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WHILEY--On September 6th, 1980, at Coronado, California, at the age of 53. William John Granger Whiley, formerly of the Standard of Có, of New York, Hongkong.
The
OCTOBER
1930.
DAY BY DAY
The P. and O. s.5. Kashmir from Hongkong arrived at London on the 5th October at 7 a.m.
A. B. AUSTIN queries
ARE 'WE HOSPITABLE?
A
whole case for the abolition of extrality rests, on a professed ability to protect foreign life and property. The cold-blooded mur. der of bliss Harrison and Miss
YOUTHI "IS INVARLADLY PRESENT IN Nettleton is the latest evidence of THE OLD AGE OF A GREAT MAN. HE the Nationalist Government's NEVER COMPLETELY LOSES LIFE'S sheer ineptitude to deal with the FIRST ELIXIR — Professor Harris
Bickford, movement whose axistence has
ARE WE FORGETTING the the cowherd in their turf hut u meant the sacrifice of these Bri-
meaning of hospitality? Order the French frontier of Al can it be that we have so ordered dorra, a day's journey from the tish ladies' lives. The London
our modern existence, upon the nearest made rond. I must have Times has aptly summed up the
value relooked a doubtful figure na I stop- basis of payment for situation by finding it difficult to The Ben Line s.s. Banmaedhui, understand why Nanking should from Home ports via Straits and ceived, that no one requires hosed at the low door in the half dusk
word?
give up the crossing of the pass be so anxious to put the cart be-Manila, is due here on the 15th Pitality in the older sense of the of an October evening, forced to
instant.
It may be that we have not hard-by the swift coming of night
They were unwashed, raggel, un- fore the horse by demanding the
ened our hearts, that we are still abolition of foreign privileges be-. it is notified that from. 9 p.m. as open-handed as our forefathers shaven. They sat on the beaten..
to-morrow entil 6 a.m. on Thurs are said to have been. It may be earth of their floor by a fire whose fore it has abolished or even day, the water supply south of that we are the playthings of that soot choked every crevice and ledge diminished brigandagë,
Austin Road, Kowloon, will be in-system of swift and easy travel of the hut. Their bed as
which we have contrived to arrange sheep's fleece on a pile of tracken, What the official reaction to the terrupted.
for ourselves. We might lay our their bottle a goatskin flask killing of these two ladies will be
H.R.H. Prince Parachatra of selves open to a charge of being
But they asked no questions. remains to be seen. We shall
Siam, who is on an economic tour quixotic if we offered roof and food however, not be over-stating the of the East, left by the s.s. Pre- to the man who travels from petrol-"Come in. Sit down. You
the lucky to have found us. There is. case if we say that British opinion,sident Mckinley for Shanghai pump to petrol-pump across
wide expanses of our hotel-restau- no other hat near."
• this morning.
I ate what food I had, and while rant-tea-room-spangled countryside.
silent, out of The annual general meeting of At its lowest the law of hospital-I ate they were the Hongkong Branch of the Eng-ty among primitive communities courtesy. The silence was broken lish Association will take place was a pact made by quarrelsome only once. A puzzle had entered this evening at 5. o'clock in the humankind for mutual help against the shepherd's mind, and the words the common enemy--tempest, flood, escaped hia: "Voici les Anglais toujours par les Cathedral Hall.
rain. snow, sleet, or pitchy night qui, marchent The forthcoming wedding is an-peopled by the folk that dwelt be-montagues, parceque c'est joll, c'est. nounced of Mr. Arthur Cornelio tween heaven and earth and plot-pittoresque. Moi, je ne comprends und- smiled He looked at me Rozario, No. 6. Chatham Road, ted evil against both. At its highest pas ca"
Hla companion Kowloon. to Miss Henriette Marie it was one of the graces of humup- Louise Demee, No. 12, Tung Hing kind, a pleasant thing that shone apologetically.
shook his head slowly. It was too like a lump in the mirk of strife. Road, Kowlcon.
difficult a thought.
And there were Pedro and Maria It still survives to-day, but it is The absence of an Indian watch-difficult to come by difficult, that of the inn at Riap. in northern "gesman from his duties at the Talkoo is, if you have no fancy for travell Spain. They laid before me seven Dockyard was reported to the policeing alone in places where dwellings courses on the kitchen table, and yesterday by Mr. G. F. Bird, head me few and journeys must be rec-in order that I might be fittingly watchroan, who stated that Nebi koned by hours, rather than by entertained they sought out the. Buksh, aged about 35 years, miles, unless you make a hobby of schoolmaster, because he spoke btained 24 hours' leave on Friday spending your nights on the earth's French, and a man who had been Con-list and has not been seen since.
exposed prominences.
not
.
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ar
Far both at Home and in the East, will by na manner of means be, mollified by a mere formal pro- test of the type of which Nanking takes scant notice. The occasion, representing the culminating point of a long series of similar outrages, calls for more drastic action than that. Above all is" it necessary that there should be any weakening of the British attitude on the extrality question --rather the reverse. As tures" to China, we foolishly gave p Hankow, Klukiang. Chinkiang and Weihaiwel, and we are on the
to South America, because he would verge of surrendering the
I have a private store of hospit-be good company for a traveller, cession in Anioy. What do we get in return? Nothing but a dis- A report was made to the Police able memories, gathered haphazard, and the sergeant of carabineros. to yesterday to the effect that twenty without forethought, from time to because of his official position...
When asked what I owed for my inability play of China's
cases of electric bulbs valued at time--each, as it came, more unex-
night's lodging next morning they ordinary safe- | $3,000 were stolen from the pected than the last. guarantee
There is the old woman who lives were embarassed. It was not as godowns of: Messrs. Anderson, guards to foreign life and prope Meyer and Co., Ltd., at David in the north, twenty miles from a if I were a regular customer they ty which all civilised nations ex-Building. The cases were taken railway, in one of those highland said. I was an accidenta strang pect one from another. Mean- some time between August 9 and places where the road ends and er who had lost his way and
travellers who would cross the hill therefore 1 was a guest.
The same question brought a the October 6, with time.
proceed we
passes must go on foot by the negotiations to deprive foreigners'
At the Kowloon Magistracy this bridle tracks for another twenty similar answer once from a game- keeper's wife in Glen Orchy: In the snow time (six months, "Naething at all, naething at all. THE LATEST OUTRAGE.jot such rights as they now enjoy morning, a Chinese boy was fined or thirty miles.
expected. Folks'll Could folly possibly go to further $8, or one week's imprisonment, for and more) she sits by her fire of Ye weren't
circling on a cycle in Nathan Road limits of absurdity?
It is difficult to stop stringing last night. Inspector Marks point- Pine logs, gowned in rusty black, meet where the hills' no meet." a shawl round her head, and sees
instances together. el out that this practice was a
no one but her "poosie.". In the hospitable There need be no surprise at the
reghiar nuisance, and many com.
his free of Ine indignation expressed by the lead-R101 and the Airship's Future.
plaints had been received. The short summer it is her boast that There was the laughing man who the slopes of the on and that she has never refused any-chard
summer's night; ing newspapers of England at the
The conviction that airship de-road was being repaired at this she sees "a new face" every day, made
spot. There was sure to be a Jone a night's lodging, even if they Juras one fine murder of two English mission-
velopment has not yet emerged serious accident one day. aries by Communist brigands
She has solved the problem of the from Dijon who cut willow bran from the pioneer stage is tragically boy was fined $8. or six strokes with had to sleep on her cottage stairs. the bridge watchman on the road Fukien. Miss Harrison and supported by the appalling dis-the cane.
foolish folk who go wandering all ches to make me a snug bed under day among mountains. Whether the arch of his bridge on a night companion, Miss Nettleton,
they come in early, driven back by of thunderstorms; and the farmer been in bandit hands for three her experimental flight to India. a problem to be overcome.
fierce weather, or return late at jat Ardrishaig who slipped in to months, during which time it may The Secretary of State for Air, the is no doubt of the magnitude of right, tired and famished, having place eggs and milk beside me as be presumed that they suffered all Director of Civil Aviation and the task. But the disappearance been lured further than was wise I lay sleeping in his cartshed.
Best of them all Ilike to remem- manner of hardship. It is, at any numerous brilliant technical ex-in the Pacific, without trace, of aby the deceptive light of
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, OCT. 7
rate, known as a fact
1930.
the
fo
her
had
aster that overlook the R.101
and while their
on
Another
There
a calm
And there were the shepherd and
or-
that inperts, whom Britain could ill afford large Prince liner did not bring an Highland evening, they find the fire ber Manuel Garcia. Manuel Garcia to lose, were among the victims. end to world shipping. The loss crackling and the kitchen filled with came from Saragossa to see his a resinous odour, and a pot keep-father and mother in Ribas a long he was August one of Miss Nettleton's
relatives may of the R.101, appalling though it ing warm company on the hearth way off. I met him as
between Ribas topping the pass fingers was brutally cut off and derive some consolation from the undoubtedly is. should not bring with a row of bowls and a ladle.
(Continued on Page 7.) vent to a Chinese pastor with n
fact that these men nobly an end to airship development. demand for ransom. Little has sacrificed their lives for an ideal, been heard of either of the twoman's final domination of the air; Jadies since, until the dread news a searching inquiry into the whole, came to hand a few days ago that question of the practicability of they had been shot by their cap-lighter-than-air craft seems essen-
A more despieable outrageal before their
tors.
it would be difficult to imagine. It
We
successors are
re-
Before these giant ships were contructed, five fore-runners, of similar though smaller design, became total losses with a heavy
invited to venture similar hazards. Whatever conclusion may finally is made all the worse from the
be reached regarding the cause of fact that the heartless brigands the catastrophe, public belief in into whose hands these poor ladies the safety of airships has had the misfortune to fall were ceived a serious setback, which the operating in a region not far from performances of the Graf Zeppelin a Treaty Port-a circumstance and the R.100 will do little if any- which serves
to show the utter thing to negative. The Graf Zep- lack of powerful authority in dis-pelin would have been destroyed in April, 1920, on her first voyage tricte by no means far inland.
to America, had she not turned Other times, other days. back and made 2217 emergency recall that in 1807, when two Ger- landing at Toulon. The R.100 met man missionaries were murdered, grave difliculties both inward and the German Government did not outward on her Canadian flight. content itself with a mere pro. test: it promptly seized Kiaochow by force, in order to secure Ye- paration, and, as a consequence toll of lives. The R.28 disaster of the negotiations which follow-
over the Humber forced recogni- ed, it secured a lease of that ex-tion of the tremendous strides that tensive territory, eventually build- still had to be taken before lighter- ing a fine port at Tsingtao. But than-air craft could bring the for the Great War, the Germans regions above the earth under the would no doubt still have been in dominion of mankind, and possession of this territory. To-R.300 und R.101 emerged some day, murders of foreign mission-years later, embodying, it was said, all the safety measures pre- aries in China are by no means vious experience had proved to be Uncommon occurrances, but the
neccaspry. A heavy storm ended most that happens is the lodging the career of the R.101, a week of formal protests by the nations after she had emerged from her concerned. That, of itself, is bad shed with a new bay and additional enough, but when we ponder the "lift," the latest thing in aircraft fact that, coincident with these construction. A natural outcome outrages, negotiations have been are the views now expressed that airships are too vulnerable to and are still going on for placing weather disturbances. Are we to foreigners under the control of accept defeat? That is what the Government-which had shown its issue finally becomes, and we feel utter inability to protect them, we that Britain would be treacherous may well be excused, for wonder- to the memory and the wishes of ing how much latitude the Powers the R.101 victims If the answer intend granting to China, China's was in the affirmative. There' ie,
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