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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17,
LIFE IN THE "TREATY PORTS
IMPRESSIONS OF SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.
[BY A RESIDENT OF HONG KONG.]
The complaint is made. often, The People You Meet.' that it is difficult to get a holiday There is close resemblance in the away from Hong Kong unless you social life of Swatow, Amoy and go, north to "Weibei" or Japan. Faochow, although one obtains the The stress of modem life makes an
impression that Kulangsu provides occasional change of scene a toric for the foreign community of Amoy for the tired business-man. A few advantages that make that port days in any one of the treaty ports rather more attractive than the of South China is a real change-others. For Kalangsu is an island especially if you have never been about the size of Cheung Chau. It there before."
Life in Swatow, has delightful bathing-beaches. It Amoy, and Foochow is different to
ia as quiet as was the Peak in the life in Hong Kong. Many European days when there were no motor. families in the Far East have been!
cars or rickshawn. There is a located in these places. They may Municipal Council with the execu be amused at the impressions of tive officer who is in Englishman. one who has heard a lot about The place is kept clean. Wealthy them, but has only recently had the Chinese, returning from the Straits opportunity of seeing these interest-
Settlements to their native pro- ing centres of commerce and mis- vince, do not go back to the dirt sionary endeavour.
and uproar of "the native city of Amoy. They compete with the Europeans for the delightful villas with gardens on Kulangsu
There is, in Swatow, a small re-
Swatow is reached about sixteen hours after the boat leaves Hong Kong. It is not beautiful, and the natives arc difficult The chief i articles of export" are coolies; sidential area for Europeans, across 'oranges, and drawn-thread needle the water. There also one finds work. It serves as a port to a peace and quietness unknown in the large hinterland. There are always neighbourhood of a native city ships in the harbour, loading or un- loading freight.
It is not, however, so attractive as Kalangsu
"After Swatow, the coasting In Foochow they have a summer stramer, touches Amoy-the trip resort called Kuliang. It is in from port to port is about sixteen the hills, about 2,300 feet up. It hours. The approach to this port takes some four hours to accomplish is more pleasing to the eye. But the journey by rickshaw and chair. Fnochow-three days from Hong Concerning life in Kuliang it is Kong-has a setting which is really hoped to give impressious in a sub- beautiful.
Bequent contribution.
Who are the residents in these treaty ports? And what makes up their social life?
There are the Consuls. The British Consul has an attractive
In the good old days" Foochow and Amoy were famous because of the ten trade. Those of us who have had the good luck to meet some of the old China hands" bad heard of the famous · China | residence and a certain social status clippers, especially the Cutty Sark. The clippers sailed from Foochow londed with tra, and made history in a world concerned with sails and seamanship.
Then came steam, the giant that has altered life in the Far East as it has changed everything on earth-except human nature. In the harbours of Amoy and Foochow you will and salle-but the sails only of junks and sampans. The rattle of winches and the black smoke belching out of funnels re mind you that contact with Europe and America is made now-a-days by the help of machinery.
Imports and exports are carried agross the ocean in ships made of steel. They load no tea in Amoy and, when their cargo is compared with that in the ships made of wood in the olden days, but little tea is loaded in Faochow. Yet you find traces of the life of tea-traders of the spacious days of sixty years aro in these treaty ports of South China.
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Away From the Madding Crowd. As the years go by, life in Hong Kong and Shanghai become more and more like life ian city of America. We have moter-cars,. daily newspapers, cinemas, dinner. dances at the hotels; "cheap sales,"
because of his official position. You soon learn that there is not much" money in the job. The British re- sidents tell you, confidentially, that it is a scandal that our Consuls in China are so badly paid.
Then there are the people in the Chinese Maritime Custome Service. There is a sharp distinction be tween the indoor and outdoor staff, the former being men of the commissioned officer type, and the latter the rank and file. Yet they are all members the local Cus toms' Club.
The Customs service is inter- national, and you meet French, Scandinavians, and other Euro- peans in these" ports: The tele graph people seem
to be Nor- wegians, Danes or Swedes, yet Eng- lish is the universal language of the Clubs and of commerce.
In all these ports the Clubs are used by both sexes. That helps social life. In the evening, before dinner, the European residents
roll along" to the Club" for a game of bridge, -yarn and a drink. As soon as a visitor "arrives every one in the Club knows about it.
Missionaries as "Mizers."
Then there are the men for whom the Treaties were made. Few of us would have left Europe and America
to reside in the Far "East but for and broadcasting. In the treaty the traders. You don't shoot ports they have none of these dis- ¦ down your customera,“ remarked tractions. There is an evenness in Mr. Winston Churchill when ques-
the daily round that makes the visitors envy the residents of those smaller centres of commerce,
tioned about the troubles in China. Europeans and Americans want to trade with the Chinese. There are also the missionaries but they are not much in evidence in the social life of the ports. The post-war, res eraits among the missionaries seem be better "mixerà" than the prewar workers. Perhaps because Any they are younger.
After a year's leave you may come back to Hong Kong and walk through Queen's Road without re- cognising a familiar face.
Sunday afternoon you can go out
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE SAYINGS OF SYBIL.
1929.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]
Sin-We should sympathise with Mr. Adler in the brave fight he is compelled to make to defend Mrs.
Eddy and her works (plagiarised
WAS
not
and other), but when he calls Mis, Sybil Wilbur O'Brien into the witness-box to refute Mr. Ditte- more's" observatione nhout Mrs, Eddy, well, it is to laugh"1"
Mrs. O'Brien as a journalist-she a. Christian Scientist-- agreed to write a life of Mrs. Eddy, which so "pleased that lady and her advisers that they adopt- ed it as the "authorised" version of her
This "life" written to order as a purely busi neas proposition by Mrs. O'Brien.. but the Irish favour of her name Was not considered to be quite tactful, so the author is known simply as Sybil Wilbur,"
career.
челу
Since Mrs. Eddy approved this version of her life, it may be assumed it contains nothing dis. advantageous to her, but can Mr. Adler tell oe, why Mrs. Eddy and
life" which, having appeared in her advisers, suppressed a
McClure's Magazine in serial form,,, was to have been published as book! The "authorised " life written by "Sybil Wilbur " was published as an antidote to the McClure articles and I leave your readers to judge whether Mrs. O'Brien is to be regarded as an impartial witness as to Mrs. Eddy's career. Yours, etc.,
INTERESTED.
Hong Kong, Oct. 18:
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leave, then everyone gives a farewell party. Usually Jones or Brown gives one too! So for some weeks before the day of departure you go out to evening parties held in honour of the lucky tann who is going home."
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You find that if Jones is a junior his taipen throws a show." We al gathered at the Club on typien send-off" occasion. We drank the health of Jones-some of us drank it more than once. Then we went off to his nipate house. There were twenty in that party. There were other houses where the Test of the Europeans dined to-" gether, and at all of them there was about the same programme.
On arrival at our rendezvous there were cocktails. The gramo- phone was set going. We all danced in a huge room reminiscent of the "good old days" when gin was a dollar a bottle, and the Chinese merchants Rave valuable "' cum- shaws." After some half-hour we eat down to dinner, It was then past nine o'clock. After dinner the usual ritual-stories, smokes, and liquers. What the stories were, like in the drawing room may never be known, but in the dining-room the men gave the lie to the modern com- plaint that the art of conversation is dead.
Unlike Hong Kong,
Some and
to the beach at Repulse Bay and big oil companies, the A.P.C. and You meet representatives of the see it crowded with strangers. "After
Socony, in the treaty ports. · Also
have
of commerce.
a couple of days in a treaty port the British-American Tobacco Co. their staff. "Jardines," you know every European in the
"Butterfields," "the Bank"-whose place. Although you have met. headquarters are in Hong Kong- perhaps, only one or two of them" Dodwells," and other names crop before you visit, you will be em- u as you are introduced to the men barrassed by the splendid hos pitality of every one during your
Europeana and Americans "all stay. There is a friendliness, an
"mix" well in the treaty ports. absence of rush and hustle, that Competition in commerce may or is delightful. The taipan and his may not be fierce, but in social life junior appear at the same picnic-nobody seems to show animosities. "We can't afford to have hatea," parties, and the taipan competes,
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-Borno of us danced, later on, the SOUTHEND WATER again, but it vide no better. The
French Consul, the Italian' from the Customas' service, the wife of an American trader, and an English giti made up a four at one table. Everywhere English was spoken, but some of the words were pro- nounced in a quaint fashion. Yet there was.
a jovial camaraderie seldom met with at offcial dinner- parties in Hong Kong.
“TAINTED."
VEGETABLE MATTER IN THE MAINS.
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"LIKE IODINE."
The inhabitants in Southend have become alarmed about the taste and smell of the water as it comes from the caps All parts of town have been affected, and people were going from figuse to house iIL- quiring if their neighbours had any water that want to drink."
Of course, there are drawbacks to life in the treaty ports. After n time ambition may disappear and enterprise become a thing of the past. It is, perhaps, not good for pong men to be too comfortable. And no doubt that is why the wise old men who direct the destiny of the big trading concerns in the Far East are always moving the young men around., But to the visitor life in the treaty ports secms delightful. Perhaps it is becauseing of iodine, and by others na tist
ing of rotten shell fish, Asoman the change of scenery and people
in Crowstone rond, Westcliff, said Act as a tonio. For a real drawback
'to a reporter :- o life in Hong Kong is the dif fruity of getting away from the place.-M.B.
It is described by some ne smell
"The tea at breakfast tasted bad, so I cleaned out the kettle and tried
steam from the boiling water made the whole kitchen smell. I tasted some cold water and that was us. bad."
Made Him I
A man at Leigh declared that he tried to drink some cold water and it made him ill.
An official at the offices of the Southend Waterworks Company said ho was tired of answering questions.
and answering telephones all day I have been attending to callers. long," he said. "We have had the water tested, and it is perfectly harmless, but the best way to re- move the taste is to boil the water and kit it go. cold.
Some vegetable matter has en- tered the mains, cause by the con- tinued warm weather, and men have been employed all night and throughout the day flushing out the maing'