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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29,

1932.

To Be On Sale Soon

THE

CHINA YEAR

General Information:

Area and population; consts, moùn-

tains and rivers; people and language; faune,

Greater China:

Mongolia History, tribal organ- itation and government; Mongolian Affairs Conferenca: Outer Mongolia

Manchuria.-Position and

bound-

aries, situation, climate, aren, population, immigration, history and independence.

Tibet.-Geography, trade, history, Chinese Turkestan.-History, geog. raphy. flora, fauna and trade; Turkestan- Siberian Railway.

Mr. Justice Feetham's Report.

Shanghai Municipal Council:

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Origin, scope and methods of en- quiry; government, history, description, business interests, political and adminis frative questions and future of Foreign Settlement; suggested reforms affecting Batepayors Meetings and Council; origin, present status and future of Outside Roads Arees.

Products (pastoral, agricultural and

general):

Wool, Skins, bristles, hides, furs, bones, cereals, soya beans, silk, cotton," sesamum, tea, oils, tobacco, fisheries,. fibres, medicines, sugar, vegetable wax, straw-braid, nuta, timber, eggs, etc.

Colonies. Leased Territories. Conces

sions and Settlements:

Hongkong

History, geography, finance, trade, communications, justico, health, education and legislation.

Kwantung.-Ares and population, judiciary, posts and aviation, customs, finances nad education.

Kwangchouan.

Macao.

Settlements and Concessicas-Now- ohwang, Tientsin, Shanghai, Haukow, Amoy, Canton.. //

Public Health:

National Health Administration patent and proprietary medicines; field health service, medical education, pre. valence of communicable diseases.

Climate of China:

Monsoons, typhoons, rainfall, tem perature, earthquakes, etc." Geology, Mines and Minerals:

Bock formations of varied types; Governmental legislation and activity in mining; coal, iron, manganese, copper, gold, natimony,, tungsten, tin, arsenic, aluminium and non-metallic minerals.

Trade and Commerce +

Early foreign trade.Origin and development of trade with Portugal, Netherlands, Soviet Russia, America, Germany, Great Britain (British Eco nomic Mission), Japan, France,

Kodern trade.--Mauchuria, North Lower Chinn, Upper, Middle and Tangtze Porth, coast and river ports; customs; likin; commercial treaties.

Importst

Cotton goods, yarn and raw cotton, woollen piece-goods, metala and minerals, machinery, electrical materials, timber. paper, petroleum products, chemical fertilizers, dyes.

Customs Revenue and Trade Statistics:

Values of direct trade with foreign countries; foreign trade imports; exports of living animals, food and beverages, materials, manufactured products, gold and silver.

1932

BOOK

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The China Year Book is the only publication of kind in existence in China.

Its 850 closely printed pages review China's political, military and trade activities in easy reference form; con- tain the latest treaty negotia- tions with Foreign Powers; a Who's Who of nearly a thousand prominent Chinese and special personalities, and

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articles on such subjects as the Kuomintang, floods, labour, currency and like problems. Sino-Japanese relations are dealt with in a special section which con- tains all relevant documents concerning the boycott, the Manchurian" question and the hostilities at Shanghai.

Mex. $20 net

Less than 10 per cent of the con-

tents of the Year Book is contained in

previous editions, the first of which dates from 1912,

Finance:

T. V. Soong's report for 1929-30;, Budget 1081-82; national polley towards debts; Boxer indemnity; new law on sult; tariff autonomy,

Labour:

Conditions in agriculture, bandicrafts, miring and modern industry; labour disputes; wages, hours and cost of living. Governmental policies.

The Kuomintang:

History of party activities up to February, 1982, Hally documented; the Third Party Congress; opposition cam- paigas; reorganization of Central Gov- crament. machinery; Chiang-Hu split; National People's Convention; resignation: of President Chiang Shanghai Peace Conference.

Religions:

Confucianism; Taoism; Buddhiam; Mohammedanism; Christianity (Nestor- lanism, Protestant and Catholic Missions).

"Shipping:

Customs report, list of shipping.lines and vessels in coast and river trade. Hong Kong shipping and freight in 1980.

Army and Navy:

Arms, uniforms and equipment; arsenals, arms embargo and cancellation; strength and distribution of armies; foreign garrisons in China Shanghai Volunteer Corps; Chinese Navy,

Sino-Japanese lasues:

Japanese and Chinese statements of principal points at issue, including report on anth Chinese riots, in Korea, Japanese invasion of Manchuria, dis. turbances in Tientsin, Japanese seizure of Salt Revenue; Japanese occupation of Heilungklang; Chinchow and proposed neutral zone: "Independence" movement In Manchuria; Shanghai hostilities. Peace agreement and preliminary report of Lytton Commission.

Chinese Government:

Position of the Kuomintang; Execu. tive, Legislative, Judicial, Examination and Control Yuana; military organs; provincial, municipal and district gov ernments Provisional Constitution of the Political Tutelage Feriod; Revised Organic Law; personnel of State foun. dl, legations and consulates, foreign advisers, stafis of customs, alt revenue administration, postal service.

Who's Whor

Including new luminaries in the Chinese political and other horizons, checked up wherever possible, to May I, 1932.

Education:

Comprehensive account of Govern- ment educational activities and institutions; damage suffered by hostilities...

Public Justice.

How it is organized and administered; survey of modern "legislation; list of courts, prisons, clc.

Miscellaneous 1.

Foreign, diplomatic and consular services; passport regulations; Insurance In 1931.

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Appendices and Index

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BOOKS and READERS

LATEST BOOKS REVIEWED.

NEW DETECTIVE STORIES.

REVIEWED BY E, O. BENTLEY.

CASE FOR MR. FORTUNE," By T. C. Bailey. (Ward, Lock. 78. Gd.)

M.

Bailey, whose adventures (now numerous) of Mr. Fortune aro nearer to the class of belles lettres than any other detective stories I knów, brings an unfailing faculty of grim investion as well as style to the work,

In these night cases, Mr. Fortune. with the nexistance as usual of his more serious-minded colleaguim at, Scotland Yard, continues gently to lay bare the grimes done or attempt ed by persons of, for the most part, social position; and very ruthless some of these crimes are. In one case Mr. Fortune very nearly makes a mistake, which should what the appobite of his many admirers. Bent of those. "excellent stories I' like the one in which he divines the after truth the careless "angels know."

There is nothing but of the o dinary, of course, in this itinerary, but the book itsolf is out of the ordinary-gay, piquant. intimate, and as easily read as one of the author's own novels.

Miss Bloom'gate a lot of comedy out of various inflammatory males she encountered when travelling alone: the story of the marine from the Royal Oak who playfully tried to steal a carnation from a kir on the quay and who discovered too late that the flowers were intended

for "my husband's enbin" is good fun. The wretched... marine hid behind the funnel all the trip out in the boat."

The illustrations, by Mr. Charles Grave ne humorous enough to bại

which is high praise indeed. enjoyed independently of the text.

GOOD NOVELS.

'Yo'As He Sæ Laugus." By Sax Rohmer. (Cassel), 78-8d.) Ya'an-Heo See, the villain of Mr. Sax Rohmer's new novel, is i character in the Fu Man Chu tradi- tion Chinese of incredible cun-

DEAD MEN AT THE FOLLY" BY John Rhode (Collins, 7a, ed.) A folly, you may need to be re-ning and wickedness, un arch-plotter minded, is an expensive and uselows who deals in drugs, stolen property, building. In this case it is a de- and worse, with business ramifica- scrted tower in the middle of a tions in every corner of the globe. wood; and at the foot of it first His laugh is particularly terrify- one person, then another, is founding, high, hideous squeals, like lying shattered on the ground. This the amplified note of a bat???

is another of the success of that

The secret of the author's success croful craftsman, Mr. Rhods; a with a character whose villainy quite baffling mystery, with, map-could not be paralleled anywhere I am glad to say-complete, Dr. Priestley, well known to students oi, detective Retion, is as dry na ever, and as willing to let the eriminel, 00CC unmasked, slip through the fingers of the law.

How can a motorcar continue to appear and disappear in a certain area when all the roads are care fully

watched f The answer is beautifully simple.

"THE CASE OF MATTHEW CRAKE" By Adam Gordon Macleod. (Harrop. 7. Bd.)

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Mr. Macleod, who with one of two books has proved his gift for this kind of fiction, does better still, I think, in this story of a murder done in a country house by the unusual instrumentality of a Mills trench bomb,

The plot is a triumph of wientific construction, the surprise a hard hitting one. Sir William Burrill, baronet and ex-Scotland Yard man, makes here another appearance. He is to be, I hope,

one of the fixed stars of the detective-story arma

ment.

MURDER AT THE HUNTING CLUB:"

By Mary Plum, Eyre and Spottiswoode. 76. Bd.)

This is one of those tense talen in which a crime has certainly been committed by one of a small com pany of" peradina, and you wonder

which.

in life is simply full-bloodedness. He writes as though he believes in the monster' he has created; dealing in the incredible, he breaks down resistance with brawn rather than with brains, bustling the reader on without allowing him time to think. As a result there is a rea! Gwand Guignol thrill to be obtained from the story of the Chinamas who was hunted from Limehouse to Arabia by Inspector Dawson Haig. It is A good book for a train journey, or those odd half-hours during the day, bus last thing at night--no!

"PRIVATE Concert,!" By Monica Hill (Hutchinson. 78, 0d.) Miss Monica Hill's frst novel,

• Flair,” won golden opinions; her second, a much more mature piece of work, will consolidate and ex- tend her, reputation.

It gives unpretentiously but most effectively, a cross section of Eug- lish upper middle-class life at the present time, with a crusty old patriarch at one end of the scale, and Lional, his restless, dissatisfied grandson, at the other. In between are Lionel'e numerous aunts, cou- sins, and a sister, just out of her 'teens.

Nothing, very extraordinary, tap- pens to any of the inhabitants of Brook Grange; they are people we all know occupied with the every- Mary Plum, as a great day problems of life. Yet so. Bure 'many readers know, inanages this is Miss Hill's touch and so deep kind of thing admirably The her understanding of widely differ- Hunting Club is one or those reing temperaments that the story treats in the wilds for which our holds the attention firmly through- own tired business men envy their out. A very human Dorel with a American brethren; and there particular appeal for women. charming girl is somehow stabbed.

to death. when alone in a canoe in the middle of a lake. It is hard enough to guess how; by whom, very much harder.

Yot all the material (gets are in plain sight to be read cofrectly at last by John Smith, the quiet Plum

detective.

URSULA BLOOM ABROAD.

THE LOG OF A NAVAL OFFICER's WIFE" By Ursula Bloom (Hurst & Blackett, 74, 0d.) Miss Ursula Bloom, the noveliēt,

SPORTING MEMORIES.

HALYA CENTURY OF SPORT "By Sir Alfred Pease, (Bodley Head, Bs. 6d.)

It is some sixty-eight years since Sir Alfred Pease, then a boy of a,.

attended his first meet. In those. full years since, be kis always hanted, not only to hounds in Eng. land, but in many distant places, after game as varied as heart of sportsman could desire.

Such a life of adventure is un-

common; still more rare in it for

the adventurous to keep a record

of their trials and triumphs. But this Sir Alfred, has done, and it is

bound volume of the official account. "After having received you last not only an act of omurtesy, nobly tween two nations who have been is the wife of a naval officer, and of the Gallipoli campaign, inscribed wock, the President of the Republie inspired, but, above all, is a proof at write and who bave decided to tills book stems to owe its genesis "To a great commander; a noble has read with gratitude the lesion of loyalty and friendship of which gablish their relations on the basis to the fact that her husband was adversary, sud a generous friend ion

ninsoribed by the Bish the Ghazi Jumselt and the Govern of joutual understanding,

appointed to a ship of the Mediter

selections from his diaries for the ment of the Republic are deeply ap." "Our great lender has charged rancan Fleet within a week of their has clicited a particularly warm Government upon the book

me specially to request you to con- hearted and appreciative reply." have been good enough to present preciative.

**Half a Century of Sport," yox, to his Kaiosty the King his being married. Following H.M.grid 1867-1909 that form his book, to him on behalf of your Govern To recognise, simply and loyal-mont heartfill thanks for the beau Royal Oak on its cruises in order

Here are set down in straight the Riviera forward! great commander a noble adver. adversary in moments of strife by his Royal Government, both tosible, she visited British Government in presenting to Foreign Minister, is couched in the ary, and a generons friend by the to obliterate its bitterness and to his own person and the Turkish Brioni, Venice, Rome, Malta, and care-free days on ploughland, grass,

Gibraltar.

(Continued on Page 13.). the Turkish President a beautifully following termia:

lenders of a nation of gentleman is open up the path of friendship he 'ration.Reiter.

The message, addressed to the

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The recent graceful action of the British Ambaeanor by the Turkish Dent. The tribute rendered To aly, the qualities displayed by antiful and delicate attention shown to meet her husband whenever paard terms memories of happy.

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