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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY
Kataloon Supplement
HONG KONG, MAY 6, 1033
A BIRD SANCTUARY
WEEK ago we published an interview with a bird-lover in the New Territories in which it was stated that he proposed to establish a sanctuary for wild birds near Taipo and also to found a society for their protection. A follower in the footsteps of St. Fraccia of Assisi, but also a naturalist in terested, in ornithology, he has inaugurated
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6, 1933
THE CROWDS FROM THE CANTON EXPRESS
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SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR ORGANISING THE PASSENGER TRAFFIC
Twice a day, we see the Kowloon Ferry Wharf packed with hundreds of people from Canton all eager to catch the first available ferre boat to Hong Kong and on each occasion, we invariably see quite number left behind and they have to be content with sitting inside the wharf for the never-ending fire minutes and wait for the next boat,
movement which f But why all the baste? It is not merits the highest praise and sup that five minutes makes such a port. In this Colony, whether on great difference. It is because that the Mainland or in the Island, birds having just come from Canton, the "are not so abundant that the life of peoplo are not unnaturally anxious single wild bird can be spared to get back to their homea and It is a rare delight to hear the friends and it is on occasions like happy trill of the Chinese "night-thean that five minutes appear a ingale or the song of that bird life-time, " whose flute-like notes resemble those f of our English' thrush. That these shy and occasional visitors should be killed or trapped, later to be sold to dealers, or nacked for export in a wholly revolting and barbaric manner, is a crime deserving severe punishment.
The Chinese are not as a race
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it is hoped that more attention will be devoted to it in the near future. At present, pickpockets find this a very "healthy" haunt and I have. known of more than one person losing his purse while making his way through the crowd,
Pick-Fockets.
In most cases, the pick-pockets, dressed in European clothing, mingle with the first class passen- gera on the ferry wharf and they go about their work with such un- canny skill that the odds are about 20-1 in favour of them. Only on vory rare occasions are they caught red-handed. It has been stated from a very authoritative source) that these pick-pockets work to. Shortly after 11 am, and 7.15 p.m. each day, the Kowloon Ferry looks after their interest by way of gether and they have a guild which Wharf presents a really busy scene. providing money for engaging & For the casual observer, it would solicitor to defend any of their not appear to be anything more members who may be brought.he- than a crowd of people, all trying fore the. Court." It has also been to get through the turnstiles at the said that members of the guild are Bone time. But if one looked care given a distinctive button which fully, one would see the sad lack they wear on the lapel of their of system which sometimes means
couts. Whether the police witho quite a lot of trouble for an un-rities can confirm this story I sa offending individual, making his way not say, though more than one through this mob, an
officer has told me that they have heard about it.
the water.
noted for their kindness to animals or birds, and their love for the song of birds or crickets, sincere though it may be, is, in most cases, purely aesthetic. Nothing gives them such delight as to hang a caged songster on their walls and listen to the ugy at the station that a bee-line is No sooner than the train pulls exquisite melody; but they never made for the Feiry Wharf by those consider that these very notes may be a song of agony, or that these of the passengers who have to cross tiny captives had rather be „killed
More often than not than pine away in a caged space each passenger is loaded up with a against whose bars, they may beat portmanteau, bundle or other per- their wings in vain." The argument sonal effects and these are by no. that the song of a' captive bird may
meane conducive to easy travelling. lighten the gloom of some sordid As for the third class passengers, and poverty-stricken home is one of most of them are loaded with per- those empty excuses which sentimen haps a couple of rattan bagi or talists always make. Few birds, if baskets and these are oven more they could exercise choice, would bulky. care to take the place of a gramo- phone in a slum in order to provide high relief.
Haggage Examined.
the risk of having one's pocket Apart from the fact that one runs picked, it is far from pleasant to have to jostle about in such a crowd in order that one might be able to get to Hong Kong by a certain time. It is true that both. turnstiles to the first class are open. ed during these hours, but cannot some special arrangement be made so that passengers from the Canton trairie must enter the wharf by one way specially reserved for them ↑ By this means it might be possible. to make the passengers from the trains approach the ferry boats in some sort of order and it would also eliminate the pick-pocket menace to a large extent.
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Alternative Wharves.
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Those who are familiar with' Ay they make their way out of the Nathan Road will recall how, every
station the Chinese passengers have sunset, the chaffinches in the banyan to pen their bags and parcels for trees burst into a shrill babel of examination by the police and song which has an undefinable, revenue officers who are on duty in lyrical charm that no orchestra the station for that purpose. This could emulate. Forgetting the rum-.
takes soma little time and when at.
It may perhaps sound rather too ble of the buses and the clanging laat permission is given to proceed, ambitious but in time to come it of motor-horis, one listens in en- the passengers wind their way to- may be found necessary to run chantment to sounds that recall the wards the ferry wharf. It is only special ferry launches in connee quiet rapture of life's best moments.
a stone's strow from the railway tion with the Canton trains. It How horrified one is to find this station and it is really amazing to would certainly be more convenient fragmentary idyll shattered by the find the number of boarding-house if passengers from Canton who want sight of some Chinese urchins shoot- touts stationed along the way and to go to the island had only to walk ing stones with a catapult into the each passenger is told by about ten midst of the foliage. It is hard different touts that such-and-such station and there board a launch to the police pier near the railway for adults to understand why they hotel is the best and most reason which would take them across the do it. It cannot be that the song able in Hong Kong is hateful to their ears, and that
water. On arrival in Hong Kong they wish to silence it for ever; It is when one actually gets to this launch might berth at Blake nor can they, one thinks, wish to the wharf that the fun really begins. Pier or Pottinger Pier, and, as there hold a palpitating, bleeding, feath- Imagine having to push your way is always a large enough crowd from ery body in their hands and watch through a mob of perhaps one
Canton to warrant this step being. the eyelids close over those minute hundred people each carrying s taken, it will perhaps only to is lewels through which it absorbed bag! Police officers do their best matter of time before it male. the sun. These could not have been to keep order but unless the num-
rializes. the reasons; it was just the lust of ber of officers on this particular job cruelty and mischief that every boy is considerably increased, there feels, and Chinese boys are no worse seems to be little or no chance for in this respect than English boys. any improvement in this direction Hong Kong Evangelical Frater-tortured inssets,
We have en the latter gloat over It is quite amusing to see a father SEVEN PERSONS KILLED IN nity Meets, at present, in 216, dragonflies' wings or truncated for the rest of the family and then as they broke at the turnstile tendering the fare. Nathan Road, Kowloon: 10
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It is often held by 'moraliste that "pushed" out of position. the only cure for cruelty is the principle of an eye for an eye, and Why is it that the authoritice re
a tooth for a tooth, and the cat-o-sponsible do not make bettor. ar nane tails is still inflicted on mon-rangements for the two “rush" sters who torture animals. There hours! It is really hard to say but can be no doubt that this form of punishment is savage. and wrong,
THE CUBAN TERROR
TWO DAYS
New York, April 16. Seven persone were slain during the two days of political terrorism which reigned in the Havana area.
Bombings ended quickly after: three Cuban youths were slain late yesterday evening.
The Havane police searched all cara, and raided a residence which resulted in a dozen of the suspects being thrown into jail.
of the Cuban Postmaster-General
Abilio and Albert Dausse, ODĄ. are believed by the police to have supplied the bombs used on Thura- day night's series of beventeen ex- plesions. Shortly after the above arrests, shots, rang out in an ex-
for it is unlikely to inculcate a love of animals in the vision in perfect freedom, yet he protected who in flagged for ill-treating a from trappers, malicious little boys horse is not going to treat them any and starvation! Men and women, kindlier in the future. There is of whatever degren of culture, must SALLEH RADIO SERVICE only one way to make people respect Cearn that though he be lord of all life, buman or animal, and that is he surveys, man will remain less ly the right sort of education. What than a primitive barbarian so long better example could one have to as he destroys life without rhyme the public than the establishment or reason and until he pines to reclusive section of the city. Uni- of a sanctuary where birds may live capture that last, fine, caraless formed police rushed to the spot, (Centimied at fort of next Ocluma)" rapture."
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