THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1937.
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GORGEOUS
THE LIGHTING
WORLD
GOES BY
once lived in a boarding house, pension, private hotel or what-
-
Unsurpassed Beauty
Last Night
VERITABLE LAND OF FAIRYTALE
!
Visions of Venice, of the Crystal not. It was an excellent boarding Palace and of Scarborough were house but there was the matter of really conjured up in the Colony the People.
last night, when all illuminations were brought on simultaneously They were upstairs. I met them and wonderful display of fireworks. on the stairs, saw them at meals, was given by the Japanese .com- where we occasionally glanced fur-munity, the dull booming following tively at each other, with that, "Of brilliant flashes which lit up the course we haven't been introduced heavens on a cloudless night. and this is very un-British but I simply must have a good look at you" expression,
be- The illuminations, probably cause they were all on together; surpassed anything previously, stag- The point is, who were they, ed here and Hong Kong presented what were they and, last but not a truly wonderful spectacle, the least, why were they?
buildings on the foreshores present-
I am now certain, for instance,[ing a dazzling sight. that these people, who lived on the
floor above me, had a full-sized Outstanding were St. Joseph's symphony orchestra, several dance College and Church, the huge let- bands, a tenor or two, a crooner, a tering God Save The King, just be- whole stable of horses and a few low the May Road Level Peak Tram racing car engines, not to mention Station, Mr. J. R. Way's residence delirium tremens.
on Mount Victoria, the P. and 0: Building, the Bank of East Asia, I should like to examine the en-the latter being most conspicuous .tîre problem of these people on a for its very sharp outlines, while broad, scientific basis. I should the Chinese Pailaus (structures like to know why they went to bed built of bamboo) added a contrast four, five and even six times every with their blaze of multi-coloured night.
lights.
I am sure they did this because The outlining of nearly every life in the room in particular seem- ship in harbour was a special fea- ed to be a series of minor earth-ture. quakes, consisting of shoes being thrown violently on the floor, dras-
One of the major thrills of the witnessed shortly tic banging of doors, drawers and evening was so forth.
after 8 p.m. when eight aircraft, three flying abreast or wing-to- When I had decided that they wing and carrying flares with a had, at last, mirabile dictu, settled fourth plane illuminated along the down for the night, they, apparent-wings and body, flew over in the ly, thought there was not sufficient direction of Green Island and latër fresh air in the room. The window back over the harbour, dropping must be opened.
beautifully coloured flares.
*Added colour to the scene
was
This was not done as you or I would do it, in a normal, gentleman supplied by the fire-float, which ly manner. They had their own shot huge coloured jets of water peculiar technique. One of them into the air.
rushed at the window, leapt into the
air and struck the window with The lighting will be seen again both feet. While the glass was still this evening and to-night will wit- tinkling and cascading down to the mess the first of the lantern pro- ground outside, the other attacked cessions.
what was left of the window, labour-
ing under the fear that the thing VILLAGERS PAY
would strike back unless treated with the mailed fist after the fashion of Dictators.
On other nights they went in for games and laughter. Yes, even in the hottest part of the Summer.
They threw the furniture about, as
All
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TRIBUTE
Fairyland Effects In New Territories
Leaving the blaze of light out- if they were training for tossing side and in front of the Peninsula the caber at the Highland Games. Hotel a "China Mail" representa- very merry and bright for tive drove out into the New Terri- them, no doubt, but for me simply tories, passing en route the beau- appalling.
tifully decorated premises of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd.,
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They seemed to like athletics, on the Whole For instance, they and the Kowloon Motor Bus couldn't leave a room in the usualpany Ltd. A rare view of H manner. They had to sprint as if
Kong's illuminations was prov all the demons in Hades were after
from Laichiko bill and that was them: While doing this they didn't the last gala sight until - Shatin wear carpet slippers but, the largest Taipo and Un-long, all of which în fireman's boots, heavily studded. were decorated with entrance gates
Every morning they used to rush bearing a crown and 1987 on im to the door, open it, slam it behind pressive pailaus, while the trees thent, and gallop down the corridor, lining the roadway were illuminat as if they were în danger of arriv-ed with countless Chinese lanterns, ing late at the office. My guess is giving a fairy land effect that will that they had to report to a psychopathic clinic.
ULYSSES..
not soon be forgotten by those who recall the villagers' tribute at the Jubilee celebrations
The theatres in these three dis- The P. and 0. “Rampura” left tricts were packed to capacity and Shanghai for this port on May 11 the villagers were enjoying them- and is due here on May 14 at about selves until the early hours of the
morning.
C
UFENS
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