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Interesting Travelogue
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unlike the old capital which is, the 10th century but were squeez- stubbornly contesting every inch of ed to death between the Khimers the way with the jungle.
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and the Annamites.
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Their typical" architecture was 62 carved brick and many of their lowers remain to this day, sad silent monuments to a glory that 13" past
I think, perhaps, one, should visit Phnom Penh befoto. Angkor then one would escape the feeling of anti-climax which I experienced. The King of Cambodia holds his court here, maintains his stable of From Phan Thiet up to the royal elephants and his establish-mountains we passed through the ment of royal dancers who,dance finest scenery of our trip. Up 'for his edification the same dances and up we climbed each turn and as were dancers before his royal twist giving a more magnificent forefathers in Angkor,
view than the one before.
We often passed groups of armed with cross- Savage Moles Royal Palace part of bows and arrows, the men which is open to the public mayin a loin cloth and nothing else be seen the most marvellous jewels
and the women naked above the und one pagoda has a floor 36 Icet
waist. They carry their belong- on
MARVELLOUS JEWELS
In the
by 120 feet of soild silver blocks, half-an-inch thick. It was rather terrifying to a Hong Kong man to stamp about on silver like that and I could not help wondering if, had that temple been here, I would not !! have been walking around on
clad
Ings in high conical baskets their backs and cover enormous distances. In this part of the world the houses are built on nign stilts, twice 33 high as the Philippine ones and the ladder is drawn up at night. Thê prettily engraved paper. (Laugh-houses themselves, made of mat-
ker),
In the Phnom Penh museum there is a wonderful collection of Kumer staryes.
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ting. are only high enough to kneel in. We were now approach- Ing Djiring which is the hunters' paradise. Expeditions from mu- seums and zoological gardens" ali over the world come here for specimens and there are various organisations which cater special- ty for tourists who are, keen on big twinej shooting.
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One Buddha is still worshipped and, in order to prevent him be- ing touched, the authoritles built a httle pead of running water round him. The natives now think this water is holy and dip themselves and their spring in and the
Dalit itself, the hill station Buddha has more devotees then Indo, China stands 4.500 feet up ever. Here we have a first class in the mountains and the beauti example of how a legend starts. ful, cool fresh air, put new life In another century. I am sure. it into us. and during the four days will be firmly believed that the Al-we spent there we did lots of Barraut Museum was, bulit walking. The surrounding country around a holy spring as a dwelling is a gume reservation and deer are place for this particularly Buddha. plentiful and remarkably tame.
Very attractive beaten sliver york comes from this part of the world and two examples, a ciga- rette ease and a "beer mug, both Ihasten to add are empty, lie on the table here if anyone cares to Iok at them..
bert
The road from Phnom Penh to Balgon, a distance of 150 miles is not very interesting though the first part contains many pagodas.
SAIGON
Saigon, the Paris öf`the East,
We paid a visit to a Mole vll- lage, this one not bullt on high stilts but stuck on the side of a hill. It was interesting but in- credibly dirty.
THE WOMEN
The women plerce and stitch the lobes of their ears and put in wooden rings and tobacco boxes. some of the objects they wear in their ears are at least three in- ches in diameter and when the ear is empty it hangs down in a
I am sorry to say did not appeal | most disgusting way. **
patiating on the beauties (natu- ral) of Dalat, but will hurry back
to the Mandarin Road.
to us at all despite the charming I will not take up your time ex- hospitality we received. I nearly said "It left us cold" but that would be very misleading. It was the hottest and steamiest place we struck on our whole trip. We had to spend a few days there for vari- ous reasons 'but decided to get away as soon as possible.
We left at the crack of dawn and soon came to the extreme edge of the Langbian Plateau. Away down below we could see the Plateau of Danbleum and it was difficult to belleve that even that was 3,000 feet above sea level.
"Salgon is impressed on my mind as the place where we found twn delightful little tiger Kittens play- We expected to find the ruad Ing on the verandah of the friend's bad but though it was not metall- house where we were dining. They ed i had a very good surface and were grand little fellows ɣery good | banked like the Cresta run. We patured and full of fun with heads | falzly slæsled round its corkscrew and paws several sizes too big for descent stopping. for breath oc- their little striped bodies. I!
casionally but loosing it again in-
If you remember the first part mediately, on account of the most of our trip you will realise that, amazingly beautiful and grand by this time, we were rather need-scenery. Little Mole villages were ing a little rest, so we went down clinging to te precipitious foun- to Cape St. Jaques for a few days.|tain sides, clear cascades of si ver On the way down, we had our fresh water dropping down into first and only flat tire on the whole inviting pools and bite mountain trip which as 3,260 miles by actual tops in the distance made every speedometer reading
corner a durprise.
Cap 8t. Jaques is a typical mid- dle class, family watering place transplanted into the tropics. As It was Easter, it was crowded and very colourful. Even the people were colourful all shades of French colonial minor oficials were to be found and that is saying some- thing.
A GALA NIGHT
From the Danbiem Plateau to sea level it was just as lovely.
We struck the Mandarin Road Re Phan-Bang and from there to Mha-Trang It was uninteresting or rather tame after the grandeur or the mountains. The country. however, is prettily wooded and there are many Cham towers
and tombs to be seen.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936.
RECREIO TO ALVES DEFEATS EXPERIENCE WON CLASH WITH
' NORONHA
THE DAY ·
Sensational End To Interesting Game
K. C. C.
TO-DAY'S TENNIS
tennis
The most important match in the 'B' Division League to-day will be that between the Recreio and the K C. C. at King's Park. Recrelo were recently beaten by the C. R. C. and to "have any chance whatsoever of being in the running, that is of course allowing for the C. R. C. to fall in one match, they havɑ to win to-day. Kowloon play much better at home and should give the Recreio a close game. Gray and Crawford are doing very well and are fast deve toptir into a strong pair. Cray- ford has still a lot to learn yet to improve his net play. "Burnett and Ramsey should do very well but they do not seem to combine and it would be well worth trying Pol- glase 33 partner for Recreio on the other hand have ΥΠΟ
TEN SHOTS IN LAST
FOUR HEADS
A sensational finishing effort by H. A. Alves who scored a 3, 2, 2 and a 3, in the last four heads in the Open Singles Championship match, him victory yesterday over J. E. Noronha, a
club-mate by 22 shots to 19, when the two Interport - Lawn Bowls players mel on the Howloon Bowling Green Club.
Und the 17th head Noronha led comfortably by 19 shots to 12. Then Alves by dint of superb bowls scored 10 shots to run out winnor Burnett.by three clear shots
pairs having played in the "A" three well balanced pairs.
Division last year
C. R. C. (1) are playing away against the University and should score another casy win.
should be
Hong Kong Club are at home to the I. R. C. and a close struggle witnessed. The Club have a much better team now than they had at the commencement of the League and should"just win.
Cralgengower travel to the C. R. C. to meet their "3" team and should walk away with the points. Hachiuma and Leonard have team ed up again and should account for three sets.
Civil Service
play at
home
against the C. B. A. and should win quite easily.
The programme is:- C. R. C. (2) C. de Rec.
H. K. C. C. C. 8. C. C. H. K. U. T. C.
v C. C. C.
v K. C. C.
7. I. R. C.
Y C. B. A
C. R. C. (1)
M.C.C. TOUR IN AUSTRALIA
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London, July 20.
It was announcëd to-day that seven cricketers have been invited to tour Austkalla with the M.C.C. Test team next winter.
G. O Allen of Middlesex has 'been offered and accepted the captaincy, and the other six players selected are:-
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R. W. V. Robins (Middlesex) Hammond (Gloucestershire) Leyland Yorkshire) Verity (Yorkshire) Fishlock (Surrey) Hardstan (Notts).--
Reuter.
OLYMPIC FESTIVAL, IN BERLIN
Hour Kong DaEv Press" Specia..
Berlin, July 20. Great festivals were held at the Berlin Rathaus on Monday mid- day to mark the beginning of the olympic torch, relay run in Greece. Dr. Lewald, President of the Olym- ple Organisation Committee held a speech and 'handed Dr. Lippert Commissioner of State for Berlin who acts as Mayor, an artistically carved torch handle, thanking hims for the thoroughness of the pre- parations for the Games:
When the speech was over, Dr. Lippert closed by calling "Ball Olympla," whereupon the Greer Flag was slowly holsted on the bai- cony of the Berlin Rathaus and the Greek National Anthem played by
On Easter Sunday, there was a We were making for Qui Hon Gala dancing "night at the hotel and the last seventy miles of that Hundreds of people poured in day's journey were simply superb. ) an orchestra. Then the 52 dag. and were welcomed with open The road skirts the bay of Xuan of the nations sending teams to STTILS which we poor residents Dal and reminds one inevitably of Berlin were hoisted in the breeze were left to find for ourselves, the Cote d'Azur. The colouring At the very hour in which the Tables were in theory reserved is gorgeous, interise blue sea, clear torch was kindled at the Zeur round the open air dancing floor yellow sands (with no half eaten Altat in Olympia, the inmates of but in practice it was a case of mangoes) palm trees and white the Olympic Village held a simple first come first served. It was breaches.
Ceremóny, torches being lighted at grand fun watching a battle royal,
From Dalat to Qui Hon was | 11.45, while at noon the bells be unfortunately only verbal, between practically 300 miles and it is gan pealing. At this minute the
two rival familles, one in actual worth the trip to Indo-China to loudspeakers began with the an- possession of a table and the other see such a variety of different nanncement: "Here is the Olympic with the moral but unsatisfactory types of acenery in such a short World Transmitter the Olymple
distance.. backing of a verbáj reservation.
Flame has just been solemnly it at That-morning we left for Dalat
the Zeus Altar."
a distance of 200 miles.
*FLAT COUNTRY
The road from Qui Hon to Tou-One could then distinctly hear Coming north from Cap 8trane is through very interesting the acclamations of the crowd in Jaques we got on to the Mandarin flat country through we passed, in the sacred city.- Road which passed through very a distance of 19 miles the groups Fransocean News Service. pretty, rubber plantations.
pẻ Cham towers known as the)
At Phan Thiet where the road lowers of Jade, of Lion of silver, to Dalat branches Inland we of Ivory, Brass and Gold. Despite struck out towards the sea again their attractive and high sound- and had lunch in a marvellous lit-ing names they were the same old tle hotel high up on a cliff, cool, brick towers we had been seeing clean and quiet and we were sorry all along.
Of Tourane there is not much we had stayed at Cap St. Jaques instead of Ngoc Liam as this place to be said. It is a French Conces
DAVIS CUP TENNIS
"ifong Kong bally Press" Special)
London, July, 20.
is named. On a cliff opposite us alon, has a magnificent harbour MacGrath defeated the German
al
were two very Well preserved and is tremendously, spacious and streted out. It is not busy but Cham towers,
gives one the impression of just waiting for something to turn up to turn it into a thriving city. Perhaps now that it has become
THE CHAMS The Chams are now practi-ally extinct but were an exceedingly towerful race of Hindu origin, They were masters of the coast till.
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In the Davis Cup Doubles of the Inter-zone Final on Monday, the Australian pair Crawford and "
couple von Cramm and Henkel in four sets 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, making the score two games to one in Aus tralia's favour, The Australian Quist could not play owing to his injuries and was thus replaced by
MacGrath.c Transocean News Servlin
on
OMAR'S BLUNDER
Bright Play At "Bowls
A high standard of bowls Was exhibited by AW, Crimmitt and AM, Omar, that youthful C.C.C. "B" player in the
open singles lawn bowls championship which was played off yesterday on the Football Club green, and which ended dramatically for AM. Omar when he gave away two shots on the 19th head to enable Grimmitt to win by 31 shots to 15.
Unable to find the right green at the commencement. Omar was led on the 8th head by 14 shots to 1, and thereafter with con- Alves registered a two the ddence returned to him he played Arst head, but thereafter did not an inspired game and gradually secure another shot until the fifth overhauled the deficit. By the with a three, Noronha on the
17th head Grimmitt was leading other hand obtained a four on the
by 17 shots to 15 and Omar was second head and scored steadily
then responsible for some bright til the 17th," when his champion-
play, ship ambitions were rudely squash- ed by his opponent A three at the 6th, a two on the 15th and 17th, and singles on eight other heads gave spectators the impres |sion that Noronha had the match
In his pocket
Alves following the two and three already mentioned only scored on the oth (three). 10 (one) and 11th (three) before his sensational and spectacular finish in the last four heads.
the
Rarely has such a run of play been witnessed in
Colony Singles Championship series
on
TORCH LIT AT OLYMPIA
Journey To Berlin.
Olympia, July 20.
Begins
SPORT LEADER'S
GREETINGS In stdingly hot weather, the
Berlin, July 20. flame for the Olympic torch, which
The German Sport Leader, Horr will be carried to the Olympic von Tshammer und Osten tele- ames in Berlin from this elty of graphed to the Clown Prince of ancient Greece, was kindled by Greece: the rising "Bun at the Olymple Pillars, to-day, and the first burst dens who speeded the athletes on of Are was heralded by twelve mal- their journey.
The first runner seized the torch almost as soon as it was blazing. and started on his
journey. Ultimately 3,000 runners, covering approximately ode kilo- metre, will carry the torch.
The torch is expected to pass the Bulgarian frontier Thursday.
"I wish to convey to Your Royal
Highness, the President of the as the whole Greek people my in- Greek Olymple Committee as well
most participation in the historic
Olympic Relay run, together with hour of the start of the great
and my most cordial greetings each good wishes. May with the dame of the torch, also, the right Olympic spirit come to Germany and give the Games the right de- dication. This is the sincere wish King George of Greece „will wit- ¦ of all those who share in the ness the ceremony of relaying the great work of peace embodied in torch at Athens' Olympic Stadium the Olympic Games. (Signed v. where claborate arrangements | Tachammer-Östen).— have been made to receive the run- Transocean News Servicn. ner on the road to Germany...-- Heuter's Bulletin Servira.
BLESSING BISHOP'S '*"Hong Kong Daily Pross" Special!
Olympia, July 20.
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As the Arst torch was Hrdled; and the Olympic Oath repeated i At the crucial moment, that is I and Coubertin'a proclamation read. the 19th head. Omar was ; the Bishop of Pyrgos stepped up tu actually lying one, when he mis- the torch to give it his blessing in took that
shot for Grimmitt's,
the words: and with his last wood sent the woods rolling to give Grimmitt two shots and the game.
Throughout the game, the play was bright and interesting and although Grimmitt
was leading
all the way he had to go all out to clinch the decision. In the end experience won' the day änd Crimmitt is now one of the four to compete in the semi finals,
Quiet Moments
Smoke
·
"The Word of God that is the light of all people sanctify this name and bring it to the glorious country of the Germans bringing with it the fraternal greetings of Christian Greece to the befriended German people. At the same time may this burning wish ight a fame in the hearts and spirits of all people, runners and athletes to theory of God. Amen."- Transocean" News Rervice.
POLO CAPTAIN SUSPENDED
London, July 20
A sensation has been created in English polo circles by the ann- nouncement to-day of the suspen- sion of Tyrell Martin, England's captain in the Westchester Cup competition against United States.
The Hurlingham Committee has suspended him from further play in the Champion Cup in which -- tournament he was playing for Texas Rangers against the Op- timists. The reason for this su spenston is "for conduct
prejudicial
tournament 70me."-
- Reuter.
With the smoking of a good cigarette comes relaxation—and quiet.
The consistently fine. flavour of Capstan is soothing and satisfying.
CAPSTAN
"The Preferred Cigarette"
in that to the
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