THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
BUFFALOES THAT BECOME
4, 1936.
"BEEF" Hats
by
Thousands Slaughtered As Food For Hongkong Population Heath
THIS UNORTHODOX FOOD CAN COME TO YOUR HOUSEHOLD
NO DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN BEEF AND BUFFALO AT THE LOCAL MARKETS
Special to "Telegraph"
WHEN next your Chinese cook makes a purchase at the butcher's stall at any of the local public markets, and it is a succulent beefsteak you'll be thinking of for your next meal, it is best to specify hung ngau, or "red cow",
This particular designation may sound odd, but it makes all the difference in the world: for, without it, you are liable to be served with water-buffalo meat!
The somewhat startling fact has been disclosed that 40 per cent. of the meat sold at the Hongkong public mar- kets, and which later goes into the pot masquerading as | "beef", is really derived from water-buffaloes of the Asiatic! variety, imported into and slaughtered by the thousands for food every year.
These figures aru secured from statisties of dealers, confirmed by actual observations by a "Telegraph" correspondent at the depot and abattoir at Kennedy Town. Those show an average killing of: 150 heads of "cattle" cach day.
But of these, only 90, or approximately six out of every ten animals slaughtered, are bullocks.
The remaining 60 are really water-buffudors, represented mostly by the larger Slames and Indo-Chinese variety in the shipments regularly made to this Colony from near-by points,
On arrival here, the animals are taken to the lawn, or depot, Hongkong's Smithfield, at Ken- nedy Town, where subsequently. with ordinary enttle, they are anid at the early-morning atr tions,
From
cense,
Ex-Princess
Refuses Film Offer
this point, after having passed from dealer to retailer, they
for n practical purposen, }
Oct, 28. to enjoy an existence apart.
Going the way of all fesh, that AN offer of a £30,000 Holly- is to say, to the neighbouring abat-wood film contract to appear tar, their individuality is lost: they with her husband in the role of have now become merely "meat", but much less butale than "beer" royal lovers in an Oriental set- You, yourself, may already have ting has just been refused, it is at some time or other scen soine of believed, by Mme. Charalambi, diese long-suffering bul patient animals on the rice flats in the New he frag princes who recently left Terities. With their long, spread court and wealth to marry a Rhodes Einire Azzalı, sister or
ing horns, and tough, hairless skin they bear very little resemblance to the undersized Chinese cows along
which they may have been
side toiling.
Yet, after conversion to "meat", probably after the animal has had
fe of toiksone
the effort for
nis primitive Chinese peasant with plough, this buffate flesh is very com
monly put alongside of, if not mixed with, bref, and sold Indiscriminately es guch to the unwary housewife.
APPEARANCE THE SAME
1 am credibly told that there in little, if any, difference in the colour and general appearance of the two meats, except perhaps for a slightly courser grain in buffalo, which may
immediately have been noi
nced, too, parent. I would verilable gourmet to discriminate
ap-
il
Carmen and Conrad, who will make their first appearance in Hongkong at the Glaucester Hotel gala on Saturday night.
AT
SCHOOL AMID POISON
GAS
"TELEGRAPH REPORTERS LEARN
A LESSON WITH TEARS
Special to the "Telegraph"
WITH tears streaming down his face, and handkerchief pressed to smarting eyes, "Telegraph" representa- tives yesterday disproved Napolean's adage that an army moves on its stomach. When there's tear gas about an army moves on its feet, and moves quickly.
RADIO BROADCAST
A Relay from London "Tommy Tune's Tours" FOOTBALL COMMENTARY
Radio Programme Brondeust by Z. B. W. on a Wavelength of 355 metres, (045 it,c'a), 34.20 metres, (8750 k.c's), 19.75 metres. (15.10 megacycles):
12.30-2.15 p.m. European Record- ed Programme.
12.30 p.m. Josephine Baker (Sa- prano), Les Allen and Elis Canadian Bachelors and Barnabas von Geezy and His Orchestra.
1
p.. Timo and Weather.
1.03 p.m. Excerpts from Light
Opern.
1.30 p.m.
Press,
menta,
Reuter Press, Rugby
Weather, Time and Announce-
1.40 pm.
Light Orchestral Musle.
2.15 p.m. Close Down.
3.55-5.15 p.m.
granime.
European Pro-
A Running Commentary from the Caroline Hill Football Ground of the Kolewall Charity Cup Match.
5.15-7 p.m.
p.m.
Chinese Programme.
1115
A Variety Programme. Piano Solos Breakin' in a pair of shoes, Sugar Rose...Carroll Gibbon (Plano) and is Boy Friends; Itu.. morous In love again.....Florence Desmond (Comedienne): Organ Solo -Indian. Love Call.
1......Sigmund Krumgold; Vocal-Headin' Home. The Hill Billies: Mandoline Solo- Serenata Mediovale...Prof. Gluseppe Gargano: Song-Hypnotized...... Turner Layton; Orchestra Selection-
Thin Make You Whistle."
7.30 pm. Closing Local Stock Quo- tations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. The London Piana- Accordeon Band.
Calling me home; 1 have lost my heart in Budapest; Hawaiian Para- dise; Dream Time; Our days together; Rosalie: An Old Hawaiian Guitar; On the Beach at Bali-Ball.
8 p.. muncements,
Time, Weather, and An-
8.03 p.m. The First Act of The Opern Tosen" (Puccini), played by The Orchestra and Members of La Senin, Milan, Conducted by Carlo Sabajino.
J. Ant I have baulked them; 2. Strange Harmony; 3. Excellency, 1 an going: 4. Dost thou not long for our cottage secluded?; 5. No eyes on earth; 6. Gof why should † The cannon of the For- hurry? tress; 8. A stupid blunder; 9 T me he could not be untrue; 14. And I who sought him here: 11. Three Arents and a close earringe.
8.50 p.m.
Three Light Violin
The scene was laid at a small brick building just off Queen's Road East. The Twelfth Company of the R.A.S.C. Solos by Fritz Kreisler, were the actors, with a Gas Instructor as the villain.
Island bolel porter
She was King Ghazi of Iraq.
Her secret marriage to Anas Lasslos Charalambi-brought upon her the full wrath of her brother. have taken the full course of in- razor-shive "feel" on the bare-arms-
struction in anti-gns work.
We were making a brief visit to the Military Gas Chamber, where already thousands of soldiers, members of the Hongkong Volunteers and St. John's-Nursing-Detachment |
who stripped her of her royal rank and wealth.
LURE OF THE SCREEN
and neck.
A container above a small fire in } We watched. the soldiers of the the centre of the chamber holds the faces protected gas. One small pessary, no larger gas masks, unconcernedly walk than a rain-trop, is suficient to
But love proved stronger than welth Company,
and the pair cheerfully en barked on their married life with by sms her lifed with the room with cheking and blinding.
the aid of Azzul's private income of $400 a month.
NOW
tear gas, and, deciding to Bid out what it was like, dannied gas masks ourselves,
fumes.
It is quite easy lo carry on a con- versation with the new type gas it is believed. Anastassios
masks, and our guide explained, in saw yet greater fame looming ahead.
The first sensation as a gas mask a curious inny voice, how speelt He felt the lure of the screen.
But of mustard gas only a millimetre in When the Hollywood offer wasts donned is one of suffocation.
and the only size will make a blister the size of made, he is said to have pleaded with this quickly passed,
entered the gas ten eent piece upon the skin, and sensation as we But she was Arm and re- dis wife.
alled chamber was an after-a-blunt-how by the time the first effeci up- fused.
pears it is too late to do anything about it.
by taste alone. Not that it is con- Spain And Hongkong
tended that buffulo nicat is the less wholesome,
How the Chinese, who, from the standpoint of numbers, are the largest consumers of the substitute in this Colony, should so long have 'remained in ignorance of the fact, or, having known of it, should have remained wholly indifferent, is con- fusing. Sold at very little less cost than beef if beef had been
sold
"whole". It could scarcely be cen- tended that they preferred buffalo meat to beef for reasons of economy. any explanation, it If there be
the combination found in may be
of conservatism and laissez-faire-a fatalism. or ready acceptance of things which do not actually harm. which had resisted deviation from another "olo custom".
COWS AND COWS
are cows.
Civil War Stifles Trade with Colony
CIVIL war in Spain has brought trade with this Colony to an al- most complete standstill, latest statistics issued by the Imports and Exports Department reveal.
At best, firms inporting from Spain are in a perpetual state of uncertainty and anxiety as to how or when their goods can be ob- tained and shipped to Hongkong.
Just as trade between Hongkong and Italy was brought to a standstill by the imposition of sanctions a year ago, so dealers with Spain are faced with an impossible situation to-day.
1.
Rondino (On a theme by Ber- thoven), (Kreisler); 2. Fair Rose- (Kreisler); 3. Scrennde
mary (Lehur),
0 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements,
9.20 p.m. Varlety.”
Pianoforte Solo-Jazz Gobbins...
Rate da Costa; Song-Mon ami le vent.. Mile. Lucienne Boyer; Organ Sajo-Hermann Lohr Medley...Syd- ney Gustard; Humerous-Pipe and Cigarette....Flotsam and Jetsam; Novelty Sweet Hawaiian Mak; Band-Romantic Waltz Medley.
Light 9.40
Orchestral .10 p.m. Music,
A life on the ocean (Binding); Speakeasy-Cuban Dance (Lewis E. Gensler); Ballroom Memories (arr. Robrecht); Echoes from the Puszta (Ferraris); Kiss me again (Herbert).
10 A Relay from London.
p.m. Big Ben: "Tommy Tune's Tours" No. 2. Conducted by Josef Maruls Music and le told us
and Its Troubadours. about Lewisite-the
Diggenhof and Lyrics by Albert deadly geranium-scented
gas which
Josef Marals. Script and production by John Pudrey.
SCENTED-BUT DEADLY
even in the most diluted form stings
the membranes of the nose.
"Take off your masks," our guide said. Doubtless the flend smiled-
he still retained his masks.
"Run for the door,"
We dubbed and did!
he roared.
"It won't hurt you," our masked
Kulde said pleasantly, as he leisure-
ly followed us
air.
10.22 p.m. Dance Music.
11 p.m.
Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wave-lengths and frequencies
ate observed by Daventry,
25.52
fign
GSA
out into the fresh "But you see how diffleult it would be to fire a rifle after you
698
GSC
SHA k.c. 31.30
GHD
11,720
3..
CSE
11,63 k.c.
CSP
Frequency Wavelength 6,500 kr. 10.39 metten 9,510 k.. 31.65
metron meires metren 12,29 meires 15,140 k.c. 19.12 metres
G86
17.790
k
ርፍ
your
GAI GHI
GBL
have been gassed with tear gas!"
A strong whiff of the gas leaves you helpless. You cough and choke
and the tepra stream down
face. ADOPTED BY POLICE
not. Those
14.68 Fetres 21.470
11.37 metrek 15.200 k.c. 11.0 metres 26,348
JA.CE matera 5,110 k.c. 40,10 meirea
Transmission 1
5.15 p.m. Alg Ben. Chamber Stuntr
4 P.M. "Potelen Affles". A talk hy
Hir Frederick Whyte. MI
T
1.13 p.m. "Empire Magazine." No. 12. 1.15 p.m.
Banes Music, 4.55 p.m.
The Nawa and Announcements. fireenwich Time Signal at 5 p.m.
Transmission 2
+(18,F, G.8.11.)
Sidney Torch at the 1 p.m. 1 1.
tirgan of the tegel, Edmonton. 1.1.m. "Foreign Affairs." A talk by Sir Frederick Whyte, R.C...
That is why it has been adopted
(S.A, 1.8.0.) hy the Hongkong Pollee for quel- As a result of the uncertainty, foodstuffs and provisions, oils andling riots. A tear gas bomb will clear a street of combatants quicker The Chinese description of or the existing in Spain, Hongkong's im-fats, paints and sundries.
In September the only imports than a dozen squads of police. nomenclature they have devised for parts from that country dropped into Hongkong were Spanish liquors,
Tear gas, unfortunately, is these buffaloes, is merely sul gau, to a total of $189 in September. valued at $100. There were no used in modern warfare. le, "water cows", literally. So after As a comparison the imports from exports whatsoever, local exporters gases are much more deadly. Tear all, It can be argued that they
Spain during March were $22,664, declining to accept the risk. We tas las no ill-effects on the system. Gases used in, modern warfare 'are The dealers, if taxed with a prac while in July, two months before usually expart alls and fats.
It is almost certain that the more terrible to those they leave lee which hus permitted very little civil war broke out, they stood at
Christmas trade of dried fruits and alive than to those they kill. That discrimination for consumers, may $75,785.
like delicacies in this Colony, much is why soldiers, sailors, the volun- of which comes from Spain, will be teers, nurses, the police and civilians in essential services in the Colony seriously affected.
are receiving instruction in precau- ITALIAN TRADE BOOMS While Spain's trade has de- tions against gases,
Tear us is used in the milltory clined, Italy's has boomed. In September, we made our first ex- and naval gas chombers because it ports
of is too risky to use the more deadly since the beginning
might of the gases "Sanctions" to the formerly boy forms. Some coffed country. Rending goods to escape, the value of $7,149. These com- prised Chinese medicines (SADO) and Minerals and Ores ($6,550).
10
be quick in his rejoinder. He is sure Spain's exports
Hongkong to say, "You cannot expect whole reached record figures this your. beef at the price you are paying." She was one of the few nations to They claim that there are not enough capture a big portion of the trade red cows to go round in Hongkong. formerly enjoyed with Italy, whose
dropped to nil during Somehow, they will say, the supply trade from oulports has always been early part of the year. limited, despite their best intentions towards consumers.
So it is, that in your next order to the compradore, tell him to get "red cow", or you will run the risk of getting meat of quite a different category.
the
Now Italy has stepped in and has not only regained her former trade last fo Spain during sano-'; tlons, but has additionally gained Spain's own portion.
The most important products ex- ported to Hongkong by Spain are dyeing
tanning and
materials, liquors, metals and sundries.
Wo
one
1.L.11.
1.10 p.m. Charles Manning and hla Or
chestra,
A... "free! Symphony."
p.AL
1.30 p.m. Tralee and his Mandoliers. Greenwich Time land? ml 5 pm.
The News and Announcementa.
Organ Reclial by G. D. Cunnlagi 0.20 p.m.
hard. 9.10 p.m. Envel
Transmission 3 (GSM., G.S.F.. G.SH) 10 p.m. 10.32 p.m. Fonze
(Tenor). 10,35 m.
10.30-20.97.
Elen. "Tommy Tone's Tours."
McCormack bro Jeky
"Empire Exchange,"
The Friary (Guildfordi Band.
Fourteen cases of Diphtheria with
(one Imported), As compared with the negligible eight deaths
ten cases of imports from Italy during Sanc- case of Scarlet Fever,
the Typhold with three deaths, one case tlong, we Imported goods to The Health and Strength League
In July imported Spanish value of $37,962 during September. of Meningitis, one case of Puerperal
11.30 p.m. and Fever and sixty deaths from Tuber- Chemicals will hold its fortnightly dance on wines and liquors to the value of These comprised Saturday, November 7, at the Hotol $10,666, metals to the value of $58- Drugs ($0,980), Hardware ($1,300), culosis were reported, to the local
and dycing Ceell. The final competition dance 012 and
tanning Intoxicating Liquora ($4,000), Meinis Health authorities during the week for members and their friends will materials to the value of $5,500. Im- ($18,000), Piece Goods and Textiles ending October 31, On Monday two
enses of Diphtheria were reported. be held.
ports in that month also included) ($3,657) and Sundries ($2,039).
A Pianoforte Recital by Kathleen Dunn Dayle,
Greenwich Time Bigns at 13 man.
12 .m. The Wynford Haynolds Oclet.
17.30 am. The News and Announcem en, la,
11.38
m. Light Orchestra), Mrale,
and.
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