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This, immediately aftor Mr. Stimson's declaration in regard to the implications of the Kellogg Pact, and followed up by the visit of the Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Secretary of State, suffices Roadster to show that American observers are keenly awaiting the issue of Commission's Andings. In Japan, too,' concern is apparent. Some little time ago, Tokyo re-nounced of Mr. G. J. B. Shuldt, mer- THE NEW STUDEBAKER SIX report would be largely non-com-

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MONY WITH ONE'S SELF? NO MAN

WHAT IS HAPPINESS BUT HARJOW LONG can you spars?” [to know just how much to leave HAS A RIGHT TO ENJOY UNTIL HE

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out. Some of the objects ho marka "That's not very long, clearly may not seem of any great HAS STEELED HIMSELF TO DO WITH but I'll do my best."

importanco, but he puts them in OUT ENJOYMENT.-Ibacn.

Surprising man! Second chief because he knows they will help... of a Government Department, and An insignificant monument yet he did not fumble for his cairn on a hill-top may be a great landmark for cross-country walk- watch and any, "I think I can

An after-era in a sparsely populated dia. apare you ten minutes." noon was all too brief a space for trict." him to gather together the in- Wo were watching a draughts- morable threads for the spin-man at work on a black and white he skeleton map, twice the size of hin of maps would rather talk shop scraps cut from Inch-to-the-mile was a maker of mups, and makers|board. Ho was surrounded by

than drink nectar for "shop" to maps of the last edition, and also them is the curious face of the by scraps-of six-inch-to-the-mile earth, and the still more curious maps. The scraps had marks movements of man upon it, and and notes on them in different the delicate adjustment of fingers coloured inks and crayons, and and brain in the service of clear, each scrap meant miles of tramp- crisp craftsmanship.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 102.

LYTTON REPORT

SPECULATION

It is well that, at the present juncture, there should be a definite denial of statements which have been issued purporting to indicate

mind to say.

Or one thing we may be sure, namely, that Lord Lytton and his colleagues will be quite impartial in their conclusions. They can not afford to give consideration to the possible political reactions of their

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Found wandering about the Railway Pier yesterday, He Yee-pan, aged 4 was removed to the Mental Hospital. is being believed that he was insane.

On the 10th inst. Major V. E, Duclos, Canadian Government Trade Commissioner in Hongkong, will leave on his first official tour to Amos, Foochow and Swatow, on the s.s. Hai Ning.

Whilst carrying a shell weighing about two hundredweight at the R.A.S.C. Armament Depot in Queen's Road East, n coolie received injuries to his knee and left arm when the shell slipped from his grasp.

We walked as we passed from ful note-taking and cload watching. room to room and from building for changes on the face of the land to building of the Headquarters of lnce the last map came into be the Ordnance Survey Departmenting,

at Southampton, or, rather, he Inch-to-the-mile revivers, the talked and I listened, making now wandering gypsies of the Ordnance and then inadequate appreciative Survey, are hunters of all things noises.

now, and of some things old for which modern man has found new use. Their day's bag may in- His story hegan ago, when he and his army surline, a few wireless masts, and an clude an electricity transmission veyed the whole of this island and

may

years

than all

Ireland. That saga would be to uncharted National Trust estate, During the trip of the Yaumati long to sing. Mountain tops were but they may also trace step by report. They have been ferry Man Tak from Hongkong to in it and men clinging to their step a footpath older given a definite job—to investi. Yaginati at 11.15 a.m. yesterday a barren polls in rough granite, roads, that wriggles its quiet gate, mi the spot, the whole Man-Chinese jumped overboard with the shelters, waiting and watching length into the untainted wild.

apparent intention of committing) day after day for a haze to shift churian problem; and they have suicide. He was rescued by a seaman.or a cap of cloud to lift from a been charged with that duty, not the representatives of any

AS

Country or countries, but as ad visers to the League of Nations. A colourless report, or ene which fails to face' up to the realities, would not only serve no practical purpose. but it would inevitably do immense damage to the pres Aige of the Lengue. The issues are well-defined; there can be no reason for ambiguity. Only an outspoken document will meet the

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Band Concerts. The extent to which public band concerts have become part of sum- mer life in English cities indicates that there is an enormous demand

My instructor look a zestful distant peak. (An observation pride in all this labour: "We from Snowdon to Slieve Donari, don't take anything on trust. Been A young Chinese, described as 14 carpenter, of Hankow Road, was over a hundred miles away, form- bitten once or twice. The Minis-. taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital ed the base of one triangle.) try of Transport gave us a graded yesterday suffering from injuries in- To-day it is the overlaying of the list of new roads a few years ago.

licted by a fellow workman

who countryside by mas, his houses. and one of our road revisers dis- threw rice barwi at him during his factories, his suburbs, his covered that some of them were fight.

ronds, his power grids, his racing lous hopes-schemes not yet ful- tracks, his nerodromes, as much as filled. And the Air Ministry once An Austin Seven, valued at $1,000, the constant need to check its own plotted an aerodrome for us that helonging to Mr. B. D. Sugars, store-past, observations of the bones and had only been built on paper. krope of the Public Works Depart-contours of the earth, that keeps Dreams are pleasant, but we jook ment, was renuved from the car park the Ordnance Survey Department for facts," in Salisbury Rand at the Star Ferry moving in cycles of concentrated some time between 7 p.m. yesterday hard work.) und 1.-15 a.m. to-diny.

"He was watching with atfection- ate eagerness the work of a man Fifteen-year cycles they are, who was putting place-names on a Every fifteen years complete revised map That is called "writ- Mr. John Fletcher, of 30, Carnar revision of the small-scale mapsing in the Ordnance Survey. It yon Road, has reported to the police of Great Britain is begun. No is done with a slender brush by that his son Prank, aged eight years..

kak.

UNDER 16

SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN SPECIAL CASES.”

first two

was bitten by a chow dog belonging sooner, that is to say, was the last craftsmen who have steadier hands to Mr. Stoyle, of 98, Salisbury Road, sheet of the fourth edition of the than any Bisley King's Prizeman. The boy was treated at the Kowloon inch-to-the-mile map ready for Look at either of the Hospital and the dog sent to Matau- | publication than our surveyors inch-to-the-mile sheets of the were buaily preparing the first fifth edition if you have them, and sheet of the fifth edition. Scot-you will see what I mean. One land's third revision has been folded second is enough to ex- of been attacked. The first two clan and Jovely letters-names sheets of the English fifth edition, of towna, villages, mansions, Plymouth and the country stretch-farms, hills, rivers, benchos, craga, ing north to Dartmoor, have been headlands-and then breathe 21 issued. In 1941 the last sheet of word of thanks to the craftsman the fifth edition will be ready—whose delicate touch and infinite thun All hands to the sixth care can weave such a forest of edition!

pure lines and slender curves for Mr. Justice McCurdie had an

The small-scale maps are only you to dwell upon. unusund case before him at War-

branches of An Ordnance Survey map is no wick Assizes in which it was stated one of the many that a girl of 16 could not be mar Ordnance Survey work, but they mere mechanical reproduction. It skill and ried by law although her parents are the near concern of the hun-is a record of humun

dreds of thousands of people who labour, and it is the work of quiet were willing that she should marry earn to value the dips, rises and men. Never have I seen so many "It is a thousand pitios," said long, running skylines of this is quiet, earnest men-and some the Judge, "that they could not have and through their teaching. And women as in that group of build- been married before this, but a law the work of the small-scale reviserings at Southampton. has been passed that no one can be requires a selective intelligence, Concentration is in every, room married at a less age than 16, how-an instinctive knowledge of what on the faces of the draughtsmen ever fully developed that person the walker, the climber, the holi and the "writers" bending over may be.

nis girl is perfectly filday explorer will want to be told, their boards, in the fingers of the to marry.

and what his untrained eye will plate maps with a steel needle, in

fect," he added, "and magistrates scupe.

"In my view the law is imper-most readily pick out of a land-the eyes of the man who tends a camera so large that you could ought to be given, the power to dis- "Your large-scale man," explain-go to bed between its lens and its deliberate, poised penso with the provisions of the fed my instructor, "plots every-plate in the law if they are satisfied that it is thing-all man's additions to the movements of the colour-process in the interests of a girl or a man earth down to his fences and the workers and the printing press that a relaxation should be made ground plans of his furm stead-minders and the women who cut in special cases."

ings. The small-scale reviser has fund paste and fold and pack with n dexterity that is almost sleight of hand.

for this sort of entertainment JUDGE AND MARRIAGE|completed, and now England has amine. Admire the clusters among European communities. Besides offering refreshment and a certain amount of musical educa- tion, alfresco concerts provide an oft-repeated incentive to flat dwel- Jers to forsake their quarters for broader, fresher scenes and of other people brightening under the congenial atmosphere. In Hong kong, after a brief experiment, the nature of the Lytton Commis-

IL has been thought- neces sion's report regarding the sitan-sary to omit. concerts ostensibly be- tion in Manchuria, There can be enuse of the condition of budget. no doubt,, of course, that as the This means that hundreds must time draws near for the presenta- forego the pleasure and inspiration tim of the report, speculation re- of musical evenings at a time when garding its probable contents will these are more than usually valu- able. The big majority of persons become more rife. Japan and who attend band concerts could, China, in particular, will be won-and no doubt would, give something dering just what the investigators toward supporting them if invited will have to guy, and it is also to do so. Then, too, many public- quite natural that the United spirited citizens might feel that States should he manifesting some contributions toward the mainten- curiosity on the subject. But at ance of public concerts would serve a useful purpose in providing the present moment all these speca-wholesome, cheering recreation for lations and attempts to forecast their less affluent fellow citizens. the Commission's findings mustSuch activity would offer an exam- obviously be nothing other than ple of service that could hardly guesswork. For this reason, it is fail to arouse an Important public wise to treat these reports with interest in municipal problems. It something more than mere reserve: would contribute to a deeper ap- preciation of real as against "can- they should be completely ignored. ned" music. Morcover, the initin- The position, as revealed in antive of those co-operating to pro ocial statement from the Convide music in the evening might missioners, is that the report is prove a valuable incentive to simi- now in process of being drafted, lar efforts in other fields of endeav- and the conclusions will not be our.

dealt with until the very last minute. This, of course, is not to imply that Lord Lytton and his colleagues have no iden of what they are likely to say; by this time, they must have formed fairly clear- cut opinions on the problem with

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But the most thoughtful man of all-the Director-General-might be called the master of maps. He Hits apart and considers the past and the future. The past is a reponalbility; the Ordnance Sur- Ivey has a tradition that must be. lived up to. It invented limelight to maké mountain tops stand out in the darkness of night; it invent- ed the heliograph to flash mcs- sages to its watchers on far horizons; and it revolutionised map reproduction by Inventing the photographic process known as hellozincography. Geographers, archæologists, geologists, botan- lats, and all who love to find their the less be-roaded way about corners of this island look to it for guidance.

The growing army. of map- buyers must be assured of over- increasing simplicity and *X- actitude. Parish boundaries wore left out of one edition, and the letter boxes of the Ordnance Sur- vey were crammod with protests from local historians and archeologists. Parish boundaries have been. restored. Eloven colours were used just before the War. The rosult was

an inch- to-tho-mile map of surpassing beauty and clearness, but it was too expensivo to produco, Seven colours now suffice--and still the ¦map reveals the bones of England. So the work goes on. In 1980, for thereabouts, we shall be able to. pasa gnarled fingers over the inch- to-the-mlio mape of our youth and say to our grandchildren, "This was England as we know it."