HANOI FAIR.
And Some Impressions of Indo-China.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922
the indifference, or wank of initia-some of the exhibita formed the five, of the native who in the main central point around which were appears content with the life if a grouped in symmetrical order worker on the soll or of a small numarous standa, each accom- local, trader, leaving the vast modating goods representative overseas trade of the nation to of each section of the country. other bands. It is not surprising An exposition rather than a Fair, to be informed of many a hard barwith the difference that no official gain beingdriven at the expense of recognition was given to the these simple folk, in dealings with standard of the goods in the form Indo-China, or, more precisely the more unscrupulous class of of awards, the exhibits on display speaking, that part of the penin-Chinese merchants who are very ware the best of their respective aula lying between China and active in commerce in this place. classes.
under come Siam which has
Commerce and the People.
(Special to the "Telegraph.")
French in Buence, has received The ubiquitous Chinese flour.
some publicity lately by the hold-
A formidable tariff wall has Carefully fostered the expansion of the country's industries and
ing of a Fair, said to be the larvast fishes here as well as in bis native the growth of its exports, and land, and is conspicuous by his this being organised in the capital assiduous application to business expression by the unexampled city of Hanoi. There have been but there have been times when facilities provided and arranged times when the patristic French-from one cause or another, there weeks ahead for the forward man, taking pride in the achieve-have arisen serious misundering to the Fair of goods at up great atandings, with the result that fric- ment of "la grande colonie
sult was eminently satisfactory bo terms the country, and anxioustion with the Annamite follows, expense to the dealers. The re- The recent boycott was a mild to uphold its prestige, has been beard to deplore its isolated posi- reproach against the behaviour of from the point of view of the was Annara proper, Tonkin, Co tion and to attribute the lack of certain sections of the Chinese energetic organizers, for not only
Its personal character
chin China, Laos, Cambodia (the knowledge of Indo China by the settlers. outside world to what he considers was one objectionable feature, va provinces of the Daion) rap- but Yunnan, into resented, & mere accident of geography, but the movement has resulted in which has placed the colony : least one benefit from the view which French economic influence between two of the chief ports point of the natives, who have of the Far East, at too isolated & come to realise the necessity of has penetrated as a result of the spot to permit of direct inter-being their own rice millers and establishment of the railway from national steamship connections, exporters, and this impulse has Hanoi, had its own section, de- ful rugs and skins, curics and Not that that could be laid to his prompted a growing desire to io-rated to the exhibition of beauti crease the number of commer- other works of art. Ever ready views are fault While such
cint houses that have been to admire and appreciate works prevalent in Indo-China amoogst many businessmen with whom /established since the boycott. of artistic value which
до Are
endeavouring to
more
attract
Ia
it
fall the writer's view,
short of his own resource- the writer has come into contact,
little more en-fulness in manufacture, the the determination is also apparently needs &
co-operation Anusmite derived great interest of remedying this state of affairs.couragement and Holding faith in the potency of from these ic authority in the in the goods displayed, and advertisement, found to be suc- country to obtain the best prac-objects in porcelain found in him
a ready purchaser. cessful where other means have ticable results from this excellent
ambition, Guided into right Caracteristic Industries. failed, there
Native industries were express- energetic bodies to be found in channels, it could be usatally
ed at their highest value in a Indo-China to-day than the applied as a potential means of newly-established Tourist and bringing pacification and content-
hibits, and the curio-hunter found Economie Bureaux, which, by meat to the country, for the palat great variety of decorative ex- an intensive scheme of publicity, must cot be overlooked thate to much to interest him in the dis- be really successful, colonisation
play. Objects exquisitely carved outside attention and to bring to must first look to the improve out in ivory, in hard wood and the general living other products of the jungles of world-wide notice the attractions ment of which Indo-China undoubtedly condition of the inbabitante, the interior stocked the majority The establishment of free of the stands. To give in detail offers for the businessman and
here & description of the goodel of the late Lord Northcliffe to been a step in the right direction. would be impossible, but re- the globe-trotter alike. The visit schools in
and it is with pleasure that Indo-Chica, ADd, still more those who have the real interest recently, that of the native
of France and her importanti ruler of the country to France have had some effect in this dependency at bears notice A direction, and it is supertinous to say that full advantage has been taken to profit thereby.
&
Are
the
country has
ference may be made to the char- acter of the principal exhibits.
Tonkin, as the northern section of the Indo Chias is termed,
гор- the
further reform, in the relaxa- is thriving region, and its tion of much of tine of passport regulations in capacity for intensive production, order to facilitate the efforts of apart from rice and other grain, exceeds any of the other pro- those Annamites who seek convinces included in the old native mercial connections or desire to Empire. To this fact is due the improve their education by going large space required for the abroad.
On Advertising. In advertisement, or to, use more modern, expression, "boosting." there is offered a wide
An Economic Policy. field whose limits are subject only to the enterprise or ingenuity dis
To this welcome change is Ilayed by the individual or nation. traced a general reform having So we find that French jazonaity its inception at the conclusion of
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of its inhabitants. We find that,
exhibition of its native industries. We find in this section beautiful black and bardwood furniture: pieces and bric-a-bracs, delicately carved and in many cases artistic-
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realised the advertising worth of the late war, when the necessity ally inlaid with mother-of-pearl. the tours of His Majesty Emperor of a sounder economic policy. The material for this decoration Khai Dinb of Annam and of the calling for the expansion and con- has to be imported, but so firmly Iste Lord Northcliffe, wielder of servation of the natural resources has the industry teen implanted, vast influence in the field of news of France and her colonies, be-and so high is the standard of paper publicity; and the French came apparent. Application of workmanship, that it can be con- Preas At Paris and in the this policy to Indo-China neces-sidered as unique and charac French Colony made the most sarily covers a wide range, dae teristic of the better works of art of the opportunity presented. to its size, the richness of the of the country. The visit
the lata natural resources and the number Another industry occupying an to draw, but what commends the, clear and intelligent rendition of equally important place in foreign pousse-pousse to the patronage of the beautiful words of the great of Angkor had hardly ended when on the one hand, the Tourist and estimation is that of embroidered the traveller is that the body is author. But that which Mr. the Grand Industrial Exposition Publicity Bureauxbas lately taken goods, worked out in a remark-lar more comfortably designed, is Sinclair has super-imposed on at Marseilles again threw into in hand the task of stimulating able variety of designs on satin, placed on springs and is fitted to the work of the playwright is prominence the possibilities of foreign interest is the country by silk or cotton background. For wheels equipped with pneumatic truly artistic and there will be Indo Chins, and iccirientally re- an extensive system of publicity. thoroughness and patience with rubber tyres. The effect of this is few in this Colony who will not produced in stucco and lath work and to attract visitors, particularly the needle the native girls and the reducing of every jolt and think that the production is, per the ruins of Angkor about which those from America, with which women are hardly to be exceeded. bake to the basest minimum and haps, the finest the Clab bas Lord Northcliffe had go freely country an important trade is A pillow case, an elaborate to make riding in a pousse-pousse given.
We have already paid our much for
for a real pleasure. A beautiful type Various places of portiere, wall tapestries Rrowing up. vertisement. Its growing pop interest, of which there are service or decoration-all these with elegant brass fittings, and tribute to those taking part, and, ularity with other nations should admittedly many have enabled present a wide range for selection, deep rug-covered cushions, was on seeing them again yesterday
the organizers to draw up and tre offered at prices wach itinerants of attractive trips. On below those asked here for corco display at the Fair, and at A Progressive Country. the other hand, the Economic responding articles of inferior tracted a great deal of attention
written. So
ad-
make our American friends look to their laurels.
B
remarkable
"THE TEMPEST.”
afternoon, we would once agaiq remark that the very bigbest by its suggestion of luxury and credit is due to them. The lead- ing characters-Prospero, Ariel, Every credit must be given to Bureau is most active in its own value.
The same high standard of skill comfort.
The Fair is being continued Ferdinand, Mirands and Caliban French colonization so far as it sphere and has been mainly relates to the construction of instrumental in the organization is evidert n the manufacture of means of communication and to of the annual Colonial Fair at lace, which occupies an import until the 31st instant. With a-could scarcely have been in The dancers, the the general betterment of the peo- Hanoi, which this year assumes ant place in the Exposition. military band kindly loaned by better hands, whilst all the minor ples coming under its care. Those greater proportions than it has Tonkinese hand-made lace, has Emperor Khai Dinh for the oc parts were sustained in true foreigners who are visiting the done since its establishment as an acquired a reputation almost as casion, a troupe of revue and sympathy.
good as that of the Belgian pro-operatic artistes performing in vocalista and the music to which country at this time of the year to annual function in 1918,
The Fair.
doct and has won an important the Municipal Theatre every al- they danced and sang-very ably be present at the Fair, will admit that French occupation of the A considerably large township place in the exports of the ternate night, and Harmston's contributed to complete Mr. country haa
brought about of 200,000 inhabitants, with its country, particularly to America. Circus arriving in time to add its Sinclair's production, "The Tem
transforma- European quarter laid out on the
Imports from France, chiefly attractions to those of the Fair, pest In Fancilul Conceit." tion of the topographical lines of a garden city, Hano, as machine goods and motor cars, Hanoi is a lively place these days features of the region; with the the writer found it on the 16th. had a place in the Exposition-barring the incessant rain and
found good mand. result that to-day many striking instant, expressed itself as being and undoubtedly contrasts are presented in com-in holiday mood as, with flags customers in a country where parison with the "conditions of and decorations adorning the the existence of good highways about fifteen years ago, when, as principal public buildings, it strove has enabled an extensive market The Matinee Performance. the writer recalls, very little into put on a festive appearence to be set up for these goods. Thore Yesterday afternoon's matinee
somewhat unfortunate are 3,500 cars in the country, and ducement was offered for a tour under of pleasure in the country. That weather conditions. The crowd these are all of French me performance of "The Tempest " few hundred Fordust have been hugely enjoyed by section of the Department of coming up by train from Hai- except a
sent. And the grown-ups, too, were Public Works concerned with the phoog was in the right spirit, automobiles which appear to be the many children who were pre-
only favourite type of
able to see to what a pitch of per- construction and improvement however, and, together with the the of highways and other means of Hanois, made light of the rain foreign caf.
Taken as a whole, the Fair fection the art of stage adoro- rent and lighting can be raised. communication, impresses one as and mud. The Fair was upper- being a very lively body, and the most in the minds of everybody.is representative of the industries It will be because of the scenery changed conditions referred to and every object displayed of the country and indicative of above will become more and more received due share of interest the ready adaptation of native colourings, the costumes and the marked as the large programme and attention.
energy and enterprise to the beauty of the settings that we
shall beat remember the A.D.O of manufacture
To- modera now under way nears its com-
production of Shakespeare's play. We
not have shali
TOTY pletion. Talking with an old colonist encountered
much cause to remember that the In closing, a few words may play was by Shakespeare, but we the writer WB5 impressed of its kind, representing as it did appropriately be added regarding can never forget that the produc by the optimistic strain in which every industry in the country, the means of locomotion in Hong- tion was Mr. Sinclair's. And, it he spoke of the natural resources Promptly at nine o'clock on kong and the French Colony. The we were going to be unkind of this extensive region of Indo Sunday morning, 17th, December, favourite vehiclein the fattor place enough to criticise, we would say China, where are to be found, or the Acting Governor-General, M. is the pousse-pousse, which, though that it is there that the producer have been adapted to its climatic Baudoin, opened the proceedings not dissimilar in appearance to the has made a mistake. There has conditions, most of the require with a speech in which reference Hongkong ricksha, is a different been too much attention to set ments of mankind and some that was made to the economic value from the latter as victoria tings, costumes, dances, music, are not necessities but luxuries. of the function. The spacious carriage is to a bull cart. There thunder storms, limelights, etc. Progress in retarded somewhat by Agricultural Hall which housed are the usual shafts for the coolie and too little attention to the
A Picturesque Scene. Occupying a vast space in the quirements. in the European Concession, the Fair' Course of a visit to Hanoi, was perhaps the most extensive
The Pousse-pousse."
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