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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1949
SAIGON AND THE STRANGER
It may be perfectly true to speak of Saigon as the Paris of the Far East. But Frenchman. He will amuco
and
not to a only ba
his own
is evident
not been
to
say in ecstatic way: "Ah, it
that you Parcel".
havo
By A "China Mail" Reporter
Hotel
can be seCN
the day
Grande Mande dubling with
Forbidden City
Good
Amethinks
are
That midinettes' strike in Paris seems to be pretty well sewn up.
Headlines la a contemporary yesterday:
"Shanghal Factories. "Warned Not to Leave City." So even plant and buildings to follow the party have now
told, though, that some of thein wooden listen.
platform for touring Parisienne entertainers. At the moment, the night club in featuring a well- known Paris ballet troupe which 1 remaining in Salgon for a service three-month season, performing Catinat. two wheels, school children ridej auto's
Men standards are poor by comparison. duting the week-ends. them to classes and play.
to work and even however.
the Commos mount them
is a busy house of The most popular place for re- their native amehs soom perfectly
laxation is the Croix de Sud on roulette, fantan etc calling the grinding their molars just at the The foremost impression gained home with the machine.
st
Frenchmen moet spare cash of enger speculators. moment, upon by the Stranger
arrival Then there are several madi-Catinat. Hore
while a Customers entering Grande at Saigon proper was the Amazfications of the rickshaw except for their evening sip
Dane Mondo are searched by police are strictly ing outward calm of its inhabi-the. model requiring human bro-Filipino orchestra plays.
This was done away ing at the Croix is on Saturday parties and cameras dormant pulsion. tants, although tense,
forbidden. unreat exist hardly outside it with by the French some time ago. and Sundays only.
In its place to delicabund
there is the Sunday to the French in Salgon city limits.
the holiday and they take it vory The city
is divided into two du- motorrick, the
The
parade on the Salgon, donkey cart. The last mentioned seriously. tinct parts, down town.
The Forbidden City, conspicu- predominated by Europeans in particularly popular around the street begins after Mass when at
11 a.m. all Saigon
ceous brothel In Cholon, is a large be estimated at more than 20,00 be- suburbs at the city.
and they take along Catinat or sitting at the extablishment on Gallient and is Bides
ml:issy the
(Eurasians) Taxis are low Advertisements and Business come and the native Annamites; and full loods with passengers paying cafes of the Continental, the Colx patrouined mostly by the military. informants 'told the Stranger that city's the
busy their share of the fare. The buses or the Pacifique. vast.
Attire generally is extremely
many a dancing girl from Canton munications should to addressed Chalon,
are invariably packed, and go
The women are sur and particularly Hong Kong has of the the Company CHINA MAIL rice-milling China-town.
Saigon in smaller than Hong about in bright colours advertis- Informal. LTD.
Kong but it is lens compacting the city's merchandise. Tram prisingly simply dressed. Though found her way to Cholon.
In all, Saigon town life today Brond avenues and boulevards cars too, contribute to the trame less fashionable than the women
is peaceful and calm. travela on "the of Hong Kong, the French which spread the city out and its pro all of
great- to wear their clothing with
Cost of living in Saigon la fit AMETHYST ESCAPE portionately smaller buildings
The short-cheap and is estimated to be less wrong side of the road."
er case and neatness. The French in Saigon lead an into the city to give it a clean
cont that of Hung per. easy life, spending age of dress material in Sgon than 80 unhurried, British hearts all over the comfortable look..
for no extravagant Kong's. Foreign goods, however, The elly, Bt present.
is Just most of their free time sipping is a renner
are unobtainable or yery expen- world are glad today because
leisurely An and gossiping
at the mode in the city. big splurge of
Places interesting particularly sive in the black market which in pavement of a small but significant in-a
estimated more than 50,000
numerous, ploturesque cident-the daring escape of French troops are quartered in cafes, or sauntering aimlessly to the newcomer are Saigon's two Saigon's lucrative trasiness.
or cooling gardens, the Town the sloop Amethyst from Saigon, which has more soldiers along the boulevards,
The Jardin Botanique.
the price in Hong Kong. Communist captivity in the than any other city in Indo-China off in the spacious parks.
Saigon's housing problem in as The galety of Saigon is now a The troops in-
are stationed in
thing of the past probably because serious as any other cities in the Yangtse. Held tolerable conditions of heat Saigon and permanently alerted
of the curfew. The night clubs world today, to deal with emergencies in the
Chalan, the
The people, however, seem con- Chlo Chick! and confinement, the reduced suburbs and beyond.
Daily pat
The busy centre of the city function mostly in rols
Here can China-town cunheeted with Sni- tent with their own standards and
(A pretty American woman is conducted by troops is along Rue Catiant. ship's complement
But activities of bound all that makes Saigon. Ken by the three-kilometre long live the dny hoping for settlement sitting on a 50ft, pole for two structions from London broke from the city.
elements, subversive
concentrated along road. the Boulevarde de Gallienl. of its political affairs at the same weeks in protest over the hous the em-the
Shopping is
hern la the time wanting very much to retaining shortage). The popular apot Is the successfully from
Vietanh.
main this road which
Grande Monde, ritzy entertain their own status. brace of the glorious people's Vietn
thoroughfare of the city. Here
ment house in the city, patronised alan the pride of the city in hon- telry, the Hotel Continental, the mostly by the city's social elite hig department stores, Granda Magasins Charner and the Nouve
under
on
flance before through the boom.
This is in the best traditions of the Royal Navy, and typi- cal of the British qualities of enterprise
and courage
*
khaki.
the
at a are
minimum with a year ago,
Curfew Enforced
Busy Centre
.
and tourlata.
Grande Monde
Britain's New Growing Up
вест
A
"Papa, why is American China polley all wet?"
"Beenuse the State Department has a headachesoni"
Thinking of what Garden atul tin of Gold Flake cost three times.
To the visitor the people are polite and helpful, flattered when you tell them that they speaki provides the good English and unmindful that
you speak an French.
They avoid politics but once caught In nacursion, are out to convince you that they are doing
Baby Fast
By GRAHAM STANFORD ·
ins right.
Perlings
the
pence and tran-
ite necom~ plishes, Truman's cyes may get starry, but others' get all Dewey.
Giddy glamdur roosting there. Fifty feet up in the air,
Props some passing millionaire With a lonely, lofty soul May assist you gain your goal. Perch a love nest on
Dole!
•
your
Maybe
Some people in that African quility of Saigon (or is it the tribe seem to object to having a intriguing under-current of
stenographer as Queen. in- stability)--can best be seen from she is just not their type, the deserted
"streets. of the city in the afternoon, when, under the bright hot sun, within their shut- tered windows, the city takes its siesta, as the church bella peal
Clergy, the afternoon office of Saigon's
state, her guns speaking de-compared with precautions are she crashed being taken by the French
authorities. The Vietminha re blous Communistic faction un- the underground der Dr., Ito Chi-minh-are well "rganised in within the city.
Occasionally a stir is raised and against oxids-the traits which a grenade thrown. Recently for welfare instance, the Nam Kwong Thentre the spoon-feeding state is doing its best to dis-in Rue Verdun was the scene of Vietminh sabotage, and a young killed when a sipate at Home. It is, in fact. French girl was
the order piece of shrapnel fodged in her surprising that from Whitehall was given at abdomen. all, and we can well imagine
To plant their rice descendants the months of weak-kneed
Sarawak is Britain's youngest { trembling and heart burning
All night and day. patrolling Culony and celebrates its third of the old head-hunters hava ruth easly felled and burned valuable Police in trucks tour birthday this month.
Uyaks which Attlee and his grim- Military
*rv city. Curfew la en-
farming. co-operative visaged crew experienced be the whole
No doubt you have read of this timber. Today the
learning fore allowing the order to go forced for five hours beginning range innd on Borneo's Norin
Apart from this, strat const, for the While Rajahs and experimental plots are being out. Be it to their credit that at midnight.
Sago production is increasing they eventually did give it. Saigon lives the remainder of the who rules for a century and the
day in striking unconcern.
and great efforts are being made This decision may mean Saigon, lke any other Wester-head-hunters
to put pepper gardens back into the end of the indiscrimin-nised city in the East, presente publicity.
It was ceded to Britain in 1940 order after damage done during ate policy of appeasement its share of enchanting contrast,
city's transportation is by Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, last the Japanese occupation. The
What of
of the future? Here, the of the White Rajahs. For the past which
obviously was SO
will hold the failure. It is omething that doomed to
its three years a hard-working band again, so much depends on what visitor interested. Along
Empire-builders have been happens to the world price of special holiday variety are boulevards, of
new bat. It is the country's most im causing trouble in Switzerland. and rondk probably necessary for Hong long
to carve out a And
the natives
In Zurich can be heard alike struggling Kong to trade with China Frenchmen
Constitution and a new future for portant export and as in Malaya
made rapid] Industry -the sometimes call
complaints of thousands of would. even under totalitarian rule, travel by assorted means.
The most popular means of con- the land which
post-war recovery.
be Swing holidaymakers who have but let us do it on our terms,
But it will bo a sad day for whut The Shanghai veyance is the bicycle. Men anded "Malaya's poor relation."
How are they doing? In view not theirs.
or all the difficulties they should Sarawak if American syntheticised sunny week-ends' at the
rubber holdings are not to be held profession, pedal the bike.
wins the battle, for the coast and in the country because
of faulty forecasts. feel fairly proud of themselves.
The trouble began at Easter by giving in to every whim
An estimated budget defelt of growth of this Colony will us
be impeded.
when as late
as Easter Saturday, of the conqueror.
radio bulletins
Listening in to the persistently makers ignored the sunshine out-
Amethyst's escape brings
an
end
a
miser-
re-
women, no matter
Housewives do
thair
their shopping|
Scottish Air
In Africa
Moors when
CHINESE OPTICAL CO. carry consignments of non- Morocco, must have
SUN-GLASSES STATION
RAY-BAN
POLOROID
of old had
is
Koris
cultivated.
14
Weather Trouble
Weather
forecasts ...the
more than £100,000 has been turn-US happens, Sarawak is the thrice-day a wet-week-ond.
ed into a surplus of £350,000, and
Democracy Liked
put
wore
Pin Ups Not Permitted
Italian police will confente
In swimming any photos of Winston Churchill apolloguise!
togs.
And
по
"Typhoon Hending For · Tal----- wan"... And everyone already running round in circles there.
Free For All
The French Assembly certainly the spirit of the entered into Atlantic Pact during the ratifien-
tion debate.
"Adam Had 'Em" says Ripley is A short poem and "I, Why" is even shorter.... How about....
U,
Brevity is Soul of Nitwit
2.
gloomy forecasts the holiday- The "Little Gem"
What ship is at present the aide-and cancelled their holiday brightest jewel in the imperial bookings.
Yot Switzerland had Crown?
its Anest and warmest Eastor on record.
Even
then the disappointed holi- daymakers were prepared to for-
This "splice-the-mainbrace" is
the so-called "poor relation" last taking no charces and is doing to
n favourable trade its utmost of develop other pro- YERT had Lable
which episode
balance of more than £9,000,000, ducts in case rubber does go.
She is a wise enough baby to flects credit on no one but
with experts breaking all records
know that it is dangerous to who the officers and men
all your eggs into one basket. To hear the traditional Scot-nt more than £20,000,000. underwent the shelling and
Knives Sheathed privations of that criminally lish tune "Will Ye No Come: on April 20, Back Again?" sung by a crowd futile display
of enthusiastic
Compared with other territories when a warship was sent to
their Sultan recently left Fez, Decendants of the Dyak head-
East in South
Asia this is a ahunters are learning the laws of been
give and forget. Not so, however, a rum sort of expression. peaceful place.
when the same thing happened essential comforts to
to the Swis The old controversy over the our moving experience. Not only democratic rule, and one-third of
again. Writing direct the Moors adopted this the people are now under local
cession to meteorological Station the holiday- No Oilve Branch or wrongs of gationals in Nanking while have
authorities.
still lingers, but
The Russians are doing a lot the makers prelested forcibly. The present system is still far opposing armies faced each song for the apropriate occa-
can Ko to their other,
Now, writes Hugo Kuranda, of worrying about this American finger on trigger, sion but have also set another
official:
The
in peace. plantations
with yet another faulty forecast Noah's Ark business on their This was Scottish song. "Auld Lang Syne" romoved from the adult franchise, rubber-Lappers
but, to quote an across the river.
and two to Arabic words.
Death doesn't lurk behind these given last week-end the protests frontier. Putting two Dyaks are taking to democracy fantastic, but to make mat-
It was a former Scottish Com-as ducks take to water."
trees, and so far, at any rate, of the holidaymakers have been together, as it were? to the Sultan,]
doesn't appear to mander-in-Chief
The whole country hungers for Communism
joined ters even more incredible to
ined by indignant letters from half the popu- have reared its head.
hotel and boarding house keepers.. future historians, other valu- the late Cald Sir Harry Mac-
About 100 years ago head-hunt Finding reservations cancelled able
lation have no sent in Lean, who originated mustert knowledge. Necational facili
A Prince from. Apla has lost It broke hoteliers are probably was
teachers, Sara-with the people here. ogle for schools and
considering sueing his pearls in San Francisco, has 364 schools without again during the war and the Meteorological Station for "Never mind," he says, "Samoa Thas never been discovered. Iteaching them his rocco are 34,000 pupila wak now has
student several hundred Japs lost their wilful damage" to their basiness. where they came from."
heads in the traditional manner. teachers in training,
Public health is improving and Today police report that head. hayo sheathed their try will have 14 travelling die knives and there wasn't a single
caso last year. pensaries instead of two.
And so 1 say farewell to Bri- tain's youngest Colony, which-it the rubber war is won-secms.set fair for a very fine future.
fine
CALOBAR, after her for what purpose evenings among the Moors and ties, but, after a throo-year strug- ing was described as a passion even on the finest week-ends the
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of strong. Amethyst, course, damaged themselves. headed Moor who will tell you..
of a British prestige in the Far Seot lo
who
was
nd 125
a grandre forces and to at the end of the year the coun-hunters East sank to a new low level stoorish guide who re
Now we have a little of
our
there in actually a
own back, and local people speaking of Mac and Charlie Guthrie.
company
yesterday
fox-
in the Scottish name
of
boasts a Ver Morocco
Moreover, said Scottish "saint", a shipwrecked
Red Tape Slashed
Among
all these Empire- 蠱 Hole of rightly, "Is their face Red!" sailor named McDowall who was builders there is
Mogador centuries Lurgency, and I am glad to report Of course we can expect rescued at reprisals. Britons in Shang-go and devoted the rest of his that red tape in ruthlessly slashed
is to get on with the job. days to good deeds. Ho hai and Nanking are report-known now as Sidi Megdoul. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the ed to have rejoiced openly, Finally, your own correspon Social Commissioner for South while at the same time feel dent in Morocco,, who provided East Aala, is so sold on Sarawak ing sure that they will be this information is Donald Me- that he made to pay. There can be Cormick,-Scots enqugh himself. little doubt that their appre-
also.
Sunday Radio
who
In Belgium there has been ad- complaint by radio other me
services listeners. This time the subject is
Sunday evening book about it tha he is writing Sarawak has certainly wol- broadcast over the Belgian radio, These services, writes Gavin comed moro "visiting fremon" fa the past three years than any Gordon, have become increasingly
since popular
the war, with can other Colonial territory. hensions are correct. The patriotle citizens who
Experts have flown
in from the Listeners Research Stations re
hundreds porting
of people indirect terrorism until now possibly afford the time to mostly concentrated on the be at the dock when the Colonial Office.
Even the United Nations Secre- listening to them in every town. Americans will probably be gallant craft comes in. The
at Britain's new baby.
cannot go to church and have extended to British residents Navy will have its welcom-tariat was anxious to take a look Scores of the listeners are people Sarawak is really a test case of mado a habit of following the It may, however, being "committee" there. Why tempered by the Commun-not the government too? how soon a British Colony ran get broadcasts instead.
Now, the regular listeners com lats long-term needs, and Why not have a band play on its feat.
The progress report includes plain that the services are being their present intentions to ing? Let the ladies be there the holding of the first population constantly interrupted just before
sermon
In letters to the use Hong Kong as a trading in their prettlest dresses, census, a country-wide search for the
and
Belgium's Brond base for essential require and let's have some rousing coal, and „an ́serial topographical papers House they point out that
survey to comb out mineral casting
the sources.
sermon isor should be the church Further, we would strong- One of the great handicaps to most important part of a We, are glad to learn that
the Empire-builders is lack of service. To have it interrupted the Navy this time does not ly recommend the Forces ing intend the returning ship to Welfare Committee to call an information. Until the census and the programme switched to enter our harbour under a emergency meeting today, they had no idea of the popularamophons records or variety, is
the аду complaints,
proof that virtual cloak, of secrecy. to see that hospitality and tion, had no reports on the quality
chiefs Amethyst is tentatively due kindness are afforded these of agricultural land, and only the Belgium Broadcasting House, does
broadcasting the Colony's mineral "resources. ⠀⠀ about 11am tomorrow, brave lada who have stood axlest Idea of the extent of the mat "know" its listeners, more detailed Information to so much without breaking,
have promised that be announced in Wednesday and who after more than
do what they can to haya morning's paper three months retained enough
Slowly things are sorting them the sermons broadcast in all It is true that Hong Kong high devilment to cock their is blase about the arrival of mooks at the Kremlin selves out and the Colony if the Meanwhile they maintain that if warships, but this is a special tooges, so that their fine ing shape. The majority of the better to interrupt -
population, are farmers, but their before it has really started than occasion, and in this instance, ship could sail in Zreedom primitive methods have horrified to wait until it has almost finish-
visiting experts. we would strongly urge all once again.
ments.
cheers too.
Experts Shocked"
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