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THIS year the Hong- kong Christmas air mail will arrive in England five days before Christmas, having taken n steady (but certain) nine days for the trip. Let us MODERATELY PRICED CAR follow a letter from start to

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER. 21, 1937.

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The mail left the Head Poet Office, in Des Voeux Road and went by lorry to Kal Tak- Aerodrome, about ten miles from

The mail plano arrives at Croydon

How The Christmas Air Mail

the centre of the town. Here it was loaded into a D.H. Airliner of the Diana type, a machine powered with four Gipsy engines. The route from Hongkong, is westward bound to Penang, the first stop 800 odd miles away.

The route from Penang to Bangkok crosses the high moun- tains of Stam and Lower Burma. After taking off from Bangkok

and climbing over the tops of

Goes

Home

more mountains, four hours and this great river is a "land-

mark" entire way. 'Then,

CHRISTMAS

Under Eastern Skies

“MELLY KLISMAS!" Amah ·

stands bouming in the doorway on Christmas morning with a large parcel tied up in the usual cheerful "good jonus** red paper. It contains, merci- fully, only coat-hangers, which she has covered herself. We breathe again, remembering laat Christmas, when she produced a large pink satin cushion adorned with a pen painting of a purple- faced child leaning against aky-blue dog. It was the work of a nicee, unfortunately achiev- ing a Western education, and it was so terrible that it still lives in the drying room. Our excuse for housing it there is our fear that "If leave outside can spoilum,"

Heaven forgive us.

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In our "outpost of Empire," home orators love to describe it. has a all its own.

Hongkong Telegraph. later the Imperial Airways ma- after Delhi, Jodhpore with its the realisation that home and Although we are placed two degrees

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Although there were consider- able changes in some districts as a result of the recent British municipal 'elections, the change was but slight if the country as a whole is considered. Accord-

wonderful

city

ing in the streets.

Why

fortress on the hill high above England is really getting nearer, in the tropics, it is cold at Christmas Rangoon-n

lime, and fur coats are seen in church The sixth day sees your

оп Christmas Day. Consequently, easily distinguishable from far the town and the peacocks walk-

Christnins letter travelling over one does not feel that aversion to away by its towering pagoda.

the Euphrates river and the de- plum pudding and mince ples which The end of the second day out- serts of Iraq to Gaza, in Pales- comes to one in the steamy heat of Dangerous Hills

wards from Hongkong sees our tine, and then to Alexandria, in places uncomfortably near the Equa

the tor. Moreover, Chinese cooks are machine at Sharjar in Oman. Egypt. Here, at last, is an al- adepts in Rangoon

They providing good Lare. FROM

the This means another 1,100-mile most neighbourly

0.9 did # Ceylon direction is westward journey. Here we begin to Mediterranean, crossed by flying cook on one

sea. The would not passion, a more or less then by way of Bassein to the across the Irawadi delta, and realise the vastness of the world. boat on the following day. calcined turkey crouching grimly on coast of Burma. The hills be- be Karachi, at the Drigh Road and then on to Athens. The sea "Why cook burning so much?

First port of call this day will First to the Island of Crete the dish with its head still attached. "Boy," cried horrified hostess. tween Rangoon and Akyab are Airport, after crossing the Sind has a colour quite different from

(Continued on Page 7.) high and dangerous.

Desert, now fertile with its that of the Persian Gulf and the After Akyab the next stop irrigation schemes based on the muddy waves of the Heogli or on the morning of its last day ping-place is Calcutta, 300 odd River Indus. Strange how the the

Irawadi. Different, too, to Le Bourget Airport. Then miles farther on and the end of names of our school geography from the rich blucness of the into the air once again to fly the sixth day's journey.

lessons suddenly appear as reali- seas in the Dutch East Indies. over the two hundred miles or ao The arrival at Dum Dum Aero- ties in our lives! drome is in the evening, ready to

This rapid homecoming is to its journey's end. start, carly the next morning, a "If Inducement Offers" in such direct contrast to the of achievement when the Eng There is an undefinable thrill strange. Western civilisation is flight practically across India,

East.

lish Channel is crossed. A great- Calcutta to Jodhpore is, dis- THEN the long flight up tance of over 1,100 miles.

the Persian Gulf, Im- From Athens to Brindisi the er thrill still when aeroplane

Croydon Passing to the westward of perial Airways time-table says mail plane flies up the Gulf of wheels over of seats indeed. In Benares, the next call is Allaha- that "if inducement offers and Corinth with high mountains drome's surface and the flight Lancashire, where Laobur is bad, on the great Ganges river. eircumstances permit," a call is on either side-through a valley generally expected to do well, It is not possible to stop here made at Gwadar. The nero- at its western end, and via Corfu Hongkong has been left almost the party lost twenty-five seats long as Cawnpore and Delhi have drome here is 14 miles from the to Brindisi. Here, at present in summer halfway across the and one in Northumberland and to be visited before the journey's town.

the aeroplane journey ends tem- world-yet here is your greeting in England tho. day before Durham respectively; but it end on the seventh day is reach- Sharjah, arrival port in the porarily, although next year gained nine seats in Yorkshire | ed.

evening, is on the south side of things will be different and there Christmas nad in the middle of

our English winter. 100 miles from the Persian Gulf. To-morrow will be an all-nir route. dency was apparently for La-Allahabad, is also on the Ganges, Baghdad must be reached if the bour to gain ground in the small

schedule is to be maintained. towns, and in places where new

This is a dull day's flying. The heat is bad.

ing to statistics prepared by the London Municipal Society, the net result for 310 towns in Eng- land and Wales, not including London, was a gain of nine seats for Labour. Considering the number contested, turn- very small

enormous this is

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Your message has been flown The Last Lap-

_across_seas,_deserts, rice fields, mountains, strange cities and YOUR Hongkong Christ- stranger people, to arrive bring- boroughs have recently been housing, education, road main-

mas card will now ing seasonal greetings home formed in which seats were be- tenance, public assistance and a in the city of the Caliphs, with Paris train, being brought early to the Motherland.

Next comes the night landing spend two nights in the Brindisi- from the outposts of the Empire ing contested for the first time, host of other services depend and to lose ground in the larger upon the local authorities for towns. London was an excep- their tion to this, however, for, in the Capital, Labour increased its existing majority, and it is now in control of 17 of the 28 London horoughs,

efficient administration. One authority recently estimated that local government adminis tration in Great Britain is now responsible for an- annual ex-

the

there

Was

The

World's

Greatest

Ghost

Story

clusion that the tale which deals

craft.

By Lewis Spence lotte, who then acted as the town's

lo life

SAW

hia business.

A

*

But

penditure of about £530,000,000. AFTER perusing thousands of ghost

action. The Princess Elizabeth Char- Perhaps the fact that there is stories, I have come to the con-) There are various peculiarities about the Municipal elections, no single issue before the elecwith the apothecary of Crossen opens

chief Magistrate, gave orders for the compared with the Parliamentors as a whole is responsible up possibilities of horror more potent

exhumation of Monigle's body, which was found to be in an advanced tary elections. There is a lack for lack of excitement than any conceived by Dr. James or Monink displayed none of the usual state of decomposition. The apothe of uniformity in the composition during the municipal elections. Mr. Algernon Blackwood,

signs associated with ghostly appari- cary was advised to remove The of the local councils. In the In Liverpool, for example, La-

Indeed, in

it purports to be tions and seemed perfectly natural young man's possessions, his clothes though provinces, for example, one-bour lost eight seats for quite act, it bears a distinct resemblance in his manner and look, except for and linen, out of the house, and this to more than one of the "Ghost certain ghastliness of visage, they was done. From that moment no- third of the members of the other reasons than those respon Stories of an Antiquary." In its concluded that he had been restored thing more was seen of Monigk,

and sible for its loss of six seats in atmosphere of dreadful reality t councils retire annually

by

either in bodily ar astral shape. Scores edical aid. consequently there are annual Bolton, another Lancashire town. transcends, I thlal, the artificial pothecary's cele patronising the "Some people now living," adds for drugs and Sinclair, will take their oaths upon elections, whereas in London all Frequently a number of the weirdrie of mere fiction.

We have the most excellent vou-

cosmelles, and spoke to Monigk It that they well remember they saw the members of the councils re-i items on the party programmes chers for its truth. The earliest is about him. He certainly revealed a being so notorious, there was in- and observed nothing very unusual him after deecase, and the thing tire every third year and the involve no great difference in George Sinclair, Professor of Pho strange impatience with his master, stituted a elections are therefore held only fundamental principles.

This sophy at Glasgow from 1654 to 1896, who, in the throes of a routy seizure, it in the Academy of Leipzig by one. public disputation about 4 famous matheinaticlan of his day, striking 2 once in three years,. This year year the London elections were held similarity between the claims of and an authority on the commercial was scarcely competent to attend to Henry Conrad, who disputed for his

values of cont.

doctor's cree

in the University." at the same time as the other some rival candidates, what is included in the collection of scriptions from his hand in the Monirk, it is sald, snatched pre-

The circumstances were communi- being occult records published by him at rudest manner, and made them up cated to Sinetal by the learned municipal elections throughout differences there were the country, at the beginning of mainly concerned with proposed Edinburgh in 1005, and it was copied himself.

But it was particularly Anthony Horneck, D.D., n famous November, and there were about methods of dealing with certain Carles II, in his chape onto King noticed that he could not bear the Dutch theologian, whose treatises on 3,000 candidates for the 1,377 problems, or in the emphasis Charles II, in his volume on witch- light of a candle, which he always witchcraft are well known.

"Sadducismus

placed behind the stove. London seats. From one point laid upon different parts of as an important part of the

Trudence i

there is one aspect of ita folldore But the

aspect-which should like to stress. of view, the London elections scheme under discussion,

or for human immortality

After a day or so of this kind of excitement it aroused in Silesia made thing he took an old csak which is well within that region where the Silesia, where all this took pince. are therefore of greater import-already decided upon.

Indeed, an outstanding fea- Universlly of Leipzig, where its sallled out into the streets.

it a subject for dispute in the hung up in the shop, donned it, and ance than the provincial ones,

and belief in vampires held sway until a and they arouse a correspond-ture of this year's elections was details were debuted with the great formerly been known, to the terror mained after death in a dead-alive

He fow generations nge. visited several houses, where he had the convincing statement which est warmth and acumen.

The tea that certain persong re- ingly greater interest.

each party was able to make in the spring of the year 1050, says of their occupants, but spoke to condition and were capable of leay- This question of public in-about the progress of reformist resident assistant to an apotheevery apothecary's he met a servant maid corporeal state was at the period in Sinclair, one Christopher Monisk, nobody. On his way back to the ing their places of burlol in the terest is another subject for

measures for which it was res- in the small town of Crassen. In whom he had known, and to whom question a fur-flung; superation in speculation and enquiry. It is ponalble. Both parties have Sitesin, died, and was

and was buried accorti-

The

lle spoke. well-known that the local elec-made

asked her to go to that part of Europe embraced by to ing to the rites of the Lutheran his master's house and dig in one Bohemia, Hungary, Russia, efforta tions croate much leas public further the Government's policy Church. A few days after his inter- of the celines, where she would find Balkan Sintes, dusk, and the interest than the Parliamentary in regard to housing, alum chop in his aunt babit and men, a treasure of great value.

work as an apothecary had led The girl, who was fully aware of Monigk to the study of alchemy, us clections. There is not the same clearance, and public health and began to busy himself in the his death, swooned away in sheer the discovery of the goblet containing tense popular feeling and excite-

While mensures.

enthusias tasks he had pursued during his life, affright. He raised her from the the bloodstone revenis. ment. Many observers have the party supporters would compounding drugs, making up pre- pavement, and when she had suf- Post mortem appearances are al- ecriptions, and serving customers at Belenlly recovered she made the best most invariably associated with some commented that this is strange therefore do their utmost the counter. In view of the fact that local to win, those with no strong

of her way home, where she again overwhelming. life, ambition, collapsed, But the old the apothe ruling spirit strong in death." government so closely effects the

party ties-those who form the

cary of the meeting and the cellar the soul of the hapless apothecary health and general well-being of bulk of the electorate and whose

wan searched, but at that was found vexed by the notion that some 'the community. Parliament votes consequently decide the

there was an old pot containing formula he thought he had discovered single blood-stone. makes the country's laws, but

Insua-no doubt felt confident the local councils are largely that neither party would shirk responsible for their administra responsibilities in regard to Public health services. efficient local government.

tion,

strenuous

ment he appeared at his master's

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"the Woa

It so happened that his employer, the apothecary, was at that time suffer from severe tick of gout, and was in no condition to

for the making of gold might be lost. make, inquiries into his assistant's Crossen was now in a ferment, and did he try to take measures to strange reappearance fellow The grim story of these extraordinary avert this? Whatever the explann employers, however, who were fully happenings circulated through the on, the whole incident apprais to aware of his death and burial, were pince with the rapidity of wildfire, me, as I have said, no "the world's wholly terrified, at first, but 08 and the authorities resolved to take greatest. ghost story.

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