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NEW PREPAREDNESS ....

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JUNE

LINKING HONGKONG AND CANTON.

By A. EDDY:

It would be hard to recall a time in history when political dogma bue played more definite a part in the affairs of men than it does to-day. In Europe, especially, Experience shows that communi- [ cannot afford to keep the motor car various dictatorships have evolved cations are a factor of paramount waiting, and would return by rail political creeds leaving "no hinge importance in promoting trade rela- or boat.

tions between communities, and nor loop to hang a doubt on.". In the most concrete expression of the

That a strong bus competition EXPENSE ! with Tennyson, that "there to Inaugurate in ers

these countries one can no longer desire of Hongkong and Canton would arise as a result of a motor of closer road is sure and certain, but it is lives more faith in honest doubt, friendship and commercial inter- not at all improbable that the addi- tional volume of business opened me, than in half the course would be the speedy con- creeds." Whole populations are struction of a motor road between up by the buses serving as feeders to the railway would in a way comi- the two cities,

pensate for the longes suffered In being reared as adherents of dog-

Incredible au it may soom, yet other directions as shown in the matic creeda. In many respects the Russian political creed is more the fact is that Hongkong and Can- case of the newly constructed motor aggressive than that of any other ton are the only two cities of simi-road between Shanghai and Hang- dictatorship. It is true that Rus-lar size in the world situated with- chow. 'sia's present rulors do not con-in 100, miles of each other, which

An investigation of the existing template the immediate addition of to-day are not connected by 'a new territory, that they have dis-motor rond. Search the map of rond facilities discloses the fact missed the prospect of immediate China or the five continents as you that all that is needed to effect a interference with the internal will, and you will not produce evi- motor connection between Hong- affairs of other countries. They dence to the contrary. This would kong and Canton is to build a do not emphasise it so strongly, be a circumstance easy to under-motor road about a mile and a half long each on both sides of the boun. perhaps, but they insist that stand if the two cities "world revolution" remains to-day, situated on the opposite slopes of dary at Shum-Chun from where it as It has been from the begin- the Himalaya mountain ranges, la possible to drive to Canton vin Waichow. The road is of course ning, a cardinal tenet of the but there is no geographic obstruc. Bolshevist creed, and they do not tion of any kind which would make let a day pass without, reminding the building of such a road even workers, peasants and students, difficult from an engineering point oven the smallest children, that of view. they are the "vanguard of world revolution, leading the proletarians of all countries to final victory over their bourgeois masters."

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The

Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1985.

A GERMAN TRIUMPH

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CAN'T BE OVERLOOKED

This is a new form of prepared- ness which statesmen can no more overlook than they can disregard military preparations. Perhaps Russia's present rulers intend only to arouse in their people the enthusiasm necessary to build up a backward country, to encourage them to endure present discomforts uncomplainingly. But results are close to chauvinism. Similar pre paredness programmes are under way in all European dietatorships. In fact, it is in the roots of dice tatorship to mass public sentiment so solidly behind dogma to make reason an unimportant factor in settling either domestic or inter- national disputes. Russia simply offers the most obvious example of a danger to which supporters of democracy should ever be alert.

TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT

DRIVING METHODS

For example, it is not generally realised that control methods affect the rear axle. If the clutch is allowed to engage with a jerk, as

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is badly adjusted and does not dis- strain is imposed on the rear axle engage completely, an excessivá | whenever the gear is changed.

Any mistake in gear-changing re-nets adversely upon the rear axle, so it is worth while practis ing changing until perfect.

were

It is true that the two cities can

primitive and roundabout, but it would be at least a beginning until it is improved and the necessary short cuts or a more direct road via Shek-Lung are constructed.

enally communicate, thanks to al What is true about the ronds' highly efficient railway and modern, mabilising dormant travel forces steamship lines, but there is com- applies equally to airway connec paratively very little of what could tions. It takes about 45 minutes be called pleasure travel on either to fly from Kal Tak to Canton, and the railway or bonts. The writer allowing another 45 minutes to who has opportunity to meet tour- reach the aerodromes at the point iste every day can cite many in-of departure and arrival, an air- stances when the Canton trip was trip would be practicable in 90 cancelled by individual travellers minutes or 3 hours for the return and groups, who had had too many trip.. Business men are obliged to steamer and rail journeys on their lose two days if they want to trans- way around the world and who pre-act business in Canton because it is ferred to make the Canton excur- almost impossible to accomplish any- sion by automobile.

thing within a working day when the greater part of that day is Then there are many motor car apent on the train. An air service owners in Hongkong who have would enable busy executives to do never visited Canton. Is it possible useful work in the neighbouring city to doubt that they would not make within a day and would land them an occasional trip, even if out of in their own bed on the night of puru curiosity, to the most colour- the same day. ful and progressive city in China, if there were n motor road between the two cities?

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Until the advent of an air service, arrangements could be made be- tween the Chinese Post Office and the local authorities for a regular

can be

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I understand that as soon as services began to (Continued on Page 4.)

The Very Idea!

POT-POURRI

The railway officials here are now more convinced than over that all Englishman are thad" (says a

Hardly had the Orient express recent news item from Venice.)

left here one afternoon" when it was brought to a standstill by a violent. ringing of the alarm. Conductors, ticket collectors, and Fasciat guards ran to see what had happened, and found on

luggage off the rack.. He had got Englishman calmly lifting his

into the train for Constantinople in mistake for the London express, he explained.

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Smilingly he paid the $10 penalty for "Misuse" of the alarm, thanked the officials for stopping the train, and just managed to catch his proper express for Lon- don.

HARD TIMES Beggar "It Isn't that I'm afraid. to work, ma'am, but there ain't much doing now' in my particular line."

Lady of the House-"Why, what...

are you?"

Beggar--"A window-box weeder,.

ma'am"

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CLARKS' GARCE

In a recent issue of The Factor's'

Clerk, the official organ of house factor's clerks of Scotland, the following "Grace for our annual dinner" was suggested

Some hao jaws that canna causo

A gumboil at a banquet; But we hao jaws that never -

pause,

Sac let the Lord be thankit.

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ODD NAMES Conversation at the tea party drifted into talk about odd names of people. One lady said that in her locality there lived in a stair a few years ago folk whose_sur- names were:-Buil, Lamb, Cowe, Gonte, Kidd.

Astonishment was heightened by another lady recalling that sho once know of a building where on White; next flat, Black and Green; one flat there ware Brown and and in a maindoor flat Gray.

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NASTY!

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"My poor husband wonderful artist," sighed the land- lady as she hacked at the pie- crust, "and always said he found inspiration in my cooking."

"A sculptor, I presume," sald the gloomy boardar, surveying his bent fork.

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WEEDS!

A church notice which might have been better expressed:

Subject. Weeds in the World's Garden. A very large ettendance is anticipated.

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ONE WAY

Mrs. Jones-"Dear me! The conversation is fingging dreadful- ly. What can we do to amuse these people?".

Mr. Jones "I don't know, un- less we go into the other room for a while to give them a chance, to talk about us."

The fact that the United

Most European residents in air mail service between Hongkong |States plan for an air mail ser-

Hongkong very seldom visit Canton and China, via Canton. The day vice round the world will employ

unless an business. All these before the departure of the plane people represent dormant travel from Canton the mali could be sent dirigibles on its first link, by.

forces which will be brought to life to Canton by the afternoon train arrangement between American

by a motor road between here and or by the night boat and forwarded Canton. and German.postal officials, again

That the beaches. In the next day by the planes of the calls to mind the fact that the

Hongkong would attract n good China National Aviation Corpora number of visitors from the neigh- tion to points along the entire East unhappy failure of other nations

There is much more la driving bouring city is a foregone concla- Const of China as far as Tioutsin to conquer the skies with lighter-

the and Pelping, and the entire length sion. Yes, the railway and a motor car than regulating lisateamur are there, but can you com- of the Yangtze between Shanghai than-air machines, still leaves speed and controlling the steering pare the advantages of stepping and Chengtu; by the air service of Germany without serious rivals damage the mechanism.

MORE HOWLERS Bad driving habits may seriously into your own car and driving the Eurasin Aviation Corporation in this particular realm of avia-

from your own home straight to a direct to Hankow and Peiping and. Vent is what you have, to give tion. With

hotel in Hongkong, as against the other points North-West, and by your feelings now and again. its globe-circling

necessity of riding to the station the planes of the South-Western

Brats are the offspring of Graf Zeppelin still proudly afloat,

with family and baggage, waiting Aviation Corporation to Kwangai brutes.

Solar plexus is Latin for sun- and with another big airship often happens when changing down through the same ceremony again have been functioning without a burn.

for the train or steamer and going and Hainan. These three airways nearly completed, the Germans

on a steep gradient, it imposes at the other' end, before reaching hitch for some time and

A doctrine ia a lady physician. have experienced--no such dis- very severe atrain on the final your final destination? It is not so instrumental in speeding up busi-"An osteopath is one of the new uster as those which befell drive, bearings, and cross shafts. much the money part as incon-ness between Hongkong and China, traffic lanes."

veniences like these which keep The question deserves the atten- America's Macon, Akron and The strain is considerably great-people from travelling.

tion of both Hongkong and Canton Shenandoah, Britain's R-38 and er than these parts are constructed

and it cannot be doubted that to withstand.

In addition to oversens visitors quicker communications between R-101, France's Dixmude, and

and automobile owners in the two fongkong, occupying a key posi- Italy's Roma and Italia. The Cornering at speed also mukes cities, no doubt there are individtion from world shipping point first country ever to build giant dulged in constantly may result pleasure jump into a hire car and transit centre for South China and for more rapid wear, and if Inuals and groups, who would with lof view, and Canton, serving as a airships, Germany remains the in fructured part. If the clutch drive over to Canton or Ilongkong points beyond, will be profitable to only one which plans regularly

for occasional week-ends and im- both. to use them for passenger, mail

would the railway and the steam. promptu excursions. Not only and freight services to distant

ship lose no traffic, but it in prob-these air parts of the world. It was only

able that they would gain by having after long waiting for the neces-

a number of hire car travellers who sary money that Count Zep- pelin, the dirigibles' inventor, was enabled actually to construct them. For a time during the payment of certain reparations war, they played an important due to America, the company part. As carriers of bombs built the ship known as the Los against English towns, they Angeles. She was completed in were not so successful, because the autumn of 1924 and made many of them were shot down the first Journey across the At- by heavier-than-air craft. But Iantic. She was turned over to they played a considerable role the U.S. Navy after she had been for a time as scout ships for the flown about 5,000 miles in a German high seas Bleot. All in little over 100 hours and still had all, Germany used some 79 air-fuel left for a further flight of ships during the World War. 30 hours. This feat gave the Twenty-six were destroyed by Germans a vision to which they the Allies, 14 were lost in have stuck-that of regular storms, 12 were wrecked by ex-nirship service across the ocean. plosions and 15 were put out of The result was the building of commission for various other | the famous Graf Zeppelin, which reasons. By the time the war was completed in 1928. Her was over, the Germans were well | record is, to date, unsurpassed. convinced that airships could She has never had a serious play small part in wars, because accident. She has flown nearly they were so easily vulnerable to a half million milles, carried over swift aeroplanes clrcling over 17,600 passengers and 55 tons of them. But they were still con freight and mails. Last year vinced of their use as commer she was employed in a regular cial liners. The Bodensee, toh-service between Friedrichshafen structed at Friedrichshafen after and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sho the War, made over 100 trips, left respectively from the Ger- 78 being the 450 miles between man and Brazilian cities every Friedrichshafen and Berlin. fortnight. Her schedule was Then the Allies stepped in and maintained as regularly as an she was handed over to Italy. ocean steamer. And she is still Her slater ship, the Nordstern, in service to-day, a tribute to was given to France under the German perseverance and en- same conditions In 1921. Ingineering skill.

"Now don't onse up on your drives, just because you're

against a woman.":

REAL SCOTS

We held a round-table competi- tion the other evening (writes a correspondent), the test being the production of samples of laconic conversation. The following was easily the most successful entry.

It is a conversation, in Scota dialect, between a merchant and a woman about to buy woollen goods:-

She-Oo'7

He-Ay, oo-

She-A' oo"?

He-Ay, a' 'oo'. She-Aao oo"? He-Ayo,`n' ne od".

The competitor translated his entry as follows:-The Indy wish- ed to know whether the garment was of wool, whether it was all wool, and whether it was all of one wool.

FINISHED!

Hero is at, example of the inconle style which occurred in a series of official messages,

According to a popular Alr Force legend, they were dispatch, ed by wireless to the Air Ministry from an R.A.F. base, when a new seaplane was being handed over to Finland.

The messages ran as follow 12.81 Finnish scaplane up,

12.88 Finnish seaplane down 12.85 Finish, Finnish seaplane, That told the whole story of the

disaster