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HIS year the Hong-

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The mail left the Head Post Office in Des Voeux Rond and went by lorry to Kai Tak- Acrodrome, about ten miles from

The mail plane arrives at Croydon

How The Christmas Air Mail

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the centre of the town. Here it was loaded into a D.H. Airliner type, a muchine 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 Slim and Lower Burma. After taking off from Bangkok and climbing over the tops of

Goes

Home

moru mountains, four hours and this great river is a “land-

mark" the way.

CHRISTMAS Under Eastern Skies

"MELLY KLISMAS!" Amah

stands beaming in the doorway on Christmas morning with a large parcel tied up in the usual cheerful "good joss" red paper. It contains,

mercí. fully, only cont-hangers, which: she has covered herself. We breathe again, rememboring last Christmas, when she produced a large pink satin cushion adorned, with a pen painting of a purple- faced child leaning against sky-blue dog. It was the work of a niece, unfortunately achiey- 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 spoilum." Heaven forgive us.

In our "outpost of Empire," 1ኛ home orators love to describe R. Christmus has a favour all its own.

can

Hongkong Telegraph. Later the Imperial Airways ma- after Delli, Jodhpore-with its the realisation that home and although we are placed two derre

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937,

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

wonderful

Dangerous Hills

city

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church

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the Chinese cooks are

Rangoon-a

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

The sixth day

seca your time, and fur coats are seen in chu easily distinguishable from far the town and the peacocks walk-

Christmas letter travelling over one does not feel that aversion

Day. Consequently. ing in the streets. 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 wards from Hongkong sees our tine, and then to Alexandria, in places uncomfortably near the Equi- machine at Sharjar in Oman. Egypt. Here, at last, is an al- adepts in providing good fare. They

tor', Moreover, FROM Rangoon the Although there were consider-

This means another 1,100-mile most direction is westward journey. Here

neighbourly вед The would not produce, as did a Ceylon able changes in some districts then by way of Bassein to the

begin to Mediterranean, crossed by flying cook on one occassion, a more or less across the Irawadi delta. and realise the vastness of the world. boat on the following day.

cafeined turkey crouching grimly on as a result of the recent British coast of Burma. The hills be- be Karachi, at the Drigh Road and then on to Athens.

First port of call this day will

First to the Island of Crete the dish with its head. stlu attached. "Boy," cried horrified hostess, municipal elections, the change tween Rangoon and Akyab are Airport, after crossing the Sind- has a colour quite different from

The sea "Why cook burning so much? Why was but slight if the country as high and dangerous.

(Continued on Page 7) Desert, now fertile with its that of the Persian Gulf and the a whole is considered. Accord- After Akyab the next stop irrigation schemes based on the muddy waves of the Hoogli or on the morning of its last day ing to statistics prepared by the ping-place is Calcutta, 300 odd River Indus. Strange how the the London Municipal Society, the the sixth day's journey.

miles farther on and the end of names of our school geography from the rich blucness

Irawadi. Different, too, to Le Bourget Airport. Then net result for 310 towns in Eng-

of the into the lessons suddenly appear as reali- seas in the Dutch East Indies.

air once again to fly The arrival at Dum Dum Aero ties in our lives!

over the two hundred miles or so land and Wales, not including drome is in the evening, ready to

This rapid homecoming is to its journey's end. London, was a gain of nine seats start, early the next morning, a "If Inducement Offers" in such direct contrast. to the of achievement, when the Eng- strange. Western civilisation is There is an undefinable thrill for Labour. Considering the flight practically across India, enormous number

Calcutta to Jodhpore is a dis-

lish Channel is crossed. A great- contested,

THEN the long flight up tance of over 1,100 miles. this is

the Persian Gulf. Im-

From Athens to Brindisi the er thrill still when aeroplane #1 very small turn-

Passing to the westward of perial Airways time-table says mail plane flies up the Gulf of wheels touth Croydon aero- over of subs 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. circumstances permit," a call is on either side-through a valley is over. generally expected to do well, It is not possible to stop here made at Gwadar. The

at its western end, and via Corfu Hongkong has been left almost

aero-

Enst.

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 acroplane journey ends tem- World-yet here is your greeting Durham respectively; but it end on the seventh day is reach-

Sharjah, arrival part in the porarily, although next year in England the day before gained nine seats in Yorkshire cd.

evening, is on the south side of things will be different and there Christmas and in the middle of the Persian Gulf. To-morrow will be an all-air route.

our English winter. Baghdad must be reached if_the_ "schedule" is to be maintained.

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

Cawnpore, 100 miles from Allahabad, is also on the Ganges,

Your message has been flown "across ̋scas, deserts, "ricoTMfields, mountains, strange cities and YOUR Hongkong Christ- stranger people, to arrive bring- 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 mas card will now ing seasonal greetings home

The World's Greatest Ghost Story

By Lewis Spence

and one in Cheshire. The ten- dency was apparently for La bour to gain ground in the small towns, and in places where new boroughs have recently been housing, education, road main- formed in which seats were be- tenance, public assistance and a 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 One authority recently estimated efficient administration. Capital, Labour increased its that local government adminis- existing majority, and it is now tration in Great Britain is now in control of 17 of the 28 London | responsible for an annual ex boroughs.

penditure of about £330,000,000, FTER perusing thousands of ghost There are various peculiarities Perhaps the fact that there is stories, I have come to the con-

nction. The Princess Elizabeth Char- about the Municipal elections, no single issue before the elecclusion that the tale which deals

lotte, who, then acted as the town's chief Magistrate, gave orders for the compared with the Parliamen-tors as a whole is responsible up possibilities of horror more palest with the apothecary of Crossen ́opens

exhumation of Monigk's body, which tury elections. There is a lack for the lack of excitement than any conceived by Dr. James ar

was found to be in an advanced Monic displayed one of the usual state of decomposition. The apothe of uniformity in the composition during the municipal elections, Mr. Algernon Dlackwood.

signs associated with ghostly appari cury was advised to remove the of the local councils. In the In Liverpool, for example, Lit-fact. It bears if distinct resemblance in his manner and look, except for and linen, out of the house, and this Indeed, though it purports to be tions und seemed perfectly natural young man's possessions, hin clothes provinces, for example, one-bour lost eight seats for quite to more than one of the "Ghost certain ghastliness of visage, they was dune. 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, councils retire annually and sible for its loss of six seats in atmosphere of dreadful reality it to life by medical aid.

elther in bodily or astral shape. consequently there are annual Bolton, another Lancashire town, transcends, I think, the artificial Scores of people, patronising the "Some people now living," adde elections, whereas in London all Frequently a number of the

weirdrie of mere fiction.

apothecary's shop. for drugs and Sinclair, "will take their oaths upon the members of the councils re-items on the party programmes chers for its truth. The earliest is about him. He certainly revealed u being so notorious, there was in- We have the most excellent vou- cometer, saw and spoke to Manigk it that they well remember they saw and observed nothing very unusual him after decease, and the thing Lire every third year and the involve no great difference in George Sinclair, Professor of Philo strange impatience with his master, siltuted a publie disputation about elections are therefore held only fundamental principles. This sophy at Glasgow from 1654 to 1606, who, in the throes of once in three years. This year | year there was striking famous mathematician of his day, was

gouty seizure, it in the Academy of Leipzig by one. the London elections were held similarity between the claims of an authority on the commercial his business competent to attend to Henry, Conrad, who disputed for his

values of at the same time as the other some rival candidates, what

Manick, it is said, snatched pre-

doctor's degree in the University." municipal elections throughout differences there were being occult records published by him at rudest manner, and made them up cated to Sinclair by the

It is included in the collection of

** scriptie is from his hand in the The circumstances were communi- the country, at the beginning of mainly concerned with proposed Edinburgh in 1805, and it was copied himself. November, and there were about methods of dealing with certain by Joseph Glanvil, Chaplain to King noticed that he could not bear the Dutch theologian, whose treatises on But it was particularly Anthony Horneck, D.D.. a famous 3,000 candidates for the 1,377 problems, or in the emphasis Car is volume on witch light of a candle, which, he always witchcraft are well known,

From one point laid upon different parts of a as an important part of the evidence

"Sadduclsmus Triumphotus," placed behind the glove. | London seats,

there is one aspect of IL—a folklore of view, the London elections scheme under discussion, or for huron immortality But the

aspect-which should like to stress. are therefore of greater import-already decided upon.

excitement it aroused in Silesia made thing he took an old cloak which is well within that region where the After a day or so of this kind of Slieska, where all this took place. ance than the provincial ones, Indeed, an outstanding fea- It subicct for dispute in

Univerally and they arouse a correspond-ture of this year's elections was details were debated with the great-

of Leipzig where

hung up in the shop, donned it, and belief in vampires held away until a Ita sallled out into the streets. He few generations ago. ingly greater interest.

the convincing statement which est warmth and acumen.

vlotted several houses, where he had The idea that certain persona re- each party was able to make In the spring of the year 1050, says formerly been knows, to the terror mained after death in a dead-alive This question of public in-about the progress of reformistasident assistant to an apothecary | Hobody. On his way back to the ing their 'places of burial in the terest is another subject for mensures for which it was res in the small town of Crossen, in whom he had known, and to whom question a for-lung superstition in Sinclair, one Christopher Monik, their occupants, but spoke to condition and were capable of leav

apothecary's he met servant mald corporeal state was at the period in speculation and enquiry. It is ponsible. Both parties have Sitesla, died, and was buried accord- he spoke, He asked her to go to that part of Europe embraced by well-known that the local elec-made strenuous efforts

to. the rites of the Lutheron his master's house and dirt in one Bohemin, Ilungary, Russia, and the tions create much less public further the Government's policy Church. A few days after his inter- of the cellars, where she would and Bulkan Stales. It is clear, too, that interest than the Parliamentary in regard to housing,

ment he appeared at his musicr's slum shop in his usual habit and men, treasure of great value. elections. There is not the same clearance, and public health and began to busy himself in the his death, swooned away in sheer nie dk to the study of alchemy, as The girl, who was fully aware of his work as an apothecary had led tense popular feeling and excite

mensures. While enthusias- tasks he had pursued during his life,

discovery of Lo goblet containing mont. Many observers have tic party

supporters would compounding drugs, making up pre-re, se rased her from the the bloodstone reve fot commented that this is strange therefore

Ecriptions, and serving customers at ficiently recovered she made the best most

pavement, and when she lind 'auf- do their utmost the counter. In view of the fact that local to win, those with no strong

st mortem

associated with some collage way home, where she main most invariably appearances are al-

overwhelming to m collapsed. But she told the apothe rufir government so closely effects the

Bmbition, the It so happened that his employer, enry of the meeting and the cellar the soul of the hapless apothecary party ties-those who form the health and general well-being of bulk of the electorate and whose the apothecary, was at that time

ruling spirit strong in death, War was searched, but at that was found community. Parliament

vexed by

by the notion that some makes the country's laws, but votes consequently decide the suffering from severe attack of there was an old pot containing a formula be thought he had discovered the local councils are largely that neither party would shirk strange reappearance

lasue--no doubt felt confident and was in no condition to single blood-store.

make inquiries into his assistant's Crossch was now in a ferment, and did he try to take measures to for the making of gold might be lost. fellow The grim story of these extraordinary avert this? Whatever the explanu responsible for their administra-

employees, however, who were fully happenings cirulated through the tion, the whole Incident appeals to tion. Public health services, responsibilities in regard

aware of his death and burial, were place with the rapidity of wildfire, me, as I have sald, as "the world's efficient local government.

wholly terrified at first, but as and the authorities resolved to take greatest short story."

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