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The Daily Press.

BONG KONG. December 30, 1936.

SHOULD MICE FLY?

Judging by certain aeronautical information received in Hong Kong, it appeara mice desirous of flying.

are

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

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United States President's

Salary

LOCAL RESIDENT'S

OPINION

(To the Editor, "Lally Press”).

Bir,--Nearly everything in to- day's article about the President of the United States is erroneous or exaggerated.

He now receives $75,000 a year for salary and. $25,000 a year for travelling expenses, if expended. The White House includes the office of the President as well as his residence. It is presumable that the cost of special trains, hotel bills and tipa is taken care of. in the travelling allowance. Not all the White House servanta

are paid by the Government. The inclusion of the Vice-President at cabinet meetings was inaugurated" by President Harding in 1821.

Governor-General of the Nether-

But why his position should be

compared with that of Britain's Prime Minister is beyond compre

hension.

Yours etc.,

M. O. D.

We, are indebted to "M. O, D.”

doubtless prove enlightening to

London, from

Until the early part of the Hence these thoughts on the century, the President's salary was subject:

$50,000 with no travelling allow- Man's conquest of the sir basance-less than That of the been achieved through the solu-lands Indies and much less than tion of a variety of problems. that of many heads of state. From the first they have been the sort of problems which the layman leaves, with alacrity, to the expert; and as aviation bas advanced they have virtually dis- appeared from his ken iotc a jungle of technical complexities. So the layman (who likes, poor follow, to delude himself that he is keeping abreast of the new developments in his era), will be

problem facing the modern aero- delighted to find that the latest

nuut is a domestic one with which the layman himself is in all probability not unfamiliar. The extrusion or annihilation of mice in aircraft is assuming in flying circles the dimensions of a In the publication. dilerama.

To most of us it will be news that mice go in for flying at all. They do not look sa if they did One does not associate them with the upper air, nor with the glittering and intricate machines which nowadays frequent it.

for this information which will the special representative of the Daily Express." whose article we published, the figures which "M. O. D." has con-

contained in this article were tradicted. It is, however, signifi-

given

cant that although the facts as

the

wide

publicity

through

medium of А famous

British newspaper with a dully circulation exceeding 2,000,000 coples, yet no corrections, official or otherwise, have since appeared

JAPANESE FISHING IN SOVIET WATERS

Moscow, Dec, 28.

A provisional agreement permit ting Japanese fishing vessels to continue fishing in Soviet Russian waters was signed by the deputy people's commissar for foreign af-

falra, Stomonjakoff, and the Ja- Ambassador, Bhigemisu,

Burns never dreamt that the timorous beastie which he apos-panese rophized with such manly con- descension would one day cleave the empyrean at 200 miles an

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR | bour.

& CO., LTD. 28th December, 1936,

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

The office of the Hong Kong Football Association will be re- moved to room No. 205, 2nd Floor, of the Gloucester Bulld. ing, with effect from 1st January, 1937. The telephone No. W0| be 30751.

ST. STEPHEN'S

We have, it is clear, been under-estimating mice.

It would seem that airport officials have fallen into a like error. They complain, according to reports in British publications, that they are having difficulty in keeping mice out of their ma- chines, and no doubt they know what they are talking about. But do they know what they are doing?

here on Monday.— Transocean News Service.

ONE YEAR ONLY

Moscow, Dec. 28. A protocol establishing a tem- porary basis for continuation of the Russo-Japanese Asheries treaty has been signed here by representatives of the two Govern" ments. It is for the period of 1937 only.

It was recently reported that Russin would refuse to renew the announced German-

recently January anti-Communist treaty.---

Reuter.

MILAN EXPLOSION

Milan, Dec. 28.

and a

15 persons were killed

an

Why shouldn't mice "fly? Their presence on board pas- 4915 senger aeroplanes would strike a number seriously injured by

homely, reassuring note. Tra- explosion under one of the prin- vellore unaccustomed to the air cipal squares of this city on Mon- are sometimes nervous; but explosion was so great that the day afternoon. The power of the pavement of the square was torn up for a considerable section. It

COLLEGE, STANLEY | man who shares his perils with a mouse can hardly give way to his fears so long as the monse maintains its composure.

The new Term opens on Mon. day, Jan. 4th. An examination tor new Students will be held an Jan. 2nd at 9 a.m. For pros. pectus, for boarders and day boys, apply, Fund Man Sul, Esq., Chan Pak Luk, Esq., Messrs. H. Wicking, Prince's Ballding (Tel. 30241), or to St. Stephen's Col lege, Stanley.

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I feared that the total death toll may be even greater than so far announced. since Moreover the little creatures panic which followed the explosion the frightful may prove to be of the greatest made Investigations extremely service to the cause of aviation. difficult. The cause of the ac-

Pliny the Elder noted in huscident is so far undetermined.

Transocean News Service. Datural history that "when building is about to fall down all the mice desert it"; and inast assuredly broaden their nobody, so far as we know, has minds. ever seriously disputed the fuct that mice, and rats as well, possess this valuable premonitory instinct.

All down the ages they have seen things from below, skir mishing cautiously among the extremities of giants, dwarfed by DEATHS

It would come in most useful the snowy plateau of the dining- PACKHAM-On December 10, 1936, in the air. Provided with a room table, awed by the towering at Meadway, Kingston Lane, small emergency exit, and equip luxuriance of the umbrella stand. Southwick, Bussex, Ralph

ped with tiny parachutes, the From time to time one of their Packham, formerly of Hong Kong, aged 60. Deeply re-

mice could, by leaving the sero number, escaping from the claws gretted.

plane in a body, tactfully call of a kestrel, has lived to tell the IVY-On December 10, 1930, at attention to the fact that disaster tale of what the earth looks like

Greystoke, Greenhill Road. unpended.

from above; but this is the first Wylde, Green, Warwickshire,

It is true that the prophets opportunity they have bad of Robert Sutcliffe Ivy, formerly might be without honour in the putting our planet in its place, of Shanghai, For 19 years District Grand Master of Eng-country on which they finally of acquiring true perspective. Uish Freemasons in Northern descended; but that does not China BROWN-On December 10, 1938, at Radnor Park House, 6, Radnor Park West, Folkestone, George

Brown, late H.M." Consul în

What does flying, feel like for detract from the value of their a mouse? It would be a shame powers of divination.

to relegate the species to an Besides, in the last analysis, earth-bound existence before we why shouldn't mice fly? discover-preferably through Mr.

Ching, beloved husband of It would be niggardly in nato | Distity—the answer to this ques Exmle Brown, in his 88th year. deng them an experience which tion..

EXCLUSIVE FEATURE

DIVERTING ASPECTS

PEIPING'S PIDGEON WHISTLES

BY

PHILIP NESBITT

During my visit to that ancient and blue wall city of Peiping. the very first Impression, and one which was to thereafter re- main perhaps the most delightful, was the sound of the pigeon whistles. The morning of the first awakening brought the eerie and disturbingly musical sounds to my ears. I heard them from far of, out through the open window, across the courtyard, over the roof tops, off in the pale blue of that winter sky.

Many of the pigeon flocks that take flight above Peiping have a leader, pigeon, upon whose tall is tied the whistle. Little bamboo Instruments, so contrived as to receive the wind down their fluted length, not unlike the "pipes of Pan" in appearance, are the source of sound.

One day I climbed with several good companions up the steps of one of the temple hilltops, from, which the misty and level expanse of Peiping may be seen at advantage. It was a cold day, and sound carried clearly and easily across. the city. The eye could just perceive the flocks of pigeons, dipping and wheeling out in the sky. A sort of secondary sense of hearing asserted Itself. The whistles of the pigeons were not apparent at first, in sound; they only became so when the ear made extra effort. Then it was that the whole quaint and mystic symphony of sound came to the listener. It was little like the possible and Imaginary musical notes created by diminutive planets spinning. In some smaller, cosmos.

The Chiraman a genuine lover of birds. The elderly gen- tlemen, philosophers and poetically minded oldsters who stroll about Peiping in meditative moods, carry cages of golden can- "aries. This affection for the winged ones carries on to pigeons. When young the pigeons are familiarized with the almost weight- less air whistles. Again, I confess, I am interested in the whis- tles themselves. Sometimes they are but two tubed whistles, again they are five. Not only are they made of bamboo, but sometimes oxhorn with as many as ten tubes and a "mouth- plece." This is eloquently termed "the eleven-eyed one."

The Chinese people themselves have a more or less adequate explanation of the whys and wherefores of the use of whistles with pigeons. Claimed primarily as a means of confining each flock, and making it distinguishable to the owner, earth-bound and encaptured with the music of the especial pigeons, they (the whistles) also seem

to serve as 1 means of protection from the ravages of other and less favoured birds of prey. I cannot see this last, It might ever! work in a reverse sense. Why should not a muste loving hawk, attracted by the joyous note of the whistles, fly right into the very middle of the pigeon flock and take his All of fat, whistling Peiping pigeons?

listening to delightful sounds, struggle to remain as true ab

In these machine gloryfying days, such aesthetic pleasures as

stract delights of the "mind. Indeed, to hear the whistling pf- On one must journey across the heaving, many times undu- lated and vast bosom of mother Pacific to Japan, across that bristling-with-military-airs little country, climb aboard a emait steamer, at Kobe, wrestle with the tempest dedicated "God of mal-de-mer until one arrives in Peiping. It is a long pilgrimage, as you can see, but quite worth the candle. Of course, the tra vellers of to-day go to China for a score of reasons other than to listen to the odd and eerie notes of a pigeon whistle. I met several, during the crossing, who were going to tend the fin ances of a tottering sausage skin factory, and another who plan- ned to seek out verdigris' encrusted bronzes the had a scraggly" red beard and smoked a pipe which had an air not unlike that which floats hauntingly about the fertilizer factory of South San Francisco),

There, it is apparent that one goes west for any number of reasona. Some to see if the ladies of the Orient are like those bere, or to unearth dinosaur eggs, or to taste roast duck, or to

A Pipe With Friends

Here is Mr. Keith Robinson, complete with pipe, with Lt.-Comdr. Jonas and a fair friend at the Fanling Races.

CLAN CHIEF'S

DAUGHTER

MARRIED

Brilliant Scene In Oban Cathedral

pre-

The Macdougall tartan dominated in St John's Episcopal Cathedral, Oban, recently at the wedding of a daughter of the here. ditary chief of the Clan.

SINO JAPANESE PROBLEMS

Negotiations To Be Resumed

Shanghai, Dec. 29. Consul-General Yakichiro Suma. was told by Foreign Minister Chang Chun. in Nanking on' Baturday, according to the "Nicht Nichi." that Chinese feeling to wards Japan will not be aggravated.. as a result of the Bian incident. There is a view in Nanking circles. that the Sino-Japanese negotia- tions should te resumed and re-

The bride was Jean Louisa Morag, second-eldest daughter of Colonel Macdougall of Macdougall lations adjusted, and he suggested and Mrs Macdougall of Macdougall, that an agreement might be pos-

alble on of Dunollie Castle, Oban," and the

all pending · questions · bridegroom was Dr Stephen Had-except those having to do with

North China and co-operation -- field, Dunmow, Essex, son of Dr and Mrs Hadfeld, EssER......

The Cathedral, which was crowd- ed, was decorated with bronze and white chrysanthemumns, and the company present included estate workers and tenants from Dunoille and the island of Kerrera.

against Communiam.

The Government is prepared to resume negotiations, he ended, sa soon as settlement of the Ban

incident is in sight. the paper's correspondent, is that The Japanese attitude,' states

negotiations on political matters 'GROOM IN HIGHLAND DRESS

'should begin as the Sian rebellion. The flag of the Macdougalls was has been quelled. Regarding ab hoisted above the ruins of the economic entente, however, Japan twelfth-century stronghold of the is prepared to talk at any time. Clan, situated on a high rock over-Union News. looking Oban Bay. The bride and

NEW INSTRUCTIONS bridegroom are descendants of the Macdougalls of Larn.

The bridegroom were Highland dreas, as did also the best man, Dr Allan Macfarlane, Stirling.

The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of deep cream satin. She carried a bouquet of arum filles tied with Macdougall tartan ribbon. Her lace veil, a family heirloom, was lent by the bridegroom's mother.

The six bridesmaids were the Maid of Lorn, and Miss H. Mac- dougall (sisters of the bride), Miss Sheela O'Hare, Miss Edith Bimpson, Miss fona Houston, and Miss Eliza beth Lyell.

Shanghai, Dec. 29. Japanese Ambassador. Shigeru Kawagoe is scheduled to come here to-morrow from Nanking and wal sail for Japan to receive, new instructions for the settlement of Sino-Japanese problems

It la learned that Chips and Japan have reached an agreement in settlement of the Chengtu in- eldent in which two Japanese Journalists were killed by a mob Terms of the settlement will be announced to-night or to-morrow, As a result of the Sian revolt, Japanese circles here state that Tokyo will adopt a new policy to-: wards Chiria. This subject was CREAM VELVET DRESSES.

-discussed here to-day by Major- They wore dresses of cream General Belichi Kita, Japanese Vice-Admiral velvet with gold lame sashes lined Military Attache, with scarlet, and favoured hair Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commanding wreaths of gold leaves clasped the Third Japanese Squadron in with small scarlet flowers. They Chinese waters, and other high carried bouquets of cream chrysan-Japanesa milltery and navai themums.

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Miss Jariet Macdougall, cousin of | Union News. the bride, was train-bearer.

Representatives of well-known Highland families

were among those present, and included Cap- tain Macdougall of Drumhell and Mrs Macdougall; Rear-Admiral Campbell, Oban, and Mrs Camp- bell; Miss Campbell of Alrds; Ge- neral Sir Frederick Campbell and Mrs Campbell; The Captain of Dunstaffnage: Lady Patten Mac: dougall of Gailanach: Colonel Stewart of Achara and Mra Stewart; "Mr H Macdonald of Dunach; Colonel Macrean of Ku- chrenan: Mr John Maclean of Bellechin; Colonel Campbell Bald- win of Melfort; and Sheriff Chal- mers, Oban. .. `

B.B.C. ACTIVITY

London, Dec, 28. 30 broadcasts from the Empire During the past year more than

overseas induding the change-over. of Viceroya in India, and the meet- ing of the Governor-General of Canada and the President of the United States, were carried out by the British Broadcasting Corpora tion

Empire Service has now: com- pleted its fourth year DI re- gular working, arrangements for

A reception was afterwards held 1937 include a remarkable broad- at Dunollie Castle.

HEAVY CHRISTMAS

TRAFFIC

London, Dec. 28, Christmas traffic both through 'the Post Office and on the railways exceeded even the expectations of oficials, who were prepared for Large Increases on last year's figures, In view of the many signa of greater prosperity.

cast next Bunday in the course of which 24 nations will exchange. greetings over the air,"

or-

The programme has been goalshed under the auspices of the International Broadcasting Union. -British Wireles

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PREPARING FOR CORONATION

London, Dec, 28.

The Office of Works will take .... In two days, the Post Office de- possession of Westminister Abbey livered 200,000,000 letters, while de next week with a view to prepara- liveries of parcels on Chrismas | ticns for the Coronation ceremony Day were seventy-five percent. in May. The Abbey will be tre- greater than last year.—

opened to the public in August.- "British Wirdess,

British Wirclen.

become married or exploit the sacred interests of the Standard Oil, or even to listen to the lovely notes of a whistle attached to the tall feathers of a white pigeon whirling his way acrósí the sky over Peiping. It's a toss-up. I am hoping to go again to listen to the pigeon whistles, Bomeday.