FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929,
THE CHINA MAIL,
electric tramways and left there is destruction every- And, yet, even in where. Nothing must be allowed this modern section of the city, one to stand in the way. of that new road feels that
VISIT TO CANTON
of these streets
were being laid.
THE THOUGHTS OF A WANDERER
FASCINATING WATERWAYS
Canton is much more going straight from its point of
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Chinese than is Hong Kong, though departure to its point of termina A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. outwardly there seems little reason tion. Often the ruthlessness of it for the impression. As I passed looks like vandalism, as when the
TO LET-Furnished or Unfurnished, 1t was the August of 1928.
along, three European ladies, rid-fine frontage of an old temple is
Ground floor of a house, No. 188, had been some mouths in Honging in ricshas, seemed to be at-hurled down rather than preserve at
Macdonnell Road, comprising two Kong,
1 had beard and read many tracting general attention. Dressed the cost of just a little bend in the.
bathroom, hot and cold water and things on the New China. I can't in their short frocks with their short | formation of the street. And no
flush system. Apply within or to my that I had any very definite sleeves and low necks they were per sooner has destruction done its The Hong Kong Dispensary,Chan Nai Pan, c/o Dairy Farm, Ice notions at the end of it all. Ifect illustrations of the ugliness of work than stone-breakers, cement Dispensing Department, will be & Cold Storage Co, Ltd, was, in fact, bewildered. I de- modern female fashions. They workers, steam-rollers appear on the OPEN for dispensing Prescrip- cided to sec for myself, to note seemed rather pleased with the scene and a new, wide thoroughfare tions from 10 am to 1 p.m. and down carefully all impressions just amount of attention they were at- begins to come into existence, fol- from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Perhaps tracting. But I imagine that they lowed closely, sometimes anticipated, A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. as they occurred to me. they will be of interest to others helped to confirm the Chinese in by modern business houses to take
besides myself...
their conviction
A Symbol and a Parable These new streets seemed to me to
Hong Kong, 1st August, 1920,
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brate the same street were a marked contrast 1 remember years ago reading a A claims against the Estate of precautions against heavy iron gates dividing off the to this piece of European ugliness novel with the title "The Sleeper the above-named deceased are re- first class passengers from the rest and vulgarity, in the very real grace Awakes," and the title of the bookquested to send the Particulars and the engine room and bridge and beauty of their dreas. These came back to my mind as I saw thereof as soon as possible to the from even the first class portion of ladies would not have been noticed this restless spirit in Canton (and the slip, each gate with its armed in Hong Kong. Everyone looked in other parts of China later on). Indian guards-might have inter- at them in Canton. ested me a few months ago. had already seen it on so many other
But I
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The Steamship,
These new streets are symbolical of Night on the River
it all. China has awakened, she is i After dinner that evening I took determined to jump the period of ships that it hardly aroused my at a walk round the concession at her slumbers and with one mighty tention. 1 kept
Life a sharp look-out Shameen.
on the river at effort to come level with the most for a "tread-mill" boat, as I had Canton by night shows one, at a modern of modern nations. She is heard much about them. It was glance, the inequalities between rich ready to break her way through only as we approached Canton that and poor which have created the age-long traditions. She sees the my curiosity was satisfied. A social problem in other countries goal mirrored in the life of other large craft came down the river. and is beginning to create it in countries and she is cutting her waytion's Patrols will not be on duty Under a covering at the stern were China. As in the daytime, the straight for it. Will she get there? at the Kowloon Ferry, about six rows of men; five in each junk lined the banks, but they I saw a wide street in another Chi- They will be on duty at 151⁄2 row. They were stripped to the were almost in pitch darkness just nese town, that had been made just miles on the Castle Peak Road, so waist, as all coolies are in this hot a solitary oil lamp sent
a faint
a year before I got there. It was that members who wish to go be-Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from weather. They each grippsal strong flicker of light that revealed here a in every respect like the streets that yond the landslide can leave their beams which ran across the full coolie lying asleep on the bare they are making in Europe to-day
of the boat just about the boards of the junk, there a party all the most up-to-date materials Their feet gambling, in another. a group of and methods were used in its con- height of their chests. rested on pedals which seemed to children playing. Those, who have struction. But when I saw it, it move somewhat' as the pedals of a worked so hard by day, have little bicycle.
width
This up and down motion;
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Hong Kong, 1st August, 1999.
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had already begun to go to pieces. Why ? The foundations had been badly laid and had sunk under heavy trafic. In this street I found the matter for my parable. China is The following Artistes will appear 7th inst. at 10 am by Messrs.
on SATURDAY, THE ALOHA SERENADERS THE BRUNSWICK BAND. Messrs: R. McKeown, V. C. Labrum, L. A. Jeeves, W. J. Geall, R. Baldwin.
of their feet drove a large wheel under the stern of the boat which, in consequence, moved with a fair speed down the river. How long
bent en imitating European and would each man have to remain at
American methods. She may use It his post on this tread-mill 7
all the same materials and methods, appeared as though his task would!
but she will fall if she neglects to not be ended until the boat reached
study the foundations on which its destination, as there did not rest or comfort even when the day's these nations have been built and seem to be any others on board to toil is done. Then a beautiful little | the foundation of civil polity in take the places of those who were pleasure boat would pass, lighted Europe and America, however little actually on the pedals at the time-up brilliantly by electricity. In it that fact is spoken about, is the. and the heat seemed almost un-some of the rich ones of Cantoh centuries of Christianity with its bearable, even for one
who was were taking their pleasure with no doctrina of obedience on the part of merely sitting idly on the deck of thought for the abject proverty of the subject to all lawful authority, the steamer.. My mind went back the men and women and children in and respect on the part of the ruler The Hong Kong Missionary Home, to something I had read years ago the junks. These wealthy ones eat for the interest of the people whom about the life of the galley-slaves in their pleasure boat, their white he governs. The one must give.
Mesdames:--Cairns and Lamb.
JORDAN HOUSE
227/9..Nathan Road, KOWLOON.
In the days of the Moorish threat to silk, "saams" making a pleasing obedience as to the authority of Southern Europe. But these men sight under the brilliant electric God himself, the other must fulfil TT has been brought to my. were not slaves.
citizens of China. material it should
the
newcomer.
They were free lights. They puffed their ofgars, the verable to Gud for I Notice that a person. (or per
Anti-Foreignism
I took over
...
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Goddard & Douglas,
ed.
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Hong Kong, 1st Angust, 1929.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Undersigned have received
Tin Tuctions to call by public
Auction
Out of such sitting round a little table in the the temporal and spiritual welfare sons) is going round the Colony- not be difficult boat. What was the table for of the citizens whom he governs, asking for subscriptions to sup to gain supporters for Bolsheviem Gambling "--perhaps. But I did not for his own advantage but for port a Missionary Home -or any other revolutionary not see any gambling. I seemed theirs.
The Public are hereby notified doctrine for that hatter.
to receive at least a partial answer
that such person. (or persons) The water ways around the city to the question when another beaut!- My friend and I-both foreigners has no connection whatever with itself have a strange fascination for fully lighted boat passed by, fitted walked for hours through out-of-my establishment. The junks at up as a bar, bottles of drinkables the-way places in the streets of Canton make the Hong Kong bar- of all colours sparkling in the bril- Canton There was nothing to pre- goodwill of the original Hong bour look desolate by comparison, liant light. I have heard that every vent people insulting us if they Kong Missionary Home in 1924.5, On both sides of the river, along the need and pleasure is catered for on wished to do so. It was not that This Home is run on strictly busi Bund, they are packed row on row. these river boats and probably, if we escaped unnoticed. On the ness lines for missionaries or It is marvellous that they can I had been closer, I could have seen contrary, there was considerable other people desiring a comfort- move at all. And each junk is darcing boats and gambling boats interest in the spectacle of two able home at moderate rates. packed with people.. Nor is there as well. At one point the river foreigners in these regions where wanting variety in structure. There looked a fairy land of glittering foreigners are so seldom seen., Yet are the little open sampans, then light, but I was too far from it to in these hours of wandering, only the somewhat larger ones with pick out the details. circular hoods closing them in al-
be
Gambling
once did the expression "fan kwai
lo" Le..'Foreign devil' reach our ears and that time it came from an
called to task by his mother for hav-
Certain and police to direct us on our way. They were always obliging. Once, we lost our way and came back to point where we had spoken to a policeman a few moments before. He noticed. us: coming before we bad noticed him, came forward to meet us and explained the way
most completely. Then, there are Talking of gambling, I had heard the "house-boats," built up storey somewhere that the Canton Tau- unthinking child, who was promptly upon storey like a house. Finally thorities had abolished gambling there are the highly decorated on the streets and had been able to ing used it. We asked soldiers Aower boats, fitted up to serve most make their law effective. varied user.
Some seemed toy street gambling is not as com- floating restaurants, others mon in Canton as in Hong Kong, theatres. It was difficult to draw You will see more gambling in one any inferences as to the domestic tram ride through Hong Kong than habits of the "boat-people." Some you will in a week's wandering of the boats were spotlessly clean, through Canton. some were the very opposite. Even little children of six or seven years My next expedition in search of again. Everywhere the impression (perhaps they were older than they impressions was a trip through the left on me was of a people who can looked) worked at the cars. In older portions of the city. Leaving be unfriendly only by an effort. the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat Shameen by the West bridge, ac- This walking through Canton bread" is learned early in China.
companied by a friend for guide, under a blazing August bun leaves
Shameen
Old Canton.
ELIZABETH MACKAY,
Proprietress. Hong Kong, August 2, 1929,
MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT
COMEDY.
REFRESHMENTS.
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CONCERT
ON THE
SATURDAY,
AUGUST 3rd.
cut straight into the narrow strects, one tired, exhausted. I was glad 1 paid a visit to Shameen. The going due north. These streets to be back in my quarter at Sha- approach was closely guarded the wide that I could not touch the to make me anxious to see more. If
wind in and out, none of them someen. But I had learned enough Tennis Courts 9.15 p.m. narrow bridge with iron gales, by houses on either side with out I could only see into the minds of what seemed to be French Colonial stretched bands. Single file is the these people and understand their troops on duty with fixed bayonets rate of the road here. No vehicles point of view! At any rate, this Inside, it is the very antithesis of bigger than a ricsha would have day of wandering had excited in me the Chinese life across the river room to travel, and in these part the desire to try and it was worth There all is life. crowding, noise, cular streets even a ricahs could all the weariness to have got even Poverty and hard struggle with life.ardly travel with safety, for every- that far towards the understanding Here, in this European Island sub-where the big stone slabs that form of another people-Viator In urb, one is reminded a little of the surface are set unevenly. The Rock Oxford or Bonn-a quiet, rest- Pools of mud and water abound, and dential, eminently respectable the density of the street, population locality. Tree-planted avenues and European villas-pne might be in makes it difficult even to pick one's
steps when wa
ANGLING
HOW HIGH WILL THE FISH
ARISE?
ON
TUESDAY, August 6, 1929, commencing at 11 am...
at No. 1, A. Q. D. Block, Karnedy Road,
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE (Catalogues will be fasued.) Terms: Cash on Delivery.
On View from Monday, August
1929.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers,
Hong Kong, August 2, 1929.
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
ON SATURDAY, August 3, 1929, commencing at 11 8., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
161 Tins Milk Powder. 276 Flash Lights 269 Ceas to Match -249 Mugs
68 Jey Hot Bottles
2 Cases Stationery
and
A Quantity of Electrical Ware and
Barber Shop Furniture and
Fittings
TermsCash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers
Hong Kong, August 2, 1929,
OLD TAYLOR
AGED BY TIME.
ROUND THE CINEMAS Three girls are depicted in the whirk
OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS"
A DARING FILM
FULL OF PEP
wind of modern times, and of these three Joan Crawford is the most head- strong and reckless with her kisses She appears to be the most worthless, Everywhere
but in the end it is proved to be other Europe were it not that the tem
wide perature, the mosquitoes and the people were working hard, and one |could not withold one's admiration
Joan Crawford plays the chief occasional slugsang chant of coolies for the quality of their work.
"Our Dancing Daughters, the feminine role. She is supported by awinging, along with heavy loads on China has not yet lost the secret of When New Yorkers go fishing they came up to expectations. It is being her first showing locally), John Mack Roberval, Quebec, June 14 picture that has been painted red, fully Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Puge (in bamboo poles, were reminders that
artistic handiwork, a secret which do it in style, in the opinion of Leonce screened at the Queen's Theatre for an Brown leads the male cast supported one is still in the East. That
a century of machinery has caused Hamel, Roberyal guide and outfitter additional two days, and yesterday by Nila Aster and Eddie Nugent, coolie chant is fascinating. I had Europe to lose But the struggle Mr. Theodore Varney, Vice-President large crowds of fans were treated As unusual as the theme of the plece heard it in Hong Kong, of course,to danceurre one's way made it of Aluminium Limited, New York area rere show, depicting the ultra but in the quiet avenues of Sha difficult to keep thoughts on rived by the Canadian National Rail-modern girl and the life the leads. meen it seemsen more musical, with ·any
its beautiful variations in pitch
and tone
Canton's New Street Leaving Shameen made my way
back
lion
of ways at Roberval to go fishing At The piece is unusual, so much so that
Roberval he picked up George Low, Superintendent of Properties for the oth
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tais Här-
New
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are the scenes and setting. The whole success of the picture may be said to
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