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OUR NAVY
One case of typhoid and eight of smallpox were notified yesterday.
Professor D. K. Karve is ataying with Mr. F. T. Molwani, manager of Messra. Pohoomull Bros., during his visit to Hong Kong.
Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kow- luon Magistracy this morning sentenced a Chinese to one month's hard labour for the theft of 40 bara from a house under construc- tion in Tai Nam Street.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1930.
CHINA'S CABARET
GIRLS
[BY SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPSI
ANTER China's latest symbol of | drew many dinner parties nightly,
E new Nationalism the cabaret is now the Silver. Draging an
girl Formerly the cabaret industry Chinese resort, Thero Aro 60 On a charge of obtaining $37 was a kind of Russian monopoly. Chinese cabarets in full swing to- by, false pretences from a Chiness Refugees, near refugees, and imita- day as against three 18 months ago. woman, Lo Chi was at the Kowloon tion refugees flocked down from The patrons of the new type of Magistracy to-day remanded to Manchuria to entertain the drifting dance hall are curious specimens of Tuesday afternoon. Bail was population of the Treaty Ports, with the Westernised student. Many allowed in the sum of $500.
Shanghai as their ultimate goal. are civil officials of the Nationalist This Jix-less city opened wide the Government. They flock down Ho Lin, employed on a cargo boat night to their really decorous acti-from Nanking for the week-end in and living at No. 58 Cremer Street,vities. They included young girls, the International Settlement, wear- Mongkok, and Chol Chol, another mothers working to support a Ing weired plus fours, or exagger- employee, were
fatherless family, and even grand- ated tweed suits, usually rounded boat to $ steamer In the mothers who fought time with rouge off by a flaming tle and horn-rim- fairway, when the latter over and lipstick and kept young their med spectacles. They come in balanced and fell into the feet. They lived in community parties, like the Westernera, fre- water. He disappeared, and has fashion in flats or boarding-houses,quently with women of their own not been seen since.
and the cabaret portion of their race and type who are hardly less life, at least, was beyond reproach. emphatic in their determination to The following appointments in ] Now their very existence is threa-be European and not Chinese. the Hong Kong Civil Service were tened by the Chinese cabaret There are "advanced" girls of the made by the Secretary of State for girl, whose growing popularity has the Colonies during November put several of the most popular 1929: Mr. S. F. Balfour and Mr. | European resorts out of business A. G. Clarke, Cadels; Mr. G. F. and transformed others into rendez- Rees, B.Sc., Assistant Master, vous for young bureaucrats of the Education Department; Miss M. Nanking Government. It is the old Rians, Nursing Sister.
story of hopeless competition against cheap labour. The Chinese When a Chinese was charged be-cabaret girl requires only a bowl of fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton this rice and some gherkins for her mid- morning with returning from night supper, while the European banishment after he had been sent girl must have European food. The away for life on November 18, Chinese girl dresses more cheaply, 1920, he said that he was deaf and although as effectively, in an exotic understood that he had been banish way, and her dances cost less. ed for ten years only. The Magla- trate passed sentence of 12 months'
hard labour.
scale; but there are the numer-
A fire broke out at 10 o'clock ous overseas Possessions-Domin- last night on the ground floor of ions, Crown Colonies, and Protec-44, Tung Chau Street, Shamshulpo, torates-to be fully safeguarded. occupied as a part of a Chinese And there is no less valuable from the Kowloon Fire Brigade Three engines wino distillery. work to be done in policing our turned out, but on arrival it was trade routes and in dealing with found that the outbreak was not a piracies in the China Seas. Cer serious one. The flames were tainly other nations do not recog-of water.
subdued by employees with buckets Only slight damage nise in full measure what the Bri- was done. tish Navy has meant to the world at large in safeguarding the high seas for all who travel. on their lawful occasions. For it is not only Britons to whom suc- cour and assistance are rendered: it is not only Britons, who are rescued from an involuntary
JAIL SENTENCE PASSED journey to the pirates' lairs: all Before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham, who require
the intervention at the Control Magistracy yesterday
DISHONEST CLERK
Sequel to Summary Court Case
afternoon, there was a sequel to the ro
"bachelor" species, trying to wear sports elathes with an aggressively maanish air, and smoking cigarettes through long holders. There was even one with a monocle.
These products of Western educa- tion live a strange and unreal life. They have nothing in common with Chinese culture and Chinese tradi- tions and yet they cannot mix with Europeans, who seek the same form of diversion, They muat make their own amusements.
The Inferiority complex some- times betrays Itself unexpectedly. Clad in ankle-length brocade of Ono night recently a party of three a colour that would defeat any other Chinese men and three Chinese type of female, she is a striking and women of the "modern school" en- attractive figure. She wears a littered a cabaret still patronised by tle, tight-fitting bodice, her slender Europeans; and after drinking more neck is encased in a high stiff collar champagne than was good for them, of the same material and her sleek became openly aggressive. One black hair is brushed back severely girl paused at a table where some demurely on her side of the room berately flung a glass of their wine from her graceful head. She sits Europeans were sitting, and deli- awaiting the call to dance, and re- on the floor, exclaiming as she did turns with a prim "keep-your-so, "We are ruling our country now distance" bow when the music
and we are going to turn you out.” stops.
It was a foolish action and the Some of them wear sheathlike Europeans took no notice, but it dresses of shimmering silver ma revealed the childish spirit of jea- terial, others are all blue and gold, lousy and resentment which anim-. or affect colour schemes in mauve,
ates many of these isolated enthus- or purple or violet. All of them are lasts. They are poised between very young. The dance well, as East and West, and neither will ac- indeed they should, for they spend knowledge them. much of their "off" time taking lea- sons from their rivals, the Russian professionals, who are glad to eke out a dwindling Income by acting as instructresses.
One of the largest cabaret-dance resorts, where formerly from thirty to fifty Russian girls danced night-
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mail" February 11, 1920.)
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
The Expensive Riviera: Dake's Unknown Destination: The Legal Tradition: The Goodwood Collection: Some Forced Journeys
The Duke's Precautions
To-day's dollar Is worth 6/34d. of the British Navy against Summary Court case in whichy, la now almost wholly Chinese. he nefarious machinations of the Y. S. When, a Chinese youth formerly On one side of the long room sat February in 1920-Have you pirate hordes in the Chinese Seas employed by the Advertising and more than forty of them. Opposite noticed how odd your desk calendar have not to send out an S.0.S.sued Mrs. B. Thompson, a Director, and old Russian brigade-seven sad and five Sundays in February. It hap- Publicity Bureau, Alexandra Bullding, were the forlorn remnants of the looks? It is not usual to have unnecessarily. True, this is the Bureau for the return of $750, anxious-eyed women in rather pens once in 28 years, and even then duty that should evolve
which he alleged was lent to, or owed to pathetic versions of evening dress. not regularly, for "fin de siecle" on him by, Mrs. Thompson. China; but, when that country is
After the facts of the case had been Although they had cut their "fee" periods like 1800, 1900, 2000, etc., unable for obvious reasons to ful-presented, as already reported in the ing) to 30 cents a dance, they were again till 1948, by which time some from 50 cents (a little over a shill-interrupt it. It will not happen China Mail, his Worship convicted on fil it, the British Navy has never three counts of uttering forged docu- hardly ever taken on to the floor. of us will not care what happens. yet--and never shall be found ments and larceny. Accused was sen
Another once popular. European From the employee's point of view wanting. Those who prate
tenced to two terms of four months' cabaret, the Plaza, where excellent it is very nice a month with only In the January issue of The ideals in regard to naval reduc-
of hard labour, to run consecutively. Russian ballets and costume dances 24 working days in it. Navy, the organ of the Navy tion can best prove their bona League, of which there is
a fides by trimming down their own branch in Hong Kong that might naval programmes and by recog- well be much stronger numerical-nising the worth of the British ly, there is a happy little refer- Navy in its tremendously splendid ence to the Haiching piracy. The work not alone for the British note is headed "The British Empire but for the whole world. Navy Again" and, after briefly When danger threatens, as the narrating the facts of the out- organ of the Navy League does On the Riviera rage, it states: "It may safely well to point out, the work of THE Riviera is quite obviously he presumed that all the passen-rescue is "as a matter of course
suffering the effects of a rers on the ship, other than the left to the ships of the British foolish policy, persistently adopt- disguised pirates, were not Bri-Navy."
Misa It cannot be expected ed through recent years, of over- tish subjects, but their rescue was, that circumstances will alter out visitors.
charging English and American as a matter of course, left to the here for many years to come. ships of the British Navy.
Those who are responsible for If The British Navy's presence in running these once
so popular the fighting ships of our Navy Chinese waters has been absolute-winter resorts
are now finding should ever be reduced to a level, ly vital to the protection of Bri that, if they have not killed, they when it will be practically impos- tish lives and Britisk interests have at least seriously crippled
they remained in Monte sible for them to safeguard the many a time and oft before, and'
the goose that laid the golden high seas for all who travel on shall be found equally vital in
Things have also been quiet in Most of the hotels and casinos Monte, but for a few parties given their lawful occasions, other na- the future. That being so are half-empty, despite an almost there by the Grand Duke Dmitri and tions may perhaps recognise in mere academical discussions on frenzied propaganda and the pre-Princess filinsky and some of their full measure what the British the reduction of the British Navy inely excellent attractions.
sentation of many now and genu-
Mr. Satterthwaie, the Navy has meant to the world at must leave us untouched until,
lawn tennis player, is among those large."
Among the English visitors who are preparing to stay there for at least, such time as Downing there seems to be a marked lack some months, and other visitors have It is not likely that, outside Street oversteps itself in a desire of politicians, who formerly found included Madame Chanel, the well- Whitehall, the hint contained in to "show off" before the world, cularly
the charms of the Riviera parti-known Paris dress designer, the foregoing will be taken by the many nations in which may be short winter respite from their Sir Montague Shearman's Heir
alluring during the Labour Government during the only too pleased to see a reduc- Parliamentary duties. present five-Power Naval Confer-tion of British naval strength, ence in London. Gestures, 50-||12|
News in Brief
egg.
THE sensation of the past few days has been the announced engage ment of the Duke of Westminater to
Loelia Ponsonby, and not a little amusement was caused by the fact that the Duke's yacht put to sen for an unknown destination Immedi ately the announcement was made.
The Duke and his fiancee would certainly have been embarrassingly bombarded by friends and inquirer
harbour.
famona
Goodwood as a means of meeting the heavy burden
of death duties and high taxation, has, In so doing, suc- cessfully exploded a foollah rumour, which has been widely circulated, that he was contemplating the salo of the Goodwood property.
Those who are personally acquaint- ed with the. Duke must have realis ed how little foundation there could be for such a story. None the less, it was believed in some quarters and must, not unnaturally, have given cause for sonte uneasiness among the employees on his estate.
No such proposal was ever con- templated, and the Dake now makes it clear that it is with the special object of avoiding any need to con- tract the properties that ho hos de- elded to dispose of a few
of his treasures.
Unwilling Stowaways THE fact that two "stowaways"--- officials who had not had time to got off-went with the R-100 on her maiden trip reminds one that many well-known people have at one time or another acted this part...
Perhaps the most famous case was
ONE only of the sons. of the late Sir Montague Shearman survives Mr. Montague Shoarman;' the other At Cannes, Sir Laming called, are all very well They
was killed in the war. Unfortunate that of Mr. W. B. Leods, who over- Worthington-Evans, accompanied ly Mr. Shearman was not able to stayed his time when seeing a friend may, perhaps do something to-
by his family, in practically the be present at his father's funeral of and was wafted willy-nilly across ward stamping those who make
only representative of British for he was in Mexico, whither he went the Atlantic. Fortunately Mr. Leeds on a special mission some little time as well able to afford the double politics. them with sincerity in seeking an The Hong Kong Interport Foot-
Nor are the yachting folk there era of world peace.
member of the Bar for some A woman passenger traveling in But ball players returned on the Pre- in any considerable number, years, he is keenly interested In France found herself in the Paris gestures may not be appreciated afdent Lincoln yesterday.
though, of course, it is as yet masle and the theatre, and in fre- train after it started from Boulogne. early for them.
quently seen at "first nights." He She wished to get out at Etaples as spends a good deal of his time in
her destination was Le Touquet. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, Paris, and speaks French, as his bail pull the com the the latter just back from father did, perfectly.
communication
by all nations equally. It has yet to be recognised by the other Shanghai fockey, arrived on the America, are at their villa at Cap
Mr. V. M. Haimovitch, Powers that the position of the President Lincoln yesterday. British Empire is unique. Not
ago.
Ferrat, and each week-end come To Relleve Taxation by yacht to Cannes, where
fare.
cord," she said, "otherwise L shall be ten hours late?!
Whereaters
adapper little French man-aiththe ufrock-coat and DZ Richmond and Loglan d'Honneth, called his · hát Gordon, who is selling cer- politely and saidens pas
selected books. ard pic- "If madame does pull the cord sha tures from "his collection at will be ten days late
only is there the island. Mother the Government is to distribute Grahame-White's boat, is also ly tain
H.E. the Oficer Administering Ethelone, Mr. and Mrs. Claude HE Duke. Country to be considered if war the prizes at Queen's College on fever broke out again on a gigantic February 19.