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UNDERWORLD

From

All Quarters

(BY IVOR BROWN)

London, Jan. 20.

has

The batting of Bradman been, and still is, one of the mar- vels of our time. But Southern Australia has yet other claims to own the wonders of the world. There

are the great caves, for example. of the Nullarbor Plain, whose recently explored immen sities have just been described

and pictured in

"The Times,”

The small boy, who sapa and mines an English garden in the hope that he will one day "come hut in Australia," may land in strange country, for the subter- ranean layers of this huge me- stone waste out-do all dreams of writers for the Schoolboy Press in their ownership of lakes,

wells

UNION JACK

CLUB

$130.000 Building Scheme For

Singapore, Jan. 28. A new wing which will cost ap proximately $150,000 to build and equip will be added to the Union Jack Club at Singapore, to nearly double the accommodation, owing to enormous increase in atten- dances by members of the Navy, Army, and Air Force services

The Governor, Bir Shenton Thomas. presiding at the general meeting of the Club on Monday evening, said that the Government had been approached with a view to obtaining the necessary amount as & foart

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1936.

ROYAL NAVY

Canadian Ships Cruise

On February 28 all four destroy- There were present:-

ers will leave Kingston, to carry Major General W. G. 8. Dobble out exercises and

Will Anchor vice-president), the Hon. Mr. Aas convenient in Jamaican porta S. Small (vice-president), Mr. G. Last year the vessels worked to W. A Trimmer (vice-president).gether until mid-April, and ret Fleet of the Royal Navy which were ou a cruise in those parts. This year no Home Fleet ships can be spared to visit the West Indies m the course of the spring cruise.

ILLICIT TRADE IN NORTH CHINA

Three Governments Japanese renta in Dairen. Mr.

In Mongolia

chasms, tornadoes, and, things Commodore W. P. Mark-Wardlaw sume of the ship of the Home.increase in crackers may, however,

scream

Jones, W. E, Russell, R. F. Pamer (who also represented the hon secretaries and treasurera, the Singapore Cold Storage Co. Ltd.), T. McLachlan and H. F. Woolton (manager of the Club).

Air Commodore W. Sydney Smalth, that go bump in the night. The

Wing-Comdr. H. F. Fuller, Briga of gusts coming U dier A. T. Shakespear, and Messrs. through the blow-holes suggests. Atkin-Berry, A. E. Thornley that here is that cave of Aeolus. the Vergilian description at whose windy kingdom has by detention, deprived so many English puplis of fresh air. The natives con- celye that this whistling, lacus trice. tortuous cellarage of Nature Is the home of some monstrous worm, a serpent house with all proper circumstance of malignity,

:

just how about the state of affairs

There is a great deal of talk

in, Inner Mongols The accounts that one hears of the situation there are so vagite and ednfused" that not seen the experts them- aires seem to know what is really happening. As far as one can gainer there now appear to be no less than three entirely dif- ferent and Bidinct Inner Mongo- lian tovernmet. There is the Autonomoa Government of Mon- golla or the Chachar Mongols, (a purely Japanese creation); the Salyuan Autonomous Council (re. cently set up by Nanking); and finally Prete Ten's briginal Au- tonomous Carmel of Inner Mongo- is, at Pallippulso, now left high and dry. Ope..peed not be, how- ever, unduly impressed with all these various names.

Vin-Ja-Keng is apparently also fully aware of the illicit trade that fi | pusspg"" through his "territory," for London Jan. 16.

it is reported that he intends set- The four destroyers of the Caña-

ting up tax-stations in his new dian Navy are to carry out train-

Peiping, Jan. 29. state and ddilecting duty on all ins cruises to Bermuda, Jamaica, The Lunar New Year passed of goods in transit, and ports in the West Indies, in here without any of the major ILLICIT TRADE WITH IMPUNITY the course of which they wu join disasters which, in accordance up with ships of the Royal Navy. with the regular annual custom,

In view of these two examples of: The Saguenay and Campin, duly hart been predicted. There Japanese activities alone many forming the Eastern Diviside, are do not seem to have been more people m North China were very expected at Bermuda to-day from than the average number of bank-surprised af Maj. Gen. Isogai's Hallids The Skeena and Yad-rupteles or mysterious fires pu- statement in this interview with lcouver, forming the Western Divi-deed, judging from the continuous Geng Chiang Kaishek that the ston, will leave Esquimalt on Mon- fusillade of crackers that resound- Japanese authorities had never in day for the Panama Canal, and ed far and wide on New Year's day way interfered with affairs in after calling at various boris will eve, from dusk to dawn next day, North China. If they do not in meet the Eastern Division at the celebrations seem to have been terfere, it would be interesting to Kingston, Jamaica, on February more widespread and enthusiastic knów, kow Japanese nationals are 20,

than in many previous yeATE.".

able to carry on' these" two miest forms of trade with complete Im→ This may have been partly due to the fact that the new governity, such as neither the Chinese themselves nor any other foreignerà ment--no“ doubt in" order to show

enjoy. ban on crackers that Nanking had Its Independence has lifted the hitherto solemnly enforced. The also have been due to the desire to speed the well spirits of the deparilds year, or possibly to ward off those of the coming one. ·· COMMANDER FOR THE

So far there have been no marx- PENELOPE

ed changes since the establish Commander H. M. Denham is ment of the new regime. The appointed from to-day to the great advantages that were to Penelope, the third of the small have resulted from compliance Sir Shenton Thomas eald. inter risers of the Arethus class with the spontaneous and wide

completing at the works of Har- | aprend ̈ demand' for autonomy. Stress is laid in this report on land and Wolf, Limited. Belfast and especially from the retention the increasing number of atten- The Penelope should be ready for or aff. revenues for use in the dances by members of all three service in the late summer, Com-North, have not yet become ap- branches of Bervices and the tm-hander Denham has just complet-parent. As most of the revenues Dragon or no, it is plain that mediate need for additional A-ed the staff course at Greenwich, have already been seized, it may the Nullarbor region, despite the commodation.

and was formerly commander of be said, no doubt, that they aridity of its sabless treeless "In 1935 there were over 103,000 the Submarine Depot at fort benentting Northerners, but as name, is fruitful in romantic pos- attendances as compared with Blockhouse. He was promoted in us as one can ludge ne circle sibilities. Coleridge might have 64.800 in 1934, and it is clear that June, 1932, while senter fleuten- | which is benefitting is not a wide sung its solitudes and Defoe re- the question of extending the unt-commander of the Queen one. counted its recent penetration by premises mitist no longer be delay-Elizabeth, Mediterranean flagship. nine men and a boat Crusoe could ed if the Club is to continue to COMPLETION OF THE AFOLLO bave done no better, since these attract the members of the Ser-. H.M.8. Apollo, Captain M. JC explorers even found upon the vices. Your committee appointed de Meric, M.VO, which has just sand, beside some especially abys-sub-committee to inquire into commissioned at Devonport, where structures of antiquarian in

ceased altogether, she was built, is ordered to leave while the municipal buses have

terest have mal well, the impress of an aberi-] the whole position and ginal foot. Let us hope that they animous report has been furrish- Fortland on January 25, or as so been banned from the city by the Immediate called the spot by the ed

ns possible afterwards for Ber-

new administration after they had nice old English name of Friday "It recommends that a new wing muda The Apollo takes the place Street. In any case the earlier shall be bulit which will practical- In the America and West Indies only been running a month. Nor name-givers had not done badly ly double the present accommoda- Squadron of H.M.8, Danse which has there been, as far as I have

their Caves. They made dion. The report and recommen- returned to England in November the letter "o" dance an eightsome dation have been adopted by the COMMANDER D. B. O'CONNELL reel of the handsomest in "Koo-

Commander OB. O'Connell, who mooloobooka." Certainly in stran

has retired at his own tengest geness of spectacle the Dominion

has a fearly 30 years service, o' Australia can hold its own with

he entered Osborne as a cadet in anything that Hollywood or Elstree "Plana have been prepared on Máy, 1908. Much of his time hás can turn out or author of ro- which it is estimated that ap-been spent in small ships. During mances ever fashioned, Nature.proximately $130,000 will be re- the War he was senior Heutenant not to be out-done by the celluquired to build and equip the proof the destroyers Boyne, Liewellyn, lald visions of Welistan Shapes posed new wing and the commit-Orcadia, and Venturous. His fret of Things to Come, cries "Sursum, tee through its chairman, Major Independent command was of the Korda," and invites the magicians General W. G. S. Dobble, hás ap-river sunboat Teal in China, and of the mechanised world to study proached the Government with a for good service in her during a the shapes of things long burled. view to obtaining the necessary difficult period he was promoted They are not, one gathers. un-

amount as a loan from the Straits to commander in 1929. He has impressive.

Settlements Government.

alla:-

general committee.

un-

"This raises the all Important question of finance.

PLANS PREPARED

"I have considered the matter and I am prepared to ask the finance committee to come to your assistance, in the grant of a loan, but I cannot of course blud them. in any way.

since been executive officer of HM.8. Resource, fleet repair ship, has commanded the river gun boat Gannet in China, and also destroyers in reserve at Rosyth.

HMS. ORION AND RAMILLIES

The Admiralty state that HMS. Orion expects to arrive at Sheer ness at 9 am, and H.M.S. Ramilies at 9.10 p.m. to-morrow, .........

CHINA FLEET CLUB

Limestone never fails to De magical, as we in England have good reason to know. The Nul- larbor Plain is as long as from London, to Edinburgh, and we

"I note from the balance sheet have no belt of the stuff on this

that the club has #38,000 invested scale. But we have our caverna In Singapore Municipal Deben- where the limestone that stictures and I understand that the and fantastic mineral, most plays present value of these investments It la armounted in fleet orders Its tricks. The grottoes of Chedis nearly 350,000. T-suggest that that the following donations have dar George, the wonders of the

them should be reseed and the proceeds used for exten- stons, thus reducing the loan from Government that will be required. FINANCE SOUND

Peak, the vanishing rivers of

Derbyshire, and the great pot- holes of the. Pennine are our

reply to the major miracles of

are

There has been no noticeable, vut-burst fr municipar activities. Road repairs and the restoration

been able, is discover, any reune-

Hon in the number or amount of I may venture to call it, &, must, the local taxes.?" On. Improvement,

nowever, be recorded:" the city gates are now kept open till mid-

at of the recent fracas the Chaoyangmen

night. This doubtless' is the re-

INCREASE OF VICE In one respect the Peiping pub- no certainly has benefitted by the interest and care shown by their Japanese friends for them. The number of opium dens and gání- bling hells where they can now endor themselves undisturbed, without fear of being interrupted by the fussy Chinese police, tas Brown enormously. I have a list of riestly a dozen such places, opened in the name of Japazie nationma,” which, of course, the Chinese police do not dare în în- terfere with.

It is aaid that the Japanese Zen- darmerie from the Embassy do oc- castonally raid these places, but been made to the China Fleet Club as some kindend inggriapyy bollding fund by the commands gives warning well in advance of mentioned from the sums allocated the plojzived "vidia of fhspection," to them from the surplus revenue nothing obnoxious ever is discover

sumably the van-guard of Japa nese ecpromic penetration.

accrging from naval canteen traded. These houses are now con- the Australian underworld. When "Careful attention to general ing-Nore Command, 1994, 9d; sidered one of the most paying ever you get limestone you get your fun, and those who find our 3ervision and constant care of Plymouth Command, £58; Home forms of business in modra Pel- modern life too dull and too the present building and a Fleet £60; and Mediterranean ping. One may term them pre- secure have various domestic dut equipment has rested in caratulation, £78, lets. for the spirit adventure, y regulated expenditure, and the They can attempt a non-stop present state of the club's finances erossing of the Strand at mid-while not dourishing-is sound. ddy Peak (a start about four "I should point out that the o'clock on a snowy afternoon in sum of 89,990, being the balance

OIL FIRM RETURNS TO MANCHURIA”

mid-Winter is fashionable with due on a previous loan of $20,000 Socony Vacuum Now Selling chinese territory, that fa being car-

headstrong hikers who do not mind how many people have to spend the next weer "digging them out) or they can go to limestone country and pop down the arat hole they and..

granted in 1985, was repaid to the Goverment in November last.

"There have again been saɣeral changes in the personnel of the committee Map Es

Mr. LUNDON THANKED (Major-General, B. O. Lewin betired from the Colony in Decem-

Wax and Machine Oil

Mukden, Fed 1. Marking the return of foreign off Interests to Manchukuo, from which they were virtually forced to with- draw by the enforcement of the Petroleum Industry Law on April

campaign of wax and machine ods. Samples of the products have been widely distributed to local merchants and industrial plants by

Another aspect of what, I suD- posu, me zust call the ecomortaio development of North Ching is the extensive, sunggling of goods into

ried on by Japanese nationzálà ap- parently with the connivance and approval of their authorities. This Shanhaikoan and the passes in the contraband is pouring in from

Great Wall via the Demilitarized 20061 head the East Hopel Anti-red -Autotomous Council. 7 D

the Chinese police arrested some of these Japanese, smugglers and con- hscated their goods, whereupon the eninese Buthorities were promptly.

Quite apart from the uses of ber and his placs; as, a vize 10 last year, representatives of the is quite correct to day with the the cave as a bomb-proof shelter President and chairman of the Eocenr Vacuum On Co. to-day | cognizance of the Japanesé. ät-

· subterranean life is likely to be committee has been taken by were engaged in a vigorous sales thorities," for nok many weeks ago pome much more popular as Fro- Major-General W. G. 8. Dobbie, gress marches on. Within a few Mr. H. C. Atsin-Berry returned years Flying Fleak, or cheap zero-from jeave in December and has planes of some sort, will be as regumed bis membership of the raptor-bicycles. During fine week committee which was undertaken representatives of the American hade to apologize and therafe tie. ends the entire sky will be black during his absence by Mr, Farm who came here, from Shang-mugglers and band back the con- and beastly with the buzz of joy. Lunden. I would like to record fighting, man. To expect solitude the appreciation of the committee on moor or meadow will be if the services of Mr.Lundon as summer. absurd, since like Marvell, vexed chairman of the sub-committee by tyranny of time, we shall appointed to investigate and re ever hear the winged chariot port on the proposals for the hurrying near. How excellent extensions.

then to live in a limestone coun- try, and have a region cave to

offer safe and silent promenadel

We may have nothing on the

scale of Koomoo oobooks, but our on

native grottes af de ditch a refuge

IT. B. Webster reaigned on king on Home leave but st

ved to have the benefit of his

hal

The local branch was closed Last

Fince then all efforts. tha omaggling

rew Waldecott who left the Colony in December, to assume

overnorstup of Hong Kong. has been replaced by the Hon.

the member,§

behalf

spilt on his retum later bid incurdial welcome to

Shot least, I would re- The report and accounts for the

has year end

ember 21, 1085 sustained in the departure of Bir presented were approved.

t into touch.

in the part end likely alas, to be fer to the loss the roomm

our refure in the future

Despite much talk of the high and mysterious policies of "In- most Afia," it seems doubtful whe- ther the following of any one of these three new Mongolian “gov- cruments exceeds 50,600 sozis, The only thing that is clear about. it all, is that the paralysis and chaos that has overtaken Chahar and Hopel is slowly spreading north-wards. "N.C.D.N.""

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