THE HONGKONG
TO PICTURESQUE SHATAUKOK. FRENCH LAWN TENNIS
TRAVELLING ON A MINIATURE RAILWAY.
MOTOR, ROAD TO REPLACE OLD SERVICE,
of
There are many rosidonts of lator the British soction this Colony, some who have boon Shataukok springs into view, a; hero quite a number of years, who typical Chinese village of the have never visited Shataukok, on moro substantial type, with two the north-east border of the Now pawnshop" towers, sot olono to Territorios, a picturesque spot the seashore. There is a Customs which lies near the head of man, who does not as a rulè raise long arm of the sea coming in any objections to one's goine past from Mirs Bay and known by the with a picnic basket, and wiuin pleasant-sounding name of Star- a few minutes, by striking some ling Inlet. But by far the most what inland, one can reach a interesting thing &bout the ridgo, of small hills in actual; journey is the small railway, Chinese territory, These hills, known as the Fanling branch and also the mora delectable parts lino, which runs from Fanling of the shora, form a favourite station to Shataukök, doing the picnicing rondezvous for Euro- ten miles or so in about an hour.peans who have discovered the Additional interest attaches to delights of the place. Otherwise this section of the Kowloon-there is, unfortunately, little to Canton Railway by reason of the recommend it. The approaching decision to scrap" it as soon as completion of a roadway suggeste the new motor road which the that sightseeing partios will tako P.W.D. is constructing to Shatau-to motoring out, but they must kok has been completed. The not expect sca-bathing when they doom of this picturesque littlo reach their destination: There is service was set for last year, but, a very long coastline, but the owing to a delay in the work on shore is fringed by small boulders, the roadway, which is still very and the water is too shallow for little advanced, it has been given (swimming except at high spring another lease of useful life. Ohe tides. "says useful advisedly, for tho service is greatly appreciated by the Chinese living at the border and along the route, and statistics show that the traffic has boon growing, and the branch line has, made no inconsiderable profit.
Then the locality is of doubtful sanitary attractiveness. During! our representative's Lour of ex- there were gothe, graves by the ploration, it was observed that
beach, and presently a sampan came ashore and discharged a We 'reproduce a photograph of coffin which was interred with a the engine and first-class carriage, short ceremony, concluding with taken by a Telegraph reprosent- the burning of a packet of crack- ative who specially visited ers. It was a simple affair, and Bhataukek recently, travelling the wailing mother and elder by this small branch ling train sister-the small casket suggested and making some observations a little child who had crossed the which are set forth here.
great divide-had left within an
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For a fajr insight luto Chinese hour, the sand disclosing bu
lifo, and a good impression of the another mound among the many, scenery of a typical South China scattered about.
countryside, the journey to
Bhataukok can hardly be bettered.
One travels most, comfortably.
RECALLING THE PAST.
(save the mark!) in the winter Yot there is an old-world atmos- months, but it is when the vivid photo about the place which green of the ricaffolds lends the suggests that here we see China landscape a distinctive colour in as it has been for many centuries, the early summer that the eyes and even the remains of two old can find the most restful outlook, kitas, the fisherfolk mending their and the hard seats, with broken nets, and the tillers of the rice- backs, and grimy interior of the fields, ara part of the pictura. To carriage, and abundance of smoko turn again to the beach, one from the small locomotive, can wonders whether it will ever be "best be put up with.
worth while to do some fairly extensive cleaning and dredging. and thus convort Shataukok to a rosert no further away than Castle)
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not
Let no-one who has attempted the journey imagine
that the railway service on this. Peak and far more attractive pic- branch line is one of any com torially and perhaps historically. fort there are only. three, cara, ono first class, and all are broken-But that is for the future to down looking, dirty, and decayed, docide. though quite safe to travel in!
tho
The threatened doing away with The miniaturo engine matches the railway service will affect the the smallness of the carriages. Chiuose villagers over a wide which hold about a dozen tirst area, and no doubt some enter- class and a few more third, at prising porson who replacas it twenty and ten conts, respective with motor 'bua service will ly, for the one-way journey. Yet roap a rich harvost. The follow- for the more adventurous among ing statistics, takon from us, and for all who revel in a new report on the Kowloon-Cantop experience, this means of travel Railway for last year, are eloquent ling, to use a colloquialism, "can't of the patronage the small branch be beat".
line enjoy. As regards the num.. There are goveral stops en route, figures for 1922, 1923, and 1924 ure, ber of passengers carried, the and ut one point, near the Shatou- Kak police station, the engine and 82,505; showing a progross- rospectively, 52,431; 73,838; takes in wator from a hillsideve increase. The Shatoukok stream, fod first to a tank by a section made a profit last year, small pipeline. Occasionally there! le a cargo of rice or other produce receipts on the Fanling branch
the report declaring that carried on a truck, which is line have improved both as
ched"
at a siding, if it has not already grown smaller by degrees regerds passengers and goods
and beautifully lose along the
traffic.
way, part boing literally dropped). But
the
mcdora progress has
at appropriate halting places. soaled the doom of this little
AT THE BORDER.
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railway, brjit as long ago as 1911, perhaps the only ono, quite of its kind in the world.
We are glad to be able to place a tribute to it on rooord, before it finally passo after many years of storling
As soon as the police station comas in sight, close to the border, one knows that it is near the journoy's end, and a few minutos zervice,
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extension of in the civil war as a memorial to wherever feasible, on commerciai cotton growing the students of the alumni who bases; urging the governments of died in the Great War, latided all countries where can be pro- Britain's rule of the waves to duosd advantageously to stimu- which he attributed the avoidance late development of cotton of war in the past. Ife declared that future peace lay in the ad- opting of this standard of eternal, vigilance.
growing by increasing the cultivared area and creating, efficient transport, recognising that construction of irrigation and drainage works, such as are being The British Consul-General, undertaken in the Sudan and Sir Harry Armstrong, represent- India, are the proper means of ug Sir Thomas Lipton, presented bringing about an increased sup the University with the mast of ply of cotton; and tervently Shamrock the Fourth.- In his hoping that all the governments speech he expressed faith in the will docide on similar works power of Britain and the United where it shown the costen crop States to establish world peace, can be considerably increased by Reuter's American Service;
means of irrigation.-Heuter.,
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The cause of the fun. Sent the girl on the run,
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