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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931.
When all is sald and done, there. ia a natural' and quite reasonablo tendency for people everywhore to form themselves into groups in their social life, on the principle: that like gravitates to like. No man or woman can be expected to find either pleasure or benefit in continuously consorting with those whose Idean and outlook on life run contrary to their own. Everyone has the right to make his or her But to own circle of friendships. any so much in not to deny the fact that the superiority complex does obtrude itself far too much; whilst at the other end of the scale we have the type of individual who is always on the look-out for slights and who, if the truth be told, often imagines a patronising attitude on the part of others where none is intended. In there matters. It is easy to bulieve just what we want to believe. The great need is for people to be their natural selves, neither scorning the lowly nor apeing those shove them in station or culture. We cannnt, however much we mny wish it, wipe out social distinc
IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA
THE TOPSY <TURVY LAND DE THE SOVIETS
AS.SEEN BY JULIA BLANSHARD
When you travel in Russia, you should travel as the Russians do, and that is "hard." "Hard" is the iteral translation of the third class, "zbostky." It describes quite accurately the board alicif on which you sleep when you travel in a third class carriage. There are two other choices for you besides hard," the costly wagon lits which afford you luxurious, spacious compartments, with semi-private wash rooms; and "soft" (myakhat"), or second-class cars, which juve upholstered compartments that can be made into presentable beds. with disinfected sheets, pillow slips and blankets by paying the train gu d. "pravdnik," three roubles.
Fravelling third is a distinctive experience, as discovered when I ocupled my wooden shelf for eight days crossing Siberia from China. These, third Class cars have no enclos ed compartments. A corridor runs down one side of each eur and at right angles to it, across the car, sections of wooden sents are built, exactly like wide pantry shelves, iri tlers of three on either side of the windowa, with each ebelt far enough above the one below if to allow even a tali adult to sit ervet.
DAY BY DAY
15
THE CONTEMPORARY SNEER OFTEN SUCCERDED BY THE POSTHU- MOUS STATUE-Walter Sichel.
The health return for yesterday shows two enses of diphtheria and two of typhoid.
The Royal Observatory reports
tions; they always have existed, that the anticyclone is now centrai and they always will. Yet the over the Sea of Japan, moving E.N.E world would be infinitely better if ] we areepted men and women for what they are, for their worth is real values, uninduenced by con
siderations of financial or social standing. This is the deal, and if the Rotary Club helps in atlain- Ir it. then it will have areon plished a great deal.
Suffering from injuries to his head. running into & eaused through Sanitary Department motor forry in Belchers Street yesterday, a four- year-old boy, Li Sung, of G1, Belchers Street, was removed to the Govern ment Civil Hospita) for treatment.
The Polier Recreation Club are holding their second dance of the season #t Lane Crawford's Res. taurant next Wednesday, December) 16, at 8 p.m. Admission for gentle- men will be $2, including refreshmenta while tudies will be admitted Ly courtesy.
There may be food shortages in the cities of Soviet Russia, but there is apparently none in the rural sections, for every time Julia Blanchard's train stapped vendors like these came alongside. They sold hard boiled eggs, roast chicken, bread and butler-and almost gave it away!
British people are in some quars ters regarded as being more given to clique-making than any other race. This, we would suggest, is a misrepresentation of the facts. A concabine of Chan Ping-nam, atj & Parkes Street, was removed to? We suffer perhaps more than we
During the day the pantry-shelf; four of the literent kinds of Rus the Kwong Walt Hospital yesterday neighbours on the second and topsian baggage, hurlap bundles, bas- deserve from what is best describ-suffering from the effects of oplumunks may descend to sit on the keta, boxes and babies. I saw one
poisoning which stated to have
lowest shelf. But self-administered.
night three-year-old child bont half been
She was comes everybody has his own bare double with a food bag on his make ndiraitted to hospital at 7 pm, and cooden shelf to stretch out and back and the family teapot in his
died at 8.20 p.m. that
reserve
DEATH
WONG KAM FUK J.P.At hised as our characteristic
residence Ching Shan Po" in Admittedly. we do not Pokfulam Road Bear Junction with Mount Davis friends freely or mix with. Rond, on the 10th day of aptitude which is typical of many December, 1931, at 3.30 am, other peoples. But aged 62 years. The Funeral will take place at the Chinese severest critics concede that, ones Permanent Cemetery on Satur- the outer shell is broken through, day, the 12th inst., and will past misapprehensions are usually pass the Chinese Christian Cemetery in Pokfulam Road dissipated. We have something
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at 12 o'clock noon when short service will be held in the Chapel.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
even otr
to learn from others in this mut-
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about 30, was removed to the Kowloon
clothes.
ul
when
BTOT
a good place in the line in front of the kipatock," the hot-water Leaving Moscow for the Ukraine faucet which all Russian stations my next-shelf neighbour, a steno keep steaming for the great na- Erapher, took off her new pale gres tional drink, fen. kid- shoes, tied them to her balt
sleep on, unless the train is so hand. crowded that several must huddle The body of a Chinese woman, age together on one sent, sitting up.
When morning comes, some of these odd-looking bundles are Mortuary yesterday after having: All Russia travels "hard." In opened to reveal black bread, suu- been found hanging on the ground fact, after you have passed a cou-age, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, tea. Roor of 12. Takuling Street, Kowloon ple of stations and seen the hordes all wrapped up in shirts, towels. it not been establishes, was found laden peasants who surge into the family bod clothes. Real demo- City. The woman, whose identity of drably dressed and heavily baby clothes or right in with the by the police with a rope tied round train, you may conclude that all eracy holds away. You take your her neck. Her mouth, hands and Russia is travelling, and on your place in the line for the toilet, you clathes were scarei with Ted train. When
you travel hurd in take your turn
standing in the cor- ter as they have from Us, At powder, which she was suspected of Russia you do not take your rider looking out the windows and heart, when all is said and done, having first taken before hanging etathes off. You might lose the when the train stops you rush
herself. (mankind is pretty much of a much- ness the world over. Possibly here in Hongkong we are more however, simply govs to de monstrate the backwardness of Dri- conscious of each others' failings ish shipping policy. The P. and O. than we should be in a bigger Company
mpany's shipbuilding pro-
you travel as the Russians sphere. Which may explain in gramme sinto the War has been one could steal them, pulled but a modest one. On the her cont. over her and lay down part the impression which we find contrary, this has done much to feet inside her food basket to keen Russian diacrs are not so attrac- ders to sleep, having out her stockinged do you learn to avoid the diner. orders
tive and much more expansive it hard to get away from that we for are not quite such good mixers Britain from assuming worse pro
them warm. the shipbuilding slump prevent the
than foreign diners. Table cloths Pho Red Bollier on the shelf
are nearly always dingy. Waitors One of the desires of the Rotary cities, cliques exlat just as they ever.
as we ought to be. In larger portions. Somehow or other, how over me put his new kodak, his look exactly like the train guards up to the present, British pride and joy and the envy of the with khaki suits and caps that Club, according to Sir William
have the Communist sickle and general whole train, under his head for do here, but with the greater dif- shipping red
pillow. On the shelf under me a hammer on them. ffornell. is to bronk down the
speed to
of fat peasant woman and her little! essential feature
The majority of travelling Rus barriers which mark the division fusion of the community the fact have never
Whipps
designed
girl slept, one hending one way sians carry food sacks with them, is not no apparent.
for
the
dirty. of Hongkong people into so many
Far East service. The Italian the other the other,, with cliques. No-one who has lived in
challenge may bring about a grey woollen comforter completely eat at the station cafeterias or Far East Shipping. this Colony, for any length of time
At Sineinikay we had a three- change of outlook and an all-round covering them both, head and all buy from vendore, improvement in shipping services Men and women stagger under
hour wait we got in line for will dispute the statement that, The decision of the Lloyd Tries-vin the Suez route.
their burdens, bearing one or all lunch. Half the waiting room to use Sir William's words, there tino to place the Conte Rosso on the
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931.
CLIQUES.
em-
Is a
is too much superfluous heart Far East run offers a challenge to burning and unnecessary mutual the enterprise of British shipping suspicion here. Nor will it be companies, which will be denied that the evil is not wholly phasised if, as is distinctly. possí-
ble, the Conte Verde, jolas in thei ns between one community and
race for passengers and freights! another-there are cliques in The Conte
ROSHO every community. it is, however, yeasel which both for speed one thing to bemoan as undesirand comfort will surpass able situation, and quite another anything previously plying regular- to rectify it. Undoubtedly, the ly on the Suez route. She will cut principles for which Rotary stands down the time distance between should be helpful in achieving a Hongkong und London to 22 days, even less if the Brindisi train and freer mixing ns between the vari
air services are called into service,
ous classes, but even the most Her appointments are luxurious, as nrdent Rotarian will concede that they had to be considering that ake it will require something much was originally built to cater for more than periodical gatherings in wealthy South American tourists public to break down the divisions visiting Mediterranean porta. The which mark off various sections of Conte Verde, which will doubtless be brought on to the Far East run the community. Something
If the Conte Rosso experiment gained in this way by the crention i
proves a success, is still more of now friendships, but it will only "fashionable" ship, and will add be by a commingling of the several further to the prestige of Italian classes in everyday social life, and shipping. Knot for knot she is In each others' homes, tant' an im- easily the equal of the Conte Rosso, pression will be made on the pro-which will undoubtedly break all records in February next. The outlook for British shipping is any- It is quite common La
hearthing but bright. Hongkong con- people declare that there are more not be other than gratified at the cliques In Hongkong than in any new opportunities offered by the other place of the same size. Such Lloyd Triestino, and the most Is generalisations are easy to make, likely to be made of these facili- but dificult to establish. If the los. Britain has the poor con- solation that these,apoody veusola truth could be rovealed, it would owe their excellance to British ship. probably be found that this Colony building yards. Both the Conte -in--no--worse--nor-no-botter-than- Rosso and the Conte-Verde-are-to- any other contro in this respect the credit of the Clyde. The fact,
blem.
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in
"Hello, Dear. I just wanted to hear you tell me how much you love me. But remember, this is a long-distance
When
was used for a cafeteria. Three long tables, each with worn oil- cloth, filled the centre of this " room. For 60 kopecks we got tickets for a hot plate which a waitress in a solled white spron brought us. It had a cutlet of chopped meat, some boiled cab- stowed tomatoes, and two slices of black bread.
bage.
You soon learn to bargain at the food counters as the Russians do. Half the fun of travelling third
to jump off at various stations and buy food. Womon and children line up with all kinds of vlands to sell. There seems to be plenty of food outside of MOB cow. Food shortage in the cities is. you realize, a transportation pro- blom.
At Kramatorshi, In the Don Co- sack country, where now glass factories are causing a boom, blocks of women sold broiled chic- kens for a rouble
round cach, choose, fried fish of several kinds. 30 kopecks each, including a tiny scarlet fish, that looked like lob- ster and tasted oven better, some cheese, pata of butter, one rouble, and the staple hard-boiled eggs, four for a rouble.
Here I saw a little barefoot
boy
with a big brown earthen jug of boiled
milk
ho was selling, running
his fingers around the inside of the jug and sucking thent and then sticking them in again to repeat the process
coss as ho fan from plat-
for
to
platform no 'offor the milk.
Trains are cleaner to-day than, they were in 1925 when I crossed Biboria "hard, The guard comes along with his short broom made of tree twigs and sweepe'outi~A) Deasant boy thewing sun-flower Beads "sticka-his-head-out-of-t
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