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NOTES OF THE DAY

LOUISIANA REVOLT

out, there

TO BARROW BY SLED DEER

By ELIZABETH FORREST (In The Christian Science Monitor)

FUVE o'clock of a morning early in huddle of sleepers. Near by a

The Very Idea!

OUR SILLY SYMPHONY:

By Horatio Bogg, Millionaire This pointed'allusion by owners:

of missing dogs to an unorthodox. diet being practised in Hongkong, has given us the very idea and a dreadful one.

Ringing the bell in our palatial Ponk mansion wo send for the chof whom we brought back from our last pleasure trip to Paris, ......

"Alphonso," we nak "have you got anything to do with these miss-

the suggestion with a characteristic shrug of his shouldera.

"Rien de tout," he replies. "All right, Alphonse; you are acquitted."

A well-meaning fellow is Al- phonse, the best cook it is possible to get anywhere. He docs overy- thing with the beat of intentions, but there have been times when

ment.

To British people, roport of a "revolt" against the State adminis tration in Louisiana by men who call themselves the "Square Dealers," When seems an Incredible thing. two hundred citizens of a city the size of Baton Rouge arm themselves with shotguns and threaten to fight in May found us toiling up Lopp reindeer dog growled omin in order to put an end to the "arroga gentle incline before the clusterously above her litter of pups. ant dictatorship" of the faction led. ed igloos of the Nekluk reindeer And in the centre of the floor, a by Squator Huey Long, it would herd. All nightwo had been freshly netted seal, its hide strip- scem that there must be something inbouring across the level, snowped hack to expose the creamy blub

cloaked tundra under the chill ber underneath, awaited the next very wrong with the political struc turo of Louisiana. Imagine two brilliance of the circling sun. At meal. hundred fellows from Manchester each step my sealskin boots broke The sleepers breathed heavily on, threatening the Council with shot-through the thin, deceptive, crust, undisturbed, while, stooping in the guna! If it had occurred anywhere sank knee-deep in soft snow. low space, we dragged our sleep. else in the United States it would Wearily I drew them out, only to ing bags to one torner of the igloo.

ing doga? have been called "revolution," thrust them in again, over and Although we had not eaten in many

He deprecates hours, sleep was the paramount But apparently that sort of thing is over-endicaaly.

At my side, Kitook, my sturdy need. Stripping of outer garments, expected in Senator Long's part of the country. As a matter of fact little sled deer, his head drooping we wriggled awkwardly into the one cannot be surprised at anything under the weight of great branch-depths of our bags. The floor was that happens there. Only recently ing antlers, mouth wide, snatching hard and very irregular. The rein. Long wan at war with the n bite of snow from time to time. deer hair of my bag prickled body Sensor Los administration, alle wallowed through auft drifts. The and sunburned face; but I fell ima gedly because his party machine's horizon line swept around us in a mediately into deep sleep. £325..

workings were interrupted by great, unbroken circle, bounding If you

Hours later 1 was awakened by arc contemplating to officials who felt that the game of the vast expanse of whito. Not a

the the odour of boiling seal meat, and become a motorist owner-if you political patronage was being push-sound broke the silence save the are desirous of a change if you ed too far. But in New Orleans, pant of Kitook's loud breathing opened one eye for a surreptitious are going on home leave--a word although the military was called the sharp crackle of sinews above peers. Squatting about a pan on the fetlock. Nothing was visible the igloo floor were some dozen Was never Auch from you to

demonstration as this at Baton upon the great white plain except men, women and children, conver- our three reindeer teants, strung ACQUAINT US OF YOUR Rouge. The New Dealers are

As I watched, Tautuk reached over REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL apparently business men, honest out, one behind the other, en route sing in low, guttural murmurs. these get the better of his judg FURNISH YOU WITH FULL fellows, and it will be a pity if their from the home village of Wales and, with the ivory-handled knife wright to pay a friendly call upon that he carried always in his belt, demonstration does not arouse a PARTICULARS.

higher authority than Senator Long our nearest white neighbours at apeared a chunk of seal meat from and put a stop to his foolery. Barrow, 100 ruiles away,

the pan. Sevek's wife raised

Having the previous day ne- We had left Wainwright in the muted outery, forced the portion evening in order to give our sled back fate the common pot, and cumulated another cool million on TO-MORROW'S TRAVEL

deer, in their shaggy winter coats, carefully chose a choicer portion a favourable turn of the exchange, When the chairman of Imperial the benefit of the cooler hours of for her guest. Tautuk raised the this with no other effort than, being Airwnya announced that the con- night. We should not have set piece of half-raw meat, seized it wheeled into it in a 3 coolie-power structional possibilities of civil air-put at all; for now had recently in his teeth and, with a deft stroke

ricksha, we thought the occasion a craft go far beyond anything that covered the tundra to a depth of of his short knife, slashed off a

severni inches, and neither blizzard sultable bite.

jolly good one for boosting our has been realised hitherto, he made

An exclamation from the shrivel- luck and the sumptuous appoint- it plain that the limits to-day are nor freeze had yet packed it to good sledding. But we had not determined only by what the public

in her direction. She had risen

favoured also with the cream of School was over for the year, and stiffly to her feet and hurried to were prepared to pay more

the date long set for our Barrow the seal oil lamp against the wall. Hongkong soelety-taipans and ground services and in subsidies,

visit had arrived. Our grub box Ita flame was burning low with the and passengers to pay higher fares, then quicker regular air services Wha packed to overflowing with yellowish tinge that indicated lack Ara, J. 1). Lloyd wishes to thank her could easily be provided between tered before freezing, chunks of reached over and pulled the rags Irozen beans, brend sliced and but of oxygen. Sevek's wife, Anga. friends for their great kindness England and Australia and a safe during her husband's illness, and service between England and roast reindeer, cookies, and dough from the lower end of the two- for their letters of sympathy America. This sequel indicates nuts. Our sled deer had been inch ventilating pipe, and the old after his death. There are that the recent dramatic air race the ley Cape herd. All

brought in two days' journey from grandmother skilfully built up the was inwick along the rim of the oval numerous that she regrets she is from Engiand to Australia provided readinoss. In spite of a trail that stone basin. Soon the flame leaned your very best effort," we told him.

one of those turning points which should have kept us at home, there-up afresh and the lump of seal

If anything, Alphonse is a master travel. If have marked the history of air

fore, my husband and I, with our blubber above it began dripping.in his own line. You may prate of that transcontinental

Eskimo guide, Tautuk, had set out rapidly into the bowl. Light, to the and transmarine journey

your portrait masterpieces, and and regretted it for eight ex-warmth and the fumes of burning your Frimis may keep the best they Antipodes could be made in three hausting hours. days, why cannot the ordinary time for air mail be reduced by 50 or more per cent.? The answer seems to be that it can, if the cost will be met.

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unable to Hawer them present. She also wishes thank all those who attended the funeral, for the donations to the Benevolent Society, and for the -benuliful flowers and wreaths,

DEATH

HIGGINS --On Tuesday, January 29, 1936, at the Canossa Huspital, Susan Higgins, of Messrs. Butter- feld and Swire. Funeral passes the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1936.

AVIATION PROSPECTS

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Take, for instance, the dinner wo gave on our last birthday.

is prepared to pay. If governmenta Acen a white face in many months old grandmother turned my eyesmonts of our table. We were to be

NEW EXPERIMENTS

for

Im

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can

seat oil filled the Igloo.

Unable longer with my empty Never was sight more welcome stomach to endure the mingled than the Nekduk igloos-shapeless odours, I drew myself to a sitting mounds of white from which black posture. At once all eyes turned stove-pipes thrust out aslant. in my direction. Then all faces

*

Anga hurried to a sealskin line

Civil Servants,

·

•

The morning of the banquet, therefore, we sent for Alphonso.

"I want you to make to-night's

can compose of the enchnating beauties of Hongkong, but Alphonse has his own artistic conceptions of cuisine.

the more

substantial delights of

What the nature of the various compositions were we had then not

loft

The banquet turned out to be a signal success. The wines were good; and Alphonse's well-varied collations' were all enjoyed, the. more so, we take it, because every- thing was a surprise. If they could do so without breaking good form, we believe the guests would have been loud in their praise.

Along n near-by snow ridge stretch-broke into smiles and a chorus of ed the herd, a mass of hundreds, of xuttural delight greeted Us. In his hade an ordinary enough The race stirred public opinion indun, brows and spotted deer, their agerly they crowded about the steak in transformed Into some- Britain. At once it became evident antlers silhouetted against the sky sleeping bags to shake our hands. thing surpassingly sublime-a per- that the British people were de-ine like a tangle of winter bran

fect symphony of culinary perfec- ches. No human life was visible, i manding much faster and bet-ut out from the igloo entrances above the stove and took from it then, to be approached with rever- ter inter-imperial communications. And swiftly in answer to this de-dashed a bevy of short-legged. my fur garments. Mittens, socks ence rather than with gusto.

and came the announcement that sharp-cared little reindeer dogs, and boots had been turned inside

For this our birthday banquet we Imperial-Airways was rendy disputing our approach.

out, carefully dried_of_melting. supply a regular seven-day service "You go in here, Sevek's Igloo," snow and perspiration, and rubbed gave him carte blanche, and he from England to Australia for sald Tautuk, as he unloaded our soft and pliable as velvet. A rip promised us a whole opera. passengers and mails. But that dunnage before the largest mound. in one fawnskin sock had been was not all. It had become appar-

"I look moss-stake out sled deer."mended with tiny parallel stitches ent that Britain was not willing to As Tautuk trudged away to per- of alnew, and a tour in the parka

form the Arctic equivalent of car sleeve had been neatly patched. the fogglest notion as they wore be behind hand in preparing for a parking, we turned to the igloo Thus, from our earliest recorded regular transatlantic service.

to be shown in French on the Fresh hopes of an understand. perial Airways is already experl-indicated. Bent nearly double, we history has the igloo hostess cared

menu-a la this and a la that, you ing being reached between the menting with

of drugged our grab box and sleeping for her transient guest. types new

with aeroplanes and also

bags in through a long hallway of An hour later, fed, warmed. know. But it was evidence of our Hongkong and Nanking Govern- posite

trust .and faith in ofanow blocks, pushed under a heavy rested, with fresh deer, we were perfect vessels, consisting ments in regard to mutual flying lying hout capable of lift-dogskin curtain, and entered the once more on our way to Barrow. Alphonse, the fact that we rights have been engendered by ing and launching into the air gloo. Coming from the glare of Travel was now slightly better, their entire selection to him, with the visit to the Colony of Mr. heavily laden scaplane. But It Bun on snow outside into the dim|30-below-zero temperatura and n only the proviso. that they must in seems more likely that the solution light filtering through seal intent-strong wind having packed the Tai En-ki, the managing direc-of the problem of regular services ine window overhead, at first we loose snow and tightened the crust. any, event be substantial. tor of the China National Avia-between England and the United could distinguish nothing. Pre-We travelled, too, for a great part tion Corporation. It is known States will be found in the use of ently, however, we made out cell of the night upon the frozen sea. floating, anchored sendromes. Suching, walls and floor of handhown Here the deer stretched out their that Mr. Tui has conferred with a service no longer holds out seri-driftwood with, in one corner, legs in a free, swinging trot that the local authorities on the ous economic difficulties. It among a heap of skins and robes, į (Continued on Pape 7.)

become a success as aeon as the subject, but, according to statement which he made in use of the floating ports.

nations agree to co-operate in their Canton, nothing definite tran- spired from the conversationa,, as the subject is at present en- the same time there have been gaging the attention both of the indications that it might be pre- Colonial Ofice and the Hong-pared to work in with any kong Government. The latter, substantially British concern. however, is said to be anxious It remains to be seen whether to come to in agreement on there are local interests willing mutually satisfactory lines and to come into the scheme. There thus open up the Colony to is, at any rate, guarantee of a aerial contact with China. It subsidy by the local Government has long been known that the if satisfactory arrangements authorities here and in London can be reached. But whatever are desirous of overcoming the the eventual procedure may be, present obstacles, and if Mr. it is essential that definite steps. Tai's statement of the quid probe taken, without further delay, quo which the Nanking Govern-in linking up this Colony with ment would be prepared to offer other aviation services. In- for the right to extend the cidentally, the C.N.A.C. is said G.N.A.C. Bervice to Hongkong to have no knowledge of the correctly represents the situa-American plans for a service tion, it is reasonable to expect from San Francisco to Canton; an early adjustment of the out-indeed, there is some, doubt standing issues. According to whether. China would be prepar Mr. Tal, the Nanking Govern-led to come into such a scheme; ment would, in exchange for the indications are that the C.N.A.C. right to bring its planes here, would profer to establish its grant permission for British own link with Manila. How- planes to fly over Chinese terri-lever that may be, It is some- tory on the projected Imperial thing to the good to realise that Airways route from Singapore. the project of bringing Hong- In such an event, says Mr. Tai, kong into aerial: contact, with there would be an exchange of the outside world is now assum- mails and passengers as between ing more definite shape, Happ!-

LTD. the two services. Hitherto, Itly, we can count on the Hong-

Six. Lines,

has been presumed that the Im-kong Government doing all with perial Airways would provide in its power to hasten the con- its own feeder service from summation of this much-needed Singapore to Hongkong, but at project:

"Don't you see, Marge? Deducting those eggs you borrowed's

from me yesterday I only owe you 80 conta."

The newspapers, in reporting it. also did us the honour of including it amongst the most brilliant social, functions of the season, and we wondered what the Smiths and Joneses, who were not invited, would think of it.

We

The next day

Dent for Alphonse to congratulate him on his masterpiece. Pointing to "grenouille" in the previous night's. dinner card, we remarked that the chicken was particularly good.

"But M'sicur," he interjected, "that was not chicken: it was zee al-"

Not here gotting the right word, Alphonse gave a spasmodic leap to demonstrato what he wished to convey.

́"FROGS!. You have not been feeding us with frogs, have you, Alphonso?" we'nsked in dismay,

Alphonse spread out his extend- ad hands. "Mais qué," he asserted.

Ever since that day wo have in- sisted on these symphonies being explained to us before, allowing Alphonso.to.compose the