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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1929.
THE CITY OF A MILLION RUMOURS.
MYSTERIOUS MOVEMENTS OF MELNIKOFF.
BY SINO- HARBIN UNRUFFLED
RUSSIAN CRISIS.
FAREWELL TODAI”
BLACK.
POPULAR SPORTSMAN'S
DEPARTURE.
SATURDAY'S 'DINNER,
What was in every way a "Icie-
[U.P. Special.]
day passes that the White papers here do not print a story of a.. HARSIN, July 2
White uprising somewhere in Russia. Life is one "crisis" after another These stories are given with andly" fixture-albeit tinged with in Harbin, that Russian city in the wealth of detail, and with places, regret at the loss of a valued col- heart of North Manchuria, and dates and statistics all complete league was · " played at Lane, Harbin residents take their crises Bome of them are atterly prepos Crawford's Restaurant on Batur pretty much as a matter of courne. torous, but the White Russians read
recent The most
disturbance, them all eagerly. Hope is hard to day night, when a farewell dinner which carried the threat of a real kill. i,
was given to Mr. F. W. Black, of war, has been received, with the
H. M. Dockyard, previous to his same devil-may-cars attitude as thors of the past by the conglomers
departure for England. Sion of White and Red Russians, Chinese, and a sprinkling of Ameri- cans, British, French and Japanese, who make up the city of Harbin,
"Merry-go-round among the pub- lie." was the announcement" of a programme in the Yacht Club, the social centre of Harbin, at the very moment when war appeared in- evitable. For Harbin, with 100,000 White Russians alrays close to the
starvation line, is determined to be gay.
Pleasure-Booking Crowds.
Foreign residents of Harbin would not believe it if a real revolution occurred again in Russia, if it was reported in Harbin. They have heard these stories so many times that they would merely exclaim,
These. White Russians!"
news
The novel menu described the evening as "Black v. The Rest," and to carry the simile further one can add that the game was fought out on most sporting lines, and the result was a good draw."
Out Of from the World. It is hard to imagine a large
Officials of the Hong Kong Foot- city in this day and age which is ball Association present included so completely cut off from genuine fr. R. M. Djsz (President), Mr. as it Harbin. The new P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E. (Vice- papers here, two in English, several President), Mr. Re Hall (Chair in Russian, many in Chinese,, Deman), Mr. W. E. Hollands (Hon. ver have the news until it is a week old. No world-wide agency sends its report into Har bin. And the newspapers do not attempt to give a rounded picture of world events, early or late. They prefer imaginative tales of their own invention.
The cabarets of Harbin, which vie with those of Shanghai and Tientsin for supremacy in the field of night-club entertainment, seemed to thrive under the possible dangers ahead. The girls may have danced
little
because more madiy the future was uncertain-for the future is always uncertain for White Russians in Harbin, and what mat- ters a maro waz after the Russian revolution.
1
to
new
Foreign residents here, who want
events, follow world
must subscribe to newspapers in Peping, Shanghai or Japan, and these come many days late. Harbin is always behind the rest of the world by at least three days. Even in events The broad streets of New Town, which directly concern the city, with its dominant Bussin popalallke the recent Sino-Russian crisis, tion, were filled all day and late Harbin residents know less about into the night by promenading what is going on than the resident crowds, in which pretty girls were of New York, London, Shanghai so numerous that the observant or Tokyo. eye of impressionable visitors were This state of affairs gives free quickly jaded. The shops revealed play to the Russian genius for their Paris gown and the girls manufacturing rumours, and the wore their silk stockings which they game goes merrily on. It appears insist upon even if the money for certain continue, at least during the next meal is not in sight. the life of the present generation of White Russians, whose hopes will not die,
Summer is the time of greatest enjoyment in Harbin, when the nights are pleasantly cool and the days not uncomfortable. With the long hard winter in prospect, Harbin rendents do not intend to let a mere war interfere with their pleasures.
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Secretary), Mr. G. T. May (Hon. Treasurer), Mr. Ip Kaz-ke (Hon. Assistant Secretary), and the fol lowing Councillors:Messra. R K. Duncan, G. Rodger, J. Ormiston, H. K. Lee, J. B. Shak and Condr. F. H. D. Byror, R.N. (representing the Royal Navy), Lieut. W. R. George, R.A.M.C. (representing the Army).
Football's" Lösa. Mr. R. Hell, in making the prin- cipal speech of the evening, said, in part:-
"Mr. President, Gentlemen-We are gathered here this evening to do honour to our esteemed guest, Mr. Black, on the occasion of his vending departure from the Colony.
Mr. Black's name has been iden- tified with football ever since his arrival in the Colony. As a player he was much in the public eye be- tween the years 1915 and 1920; he was a tower of strength as a full back playing for the Hong Kong Football Club, when the Club was at its best and boasted such players 15 McCubbin, Hamiltos, Jack Rogers, Chassells and others of at pote,
The Melnikof Mystery, Newspaper correspondents tracted to Harbin by the Chinese Eastern railway dispute are still puzzled by the great "Melnikoff mystery,"
Swimming and Singing. The beautiful Babgari river has ed a report that the Soviet Consul One day the newspapermen receiv hera filled with pleasure craft, General, M. Melnikoff, had gone among which the ugly little gun suddenly to Changchun for a con- boats of the Chinese river navy Pference with Chang Tso Hsiang, vided a jarring note. The cabarets the Military Governor of Kirin along the river were filled with The report, if true, was important, family groups, enjoying the breezes because it might mean the begin from the river and sipping their ning of negotiations of the dispute, iced drinks, as they listened to men with rich voices singing Russian songs.
Most popular of all is the bath, ing-beach, where pretty maidens and fair-skinned young
men disport themselves in bathing-uite which leave little to the imagination. Here almost everything is Russian, including the bathers. The America and British residents have their private beaches, reached by sailing yachts and launches for Americans and Britons find it difficult to feel at home amid the emphatic gaiety
at a Russian crowd.
Newspaper correspondents sent to Harbin to observe a possible war between China and Russia could not detect that Harbin life was altered in any way by the impend- ing crisis. There must have been intense nervoustes beneath it all but White and Red Russians dominate Harbin-and in this gen- eration nothing can be very serious any more for Russians They have already seen the worst life can offer -and any new "crisis" is simply an anti-climax.
So the correspondents hurried to the Soviet Consulate, where a them. "Has secretary received Mr. Melnikoff gone to Changchun the correspondents asked.
"No, he has not left Harbin. He is now at his home," the secretary ahawered, looking them directly in the eye.
we not ace Mr. Melnikoff " *ked.
No, he is receiving no one," said the secretary:
they
"Does Mr. Melnikoff intend to go to Changchun?" was the next question.
"No," replied the secretary, he is not going outside of Harbin un- til he leaves for Russia.”
Another Version;
The correspondents then hurried to the Japanese Consulate-General, and the Consal-General informed them that he had definite informite tion that Mr. Melniko was in Changchun at the moment. They continued to the American Con sulate-General, and the Consul moment, General aid, "Wait and I will ask the Soviet consulate where Mr. Melnikoff is." He telephoned the Consulate, and the Soviet secretary replied, M. Melnikoff is in Harbin, and does not intend to leave."
Tracking the Truth. "The City of a Million Rumours" is the name applied to Harbin by newspaper correspondents sent here to study the recent developments.
The next day the Japanese Con- Hardened reporters, who have work-ul-General reported that Mr. ed in every country in Europe, Melnikoff had visited Changehus, anhesitatingly award Harbin the had conferred with General Chang pala as the most difficult city in and had been seen by members of the world in which to track down the Japanese Consulate there. This the truth about anything.
report was confirmed by British Hundreds of persons in Harbin officials who knew Melnikoff and ziem to pass most of their working had seen him on the train. - hours in thinking up possible events, So the correspondents hurried
facta. and reporting them
back to the Soviet Courulate. Fint Stories spread like wild-fire from a subordinate saw that, and they mouth to mouth, growing like asked, "Did Mr. Melnikoff to
go snowballs as they roll.
Changchun 1"? :- " He did not,” WAS the reply. He has never left Harbin,"
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An Unsolved Puzzle.
"I am very much disappointed that Mr. Au Kit-sang is not here to-night. I can well remember hing as a worthy football antagonist of Chinese were coming into their own Mr. Black in those days when the in the realm of football. "I men- tion this because of the inevitable
tussle that was bound to ensue be tween the two whenever the rival
Clubs met, and you'll note neither of these gentlemen looks a bit the worse as a ranlt of their youthful
encounters.
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PRESENTATION TO THE REV.
E. "E. QUICK.".
The Rev. E. K. Quick, who has been with St. Stephen's College," Hong Kong, for a number of years, leaving for Stanghal by the President Lincoln on Tuesday morn ing
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GERMAN BOYS IN ENGLISH SCHOOL.
AN EXPERIMENT AT CHATHAM
Realising the value of the "direct method"which" attempts to sch Mr. Quick has been appointed to the learner at once in the, atmos- the Headmastership of the Cathephere of the foreign language be dri School in Shanghai
During his residence in Hong is learning, and tries to make him ong, Mr. Quick has made hoets think in the new language from the of friends in the scholastic and the sporting world. He is keen on all very start-two teachers, Dr. Ernst. gates, especially cricket, and has Schütte, of the Realschule-Altstadt, played regularly in Interport Bremen, and Mr. George MoWillie, torious Hong Kong team against B.Sc. (Econ.), of the Chal matches. He captained the vic Shanghai in 1925.
ham Junior Technical School, de- His able teaching and kindly dis- cided "early this year to effect an position have won him a very exchange of pupils. Permission place in the hearts of past and present students of St. Stephen's, was readily given by the reepee- and all are extremely sorry that he tive authorities. Dr. Schütte was is leaving.
*After an absence of five years,
Mr. Quick has been the guest at to bring to England his highest a number of farewell functions, all class in English-all boys between Mr. Black returned to the Colony in 1923 and renewed his activites
in which he is beld. in the local football world; his testifying to the very high esteem 15 and 16 years of age and these time more as a legislator and news-
The staff and students of the were for a period of three weeks paper critic than as player. Nei College presented Mr. Quick with to live in English houses and to ther of them callings can be said a suitably inscribed silver tea ser- take part in the ordinary curricu- to be conducive to popularity yet,vice on & silver-mounted blackwood sum of the Chatham School, includ- in spite of all adversity, we find tray to mark their appreciation and ing the sports. Mr. McWillie was that Mr. Black has outlived it all best wishes. and is to-day the most popular. figure in leal. football circles, as illustrated by this gathering to night, met to show its appreciation of the goodly services he has ren- dered the great cause of fotball.”.
Chinese Play.ers.
On behalf of the Hong Kong Football Association, Mr. Dyer then presented a blackwood tray inlaid with silver designs emblematic of things Chinese to Mr. Black
BOCGET ??
Specking for Chinese followers in the Colony, Mr. H.K. Lee said that that this was the fe cond time he had been called upon to bid "good-bye and good luck to friends in the local football world. They had already lost one good friend in Mr. McCubbin, and now it was Mr. Black's turn to leave them. "I don't believe any one realises how much wa'all owe to Mr. Black" he said. "In his sphere as player and legislator too, he has given us support and en- couragement such as it is hard to express in more words."
To you European sportsmen football is only a game. To us it is something more than that. It expresses, in many ways the new spirit of comradeship and sports
- that is manehip
spreading have benefitted by Mr. Black's throughout China. Many of us kindness Oir feelings can best be summed up in very simple words-Thank you, Mr. Black
Mr. Black's Reply.
Mr. Black was greeted with up- plause upon rising to respond. You have given me a dificult job to-night" he said. and I am not at all sure that I deserve all the
We join in wishing Mr. Quick very success in his new work j
likewise to bring over to the Bremen School a similar party of boy who have been learning Ger- the enthusiasm with which the man. These, too, were to live in Chinese had taken up the game houses in Bremen and attend the He thought that the Club side of Bremen School. To ensure a more of his day was perhaps the best side certain measure of success, the two ever tarned out in the Colony, and sets of boys were invited to ear would have given any of the pre-respond by letters. In this way seat-day teams a hard run. Foot they got to know each other, and ball here, he thought was better each boy began to form some idea organized than ever before, and every club had its representative of the home he would be coming on the Council.
The experiment was duly cat- I should like to suggest that the ried out. The Bremen boys arrived Association hold an annual din- ner" be concluded, to which all at Dover, where they were met by the Chatham teacher. Dover Castle clubs would be invited, and trop and Pharos were visited before the hics. won during the season present
"
"I leave Hong Kong with great regret, and shall always remember the happy times I have had out
here."
Ulnb's Memento.
to.
ed. I think this would be a better party entrained for Chatham. A time to make such presentations the station the German boys were than immediately after the game, comrades, who
promptly joined by their English on their way to as at present.
their respective houses manfully The headmaster, Air, Keen,. M... shouldered the luggage. had arranged that one form should be divided into two and into each half were put nine of the eighteen On behalf of the Hong Kong German boys. The headmaster Football Club Mr. C. W. E. Bishop and staff of the school all gener presented to Mr. Black a case of ously showed themselver willing to pipes and a tobacco pouch with co-operate in the experiment, even. his monogram engraved thereon. Wodehouse paid him a tribute, given note-books for user in the After Mr. Black had replied, Mr. where it has meant that they work extra time, The Bremen boys were speaking for himself and the other various lessons, and homework was Vice-President, the Hon. Dr. Harized of them alen, Sight-seeirg, Kotewall, O.MG., LL.D.
of course, has not been neglected, Mr. Ormiston thanked those who bat was strictly subordinate to the had contributed to the entertain-
main purpose. ment.
Each master has testified
to
the- During the evening songs were rapidity with which the boys have Hall, and the Symphonic Jazz ability to read English and their given by Messrs. Bishop, Geeves and understood their lessons. Their Band played some excellent selec-
were specially praised.
Mr. Black went on to review the BLACK THE REST. growth of football in Hong Kong since his first games here in 1915. In particular he commented upon (Continui on next Column.)
China has long ranked high for the diversity and richness of its ramours, but the Chinese in Harbin At this point, Mr. Melnikoff bin- are easily out-distanced in imagint self appeared, and the correspon tina by the White Russians. This dents said, "There are parsistent re- group of permanent refugees, exiles ports that you went to Changchun from a country no longer their own, yesterday The Soviet Consul Gen cling to the hope that someday the eral replied, “No, I did not go to Soviets will crumble, and more often-Changchan, and do not intend to good things that have been said tions. The menu was as follows:-/ good grounding in mathematics: than not their hopes are expressed go. I have never left Harbing” about me."N as factu
During the recent disputes be tween China and Russia, the The correspondents were puzzled, Whites in Harbin have supported and asked an American resident the Chinese, net because they love who has spent many years in Har- them so much but because they bin, and knows many Red Russians approve anyone who opposes the intimately, to inquire. All of his Reds. Many Whites have told this friends, who hold official positions, orrespondent they would gladly told him fatly that Mr. Melnikof fight on the Chinese, side in case of had not left Harbin out durf
the day. Japanese, Chinese, Ameri A war with the Soviets..
can and British residents who had travelled on the train the day be fore stated fatly that they know Melnikoff well, and that he had travelled to Changchun and had come back early that morning. (Continued at foot of next column)
The Cry of "Woli."" The favourite rumour in Harbin is that of a revolution in Rumia, This story has become so much of an obsession with the Whites that they think of little else. Hardly, a
The mystery is still unsolved. Everybody concerned sticks, to his own story. Twelve Soviet afficials told as many different foreign offi- cials and correspondents tüst Mel nikaff never left Harbin until he went to Moscow, while a dozen non-Russian observers say the op- posite.
Apart from school, where they Team-Hors d'Oeuvres a la were undoubtedly making progrem, Rodger; Tomato Cream Boup by these German lads learned much F. W. Black, Fillet of Fish per J. about English customs in the home.. McCubbin; Fillet of Beef in Aspic about our way of looking at life (McBride's Favourite), Snipe on about our town life, etc. They are) Toast (Stewart's Weakness), Roast perfecting not only their Englab, Saddle of Lamb (Watson's Long but they are learning what England Suit); Hall's Potatoes, May's is. Their studies in English can Marrow, Fruit Engate by George, no longer be merely bookish ones. Dyer's Ice Cream, Bishop's Coffoc. English to them is henceforth a Reserves: James Port, Ormiston living tongue and England a place Brandy, White's Wine and Byron's peopled with real human beings. And when, they return with the Beer,
· ̈ ̈ Colours : .· ̈ All Shades; Referee, Chatham boys to Bremen they will Broadcaster; Linesmen: Rover and cerisialt take with them pleasant
and Issting memories.
Short-Head.