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'SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 1920.

BRITAIN & RUSSIA.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929.

ge of Ambassadors between the two countries. In other i words, he asks for unconditional recognition. The British Foreign Secretary is to be commended for his emplatie reply that the imme- diate resumption of Anglo- Russian relations la impossible.

A vital point to be remembered is that, in reply to the British invitation, not a word of objection came from the Soviet at the implied nature of the discussions.

DAY BY DAY.

IF ANYONE REMAINS MODEST UN- DER BLAME, BE ASSURED, HE 18 80.— Jean Paul

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Odell return- ed from Shanghai by the ss. Presi dent Lincoln.

THE TRANSATLANTIC MAILS.

How they Are Quickly Specded Ashore.

"Neither snow nor rais nor smartly, and eased, alongside the heat nor gloom of night staysporthole without so much as these couriers from the swift com- scratching the paint of either The Government is inviting ten-pletion of their appointed rounds." vessel. A chute was speedliy ders for Boundary Street, forming a road by covering in the nullah So reads the insciption on the hoisted to the big ship's main facatie of the Post Office Building deck, the upper part inclosed in west of No. 8 Railway Bridge.

in New York; 90 functions the canvas, greetings were exchang» Mr. W. R. Scott, of the Hongkong pastal service with its vast rami-ed, and the waybills were dropped. In the circumstances, Mr. Hlender-Government service, returned to the cations, serving a nation, on duty down to the gallast little Preul- son could be forgiven for thinking Colony by the a.s. President, Lin-twenty-four hours a day, in every dent. Followed, the registered day of the year. So.aleo, docs the mail, which was stored in a locked that M. Dovgalevsky had come' em-coln, accompanied by his bride.

branch engaged in the handling of receptable forward. Then came

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Soviet to say that Britain has nowhere by the 8.8, President Lincoln New York Harbour, although, the element of international rivalry-

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powered to deal with the outstand- Mr. C. C. Black, shipowners foreign mails discharge its obliga-the first class, second and third ing problems, so he to pave the way agent, arrived here by the es, Pre-tone to the thousands of persons class, parcel post and foreign for eventual recognition. The sident Lincoln. He will be station-awaiting the personal or business mails. As they came down

chute at a rate of almost fifty a When letters bearing the minute, the crew of the minil boat. bona fidea of the British Governed with the Furness. (Far East) mails from overseas.

Line, Ltd. In Hongkong.

foreign stamps and postmarks of railroad and postal employees-- ment are well established by the

It is notified that the under-exotic spots arrive at their de-sorted and stored them with fact that the Government merely wished to create the nuhinery for mentioned tender has been aestination within an incredibly precision and necuracy which be

short time from the hour of tokened long practice.

pride cepted: Construction

Our guide stated with arrival of the ship which has dealing with war debts, trade, ele wooden refuse lightera, Messrs brought them across the broad that the crow felt duty bound to and was even propareil, once that W. S. Bailey & Co., Ltd.

Atlantic, it is, in a sense, a tribute get the sacks away as rapidly as machinery was created, to seek

The silk forwarded from here by to the efficiency of the Post-Office they came down the chute-in fact, Parliamentary sanction for exchange of Ambassadors, even if the Empress of Asin on the 10th Department and the New York it is something of a race to see if July arrived in New York (St. Central Railroad, for the former the liner can discharge its mail supervises the system employed, faster than the receiving ship can Am- a complete settlement of all out John's Park) on the 31st July, hav-while the latter mans and operates sort and store it, and the

the bouts which go down the erican.mail meu exert themselves standing issues had not been ing been 21 days in transit. reached. From start to finish, the

Formerly in the Kobe office of harbour to speed the transatlantic to the limit to prevent foreign.

mails ashore.

vessels from feeding them the British attitude has been consis- the American Mail Line as ac-

There is always something mails faster than they can store.. For the countant, Mr. E. J. McGann arrived tent and above-board.

a trip down them. There is. In fact, fascinating about to join the Honglong office.

statement is relative. A pleasant a daily sporting event--in lower put forward new circumstances is

The boot is. The rainfall registered at the day in May, with a departure from New York Harbour which

York in the fore-sports writers have not yet delgu-. obviously untrue.

Sum-Botanic Gardens during July total.uptown New really on the other foot.

are. Strange words and names. triction than the embarkation at ming the situation up, it becomes led 23.23 inches. There were only noon, has a greater degree of at-ed to notice.

government called out as the sacks are recely- clear that Russia all through the Boven days when do fall was re-the Battery on a

corded, the highest registered be-'

cutter in the grey dawn of cd and passed down the port and plece has shown a lamentable lacking 3.05 inches on the 22nd..

winter's day, with the tiny cabin starboard sides of the President. filled with customs and immigra-Clerks armed with prepared forma thetr records. 弱 Wind-awept deck, aghed by check mark on in the nature of a friendly gesture.has, under instructions from the Lion men, and the only alternative repeat the names and make

Cowaves which freeze as soon as the These forms are ruled in such a

water hits the low deck.

manner that when the mail has all' The good ship President is the been received a complete entry in offelal government mail boat. By available, showing the number of arrangement with the New York sacks from Paris to New York, It is notified that the Greyhound Central Lines it is operated by from London 'ta Bermuda, from Racing and Entertaining Com-the railroad, and at all hours of Madrid to Lima and any of the pany Limited, with be struck off the day and night, sometimes other numerous points of origin it three or four times a day, the and destination of mails handled

hastens down to through New York. the Companies Register, if commence business within two Quarantine, there to relieve the Colourful mail bags, bearing falls to obtain a certiflente to President

swung ocean liners of their load of mail. stripen of all hues, are ranging from a few hundred to as hastily aft, and a rapid inspection many as 14,000 sacks.

disclosen such inscriptions as Postes France, Great Britain, and It was on the President that we Jamaica, Servicio Internacional del Peru, shoved off from Pler 72 bound for (Spain), Deutscher Reichspost the Quarantine Station to meet the (German), Correos Mauretania, Arriving from South-Schweiz Poster Sulases Svizzera ampton and Cherbourg with some (Swiss), Postes d'Autriche (Aus- 6000 seeks of mail, a lond which trinn), Magyar Kir Posta (Hung- my gulde, an official of the Poalary), Poste Italiana, and Helsinki Office, asserted was a light lading Finlande. compared with some arrivals,

of sincerity, and has not been pre- pared to make anything whatever

Geneva's Tasks."

at

A

months,

Owing to its great length, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the big Uni- versal film which is being shown from Sunday to Wednesday at the Queen's Theatre, will be screened at special times, 2.30, 5.00, 7.15 and 9.20.

with as

1

scone,

man

evident

His Excellency the Governor

Secretary of State for the unless and except Britain were lonics, been pleased to recognise prepared to give way to please Herr Brana Hahn ns. Acting Con-

sul in Hongkong for Germany. Whether any- Moscow's vanity. We cannot confess either to sur-thing more will be done to resume prise or to sorrow that the Anglo-the conversations, time will tell. Russian negotiations aiming at But, to put it mildly, there is little, the restoration of diplomatic re-if any, inducement for Britain to lations between the two nations make any further move in the have broken down. It was plent, mutter. from the very day when the' British Government decided to open up the question, that the

The report of the proceedings at Soviet was wholly insincere in the the twelfth session of the Inter- matter. Support for this state-national Labour Conference ment enn be found in the Moscow Geneva is most filuminating. press comment on the passages of tremendous amount of work has been done, and one has only to

HIM.S. Castor is to enrry out the King's Speech touching the eansider the range of subjects be- question. All the Russian papers fore the Conference to realise how gunnery practice in Mira Buy on

Ferries carrying the commuters It is

an international then stated that the Soviet would hurd it must have been. Prelimi: Saturday, 10th August, between nary discussions were held on the 10 a.m. Firing will be conducted not agree to any preliminary nego-subjects of "forced labour" and from west of Grass Island and from New Jersey to New York, indeed; a lesson Jn the ties that towards Sharp- Peak, bargen in convoy's destined to the hind the nations together; an tiations to determine the condition the hours of work of salaried em directed of the resumption of relations, ployers. In both cases un enor Passing craft should keep north upper reaches of the Hudson and evidence of the close bonds that Jend. the State Barge Canal, trim yachts exist between far-flung countries mous field had to be covered and of the line joining Bate

a class in com-. whilst the official organ. Izvrstin, experts came from all over the Wong Chau and South Channel. en route for a week-end journey of the world;

up state, tuge towing lighters from mercial geography. Each went so far as to declare that it world to assist in the work. Then

Several lots of Crown land are to Manhattan to all parts of the appears to know just what to do was for the Soviet rather than for there were the final decisions to be taken on tho general "question of Great Britain to advance condi- the prevention of industrial acci-be sold at the P.W.D. offices on the harbour, crossed and crisscrossed with each sack. They are intelli

Inland Lot 2209 (about 9,870 feet, down the bay. Huge necan, liners workers, men dous and demand guarantees. In dents and the particular aspect of 19th instant, They are:-Kowloon as the President picked her way gent individuals, these postal The face of these assertions, there it, the protection against accidents upset price $21.988), Kowloon In-on either side of the river added pride in their jobs and in the

of dockers engaged in loading and

on: "Budapest-," need be no wonder that the nego-unloading ships. A glance at the and Lot 2210 (about 20,567 feet, to the pageantry of the scene, rapid performance of their tasks.

upsel price $41,134), Kawicon In their sterns protruding into the The cries go

York, Bombay empty, tiations, ere they hart seureely international agreement regarding and Lot 2211 (about 2,882 feet, upstream, while busy barges landed New

the dockers shows the detailed set price $6,485), and Inland Lot and unloaded freight on the off- Moscow-New York, Vienna-Brook begun, have reached a deadlock.

lyn, Guayaquil-lamburg, Burma accuracy with which the work of 2913, Wongneichong (about 1,980 chore sides. One thing, there is no difficulty the International Labour Con- feet, upset price $7,020).›

The voyage to Quarantine is New York, Paris-Lima," and and Nothing

never long enough on a bright day other points of origin

entry in pinning down the responsibility ference is performed,

and as we neared Staten Island, destination, which. the seems to have been left to chance. for the failure of the conversavery aspect of the question has

the Mauretanla loomed in the dis-clerks repeat and check on their tions. The British Government, in Leen patiently studied and care

tance, her four red funnels, with records in lightning fashion. their bluck tips set at a rakish A primary separation has been its invitation to Russia, asked that fly inckled with the result that this decision may almost be called

angle, lending an air of speed as performed on the Mauretania; a a responsible oflefal be sent to

a charler of rights ou the subject.

she swung into the channel, came resorting by destinations goes on discuss with Mr. Henderson "The Conference also considered

opposite the station and lot go her as the mails come down the chute anchors.

to the President and, had the day means for reaching as rapidly as some of the striking features of

So close a contact la maintained been foggy, or had the-liner arriv-- possible a friendly and mutually world unemployment, recommend- ing that the subject of unemploy-

between the Post Office and in-ed in the evening, too late to dock satisfactory settlement, of all out-ment among coal miners should be.

coming vessels that the President until the morrow, the malls for standing questions between the placed on its agenda at an early

with her own radio operator, ia Boston, Buffalo, Washington, and date, preferably in 1930. Fifty

able to gauge almost to the minute the air mail for Chicago would two countries, including those re-delegates spoke in the debate on

the time the ships will reach have been delivered to addresses. lating to propaganda." Nothing the report of the Director of the

as the Maure in those cities even before the (Abbreviations: Aace; K Quarantine, and could be clearer than this sinte Office, M. Albert Thoinas, which

rattle of chains, the mail boat in New York. But even with con- ment, which implied an intention gives an opportunity of raising king: Q-queen; J—jack; X-unytania's anchors slid down with a Mauretania had reached her dock.

any question of International in-card lower than 10),

eased up to starboard quarter, ditions propitious for the incom |of exploring all obstacles standing dustrial importance. This is hard Six Alibi Conventions-6.

even as the yellow fing denoting Ing ships, the method of taking off in the way of a resumption of work indeed, but when due regard

Another misnomer convention medical inspection rose to the big the mails at Quarantine saves is given to the efforts of the dele-

and relations. It must have been well gales from fifty nations who at is "always play through strength," ship's peak. On the opposite from tour to eight hours,

Assume that you are second hand side two other New York Central before the big ship had reached" known also to the Soviet that tended the Conference, it must not Britala intended demanding as be forgotten that the practical side and have the lead on the third boats-the steam lighters 6 and her pier, the mails were being dia- of the Conference, ita "staff work,"round. Dummy's remaining curda 16-were standing by, for wireless tributed to local post offices, or preliminary to recognition

Information, had enabled the rail-being loaded in mall cars at the impose a severe strain on the off- arg;

Spades 8 6 5

road and postal authorities to President's dock for rapid move- adequate guarantees against clals of the International Labour

Hearts A Q

figure how many mail boats were ment, north, cast, south and west, Sbvlet propaganda. Indeed, just o

Office. Having little to spend on

Diamonds AK Q J

necessary. Also, advance in-not only to Boston, to Washington, extra helpers, the Office has to month ago, in the House of Com-depend on its permanent staff to

Clubs K. J

formation had indiented on which to. Florido, but westward to Following this convention side of the vessel the city mail und, Calgary, to San Francisco, mous, Mr. Henderson openly, de-give unselfishly of their beal clared that the Labour Government throughout such a gathering. literally you would lead through on which the railroad and trans-to connect with transpacific ships Length of hours of work is not the strongest auit, diamonds. But pacific mail was to be unlanded. for Australia, New Zealand and were not going to tolerate propa- considered. The work has to be cast may be holding the Ace The President was to take off the the Orient.

If you lead city mail,

Last year 1,500,000 sacks were ganda interfering with the internal done. The record of the day's Queen of clubs.

For a tle aleamer of 732 grosshandle by the President and her affairs of Britain or of any part proceedings must be printed and diamond, the declarer will prob of the British Empire. He added in the hands of delegates early ably be delighted for it will give tons and 158 feet in length, draw-companion lighters. With two next morning. The minutes of him an opportunity to discarding, only sixteen feet when fully boats receiving, one on either that it was up to Russia to give a committees must be read, transia fosing clubs on the winning laden, to take 3160 sacks of mail quarter, as many, da:8000, sack an

must diamonds in the dummy. very definite undertaking on thattions and interpretations

proceed like clockwork. The accre- Before leading through attempt point, and to ace It carried out.tary of one of the Committees, for dummy, always Well knowing the British attitude example, arrived at the Conference visualize your partner's hand and

But that is all in the day's work the biggest load ever brought (ny) on this matter, and also being all on the Monday morning of the then lead in a manner which will

last week at ten o'clock and did not enable the declarer to capture for the cost Office, the New York port being that handled by the fully conscious of the fact that the not leave again until eight o'clock your partner's possible winning Soviet delegate would be required on the Tuesday evening. It would cards. If you cannot dras an in- Central, and the aleamship lines Majestic on Christmas Day last

tenders took off. 14,000 suckst to discuss all outstanding ques. eccm only fair to recall these ference as to your partners' hold which bring the mails from year, when the President and six

services when the fantastic state-ings, lead through broken sults oversens tions, M. Dovgalevsky then blaudly ment frequently is made that the such as A XX, A JX, AX, As an ebb tide was running, the The chute had been set up nt. turna round and demands, as a "LLO." staff inhabit a "nest of K X-X,.Q X X, KQ X, KJ X or Mauretania's bow painted up 11-57 a.m. and at 1:13 pm, the Juxury," idly lotus-eating in a K 10 X in preference to such solid stream, and Capt. George Durn: Freeldent and received 3100 chr proliminary to any discussion of palace built on the glorious lake: suits ne AKQJ & K Q, KQ 3 10, ing brought the President silghtly Captain During looked up at the

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AQJXX, KJ.10 9 or A KJ XX, astern of the big ship, came about]

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