THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29,
1985.
WAR PHOTOS FROM THE GRAN CHACO
ROMANTIC
MACAO
Visitors' Impression Of Quaint City
(By Mra T, W. Lewis
"Why not take a trip down and see what it's really like?" suggest- ed the secretary of the Hongkong. Steamboat Canton and Macao Company in answer to
BONICOND
who plied him with questions about Macno. Thi proposition meeting with instant approval, two newcomers to the Colony caught the 8 o'clock steamer the next morning. intending to look round Mauno for a couple of hours and come back by And what the afternoon bont. did. they find?
Historie interest; nn atmos- phere of tranquility and old-world charm; records of four hundred years' colonisation by a people whose landmarks are imbued with the beauty and dignity of tradi tional culture, and who have pre- aurved at the same time the best that was there when they came; and evidences of development on all the necessary modern methods Councils Adopted by Municipal
the new world over.
an in-
"We enn take the 3 a.m. boat,"
round off they decided, "and twenty four wonderful hours."
Hongkong harbour has describable fascination at any time. At 8 o'clock on n misty morning, with the sun breaking through a drift of rain, lighting the hills behind the city and mak- ing gleaming paths on a placid sea, it has a quality of mirage, as that can of a lovely pleture
neither last nor occur again ex- cept in memory. A comfortable cane chair on the awninged decki of the "Sui Tal" was a perfect. position from which to watch grey; islands disentangling themselves from the merging distance, tak- ing shape in green and amber, and slipping past. while junks and sampans 'dipped to the gen-"
currents and tie ripple of the
the
curved their dun spils
breeze.
to
A chance word with one of the steamboat's
duty ofleers off brought a fund of information colouring the way with vivid in terest: and when the desire for sustenance made itself felt, ministering stoward brought cups! of delicious hot coffee.
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"Well, even if it's a dull place we shall have had this trip," wel agreed.
CHARM OF CITY
Four hours after leaving Hong- kong we turned round Barra Point į and made a dignified progress up the narrow passage that divides! the Portuguese from the Chinese) shore, aleaming up an avenue of fishing junks fo the jetty. From the moment when the first light- the Far East house built in (1573), and the ruined face of the eld Cathedral became clear, the
charm of the city, which is only 2 miles in area, caught and held
UA.
Field artillery in firing position along the advanced Paraguayan
front. Mud and lack of roads are their handicap.
In an airport literally bewed out of the jungle, Paraguayan
planes poies ready to hop; practically all are grounded by now.
savage
was not
In a jungle camp theso Paraguayan youths lielan to ■ comrade's guitar during a lull in the fighting of the Chaco campaign.
Lessons of the World War are remembered In the Chaco, as the claborate scope of this Paraguayan trench system proves.
A priest gives God's blessing on Paraguayan boya kasoling on the
Asuncion drill-ground, before starting for the front.
her
The bullets were whining as the photographer made this picture
of a hasty intrenchment at an advanced post in the Chacó,
The Bolivians Ingree to peace terms suggested. Paraguayan camps and the de- HUNDRED THOUSAND men fight against them.
For six months the Paraguayans cimation of her early and veteran lie dead in the graveyard of are highlanders, and the the Gran Chaco, the bloody battle guerilla warfare of the steaming hammered at the line of forts and armies. For Paraguay has only a to defences the Bolivians had guilt.million people, and despite the des
loyalty Toward the end of 1934 and the be- perate ground where Bolivia and Pars mates of the jungle
and headlong guay have been' locked in a death their liking.
ginning of this year, they began bravery and sacrifices of "It is only possible to skim the grip for almost three years.
It neutralised the effect of their to break through, and succeeded in people, they cannot furnish fresh That is almost as many as the surface of the impression left.
better armament, and gave a cor-
cannon-meat forever. gaining almost all the Chaco. United the but the impulse in strong to put battle casualties of
responding advantage to the Para- were used to it. the experience of such a day on States in the World War.
The present bitter fighting guayans, who record,
.Stepping from the jetty, we around Churagua in Bolivia's sou- The war dragged on month after found ourselves on the oldest part, thern province of Santa Cruz has month, with continual fighting ex- battleground Into a of the waterfront, a wide street seen 10,000 soldiers in action and cept during the rainy season, which cobbled with small granite blocks has added perhaps 2,000 to the turned the
dend. malarial quagmire, which have borne the tramp of lengthening lists of the
Forts were taken and retaken, generations of fact. There was a And there is no sign of an end. -
a few yards of muddy ditch won thrill in that. But we had a card
and, lost over the bodies of the stain.
By the end of 1933, With Holivia on the short end, an
WAN
at men.
They swept the Bolivian troops Bolivia controls the air, Para- been land and Belgium put together. wiped out. And Bolivia has the
of an area greater than Eng-guay's air force having They were going strong, and the resources, the equipment, and the hand, with its rolling, open conn- Unless effective mediation comes, edge of Bolivia proper try and its rich oll fields within however, from the neighbouring striking distance.
South American countries of Argen- Desperate at this threat of in-tina, Chile, and perhaps Braz!!, Across the jungle wastes of the
vasion of her own innd, Bolivia from the United States, or from to present, so a taxi carried us
braced, and her green and untried the League of Nations, it is more over to the smooth bitumen roads Chaco the tide of war has swept At first the well-
roops appear to have halted the than possible that both these coun- of the other side of the peninsula, since 1932.
Into Paraguayan advance in the present tries will fight each other where on the tree-sheltered Praya trained and equipped troops of distinctly that winds round the foot of the Bolivia appeared to be making the armistice was effected through a series of battles from Charagun to mutual destruction.
of Nations commission Villa Montes, along a 125-miles rocky headland, the office of the most galas. They penetrated well League Steamboat agency stands. It is into the Chaco, that disputed area which visited both countries and front.
As the losses mount, the Bolivian one of the almost continuous line that lies between the warring countried to suggest pence terms. But
after 16 days of peace, fighting was advantage would seen to increase, bulldings, new and old, commer-tries. cial and residential, which fringes. But then the Chaco began to resumed, when neither side could despite her 30,000 prisoners in counted years to come. the wide boulevarde.
Here we met the kindly cour.
teay for which many a tourist has certainly brings excellent results
to thank the Agent and his son.
Four generations of the family have helped to build up the his-
of
SPECIAL POINTS
In that case, the Chaco may re- main an unsettled South American Alsace-Lorraine, to plague the peace of the western hemisphere for un-
Macao is its first appeal. The Temple of the Goddess of Heaven English missionary Robert Morri-green painted chairs at the Rea-manniers and the pursult of plea-
the Where have we been? And the connecting a maze of magle rooof, fabled gods, who strike keries and formal gardens, while note of exotic decoration which design of Macao takes shape as a birds sing in the interlaced bran-is maintained throughout the in-perfect spot for a rest from the ches of old trees, and flowering terior. Pale green, cool and rest- The places of special interest creepers festoon it all into a ful, la the dominating colour of rush of modern life; a place where tory of Macao, and their pride are many-and the fact that a smooth legato movement. The the Dance Hall, whose lighting is the repose of a past age has set- In-what-is-there to see is mani
publie lottery (authorised-by-the
memorial stone to George Chin- contrived through pillars of dulltled down happily-with-the-luxury- fested in their readiness to show Government) is drawn three times nery, R.A., who died in Macao in green glass softened by a design of a fastidious new world; where it all to those whose appreciation a day, is not without a certain 1840, is set against the wall of a in pink very becoming to the troup no-one bustles, and there is time is apparent.
attraction. The Amah Pagoda peaceful old cemetery, where the of pretty dancing girls. The
of charming for the observance The galety and cleanliness
The must be old bayond the identis son, his wife, and their infant son taurant tables are cleverly con- pastel greens, pinks, buffs
fication of period, and besides its also sleep. The grotto where trasted with black, bringing in an sant things. blucs of the square distempered ancient beauty, its treasures of Luis Camoons, who is to Portugal ultra modern, note, and two tiera Houses, balconied or shuttered.
paint- pewter, its carvings and
what Virgil is to the Romans, of balconies at either end of the are in most cases embellished
wrote part of his most famous main hall glow with a dimmed with white stucco ornamentation, ings, must be priceless.
The Bishop's Palace on top of poems in 1556, marked by tablets radiance. The gaming room is and the main colour is thrown
and naturally a special interest to the into relief by the contrasting the headland, whose chapel points fixed to the massive stone,
spire surrounded by a the Auger of its graceful
shady, fragrant visitors. All is very quiet and shades of pot plants.
orderly the crowd taking its Some of the new houses on the upwards, is in process of rebulid-garden.
amusement with a leisurely en- Praya Grande, nearing the old ing, but the old stone terrace
|joyment. Supper follows swiftly Fort
on Barra Point (1657) are around the shrine of S'ta Fatima
Lunch and dinner we had in the on its order, and all the surround modern to a degree, with the at-1 untouched, and from it a path traction of simplicity, straight leads to one of the original city cool comfort of the Hotel Riviera, inga are conducive to the relaxa- lines, and restrained design. walls, cleft from the natural rock, and we finished the day in the action it is the aim of the manage-
tremendous height and copted manner by paying a visit ment to provide. Wherever you look, the paint is of
[to "Victoria," the new Palace of Cabins booked beforehand new and clean and the streets strongth.
that Immaculate. We are told
An ancient gardon laid out by Entertainment, which was opened the steamer provided dreamless when a house in Macao shows Chineso millionaire three by a gala night on May 18, and sleep in such comfort that the re- signs of wear and tear the owner generations back, is a place of made a prompt and very definite turn to Hongkong was accom receives a note from the Muni-wonder behind high stone walls. success. The main entranco to plished unknown until announced cipal authorities drawing his at- Serpentine lily-grown waterways the huge brilliantly lit building by the repeated knock of a atoward. tention to the fact. The system pro crossed by delicate "bridges, is guarded by two immense figures Our thoughts adjust themselves.
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