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THUD,
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She is far from the land (Lambert) John McCormack, |OMAR.—After 扬 long liness, striving feet....
Drink to me only with thine eyes (Calcott)
John McCarmack, B-8442. Sweet Melody of Night (Film-"Give us this night") My Love and 1 (Film-"Give us this night"
Webster Booth. B-8443 Load the covered wagon (Kane & Hunt) Peter Dawson.
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James Melton. Carry me back to the Lone Prairio
The Spanish Lady (Hughes)
Limehouse Reach (Proctor-Gregg)
August 15, at 2.30 am. at her residence No. 355
Hennessy the choking gasp and
the Mohammedan Cemetery, passing the Monument at
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The
.......... Ricksha!
The Story Of The Men Who
Talk Of The Big Fare They Caught And The Bigger One That Got Away
⚫ have
the
FIRST of all
התנך
The pullers fares are regulated
the ricksha and are shown on a plate-attached has no to the ricksha. They, are 10 Ambitions to minutes, 10 cents; 30 minutes,
He 20 cents: 60 minutes, 80 cents. speak of.
cannot afford Every subsequent hour, 30 cents. There is a slight varia- few tion for high areas and late
them. If he
earns
cents a day he hours,
is satisfied, (In
But the pullers' troubles do not
*Singapore). He end with low wage rates.
works cheaply, cats cheaply and always lives under the sha dow of dying cheaply as well.
In Hongkong
There is the drunk who gets the rickshaman to take him to a destination a long distance and then passes out or cannot or rofuses to pay and becomes obstreperous.
they aspire THEN there is the Law.
The law, so they complain in higher. A puller ricksha-town, is not kind to the
earns anything
up to a dollar a day and their main purpose is to save a hun- dred or two hundred dollars to return to the country before old age grips them.
puller.
Policemen at street intersec- Lions are seldom considerate. Hicksha traffic is usually held up in favour of motor-vehicles, and made to stop with a jerk that only a strong man can withstand. Empty rickshas may be turned to the right or left,. or sent back on their course, at the constable's discretion.
Road, Mrs Necsi Mohammed hammed Onuar. Aged 61 years, lean Omar, wife of the late Mr. Mo-Struggle for breath....
muscled figures be- Funeral will take place to-day at tween their shafts. You
5.20 find them in Hongkong you p.m. (Shanghal Papers Please and the cities east of Singa-
In long queues
Outside cinemas, when the pore.....the great army of been pulled
you can seo queues of rickshas line up for the through ricksha pullers.
streets by them, while you re- them where they come in from home-going crowds, the traffic "Fi te ah" shouts a clined in your seat, and you their work to squat over bowls policeman's rule cannot be ques- ...James Melton. Thongkong Telegraph. hunting brute of any na line noticed a weather-bronzed of rice and sleep the weariness tiorted. The puller who becomes tionality sprawled in the face peer anxiously into yours that follows five, ten, or even over-zealous for a fare is likely comfortable carriage that for a moment or two, as you felt more miles running between the to get an ungentle push, ricksh
and all, back to the end of the queue. for 10 cents spares him among the small change in your shafts. the burning road..
pocket. Perlups it was the look in his eyes, or gnarled hands With expressionless face that took your coins, that made the pullers toil on. One is you wonder how the rickshamen The presence of Marshal glad occasionally to see a earn their livelihood.
.Stuart Robertson.
..Stuart Robertson.
.Derek Oldham.
B-8445
B-8446
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A little love, a little kiss (Silczu) Nocturne ("Song of Love") (Curran) Busy, busy (Picon-Ellstein) The Song of the Tenement (Picon-Ellstein)
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A Melody from the Sky
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Derek Oldham. Molly Picon.
Molly Picon. Sam Browne.
SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 1936,
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S
MISSION
Chiang Kai-shek in Canton at kind word spoken for them the present juncture is indicative or a tourist through ignor
How do they live? Where do
THERE are some 2,000 to 3,000 registered public rickshas in Hongkong. The rickshas are hired out by companies at a re- gular rate per day and are in use
working in shifts. Out of their
all the time, two or three pullers
The enforcement of discipline is necessary, but the rickshaman thinks that he could be treated
rather more as a human being.
preserves a sense of humour
DESPITE all these troubles he
(Film "Trail of the Lonesome Pine") Sam Browne. of the determination of the ance, pay them double fare. ceased at hotels and cafes and carnings they pay hire-fee to the his own and always practical.
I'm a fool for loving you You have that extra something
S. MOUTRIE
York-Building.-
.Frances Day. Central Government to make Frances Day.every effort to compose the
South-Western situation
Where do they come from? they go when the music s the last inquiring cry of "Rick
Ricksha! has echoed the early morning
shal.
in
silence.
NOTES OF THE DAY AWAY
Must
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rapidly as possible. It is some ten years since the Gencralls-
The facilities which the Brook-LITTLE is known of this army. of them are · Uoklos & Co., Ltd.simo set out from Canton on his lands motor-racing track has offer.
memorable Northern expedition, ed to motorists and motor-cyclists from Hok Shan, "up country"; since when he has not, until now, have been responsible for à con- some come from Swatow, Chao siderable share in the development Chow, East River the poorer returned. Much water, has
of the technique of British motor-districts where farming cannot flowed under the bridges since racing. When the ground was support them. that time. But for the need of his first prepared in 1906 the standard In its ranks are the lowest guidance in more pressing prob- of British motoring was compara-paid of all lowly-paid coolies.
CRICKET
GEAR
SPECIAL!
Chater Road.
tively low-de partly to the fact
owner
In
of the vehicle, plus any He will take a'tourist or new arrears of debt, traffic fines, or arrival to Hongkong-whom he subtraction for repairs of dam- recognises by some sixth sense of age caused by his own negligence. his own-through devious and extreme cases rickshamen seemingly endless streets in order have been known to collapse from to reach a destination a few yards
in the streets away. hunger and die
People who have no idea of the But this is unusual. The rick- charges may be made to
pay while waiting to pick up a fare.. shaman, though inadequate four times the legal fare, and nourishment prevents him from generous paymont by the unini ever becoming the marathon tiated is treated as a sign of soft- runner that his "training" would heartedness that often inspires suggest, has a tough physique the rickshaman to cause a mild
lems in the North, it may he as- that there was then no suitable Their life is perhaps the hardest that is born of necessity rather scene in the hope of extracting
per-
all
than fitness.
When
rickshamen.
more.
But neither offences are grave In the first instance the
the
HERE is the brighter side of
sumed that Marshal Chiang racing track in the
country. and shortest: But with it
a puller carns nothing From the time the track was open- they have a detachment that is for the day, it follows that he has ones. would have come South mucked British motor-racing, rapidly their own battered form of pride. to owe the owner of the ricksha tourist is given an excellent sight- earlier, for the situation created improved. The track, which was They do not tell their story for the hire. A sympathetic seeing tour of the lesser known by the semi-independent, status built by Mr. and Mrs. Locke King, over-readily, the
of the city; and in owner may agree to wait a few parts of the South-Western provinces, broad circuit three and a quarter to enay confidences. Fear and also have to live, and the puller cheated
Was therefore designed with a Their life is not the sort that leads days for his money. But owners second the passenger is being an inconsiderable had long called for action. As
miles long, intended to allow for suspicion play an unfortunate, whose strength fails through trifle that represents a small events have turned out, the speeds of up to 160 miles an hour. part in their attempts to earn sickness or advancing age must fortune to the rickshanun. Southern
It included a leaders, by
test hill which,
seek what other form of livell- sistence in their recent campaign gradients capable of testing both
though short in length, contained food and shelter.
But if you treat a rickshaman hood he can.
the rickshaman's life. ---obviously directed against climbing and braking capacities. as a human being, address him
He can live on, ten cents' worth Brooklands is situated about in Chiang Kai-shek-contributed to
any of his own dialects OFFICIAL ricksha fares which twenty miles from London. The half. dozen dialects he may hap- the puller may demand if of food a day.. Whatever he Wtheir own undoing. Happily
pen to speak and will learn anyone tries to underpay him carns over that represents, a the Kwangtung position has
many things that are not and many hirers do-are set saving, or is spent on his wife been straightened out, but It
dreamed of in the philosophy of down by the Government as and children.
followe. Hongkong motor-car-owners, would seem that the Kwangsi re- calcitrants are disposed to resist the authority of the Central Government. It is apparent, however, both from the nature of the military and naval pre-construction parations and the coming South of the Generalissimo, that the Nanking leaders are in no mood to tolerate further insubordina tlon. None the less, Chiang Kai-shek has demonstrated marked degree of patience in the situation, and no-one would be
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China against aggression than to
BULLS AND INNERS
From the Office Butts
The P.W.D. are entering a team, Canada bans the import of Asia. in the soccer league this season. tic goods containing nativo coll, They should know all about the thus indicating her respect for the territorial integrity of the penally clause.
Far East.
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It's alleged that some. Govern-1 ment servants are insuring their pensions. We thought they were ensured alrendy.
Things are bad these days. better pleased than he to effect present a united front against Even typhoons keep on avoiding a peaceful solution of the crisis. those who threaten the nation's the Colony. All who have the welfare of integrity. Reports from-the- China at heart will wish him well North indicate that fresh trouble: in his efforts. When all is said may arise at any moment. It is and done, the Kwangsi leaders therefore necessary that Chiang, must surely realise that there Kal-shek should quickly sup can be no greater menace to the press any revolt by Kwangsi. security of China at this stage By the ready comprehension than the outbreak of civil war. [which he has shown of the situa Weather experts ridicule the So much has been said by the tion, the Generalissimo has en-Chinese belief that typhoons never | Kwangal · generals about the hanced his riputation, showing occur when there's lightning. New-
comera to Hongkong necessity of resisting Japan that clearly that he puts first things whether they over occur at all. doubts naturally arise as to their first. Hongkong, no less than sincerity when they are ap- other centres, will be gratifled parently prepared to seo their when China attains full national
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A man found a dollar note on two successive days in n local shop. He has now bought the re-. cord "You are my lucky Store,"
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A reader wants to know whore Kowloon tigera go in the summe time, Down thirsty men's throate, jof course.
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Dr. Cannon appears to have doubt mastored the art of levitation. But for the levity, we might be tempted to suggest that one of these days [ho will go off with a bang!
The Lan-tau summer camp la
ternal strife. There can be no mission to the South clearly has understand that those who like more effective way of securing that objective in view.
the cool
climate!
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. country's strength wasted on in- solidarity. Marshal Chiang's. 2,000 feet above sea-level. We
Some of these wedding toasts Jare extremely well. Buttered).
Most rickshamen are married. Contrary to general belief few of the pullers are oplum addicts. · Smoking opium is a comparative- ly expensive pastime when wealth is reckoned in terms of cents.
One of the few relaxation of the rickshamen is gambling. Coloured oblong pasteboard cards are used in various games of skill and chance.
Here again, however, the Law.
is apt to be oppressive. Gambling is illegal on the pavenients of rickshatown, however respectable It may be in the drawing-rooms of the Peak-the police have to see that justice is vindicated. TWO or three times a year the
rickshamen club together and regale themselves at a "feast." Wine, a strange yellow. Chinese, kind of wine, passes as freely as food on these occasione,-when oven the down-and-out ricksha- man feasts at the expense of his stronger and more fortunate com~ petitors.
Stories are exchanged of the fares" that were caught—and of the bigger ones that got away? and in the golden depths of the wine-bowl the rickahaman no doubt sees the brave new world in which be reclines triumphant in a gilded rickéha, and his (Continued on Page `5.)