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EMPLOYEES OF THE C.E.R.

Speculation as to What Will Happen

HARSIN, June 16. At the present, moment several thousands of railway servants are exceedingly worried as to their future, fearing that the negotis- tions now in progress at Tokyo for the purchase of the railway will hurt their interests very consider ably, writes a N.C. Daily News correspondent.

attract much attention from Soviet

WORLD SILVER

PRODUCTION

INCREASE OF A MILLION

OUNCES IN MAY

Washington, June 24-World Sif vor production increased more than 1,000,000 ounces in May,” appar- ently due to expectation of a com tinued advance in the price of the metal, according to the report of the American Bureau of Metal Statistics.

The May production WAS Of this total 13,204,000 fine ounces. the United States mines produced duction for April was 12,071,000 1,900,000 ounces. The World pro- ounces and the United States pro- duced 1,907,000 ounces.

Such questions as the reform ́ol· the administration or the change from gold ronbles to nabi do not citizens on the railway, as in both

The average monthly production those cases they will net lose their positions on the staff, whereas if in 1932 was 11,061,000 ounces and the railway is sold their is not one the United States #average was who can be certain of having fur-2,004,000 ounces. ther employment there.

The questions being put by them are: Will the whole of the Soviet members be discharged? Will they all be discharged at once? If not at once what will be terms of dis missal and what payments will

The reports indicates that the iu- crease in price and the expectation of a satisfactory silver coinage bill did not result in an expansion of silver mining in the United States. Silver miners in the United States have held that mining is not

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933.

On The Eastern Province

Of Chinghai

THE BUTTER GOD" FESTIVÁL

Celebration in Tibetan City

BY THE REV. F. D. LEARNER, SINING.

NEW KIND OF LONDON AIR RAID

PILOTS COMPETING FOR A

FREE BREAKFAST

London flying clubs have discover- ed a new sport, in which the reward for success.is--a free breakfast!

.

A neighbouring club is invited to send over a team of pilots who, if they succeed in penetrating within a Avemiles radius of their host's aerodrome without being detected, It can be truly said that all is the massive coloured butter in-will be rewarded with free break- roads lead to Kumbum' the few age, the centre of attraction to fasts, which is held thers year after year who come expressly to worship it."defending" machines patrolling the days previous to the great festival these tens of thousands of people

If they are spotted by the on the fifteenth day of the first It would be about three times the aerodrome they lose, and must pay Chinese moon. This festival is com size of life, and the colours used for their host's breakfast, A visit- monly known as the Feast of Flow are most artistic. The image reing machine is deemed to have been ers, or to the general public as presents Buddha himself. He is in "detected" if, while still outside the great Butter God Festival. a sitting position with one foot the five-mile "safety zone," its Accompanied by two friends and resting on the knee. His left hand registration markings are read by a Tibetan, we make our way to holds some Buddhist emblem, while a patrolling machine. Kumbum two days before the great his right hand is held up high as day itself, as we wished to be sure of getting a placs to stay in, for his multitude of worshippers. He if pronouncing his bonediction on

we had been told previously that has a placid smile, indicating plea this year a huge crowd was exsure at the homage being done to pected to be there.

him by his admires. A wonderful this crown is possibly the most re crown is placed on his head and

very colour of the rainbow can be blended, without any clashing. of seen in it and all so wonderfully colours.

Subterfuges.

they receive1 And, though not ; profitable when, prices are less than able to get into the private home į markable piece of work of all, for to avade detection, the two most

such interest to the present mem bers of the railway staff, who will bars their places and where will all the necessary technical staff be

found 7

There is also, the question of pen" sions and the payment of savings made by members of the staff dur ing many years. As the discharged servants have not yet been paid up, the prospects for those who now serving are not very bright, and naturally the older servants should be paid out first.

60 cents an ounes While the Ame-

We were fortunate enough to be of one of my Tibetan friends at rican minera were prepared to open Kumbum, and this was no other ap new fields, they were not willing than the head steward of the lama to go in for expensive developmentary. This man welcomed us royal

until a definite increase in use of silver was made necessary.

paid. At the time of the revolu- tion there was a sum of Gold Rbla. 4,000,000, in cash and Gold Rbla. this in many ATO

6,000,000 in Government Rents and Lottery Loans in the office of the Railway company in Russia and the whole of this was handed over to the Peoples Commissar of Ways and Communications.

The largest number of Soviet citizens who have to be paid sums from the railway" are these who have been appointed to positions on the railway by the U.S.S.R. and, therefore, it is quite the same to them whether they receive payment in Harbin or in Soviet Russia and as the above, sums have not been handed over to the C.E.R. in

Soviet Employees Uneasy..

Authoritative circles at the gov arnment offices in Hsinking state that all these points have already been discussed and it is intended to pay attention to avoidance, of injury to the members of the rail way staff who have faithfully stuck to their duties since the events which happened on September 31, 1932, but at the same time there is little doubt that all Soviet ser- vants will be discharged, as for all these servants. specialists there ara plenty of Japanese engineers as well as Man will probably receive their money Very old servante of the railway take their places.. It is possible in Harbin as they are not likely that some Russians will be kept in these questions, however, will be the service for the purpose of con- fully discussed at the conference ducting business with Russian „mer- chante and Russian contractors, but

which to be held in Tokyo. all these will be of the emigrant If the above statements are reli- class and not from Soviet citizens.able then the prospects of the Soviet citizens are not very bright

choukuo citizens who are able to

Harbin they can be used to pay

to return to Soviet Russia. All

~TO-MORROW AT THE CENTRAL

A million-laugh-power romance.

The

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We were glad to find great crowds gathered together this year. In fact, I have never seen bigger onest at Kumbum. In order to keep or der, the Mohammedan aral

of Sining cent

The rules of the game, which originated at Brooklands, demand that attackers must crong the five-miles limit at a height not leas than 500 or more than 3,000 feet.

Various subterfuges are employed successful of which so far have been then dive to cross the line at 3,000 to climb to over 10.000 feet, and

feet, or to "hedge-hop" right up to the five-mile limit and elimb just in time to cross the line at the minim- um permissible height.

ly and was most kind to us all the time we stayed with him, minister- His gown, too, is gorgeous and ing to our needs in every way. He every fold of it stands out so clear- fed us and our horses and would ly that as one gazes upon it one not take a cash in return. It is wonders and naks, 'Is it really but

The pioneers of this modern form very handy having such friends aster All around this central figure of "dawn patrol" are the increas

of the lamaseries hundreds of smaller figures are aring number of light aeroplane club!

ranged. I counted several hundred round Sining.

members who regularly fly in the altogether gods, demons, old man, early morning before starting their young men, children, horses, deer, day's work. pigs, rabbits, mice, flowers of all descriptions, and so forth until one, almost loses count. Dragons distances to be covered by air in a Fast, modern aircraft enable long Gen- are seen winding their way in and short time, and already teams frora of his soldiers, and these camped of the slimy bodies standing out in tacked" aerodromes as far away as

up 3,000out among the figures, every scale Brooklands have successfully at out in tents on the slopes of the most realistic way. The lotus Northampton and Lympne, near hills round about Kumbume

flower is in great prominence.Hythe, and themselves, in turn, Beautifully coloured

been invaded by other clubs. 1. thrown in here and there, all ad- ding to the beauty of the whole. A figure standing well above the rest 1a oven mads to move, every now and again nodding his head vigorously, evidently showing his appreciation to worshipping, de- votes

We saw the people pouring into Kumbum the day before the festi val, some mounted on horses, mu- les, and donkeys, some on camels, these for the most part being Mon- gols, soms in carts, and great num- bers on foot. What a kaleidoscope of colour-for Tibetans and Mon possible, to say nothing of the gols dress in the brightest colours aboriginals in their dresses of oran- scarlet. Even the Chinese, women ge, emeralled green, royal blue, and seem to compare very favourably, as far as colours are concerned, at this festival.

One sees hugh numbers of pros-

Wireless in Tibet,

roses Are

on

Hundreds of little butter lamps duty during the evening and they form. Littls lama lads are are arrayed at the foot of the plat

keep the lamps well filled. A band is playing all the time. It is made of drums, oymbals, horas, bells, bugles, Autes and other instruments

Cosmopolitan Urowds.

. As regards the amounts due to as the Government Rents and Ob-trating pilgrims. Some of these that have no name in the westera railway servants the Manchoukuo ligations of Tearist Russia are of come from long distance ́and world. Government has sums due to it in

no value at the present moment many, before deeming themselves Moscow and it is from these sums and, consequently, there is probably worthy to enter, prostrate them- that the Soviet citizens cant be no fund from which the autis due selves on a circular road which

(Continued on next column). to these people may be obtained.

leads right round. the lamasery. Even then, after entering, they look at that huge crowd of peg- As we stand at the side, let us continue their prostrations in front of huge veiled image of ple What a cosmopolitan crowd- Teong k'aba, the Reformer of Ti-

Chinese, Tibetans, Aboriginals, betan Buddhism.

Mohammedans, English, Germans, Russians, ail mixed up together! The Mongolian Prince with his train of pretty Princesses, the In- carnate Buddha with his fiany foli This year, in order to make the lowers, the Aboriginal Chief" with festival more attractive than ever, his retinue of servants were tha Mohammedan General sent up there. The rich and poor were all his motor-car, which is fitted up on the same level that evening. with a cinema, a radio, and loud: Many had prayers on their lips, speakers. What crowds this drew and what earnestness was written The Tibetans and fongols, who across their faces! We have been had never seen moving pictures be told of gods of gold, silver, brass, fore, were glued to the spot with and even paper. But how admiration sad wonder. Even, we ever heard of homage being done to foreigners, appreciated such pic idols of butter 1 tures as scenes from the bombard. ment of Shanghai by the Japanese and a display of cowboys rough riding.

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I was told that a whole, three months previous to this evening. over thirty lamas had been at work day and night on these precious That evening we had music from butter images. What labour for England and America, and how just one single evening And yet wonderfully alear it was! I had they evidently, thought it worth never heard the radio before and I while. would no. likt to tell you my As the evening wears on, the thoughts as I was taken bome that heat of the butter amps begins to do its worst, The images be- gin melt and their beauty vanishes. By midnight the crowds have dis persed, and several hamas ataft This is all thrown into a confused hacking down, the butter images.

evening.

The Butter Dirplay,

The butter display is to be soca only on the evening of the last day

of the festival. As I have seen beag and is carried away to moms. this many times, the novelty has of the dark recesses of the lama worn off, but I must confess that sery and held over for the base of this year was one of the beat I the images for angther have seen. There would be about twenty pieces, and these were dis. played at set distances all over the lamasery. It would take about an haar to go the round with the crowd, for soldiers kept more or less perfect order, keeping the mas-

FATSHAN RETURNS TO HONG KONG

ses all moving in the same direcSCRATCH CREW TAKEN ON IN

tion. Let me remark on the big- gest and gayest butter master- piece, and that must puffice, for. this time.

·· CANTON,

The as. Fatshaw, which has been A hugs pavilion of silke is tied up in Cantun for over a, week erected for this huge butter in owing to the strike of its crew, re age, and this by means of very long turned to Hong Kong last week, the logs of wood is bound together by slip being worked by a scratch ropes in such a way as to make an crew. It is expected that the Fat- Lenclosure of about fifty feet square.shan will remain laid up for, the The silks were nothing less than present and is now anchored at embroidered Tibetan gods, and Stonecutters.

most beautifully embroidered at The last of the B, & 5 Shang that. The colours were simply hai boats to cal at Canton was gorgeous.

Several hundred of the x. Hunan, which left here these are hanging from stars-frame--for Clinton, 43. Tuesday and hat work of the enclosure and all made returned since without discharging. to face inwards – On the mouth aide iz gogia.

of the enclosure high platformda a

Forected, 'about fortví to, nite feat. Jól éståver

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