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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.

SOME SMALLER EUROPEAN STATES

Mr. Reinshagen's Interesting Lecture

EVENTFUL

TRAIN JOURNEY THROUGH SIBERIA

An invitation from the Rotary Club in Iceland to local Rotarians was re- ferred to at the weekly tiffin of the Rotary Club held yesterday at the Hong Kong Hotel at which Prof. L. Forster presided.

who spoke on Some The speaker of the day was Mr. A. Reinshagen,

|, He Smaller European States. gave a very vivid account of his travels through Siberia and of his visits to the various States.

Guests at the function were Messrs: Blackwell (Vancouver B. C.), Kemura (Vancouver B, C.), A., Patterson (Edinburgh) and Hischler (Manila.)

The Rotary Movement In Holland

Addressing the gathering the, any rate much better than 2 years

sald president

that a letter ugo, when I was also travelling had been received from the

to Europe by the same route. One Rotary Club in Iceland which, in- remarkable fact was that we could vited Hong Kong Rotarians to at- have black caviar twice a day at tend their anniversary. Any our meals, for which no extra members wishing to do so was charge was made. We foreign asked to communicate with the passengers, there were eight of us. Secretary. Three new members paid our meals with a ticket out were introduced by the president. of our meals ticket book, which They were Major V. E. Duclos, we had purchased at a reasonable Canadian Trade Commissioner,rate through the Chinese Eastern Mr. F. H. Glover, Assistarit General Railways. All the other passen. Manager, Hong Kong Tramways gers, citizens Ltd. and the Rev. H. W. Baines. The president thanked the Tele-

Company phone

for installing loud speakers at the last meeting without making any charge.

In introducing the speaker Prof. that the subject Forster sald which. Mr. Reinshagen was about to deliver would give a very good ides of a journey through Siberia and as the speaker had only just returned from a trip to the various states his talk, would be certain to be an Interesting and en lightening one.

MR. REINSHAGEN Addressing the gathering Mr. Reinshagen sald:-Mr. President, fellow Rotarians, I have promised to give you a talk about my last trip to Europe, where I have at- tended several Rotary meetings. First of all I wish to emphasize; that I am not speaking in my

abundance of

everyone.

on

earth

everything for Of course, it would be quite wrong to say here, that Russia is a paradise already, and that there would be no other means for reaching the same alms. But I must say, that during

18 years existence of Soviet Ruas!, great change can be noticed in pro- the Russia peasants and Jetarians. But what are 18 years

the

of

the

in the history of a country, which in the eyes of Western Europe.

in

WANCHAI MARKET

New Building

THE GOVERNOR

OF MACAO

Going Home On Leave

the Colonial

The present Wanchai Market, #an unsavoury bulding long overdue for demolition". is short-

His Excellency, Lt. Colonel Jose ly to be replaced by a new one. Bernardes de Miranda. Governor the construction of which will or Macaowl shortly be going commence shortly

téme on leave, as he has been. The new market will be erected specialy requested to attend

with old site of the Kuhlan conference on the Monument and in preparation Minister. for the construction. a retaining wall bas been built and complet ed below the Hospital bank.

The new market will be of two storeys, and there will be accom- modation for the caretaker, and fa al there will be 85 stans. The estimated cost of the building $90.000.

CENTRAL MARKET

is

A total of $30,000 is to be ex-

pended on long-needed improve- to the Central Market, ments These consist of the re-laying the drainage system for the western half of the market, the instalation of stalls in that sec tion of the ground floor, and in- terior flood-lighting for the whole o the ground floor.

His Excellency will be leaving Macao on September 20, and will board the ss. Ranpura on the 21st.

During His Excellency's absence. the Colonial Secretary of Macao, Dr. Joao Pereira, Barbosa, will be administering the government.

Several matters in connection. with progressive development of the Colony of Macao require to be discussed personally and that is why His Excelency is proceeding

to Lisbar for an urgent meeting with the Minister.

His Excellency is expected to return as soon as the Conferencë Is 'over

DONATIONS

The Hong Kong Travel Associa

thanks the Government. It has a population acknowledges with tion of about 130,000 and is situat-the receipt of the following sub- has been backward for at leasted on a small bay on the south scriptions:- one century?

side of the Gulf of Finland. The port is kept open for navigation during winter months by means of ice breakers Tallin is a nice-H. Ruttonjee & Bon... looking and friendly town. It still Previously acknowledged has its citadel, gunpowder towards and a part of the old City-wall and many narrow and winding streets.

of

of Soviet Russia were paying for their meals 'in paper money. They all made a free use of the dining car, and! We stopped over

one day seemed to have quite a lot of Moscow and there we met several cash I noticed a few of them | Dutch business-men, who were even carrying special hand bags trying tb book orders for river-

crafts and to put money. in, as there was not

branches other enough. place for it in their poc- business and industry. kets. Of course you will know that Soviet money has practically no value abroad. Our Soviet Russian fellow passengers were quite a mixed crowd. There were several Mongolians and Burjats. They were officials, teachers and professors in their own Soviet Republic on their way to a con- ference in Moscow, the capital of all the Soviet Republics. One of the Burjat professors could understand French, so we chatted together quite often,

Central

There were many army and air force officers and soldiers in the

It was interesting to see, "how kindly they were looked after by the tourist authorities, who sup- plled them with charming young Russian girls, who had to set at the same time as interpreters, guides, dancing partners and political sples (of course).

THREE REPUBLICS Now we will leave Moscow and travel to the north-west, where we will pass through three young in dependent Baltic republics: Es- tonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Republic of Estonia (or as

themselves call they

Eesti

At the time of my visit to Estonia there was only one Rotary Chub. This was in Tallin and had only recently been established: "I attended two meetings which were held in the evenings about 25 to 30 members attending. It was the

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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL HONG KONG

Second Organ Recital to be held in the Cathedral at 5.45 p.m. on first time they had had a visitor Wednesday, September 18, 1935. from the Far East and I was wel-1-3rd Chorale for Organ

César Franck. comed with much cordiality and

2.---Andante in D major had to tell them, much about

Basii Harwood. 3-Violin:

"Air on the 'G' string," and "Bourrée"

Rotary here and about China and Japan generally......

mother language and therefore it train travelling home on long vabariik), is bounded on the north winter. The temperature was 20

is quite possible my using wrong leave, after having words and wrong expressions,

an

My father is Russian of German extraction, my mother is an Aus trian from Bohemia. I have lived in Russia for many years. First 10 years in Russian Turkestan and later in the town of Riga at the Baltic Sea and which is now the capital of the Latvian Republic.

actresses

In some com-

On

the

south

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by

islands

The main population consists of Estonians, but there are also many

I must mention here that we were in the middle of a severe

degrees Celsius below. zero and one could not venture out without a suitable fur lined coat. Besides this one tried to keep the inside warm with vodka!

PLATINUM BLONDES!

I want to say a few words about the fair sex and especially about the fair haired and blue eyed.

served in Eastern Siberia for two years. by the Gulf of Finland, on the east

Russia, by As I have often bbeen asked of There were also many mechanics,

the west by the what nationality I really am. I engineers, technicians, teachers, Latvia and on

Baltic. Including the feel compelled to give

even some actors and you explanation on this point:

going home on leave or travelling Cesel, Dago and Moon it has an on a duty trip. They told us that

area of about 20,000 square miles in Siberia they were

and a population of a little over receiving-

one million. at much higher salaries than home. They all seemed quite a

variety. You will truly and in ex-Russians and Baltic-Germans, happy crowd to us.

Forests cover about one-sixth of Estonia the real and natural partments one could follow serious

blonde--none of competitions at games af chess

the As you all will know, the Russians the country. Butter, bacon and platinum

being exported in peroxide business with light blue are keen chess players.

Russian 8s

increasingly large quantities. eyes of a blue that one scarcely newspapers were bought freely on every station and read and dis-Flax-growing is also developing in find anywhere else. There must importance, and a great amount be something remarkable about of timber, cellulose and paper this blue as exactly the same shade is used in the national colours of Estonia which are blue, black and white.

are

materials are also exported.

One interesting feature is, that Estonia possesses in the northern

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(Prue Lewis) 4-Sixth organ Sonata

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Bach.

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Mendelssohn. (on the Chorale "Our Father

which art in heaven")

5.--Violin:-

"Romance' "Andantino

A Beethoven.

.... Martin

JJ

(Prue Lewis) 6-Canon in B minor ...Schumann

Hymn: Supplement 54. * Collection will be taken for

the Organ Fund, 7-Toccata, Adagio and Fugue

to C major

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Bach.

JAPANESE FLAGSHIP

HERE

cussed with interest. I must tell here that a fellow passenger and had Q rew illustrated French papers with us, of the kind of "La Vie Parisienne" and Ladles Fashion Books. When we part of the country, a large dis-

After having spent two splendid trict of all-shale, a mineral that weeks in Tallin I took the night is little known and not very often train and left for Riga in Latvia The Republic of the Latts was Factories, for instance the Tallinn on November 18, 1918. It is bound Estonia as fuel instead of coal. proclaimed an independent state

electrical power-plant, is using ed on the west by the Baltic Sea oil shale as

fuel. Oll-shale in and the Gulf of Riga, on the north Estonia is also being distilled into by Estonia, on the East by Russia

It will be recalled that the Tat- a kind of gasoline, or petrol and and on the south by Lithuania and suta, which is classed as a light motorists are compelled to use it. Poland

When I discovered that my father who resided th Switzerland with the family had lost all his possessions in Russia, I made up my mind to go to the Dutch myself Colonies, after having fortunately received an offer from some friends in Holland. I have work- ed for a Sumatra Tobacco Planta- showed them to our Russian re- tion Company for over 15 years, low passengers, they were ex- and have in the meantime, for tremely interested, but after a nearly 10 years been naturalized while gave them back to us, with as Dutch citizen. My relatives: the remark, that they in Russia parents, brothers and sister, have had at present no time for this in the meantime become Swiss. type of periodicals and pastime, Latvian and Austrian citizens.

and that their chief aim was to You will see, that by being s

industrialize and modernize the member of such a cosmopolitan country and to enlighten the family, it is quite natural, that I people, and that the fact that in would be travelling and moving our capitalistic countries people

about a lot.

B

found abroad, It 1$ used

line.

The main capital invested in the ofl-shale industry is British and

HIMB, Tatsuta, flagship of the Japanese South China Squadron, arrived, in the Colony yesterday morning, from Swatow. It is un- derstood that she will stay here for three days before proceeding North. Shimomura and the usual salute of She is the flagship of Adiniral 21 guins was exchanged with the British Navy.

cruiser, recently paid a visit to the as the government has imposed a Latvia has a population of

area of 66,000 Colony, when Admiral Shimomurs prohibitive duty on foreign gaso- 1.900.000 and an

kilometres. It is an agricultural was entertained at Government House. Later he visited Canton country and about three quarters

for a few days, and finally termi- of its population are employed in agriculture which te considered to nated his stay in these waters with

a short stay in Macao, represent some 59 per cent. of the national wealth of the country. Dairy farming and the cultivation

PEACE AND ORDER In the western part of the country lies the large lake Pelpal. Plans are ahead to utilize waters for a huge electrical power plant,

were finding time for printing and But I am getting off my subject. reading this kind of" literature. I left Hong Kong for a trip to

clear wasa

algn that the Europe yla

Swedish. Manchukua and capitalistic system was doomed to Siberia, last year in December. go under. As it happened to be, our boat

BIG TASK AHEAD stopped over in Tsingtao on

There was a library in the train, Rotary Day I went to the meeting and books were constantly read and listened to an interesting address on the work of the Chinese and changed. The people were Salt Gabelle. It was also pleasant discussing many problems, they with were reading books on economics, renew acquaintances Rotarians, whom I had met dur-engineering, technique. I also the Colonial ing the summer, when visiting saw a book on the Rotary Clubs in Tsingtao and Politics of Great Britain, and on Pelping.. My boat lert again in the "New Deal of

Roosevelt. the afternoon for Dairen, where I

to

President

sugar beet root are crowing in

land Importance. Arable

con-

stitutes 28 per cent. meadow land hay deids 31 per cent, and forests

per cent, of the country.

KOWLOON-MISHAP

While walking along Nathan Rond yesterday morning a. Chinese woman and two children had the misfortune to be struck by a falling signboard.

NATIVE LANGUAGE Latvia, like Estonia, has passedThe injuries that they received through many political and anan- necessitated them being, removed clal troubles but now has a dicta- to the Kowloon Hospital."

After having passed through Several internal political com- plications Estonia has now reached kind of dictatorial and severely nationalistic Government, of five members and for the time being, there is peace and order in the ` country. The Government le stri- torial and extremely nationalistic It appeard that the woman and took a train' to Chang Chun. The One generally does not see many

ving to improving the country's government. The chauvinism is children were passing the spot at width of the railway track from old people in the trains in Russia, finances. The monetary unit is expecially aimed at the German about ani when a gust of wind Chang Chun to Harbin was at It is quite obvious, that the the Eesti Kroons but Estonia, has and Russian elements. One must brought the signboard down. An that time, different to the width younger generation, having al-Joined the sterling block and has remember that during the rule of Indian constable who was on the the track from Daren to ready been educated on the com- gone off the gold standard. It can czarist Russia, the natives of scene summoned an ambulance Chang Chun. You probably have munistic principles, seems to enjoy be classed with the countries which Estonia Latvia and Lithuanis had and had the injured removed to read in the papers that this has the new way of living and work have a managed currency. The received very bad treatment by hospital. recently changed by the Japanese, ing in a community of so called whole foreign trade is based on the Baltic German landowners and that direct trains can run marxism)

contingents and clearings, and and barons and the czarist officials.

of

now from Dairen to Harbin.. This 18. a great improvement and has shortened considerably the time necessary to cover this traject.)

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As it seemed to me, and having | barter" agreements. The main Later, both during and after the anything that may remind them listened to their arguments, the countries Estonia is trading with Great War, Germany and Soviet of the unpleasant past, younger generation, in the same are Great Britain, Germany, Soviet Russia had not treated the native

Their greatest concern is to in- way, as the youths of Germany Russia and her, other neighbours, inhabitants of the three provinces troduce the native languages: and and Italy, but on quite other The imports of Estonia consist in the way they would have preto our German and Russian which principles of course, were extreme- | of provisions, mainly colonial pro-ferred.

The train journey, through Siberia and Boviet Russia was ly enthusiastic about the big and duce, textile, raw material, cotton, it is therefore quite obvious that quite eventful. We saw and marvellous task they were chosen metal goods, machinery and after having received their freedom heard many interesting things to perform, in helping to build up chemicals.

and independence throu about a Russia, to-day The a new state, where everyone would Tallin or, as it was previously fluence of Ct Baltain compartments were comfortable, have the same chances and where called, Eeval, is the captial of the U.S.A. the Individual three re- the food was not bad at all, at there ultimately would be an Betöntuni Republic and the sent of publics are strivi

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bustness and civil life. It has come so far now that for instance

if you want to buy a postal stamp In Riga-and: you state Forder in German or Russian the clerk