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PROGRESS OF CIVIL AVIATION

Sir S. Hoare And Early Difficulties

London, Apr. 18. Sir Samuel Hoare, M.P., attended the annual dinner of the Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club held last evening, and spoke on the light aeroplane movement and civil avia- tion,

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CHINA'S CAPITAL

NEEDS

SIR FREDERICK LEITH-ROSS' OPINIONS

London, April 23.

In an interview recently, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross made some, valuable and reassuring suggestions He regarding Chinese finances, · believes that China has a favour- able balance of payments, and though the Budget is unbalanced. he has every confidence in the country's capacity to manage suc cessfully her new currency system. re that expectation were realized China would have taken a great step forward towards enlarging her economic activities and improving the standard of living. For a na- tlon of its size and potential capa- city China's debts are small. Mis- management has been responsible

for

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936.

CHINESE ART IN LONDON

A Great Display

THE NATION'S TREASURES.

London, April 19.

labels, and a resume of Chinese art It is possible that no one, even with reference to the cases of the those who knew Mr. Enmorfopou- | exhibition, with eight‹ illustrations, los best, were aware of the extent | is on sale, price 6d. The price of and variety of his collection. And admission is 18. The exhibition is 1 £100,000 may have seemed to free on Sunday afternoons and sume people a lot for any collec- | reduced prices for students

and tion of Far Eastera art, I think it schools (3d. per head) can be ob-

tained on application by letter." hardly likely that they will go on thinking so when they have been it in the North Court of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

For those who are interested in. Chinese art it is a very convenient place to hold such an exhibition, for Mr. Eumorfopoulos' taste was concerned almost exclusively with the earlier periods of China, and,"¦ to complete the panorama, it is only necessary to step into the lift and alight at Room 145, where the glories of the decorative porcelain of the later period are displayed in the incomparable collection of Mr. George Salting,

The taste of fifty years ago is very different from the taste of to- day. and while the elegance and variety of design of the "famille verte," or "rose," was in keeping with the modes of that date, the the nations concerned simplicity of form and perfection aiming at the economic recon-of proportion of much of early struction

and advancement of Chinese art can be closely allled China.

with the ideas and trend of pre- sent-day taste.

betwee

EXPANDING EXPORTS

He said that polities and aero- nauties had much in common. The political pilot no less than the fying pilot had to expect the va- garies of the weather and engine troubles and structural stresses, But in one respect the political pilot WAS 3 a great disadvantage. He had not get behind him a political Meteorological Once to give him constant and accurate weather forecasts. (Laughter.) So it hap pened that a pțior bumped "sud-

her financial muddles and derly into bad weather, and to

defaults. Sir Frederick points out avoid a crash had 1.0 make

that China greatly needs capital forced landing. He made one of! those forced landings last Decem" have

for development, and this would been as freely provided by ber, but at once he found himself this country as for other foreign surrounded by many old friends.

countries like South America, if When I went to the Air Minis- the arances of the country had try." continued Sir Samuel Hoare. been better managed. Obviously there was no private flying. In the scope for the employment of deed there was practically no Air, capital in a country of hundreds Force or military flying either. for of millions is very considerable. our great War-time Air Force had and no greater service to the cause been abolished and as yet there of peace and the growth of econo- was but a fragment of a perman-mic well-being in the East could ent force. In October. 1922, when be rendered than an agreement I took office, there were less than 30 first-line Air Force machines within these thores. At that time there were scarcely Any aero- dromes and, more serious than even the outward signs of aerial

There was much of an encourag- weakness, there was no public. In- terest in aviation. It was nor with- ing nature in the picture of events but reason that Mr. Bonag Law In China last year drawn by Mr. said to me when he offered me the . H Dodwell in his speech at the pust "al Becretary of State for Air: general meeting of the Hong Kong 'It is not much of an offer. I do and Shanghai Banking Corpora- not expect that you will hold the tlon, Internal trade conditions. | post for many weeks.

I feel he declared, had not real- pretty sure that when you have y deteriorated as much as investigated the position of mili | tary and civil flying you will agree that the Alr Ministry should be "abolished and the Air Force ab- sorbed into the Army and Navy

"Well, I did make a very tho rough investigation into both the important export commodities in- military and the civil position, and creased appreciably shows, he con- I came to exactly the opposite considers. that some interior districts clusion that had been suggested to are beneating from me by Mr. Bonar Law. I came to

the higher the view that in a world in which, and by the better demand from commodity prices now obtaining for better or worse, aviation had abroad.

Mr. Dodwell pointed out come to stay, we must concentrate that one good feature of China's in every possible way upon is situation was the improvement in "development in the British Empire, the international balance of pay- I came particularly to the view ments. He estimates that that if this great new invention for excess of imports has now dropped which the greatest brains had to $343,000,000, or about one-third strength and beauty of the collec- worked for 2,000 years was to be of what it was in 1931, and like Stron depends, and it is largely by something more than 1. danger F. Leith-Ross, considers it possible and a disaster, flying must be that the balance of accounts is on developed as a peaceful and social the right side.

pursuit.

EMPIRE AIR LINES

might have, been expected. The Customs gold unit values of im- ports declined by only 5 per cent., while exports improved 7 per cent. in terms of local currency. The fact that both in quantities and In value a number of China's most

the

A COMPARISON

The collection has been pur-

of

ehased for £100,000 and this is being paid off by instalments. While the exhibition has been ar- ranged primarily in order that the pubile may see the great beauty and immense educative value the collection, the actual purchase- money has to be found and will prove a severe strain on the re- sources of the museums without help. It is confidently hoped that the experiment of charging for admission will result in A const- derable financial addition to the funds available.

BRAEMAR GATHERING

London. April 17.. The Braemar Gathering will not be held this year.

This decision has been made by the Braemar Royal Highland

the deaths Society owing to

of

A comparison between the Inter-King George and Colonel Farqu national Exhibition of Chinese art harson of Invercanid, two of the at Burlington House and that at patrons of the Society. the Victoria and Albert Museum is. inevitable. The latter gains con- aiderably by its compactness. It is easier to get at grips with Chinese '' art here and to absorb the princi- ples which control it at various dates than in the vast expanses of the Academy Exhibition; and in certain sections it is more representative

The early Jades, in particular. the splendid groups of tsungs" and "pis," are far better repre- sented at South Kensington, so are the tomb-figures of the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906); wule the presence of Korean. porcelain, bronze arnamérits of the barbarian Ordos tribes, Gandharan sculpture. and Siamese bronzes, adds orna- ment to the long facade of Chinese art.

D

STRENGTH AND BEAUTY

But it is on this facade that the

the arrangement of the court that

It can be seen in its proper per~ spective. It is divided by screens into rooms. At the entrance on the left is the room containing the

"This was the origin of the policy ARMED ROBBER SHOT early bronzes and jades of the pre-

AND KILLED

An Accomplice Arrested "In $15 "Hold-Up"

Han period; on the right the Han room (206 B.C.-A.D. 220). Conspi- cuous in the first is the great bronze sun," with ram's heads: in the second, the celebrated jade horse's head.

Two small bays contain the pot. tery of the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589), with a delightful orches- tra with tumbfers and dancers, and dominating the centre of the court the model of country estate, complete with animals, servants,

that Sir Geoffrey Salmond and I adopted in July, 1925, for start- ing and subsidizing a number of light acroplane clubs in the coun- try. This was the origin also of the policy that I had started a Iew years earlier to developing the air lines of the Empire. It was essential in those days to make

Shanghai, May 8. Hying something more than a An armed robber was shot and military exercise. It was essential killed during an exchange of shots to interest the general public in following a small robbery yesterday A development that was certain to evening, while his accomplice was be of immense importance in the arrested. The two men entered a etc. world. Now that the movement stik shop at 276 Rue du Consulat at has developed and there are

From the centre two large rooms no about 7 pm, and stole $15. As they branch out; to the right, that of fewer than 3,938 civilpilots, 1,338 fled, on alarm was raised and CPC. the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 818-906), civil ground engineers, 589 private 824. on duty near by, set off in pur-dominated by the great group of owners, and 10,541 members of suit of one, who turned and red figures from the tomb of Chan- approved light aeroplane clubs-I two shots at his pursuer as he fed cellor 1 Hsu sun, who died in wish there were 10 times as many across Avenue Edward VII into A.D, 788. Here, too, is the exqui- -it is almost incredible to think Fukien Road. CP.C. 127, of the site collection of small gold and that my efforts only 12 or 15 years 8MP., here folhed in the chase, ver ornaments of which Mr. ago met with a great deal of op- and both constables opened tre. Edmorfopoulos 'had such an extra- position. It was said by many bringing the man down as he en-crimary variety. that the clubs would only endeavoured to escape down an 'alley- courage young men at that time way off, Fukien Road. He was

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THE SUNG ROOM

To the left is the Bung room.

no one thought of women dyers-picked up, stiil grasping & Mauser with groups of all the lovely por-

to kill themselves. It was also pistol, and was taken to the Shan- said, and said by almost all the tung Road Hospital but died or experts, that there was no light the way. Altogether, about eight aeroplane capable of general use shots were fired. in the clubs.

Meanwhile, French Police Con- "There had been, it is true, light stable 220, stationed in Rue Wei- aeroplane competitions in the pre-kwe, chased the second man and vious years, and I should like to arrested him without much trouble, pay a tribute to Lord Rothermere Two or three dollars were found on for the encouragement that he the second man, the rest of the gave the movement by offering money being found on the dead prizes. But in 1825, when I start robber-(N.Ö.D.N.).

ed the club movement, nons of the

earlier machines seemed

ciently high powered for "general

use. It was fortunate that in this, of eight other companies have very year there appeared the Moth achieved great success and pavė with its 60 h.p. Cirrus. engine. It helped to establish what is now the was the success of the Moth that ascendaney of British constructors made it possible to launch the In the field of light aeroplanes light aeroplane club movement, Bince that time the light, aero- and it is interesting to note that plane club movement, a movement there are no fewer than 552 Moths that was British in its start and now on the Air Ministry register in its development, has spread over Moreover, since 1925 the machines | the British Empire,"

celains and other wares, for which Here, too, are the album leaves the dynamy is so justly-celebrated.

from the Tuan Fang collection, the great Ma Yuan of "Boating by Moonlight" and the Jen Jen-fa of Feeding Horses," in which the linear beauty of the design is s conspicuous. The court contracts again to a big room, in which are the decorative wares of the Ming and Ching Dynastics, the later paintings and the material other tha-Chinese, And so ends the panorama.

It would not have been possible to produce a catalogue in so short a time, but all the sections are clearly tabelled for data, while objects are grouped by type and that type marked with a short de- scriptive label.

All the paintings and the more Important pieces have separate

It's the Place to go!

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THE GLOUCESTER- TULL

HONG

KONG

SPECIAL DINNER DANCE

ON

SATURDAY, 16th May

Commencing at 9 P.M.

Dine on the terrace where it's cool and the food is good.

DANCE-

to sweet syncopated music

played on two Grand Pianos

by

Doreen Ma and George Bond

Hong Kong's favourite Radio Stars

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