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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936,

League of Nations Commission

Explores

Sino-Burmese Border to Settle Frontier

CORONATION WILL DIFFER FROM OTHERS

London, Apr. 20.

The Coronation of King Ed- ward-in May next year-is likely to differ in several respects from that of his father and his grandfather.

The ceremony may be cut by one and a half hours to only two hours.

It is possible that the oath,. administered in the form of a question to the King by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the coronation ceremony, will! have to be changed slightly to conform with the altered status) of the Dominions and their re lation to the King since the Statute of. Westminster (1931).]

King Edward is the Sovereign not unly of all his Dominions, but of each one separately. The Irish Free State has been born since the inst Coronation.

The form of question to which King George V. answered "1 sotemnly pro- mise so to do" was this-

"Will you solemnly promise ant swear to Govern the propie of this United Kingdom of Great Britain

and Ireland, and the Dominions, thereto belonging, according to the Statues in Parliament agreed on, and the respective Laws and Customs af the same?"

The

chosen day is likely to be a Monday or Thursday.

The

day, makes it

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sucress of Jubilee Day, a Mon- it probable that a Monday will be chosen for Coronation Day.

hifowa

municipal, police, tramite, transport authorities, as well as the entering trades, one day's respite to make their arrangements.

and

King Edward's Coronation will be the most fully attended in history, Transport developmems of the last twenty-five years have brought the faraway parts of the Empire so much

nearer,

It is known that 150 indian princes, nawabs, and rajahs have already an nounced their intention of attending Dominion and Colonial officers will bear part of the Royal Regalia.

COMMISSIONER VISITS MINES

High Commissioner in England for the Dominion of Canada, Hon. Vincent Massey is shown above with Mra. Massey as they prepared to deneend n coal mine near Cardiff, Wales, where the Masseys have been visiting.

Chinese Administrators Get

Mountain Resort of Kuling,

Once Owned by Missionary

iL

Kuling, Apr. 10. but

Peremony

ת!

Place for Inspiration

DIVISION BETWEEN STATES IN DOUBT

INAPPROACHABLE PART OF BRITISH EMPIRE

Maymyo, Burma, April 15.

Future history will sometime record that in 1935 there. was appointed by the League of Nations a Boundary Com. mission to demarcate the disputed Sino-Burmese Frontier in what are knowns as the Wa States.

Such will be the matter-of-fact definition.

But this really sifinifies the launching of an intensely in- teresting undertaking to fix a border in one of the most un- approachable and least known parts of the British Empire.

The Wa States, some of them British and some Chinese are as yet unadministered by either

ment, even

Govern-

The

their undisputed arcan. They are off the beaten tra

track, their peoples primitive in OX- treme (the wild Was sti periodi cally indulge in the ancient art of head-hunting) and roads, and even

accurate maps, Hence the dimeulues, Bancial and non-existent. otherwise, involved in bringing them successfully under a civilised ministration are such as to cause any government to hesitate before em- barking on such a venture.

Frontier Lines Come First

ad-

An uncertain frontier, however, even in such distant parts, gives rise at times to awkward disputes, co that a settlement of this question must precede any possible future at- tempt to civilise their peoples, and this the present Boundary Commis- sion hopes to effect during the next six months,

The commission with its neutral Swiss

and Chinese Col. Frederic Iselin,

und British-members f

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Needless to say, an escort is neces- sary to Insure the commision's comfortable. homes, gardens, safety in these wild frontier districts ort, Kuling in the Luahan mountains of a well-ordered community. Can the duty of the armies on both sides enough, for his comrades, is not so Chinn's most famous auntain re-tree-lined avenues and all the signs where banditry is the habit. It is to a bolting mule. though funny above Changking and not far from tributing of their limited means, and to provide such escorts. Tankow, is now completely in the with some

much fun for himself and calls for hans of

friends! Soldiers must bel as policemen in support from Chinese administrators abroad, reddents

an agility not everyone can display. of the estates the enuse of improved following

conditions, which established churches,

After this came the real fun of the schools.

the British authorities William R. Johnson, as chairman of library, facilities for sports and re-work, tackling the dinteuit problems and Transport section and its hun

n and

set to fair with advent of the Supply the Kaling Estate Council, handed creation, where the needs not alone presented by a mountainous, remote dreds of mules with their Chinese over a key to Director Chiang of the of their own group but also those of and possibly hostile region, to pro- drivers. Small but sturdy creatures,

urent of Administration of the the

friends of the neighbouring vide an escort which should contain these Lushan Settlement.

Chinese community, as also from all the

Chinese mules, carrying R Dominion and Indian troops will be

"Farty years ago." Mr. Johnson other parts of China, may be up-British troops, Burma Rises, Moun-but game to the last mite required necessary components-lesser load than the ble army mule among the contingents escorting King and in the course of an address, "plied. Edward in the Georgian gold state | missionary secured

tain Battery, Survey of India, Signals, of them. title to the coach,

ground upon which we stand.

Supply and Transport unus. A lt.

Leaders Have Bells le me later he deeded this land to "Kuling is not only a resort for Lashio, Jumping-Off Place Before the Coronation there will trustees who in turn deeded it to the minor residence. but also a place! be a state banquet at the Palace in Kuling Estate Council.

The leader of each mule pack was honour of oversens guests.

for spiritual fellowship and inspira-of careful organisation and prepara-dyed horse-hair Axed to his brow- In mid-November, after months decked with a huge bunch of red- "For more than thirty years this tion. Annually there are convened on tion, courell has exercised certain govern- this mountain top hundreds of cun-from the railhead on its long march his neck, and firmly asserted

this composite force sut out band, he carried a large bell round mental functions in connection with ferences, group and the estate, including some degree of meetings, whose purpose is to consi-one had an exciting sense of sharing this is one of the few acknowledged committer frontier-ward, and watching it start, place at the head of the pack, for supervision over transportation, the der ente phase of the needs, physical, in an event which would have its rules of the road in the Shan building and repair of roads and economic, Rocial, Intelicetual

States bridges, spullation and land transfers, spiritual, of the teeming population Part in future history.

where traffic consists almost entirely From this

Lashio the railhead, is a delight of mule trains. But his most useful mountain ful spot in the Shan States, only 15 duty comes when all the packs are height flow forces and influences "The motives of those who founded that are for the healing of the a handful of European- houses and after a night's grazing, und -have-to-

Journey from Mandalay, with

mixed in miscellaneous horde this estate were of the highest,nations." namely to establish upon this moun After pointing out the growth of Residency which commands abe sorted out again before the start. Bombay, Apr. 20. tain top a resort to which those in Chinese interest, and the increase widespread view over deep blue hills Each leading mule is then led off in Quetta, the parrison city in North- need of rest, recuperation and are in number of Chinese cultural and frontier.

sweep away toward the Chinese a different direction by the pack West India, which was destroyed by fuge from the heat of summer might oflicin leaders who have been visiting

muleteer, bis bell the great earthquake in June, 1986, Ond that which they sought. They Kuling, Mr. Johnsen declared that in which encamped in Lashio for two the various packs leave the

imperatively With the arrival of the escort, clanging, and at once the mules of will probably be rebuilt entirely in acted in the Interest of the public performing the symbolic net of deli- reinforced concrete, All houses will good. The exercise of the pubile Yering the estate office building key days before marching out, the re-and obediently follow their respec- be of one storey only.

functions described developed, with to the Director of the Bureau of Sidents hurried to offer friendly tive tenders, till. like n regiment This

the needs of a rapidly growing inter Administration, "indicative of the hospitality to those whose last glimpse moving off by separate companies, the idea of Mr. C. W. Lemnational community, as seemed necesfinal passing to the Chinese adminia. of civilisation this was mon, the Liverpool expert in earthsary under

to be for each pack becomes an orderly unli the, circumstances then tration of all puthority" he did. so many months. quake-proof architecture, who arrived prevailing and as evidenced by the "with a genuine sense

once more without a single spoken of accom-i A tremendous but orderly activity word of command. in.Bombay to-day. He is taking up Chinese and foreign governments. plishment and with a high degree of marked ench day, roncs a two-years' appointment as assis

Batisfaction."

abustle with

Not by any means so orderly is tant to the military engineers in "Whatever suspicions. my have

marching troops and their conduct on the march. The lorries bringing supplies from station "Chinese saddi rebuilding Quelta,

Unanimous Approval

used from the to camp. The golf course was dotted time immemorial in these parts, is Ho mid that ho opposed brick necomplishments of the years. Where with the indorsement in a unanimous ing taken, but shelters were made over the animal's back and which, The act was done, he continued, all over with bivouacs, no tents ben wooden nffair which is snugly houses, and if his ideas are accepted once was but pass and scrub-covered vote of approval to the Kuling itendi- of ground sheets there will be none in the new city.

hofore you modest tion Agreement; slopes, you see

on polcs.

NEW QUETTA TO BE CONCRETE

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High Motives

existed us to the motives of the founders inve been dissipated by the

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Off and Away

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Early on the third morning all was rendy, and the whole of Lashio turn-

roud,

a rise of ground as the

from a

crowd

having no girth, is thrown clear if the mule slips or bolts, without darnaging him or the load.

all their

Pariis of the March ed out to see the column go, watch not always perfectly balanced and On the first day out, weights are ing tranps swung out along the level mules are very apt to kick against

which eit Motor Transport

the pricks in a manner hend, some five marches, on, te-on, demonstrating that this "sad- generated Into a mule track that fortunate

dle" has its drawbacks for the un-. went up hill and down dule, through

muleteers. Dashing up jungle and watercourse, and over the the roadside bank, any mule call achleve an angle which, combined First come the British troops, dislodge the whole contraption.

with determined kicks, will quickly country lads from a shire regiment -striding cheerfully along in plea-will be getting used to the routine, On the second day, mule and man anticipation of what to them

frontier Into China.

sant

scomed Jolly prospect, a glorified and things will go much more. form of camping, free from the smoothly, one is told. ordinary routine of drill and parades. Evidently this was the feeling of Not for them were

the difficult the Supply and Transport sergeant questions of whys and means, nor who

up the rear of the now the responsibilities and awkward our farewell shout of column, for while he ac- probleas of the commission whose safeguard they were to be.

By:

stragglight

good wishet,

Certain-

he was smiling philo- their daily duties were soon to sophieally at the sceming chaos in become arduous enough, for a 12-front, knowing that each nightfall march in this lovely-looking would find the long convoy safe and country will often entail dropping sound in camp. on a rough track from a 4,000-foot | height_to 1,000-foot hot valley and

milc

up again more than once,

Inscrutable Mongols

+

Behind them marched the. Burma Rifles, equally cheerful but with the

usual inscrutable expression of flat

VARIETY STAR

FOUND WOUNDED

Boston (Mass.), Apr. 18. Paul McCullough, of the stage

Mongollen faces. Short little fellows, and screen variety team, Clark but sturdy and recruited from these and McCullough, Is in hospital

bills, which site thele home.

Close up came the Signal unit, Its in Boston in a serious condition, portable wireless set loaded on large. He is 53. army mules in auch a way that it

According to the police, ho could be, and often actually was, was found in a barber's shop [use while on the march. The operator

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It to the headphones, which the Clark and McCullough joined forces

in 1905 Invaudeville and have bee A well-behaved animal is chosen together over since. They first ap for this responsible job, and the peared in London in 1922 in "Chuckles operator takes good care to watch of 1025," and again in "Cochran's its movements, since to be thus fixed 1981. Ravno" at the London Pavlion.

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