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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 was

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

than

moro

comfortable

the

European type and much cheaper. The same goes for the restaurant service. The -400- mile journey from Mukden to Jehol cost me 24a., which in- cluded

clean sleeping berth, kimono and slippers, green tea 'served every few hours, hot damp towels, in fact everything

servei

with second-class

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accommodation in Japan proper.

There are maný soldiers travelling, chiefly soldiers in fact, Japanese soldiers or Japan- esc mercenaries. One begins notice things. The first thing that

to

strikes one is the of force. parde

Each station is a

small

and

are Inside

CH

Miles 200

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

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

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 on the ground with comical suddenness. shaken. Ils shoes were jerked off and making him fall backwards. There was nothing in the shoes and they was not were thrown aside. The man wriK- gled away to retrieve them, pulled them on and struggled to his feet. With little 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. Stil smiling he hurried towards the train. It was the only "incident" I saw and, though typical enough of the of two great respective attitudes hations, need not be exaggerated; there are brutal N.C.O.'s everywhere, Certainly the Japanese are not be- loved in Jehal, Indeed they appear to have a genius for making them- selves disliked wherever they set their feet. So much is this true that one hears it used by foreigners a one argument against the likelihood of a "real outbreak of war" in Suiyuan. The theory is that if Jupan 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 Korea.

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

Worked out

for you

13

(See columns 4 and 5.) The caterpillar covered feet 8 inches, George had 11 hulf-crowns, three shillings, and nineteen pennies in his pocket; and he is 22.

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Usu3-in-cavolion ail working parts and soo how much easier and smoother your sowing machlno

runë., •

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.

army.

be settled by the rest are made up of dispossessed nation nt home. peasants, discontented Koreans, rem- Bul. Jebol is

not hants of Chang Hsuch-liang's former badly run, and the army and deserters from the Japan- Governor Is, by ese

"Monchukuoan" ese-formed repute, much bel- The troops of the puppet Emperor ter than most of Pu Yi are not very reliable! contreres amongst Japanese 'But in Jehol Province, at least, Army administrators.

All day the train rolled on, slowly there are no bandits, in the Japanese

of the term. It is, or but smoothly, as though feeling its.

other hand,

the recruiting way. Covering every bridge and and dispatch centre for those

puten cen both ends of all tunnels are new ****

e gulrs" now massing for attack on cement pill-boxes, unoccupied how- Inner Mongella. To the Chinese, ever. The chief

Intermediary sta tion

Gense

the

on this new strategie ilne is lowever, and even, it would seem Pingchuan, which was the railhead by a recent statement, to the Japan- until a few months ago, Until then ese Ambassador in Nonking.

mercenaries are all "bandits" in the

the only rond on to Jehol was purest sense of the term,

minous donitey track requiring

days' journey and quite im-

n

practicable for military purposes. Pingchuan is an untidy village in valley, consisting of one street which stretches two miles.

Japanese

Ambitions

these

Jeho is a strategic centre for the Beyond Pingchuan the mountains Japanese. It is important alike in crowd in and become even more her schemes for further invasion of grotesque in shope. In this most North China and for her dreamed-of dimeult section ot the line the rall

through Outer way must often squeeze through the attack upon Russia

Mongolla. Japon would like to push canyon perched on a cliff above the the railway much farther. If there river. Just before reaching Cheng Te, or Jehol City as the foreigners is time she will do so. Meanume go up through troops and stores call it, the valley broadens out and. Jehol to Dolan Nor in Chabar Pro the line ends, at present a mile from- vince. Dolon Nor is at the head of

the town.

Pass, the eastern gateway to the The Japanese have tried, and not Inner Mongolian plateau, unsuccessfully, to make Jeho stu-

From Jchol, also, Peiping can be tion at its surroundings architectural reached in a few hours by road. The ly. They have also installed there a semi-European hotel, with a Japan Japanese have established a daily est bath and good catering arrange bus line between the two cities. As to far as Ku Pel Kou, on the Great

ments. They say they are going to Wall, the road is in good order and spend money repairing the damage the bridges maintained. Beyond that wreaked on the famous temples by their predecessors, the bandits. They point passengers change. buses, u say that Jehol is now on the world Chinese driver takes over and the

tourists' map.

No Paradise

For Tourists

"road" runs mostly in river-beds. But the whole thing is operated, and at a los

a loss, because few Chinese will ride on it, by the South Manchurian Railway, the m through which

her new colony. Japan exploits her re

has some Japan, however, already has This last and doubtful. Despite

in the neighbourhood the dilapidated marvels of Chien 20,000 soldiers in

Mongolia

that Lung's temples neither the present of Telping. It is for atmosphere nor the future prospects Jehol is important. Japan, it would ikely to Induce the ship- seem, has by no means abandoned seem to me ill ping companies to send their valu- her dream of an "Independent Mon- able customers for world cruises up golik." It costs money, however, to to Jehol. It sounds to me us optimals- keep on buying Princes, and Japan tle as lust year's statement by the is hampered for money. So she. Kwantung Army regarding the presses on with the idea of stretch- and clearing up of the bandit situation in ing a cordon of outposts south of the Manchuria generally. It was "all Gobi Desert, across Chahor over last year, the bandits were Northern Sulyuan to Ningsta. "cleaned up." This year they have Thus China would be shut off from Outer Mongolia and one step been more active than ever.

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

is a term covering all who are un- ment of Russian Aslaile territory by

Japanese. That may popular. Real bandits there are also the

sound

in plenty, but all who are called so rather like a gnet "qurrounding" a ure not highway robbers. In Man- camel, but the idea is that of the are Kwantung Army, and the Kwan- churla many of the "bandits" patriols fighting the Japanese and it tung Army is famous for its ideas. is they who appear to provide the In any case, I doubt if Jehol will be and organisation. The much visited by tourists next year! ueadwork

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Work it out for yourself

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

Ho noticed a caterpillar, which began to crawl up his stick, a thick cudgel which he had bought as a souvenir on a churabane trip the day before. The stick was 4 fect 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 times.

.

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

He

When he had worked that out he felt in his pocket, in which he seemed to have a great deal of money, 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.

clerk.

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

Can you work out the answers?

If, not, they are in Column One.

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

The S

Night Snapshooting With

Box Cameras

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

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

door snapshooting at night? Maybe because you have an in- expousive.camera, such as the box, Azod-focus type, you think that In- door picture-taking at night is not for you. Porkips you stiil supposa that without on 1.0.3 lens or fazier, You have little ebance for succood- ing excopt by making time ox posuros. Be happy that such is the case no lungor. Thero is now avail able, for indoor instantaneous ex- posuros in your home at night, a new and more powerful photo- graphic food light bulb (No. 3), and with two or three of these in your floor lamps, backed by inoxpensive cardboard reflectors and with a roll' of the fast supersensitive panchro matic Olm bobind your Icus, susp shots at night can be mado oven with the slower singlo lons cameras; The initial investment in those new bulbs is higher but, on the other hand, they last three times as long. So, now that practically overy- body can be lu on the fun, consider the precious subjects that these more powerful Bghts permit a sim. ple box camera to photograph-the childron at their eyozing games or, In their nighties going to bad, the family gathered around the fro- place, gay evening partios whon friends come la, the pets, Dad rald- ing the ico-box, and what not.

One of the enjoyments of making pictures at alght is that you can control the illumination. In doing

to obtain the right balance of light. Remember that usually you got a better picture with more Illumina, tion on one side of the subject than on the other. Either two flood light bulbs, should be used on one slute and one on the other, or, if only two are used, one should be placed closer to the aubject than the other.

The light nearest, the subjack is the main light-the one which pro- duces the bigh lights and shadows nocessary for propar medeling of features. The other is used to bal auce the lghting to luminato features so that they will not be too dark. If this light is placed too close, facas will appost dat and lacking in roundness. On the other band, if it Is too far away, shadows on the sido away from the main light will be too dark and the lighting will be harsh. Suppose that you have placed a bult in each of two bridge-typo lamps with the shadas replaced by the cardboard reflectors. You will probably get a good balance of light- ing by having oao lamp about three foot from the subject and the other about four. It is an excellent plan before you snap the picture to ex- periment with the lamps in different positions, watching the different lighting effects on the face or faces. Always use the largest diaphragm or stop opening. Blow lens cameras having adjustable shutter spoeda should be set to take the picture at 1/25 second.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 Silent solutes 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 haulboy. 12 Enough to make Owen groggy. 13 Type of fur of which any miner

has four.

15 Let go. See the nose is all

twisted.

18 If 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 good for them than ubout them- selves.

de Rivera. Just a tiny one.

20

នផង

To

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

27 These pupils take a double sul-

phate in wrongly.

28 Biblleai 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 cholerle the first half

is not likely to be good.

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

DOWN

I Takes a constitutional and has

fish in a steamer.

2 Here there's something, unplea-

sant from ench.

3 The Welsh Wizard gets the bird. At that cannot be felt on the head (Oh, can't it?).

· Turn the number upside down....

112

124

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) (0, 5).

D You must look for him in

furrin parts."

10 A form of investment that is

open only to milliary men. Interferes, seemingly, with the kumismatist's treasures.

13

14 Name again.

17 Schoolboys do not visit here, though frequently invited to go. 18 Fitting.

21 Done to fish and mountains.

23 Decoration given to tradesmen. 24 Rather cold to be far away..

isn't it? -

20 Spot the penny fruit.

27 Nail a thousand, anyhow, to get

the brute.

30 They are kept on a ring. 31 This a jumper?

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