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HOMEWARD BOUND
AN INTERMITTENT DIARY
ADJUSTING ONESELF TO SHIPBCARD---
AND SINGAPORE
(BY A DISILLUSIONED TRAVELLER,)-
wate Plain." Gimlet, and Martini, can make good,
It is a presumptuous thing to write a diary at the best of times; for. despite protests to the con-
Worst of all that refuge for lei trary, the diarist always writes insured and retiring male-a bridge. four in the smoke room-has been the hope of being read; and, for the great majority of us, the inci. thallenged by the insidious attrac tions of "contract." For con. dents of our daily life are not of tract," has not merely captured the
ladies but, by enticing away
-sufficient-interest to set off our in-
ability to describe them.
But to write a diary on board ship, and in particular on board a P. & O. ship steaming homeward along the tram-lines, via Suez, is surely the height of presumption. For the journey in the negation of incident, and the diarist has to draw upon the store of his own thoughts.
And yet I supposo a good, many people who would not think of keeping a diary on land rush head long into it the moment, they get
aboard.
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small percentage of men from their familiar "auction has left the card-tables in the smoke room-a ab wilderness-and worse still, easy prey for the women to pounce
upan.
Such, at any rate, is the state of my mind and body as we approach Singapore,
Granite, and Singapore,
The objection to, granite as A building material is that nothing else can live with it. The classical facade of the new municipal build ings at Singapore make the adjoin ing Government offices addled The reason is twofold. First the
nd shoddy group of stucco; and transference from shore to ship, the magnificent new Post Office with its partings and packings and makes the adjacent island-block financial complications, is an imok very homely and Victorian. portant incident; and secondly the prospect of unusual leisure looms ahead..
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These excursions into literature follow a well-recognised "course. Everything goes well for the first day: when the crowded incidents of the embarkation are recorded from a deck-chair. And then, unless in deed sea-sickness supervenes to pre elude all thought, comes the awful
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1933
WAR RELIEF IN NORTH CHINA
50,000 REFUGEES ASSISTED
Shanghai, June 17.
KWANGTUNG CHAM- BER OF COMMERCE
FIRST GENERAL MEETING
OF MEMBERS
TRAVELLING IN- KUEICHOW
Adventures on Partly
Made Roads
TYRANNY OF "LOCAL
"DESPOTS"
KIENSI, May 16, ̧
I have just returned from a trip to Aushuen, four days south-west of here, writes a N.-C. Daily News we travelled by a partially com pleted motor road. A great sys tem of roads was planned by a former dictator of the province, Chow Hai Cheng. Some parts of Kusiyang to Anshuen, three stages, sufficiently completed to be usable. has been in use by cars for several
YearB.
An appeal for public support and The first general meeting of the assistance to the Red Swastika So- newly organized Union of Chambers ciety in its work of war relief in of Commerce in Kwangtung Pro- North China was made by Mr. vince, which was opened in' Can- Hsiung Hsi Ling, President of the ton oa. June 10 and attended by Society, at a presa reception to day representatives of over 100 men- bers of the Union, was successfully Reporting on the work of the concluded last Thursday afternoon Society in the North Chinawar" when the first set of office-bearers areas during the past three months, were elected for the Union, con Mr. Hsiung said over since the outsisting of an Executive Committee correspondent. Much of the waz break of hostilities in Shanhaikwan of 15 persons and a. Supervisory
Committee of 7. and Johol, the Society had been
Besides adopting regulations gov- rendering assistance and relief not only to the wounded soldiers at the timing the organization of the various fronts, but also to the tensite session of several lays also Union, the general meeting, during of thousands of refugees who had passed several important resolu been rendered destitute by the tions calculated ki protect cour "undeclared war.'
Kusiyang to Toug Tze mercial interests and to promote (Chow Hai Cheng's home, town) trade conditions in the province. nearly half way to Chungking, was In connection with the latter, it also completed with the exception was decided that steps should be of a short stretch at the Black taken for the formation of a statis-River, and it is possible to do this tical committee to investigate trade conditions and to devise means for seven stages in one day. The line to Tuh Shan near Kwangsi border its development.
is also used. though in places the cars have to pick their way over the rough rocks of the incomplete Nae. I would not, have believed that a vehicle could climb over such surfaces. Of course it is de- structive to the cars. Even the best strips of road are very rough and cara cannot last long. The line from Kueiyang to this place and on to Pochien in the north- west of the province is completed in parts, but some stretches "not yet begun, so it is useless for car traffic. There is no knowing when construction will be resumed.
The work of the Red Swastike Society in the North, he said, had been financed entirely out of its own funds, a sum of $400,000 having been spent in
the past three months. During the recent tension in the Peiping-Tientsin area, the number of refugees directly assisted by the Society was 80,000. These unfortunates, having lost practically everything they had, are now a much in need as ever, though hos tilities in the North have ceased.
Dead Still Unburled.
Continuing, Mr. Hsiung said that though efforts had been made to bury the dead in the war-devastat
Reinforced concrete has the same effect upon iron-work though with less justification, for it achieves the esult not because of its material, is intrinsically more beautiful buted areas, it had been impossible to use it is more modern. Aesthebury all of them, and many still lie tically one hus little cause to re- gret, the passing of Johnson's pier: unburied. The upper reaches of the but it is hard to believe, that the sentiment which hovers round that familiar jumble of corrugated iron will transfer itself to the up-to-date and rather ponderous structure of
it.
Chao, Luan and Shah rivers being situated outside the Great Wall, where tens of thousands of the Chinese war dead still lie unburied,
Home Products.
The meeting also passed a re- solution to aupport the domestic goods movement and to assist
very possible manner the "increas ed patronage of domestic products by the general public. The ex emption from export taxes of special products will also be asked for by the Union.
Stamp Duties.
Resolutions were also adopted to
realisation that there is nothing concrete which is soon to supersede a serious situation may arise in the reached to the effect that co-opera- On the lines more or less completed]
whatsoever to be said.
A
Seeking Inspiration.
The office quarter of Singapore is obviously in a state of transition We gaze blankly out into, the like a snake that has been inter- Fimitless sea seeking inspiration; rupted in the process of casting sts and then we turn vainly to a strict slough. But happily the "fading' ly limited ship. Then one of two with its Cathedral and cricket things happens; we either throw up ground lined with flame-of-the the sponge orlar worse-proceed forest" is allowed to go on matur to invest the trivialities of life on ing. The fadang" is like a vast ship-board with an absurd import-orientalized village green in Kent;
Bnce.
and the war memorial, designed and sited with supreme skill, com
letes the likeness. The "Europe" Hotel, shattered and locked, is the outward and visible sign of the hard times through which the Straits are passing.
immediate future when the corpses are washed down the rivers by the summer rainstorms.
When that occurs, he said, the water supply inside the Great Wall will be laden with disease gerus, and bbth foreign and Chinese lives will be jeopardized by the dangers of an epidemic.
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It has therefore been proposed to establish a North China Rehabil tation and War Relief Committee, he said, and he hoped that the Shanghai public would lend support to the movement.-Kuo Min.
CHINA
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OFFICIAL APPREHENSION.
ask the Government to revise the revenue stamp duties and to better oxisting regulations governing the the collection methods of other taxes in the rural districts of the province." Another decision was
tion from the mercantile bodies of the province should be rendered to the Government in the carrying out of some of the projects for the bettering of communication facili- ties in the province, particularly between Canton and Swatow, in the scheme to build a railway
Headquarters in Canton,
will be located at Canton, while The headquarters of the. Untori offices will be opened in different areas of the province if
found necessary and practicable. During their meeting, the delegates to the onference were entertained with several banquets by the local au thorities, including General Chen Chi Tang, and Commissioner of
Taken as a series of incidents to be recorded daily, life on board is, of course, unspeakably trivial. But, taken as a
sort of fore-shortened retrospect it is by no means 80. A safe passage across the sea must The glory of Suburban Singapore always remain something of a ཥུ, of course, its gardens, both marvel. A satisfactory solution of public and private. Something of the problem of diet, on ship-board the picturesque has been lost by FLOOD DANGER IN NORTH Finance Au Fong Po, who asked hardly less 90'. And the art of overlaying the genial, red laterite living in the closest juxta position of the roads with workaday macs- with a considerable number of one's dam, But the gardens remain a fellow men chosen at randomn-is perfect picture of green, close-clip- ped lawns and red paths, nent ffair of experts. To the average woman it presents bybiscus hedges and tall hills stand- ing quietly near or lazily extending few difficulties, and many delights. their shapely arms; a perfect pic- For the young the swimming-bath ture of earth tamed at the most and the deck-tennis court provide laxuriant, and yet a picture lack all the exercise, they require and ing the true credentials of life; for the promenade deck and the salcon no leaf falls, no breaths comes to afford ideal show-rooms for the disturb the perfect poise of those The warm air display of their dresses. Moreover luxuriant houghs. young men, who on terra 5rmayields to the insistance of sprout would probably be indulging ing leaf and branch and then gent-ous danger zones to supervise the ly wrapping them round. perpetual some strenuous form of exercise, have no such distraction on goardy preserves then-like frost upon
sluggish stream,
and mildly accept the role of dnnel ing partners.
The more mature have an equally delectable time. The servant prob. lem and the catering problem is thrown behind them as they, em- hark. And they are left to the al together congenial task of chatting and knitting and quietly criticising the rest of us during the long hours, of the day; and to bridge playing in the evening.
At a Loss.
The Golf Course, a Comparison
With Fanling.
Tientsia, June 12, The waterways of Hopei gained till higher levels yesterday follow. ing the previous night's torrential rain. In view of this alarming situation, the authorities have des patched special deputies to the vart
work of reinforcing the dykes.
In the Hangchow District,
Hangchow, June 12.
Several sections of highways in
Military Interference.
resources of the province in their Our military despots exhaust the squabbles for power and all public improvements are at a standstill. it is a very close game for the transport companies to carry ou without loss at best of times. But these irresponsible military, officials| often impress cars for their use, paying nothing for use of car or driver, perhaps furnish petrol, but
So
overload and abuse the cars. that commercial motor transport is a bopeless undertaking at pre- sent. Overhead costs and official profit as things are. But when the interference leave no chance of lines already began are completed
and connected up with other pro- vinces a tour of Kueichow, will be one of the world's finest acenic tours. There is endless variety of mountain form. and beautiful streams.
The Oplum Crop.
for the co-operation of the mer chanta in the government schemes The opium crop is being gather- for the development of the pro- ed. I think it is a light output, vince.
but there is enough to make it Before breaking up, the meeting worth while for loose rowdies to released two important messages, go out gathering opium by night. one congratulating General Chen Every fellow who has a gun of Chi Tang on assuming the new post some kind finds amusement in this of the pastime. They don't mean to hurt of Commander-in-Chief Bandit Suppression Campaign, and the other opposing the conclusion by T. V. Soong of the huge Gold 330 million loan from America Canton Gazette,
FUKIEN'S MONTHLY
REVENUE
CENTRAL TREASURY.
the "Chientang River valley have REMITTED REGULARLY TO THE been damaged as a result of the sudden rise of the Waters" of that River due to the indossant rainfull.
In common, I fancy, with the bulk of the European population of Singapore. I visited the Bukit Timah golf-links at 5.20 p.m. pre. visely, one afternoon, and, in com- mon. I fancy, with all Hong Kong A long stretch of the Hangchow- residents. I was asked to admit Fuyang Highway between Kaochian
to
THE FARMERS
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Foochow, June 12.
National revenue collected in
people, but will stop with a bullet anyone who threatens their escape. The price of raw opium is low, about 20 cents per QZ. just as gathered.
Food prices are soaring. Even in the famine year 1995 rice was not dearer than now. Down OU the eastern side of the province; prices are much lower. But that cannot help us any. Transport is too costly. People just have to suffer through it, or die.
No te-
lief work has been begun ko far aa I know, but I was told in the yamen that a request has been made for famine funds.
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COLLEGES LOSING "NATIONAL" IMPORTANCE.
that the links excelled those of and Fuyang is now under several Fukien province totalling $1,000,000 Fanling. It was a case for diploicet of water and traffic has to be monthly has been and is being re-PEIPING CULTURAL CENTRE macy and I was duly diplomatic. completely suspended. Mountain gularly remitted in full to the Cen- But to the average male it is a It was pointed out to me that a freshets also destroyed the bridges tral Treasury by General Chiang of the different matter. His normal day few years ago this park now per and roadbed on the Tunglu Chunan Kwang Nai, Chairman ia divided into nine hours for work, fectly tamed the service of usually at an office desk. An hour Englishman (and Scots) was virgin Highway while parts of the Hang-Fukieu Provincial Government.
The 10th Route Army under
PRIPING, June 11. fer transportation to and from the jungle. And I had no reservations chow-Kiangshan Railway and the office, and an hour and a half for about allowing that, the process of Chuchow-Lanchi Highway are in General Tsai Ting Kai receives a
monthly appropriation of 8500,000 of the National Peiping Gaivers Dr. Chiang Mon. Lin, Chancellor exercise, And these activities ab. ravishment had been very charm- undated.-Kuo Mía.
from the Central Government and aity, told Chinese pressmen that he solve him automatically of the taskingly and completely done, and
special monthly allowance of deplored the fact that the 'na- of deciding what to do with his that the contrast between those
$100,000 during the period of bandit- tional" universities of Peiping leisure. All this, is utterly shatter verdant fairways and beautifully
suppression. ed as he steps on board. And cer- groomed greens and the bosky hills
were gradually losing their " tain illusions are shattered too. of still untamed jungle which sur-
Apart from the regular taxes, all tional" importance and becoming The nap between lunch and tea, so round them is very effective. There
miscellaneous taxes" and levica, have merely regional educational insti- delightful in prospect and plea is a novelty in putting to the acSUCCESS CLAIMED IN KIANGSI been abolished by the Fukien protutions. sant enough too in fact-neverthe companiment of the chatter of real
vincial authorities. Since the ar- Dr. Chiang holds firmly to the less has to be carefully adjusted to monkeys. And, in the matter of
rival of the 19th Route Army, the opinion that Peiping should be a normal night's repose. There is tigers, though I was able to re.
cultivation of the opium-poppy praмrved as the cultural centre of a. sudden tremendous expansion of pute the notion that Bukit Timah time. for exercise.. And an had the monoply, I could not deny
has been strictly prohibited and the nation and that the high educa Hankow, June 11.
tional institutions here abould con- equally sudden and tremendous that it had a destinct advantage
Although the evil has not wholly dis- tinue to receive national support. contraction of space. There is un over Fanling. For clearly what The Kiangsi Branch of the appeared, eighty per cent of the
It is generally understood that dreamt of leisure for spending really counts is the probability: Farmers' Bank for the Four Pro poppy areas have been cleared. Dr. Chiang's remarks constitute bis money--and nothing on which to and whereas nothing would seem vinces (Hoaan, Hupeh, Auhwei and Kuo Min.
objection to the recent orders of spend it. The mind, freed of the more probable than that a tiger Kiangsi) is operating successfully
the Ministry of Education for some necessity of responding mechanie- (or tigera) should appear on the
of the colleges in Peiping to close ally to routine situations and syd-course at Bukit Timah nothing since its formal opening in April,
down.-Reuter denly presented with limitless
op would seem more the probable than states Mr. Kuo Wai Feng, Direo- portunities of original thought is tiger at Fanling. Indeed. I contor of the Rural Finance Relief simultaneously lulled by the soft fess that I honoured some of the Bureau, upon his return from King-
breezes and the proximity outlying fairways at Bukit Timahsi yesterday,
PROVINCE.
FISH FORETELL EARTH- QUAKES
Vancouver, June 4.-Dr. Hatai | PASSENGER LINER FOR THE told the Pacific Science Congress to day that fish can foretell earth-
SOVIET
of other minds equally free and with some apprehension, of my The bank enjoys the confidence of equally incapable of indulging their personal safety. Its lack of wind the people of Kinagsi and during quakes and respond to the human -new-found freedom.
is an asset, as I understand to The body no less than the mind be the case.
It is understood that plans have Bukit Timah is the the two months it has been open voice by coming close to the surface
been prepared for the construction exchanges a sedentary of a supine perfect course; if there is no wind for business more than 100,000 of the water.
He said that the reactions of of a big passenger liner for the posture; and pays the forfeit by at all. But, lack of light must, I worth of subsidiary notes were the loss of the keen-edge of ap fear, he set on the debit side. At issued, thus relieving the acute catfish to knocks on a table in Soviet, to trade between Odesen, petite a loss that neither the Chief six o'clock the light suddenly financial situacion in that province..dicated that they became sensitive Istambul and Alexandria. A ma Steward, throwing all his forces falls and at 16 goes out; and Mr. Ku will proceed to Anking earth movamente seven or eight would be required, and the engines to knocking sounds produced by | chinery output of about 16,000 h.p. daily into the mena,
nor the the skies all too frequently weep later to open a branch of the Bank hours before an earthquake is ac- would probably not be built in passenger himeelt, ringing the at the obsequues.
(To be Continued.)
in Anhwei province.-Kuo Min. tually recorded.
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