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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NOTES OF THE DAY

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SVEN HEDIN

The seventieth birthday of the untiring explorer, Sven Hodín, le

a good day for the expression of admiration which this man's con-

YOUTH REVIVES ART OF RIDING.

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By LADY APSLEY.

The Very Idea!.

DET. AYESAW ON THE MAKE ·

By George

are witnessing a districts, but the same spleit and DETECTIVE Ayesaw and tinuing accomplishments Inspire.-DAY

rovival of Interest in riding skili animate them all,

ourself sat rather dis- consolately in the little bed- sitting room we shared off Nathan Road.

At present he is at work survey among all ages and classes, but ing a great highway in China's nowhero is this Intoreat more

The branches are kept in touch Interior at Jonst he was, unt!! a marked than among the rising

visiting commissioners and fow days ago he went to Nanking genoration. Christmas holidays do by

not last long. frost and fog have courses of lectures arranged by

It was sufficiently far off to receive a much-coveted honour intervened, but during this time we district commissioners and instruc at the hands of the Government. have been treated to a delightful tora. Thus the newest and best Nathan Road to avoid the sound He will return to his work in the display of horsemanship, know- proved theorles and practices of of buses and high rents but still.

general equitation aro conveyed to Born in ledge of real sport and

the decently remote from Shanghai feld again shortly.

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Stockholm on February 10, 1865, sound judgment from young riders farthest branch.

of both sexes. Girls, generally, To-day, in the hunting feld,

Ayesaw got up from the bed and Sren Hedin has been attracted from havo more chances to excel in good, clean sport is more difficult for the fifth time opened the bot- his earliest youth by distant lands. riding; but a few days ago out to obtain, and much more expen tom drawer of the common ward-

A hunting I saw two boys taking alve, and though the meet may be. INCREASINGLY Popular Cars At the age of 20 ho accepted

- at Popular Prices. position as tutor in Baku where their own line over a country, well easier to reach by train and cars, robe. Hungry and tired as-wo THE FINEST SALOON MODELS for the first time he came in touch up with hounds, in a manner which horsea are scarcer and better-bred wore, from ahear force of habit wo was as near perfection possible

slippery roads, ribbon devolop deductions which serve to what the Light Six

with the Far East and its unex--one youngster being the son of a requiring better riders; while had to hazard one of those brilliant Standard £220., De Luxe £240.plorod possibilities. Asla lay local tradesman, the other a Lower ment make new dangers, neceast-mind of a great detective.

"You are looking for food?” wo Big Six

stretched before him; vast ex-Boy at Eton. Both had "made" tating perfect control and better-

croaked huskily. their own ponios, and though one trained horses, £325.

countrica of unknown panses

mount had a rough coat and the Moreover, good horsemanship.. The detective, his eyes still fixed become a motorist owner if you bouring mystery, all day ahead of the two young owners later in the to do, and how to avoid unnecessary to the bed to look for his pipe.

He had been groping for some are desirous of a change-if you him. No wonder then that the day rodo home together, happily damage to the land we are per-

was obviously sary to-day than ever it was before. tired of doing the gimlet act when exploring combined

Undoubtedly, there Is an increas Hunting Is not the loose-reined

we found the pipe and put it in restlessness of the modern scho-ing and universal interest taken in uffair depicted in old prints!

his hand. Thon with his tooth become the horse, but among the young in the old days, before care, lar, was impelled to

trea- the chief, if not entire, credit for everyone depended on horses and loopt apart by the pipe ho advanced acquainted with unknown

the markedly high standard of learnt to ride as a matter of course, to the drawer again, and fell into sures.

As early ns 1886 to 1890 riding visible not only. among 1aking the earliest and probable long silence,

We too fell into a long silence HÓNGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. he traversed Persia and Meso children of well-to-do parents and only lesson from old coachmen of

In hunting districts but also ia the "Sit back, Minster Richard," having gono to sleep on the bed 80 rarely vacated by Stubbs Rd, potamia, and in 1890-91 he was on

a new expedition to Russian Tur-areas where hunting is nearly non-idea. Many of us, born with reins which was kestan and the region of the existent and country facilities dif- in our hands, so to speak, learnt the great detective.

Whilst at home he proferred to Pamir which was explored by him ficult to attain, is due to the in- if such a word can be applied to

fluence of the Pony Club.

euch haphazard tuition-by being take his problema to bod with him This was started in 1929 as the turned loose on unmade and un- and we na usual had to sleep on the

floor. junior branch of the Institute of suitable ponies.

Small wonder if learning by ex- the Horse, formed during the Inst ten years by certain' men and perience proved so disheartening women keen to preserve the best and painful a proceeding that it arts of horsemanship, and to en- courage the breeding of the right type of riding horse. The result exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the founders.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1935.

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"Yes. I was wondering whether

for the first time. Ho almost rudged himself sufficient time to rest and hardly had he published the results of his journeying when he was off in 1899 on his first big in hunting, to cultivate the higher was abandoned as soon as possible, you had enten all the chocolatos penetration of Central Asia which led him to districts never before traversed by a European. It was he who discovered the ruins of the

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you bought yesterday with your", sweepstake win,"

Wo woke with a start. It was

Arcanw allll gazing at the drawer and addressing us.

Learning by making your own mistakes is useful when you can recognise your mistakes; but it is

He had found out about tho ancient city of Lu-Lau whose im-

certain that there are many people mense stonework bears testimony

riding and hunting to-day with bad chocolate, we reflected gulltily, to the high degree of culture pre- There are now over a hundred seats, bad hands, and so on, who and would most aurely insist on a branches of the Pony Club. The owe these quite unnecessary charac-good half of it. There were valling in those lands many many membership is not far short of nine teristics to their lack of real In- certainly some disadvantages of centuries ago. He even entered thousand children under the age of struction in their early days. All living with such a vivid brain as Tibet, wrapt in seclusion, hitherto seventeen. Over seventeen they this the Pony Club ans altered, and our friend possessed, we reflected. It is amazing how well the young as we retrieved three crestfallen impenetrable; but to do so he ran join as associates.

bara from our trouser pockets and countless risks

at times dis- The object of the Pony Club; in generation have responded.

All children are imitative and in handed them over to Ayesaw. guised in the strangest costumes its own words, is "to encourage

The great detective lit his pipe to save his very life. What he saw young people to ride and enjoy all stinctively appreciative of the true

kinds of sport connected with export-consequently

secs and placed it carefully on a pair there impressed him deeply. Ha horses and riding, to inntil in them miniature Geoffrey Brookes of our trousers which were wait-

elding to be pressed, was prevented, however, partly by the proper care of their animals, Rotten Row, in the hunting-feld,

Then he took two bars of choco- · force, from entering Lhasen, the and to offer then the opportunity in the suburbs, on the downs, and

of receiving instruction of a higher "just backing about." Holy City and capital, and so a class and on more orthodox lines ners and turn-out of both riders into with the same air of delibera-

than himself compelled to relinquish. all hope of realising his most ardent desire. Instend he crossed the Karakorum Paas and reached Kashgar, where the journey came

SECOND THOUGHTS Although it is hardly to be expected that the Labour Party, if and when it next comes into power, will be dominated in its policies by its extreme Left Wing, there is undoubtedly a fear prevalent in some quarters that an early accession of power by the Labourites would not be to the national advantage. As sumption of the Government would, however, no doubt be accompanied by a tempering of outlook, as power brings with it a sense of responsibility which is inclined to show its effects in a sobering of viewpoint. It is, to an end. indeed, not without interest at

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As usual we agreed and at that very moment there came a knock on the door in the passage. We both rushed to the keyhole and peered through. Detective Ayesaw's name plato was fixed to a door to "a cubby hole opposite which Dover opened but its position enabled us to examine our visitors at leisure before calling them over to our room and explaining that the detective had not yet left his- dressing gown,

knowledge-both know their part Tavenously, paper and all, before

our very eуca. dividually, of them can obtain in- and ponies have improved beyond tlon and began to eat them

The value of such a force, added and do it.

"You must be hungry," to the interest of at least two Gone are most of the silk jockey. grown-up relatives, in incalculable, caps, fancy coats, and funny get pointed out and for once Ayesaw and beat shown perhaps indirectly.ups, causing such agony of soul to had no fault to find with our de- For instance, we all knew local the wearer sensing that disapproval ductions. Ho looked horse shows which since the war of others so feelingly described by maining bar of chocolate and de- had become almost moribund, due Siegfried Sassoon in his "Memories voured it with his eye. the moment to note that Sir OFF AGAIN

to the loss of old patrons, rising of a Fox-Hunting Man." Stafford Cripps, who has earned

children To what heights

{"_can_ge!" By 1903 he under way expenses, and other popular amuse-

was

When, minutes later, satiated some notoriety as an exponent again, this time starting from ments, return to pristine glory on when taught by real enthusiasts

Inclusion of well-arranged was amazingly illustrated last sum- with chocolate, the great detective of the advantages of dictator- Persia. He discovered the Trans. the

mer at the International Horse reached for his mouth organ we a crisis had passed. ship, appears, like many others, Himalayan Ranges, an entirely un- children's classes.

quote many Show at Olympia, remarkable for know that known region, crossing these to have lost a great deal, if not mountains no less than eight times examples in some of the lesser-the two displays given by the Detective Ayesaw evaded a rather SSPESESSSSSSSSSSSSSCall, of his enthusiasm for that with supreme effort and fortitude, known hunting countries of certain children of the Cotswold and Mey-diffcult passage in Beethoven's not nell Hunts. Both were superb. Tugue B flat-even more difficult in particular form, of government. suffering terrible privations, often covert-owners and farmers,

Whether we shall ever see a roa bedsitting room-to remark that over their land,vival of the dressage tests of the we had better get a case soon or A pronouncement which he re-tortured by hunger and thirst to formerly sympathetic to foxen or to

In 1909 running

in Vienna where the to face the morrow. that during his quiescence of re- he busied himself with the work thusiasm of a small daughter for Riding

For, of course, not all the mem- and they spend their lives in the cent months he has been doing attached to his varied discoveries her local branch of the Pony Club. horses pedigrees go back 709 years,

which caused the liveliest interest some revision work upon his throughout

the world. During bers are children of hunting and riding school-I cannot day, but political cread. Sir Stafford the War he spent considerable riding parents, and the children of um certain that, on the whole, the now believes that if the nation time on the German fronts, reach-armors whose land is hunted over next generation in this country will welcomed. Several branches ride beautifully, and in doing so, as Palestine and re ing as far

(Continued on next column) will only face the tusk of con- Mesopotamia in 1918. In 1927 are not even altuated in hunting structing a suitable democratic together with several Chinese, machine, there is no reason why Swedish, and German scientists, he set forth anew on an expedi- we should have to pass through tion of Central Asia, this time the dictatorship phase like purposing to investigato meteoro- the im- some nations on the Continent. logical conditions on Apparently he has abandoned mense plateau of Central Asia. A number of recording stations any idea that he may have har-were established whose recorda boured of himself providing have proved of great value to the scientific world. In his meny Great Britain with a dictator books on travel Sven Hedin has of extreme ability and infalli-thrown much light on the myster bility. But, short of recourse to ies of inner Aala, and particular credit is due him for opening the dictatorship, Sir Stafford accaitherto sealed book of Tibet. He plenty of scope for reform of the presents his readers with an en- political machinery of the coun-tirely new world and one is amazed try. The House of Lords, which at the courage, and daring dia played in entering territories in most people have come to regard which he was dogged almost daily as an innocuous if sometimes by death and destruction. He useful unit of the Constitution, has been honoured in every con- the ceivable way throughout is, in the eyes of Sir Stafford, a civilised world and his namo veiled dictatorship. Parliament ranks among the world's greatest as a whole has become mainly a explorers. machine for registering Minis-

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Six Lines.

"Now, study hard every day so mother, and daddy can be proud when they retard next spring."!

Through the door we saw an obviously high up Government official belabouring the door with a white and flabby fist. Streams of perapiration flowed down his face and had already bogun to make a pool round his foot,

"God, he'll ruin the mat," said Ayesaw disgustedly. "Bring him over."

And then we remembered! · Ayesaw's dressing gown had followed mino to the pawnshop only the day previous!

(What will poor old Ayceas do 10ithout his dressing gown? Will he be able to raise the wind in time or will he have to receive the visitor in bed? Anyway who ta this visitor? Is it a lachrymoss Public Works Department mas come to tear down the building or is it merely another complaint of aqueeze cutting which Ayesaw will. have to put right? See next thrill- ing, instalment).

I trust; lose none of their dash and- enthusiasm.

And what a good thing: As a Rreat French rider wrote: "In training a horse a man also trains himself Riding undoubtedly develops initiative, confidence, pa- tience, sympathy, neatness, quick- ness of mind, attention to detail and the matter in hand, as well as other desirable qualities. Riding is an

unsurpassed exerciso such fun.""

and