1934-12-27 — Page 7

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SPEEDY COAST. SERVICE COMFORTABI E TRAVEL

A few days ago the writer. had the pleasant opportunity of making a trip from Kai Tak to Canton by plane, at the kind Invitation of Mr. II, M. Bixby. Director of the China National Aviation Corporation. The plane. which had a special permit to land in Hongkong, left Shanghai at 10a.m. arrived in the Colony some time beforo 6 p.m. and departed for Canton the follow- ing morning.

Besides Mr. Bixby and passen- gera for Foochow, a very air- Mr. minded city, according to Bixby, the plane carried Mr. Unl En K, Managing Director of the China National Aviation Corpor ation and also Mr. Francis A. Nixon,

new Postal Commissioner. of Canton who made the entire trip from Tainan by plane. AL- though this was his first occasion to fly, Mr. Nixon enthusiastically declared that he woul never travel any other way except choice. aeroplane, if given

ining to end.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934.

In the glare of Goodlights illuminating the front of the San Francisco mint at the right,ko last of a series of shipments was made by night in the transfer of three-quarters of a billion dollars in gold to the Denver mint. Here you see the string of armoured trucks carrying the bullion, flanked by autos containing heavily armed guards, about to leave for the railroad yards to put the gold on train for

Den ver.

THE BOOKSHELF

by

afi

"THE WAY AND ITS POWER"

terary.

Mr.

Nomewhat startling to one peruses these pagea

AMAZING OAREER OE FORMER HONGKONG

BARON ALOISI

Continued from Page 6.1

RESİDENT

MR. A. K. HENDERSON

MADE BAILIE

A former Hongkong resident, in the person of Mr. A. K. Henderson, for many years In the service of the Hongkong Tramway Co., has been elected ʼn Magistrate of Gou- rock, where he has been ving since his retirement.

We took off at 7.40 a.m. on eight-passenger Douglas Dolphin seaplane and made a bee-line for "The Way and Its Power: Aby the Yugo-Slave, and therefore Canton at an average altitude of Study of the To Te Ching."" by hound up to the policy of Belgrade. ong thousand feet. An unforgeit. Arthur Waley (Messrs. George Italy was considered outside the able sight, indeed, is Hongkong Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London; sphere of Albanian interests and from the air. Flying is like be-75. 6d.) will be found" a most could count on nobody's support. holding beautiful panoramas from fascinating book, not only to Baron Aloisi focused his policy on the top of mountains. You see students of

Chinese philosophy Zogu and gradually convinced him only detalls from the train or but to all who are interested in of the peril in a Yugo-Slav venture, steamer, but the whole world in the development of human Next he discloned the advantages at your feet like a chessboard thought. Not the least interest which might derive to Albania when you are on the plane. Wong part of the book is the through friendship with Italy, al- flew over sea, Island, rivers, rice author's lengthy introduction in ways stressing the point that Italy At meeting of the Gourock felds, mountains, lowlands valleys this the most famous of the held no dreams of territorial.con Town Counell at which the ap. and foreste, an amazing success- Taolst scriptures. Waley quest, but merely wished to helppointment was made, the Provost ion of moving picture which keep has done a meritorious piece of in keeping foreign viderat Henderson as Junior Ballic. He proposed the election of Mr. one spellbound from the begin work by the excellence of his bay. Eventually on Aloisi said Mr. Henderson had been a translation, which he describes full assurance of the country's We crossed the Pearl River s philologicni Father than independence, pointing out that with member of the Council for several several times which, with Its

freedom there would corne progress year and had proved It good

Works Convener. innumerable cannis, junks, tiny

It IR

and civilisation after four centuries) attle fonting islets and sampans find, as

of servitude.

Judge Mathie, in seconding, re- presenta a mont picturesque scene telling of China in the Third Zogu saw the situation, and nc-ferred to the fact that Mfr. Hender- from the air. The countless Century B.C. that many of the cepted Haly's friendship offered by son was a Gourock boy, little Acttlements with their problems then commanding the Baron Aloisi; The corner stone of Inevitable pond and cluster of attention of philosophers and the building was

After Mr. Henderson had been thus tard, for invested with his chain of office. trees looked like so many mini-statesmen are similar in 'charac-Yugo-Siny influence, pressing and he thanked the Council, for the ature landscape gardens laid outter to those which to-day con- insistent, was permanently represa great honwar by an architect of genius,

front the world. Even disarma-ed. The roat was clear and Baren and said he would endeavour to conferred on him. ment figures nangut these; Aloisi began to build: he set upekery out the duties to the best of witness the remark of King Hui Albanion finances with an Italian his abilities. fof Chuo to Kung San-lung, loan and the creation of a National pacifist and logician: "Don't you Bank of Albania; he arganised a think the truth may be that arms small but compact army opened the cannot be suppressed?" To which door to Italian labour, enlarged oil; Kang replies: "The doctrine of concessions, built roads, bridges, the suppression of arms is the canals and hises. At the end of outcome of universal love, felt 1920 the first Treaty of Tirana equally towards everyone under was drawn up, assuring political! heaven. If much love exists only and territorial Independence in words but not in actuality. Albania and supremacy over the this polley can certainly never Adriatic to Italy. In the course of be carried out." And does not a few months, under Signor Mus- the prospect of disarmament to solini's orders. Baron Aloist had day still rest on the sincerity of built a solid foundation for the

43-MINUTES FLIGHT

We reached Canton after 40 minutes_nctual flying_and landed on the Pearl River. The landing was just as perfect as the take-off. the plane was in the hands of one other than Mr. C. G. Sellers, x-pilot of General Chiang Kai- hek and T. V. Soong, and formerly n the South American services the Pan-American Airways. That a contrast between flying ow and 13 years ago when irst flew up in the air (physically peaking) on a sight-seeing aero- lano over San

Francisco. It

fo

as a dollar a minute trip and those who pay it lip services?" growth of Rome's policy In The

can

"The Way "and Its Power" in a Balkans, valuable contribution to the

In

us the the

CORRESPONDENCE

Threatened Strike

The Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph

"

Sir. Your correspondent, Mr. Lee Kean-chee, lara welcome

Sympathizer with the Mercantil Marine officers, even though his sympathies are somewhat divided at present,

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ame to earth frozen and sick and wearing that I would never By gain.

knowledge of China of other The third and last achievement, To-day you recline in specially days, rendered all the more so by before his appointment

May I suggest that Mr. Lee esigned, comfortabile sents, pro- the care taken in its translation.

Duce's right-hand man- ut

endeavour, as a layman, to dis cted from the cold and wind by A. CENTURY OF CONFLICT indows through which you

Foreign Oflee, was his policy in cover what becomes of the amount "Freedom and Organisa-Turkey. Just as Albania had been of money representing the differ-3.38 metres, and DJM (91.45 metres)." atch the scenery pass by on both tion: 1814-1914" (Messrs, George an obstacle to the development of agreed to pay and the sum the ence between the wages the owners, des. There is no sensation of | Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London; Italy's policy on the Adriatic coast, oving at all but for the changing 159.). Bertrand Russell, in col-Turkey was barring the way to

Mercantile Marine officera ows which keep your attention laboration veted on the landscape all the seeks to show the weakening of other words, Turkey, all but a

with Peter Spence, Italy's penetration in the Near East, actually receive, something “far

below a living wage?" cabinet me. The pilot's

is the old forms of authority as a friend, was making it impossible the engaging of these men, how Also, if no coercion is used in parated from the passenger com- result of Liburgi uskulta

and for Italy to get supplies of all that their numerous predecessors rtment by a door, and inside the more

or legs unintended is essential to a country lacking in

o plane the noise of the motor growth of new forms of organ-coal, wood, oil and iron. Baron come to vacate, their berths?

not at all so strong as it is isation owing to economie and Alois opened his political campaign

Mr. Lee might give his full nerally supposed. As a matter | technical developments, The Ankara by assuring the Turkishpathies to the Mercantile

fact, you can ur neighbour without unduly and practice in the politics of the Mussolini, timt Italy was willing not to mention a number of converse with theme is the interaction of theory Government, on behalf of Signor Marine officers after obtaining fa

formation 011 these two points orting your voice. But who hundred years between the fall to give up all claims on Anatolla. anta to converse when one can of Napoleon and the Great War.

The chief cause of distrust hay-

athers. a fascinating panorama In the author's view, the 19th, thus been removed, Baron

Centary

brought to WIN

its Aloisi set to work to build up rela- disastrous end by the conflict tions between Rome and Ankara: a

se by at the rate of two miles

tch

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AT THE HOTELS

Although the passenger and air- between industrial technique and new impulse was given to Italo-days, a Chinese, Lau Kam, walked up il services begins to function political theory: the same catises Turkish trale, Turkey's views into No. 158 Queen's Road West, ground

GUESTS WHO ARE STAYING- icially on January 1, 1936, there that produced the Great War still international affairs were strongly floor, and in full view of the falls of

AT REPULSE BAY s & respectable amount of operate and, unless checked by supported in Rome, and Turkey was the shop carried away three wooden vate mail for Canton and some the international control of portant documents which miss-vestment and raw materini, will which retrieved the country from without food for three days. Acting Allen, Mira. E. G. Allen, Mr. and Mrs.

in- finally given

The fellowing guests are staying an access to Europe, tubs. He was arrested, and when at the Repulse Bay Hotel:

taken to the station stated he was the Munlia boat at Shanghai inevitably produce, the

her Oriental Isolation.

and Mrs. Ablly, Mr. D. day before. Leaving Shang-effect, but on n larger scale.

Sub-Inspector Tylor told Mr. W. M. A. Bruusgaard. Mr. and tra. 0.

same

the St.

more than a day after the de- is not by pacifist sentiment, but his way into the heart of the yesterday morning, when defendant B

"It Step by step Baron Alois! made Thomson, at the Central Magistracy Bruusgaard, Mr. and Mrs. F. 3. ture of the steamer for Manila, by worldwide organisation that Turk and silently conducted his war charged, that the man ate some Boyd," Mr. T. and Mrs. E. C. papers were put on board the civilised mankindle to be saved policy which resulted in a door rice given him ravenously. The de- C. G. Blake, Mrs. J.

Broxup. Mr. amer in Hongkong to reach from; collective disaster."

open on the Black Sea for Italy. fendant did not know who his parents Mr. A. Bauermann, Mr. A. Brearley,.

R. Brown, alla on time,

As might bo imagined, the Finally the Italian cavoy escort-were, and had no relatives in long Misa U. Brearley, Miss M. Beever, CO-OPERATION NEEDED

author approaches the problem d the Turkish Foreign Ministerong. Mr. Thomson bound defendant Afr. and Mrs. G. E. Costello, Mr. and The schedule allows the plane involved from an extremely ad- to Rome." where

over to be of good behaviour in a Birs. A. Drauth; Miss Dewanop, Mr. remain in Canton for 38 hours, vanced viewpoint. The book is drawn up at Ankara were duly

agreements bond of $25 for one year.

and Mr. E. Davidson, Capt. C. C. enabling one to reply by air forcefully written, with much aligned by Towk tushdi Bey and

Duchesne, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Elliott, to the letters received in the evidence of wide

Signor Mussolint. The pict research. In

of The clusing date for

Mr. T. S. Frost, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. ning of the same day, Cor- covering the

Oriendship between Italy iBsUcy numerous pandence posted in Canton is raised, and is freely interspersed Turkey gerved the double purpose in has been extended to Jamiary 15. and Mrs. B. G., Wing Comdr. and John Ambulance Painting Competl Feltham, Mr. F. J. J. Fenwick, Dr.

E. Glenny, ivered in Shanghai the follow-with characteristically caustic of a bridge for Turkey to span the children will he thirty

The entrance fee for all morning and vice versa, and comment where historical deve-stance which cut her off from respective of the number of pictures Kehoot- cente, ir-

Hay-Edie, Miss I. Hay-Edle, Mr. and an be easily appreciated what lopments have run contrary to European polities and economy, entered by each exhibitor.

Mrs. J. R. Hooley, Mr. G. J. Hennep- antage such a service would the author's idens.

Mr. T. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Harris, Mr. and Mra, A. the

Sea, whence supplies can

Hicks, Mr. L Henderson, Miss S. Tirana and Ankara

now. Higgins, Dr. and Mrs. 3. Krysin- he same day or his letter would up business tremendously.

mile-stones marking victories in

two come freely.

aki, Mr. E. Lansdowne, Mr. and Mrs. delivered

These, in briof, are the sallent W. Latrille, Mr. and Mrs. T. R.. the following The fact that air mail and the history of Baron Alolai's pointa in a long line of services MacDonald, Mr., G. D. McCormick, ning.

passenger insurance rates almost political campaign. Without the rendered by Baron Aloial to his Mr. E. Toast until such time as the all over the world are the same as Past of Tirana, Italy would, no country. The past, wherein great McInnes, Mr. A. 1. Morrison, 0. Murphy, Mr. I. or of landing rights is for other means of transportation, doubt, have been obliged to give things were accomplished by him .. G. Mancini, Mrs. C. A. Nahmma- Airs. G. B. Meliahon, Mr. and Mrs. nged, co-operation between is a definite indication that the in to combined Chinese and Hongkong Post airways are here to stay and it France and the Little Entente; of this man who holds many a Madame M. M. Payneau, Mr. and Mrs.

pressure from in silence describes the nature

cher, Mr. and Mrs. K. Nockelman, coring the way of agreeing on

will be to the great advantage of without the treaty with Turkey surprise in store for those who II. C. Pullen, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. rate for air mail between Hongkong to fall in line with the she would have missed a link till the fertile soll of Interna- Talbot Pakenham, Mr. R. Peinsot, in China and Hongkong is development of the day:A. Eppy, between her ports and the Black tlonal politics..

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