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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937.

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

WHERE AN

INVADER RULES

CHENG TE, JEHOL

LESS than a year ago it wat

quite an adventure to visit Jehol. To-day it is a matter of, buying a railway ticket. The train leaves Mukden at midnight. the sleeping CATK are good,

more

400-

comfortable

the than and European type

much cheaper. The same goes for the restaurant service. The mile journey from Mukden to Johol cost me 24s., which in- cluded sleeping berth, clean kimono and slippers, green tea served every few hours, hot damp towels, in fact, everything #18 Rerved with second-class accommodation in Japan proper.

There are many soldiers travelling, chiefly soldiers in fact, Japanese

soldiers or Japan- mercenaries. ese One begins to

notice things. The first thing that

strikes one is

parade

force.

The

The

and

station is a

fort. emalard

are inside

JAVIER,MU

CHINE

o Hies 200

high barbed wire entanglements. The station buildings themselves are solid structures of brick. or stone and cement. There are armed guards on every station platform.

At one of the larger stations the authorities seemed prepared to re- pulse an attack. On ench side of the train six or eight soldiers stood with their backs to us, loaded rifles held at the "ready" and pointed at the countryside. I saw nothing to war- rant such a display. A mudwalled vilinge lay in a a hollow some five hundred yards away; between it and the station a sinnil group of Chinese watched it. They did not look dan- Iterous.

Ordeal For

A Chinese

At another station a Chinese was being roughly searched by a Japan- ese N.C.O. and some soldiers. He was pushed and pulled about as they went through his pockets. A dig in the stomach made him collapse the ground with comical suddenness. His shoes were jerked off and shaken, backwards. There making him fall

in the shors and they was nothing in the were thrown aside. The man wrig gled away to retrieve them, pulled them on and struggled to his feet. With Bitle respectful bobs-and smiles the fellow asked if he could now go. He was given a contemptuous slap across the face and told to go. Still smiling he hurried towards the train.

It was the only "Incident" I saw and, though typical enough of the respective attitudes of two great nations, need not be exaggerated; there are brutal N.C.O's everywhere, Certainly the Japanese are not be- loved In Jehol, indeed they appear to have a genius for making them- selves disliked wherever they set their feet. So much is this true that ane hears it used by foreigners as one argument

of War" in of Suiyuan. The theory is that if Japan starts trouble so far from her base, she will soon require very large gar- risons to keep the rest of Manchuria quiet, and perhaps even Koren.

a

"real outbras the Brelihood

In my opinion, however, this is not an argument which is likely to weigh .with the Kwantung Army, who in- variably net frat and count the cost afterwards, finally leaving the bill to

Worked out for you

. (See columns 4 and 5.)

The caterpillar covered 13 feet 8 inches, 'George hnd 11 half-crowns, three shillings, and aineteen pennies In His pocket; andho is 22..

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CLEANS LUBRICATES

PREVENTS RUST

3-IN-ONE OIL

By Harrison Brown

Who is travelling round the world writing for a London newspaper from Europe and the Ukraine. To-day, he tells of what is now happening in China.

Of the many tempples at Jehol built by Emperor Chien Lung, the most famous are those of Hsing Kung, from which this picture was taken, and the Pu Ta La, seen in the back- ground.

be settled by the rest

are made up of dispossessed nation at home, peasants, discontented Koreans, rem- Hui Jehol is not hunts of Chang Hsuch-llang's former badly run, and the army and deserters from the Japan- Governor 15,

army. by ese-formed "Manchukuoan" repute, much bet- The troops of the puppet Emperor ter than most Pu Yi are not very reliable!

All day the train rolled on, slowly but smoothly, as though feeling its way. Covering every bridge and both ends of all tunnels cement

are new

ποιν

the

his contreres amongst Japanese But in Jebol Province, at least, Army administrators,

there are no bandits, in the Japanese

of the term. It is, on ense other hand, the roc

recruiting ground and dispatch centre for those "irre. gulors"

for attack on massing Inner

the Chiness. ever. boxes, unoccupied how-

Mongolia. To chief intermediary st however, and even, it would seem tion on this new strategic line. Pingchuan, which was the railhead by recent statement, to the Jupan- these until a few months ago. Until then ese Ambassador in Nanking.

mercenaries are all "bandits" in the the only road on to Jchot was nurest sense of the term.

donkey mountainous

track requiring several days' journey and quite im practicable for military purposes. Pingchun is an untidy village in a valley, consisting of one street which stretches two miles.

most

Japanese

Ambitions

Jehol is a strategic centre. for the Beyond Plogchuan the mountains Japanese. It is important alike s crowd

In und become even more her schemes for further invasion of grotesque in shape. In this difficult section of the line the rail. North China and for her dreamed-of altack upon Russia through Outer way must often squeeze through the Mongolia. Jupan would like to push canyon perched on a cliff above the the railway much farther. If there

river. Just before reaching Cheng

eng is, time she will do so. Meantime Te, ur Jchol City as the foreigners troops and stores go up through call it, the valley broadens out and Jehol to Dolon Nor in Chahar Pro- the line ends, at present a mile from vince. Dolon Nor is at the head of

-R. Pass, the castern gateway_to_the_

the town.nese have tried, and not inner Mongolian plateau.

The Japanese unsuccessfully, to make Jeho sla-

At its surroundings architectural-.

tion

at

From Jchol, also, Peiping can

be

ere reached In a few hours by road. The

ly. They have also installed there

Japanese have established a daily

a seml-European hotel, with a Japan- tas line between the two cities. As ese bath and good catering arrange far as Ku Pei K'ou, on the Great ments. They say they are going to wall, the rond is in good order and spend money repairing the damage Wal wreaked on the famous temples by the bridges maintained. Beyond that their predecessors, the bandlls. They point passengers change

Chinese driver takes over and the

buses.

say that Jchol is now on the world h

"road" runs mostly in river-beds,

tourists' map.”

No Paradise

to

For Tourists

she

But the whole thing is operated, and at a loss, because few Chinese will ride on it, by the South Manchurian which Railway, the arm through Japan explolts her new colony.

Japan, however, already has some This last I find doubtful. Despite the dilapidated marvels of Chlen 20,000 soldiers in the neighbourhood Lung's temples neither the present of Pelping. It is for Mongolia that atmosphere nor the future prospects Jeho la important, Japan, it would seem to me likely to induce the ship- seem, has by no means abandoned ping companies to send their valu- her dream of an "Independent Mon- able customers for world cruises up golia." It costs money, however, to Jchal. It sounds to me as optimis keep on buying Princes, und Japan

money. So is hampered for tie as last year's statement by the

the presses on with the idea of stretch- Army regarding Kwantung clearing up of the bandit situation in ing a cordon of outposts south of the across Chahar and was "all Gobi Desert Monchuria generally. It

were Northern Suiyuan to Ningeia. over" last year, the bandits

Thus China would be shut off "cleaned up." This year they have

from Outer Mongolia and one step been more active than ever.

The word "bandit" in the Far East further taken towards the encircle

Russlan

territory by covering all who are un ment of Ru term

und Bound moy Japanese. That Real bandits there are also the popular, in plenty, but all who are called so rather like a gnat "surrounding" a but the idea is that of the are not highway robbers. In Man- camel,

are Kwantung Arms and the Kwan- churia many of the "bandits" patclots fighting the Japanese and 1 tung Army is thinoits for its ideas. 1s they who oppear to provide the In any case, I doubt It Jehal will be Headwork

organisation. The much visited by tourists next year! and

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Canton

Work it out for yourself

Young George was on holiday, and he sat on a bench on the downs, for once doing nothing.

.He noticed a caterpillar, which began to crawl up his stick, a thick cudgel which he had bought as a souvenir on a charabane trip the day before. The stick was 4 feet high and an inch thick, and he counted idly the number of times the caterpillar crawled round the stick on its spiral journey to the top. Fifty timek.'

'He began to wonder what distance it had covered. ...

敝

When he had worked that out he felt in his pocket, in which he seemed to have a great deal of, money. He found he had 33.coins in half-crowns, shillings and pennies. Altogether, £1 12 1.

་

Without counting them, he began to work out how many he had of each sort of coin.

•

Solving these two problems had taken some time, and he remembered he had to join his wife for lunch. That reminded him,, it was his birthday. Funny, if you added his age to his wife's age, and added to that-yes, the difference between their ages, and then multiplied the result by itself, you got the year they were married in,

Always juggling with figures, George. He's a bank clerk..

Can you work out the answers?

If not, they are in Column One.

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

Night Snapshooting With Box Cameras

Thanks to more powerful artificial home lighting, owner of inexpensive slow lens cameras can now make snapshots Indoors at night.

ARE you missing the fun of in this, however, care should be taken.

to obtain the right balance of light. Hemonber that usually you get a bottor picture with more illumlm. tion on one aldo of the subject flink on the other. Either two flood light bulbs should be used on one sido and one on the other, or, if only twa ardused, one should be placed closer to the subject than the other.

door snapshooting at night? Maybe becauso you have an 'in expensive camera, such as the box, Axed-focus typo, you think that in- door picture-triking at night is.Bot for you. Perhaps you still suppose thal without au 10.3 lens or faster, you havo Ittle chance for. succood. ing, except by making time ex- posures. Be happy that such is this enas no logor. There is now avail- able, for indoor instantaneous or posures in your home at night, a now and more powerful photo- graphic food light bulb (No. 2), and with two or three of those in your floor lampa backed by inexponoiva cardboard reflectors and with a roit of the fast supersensitive panchro matic alm behind your lens, snap shots at night can be mado oven with the Blower single lens camerna. The initial Investiment in thöss now bulbs is higher but, on the other hand, they last three times as long. So, now that practically overs body can be in on the fun, consider the precious subjects that those more powerful lights pormit a sim- plo box camera to photograph-the children at their evening games or in their nighties going to bod, the family gathered around the dro-lighting effects on the face or facca. place, gay evening parties when friends come in, the pots, Dad rald- ing the ice-box, and what not.

One of the enjoyments of making pletures at night is that you can control the illumination. In doing

The light nearcat the subject is the main light-the one which pro duear the high lights and shadows necessary for prapor modeling of features. The other is used to bal anco the lighting-to-luminate features so that they will not be too dark. If this light is placed too close, faces will appear fint and lacking in roundness. On the other hand, if it is too far away, shadows on the alde away from the main light will be too dark and the lighting will be harsh, Suppose that you have placed a bulb in each of two bridge-type lamps with tho shades replaced by the cardboard reflectors. You will probably got a good balance of light- ing by having one lamp about throo feet from the subject and the other about four. It is an axcellent plan before you snap the picture to ex periment with the lamps in different. positidas, watching the different

Always uno the largest diaphragm or blog opening. Slow lous cameras baring adjustablo shutter speeds should be get to take the picture at 1/25 second.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 Silent salutes for big guns in the

bows here.

4 It is not thus that slanderers

blacken characters.

8 Hear 'em clang! (anag.),

11 The Italian form of hautboy.. to make Owen groggy. 12 Enough 13 Type of fur of which any miner

has four.

15 Let go. Sre, the nose is all

twisted.

10 ony A were there, shows

would

be in order; as it is call them merry makings.

17 Only one veg. to-day, I'm afraid. 19 Listeners here hear more that's for them than about them-

20

Rivera.

22 Just a tiny one.

25 To be cured with a shilling is cheap enough, but decidedly un- lucky.

27 These pupila take a double sul-

phute in wrongly.

20 Biblical stone that the grocer

sells in tins.

20 You'll admit that it sounds a

singular course?

31 Unit for rate assessment on a

allner.

32 If yours is choleric the first halt

is not likely to be good.

33 He always makes a poor solver. 34 Loud and vulgar..

DOWN

1 Takes a constitutional and Has

nah in steamer.

2 Here there's something unpleak:

sunt from cach.

3 The Welsh Wizard gets the bird.

5 A hat that cannot be felt on the

head (Oh, can't it?).

6 Turn the number upside down.

34

016

7 As a statement it does not ap

pear to be startling, but it's all humbug, nevertheless (hyphen, 3, 4).

8 A product of the Press that is never published in black and white (two words) (6, 5).

9 You must look for him "In

furrin parts."

10 A form of investment: that is

open only to military men.

13 Interferes, seemingly, with the

numismatist's treasures.

14 Name again.

here,

17 Schoolboys do not visit

though frequently invited to go. Fitting.

10

21 Done to fish and mountains. 23 Decoration given to tradesmen. 24 Rather cold. to be far away,

Isn't it? 26-Spot the penny fruit.

27 Nall a thousand, anyhow, to get

the brute,

30 They are kept on a ring.

31 This a jumper? Why not?

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