A Budget of News from Our Travellers As friends greet each other these days after separations much longer ihan the usual summer holidays eager questions are put: Where did you go? What did you do? What kind of a time did you have? One Shanghai traveller who penetrated into some little known parts of Europe has graciously allowed the Woman's Page to share in the pleasure of her trip.
Lady Maze, who returned to Shanghai by the Victoria, reports a delightful Home leave, with a motor-gave her an oppor-of seeing some of the less known parts of Europe. Leaving Shanghai in April and crossing Canada, she arrived in England just Mcur days after the Coronation, but in plenty of time for the receptions given for the China delegation and the varied entertainments of the season where she me! many China hands.
Leaving England early in August [efter Sir Frederick had returned to Shanghai, Lady Maze with two friends started out on a motor trip, [three women without a chauffeur Landing at Calais they went through Belgium to Koblenz, along the Rhine [and through Bavaria to Munich where they saw Hitlers "Brown House," thence by the Brenner Pass up into Italian Dolomites where they stayed in various beauty spots at an altitude of never less than 5,000 feet. They played golf over fields of flowers, autumn crocuses and others, so thick one could mot but tread on them, surrounded by towering cliffs of bare pink rocks with snow lying eternally their clefts. They d many glaciers, marvelling specially the Franz Josef Glicier, then came along past Lake Blod in Jugoslavia and down the Dalmatian coast to Split, and from there to Dubrovnik, formerly Ragusa, following the route outlined in "Ilyrian Spring The Dalmatian scenery was very beautiful, Lady Maze said, Dubrovnik, bleached by the sun and the air looked like a city of ivory, and the women in their native costume, little [round caps and full sleeves, and skirts richly embroidered, were lovely creatures, with the queenly carriage gained from carrying loads en their Glöckner easily. The roads were excellent on the whole: ud in Italy the auto strade for pleasure driving were ideal. These have no cross roads so that a speed of eighty miles an hour is perfectly safe. Most days they covered 200 miles or more but in Jugoslavia the roads were atrocious, dusty and full of pot-holes, so that some days they drove from nine in the morning till eleven at night and covered little ground.
When minor breakdowns occurred the party found cordial helpfulness everywhere, both from the natives of the countries through which they passed and from fellow-travellers Whenever it was discovered that one of the party came from China a special interest was evinced. The motor plates showed travellers from all over the world and there were a surprising number of cars from Egypt but the majority of the cars, curiously enough, came from the Dutch Netherlands. Wherever they went they found that French and German in addition to English were sufficient to make themselves understood Lady Maze ended her motor trip in Genoa, its last weeks clouded by anxiety over developments in China, aggravated by the sensational reports which some English and Continental newspapers were publishing. "It was a great comfort to find that things were not as bad as had been represented in Shanghai," Lady Maze said, and in spite of the scenic beauties she left behind she was delighted to be back again "at home in China."
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