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A tendency which Burrests a rivalry, which must be regretted,

DAY BY DAY.

There is no need at this juncture

PEOPLE SELDOM IMPROVE WHEN to go into the pros and cons of the THEY HAVE NO OTHER MODEL THAN |general naval fasue. So much has THEMSELVES TO CUIT AFTER.--

been sald and written on the sub- | Goldsmith, ". ject that nothing is to be gained

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. T, S., Whyte-Smith to act na Police Magistrate; Kow- loou.

by going over the ground again, The evening service at St. John's Cathedral to-morrow is to bo The main desiderata is that every broadenet. possible effort should be made by the Powers to come to some com- ¦ mon-sense agreement on the ques- tion. Seeing that publle opinion In all countries realises the neces- sity for cutting down expenditure on armles and navies, and that Governments are also convinced of the desirability of curtailing non- productive expenditure, it surely ought to be possible to adjust

THE GRAND CANYON. Impressions of a British Writer.

Below is another of the series. Less than an hour later I stand of articles being written by Mr. just outside the hotel on the rim Collinson Owen, the British nove of a vast emptiness which I cannot list and dramatic critic, for those, but only divino. The snow has Christian Science Monitor on hiaj stopped, but the most terrific rent impressions in the United States.] to be found anywhere in the earth's "Which is the train for the surface is just an immensity full Grand Canyon?" I ask the porter, of heavy mist. Show and mist and "Standing right there, air." That no view; here where earth's His Excellency the Governor habis the sort of thrill one couldn't grandest view is covered up. And Charing Gross the then the change comes. A pale sun appointed Mr. E. W. Hamliton to California Limited, that not only struggles through the snow clouds, act as First Police Magistrate and takes one on to the Grand Canyon, the vapors in the titanic bow! be Coroner.

which everybody aercea is nature's low dissolve, and hang here and astounding piece of work on the there in glant curtains. grand scale, but also continues tho journey through Arizona, Now Mexico, Texas and on to New Orleans. Thill! upon thrill

fi is notified that Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C., has ceased to net 118 Deputy Registrar of the

matters to the mutual satisfaction of all nations. The idea of sum-Supreme Court. moning the Naval Limitation Con- ference earlier than contemplated by the Washington Treaty has much to commend fi, but it is, of course, essential that the way be first cleared by further exchanges of viewpoint. Unless that were

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The silk forwarded from Hong- the 23rd January arrived in New kong by the Empresa of Asia on York (St. John's Park) on the 18th February, having been 21 days in transit.

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done, another fiasco would be in ball Club are reminded in an ad. its widespread equare leagues of standing in the deep snow, on tho

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canyon; I see nearly 5,000 feet be- low to what is not yet the bottom, where the Colorado River flows in There is a large group of Japan- Its deep canal of granito; I see the ese, men and women, gathered at fantastic chaos of giant cliffs and the train to speed three very titanic pinnacles of rock, and out young compatriots on their travels.ing, its vividness, chastened by bespectaled, earnest and smiling comes some of the famous colour- One of them would do very well for clinging snow and hanging cloud. the Harold Lloyd of Nippon. The ... Just one "effect" out of the train rolls out.... Good-bye to Los entyon's repertory of a million or Angeles, its film stars, its amazing- so.

There are three or four of us Members of the Kowloon Foot efficient automatic traffic system,

beyond all vertisement elsewhere that the city spaces. I am off on the Santa edge of precipices Mixed Doubles Tournament is due Fe railway to find the wide spaces imagining, looking down into it all. to start at ten o'clock to-morrow

of nature.

"If you put New York's biggest A Vehicular Ferry.

morning,

Nat, it is true, in quite the same skyscraper down there you just fashion that travelled the pioneers wouldn't see it," saya Bomebody. Ever alnéo big road construction

of the Santa Fe Trail. This It will do. Anybody who attempts placed this Colony on the commer.

California Limited is a particularly to pat this immensity on the back cial map as

nice train. There is a charming with any sort of comparativo de- મ live motor-car

club car done up in attractivescription should not be taken market, the need for an efficient

yellow. Inviting stationery mark seriously. : cross-harbour vehicular service

ed "En Route" calls upon one to

For ten minutes or so the magic has steadily impressed itself on

write letters. I begin one: "My dear... " the official mind, not to mention

The train gives a lurch of that view holds. There are hopes that the mist will finally. that of the public which moves so At the P.W.D. offices on March and I decide to look at the scenery clear, that we shall see this one much more rapidly. Hongkong to

Fortunately there is plenty of small section of the titanic wholo day lacks that very

necessary

room outside on the observation in its full glory. But instead the addition to its public amenities

platform. That is the advantage mist closes up again, once more the vast chasra is filed with vapor, so because hesitation or temporisu.

of travelling in the off sen- son, We KO through miles that in place of nature's ultimate tion is enthroned in high places.

of

groves, with here effort to astound there is nothing. The Government, whose respon-

and there the vivid yellow For an hour or so I wait, hoping sibility it should really be, haskerbing, channelling and laying through the San Bernardino range:

Tenders are being invited for of lemons. We climb up steadily for the best. Then the train calls. --

....Yet that ten minutes' peep into acknowledged its urgency by de-inch cement concrete founda- mountain scenery of good 10,000- just one fraction of this immensity, The report that Britain is voting the valuable time and at- tions to the 100 ft, road between foot quality, with clouds on the which is more than 200 miles long. now to put forward proposals tention of its experts to a study Percival Street and Anton Street summits and the occasional, we was worth the visit....Such is the for a new approach to the settle-In a recent report, it carefully ft.

of the problems involved. and A portion of the 76 come rattle of rain on the train Grand Canyon, or my bit of it.

new Praya rond between windows. ment of the disarmament problem marshalled every fact and factor Percival and Arsenal Street con- does not come as a surprise. Clumsy in favour of immediate develop- Linuation,

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY FEB. 16. 1929.

NAVAL RIVALRY.

as the Government may have been ment of vehicular ferry facilities, In its recent attempt to reach a

ventured an estimule of the annual compromise on the subject with return on the capital expenditure

essential and then pleaded pover-: France, there can be no doubting ty. This plea to put forward des- the sineerity of its motives. It pite oficial admission that the was an effort designed to bridge Colony is now beginning to find firm ground under its economic the Anglo-French difference, so feet after struggling for some that the way might be paved to a time in the deep waters into later general agreement between which it was plunged by the 1925 | strike. Careful consideration of all the interested Powers. Un-the points brought out by the happily, it failed in its purpose, report have served merely to with the result that the situation leave the impression that the Government lacks the curage of hus latterly developed along moat its convictions. We welcome, ! unsatisfactory lines. What is of therefore, the intimation at yester-: special interest at the moment is day's meeting of the Star Ferry Company that that Company la that the United States is rather ex-interesting itself in the project. pecting Britain, to make a new No promise was conveyed. The move, and we have no doubt that Chairman confined his remarks in a reiteration of accepted fact-the when the fresh proposals are put growing demand for vehicle trang- forward they will be symnathelical-portation, for means of moving ly considered by Washington, which is as keenly interested in the issue as the British Government is.

The deadlock between the Powers, on the naval lasue, has had the éffect of considerably hindering the disarmament movement. So much 90 has this been the case that there

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So over the summit of the line and down into the Mojave Desert. for the Grand Canyon, I-ait a few But do not pronounce this as it is hour later at a lunch counter. spelt. Mr. Roosevelt once did that The snow is falling fast. This is in California, with distressing re- Arizona, nearly 7000 feet up, but sults to one who had such a sound one can only see snow and a freight An immenso freight train, reputation as an open-air man. It yard. is pronounced Moliava, and sounds nearly a mile long, rumbles past the windows, and 'as the snow much better that way.

drives against it the flying flakes Americans, so one is told, are impart a suggestion of tremendous. discovering their deserts, and make speed and volume to the intermin- ing the most of them with smart able line of cars....Perhaps one hotels and what are called "dudo impression is as good as another. ranches," where, the ellto do in luxury, and with a bath' at the end of it, what the pioneers had to do because of the vicissitudes of

nature.

On through Arizona, snow- bound. We climb up to the divide and halt at Flagstaff, which, in summer is a favourite resort of the

All afternoon we rush through a region. Small frame houses, a two- wild world of pleasant desolation storey hotel, snow. A milo or ac farther, over a spiderlike steel and soft colouring. It is not a bridge, the train

crosses Devil'e sandy desert, but it is a very plea- Canyon, 226 feet deep, 530 feet sant wilderness, and given that you wide and many miles long

are travelling through it in R

great

Limited train, and not tramping gash in the red rock of the high It with an empty water bottle, it table-land. But after what I have could not be better.. No sign of Been only a few hours before it

looks no more than a trench.. habitation and no water, until we

Night falls and the Grand come to the Mojave River. The magical change it gives to the land- Canyon apart-Arizona has shown acape teaches a dweller in a moist me no more than these arid high climate just what water means, plains, whose covering of snow we We come to an oasis sort of town-have now left behind. No feature save an occasional ship--Victorville I think it is, of Interest, The whole region round here is rich mountain in the background.

I tell myself time after time that in pioneer history, if one only knew it. And the odd thing about. I am in romantic Arizona, that New American history of this kind is Mexico comes next, and that I The old bridge maxim-"Cover that though it may be only sixty ought to be very thrilled. It is no

merchandise across the harbour by means of motor lorries--and an expression of opinion that it might possibly be in the interests of the Company to pursue careful in-

Hearts are trumpa and South vestigation of the various schemes has the lead. North and South suggested. Incidentally, the Gov-must win three of the six tricks. crament is prepared to con side favourably any Achemo which may be put forward with a view to the inauguration of อ

The Solution,

AN honour with an honour"-is

is a distinct danger of an arma. I combined vehicular and passenger often heard but not always prac-/Years old it is such a thing of the use. There is nothing to see, ex-

two terminal

offer very serious competition to the service at present controlled by the Star Ferry Company, and bring upon it the nemesis that awaits all who miss their chance. But, the Ferry Co. appears fully alivo to the facts.

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, Feb. 15.

ment race developing between the service between

points on either side of the Har- United States and Britain unless

bour. Sa far so good. As we the two countries come together have already said, no promise is and face the question in a sensible held out, but we are prepared to and practical frame of mind. The believe that the outlook la con- siderably brighter. It might very "Big Navy" group in Amerien has well be that a new concern would secured consent to the building of fifteen new cruisers, and it is now disclosed that it is planned to lay these down in batches of five with- in the next two and a half years. the first five to be commenced be- foro July of this year. President Coolidge has shown that he is averse to the idea of building these теннен within the time-limit specified, and for the moment he Paris has recommended Congress to ap Brussels

Amsterdam propriate a sum which is only little

Berlin 4 more than half of that proposed by Copenhagen the Navy Department. The Naval Vienna Appropriations Committee of the Lisbon

Helsingfors Senate, however, wants the whole Bucharest sum voted without delay. In Bri-Buenos Aires

Shanghai Lain, the reaction to the deadlock Yokohama is seen by the Admiralty's inten-New York

Geneva tion of postponing the construction Milan ... [of two 8,000-ton cruisers and, In-Stockholm stead, of accelerating the com- Prague

Onio mencement of two ships' of the Madrid 10,000-ton class. It will therefore Athens

Blo be seen that the trend of events, Bombay both in the United States and in Hongkong Britain, is to push forward the liver Spot

Silver Forward naval programme In heavy ships-

ticed. Many situations occur when the rule should not be fol- lowed. But in this puzzle the aur thor illustrates a specific variation of the rule which, except in very rare cases, is infallible.

South leads the queen of spades, North discarding the diamond. South then leads his diamond, and North trumps, North next leads

past that it seems as good as six cept the occasional small towns by the wayside. They are all the centuries.

Evening finds us at Barstow, in some; each one interesting enough the centre of the desert, where in itself as a small American unit, there is a very nice station house, but each one exactly like the last. restaurant and bookstall. Casa del

Desierto it is called. 1 glance over the most recent pile of best sellers. They are all there. On into the night to Bagdad, where funny little brown children come to the train,

When

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We have left the magnificence of. the California Limited behind. Oa that I was served a splendid dinner for $1.75, On this train we have to get out to eat. For half an hour am a resident in Winslow, Ariz. There are a dozen of us in the din- ing room, where the meal is very

Wo. ought to have at least an hour for all this. But the train is waiting, and at each door, each by his footstool, stands a Negro porter, ready in his rather offhand way to lock you once more inside the train. Later that evening we enter New

a club, West winning with the ace, out of the mysterious darkness, to West must now lead a heart, and sell wreaths of white desert holly he correctly chouses the queen, for Christmas. So, late at night to But North does not cover, so the Needles, on the border of Arizous, well and quickly served. Attentive queen holds the trick. The jack where a dozen Mojave Indians, waitresses come and pile all sorts in then led. This time North squaws and braves, are waiting on of extraneous bits of things round covers, East overtakes with the the platform to sell basketwork, one's plate-celery, olives, various ace, and South wins the last trick They push their wares at you with kinds of sweet rolls, a selection of with the ten.

Intelligent grunts. Fenimore salads-as la the American way. Had North covered West's first Cooper was right, after all. 124.30 heart lead, the puzzle would have .94.04 been defeated. East would have

I lift the blind of the 12.18 won with the ace, returned a heart sleeping berth next morning I look 20.45% and West's jack and nine would cut on deep snow, with a brisk .18.20 have permitted a finesse through enowfall REI proceeding. The 34.64% South's ten and six, giving East train is panting up the grade, that

103 and West four tricks in all. The leads to the edge of the Grand Mexico, and stop at Gallup. A 100% author therefore suggests this: Canyon. And I wonder whether, small town of 5,000. One sees the 812% when holding the king of a suit after years of wanting to see the Main Street lighted up, with a 47.11/32 and it seems apparent that the Grand Canyon, I shall arrive billiard hall and a hotel. One of 1/10% opponents hold the queen-jack in there to find no view. Pondering my old dreams of America was to one hand and the ace in the other, this question over the day before, find myself suddenly in one of these 4.85 11/32.

if you feel you should cover do I had dismissed the idea of mlat small out-of-the-way towns of .26.2

the first attempted as almost impossible. I hadn't frame houses, and abandon myself .02.80 not cover

to a riot of unexpected impressions. 19.10 incase, but cover the second, and thought of snow.

I lo still anowing licavily as the But that mood has passed. There 16.20 by doing so assure yourself that

164 you are playing your hand for all few pilgrims ou the train go the in no mystery about them--not now .81.02% It is worth. This particular few yards up a steep hill to the anyhow. One knows exactly what 336 situation, even if very specific, hotel, massively built of logs. But eno will find there, exactly what .5.20/32 occurs time and again in play. thoro is breakfast to be thought merchandise. The pulse of New .1/5.31/32 North may discard his club in of first. The snow may stop. It York and Chicago beats in all these 1/11% stead of his diamond on the open-can't be true that one-has-come places; however faintly.....And yet 25% ing lead. South then leads a club, thousands of miles to see the Grand It would be interesting to stay 25.18/10. North trumping and leading a dia Canyon-only to find one can't see week or two in such a place and, ---British Wireless, mond to West's ace.

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