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DIARY OF LOCAL CHINATOWN IN LONDON
EVENTS.
To-day.
(May 23.)
Whitsun Eve.
Lawn Bowls--First Division: Kowloon Docks . Civil Service; Ornigengover 1. Recrcio; Police v Kowloon Taikon v. Kowloon Bowl.
THE PICTURESQUENESS OF PENNYFIELDS.
"UNDERWORLD” THEORY EXPLODED.
On one of my night perambula-eyes followed me as I walked past tions I came upon a narrow catting as if reckoning me up. Thanking ing Green; Second Division: Re-lanting off the West India Rock God for having givòn mẹ a per- Road in the direction of Paplar manent appearance of being wholly creio v. Craigengower; Civil for High Street with 'n magie nams in- unworth the trouble of robbing, I vice Hong Kong Elpetria; Kow-scribed on the wall-"Pennyfields." turned and walked back into the loon C.C. Yacht Club: Kowloon Promptly I turned aside and enter encouraging breadth and illumina- Bowling Green . Taikoo.
ed it. For Pennyfields means tion of the West India Dock Road. China-by all accounts, the bad place. I would have a look at it, writes Horace Thorogood in the Krening Standard.
Racing. Sixth Extra Race Meet. ing. Happy Valley, First Saddling Bell, p..
Queen's Theatre:"Min and Bill." World Theatre: "The Desert Song."
Central Theatre: War."
Iear.
Once I even entered one of those sinister doorways, there being, no: one to challenge me. I followed the dim passage past the stair-foot and And, to tell the truth, I felt re-opened a sidedoor at random. I lieved when I got out of Ponny shall never forget the appalling fields again. It is the only street mixture of odours that rushed at in the mills of East London that me. The room was "ernmuned with "Anybody's I have traversed by day and night coloured men, and thero was a large. that has inspired me with any real fire in the grate at which soine were roasting long stringe of onions. Not that anyone showed any signs The heat, the anell of packed of molesting me-neither the Chi- | Oriental humanity, and the odour. nese who formed the majority, nor of ronsting onions made an over- the Lascars, nor the Negroes, nor powering combination. The jabber the sprinkling of whites. Yet there of the taun stopped dead at my ap was a heavy sense of menace about] pearance; everyone stared at me in that street that made me unensy. j silence, the onion-roasters crouching The few stront-inmps threw little with heads twisted over their shoul- light into its profound gloom, and dara." only here and there among the low houses a shop shed a reassuring glama.bo narrow pavement.
King's Theatra: "Feet First." Majestic Theatre: "All Quiet On The Western Front."
Danoca :-Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel; Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.
Bunday.
(May 24.)
Whit Sunday, Pentecost Empire Day..
Victoria Day (Canada).
Golf: Summer Cup Competition, Kowloon Golf Club; Happy Valley
. Kowloon, Happy Valley.
·Blah.
The situation was rather embar
Eres other house seemed to be a rassing. But a little bluff goes a Chinese lodginghouse. Before its long way, oven in Chinatown, open doorway yellow-faced and Pulling out a notebook and ginnt-eyed Orientals stood in silent pencil, I carefully counted the groups, smoking cigaretten. The company, wrote down the number dimly lit passage behind them re: with elaborate precision, scowled in- Queen's Theatre: Min and ceded into mysterious regions, and, timidatingly an the silent. faces, Bill."
for all its empty look, it gave anand withdrew in good order, glad impression of concealing danger; as to obey the urge to mock the open if, at any moment, a sigual might air. fill it with scurrying men..'
World Theatre:," Desert Song." Central Theatre: Anybody's
War."
King's Theatre: "Feat Firet." Dances: Ten Danco-at Repulse Bay Hotel.
Monday,
(May 23.)
Whit Monday,
Blank Holiday, Sixth
-Extra Itact Meeting |(second day) Happy Valley, First
Saddling Bell, 2 p.m.
Just across West India Dock Any one of those doorways, pre- Road, Lime House Causeway be senting that interior glimpse with ging Ponnyfields and the Cause- its air of false emptiness, put on way really make one track, cut in the stage would create the right two by the big road as a snake sense of welodrama about to begin.might be run over by a passing But it was not the Chinese who motor-coach. Together they are gave me my vague feeling of fear. the Chinatown of London legend. It was the demeanour, of the white loafers with whom the Chinese made ao association.
Couches from the West End bring goggling tourists here on summer nights and call it a "A. Visit to London's Underworld,”
What a joke these professional
Are! "underworlds "
Whatever
In capa and coloured chokers they stood, singly or in twos and Water Polo League Entries close. threes, about the pavements and King's Theatre: Feet First." roadway, or drifted slowly from Dancea: Tea Dance at Hong point to point, in a silence very Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong | un-London-like. They watched. world"it is a shim. Even its Kong Hotel and Ponimula Hotel. They seemed on the look-out. Their
Limehouse may have been, it is a taine place to-day. As an "under-
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