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Hongkong Daily Press.
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ESTABLISHED: 1857
DUNLOP Fort
In a class by
itself
SOVIET WARNING TO GERMANY
No. 23364.
號肆拾陸佰叁仟萬弍第日搧廿月伍年酉癸 HONG.
KONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933.
式拜禮 日拾式月年参卅佰玖仟登类
HOMEWARD BOUND
Stop the drips falling
on to your clothes.
II-PENANG, COLOMBO, ADEN AND AVIGNON
Sole Agents.
Condensed moisture runs down the stem on to the base of the glass and thence on to your clothes. THIS WILL BE
PREVENTED BY
2. OUR
(BY A DISILLUSIONED TRAVELLER.)
TO KEEP HER HANDS OF RUSSIAN TERRITORY
'(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY)
Moscow, June 19.
Pranng ist Singapore what under a sense of guilt, for the only A WARNING to Germany to keep Edinburgh is to Glasgow, as it ap- Colombo 1 can describe is Colomber hands off Soviet territory. pears to the passer-by; and, in the ho unrevisited." The fact is the under a threat of drastic reprisals fact of unprecedented depression, ahore at Colombo can only be reach contained in a leading article in Penang continues to preserve aed at the risk of perambulating the quietly serene countenance, The entire harbour in a floating omni- cricket ground still noetles uncon- bus; and the Galle Face can cernedly under the old fort. The be attained only on payment of an
ANTI-DRIP clock in the mosque-like tower still extortionate change of a public car points of an adventurist Foreign
PADS
quietly strikes the time of day Bougainvillias still provide purple patches in the gardens of still-ap parently well-to-do Chinese, and the cocoanut palms still delicately cut the background of blue sea. The vehicular tram still climbs sedately (so sedately) to the hill tops; and the monkeys still creep out at 8 pm in that still lovely and over again by drying garden, for our entertainment.
they fit on to the base of the glass.
Neat can be used over
in the sun or oven.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
Ice House Street.
Tel. 20075.
HONG KONG, CANTON AND
Penang was holding a race mest ing on the day of our arrival; a pleasant affair reminiscent of country meeting at Home. To the traveller from Hong Kong the cleanness of the Malay crowd-all dressed in white-is particularly striking.
Sunday on Board.
the Pravada.
Commenting on memorandum, which the newspaper Hugenberg's
says openly · states the basic while, on the other hand, the sub Policy of Fascism and in no way stitution of oil for coal on board differing from numerous similar ship has removed a very strong in statements issued by official repre- ducement to go ashore. Nevertheentatives of present day Germany. less I watch the receding palm trees The subterfuges of the German with a sense of guilt.
delegation which are attempting to lay the responsibility on Hugen berg alone must be waived aside as worthless. The German Fascisti are attempting to find a way from the critical situation in which Ger- man Imperialism finds itself in relation to expansion in the East:
Bombay is something of a bevelty to those from the Far East. Quite apart from its great size, it differs quality from Colombo, Penang, Singapore and Hong Kong. The point of difference is not evident at first sight. But it undoubtedly lies in the fact that Bombay, in addi tion to being
a great port, isa large manufacturing town. It is not necessary to see the cotton mills to perceive the effect, which pers vades the whole atmosphere of the city.
The same, of course, is that of Shanghai, but Shanghai, being welf out of the tropica, is on a diferent footing. A vast manufacturing
I attended divine service to-day and found the ritual unbelievably unchanged. The Commander made an eloquent appeal to us to yield up our small change for the benefit town in the tropics is a portent; of seaman's charitias, And "Hark1 and a rather terrible thing to con- hark! my soul," which I had template. What the ultimate effect thought, gone with the War,-was will be of superimposing machinery rendered with all the customary upon the cheap labour of the tro 'fervour,
pics remains to be seen. But clear
MACAO STEAMERS.inter, durprised me by announcing heard of
JOINT SERTION or Tax Hong Kong, Canyon and. Mãoão STEAMBOAT Co., LTD., AND CHINA NAVIGATION Co., Lan.
HONG KONG-CANTON LINE. SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Dally at 8 am, and 10 p.m. (Sundays at 10 p.m. only).
SAILINGS From CANTON -Daily st 8 am, and 4.30 p.m. (Sundays at 4.30 p.m. only). CURTAILED SERVICE
20TH JUNE, 1933
BAILING From HONG KONG at 10 p.m. only.
HONG KONG-MACAO LINE.
AMENDED SERVICE
SAILINUS From HONG KONG—st 8 am, and 2 p,m,
(Week days only),
BAILINGS From MACAO ➡st 8 am, and 3 p.m.- (Weak days only).
EXCURSION TO MACAO
SUNDAY, 26TH JUNE, 1933
8.S. "SUI TAI”
will leave Hong Kong at 9 a.m. and Masso' at 4 p.m.
SPECIAL SALOON FARES.
WEEK DAYS. --Single: $3.00; Beturn: $5.00.
* EXCURSIONS,-Single: $3.50; Ratum:$4.00. orr.-All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wiralens.
CALIFORNIA PACKING CORPORATION
́CALIF., U.S.A.
GREEN GAGE PLUMS
"Green Gage Plums
Dismiss all glams”.
YELLOW CLING PEACHES
"Yellow Cling Peaches
Are within your reaches.
Obtainable at All Compradore Shops.
Sole Agents KUNG SHEUNG CO. CHINA BUILDING TONG TONG
PHONE 28268.
I had to borrow my small change ly cotton soeks and shirtings:- from a devout woman who, an hour be obtainable at prices bisher
that she had en successful on the tote on the day's run...
What makes Aden so intolerable I observe the faces of passengers are labelled with their port of em-to the traveller from Hong Kong is barkation. That is, first of all, the that it is a frightful travesty, of broad distinction between those who Hong Kong. The contours of the embark in England and those who Island, and the stunted little town do not. The former wear the look bring, recollection of Hong Kong of personal satisfaction, of money and the city of Victoris. Aden is judiciously expended and, I dare- Hong Kong in a night mare; a say, of Income Tax (and indeed model for Gustave Dore in his most Super Tax) well and truly saved. fantastic mood. Clothed with a The discerning will subdivide these foot or so of soil and a surface into two groups, those who spend layer of grass and shrub and a fine their own savings, and those who plantation or two Aden would be a second Hong Kong. But its pitiless spend their patrimony:
A Familiar Landmark on the Homeward Journey
IN HONG KONG TO-DAY
SHOWERY.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORSÖÄST AND NEMAČKA, 288VED "BY- THE NOYAL OBSERVATORY AT 3.40° P.M., STATE :-)
A STATIONARY DEPRESSION Cours SW CHINA, LAKOTHÉE “PIDERKSJONS="18" SITUATED TO THES BOOTH-KAST OF HOKKAIDO, MOV. ING NORTH-EASTWAED.
LOCAL FORECAST: 'S.W. WLDS, MODERATE, CLOODY, BROWERY.
to
embarkation on the journey out; and who have a week or so spare (or perhaps to fill in, beyond the range of the Income Tax col lector), will find Avignon & con. a halfing place for the "rapids" venient and pleasant retreat. It is
plying between Marseilles and Paris, two hours distant from Mor- seilles, and accordingly provides a suitable stop-over," where the back of an otherwise excessive long journey can be broken. I shall no doubt, at once be taken to task for the suggestion for many believe that the only way to make the journey is by night; and no one wants to take two bites at a "wagon lit." But they make a mistake: for the train, following closely the course first of the.broad and boisterous Rhone and then of the gentler Marne (or is it the Saone, through rolling upland, broad arable fields, vineyard, wood and coppice, offers a succession of lovely glimpses of the essential European scene such as the exile from the Far East ean hardly afford to miss, ka
But, putting "convenience" aside, Avignon has great personal theme, It is the natural centre. from which the countryside of Provence, lovely with its vineyards, olive-graves, dark cypresses; its out-cropping of white rock and the friendly back-
he visited. ground of Les Alpilles," can best
The rest of us, homeward bound hills rising at preposterous angles after four or five years in the Far to a fantastic, profile are the very. East, wear a forward-looking smile, denial of life and fertility. The a smile in which tas element of im- pence is like a discarded honey patience increase as the journeycomb, all the sweetness drawn off; draws to an end We, too, are colourless, lifelers and dry. subdividible. The Shanghai man brings with him the faint scent of round us as sidle up to the The seagulls and hawks crowd international night-life- genial Talfishness (if I may sa say without coolies see us off with their fami
buoy to take oil and dark-skinned offence) which the sedate man from liar performance of unutterably British Hong Kong lacks. Both dreary chanting and feeble-minded shall I say, to any with a reeling
And to the antiquarian (or, show that their wits have been sharpened on a Chinese whetstone,
for the past) it forms, with Arles But the tropics marks the deep-
and Mimes, an incomparable tri-
band-claps
Avignon qu
Relics of Home..
are with one another in the posses- sion of the noblest remains of an- cient Rome. Each has its ancient arena eorie places in moonlight, Mimes has the Maison Carzee," a wonderfully complete Roman Temple of lovely proportions, while Arles hus Les Alyacarase (the Elysian Field), a remarkable burial ground containing, in unbroken suc- cession, the tomba di pagans and Christians from the 1st to the 15th century.
est deciding line; and Shanghai It is a far cry from Aden to Avig-angle of interest. Mimes and Arlen' and Shanghai-more-far"lack anon, but, whatever the claims of certain mellownees, born of the Marseilles, Port Said at any rate hent, of which Malaya is conspicu- has no more claras on the traveller out. Shanghai looks self-conscious than Crewe or even Clapham Inne in a topee; and Singapore in a tion. As luck would have it. I had bowler. These are serious differ one altogether lovely glimpse of ences but the elements from the Marseilles. I was, I suppose, rest Far East tend, in my experience, Jess, and with the first, faint streak to coalesce, qut of a self-protective of down chanced my luck at the instinct, on arrival at Bombay, port hole to meet a cool calm For those who embark at the gate morning, and to find the ship slip way of India" have a masterful ping through quiet, wine-coloured way of creating the impression that water past the anthentic castle of P..võssels proceed further East romance the Chateau D'If In only for the purpose of returning front of the blunt, white keep: to Bombay at intervals, convenient scarcely a stone's throw away--a to Englishmen in India, desiring to lamp paled in the moonlight; and behind it the fall round moon was return home.
hastening to the horizon
Entombo and Bombay, Colombo in at the moment of writing, a receding streak of palm trees on the horizon; and I write
Half an hours, run from Arles stands. Orange with a triumphal arch of the period of Tiberius Cae- sar and massive, remains of a Roman theatre; and a few miles from Mimes there is perhaps the most stupendous relic of all, the Those who make Marseilles, their Pont du Card-a Roman aqueduct to point of disembarkation on the conveying eau de source homeward journey, and indeed of Mimes.
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