1936-05-25 — Page 7

KOWLOON

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 25, 1936.

SEEN

AS IN

METROPOLIS

UNTOLD WEALTH OF INLAND CHINA WILL BE TAPPED IN NEAR FUTURE

CANTON-HANKOW LINK ONLY FIRST OF SERIES OF BIG

RAILWAY PROJECTS "Telegraph" Special Representative Seasickness need hold no terrors for Hongkong | travellers to Europe after October.

On the Double Tenth-October 10—the world's largest railway linking Hongkong with every part of Europe, will come into operation with the completion of the Canton-Hankow link.

It will then be possible for a Hongkong traveller to proceed to London without orice setting foot on a ship, except on the trans-Channel crossing.

The transit time from Hongkong to London will be 18 days, a time that will be exceeded only by an air route. Through fares from Hongkong to London will be $1,020 first class and $740 second class.

So far has the work on the Canton-Hankow sector been advanced that it is already possible for trains to run between the two Chinese terminals.

But it is not intended to inaugurate a regular pas- |

senger service until October 10.

BIGGEST THE FAR

FIGHT FOR FREDDIE

The battle suging over the custody of Freddie Bartirome. child stor, has ended with the dismissal of the appeal by the

pictured

custody.

Inother,

above,

On and after that date it will [served only by inadequate river or HONGKONG

be possible to travel from Hong-roadway transportation. kong to Calais entirely by train, The Canton-Hankow railway will except at Canton itself, where it tap the rich

coal and mineral

will be necessary to travel from fields of Hunan and Hopei,

Even richer fields are awaiting

the terminal of the Kowloon-modern transportation in Kwei- Canton Railway by motor-car.how, Kwangsi and Yunnan.

BUILDS UP FUTURE

The city of Canton intervenes One of the most densely populat- WEALTH

between the two- terminals.

ed provinces in China-Szechuan

The route from Hankow to-is awaiting an outlet to the sea. Calais will be via Peiping over the i With all these untapped provin

fu

trans-Siberitan railway. long-ces, Canton and Hongkong are the HONGKONG in 1841, the

kong passengers will change natural and only outlets. trains at Canton, Hankow, Muk- Even if the contemplated rail-

the trans-Siberian.

"FAR EAST

LINERS

BUILT AS CRUISERS"

RAILWAY

EAST

—SAYS PARIS REPORT

RADIO

BROADCAST

Daventry-Talk by Chief Engineer of B.B.C.-

"THE three new German THE CONTINENTAL TRIO

liners on the Far East service — the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau and the Pots- dam-are auxiliary cruisers." This statement was made recently in the well-known Paris newspaper, the Petit Parisien.

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):

5-7 p.m. Hongkong, Hotel. Dance Orchestra,

7 p.m.

try.

A Relay from Daven-

A Talk by the Chief Engineer of the B.D.C.

7.17 pm. Four Songs by Jan. Kiepura (Tenor).

1. Neute Nacht oder Nle! (Spolian- sky); La Danza (Rossini); 3. You,

"Not only do they bear theme and love (Stolz); 4. My heart is

Iniways calling you (Stolz). names of the famous German į

7.30 p.m. From the Studio. jcorsairs of 1914," said the Selections by The Continental

Petit Parision, "they are destin- jed to replace them.

The paper declared that both fore and aft the ships have large flut platforms suitable for mounting guns,

Space usually occupied by lounges and other passenger accommodation has been left elenr.

Forward, the Gneisennu is built in accordance with plans jalmost identical with those at

the cruiser Foch.

Trio."

8 pm Time, Weather and An- nouncements.

Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.

803 pm, Chinese Programme- 11 p.m. Close Down.

8.05 p.m. European programme from ZE.K. on n frequency of 640 kilocycles,

Riccardo

8.05 p.m. Excerpts from Grand Opera.

The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Orriestral Grand Fantasin ວຽ

(Wagner); Vocal-"Carmen"-Toren- Stracciari, A. Appoloni, E. Ticozzi dor's Song (Bizet)

and Chorus: Arla-"Barbiere Slyigla"-Largo al Factotum (Ros- sin). Riccardo Stracciari (Barl- tone); Orchestral The Bartered Bride Overture (Smetana); Alu-

.Ina

(Soprano); Orchestrul Rustleana" Inter-

di

The Petit Parisien recalls NOTTA & 4on of leaven (Bellini)

able

that the building of Bners cap-

of becoming auxiliaryCavalleria cruisers is forbidden buth by mezzo (Mascagni). the Washington Treaty and the Treaty of Versailles.

FOUR P. & 0.

LINERS TO

BE LAID UP

:

The 1. and O. liner Bendigo has been laid up.

8.10

Choral Music.

and Bracs (Old Scottish Air); Golden Stumbers kiss your eyes (arr. Dunhill) Boys of St. Mary of the Angels Choir School); O Who will O'er the downs so free? (de Pearsall); O Husli thee my babic (Sullivan)... The B.D.C. Wireless

ters; There is a

a Tavern in the (Traditional): Vive la Com- pagnie; When Johnny comes marca- Willams and the B.B.C. Male Chorus. ing home (Traditional)

Harold

9.p.m.

Daventry News Bulletin and Announcements,

9.20 p.m. "Melville Gideon" Med-

9.30 p.m. Dance Music,

She is the first of the four vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-ley

Directors to withdraw the entire ser pany's branch line to Australia to be affected under the decision of the vice. There will be no further out- hips will also be withdrawn on going sailings, and, the remaining May 23, the trading on June 12. arrival in London-the Balranald on toflower

Jam the Barrabeol on July 16.

year it became a Bri- den and Harbin before joining ways run right through to Hoag-tish possession, presented a

kong and are not abruptly broken barren appearance. The route thereafter is vlant Canton (39 is the Hankow- Manchouli in Manchukuo, Irkuish | fongkong link) Canton would still in Siberia, Atchingk, Yurga. Omsk, benefit as much as would Hong- has become, mainly through In less than a century it Sverdolsk and Moscow.. · From kong, because Canton will be the Moscow alternate routes can be terminal centre between British the work of the Botanical taken to Leningrad, the capital of and Chinese territory. All import and Forestry Department, the U.S.S.I., from where, to reach and export taxation would be as the most beautiful civic cen- England, the passenger would fscased at Canton. travel by boat to Stockholm, by It will probably be half-a-centre in the Far East. trala te Oslo and thence across tury before Chinese railway ad- the North Sea.to.London...

Every tree in the Colony has Imbilstrators....realise their dream The regular route from Moscow of a China unified by twin lines of been planted since 1841, and Is via Warsaw,, Berlin and either steel:

cach year the forestry planta Hamburg or Caláin,

Long before that dream Intions cover a wider area.

Temporarily, at least, they will be realised, the Kowloon terminal During last year, according to

laid up. The decision will affect of the K.C.R. will be one of the the

about 350 officers and men, and will Annual Report of the mean unemployment for a large busiest railway centres in the Botanical and Forestry Depart-number of them. Far East.

ment, no less than 273,852 sow-

EFFECT ON HONGKONG

For the moment the Pund. O. line.

have made no decisión as to the future of the ships.

Long ago, the British and Chi-ings of the seeds of Pinus of the emigrant passenger traffle to The withdrawal is due to the state connecting Canton with Hongkong Island and mainland, this being non-existent. The ships were all of nexe administrations of the line Massoniuna were made on the Australia, which is now practically mado adequate provisi n for the doubling or tracks.

an increase of approximately slightly under those for Tourist class one cless-third-and the rates were The whole of the Kowloon san-|11,000 over the previous year. front from the K.C.R. station to Hung Hom is railway property.

10 p.m. Big Ben: Close Down.

ZEESEN PROGRAMMES eteners wit be broadcast from Zeven

programmes for

Special

Ar

Eastern

DJB 1.74m 15,200 ke 1.30-2 p.m. 11.74m 15,200 ke 4.45-8.15 p.12. DJN 31.45 m 9,540 ke 4.45-8.15 p.m.. .DJB.~~~19,74 m-15200 ke-8 p.m.-12.30 sa

BOUTTI ABIA ZONE

(10.74 metres) and DJN (11.45 metres).

South Asia Zone, brondonat from DJE,

4.50 p.m.. German Folk Song.

4.55 p.m. Greetings to our Llatentes.

·3 p.m. Dance Music.

... Newa and Economie Review in

English.

5.45 p.m. "Therefore 'tis

Germany."

6.30 p.m. Sparis Review,

T

love thee.

4.45 pm. New and Economie Review in

7D.M.

German.

Concert of acht hinale.

8 p.m. New In Bagllak,

Rip.th. Concert of Light Mosle.

EAST ASIA ZONE

It is possible that the con- struction of the Canton-Hankow railway will, within a décade, have an enormous effect upon Hongkong. Although the terminal of the line is Canton, the Chinese city: 1:14 not adequate harbour facilities for direct shipment of

The four vessels were built by 10.63 metre (16.280 k.) 1.50-3 pm. Concert, goods, and Hongkong will be the At present it is used as playing

The principal areas planted by thla Messra. Harland and Wolf, between natural seaport for the hinterland elds for all manner of sport, but method last year were Mount Collin-1021 and 1922, and are each of 13,000 It is anticipated that before the Fung Mun Gap, Ngau Tau Kok and served by the new rallway.

Taipo Kau Forestry Reserve, gross tonnage. Because of the missing link in passing of another

decade this Red Hill, Tylam. Canton, it will still be neccesary and will be resumed for railway.

to transport goods from the Can- purposes.

ton Innkow to the Kowloon.

Canton railways through the city

Itself, but this will present no Vandals

Insuperable dificulties, and will

add only slightly to the cost of Threaten

transportation through to Hong- kong.

Bath the Chinese and British administrations of the Kowloon- Canton fallway have, for many years past, looked ahead to the time when the rich hinterland of Kwangtung, embracing the provinces of Kwangtung itself, Kwangsi, Kiangal, Kweichow, Hunan, and

railway

pro-

Prettiest Flower

Our

ALMOST EXTINCT

One of

son,

RESERVES BUILT UP

Tree useries are maintained at Cheung Chau, Little Hongkong, Tai- po Kau and Kowloon Tsai for raising stocks for broad-leaved trees und last year plantations of varius sizes were formed in reserves and suitable areas in ull parts of the Colony.

passengers."

4

· METHODIST GIFT

FINE MISSIONARY RECORD

Not all the work of the Department

English Methodists in Hongkong. is concerned with planting. Once trees are planted they must be care- gathered at the Sailors and Soldiers' Home, Wanchini, yesterday evening fully gtarded. Last year, for instance, twenty fres had to be to any farewell to the Rev. E. and fought. Luckily, serious damage was brs, Dewstoe, who are leaving for done in only one instance, Bon trees England on Friday after nearly 40 being destroyed in one fire.

years of missionary service in China. Mr. Dewatoe has been Chairman TREE THIEVES DEPORTED and General Superintendent of the Cases of damage to. Pine planta-China for the past few years, and has Methodist Mission's field in South tions; by theft of nature trees, are; Hongkong's most as numerous. Last year Forest been in South China since 1897. oven far off beautiful Orchids, Paphiopedilum persons, of these 4 were convicted ful tray by Mrs. Hamer, on behalf

Guards arrested and charged 202- Szchewan and Sinklang, will be

They were presented with a beauti- purpuratum, is danger of com- and 8 discharged. tapped by railways.

of the English Methodists in Hong- The Chinese Government has plete destruction,

Sixty-one persons, many of them kong. The tray Lore the following an: ambitious

Last year plant hawkers and only recent arrivals in the colony, inscription. "To the Rev. E. and Mrs. gramme which ultimately calls medicinal herb collectors did in-weed for infringement of Dewstoe, from the English Methodists,

the Forestry laws. for the linding of all these pro-calculable damage to the already

In previous years the Pine Tree Hengkong, May, 1936" diminishing vinces by railway.

stocks of this Caterpillar has done serious damage The Rev. E. C. 1. Tribbeck preald- There is only one natural sea beautiful purple flower.

to Pine plantations and four tons of ed at the function, and among thonu outlet for their rich produce. Chinese may in many cases be Last year they appeared in only, small Mr. J. H. Gelling, Mr. F. 3. Ling, M7, these pests were destroyed in 1931. prezent were the Rev. A. H. Bray, That outlet is Hongkong. excused on the grounds of numbers.

S. Boulton and Mr. M. F. Key. Both Canton and Hongkong will ignorance for tearing up these Anti-malarini undergrowth clear- benefit immensely by the complants, pletion of the Canton-Hankow But there is no excuse for thought railway, which was built with the European motorists and hikers

for doing. Bo. ald of funds from the British por tion of the Boxer Indemnity Fund, measure with Chineso plant hawkers Europeans aro blamed in equal and medicinal herb collectors for the WEALTH, OF CHINA

fact that the Orchid is rapidly becom But the wealth, this single line

ing extinct.

In effort to save the specio from will bring to the two southern complete destruction, the Botanical and eltler-one British and the other Forestry Department last year lifted Chinese is infinitesimal compar 200 planta in various areas, replant- Last year time sales resulted in a Other speakers were Mr. S. Boulton ed with the wealth that is awaiting them in n prohibited area. profit of $2,032, as compared with and Mr. J. H. Gelling, boilt of whom ing a life-stream of communicain the Forestry Ordinance, for any greatest revenue was from Forestry, Mr. and Mrs. Dawatee.

Stringent penalties are provided for $1,994 in the previous year. The paid tribute to the work done by both tion to carry it away. from other person found guilty of destroying or Linences, a total of $10,341, being southern provinces, at present comoring flora from prohibited areas, i collected by District Omeers.

The Rov E. and Mrs. suitably replied.

ing was carried out by the Botanical Mr. Tribbeck all to look at Mr. of the Colony during 1935, the total of concentrated service in the Misalon and Forestry Department in all parts Dewstoe's record was to Ben 10 years area so dealt with being 3,106,635 feld in South China. Mr Dewston square feet.

came to China In 1807, and since then hel INCALCULABLE "ASSET"

had been nowhere else. During this time he had seen many changes in Revenue of the Department is very China and had done much to further slight as compared with expenditure, the work of the Misalon. On behalf but in its fast-growing plantations of those present he wished both Mr. Hongkong has an asset that will be or and Mrs. Dowstoo many more happy Inculcutable value in years to come.

years

Dewates

East Asin Zane brondcast through DJQ on

news at p...

0.95 p. Garman Folk Song,

1.10 p.m. Greetings to our Listeners. 9.15 năm. Nowa and Economic Review, 9.30 p.m. Brasa Hand,

10 p.m. News and Eennòmic Review. 10.13 p.m. Today in Germany, 10.30 p.m. "ruhlingsluft."

11.45 p.m. potis Review.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-lengths and frequencies

are observed by Daventry.

Frequency

Wavelength

49.59 metres

$1.20 in

25.53 maires 24.28 metres 1932 mefrea 16.80 metres

Sira

GOÀ

8,050 ke.

G8B

9,610 kc.

31.55 metres

GBC

1,685 k..

ЯD

11,750 ..

GAR

11,885 kue,

GSP G90

15,140 .c.

GSH

L7,200 .. 270 e.

GYI

18,260 kc.

GAJ GAL

21,540 .c. 4.110 k.e.

(G.8.N.,

13,97 metr 19.48 metre 19.48 metres

49.10 metres

Transmission 1

.8.13.)

12.30 p.m. bir Ben. Alitary Marchen, 12.40 p.m. Talkı “Living in the Past, 12.55 pm. The B.B.C. Empire Dichestia. 1.40 p.m. A Programme from the Union

of South Afrlen, 2.15 m. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Signal at 2.15 p..

. Transmission 2

(0.8.0., *0.8.J.)

7 p.m. Ben. A Talk by The Chief Engineer of the British Broad- casting Corporation.

Light Orchestrat Muole.

"Programma from, the Union

Tom

7,35

p.

of South Afelen.

7.33

p.m.

“A Young Man's Fancy."

9.15 pm. An Organ Recital, by Day Welts.

845 pm. Kundings Epettali Homarist

Rpm, Musical Interlude.

Greenwich Time Signal xip.m. DP.m, The News and Announcements 7.20 p.m. Arthur Gallibary and his Or.

shoutra.

Transmission 3

(0.8.0., G.S., G.AD.) 10 p.m.

Seit. A Recital by Winifred Flavelle (Vi«}{n}, " 10.10 p.m. Feminine Fame on Parade." 10.48.b.m. The Hungarla Gipsy Hand. 12: Bum. A Bonata Recital by Cyril Perfect Violin and Risa Jordan (Piano- Rome),

11.30 p.m. Reading.

11.4 . Orchestral Husie. 11.65 pm The Naws and Anasuntomente. Greenwich Time Bignal at 12 am,

12.15 . The Arthur Dalay Quiništv

Jahn Tormay ¿Tenor);

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To-morrow, Tuesday, May 20, ́atı

The weekly whist drive and tombola

p.m. H.E. the Governor will lay the arranged to be held to-day in the Ser cornerstone of the Maryknoll Convent

School in Kowloon Tong (Waterloo geants Mess, 1st Battalion Royal Road and Boundary Street). The Ulster Rifles, in cancello Very Rev. A. Riganti, V.G, will blows

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