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THE LAMAS

TIBETANS LESS

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AFRAID OF

OUTSIDERS

The Mail Must Go » Through

LORD NUFFIELD'S

EMPLOYEES

A Profit-Sharing Scheme

GIFT OF £2,125,000

...It was announced recently that Lord Nuffield is to set up a special fund by which the workers in his to become share- factories are holders.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1936,

ARSENAL WIN

Bolton And Liverpool Fail At Home

London, Dec. 28. The following are the resulta ot to-day's major League football matches:

Bolton Chelsea" Derby

FIRST DIVISION

D Manchester U.

4

1. Stoke

1.

2

3 Everton Huddersfield + Wolves, Liverpool 1 W. Bromwich The fund is represented by 1,000,- || M'chester C. i. Grimsby 900 Ordinary stock units of Morris Middlesbroro' 4 Leeds

Portsmouth Motors, Limited, the dividends on

Preston' which are to be used to create a

Morris Fund under which ware | Wednesday earners, in addition to receiving Sunderland hard

holiday wages, will have a share in the dividends of the organiza- tion.

A writer recently returned from interesting trip into mystic Tibet, the long closed Land of the Lamas. Leaving Atuntze, the last weak military outpost of China, on the Tibetan border in extreme northwestern Yunnan, the tour ney les exclusively in Tibetan ter- ritory, racially. After tre stages or days of travel on horse and afoot in a general northerly direction on dangerous trails along | the left bank of the Mekong River and

over high mountain passes where no wheeled vehicle has ever is intended to cover all his trad- kune, one quickly finds oneself ing organizations-Morris Motors, dropping suddenly down from the Limited. Cowley: Morris Industries mountains onto the fertile Puta Exports. Cowley; M.G. Car Com plain, where nestles the little vill-pany. Abingdon; Morris Radiators. nge known to Chinese as Yeachin (Sail wells), and to Tibetans who control its destiny, as Tsakalo. De- prived of its rich salt wells, the place would scarcely be worthy of mention

Lord Nutfield, in a statement re-

cently. explained that the scheme

Oxford; the Morris Engines, Coven- try: Wolseley Motors, Birmingham: Morris Commercial Cara, Limited. Birmingham; Morris Oxford Press: and S.U Carburettors. Birming ham. The scheme, he sald, follow- Four years age when Batang al-ed the staff pensións fund of the most fell into the hands of the in- Morris associated companies by

Tibetans .once

during which the staff members are safe- more

That guarded for their old age. Several months of hard ghting.

fund came into operation last Tibetan troopers suddenly entered

April. Yonchin early one morning before quickly the villagers were astir, disarmed the little Chinese garri- son without a shot being fired, and Yenchin again became Tauttalo of the Tibetanis.

"Since the introduction of that fund, which benefits salaried em- ployees only whose tatal annuai remuneration does not exceed 1,- 006" sald Lord Nuffield, "I have The Chinese Exodus started at given much thought to the estab- otice. Soldiers and civitans fed lishment of a scheme whereby the southward into Yunnan The Chi-wage-earners, in addition to holl- nese Post Office was closed. but day pay, might share in the pro- the business. The bome Chinese merchants remained sperity of with their Tibetan wives, and chll-marketing of the Ordinary stock dren and were never harmed by units of Morris Motors. Limited. their Tibetan conquerors. But offers the simple solution of my they complain bitterly or betan problem. I propose to convey into taxation: which they say is much the hands of trustees 1,000,000 of higher than during "the good old

these unita, representing the pre- days" of Chinese magistrates and sent market value of £125.000. tiny Chinese garrisons.

From 100 to 200 Tibetan troops are kept there constantly and much revenue from sait dows in-

to the coffers of the Tibetan gov.

crament and of the higher fama priests of eastern Tibet. Catholic and Protestant misalous there. when the place changed hands, still carry on their work as before, but with perhaps more persecution than when the Chinese ruled. It 15 learned that arrangements are being made to re-open the Post Office at Yenchin which lies mid-

way between Batang and Atuntze on the established pasta! route connecting Sikong Province with Szechuen and Yunnan will be one of the very few Post Offices operating wi..in Tibet. Military runners carry the scanty mail by riding horse from Yenchin to Gartok (Chiangka), capital of Marktang Province, and frora there. to Chamdo and Lhassa.

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BEGGING LETTERS

The divideñas un these units

will be utilized to create a fund which will be distributed among the employees who are оn the clock. The fund will be entitled to receive any dividends declared In respect of the current financial year of Morris Motors, Limited, which ends on December 31 of this year.".

Lord Numeld explained that the controt of the fund would be in ine hands of representatives of the

employees, and each of the com- panies would appoint its own re- presentatives. "My scheme," he said, "means that the men will be- come ordinary shareholders of the concern." He added that ho dally received an enormous mail of beg- xing letters and that he had had to engage a staff of three to deal

with them.

Since the publication of his re-

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SECOND DIVISION Aston Villa Blackpool Barnsley Bradford C.

Buly

Doncaster Norwich

NEW YEAR'S DAY

FOOTBALL

Lee Wai-tong To Play

An excellent soccer game should be witnessed on New Year's day

at Caroline Hill when the Chinese will meet the Rest of the Colony

WOLF CUB

SPORTS

Peter Dalziel Shield

The second annual Wolf Cub Sports of the Boy Scouts Associa tion of Hong Kong was successful-

in à Charity game in aid of they held yesterday afternoon on the fund for the Buiyuan Refugees.

The game will be featured by the return of Lee Wal-tong to the centre-forward position. This is 1 Lee's first game since his return from Europe, and his presence in the team will prove a big attrac- tion.

Hong Kong Football Club Ground, Happy Valley, by klind permission 34 is owners, when the 1st Hong Kong (St. Joseph's) Pack literally showed their heels to the other Colomy Packs and won the coveted

Peter Dalziel Shield.

:.

The Sports were held under the supervision of Mrs. F. E. Bookter, ; Acting Assistant Commissioner for i

Fau. Ka-ping: Leung In-chan | Wolf Cubs, who was assisted by

2 and Lee Ting-sang; Leung Wing- | Mr. Q. Maddick, Cubmaster of the

1 chai, Wong Mel-ahun and Lee 4th Kowloon

2 Kwok-wal; Two Kwal-shing, Chan

2

Charlton

1

1 Arsenal

3

0 Brentford

2

4. Birmingham

D

The following la' the team

6 Chesterfeld

3 Fulham

1 Leicester

2 Notts. F.

2 Shefeld U.

2 Burnley

0

5

1

HOME RUGBY

London, Dec. 28.

1 Newcastle Southampton 1 Coventry Bwansea 0 Plymouth Tottenham "5 Blackburn

West Ham

1 Bristol C.

0 Queen's P.R.

Tak-fal, Lee, Wal-tong Lai Bhul- wing and Tay Quee-liang,

The following were the results of 0 Rugby Union League matches 3 played to-day:-

Rosslyn Park 14, Fetteslan Loret-

(Garrison) Pack,

members of the Deep Sea Scouts and other willing helpers.'

At the conclusion, Mrs. Booker presented the 1st Hong Kong (St. Joseph's) Pack with the Peter Dalziel Shield.

Following are the results:- ·

Potato Race (under 10):—1. 12th, Kowloon; 2. 13th Kowloon 3. 13th Kowloon.

Inter-Pack Relay Race: 1. ist Hong Kong: 2. 13th Kowloon; 3. 1st Kowloon,

80 Yards Flat (under 10):-1. 1st Kowloon; 2. Ist Hong Kong.

100 Yards Flat:-1. Ist Hong Kong: 2 13th Kowloon; 3. 13th

Bristol 8, Old Merchant Taylors Kowloon.

1 Bradford

0

THIRD DIVISION (South) Aldershot 1. Millwall Bournemouth 1 Southend

2

Bristol R. Cardiff

0 Öllingham

0 Torquay

2

Clapton Crystal P. Exeter } Newport Notts C. Swindon Watford

2 Walsall

2

tonians 19.

0

3

Bath 3. Bridgend 5.

1 Northampton

3

2 Luton

113.

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1 Reading

2

1. Brighton

0

THIRD DIVISION (North)

2 Mansfield ·

Leicester 5, Barbarians 20. Newport & Aberavon 4.

0 Gateshead

2

M

1 Chester

D

#

Swansea 21, London Welsh 0.-

Beuter.

1

1. Accrington

3 Lincoln

1

y Barrow

3 New Brighton

Crewe

Darlington Halifax Hartlepools Oldham Port Vale

Rotherham "Southport Stockport

2 York

2 Carlisle

*Tranmere V Rochdale

*Wrexham v. Hull

* Unplayed. -Beuter.

Boy Never Too

Old To Hold His

Mother's Hand

Nearly sixty years ago a little buy, walking hand-in-hand with his mother, quickly withdrew his band when another boy, in pass- ing, glanced at him.

Later the mother sald,

very

gently: "Never be ashamed to hold my hand. A son is never too old to hold his mother's hand."

That son, now Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, has never forgotten.

And in a little volume, "Portrait

of My Mother," published recently (Hodder and Stoughton, 28. 64), he recalls that this memory "came back for the last time with

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cent gift to Oxford University he that hand-clasp that means so OFFICIALS QUITE FRIENDLY

was receiving upwards of 500 let- much when the dying can speak At Gartok we found the Tibetan

ters 2 day from secretaries of no more." governor and other officials quite charitable organizations, cranks,

This book is more than a monu- Iriendly Due to their long aloof- folk in need of financial assistance,

ment of filial piety; it reveals that ness and isolation, Tibetans usually inventors, and trading projects, all between this superficially cold, re- view the entrance of other nation- "bombarding" him for loans. "Aticent lawyer and his mother there als with suspicion. But in recent large proportion of them come to endured a very exquisité and rare, years their more frequent contact my private address." sald Lord comradeship.. with other peoples, along; their | Nuffield. To give them personal Chinese and Indian borders has attention would, occupy the whole done much to remove their of my working time." suspicion and distrust of other

races. Another factor has been

their increasing commerce.. Tibe-

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"Perhaps," he says, "It is a mis- take for a son, when burying his mother, to wear his heart upon his sleeve.

"

"Certain it is that all who had the fortune to know her well felt

tan merchants and traders now Fresh Uses For Coal that her friendship was a perpetu-

Journey far into. India and China,

And their religious pilgrima, both

Jay and priestly, now journey far to

foreign shrines,

Sought

al benison, and no description can convey to strangers the dawless impression of fullness of life and

Most of the soldiers in eastern Scottish Commissioner's Hope sweetness of spirit that she spread

Tibet wear only civilian clothing,

uniforms ukunity beling reserved

for their officers of both high and

low rank. Many of them have

From Scientists

The view that every effort should been well trained by foreign in- be made to bring new industries structors. Tibetans are lovers of to the distressed areas in order to inusic, and their army at Gartok preserve the local traditions of boasts a 40-plece band, composed the people resident there was ex- of trumpet, drum and bagpipe pressed by Bir David Hay, Com- players, which compares quite misaloner for Special Areas in favourably with some

Scotland, when he declared open bands. Here again foreign instruc- the new Scottish Community Ser- tors have had an important part vices Centre for unemployed men

and women at Burnbank, Hami ton, on November 24.

foreign:

around her. i

Her great sense of fun prompted her to say: "I always told your father that I must be buried with my wedding ring on my finger; otherwise I might be tempted to flirt with the. Ar- changel Gabriel" -

This wish was fulfilled when she was laid to rest by her husband's side in Cheriton church-yard,

Sir John Bimon intimates that any proceeds from the publication of the memoir are to go to his wife's Fund for assisting the abolition of present-day slavery,

in the training. Thanks to such help and their ever-increasing con- tacts with those of the outside Sir David Hay declared that it world, real progress is being made, would be a great national loss if and one hopes that Tibet may soon a community such as that In emerge from her place among the Burbank. which had been bullt lets for coal. There should also be backward nations. Better days up upon one great industry, should some supplementation of Industry loom ahead for the long benight- not be encouraged and be able to in these areas, and so far as he ed millions Tibet

build again upon another great in- bad influence he would, direct his Fortunately Tibet and this por dustry, if it could possibly be found. attention to this matter and do tion of the Tibetan border country. He was hopeful, and had great ex- what he could. On the other hand were spared from the ravages of pectations that industrial scientists even if they got things moving to Communism, and crops of corn. would be able to tell thera of für-morrow it would still take time be- wheat barley.apeits, buckwheat ther uses for coal so that work fore the work was commenced, and garden produce were permitted could again be found for the people buildings were erected, and ma- to reach maturity Otherwise there in the place where they had their chinery Installed. One had to plan wand have been great cuttering, in homes and their sentiments. By ahead. The pity of it was that these regions where no large sur-increasing scientific development It planning ahead had not taken plus of crope can be groFILES might be possible to find fresh out place years ago,

Cardiff 10, Watsonians 3.

Northampton 13, Moseley S.

Satk Race:-1. Sea Scouts; 2. 1st Kowloon; 3. "1st Hong Kong.

Three-legged Race:-1, 1st Hong Kong 2. 1st Kowloon; 3. 4th Kow- Icon.

Dressing Race:-1. 1st Kowloon; 12th Kowloon; 9. 4th Hong Kong.

Relay Race:-1, 1st Hong Kong:

G. Q. Allen, the M.C.C. captain, speaking at the official welcome to the team in Sydney.

2. 13th Kowloon; 3. 1st Kowloon.

Obstacle Race:-1. 1st Hong Kong: 2. 1st Kowloon

Cubmasters'

Guille.

Race: 1 Jock

Little Sisters' Race:-1. C. Bald- win; 2. 9. Cole; 3. M. Goyne..

Little Brothers Race:--1. J. Eastion: 2 D. Falkner.

WOMAN SWIMMER SETS RECORD

Rotterdam, Dec. 28. Miss Mastenbroek, the Dutch Olymple swimmer, to-day estab- Ilshed a new world's record for the 400 metres back stroke, when

Girls' Race:-1. E. Dolson; 2. J. the swam the distance in five min- Bentley.

utes 48 8/10 seconds.

Final points-

She previously held the record with a swim of five minutes 49 8/10 seconds.

1st Hong Kong (St. Joseph's) "22 1st Kowloon (St. Andrews); 18 13th Kowloon (St. Teresa's) 10. Neuter.

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