, which was to be the "Biarritz of Ame rica."

"The world's most exclusive club

Beggar children, thusting, them- selves in one's way, whining for

in Russian and alma

Chinese, creeping close to the hotel door awaiting the stranger, avoiding the doorkeeper-the wide parade before the railway station with its con- glomeration of humans, animals, and materiale-rows of low hung carriages, victorias at home of the scheme, which aims at solving was begun in Florida at the height of the land boom, when fortunes and droshkies in Russia and the parking problem in Central

were lost and made daily. But in Siberia, in every stage of dilapida London, and providing adequately tion, drawn by vicious, underfed equipped termini for the motor

the middle of 1996 the club bad fail- ponics with huge Manchu drivers coach services.

ed to the tune of £1,200,000. raining blows indiscriminately-

The wealthiest and most exclusive long lines of rickshas with agile and cager Chinese, greedy for each

people of the United States and fare--smart motor-cars. awaiting the coming of army officer-the

England were invited to become ultra modern vulgarity of the

members. Canals, a shooting lodge. limousine of the General's daugh-

golf, polo and yacht clubs, an avia. ter with its silk curtains and gay

tion field, pavilions, and an hotel colours-horses, bulls or, men, pull- ing clumsy carts, carrying incre-

were part of the original scheme. dible' loads of goods.

All Races of China And Siberia.

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Eight Storeys, Each garage is to be eight storeys in height, and spacious enough to accommodate one thousand motor- cars. The mater-edach stations will be under ground, with arrival and departure platforms, booking offices, and porters.

Mr. Claude Grahame-White, the aviator and motorist, who is responsible for the scheme, said to a Press representative that millions Crowds of people coming and of pounds of capital will be requir: going, Koreans, Chinese, Manchus,ed to carry through the project.

Two sites, bave been choseg-op Jiongols, Japanese, Russians,

in Gillingham-strees, near Victoria polyglot assemblage of all races of Station, and the other in Park- China and Siberia-drab files soldiers in dirty san or gray ani- road. Regent's Park-and workmen are already busy laying the founda forms-swanky officers anticipating

tions.. the coming of some fellow official- mitory capes Bring in the wind, swords and spurs clanking-Japan- inconspicuous uni- ese police forms all awaiting the coming of the train, bringing its news of plots And counterplots, its messengers of good and bad, its contact with the great outside world and the big

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I have incorporated in the plans the best of all the many ideas for modern garage construction have picked up during a tour of the world to study the question," said Mr. Grahame-White.

"I ammodelling the garages on the lines of the Grand Central Station in New York. There will be shops all round the main hall, where passengers will be able to buy any thing they please.

The Japanese city, with wide streets, modern buildings, good pavements, order, safety, confi. When I say that each garage dence-the International Settie-will accommodate 1,000 motor-cars, ment adjoining it, with fewer im- I mean that this number of vehicles provements, less comfort, more will be accommodated so that each" dust and dirt, older and less at-

one can be driven away without a tractive buildings, a feeling of un- moment's delay. rest and uncertainty the Chinese city, a maze of mud buildings with lofty thick outer and inner walls streets, unpaved encircling it, rutted with weight of loaded earts, long rows of low houses, shops and stores, the dust and the dirt.

Street vendors of sweetmeats, of foodstuffs of many kinds, the un- ceasing insatiable craving of the Chinese for food at all hours the workers of their trades the see- thing life of a big city, mysterious, compelling, fearsome, with the ieel of something portentous about to occur-the. deserted yamens of the war. lords-the བ་ foreign style " palace of the "Marshal"-the vast Arsenal with its tales of graft, in building and operation-the fifty- three fine foreign motor-cars in the "Marshal's " menage-the Walls that surround entrance the squads pi soldiers moving no one knows where or why..

"Some General's Car."

The quick clearance of all street traffic at the roar of the siren on car tearing some General's " along utterly regardless of human life, the ridiculous guards harging on the running boards with drawn revolvers and swords-the news of the day's executions, choking the feeling of unreality, the horror of such inhumanities-the wonder of where and when something will break the drone of aircraft over head-the night movement of troops to the railway-the pervad- ing sense of being close to an in tangible something that looms large in world affairs.

Street life in all its phases hundreds of loitering Chinese, sit. ting, dozing, amoking, taiking, talk ing always street merchants sell- ing sweetmeats, glazed crab apples strung on a wooden skewer, very attractive to the eye and palate if

"There will be separate inclined roadways for cars going up and cars going down, so that there will be no danger of collision. Motorists who leave their cars at the garages will be taken up to the particular floor by a passenger lift, and will be able to drive straight away:

"We intend to do away with the present system of packing cars biggledy pigzledy, so that there are exasperating delays before the motorist can extricate his car. The Ministry of Transport is taking the keenest Interest in the project, be- cause it ought to go a long way towards solving the traffic problems of London"

FIANCEE ROBBED.

WEDDING FIXED AND MAN

- COES OFF WITH £35. -

It is well known that the architects had designed the build. ings and that contracts had been scattered far and wide.

A King's Name, The corner-stone of a beautiful hote! was laid, among those present at the ceremony being the Countess of Lauderdale and her son Lord Thirlestane. Three hundred of the best salesmen of the United States were, engaged, but despite their efforts and the widest publicity the club failed to arouse the interest of the investor.. The name of King George of Greece was used freely in advertisements which announced that he was building a house an grounds overlooking the tropical gardens."

con-

One of the promoters explained recently, during the bankrupter proceedings which are still

of King tinuing, that the use George's name Was a publicity ** stunt. The King has agreed to live in a house after it had been built by the corporation at the end of the year the King being allowed to sell the property.

English investors, however, were cautious, and, the failure of the gigantic scheme has been laid at the door of the cautious English people. It was revealed the other day that only £10,000 was obtained from the British end of the project. Three English people, General Sir John Maxwell, who bought £2,000 worth of stock; the Hon. Mrs. Florence M. Barry, and Mr. Wil fred Fitzgerald, both of whom in- vested £500, have a suit for alleged misrepresentation now pending aguiuet the club promoters.

Other British names listed in the bankruptcy proceedings were the Counters of Lauderdale, £2.000; Viscount Molesworth, £100; Lord Leigh, £20,000; Lord Plunkett. £1,000, Attempts were maile to raise £200,000 in England, and the

which promoting company, named the American British Im- provement Corporation, suffered the first severe blow when at the close of 1925 the English syndicate failed at great expense to the parent or

Richard Canham, aged 35, an electrician, was charged at Willes den, N.W., with obtaining money by false pretences from Miss Maud de la Bertouche, of West Ham.

Canham was engaged to marry the young woman, a tobacconist's manageress, and the wedding was She gave up her situation fixed. and drew out all ber money, £33, from the bank. He took it, pro-ganisation. mising to get smaller change, but never returned with it.

During his absence be wrote to his fiancee from Brighton:

I am a rotter. I have told you a lot of lies about my income and, as I have been gambling, I have lost all.

I have made my way here to end my troubles by swimming to another world.”

Canham had twice been in pri- son for theft and once for bigamy. He was sentented to 12 months' im- Prisonment.

When she heard the sentence the ane dares to sample them-singing woman collapsed and had to be tea wagons with steaming spouts, carried out of court. pastry sellers of unappetizing

dough cakes-baskets filled with

rents:

mary Borta,

modern knickknackslere of lines of the walls housing the armed tobacco and cigarettes-itinerants camp of a world figure-inside the with their entire stock hanging cheer and atmosphere inseparably

club Associated with

life that from a shoulder pole-big stores

"foreignera" always carry with run by Japanese, Chinese and Rus-

them: sians-radio loud speakers bawling

Dinner in & typical Russian res- in Japanese from the doorways— bizarre" posters on walls and doors taurant-zakuskas of announcing the dancing and attrac- vodka in many small glasses-soup. tions at the various cabarets for asb, entree, roast, with strange. the night-loud coloured advertise. sounding names, each delicious ba ments of the cinema shows the only the Russian can make them- Hife of the city flowing ceaselessly earning his living by playing the the seventy year old ex-General regardless of the underneath cur-piano, bands rippling over the keys, eyes fixed on the wall, thoughts a million miles away-the "Cocktail bour" at the club-sad-eyed chap playing the violin. ladies in latest "foreign" styles also an ex-officer of high rank, playing bridge--the long bar, with inexpressible sorrow in his crowded with patrons, whisky and thin face, his military figure re sodas in amazing quantity-click-reating itself despite his cheap suit ing of billiard balls on the tables-two Russian girls and two men laughter from a congenial group at the corner table-champagne in the corner-noisy welcome to corks popping, cigarette newcomers-whispered information rising in 1 gray cloud-painted as to this and that personage the cheeks and carmined hips in the English ex-captain, soldier of for- mist, high pitched laughter-the tune in charge of the munition entrance of the delectable dessert, works for the "Marshal "the flaming-in brandy, that crowns the demure Frenchman who directs the feast.

Cocktail Hour,

"

moke

flying activities of the war lord- Moonlight on deserted streets of the taipan of this and that the a sleeping city peacs, quiet, re- gossip over the news of the day pose here, with armed sentries the newspaper correspondents hun- mounting the walls of the com- gry for a scoop" the American pounds out beyond and evil plotting Consul about to be transferted to incessantly behind closely-guarded another post-the good-fellowship doors-the little known theatre of of the consular corps-outside in Chinese politics, perhaps the key the gathering dusk, the gray out to the whole Asian situation.--

(Continued on next Column). 3#74#-----་དང་ན་བ་

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Among United States investors were listed Mrs. Horace Dodge, now Mrs. Dillman, as owner of 10,000 shares for which she paid £200,000, and Mrs. Edward T. 1.5 having invested Stotesbury £150.000. They cach contributed £50,000 towards repayment of in- vestors.

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

OCTOBER 31, 1939. E.K: Bank..........$1,395 bay.

Do London210 nom. Chartered Bank 2) buy. Marcantile Banks, A. &B...291 nom. 0...£14j nom. P. & Q.30

Banks

Do

East As Back* .........$77 nom.

1000 bay. Canton Insurange Caion Insurance ...******** 114, 180 bay. North Uhins iei. ........................

Yuugteze insurances....... Hu nom.. China The Tururances.375 buy.

Underwriters.2, bay, 2.00 Hong Kong Fire Las Douglas 27 sul,

Si nom. H.K. Steamboată ..........$27; bay,, HK. Tags om Indo-Chinas (Pre).95 buy,

Do (Def.). bay. Shell Transporta .......115. nom. Waterboats........................

buy. Beagasts

.....$1k bay. Kailan Mining Adioia....65% bay. Langkats (combined....... Tia. 9) nom.

Do (angle)

Tls. 3 20. S'hai Explorations....11.bay.

T. J nom. Bands

Changhai Losna

Tronoh Minen

R.K.

num,

............ 17/6 nom K. Whart'.$1594. W. Docks.......$37 nom

5.50 buy

156 nomL Ching Providants dongkes..................................... New Engineerings.........Th. at buy. Shanghai Docks Ewo Cotions... 11,85

buy... Oriental Cottons.....

24 srl, 2,40 sa. ... I': Bhai Cotton (ola) ......Tu. 62 nom,

Do. (nowJobs

Tis 35 buy. H.K IN

11.90,

Hotel .....3.70 Bei, 8.85 13. H.K. Lands.............1001 bay.

T. 138 buy. Shanghai Lands......... Humphreys Estates...15.10 buy. ....18.80 buy. K. Boalciow................ H.K. Tramways on my $24.90 bay, 24.15 Bel. is bay, Peak Trams (old)

Bo.

Biar Ferries (new.........30 bay.

Uhin Light (old)

Do.

„4671 buy, k an.

$18 buy.

Do. (bew)$13 buy. Do. (1928 Lantio) 12.90 buy. H.K. Milectrics (ɔid) ............... · 150ž buy..

33:54. (now) ......35:1 buy. Macao Electrics. bay.

...17.15 buy, cum rights Telephone

Do.

.....8.50 buy. I rights China Buses....Th. 11 bay. Singapore Tractions...1/ buy. 137. sel

Do. (Prefd-bay., ,19/+ mol. China Sugars............. Canton Ices Malabon Bugar? com. 3.nom Cement (combined)39.9 LOW.

Do. *(old) *****St} mon.

lo. (new).... „Elę mus H.K. Koper (cid).$7.19 bag..

Do. (1271) ......$7.05 be. United Asbestos $à nom. Dairy Farms...

22.8) sup. Watsons

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89 bay. $31 Loy.

Wm. Powells. H.A. Amusements.......sel.

H.K. Constructions.....1 bay.

que, Indas, G.Bonds...1%-Duy HIK, UCFL Loads ....................... 64% prao, bay. buy-bayard; sel-sellera; sa♬ sales;

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EXCHANGE RATES.

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Milan Berlin

Ruday, Oct. 2nd.

Paris New York

124

4.848

·Brussels

34.80

Geneva

25.19

Amsterdani

12.09

'92.73

20.35

Stockholm

18.13

Copenhagen Oslo..... Vienna Prague

-18.19

19.10

34445

163

Helsingfors

199

Madrid Lisbon

29.695

1071

Athens

374

799

3.99/32

47.11/30

Bucharest

Rio

Buenos Aires Bombay Yokohama Shanghai

Hong Kong Silver (spot)

1/81/32

1/10.91/32

9/7

2/04

26.9/16

Silver (forward)

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