A TRIP TO NGAI - CHOW
Sharp Curves And
Bad Road
Mo-lou" is a village of thatched huts perched on the glaring sand of a point formed by a small In- let. Junks from Holhow and Kongmoon come in and anchor to unload waterjars and other pottery and take on paddy ad polished rice.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1935.
NARROW WIN
For S. A. Rumjahn
One of the best, matches so far in the open singles championship was scen yesterday when S. A. Rumjahn narrowly defeated Lec Wai Tong in a very hard- fought encounter. Rumjahn won by 3-6. 8-2, 8-6.
SOUTH CHINA
TRADE
Britain Leads In Exports
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, Apr. 5. Great Britain leads other coun- trics in their exporì · business to South China on account. of the facilities rendered by Hong Kong, according to offelal of the Foreign Trade Committee here,
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A BRILLIANT CENTURY
Dr. H. O. Hopkins Bats Splendidly
Penang. Mar. 24 A two-day cricket match be tween the Chinese Recreation Club and the Penang Cricket Club resulted in a draw after à keen struggle...
meter. Fields are surrounded by the same sort of fences. Men, wo- "mun and chlkiren are inveterate bezelnut chewers. and same people make a business of raising the variety of leaf used in the chew- Ing. This leaf is, from a climbing It is three miles from. Mo-lou | plant, so rows of young Irees or harbour to Lak-ish village, four or of poles are set up and the vines five miles to Mo-lou market. We trained around them. Sweet piled-our-baggage-on-two-of-the-potatoes-are- bump-crop-and-for-over-the-court-His-serving-too-markets-he said-consist-of-cot--terday, was full-of-thrills
small wooden buffalo carts that the Orst time in my experience I happened to be there and walked saw women making sweet potato to our destination. The carts here flour. They were tsing large are distinctly narrow gauge," the round shallow crocks, roughened wheel tracks being only about two on the inside by ridges put in dur- fect apart. The carts are two-
ing the making, rubbing the raw wheeled. the wheels made of..one | sweet potatoes "to a pulp that piece of plank about two feet long, would later be sunned dry and a foot wide and an inch thick. sold for sixteen coppers a catty. rounded at either end. with a They said the crocks were import- curved piece of wood attached at
ed from the mainland of China. each side by a wedge to complete My whole general impression is the circle.
that the Swiss Family Robinson would be entirely at home in the village of Lak-lah!
Small poles or boards make une bottom of the cart, sideboards can be utlached desired, and fitted. woven bamboo baskets are set on for hauling grain. maklig a carrying space of about six by
by two
three feet. The `two straight shafts are fastened tight- ly to the curved yoke and the buffalo or cow steps between the shafts and puts its head down un- der the yoke. For heavy loads a second animal is hitched ahead. with vine traces fastened to its yoke and to the shafts. Such traf- 'fic is slow but reasonably sure.
Brick Tombs
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The outstanding feature of this fag sandy landscape is graves. Not round mounds of sand or of grassy turf, but brick, tombs in the rec
coffins, tangular shape of the covered with curved
top of plaster, and often with a low hörse shoe-shaped wall surrounding the family plot, the curved ends, made into tiny shrines, Some plots are very elaborately Atted out "with arches and monuments. Cactus hedges are often planted around the plots. Cactus and a few thorny bushes are the main The sand is inches vegetation. deep and the dust terrible. It must be this dust plus the glare of the sun on the sand that causes the great number of cases of sore eyes and ultimate blindness. When
I remarked that in rainy weather It must be easier walking the peo ple said not-that rain turned the dust into sticky mud, and I realized it must have a clay constituent also. Brick and tlle kuns every- where would seem to confrm that theory.
Lak-lan is the third in size of the four large market towns of, Nkai-chow district, Kang-mul and Ui-llu being larger and Eng-ko-hal. about the same size. There are sald to" between seven and eight hundred families living there, pró- bably six thousand people. Bet- -ter houses are of brick with tile Chinese house. but with a wide roofs, the typical three-room verandah roof extending out over one side, making a shelter in front of the house where cooking, eating and various other activities are carried on. It makes 2 shady shelter from the blazing tropical sun but darkens the interior of the houses. Other houses are mere thatched Huts. All the houses are scattered helter-skelter. here and there. When Bia Sul-bin. communist leader of this region, made himself virtually "king of Lak-lah, he put up twenty-four watch towers around it. One is named the "Zin soang Tower" in honour of one of his concubines. and the inscription reads. "To the" memory of the Vang-neng wor Koeh, Jin-soang, one with me in purpose."
I noted several distinctive fea- tures about the village diferent 'from what we see in other parts of, the Island. They raise pigeons, and festen whistles on their tails. These whistles are made of two small round pipes, of thin bamboo or zinc, about half an inch in diameter and an inch and a'quar- ter to an inch and a half long. or perhaps, they use one pipe and one ping-pong ball! The mouth pieces are made of cork, and fas- tened on with wax.. Two main tall feathers of a pigeon are sewed together and the whistle fastened on when desired. As the birds y the whistles give out a wierd sound like the moaning of a north- east November' wind before a storm. It is said that hawks will not attack pigeons bearing the whistles but in general they are: used just for the pleasure of the sound. The inevitable pig pens are not roofed shelters of tile or thatch, but only round open pens surrounded with closely woven fences of stour vines, the pens being eight to ten feet in dia-
The hair dress of the older wo- men is very different from that of the other Chinese women in Hal- nan. The hair is gathered into one strand at the poins where a Chinese gentleman
old of the school would start, to braid his queue, and wrapped tightly with black
and then red thread for say two inches, so that It stands straight out from the head. The strand is then lightly twisted and brought down, and back up close to the head, leaving an oval loop absurdly ke the handle of a teapot, and the end left is twisted around the thread- ed part close to the head. A long pin same eight inches in length,, tipped with 2 square glass Or carnellan ornament through the corded part to the bottom of the loop. to hold it in place.
stuck
Lee Wal Tong produced a form that surprised Rumjahn from the start. The ground was slightly on the soft side and the Chinese player exploited his back hand chop and cut to such good effect that "SA" was made to run all
was far superior to Rumjahn's who double faulted on severkl occa- sions. Lee captured the first set at 3-6 but Rumjahn asserted him- | self and annexed the second with the loss of only two games. The third se: was fought out at a gruelling pace. Lee was leading.at one stage by 4-2. but Rumjah made a great recovery to win the next two games to draw level, and after six all was called Rum- jahn took the next two games and with them the set and match.
GALLI-CURCI RECITALS
Singapore. Mar. 28, Music lovers in Singapore who feared that they might be prevented
from hearing Galll-Curef in Sin- gapore because she was only to give one recital will be pleased to learn that Mr. R. Bridges manager of the Victoria Theatre, bas arranged that the famous singer will now give two recitals, on Saturday. "April 20 and Tues- day, April 23.
This decision was made yester- day following the advance visit to Singapore of Gall-Cerci's mana ger, who leaves to-day for Java and then on to Australia.
A feature of the gume was 2 brillant 105 by Dr. Hopkins. British goods in the South China The game, which started yes-
ton goods, serges, worsted, tobacco. The Cricket Club, batting Arst, bicycles. Iron and steel, and ma-1 called to get going on a seeming- chinery. The United States comes | ly perfect wicket and «were dis- second in import trade, while Ger- missed for 73. Foster 29, Anthony many ranks third. Japan takes 17 and Baughan 11 unfinished, fourth place. sald the official, who being the highest scorers. does not give any figures.
Since July 1, 1934, the import; customs tariff has been so favour- abie to Japan, that her goods to China are increasing considerably. However, here is only slight im- provement in South China despite the cessation of the boycott. By contrast more Japanese goods are consumed in Hong Kong than in Canton and vicinity.
A worse fate awälted the Chin- ese, who found themselves in trouble early. Two wickets fell without a run being scofed and four for six runs Ten more runs were added for the Afth wicket and the sixth, wicket fell with thirty" on the board. The score was unchanged when the eight wicket fell and eventually the in- nings terminated for 14.
Hopkins, four for 23 and. Mur- be again modified to facilitate the ray five for 18 were responsible import of Japanese goods as a re- suit of the Sino-Japanese Co operation for co-existence and co- prosperity as
The Chinese Import tariff will
initiated by Mr. Hirota, Japanese Foreign Minister. and accepted by the Nanking leaders. The coming new rates, like the existing ones wili impose
for the damage.
The Cricket Club fared much better in their second venture and knocked up. 238 for eight declar- ed. Dr. Hopkins 105, Brooke 44. Anthony 25, Foster 31 and Thomp- son 15, being the principal scor- era.
the first wicket had fallen for 11, scoring 50. and raising the total to 81.
a slightly higher duty on goods Left with 265 to make to Win from Europe and America
in less than three hours, the In spite of the advantages | Chinese did. not go for the runs Japan enjoy in China, imposters but played for draw Cheow of British goods in South China Chye played a great game after are planning to develop the mar- kets here owing to geographical propinquity of Hong Kong and the Can- comparatively nearness of
The Chinese thereafter batted ton to Europe than any other part patiently taking no risks and rais of China vid the water route.ed the total to 158 for the loss Trade expansion is possible by the of six wickets. and The influence of the neigh-polley of the Canton. Hong boring aboriginal Loi dialects may Kong authorities to remain in the most cordial relations and to co- account for part of the differences, but probably there are other more
Britain has operate in passible projects.
ing via Shanghai. fundamental reasons, which should Iniporters o! British goods are extensive trade interests along the prove good topic of investigation further heartened by the comple-Yangtze valley. which will be for any one interested in original
with tion of the Canton-Hankow Rall- directly connected
Canton of Chinese migration to cources
This way by the end of 1938. route wil be much faster than go-
terent, and many individual words those or similar entirely unlike meaning common in northern Hat
The Ngal-chow version of the nan. Halpanese language is peculiar in several respects. It strikes one as of the very strange that some sounds heard there should be al- most identical with the vailety of Hainanese spoken on the Lul-chow peninsula. The volees are softer, the sounds slurred, the accent dif- | Hainan.
Prominen
"NATIONALLY IMPORTANT
MALTA will build a
healthier & stronger
future gene ation.
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through the Canton-Hankow Rail- Way.
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
14.
A
Note:-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the → words required.
Across
1-Altered mint becomes dama-
aging (11).
agth (11)
Evidently a hearty sort of drink, this (7)
10 This Is this 5 (51 11-Town of France (5). 12-Doom (71
13 The doctor gives the horses
their head! (8)
uncooked in
L
19-This should be plain enough
(5)*
21-Wherein sportsmen try to
outtle each other (5).
• The following is the soluti on of yesterday's puzzle:-
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Across.----1, Eloquence; 8, Gavage: 10. Semi-final: 11, Statue; 15, Her 17, Farrago; 18. Ovation; 19, Wey: 21, Equity; 25, Miniature> 26. Talbot; 27, Abominate.
15 The garage of the future.
shall we say? (6),
Down.-2, Lled; 3. Quip 4. 18-A narcotic plant (7)
Edit: 5. Crane: 6. Partial), 7. 20-Edible though
Fan-tail; 8. Gehenna; 12, Efecta; the middle (5),
13, Trouble; 14, Caution: 15, How; 22-Nothing on the tax to speak 16, Roy: 20, Elish; 22, Füm: 23;
Stun; 24, Erst.
abour (5) 23-Retire (70 24-Earthly (11)
Down
2—Join up, but not unite (ŠT. 3-Tore about the object to get
lothing (7).
4 The Winess of mother, and
another of her sex (6), Observes a change in stone (51.
6-A rebellion is coming 10in
view (7)
LADY ASTOR ON THE FILMS
(Special Air Mail Service).
London, March 18. Lady Astor yesterday played her Arst part, on the films. She`re- enacted at Elstree her entrance into the House of Com- mons in 1919. The filmi is of the
7-Vètes of confidence are some-reiza or King George V.
tires passed with this (1) "A greener tip" (anagram) :(13)
14 Offence (7)
0923
Lady Astor was introduced by two actors playing the parts....of- Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Balfour, her actual sponsors, and wore
on that celebrated as she did
16—As an umpire, leg theory is almost exactly the same clothes.
hardly in his line (7).
17--Saltatory ear?: (6),
除飲
occasion.
勞,請飲
因倦或疲
倘若 君覺虛弱
再做之體力及健康.
即能消除疲勞,而覆
姆達
健
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