TWO WEEKS OF UNPARALLELED NOISE
SHIU CHOW CELEBRATES CHINESE NEW YEAR
(From Our Own Correspondent.}
Spre Chow, Kwangtung,
Feb. 7. Some optimistic souls hope China will turn away from the lunar New Year. They should visit Shin Chow and be disillusioned. There were celebrations here at the time of our New Your but about the only ones who even pretended in terest in them were the soldiers and government officials. No doubt their enthusiasm was the result of
orders.
Bat Chinese New Year! Here it Ineans two weeks of unparalleled Aoise; loud noises, louder noises, and still louder noises. There are processions during the day and processions during the night while the native orchestras play without reasing. And people! Normally speaking Shiu Chow is well crowd ed.but for these last days ono, can hardly find the city for the people. Every man and his dog have been out parading the streets while the children pushing around showing off their new toys have flooded the place. Stores have been redecorat ed, new signs painted and proudly hung where the passerby is certain to ran into them, and the hawkers
have done 4
rushing business Small wonder with so much doing Chinese New Year that the na tives rarely stop in their way to give Jan. 1st a second thought.
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Soldiers and Scholars,
All schools opened yesterday, the soldiers have gone back to their work of marching through the streets and blowing bugles at all hours, the shops are ready for business, and yet Chinese New Year seems very much with us Shopkeepers may "wait on you but they'd much prefer telling one all about the gifts they received, the soldiers march cheerfully out of step is they go singing by, and the students going to schools seem solely interested in determining where they are going to fire their next firecracker. It is just as well that Chinese New Year comes mnly a year it takes the people fully that long to recover.
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Cold Weather Breaks,
If to-day can be taken as an omen, the long bitter spell of cold weather that has lain on Shiu Chow for the greater part of a month has finally broken. It has been warming up steadily this last week until even the poor people no longer look completely frozen. Al- though there was not as much rain- fall this winter as was expected there have been scattered days of rain that have earved to keep the dust down..
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CONCERT
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1933.
G. B. S.
OVERSEAS LEAGUE.
THE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
HARD WORK AND HOPES OF ANOTHER
PLAY
Big and Appreciative Audience
** THE BELLS." BARRIE AND MUSIC
Visit To The
Works"
THE WORLD'S MOST ECONOMICAL SHIP
SCENES ON BOARD. THE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
"Have you soon Shaw "every body asks me that and then comes the second question "What is he like!
The only answer is that he is exactly like, Barnard Shaw! Ho looks like his photographs and he tilks in the traditional manner. Perhaps the only surprise that he had prepared for the presamen who met him on board the Empress of Britain on Saturday morning was that be greeted them with geniality, and talked for three quarters of an hour. But Shaw would not be him self if he hadn't had at least one joke up his sleeve.
After the excellent concert given
Of the very large number of peo last year, by the Oversons League we went last Friday to the Helena ple who visited the Empresa of May Institute prepared to enjoy Britain on Saturday only one of. ourselves, and were not disappoint two took the opportunity of inspect ex. The producers took their couring the engine-room. of the world's age in both hands in staging the most economical turbine steamship. After a brief look-see" on top- finn net of The Bella." It was in the part of Mathias in this play side which was all wonderful and that Henry Irving just drew atten- glittering, the writer made his way tion to his genius nad he never bolow to the "works" of this gigan- tired of the part. Company after tip steamer. Usually it does not company has gone on the roads take one long to "ge below" but man in this mammoth of the seas, it with The Bells" with a trained by and, under Irving in the was only after a good deal of wild leading role, and they have always goose chasing, up and down stair ways and along bright lit passages, payed it in the Irving manner.
an if in a maze, that the entrance to the engine room was found..
The first thing which struck the
He first off the expected brilliant writer on going below (other than trifles, Rotary, and the Great Wall the sign on the door. "Strictly Private"), was the spacious and of China were put in their places, neat layout of the machinery. An- other feature of the engine-room was the cleanliness of all working parts, Engine-rooms are generally associated with grime and oily rail- ings, but in this case, not a drop of oil could be noticed out of place and although the writer travelled from one end of the immense "works" to the other, never once was a piece of cotton waste needed to clean the hands!
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Mr. Sydney West had never seen it played. We got in consequence a new Mathias, and one more in the spirit of our own time. The great inan with a mystical madness, the Hamlet cum Lear figure, was re- placed by a very hunian and ter rible figure. West made Mathias a man not the figurehead of a dramatic tragedy. That he spoke boo quickly is the one fault to be found with a rendering which was remarkable in its power and intensity. There is, of course, no other good part in "The Bells," but the judge, memnerist and clerk, whom we believe to have been Sidney Elgar, Arthur Jeffreys, and. Theo Ingram, acquitted them- selves well. The stage was too small to allow the players in the first scene to do anything but speak their words. Mention should be made of the very effective staging and lighting of the trial scene..
Barrie Play.
Her
It would be impossible for An amateur to understand what he was looking at without the explanation of an expert, and it is here that thanks must be accorded to Mr. Thomson, a junior engineat, for his clear explanations of the in- tricate machinery.
The Old Lady Shows Medals" is, of course, an easier
Two Engine Rooms,'' play for amateur production, and First of all it should be mention went very well inderd. Mrs. Bunje od that the Empress of Britain as Mr. Doway and
James has
two engine rooms, con- Ferguson as "Kenneth" were both taining two of the turbines which splendid, and spoke, Barries rather drive the four propellors. felt and meant them. These two augary absurdities as if they really managed to get real pathos into the plays by no means onsy task ao long after the period at which it We were all a little overwrought during the war and there is nothing impossible about the theme of "The Old Lady," but it needs real acting to make it convincing in 1933.
was written.
questions about the Far Eastern situation drew a little lecture full of Sharian epigrams and shrewd commonsense, Labour and Russia got their expected mede of praise..
A Royal Presence, saw him first in the corridor, coming from his cabin with his hunds full of papers. Even at considerable distance there was no mistaking him, that white head and beard have been made familiar by a hundred photographs, but his height was surprise and even more so his presence.
Shaw the jester of English litora ture, whose very name was taboo in certain homes twenty years ago, and if mentioned drow, a flow of regrettable language from English gentlemen of the old school," bears himself with royal composure and consequence. He knows his place.
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again, a play greater perhaps than may be being created St. Joun
on socialism or economics it will as I write. If it is another treatiso
still be Shaw, but one hopes for a play.
Els One Principle, ¿ What else can one say that Shaw though he evidently likes being photographed refuses to give bis autograph “it's my one prio ciple" he told pressmen on Satur day
Prince Purachatra, half brother to the King of Siam, joined the Empress of Britain at Colombo and sailed in ber to Manila. Ho struck up a friendship with Bernard Shaw- and the two wers often seen in deep conversation, the Prince said that Shaw was one of the most intel ligent men he had met. This bang repeated to Mr. Shaw, he returned the compliment!
At Meals.
Mr. Shaw is, of course, a vege tarian, and the C.P.R. have arrang ed special meals for him. Both ho and Mrs. Shaw take books with them to table had read all through meals. The Shaws are described as being a devoted couple, but ap parently are not often seen in con- versation. Mrs, Shaw, I was told,
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nover crowds his stage." Sho turns aside when press photograph her bushand is entertaining in char ers arrive and talks very little when
actèrislio-style. //
A Slave to Work,
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Bernard Shair describes himsel!
a slave to work." as being When asked a few days ago by Friend why he did not join the party in swimming pool, he replied,
to
Another Great Play?'
writing all the voyage since he is much pleasure in any thing but Shaw is writing, he has been I'm seventy-saven, I can't find
Shaw and volunteers no informa- work.” Has he realised something For the purpose of the world tion on the subject it was only an of the mental attitude of the
"Back cruise only two of the four pro- intreped pressmen at Colombo who Ancients" in his pellors are used to drive the vessel. ventured to ask him whether it Methusala" or is this just one more These are sufficient to give the were a play. The reply was typical posture of that irrepressible jester. Empress of Britain all the power" What do you suppose, a tele who has given England an endless and speed needed to claim the title phone directory." One gathers aubject for conversation, SOILU of the fastest ship on the Pacific. there are very discrete whispers amazingly penetrating thought, ex- She can attain a speed of 24 knots among his friends on board that it, cellent jests and a number of first, with two alone at work!
is another plank That seems probrate plays during the course of a able. The Apple Cart" showed vigorous manhood? that the dramatist was astir in him
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With all four at work her econo. The three charwomen were &mical cruising speed is 20 knots little ragged, but these parts being at which speed she maintains her little but chorus are less easy to weekly rans across the Atlantic enter into. Comic clergymen date from Montreal Southampton and rather painfully but "Mr. Gordon Cherbourg, The engines have never Thompson did his best with an un-yet been driven "at out," but once grateful role.
when in a hurry up the English Channel sbe bettered 283 knots.
The Concert Proper.
As to the question of the Atlantic record it was mentioned that the northern course taken by the Cana- dian Pacific Company's vessels ac ross the Atlantic does not permit the priviledge of "playing at racing," owing to the dangerous icebergs and However, in spite of
Miss Amelia Lee, who, gave two piano solos, Vasle in E Flat and Grand Polonaise in E Flat, both Chopin, is a very accomplished pianist, and gave great pleasure Now Buildings.
by her playing. She is obviously There has been one distinct ad- very shy but gave the encore which vantage in not having so very was so persistantly demanded after ice tracks much rain for that has meant that her second appearance. Mr. Ronnie this the Empress of Britain is the building and construction work Trae's Cheero Band needs no intre only a few hours behind the record in and out from the city of Shiu duction to Hong Kong nor really held by the Bremen.
Everyone Chow has been able to advance any praise of mine. steadily. Since my arrival knows and likes this cheerful com September fully a dozen new build-pany who are constantly in demand ings have been erected including at concert parties. Suffice it to say a new hotel just outside of Chan that they played and sang with were San park. The government has their customary verve and widened two more streets leading thanked by very prolonged ap from the main streets, Tai Kai, to plause.
the Lok Chong river. The work on the new bund that is to be built) along the Lok Chong river was begun a month ago. When this is Anished' Shiu Chow will have wide roads on the two sides of the city that are bordered by the North and Lok Chong rivers respectively, the bund on the North river being finished and paved over a year ago. Also a wide road joining Tao Kai and the North river bund is fast nearing the final stage of completion when the paving-may be laid
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The furnace is very unlike what one would expect in an ordinary stoke-hole. Instead of lumps of coat and dust
the floor, the boiler room of the "Bri tain" is one of the cleanest com partments of the engine room. Polished taps regulate the supply of oil to the furnance.
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Other interesting features of the
Mr. G. E. Hubbard, who left boiler room: of the Bri-
electrical Shanghai last week, is retiring from tish Thomas-Houston) converter which the writer was in the post of special representative formed is the best of its kind of the Hong Kong and Shanghai the world. It is absolutely reli able and never causes a moment's Banking Corporation after about Space does not permit the men- anxiety. The Michel bearings on eight years' service with that bank, tion in detail of the many conden. the huge two-feet diameter propel- Mi, Hubbard, it is understood, is sers, electrical converters; water for shafts are also noteworthy for and oil pumpa that abound in the their reliability. The Michel thrust proceeding to England to take up engine rooms. One cannot, how-bearings which take the whole driv- the appointment of Chief Informa ever, fail to be struck by the neat Pg load on each of the propellor tion Officer at the Royal Institute arrangement of all the machinery, shafts, have only a single collar of Internations] Affairs. Pipes,
tubes, pumps, guages, instead of the usual multiple ar
He has had a very long career alarms, boilers are placed with a rangement of the old thrust block.
Another interesting gadget on the in service overseas, for in 1008 he most harmonious lay out..
the examination for The most amazing feature of the propellor shaft is the electrically patie engine room is the many fool-proof regulated horsepower indicator. A student interpretership in guages and alarms. Feed to the very complicated mechanism gives | Levant and took up his appointment boilers is automatic and a system an exact reading of the power de- on May 30 of that year. He was of lamps and alarm bells indicates livered to each propellor. to the officer of the watch the exact position as to pressure and water level, steam guages are fur ther checked by special meters so that a double reading can be ob
tained.
The Bollers.
Leak!
the
promoted tô le Assistant Consal in May, 1910, and he became Acting. Vice Consul at Sofia in 1910 and at It is strange that such a ship Canes, in Crete, in 1911. In 1919 he should have a leak, but this is so entered the Foreign Office as in the case with the "Britain. A private secretary to Bir Hamar fair sized flow of sea water "leaks" Greenwood, the Additional Parlip into the engine room. This is dame mentary Under-Secretary of State for the simple reason that if any for Foreign Affairs and head of Two New Roads.
Speaking of hellers the Empress thing over heats or catches fire the the Department for Overseas Trade. This winter has also seen much
of Britain is installed with the water is there for cooling or putting work accomplished on the two high-
very latest type of boiler, designed out a fire. It is of course, pump Mr. Hubbard's ways out from the city. The Lok but the engines take no notice of by the Superintendent Engineer ofed back into the sess after being Foreign Office were recognised 1 Chong rond has had buses running any irregularities as they run over the Company, Mr. Johnson, after allowed to "flow around." In his transfer as a Second Secretary to Lok Chong for about two years the now track. It is only a matter whom the boilers are named, Huge cidentally the Empress of Britain to FL.M. Legation at Pening on now and it is thought that the of time before regular transporta-Yarrow boilers supply the main as the usual double bottom. In May 1920, and promoted to be bussen will soon be running as far tion will be available for those turbines but the Johnson boiler, the ships' refrigerator, in s tem First Secretary on August 1, 1999. as Ping Shak and on into Hunan wishing to go from one hundred with only two water pockets, does perafare of 10 degrees below zero, Later, he resigned from government province. The road is expected to and fifty to two hundred miles fur the work of the fire Yarrow we commenced to breath steam!" service in order to take up the ap ultimately reach Changsha Onther interior from Shiu Chow. boilers. The Johnson boiler, alone and there is a certain humour inpointment of special representative January 6th bussar began running
is sufficient to drive the vessel at the fact that when the ship is in with the Hong Kong and Shanghai,
the Red Sea or crossing The Line Banking Corporation in 1924. on the highway to Nam Shung and those of us who have been afraid 14 knots to start going on from Nam Shung
One of the new Duchess' class the store of dead poultry enjoy's
Until about three years ago Mr. to. Kan Chow as soon as late to put ourselves into the hands of boats belonging to the company's temperature of 20 degrees, and the Hubbard was stationed in Peking,"
self taught native, doctors are now spring. The buses on the road to have the opportunity to be sick equipped with only one of these potatoes 10 dégros
boilers, which is happily doing the Coming to the farthest and of run with fairly certain region if we so choke. For many year work of the usual, Ave Yarrows the engine room, we inspected the for although they do breakdown the British Methodist Hospital in writer was informed that the steering gear, both remarkable and "with startling willingness, they scam easily put back together Shiu Chow has been without a for next Canadian Pacific liner to the intricate. Worked by telemotor eign doctor although it has had Orient would be equipped with this from the bridge the big engines again.
the services of Dr. Bo, a very cap new type of boiler
move the rudder to the position in able Chinese doctor. Three new
Only thoroughly clean water is dicated by the light moving wheel. missionaries to the Methodist Misused for the Britain's boilers In a apare compartment we saw atitu The railroad is being extended sion in Shin Chow are expected up and to obtain this the ordinary two huge 30 ft 2 ft spare propellor from Shiu Chow on up to Lok from Fataban this week and of clean water from tankers is distill shafts, and it was ama to lear Chong. If proef is wanted one that number two, Miss Bailey, ed before being used. Consequently
that these need only to see the new steel It.N., and Dr. Moore, are for the the interiors of the boilers are per Espao bridge across the North River or hospital, Miss Bailey and Dr. fast with a total absence of poro
all the noise the engine, makes Voore baze barn with the Metho 13-1-carries supplies up to the dist hospitalin Fatalan for over ying the road bed. To those cun year getting acclimated" and ¿rious enough, to cross the river to accustomed to the work so that we see the new, road bed, the rails are all very glad of their coming scem to run in curiously curved both for the sake of the inch that just miss-being parallel, of the many mis Continued at Jout of next Column) stationed here
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Railroad Development.
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