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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1989.

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This is the largest city in the Dominion and its commercial Events have gone far, to financial heart of Canada and metropolis, It is also the realise his hopes, for the there nearly one-third of the country has experienced an country's trade is centred., amazing development in Although nearly a thousand wealth and its population miles from the ocean, it is has doubled.

easily reached by occan-going steamers, and a system of canals King George and Queen and railways links it with the Elizabeth will see before them prairies. Behind the city stands П gigantic Dominion, the Mount Royal, from which t greatest of the British Empire's takes its name, and the view posscasions, which has before it from the summit is one of the a future far more dazzling than finest in the New World.

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LAMBERT GORDON-The engage- ment is announced between Lieutenant Douglas Lambert, Royal Navy, of H.M.S. "Regent", only son of the late Douglas

Lambert and Mrs. J. Cruick

shank of Northern Devon, and Ivy, Serita Julin, only daughter of Major A. J. M. Gordon (late 1st. Bn.

Royal Inniskilling Fusillers) and Mrs. Gordon at 527 The Peak, Hongkong. (Shanghai and Tientsin papers please copy).

DEATH

XAVIER-Ai his residence, 2 Gran- ville Road, top floor. Francisco Murla Xavier (Chiquito) at the age of 88 years. Cortège will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day. (Shanghai and Macao papers please copy).

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realised a twentieth of its pos- spoken, and official records are sibilities.

kept in both languages. The Vast riches in timber and minerals await exploitation, and sities and

city can boast of two univer

some of tho most the prairies are capable of main- splendid churches in America. taining many times their pre- In population the million murk sent population.

has been passed.

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CANADA, in fact, is an empire THE ROYAL Party are to in itself, with an area practi- spend three nights at cally equal to that of Europe. Government House, Ottawa, the It forms, indeed, one-third of capital of the Dominion, and the land surface of the Empire: unquestionably the loveliest the 2,700-mile journey from city in Canada. Halifax to Vancouver takes five

It is destined to play an even days in the transcontinental ex more important part in the presses; and while the Far British Commonwealth

the Aretic, its southern cities are in the latitude of Rome.

Ottawa boasts

numerous fine

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By Lichty

"I'd love to go to the movies to-night, Patrick-but I hata to

leave the baby with its mother."

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UM...ER...I'm afraid shod, bare-headed, bare-armed

there's a deal of sad and to a great extent bare-.

legged: little difference in the immorality among the garb of the sexes, young Chinese, and had we much.... the funds we might do

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Bright-eyed, alert, vigorous and jocular, akin to puppies released from the darkness of the basket.

silences of the ice and snow of Atlantic and Pacific airways. North sleeps in the everlasting. Nations with the opening of the picturesque tree-lined streets, many parks How large a population this and great "jewel of the Empire's thrown over the rushing waters bridges Crown" is capable of supporting of the Rideau River, and during is a debatable point. Some put the next few years a great pro-

The tea-table being scarce- it as high as 200,000,000 which, gramme of beautification and ly a suitable venue for the

Students mostly, and of after all, is not an unreasonable improvement is to be carried debating of such

meagre income, they scorn the figure, when one remembers the through.

con-passing bus, even through the Wyndham St., Hongkong

population of Europe is 550,000,- Over the whole city presides

troversial point, restraint dreary suburban route. 000. 'Phone 26615

the magnificent Parliament

was indicated, but the re- Mile upon mile they tramp in It is obvious that over such a House, and near by are the verend gentleman's suave seemingly tireless and certainly May 9, 1939

gigantic country the scenery executive offices of the Dominion and urbane tones conjured cheerful progression, a hetero- varies tremendously, and the Government. There

geneous collection of newspaper King and Queen will see sights 200 factories in the city and 12 hues certainly, but neither de- the sustenance for the day.

up two pictures, of differing parcels and packets containing Axis Advances

that will remain for over in their 000 highly-paid Civil Servants picted in deadly sable, memory; the mightly St. of the professional and clerical

Here a scout-minded youngs- BOTH FOR Britain and France Lawrence, one of the greatest type.

Possibly he might have re- ter bears his--and others' these are times of anxiety-of the world's waterways; the

cognised the first tableau and, burdens on a pole, there an in- times of change.

Next item of the intinerary is had he not been a bird of pas-cipient Cordon Bleu swings the The Italo-Ger- man military part means that the historic cities of the eastern sea the great city of Toronto, dated to the extent that a war in ly illimitable prairies, one of the portant a commercial metro (if such is not an heritical idea) the meet, but mostly the light- Totalitarian front has been consoli- board and Quebec; the apparent almost if not quite as image, might well have passed an orthodox amah stove.

illuminating Sunday morning A late comer hurries solo to which Germany is involved means world's granarics which, now polis as Montreal." that Italy will, too, be involved. It stand thick with the young corn;

scanning a It has been called, in fact, "the

certain Kowloon hearted band is a loosely con- means, if the hints given by Japan- the majestic Rockies, affording hub and

highway. mainspring" of

nected and friendly unit. ese spokesmen yesterday are cor- some of the most magnificent Canada's manufacturing indus-

The hills bordering the rall- rect, that Japan also will be in-mountain views in the New tries, and the gateway to the RECENTLY there raged (and way are a pet resort and Lion

World; the huge inland seas of mining industry of Northern the Great Lakes; the enormous Ontario.

may still rage as far as I Rock knows them well. know) a fierce and flery argu- Sure-footed as goats they are, forests, acknowledged to be the Around it is some Empire's most important sources richest and

of the ment among the residents of a none is hindered with a super- most diversified certain mid-level thoroughfare abundance of tissue, lithe and of soft-woods; the lovely har- agricultural country in That front has

the anent the innocuousness or supple jointed. the world; the Dominion.

otherwise of young

China's Ten hours or more is spent in splendours of Niagara; and, Toronto is a notable centre of nocturnal perambulations of leafy, water-fed surroundings- finally, Newfoundland, the Em- learning and culture and the their shady walks.

away from the ties of desk, Make no mistake about the out-piro's oldest colony, its rocky prosperity of the city is evident. One school of thought sym-away from the crowded, noisy, come of a European war. Germany shores ceaselessly battered by from the fact that almost three-pathised with and welcomed comfortless (from the Western has not got a hope. She is power- the billows of the Atlantic, ful in man-power and in "perial power, but not powerful enough.

vahEd.

Germany, assured of Italian aid, may be prepared to gamble in Danzig. The one thing that will deter her l 11 common anti- aggression front.

not yet been completed-it will not be completed until Soviet Russia is Included.

She is weak on the sea and in

bours

in

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quarters of the population own their houses. The streets are long, broad and tree-lined be- THEIR MAJESTIES will up yond the business centre, and proach the heart of the there are many beautiful build- Dominion up the St. Lawrence, ings, France and Britain together are for commerce in the New World. the most important water route

internal resources. She is almost bankrupt. These are the things that really count.

the

☆

☆ the most powerful combination in This is the oldest inhabited part MOVING WESTWARDS the the world to-day. Of the soven

Royal train will enter the major Powers, you can rank Great of Canada, where it has been

country, Britain, Soviet Russia and Francesaid the axe has hewn nearly great prairie

every inhabited acre out of the granary of Canada, and after na the first three, in that order.

Soviet Russia is of major impor-"forest primeval.”

passing the grain ports of Port tance as an ally. No possible com- Their first visit will be to Arthur and Fort William will bination in the world is going to ancient Quebec, immortal in his. reach Winnipeg, capital of commit suicide by attacking Britain, tory because of the deathless Manitoba, and dominating the Franco and Russia.

story of Wolfe und Montealm. most extensive trading area in It is probably the most romantic the Dominion,

First The U. S. S. R. has in exhaustible reserves of man-pawer The Red Army is said to number 1,600,000 men, with 10,000,000

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love's young dreamers.

point of view) familiarity of Another (not by any manner their little homes. of means entirely composed of the traditional vinegary, spins. well-being. Each devours his or A day of physical and mental terish "inhibitioned" type) was her own provender, the "Dutch aghast at such obvious changes Treat" or the picnic proper of in oriental youth's attitudes the Western world does not towards the hitherto accepted somehow greatly appeal to the courting procedure; up in arms East, and with the insatiable at this enger and (to the digestion of the young an after ing at the freedoms and, privi- fantastic and wanton waste of crítics) most unseemly snatch-siesta would be regarded as leges formerly the prerogatives the precious hours of freedom. Western would-be Benedici, of the more fortunately placed, Songs, chatter, attempts at simplo competitive games, Sensitive souls shivered and amateurish physical exercises, the accompanying bodies shied jokes speed the too fast passing of all the New World cities. Less than three-quarters of a

at the fearsome sight of a well- hours, Quebec has been truly called century ago it was nothing more

dressed young pair speechless Perhaps a paddle in the giant and rapt in the dusk of the nullah or the investigation of "Old France in the New World," than a trading-post; its growth spreading branches.

an inviting pool add zest to the Figures have been published, for nine-tenths of the popula has been meteoric.

Others tittered, possibly in sylvan entertainment. To-day 27 pairs of railway reminiscent fellow-feeling. Some showing the colossal alza of her Airtion are French and French is Forra and her mechanised armies, the everyday language. The tracks radiate from it; it in the perhaps the more intelligent tary alliance with Soviet Russia long years ago and the City wall tho grain and animals of the merely glanced and passed on man not already have imbibed

The excuses for declining a mill- massive fortifications erected bottle-neck through which pass

and certainly the more kindly North-West; it is Canada's chief (Quebec is the only walled town livestock market, and one of the carefully looking the other way.

America) speak of the were the political implications such struggles of olden times. The world's largest grain markets,

* * an alliance would have on other quaint old buildings with atrag. It is a city of wide streets and nations. Such a pact would have determined the final attitude of the gling streets fringing the boulevards, with many splendid. IT IS surmised that other and anti-Comintern States-Italy, Japan majestic river make it look like Parks and playgrounds. and Spain-in a general war. But a city of medieval France. · those States havo apparently already Further up-river is the oven decided what they will do. We greater port of Montreal, also know to-day that Italy is definitely founded by the French. Gormany's ally in any military ad- vonture the latter may start. What optimist. belleves that Spalp would be allowed to remain neu-

regorvos.

are now past.

Paramount among these, excuses

tral? How far will a British alli. anco, with Rusola affect Japan's attitude?

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There is an influential body of opinion in Britain, which felt that

in

The rather unusual name means "Murky Water," and comes from Lake Winnipeg, which lies 50 miles north.

The King and Queen next pass

if a conflict should come, Mussolini through Regina, capital of Sas- and Franco might not be found katchewan, and Calgary, with upon the side of Berlin. opinion is confounded by yester ahops, and so to Banff, in the That its immense railway repair day's eveni

It is dangerous for the Democ- glorious National Park of that ratic front to remain stagnant as name, the Totalitarian front strengthens, PLEASE To Turn Pago 7.

GM

WHEN THE shadows lengthen, should our reverend gentle-

sufficient food for further

thought, he might see the merrymakere straggling home less "open-airy" pictures had ward, to all appearances equally fluttered through the reverend's as tireless, just as vocal, almost mind and engendered his some as alert, but lessor burdened, what pathetic remark as to the than upon the outward trip. ever present problems and the ever lacking funds.

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One by one they drop a mem- ber and beyond Yaumati the little band ends its existence;" LENGTHY scattered strings of ed little abode, brightened, sus- each has departed to the crowd-

lasers in shorts, in slacks, in body for another enduring wack. Chinese lads and Chinesa tained and cheered in mind and brief and case giving skirts, almost all in open-necked sportsN.B. Whitestone

manlike shirts, well and sensibly,

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