... Travel Miscellany Incites for the 1936 Cruising Season THE Canadian Pacific Tours to Canada and the United States this summer range in cost between £45 and £90, and none of them is shorter than eighteen days. These fares are inclusive of everything on the tour; tourist class liner travel, 1st class rail, hotel accommodation, and sightseeing. In addition, the Empress of Britain will be doing ...

... Ceylon's Tea Industry Birthplace of the Pekoes and Souchongs By MALCOLM DANDO COLOMBO'S harbour sky-sign, erected by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board in March 1936, with its message CEYLON FOR GOOD TEA, has become the distinguishing mark for Colombo passengers arriving by steamship in the island, and bears testimony to Ceylon's faith in its most important product. This giant sign, believed to ...

... A R icPi Repository of j\rt Treasures in Ceyl on By A. H. MALPAS, F.L.S., F.Z>S. (Director, Colombo Museum) AS early as the fifth century before the dawn of the Christian era, when according to the Mahawansa, their ancient historical work, the Sinhalese colonised Ceylon and became known by the name Sinhala, there existed in Ceylon stately palaces and cities, ruins of some of which may be ...

... DEFICIENT though it may be in art treasures, the Malay Peninsula yields place to no country in the amount of. interest it holds for the archaeolo gist. For the last three years, aided by a generous grant of money from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Raffles Museum at Singapore has vigorously followed a programme of excavation and prehistoric research in the Malay States, but the ...

... Educational, Medical, and Veterinary Services in Ceylon Progress in Three Spheres of Activity EDUCATION presents a greater variety of administrative problems in Ceylon than falls to the lot of most Directors or Boards of Education, as there are 5,400 non-vocational schools the majority of which are managed by religious bodies, educational societies, or private managers; 19,200 teachers of ...

... Two Miles of Piping a Week A Hong Kong Firm and Its Vast Output THE Hong Kong factory, of Hume Pipe (Far East), Ltd., was ompleted in 1935. It is one of some 200 pipe-manu facturing plants located in all the principal countries of the world operated by the Australian, the English, or the American Hume Pipe holding-companies or their subsidiaries. The types of pipes manufactured in Hong Kong ...

... i BANKING and FINANCE j Of Peculiar Interest and Difficulty in the hast By V. M. GRAYBURN Chief Manager, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank EXCHANGE banking in the Far East has always been interesting and generally very difficult from a banker's point of view. It has been, and stilt is, interesting, oecause trade includes dealings with almost all parts of the earth and consequently the banks must be ...

... 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. THE TRAGIC LEAGUE.-- The Easter-tide session of the League was a tragedy to all who pin their hopes to its survival. If it indulge in any more sessions like this it cannot survive the bitter contempt and disappointment of those who still claim their rights to its intervention. It is all too vulnerable to criticism. Some of us who pray ...

... WORLD 5 urvey MOMENTOUS DAYS AT GENEVA: Mr. Anthony Eden, Britain's Foreign Secretary, leaving the Chamber after the recent meeting of the Locarno signatories (other than Germany) when Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy exchanged views on Germany's proposals for the settle ment of the Rhineland question. Mr. Eden, who stayed with Sir Philip Sassoon at Lympne on his homeward journey, has a ...

... THE HOG-HUNTER'S CLASSIC: SECTS THEY'RE OFF Hunters and hunted pictured at speed at the start of one of the heats in the sixty-fifth contest for the Kadir Cup held recently at Bachraon, near Meerut, Central India, and won by Captain Tuck, Hon. Secretary of the Meerut Tent Club. Hog-hunting perhaps provides a greater test of horsemanship than fox-hunting or steeplechasing, while the ever ...

... Wings over Africa Sights and Scenes Along the All-Red Flying Route Between Alexandria and Johannesburg One of the most fascinating and thrilling of air journeys is that from the shores of the Mediterranean along the Nile to the Sudan, and thence on through Uganda, Kenya Colony to Tanganyika territory. The route embraces some of Africa's greatest scenic wonders, while by short motor car trips ...

... SPILLS and THRILLS OVER tK STICKS Hunter Trials and Tribulations and Some Tragi=Comic Aspects of 'Chasing WATERY GRAVE OF HER HOPtS Miss Virginia Brand creating an enormous splash as she came to grief on Tuppence at the formidable water jump in the Members' Trial at the Grafton Hunter Trials held a few days ago at Langford Farm, Greens Norton, Towcester, Northamptonshire EQUESTRIAN AQUATICS: ...