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With the whole World
to Choose from (Hongkong)
THE sentence is
that you be de-
barred from liv- ing in Hongkong for the rest of your life. Every other town and city in the world, however, is open to you. You are, therefore, at liberty to choose the ore in
TRY THEM which you will spend the
remainder of your days.”.
GET BEHIND THE WHEEL AND THRILL TO THE BRILLIANT, NEW STUDE- BAKER PERFORMANCE.
Sounds rather liko a dream, doesn't it? Well, it was, but not of the cus- tomary kin d.
Where
would
its
Son Francisco, Great diffi- culty now. Market St. and its busy life and laughter. The Golden Gate. Chinatown, and fascinations. It is cool enough on a summer's day in Frisco to need a light, overcoat, and there are sufficient foga to bring Hongkong right to one's nose. The dead Barhary coast provides for the thoughts enough romance to last a lifetime, and within easy reach there are places to go to that are guaran- teed cures for annul.
you
want to live?
The vision came to me in the
Hongkong Hotel any-time, and was the direct re-
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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937.
New "H.M.V." Records THE PASSING OF
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MARCH
Including all the latest hits from London
sult of finding myself homeless after I had decided to change from one flat to another.
HAS it occurred to you
that it is not easy to select another place in which to
like best?
by TREVOR WIGNALL
I
COMPARED San Francisco with Now York, Chicago, ToronTM to, Boston, Phi- ladelphia, Do- troit, Halifax, but still Frisco won. The only town that threatened to nose it out was New York. I havo 80 many friends there, and I know it so
that can be occasioned if the well. My brain was juggling white mixes too freely with the with the two when flashes came Sinhalese, even though the lat- ter be of high birth.
of Quebec and Salt Lake City.
Both were immediately well in I remembered just in time the running, but for differing that number of telegraph
reasons. Quebec has nearly operators at Aden once told me
everything the switchback hills they were not received by the of San Francisco, the waterfront
live if for any odd reason you were thrown out of the one you gouging, and of discovering with other whites because they were that is even better to watch than one glance the exact contents of regarded as workmen. As I
Battery Point, churches that. a money packet, that was in- could not stand the snobbery of have few equals, and a quaint I AM aequainted with vented before they were put into the past for rough Colomboy atmosphere that deserves to be
of the big long trousers by their fellows of my pen went through places of the earth, and in quite Nice, Monte Carlo, Cannes, and I LINGERED long with Lake City is not an oll painting,
most
Bermuda.
preserved in A bottle. Salt
Once I but like the way it is conducted, was stationed on the hill at I like the theories of the Mor- Prospect, where the main bar-mons and their Church, and I WITH the disappearance racks are built, and there were like best of all the vast lake so
of Le Touquet went
•
a number I have friends who other places on the French and
But Italian Riviera. would offer a welcome. which to pick on to pass the years that are left to me-there was the problem.
A STATĖSMAN
several others, but then may night, gazing over the moon- filled with salt that it is impos- Britons everywhere, whatever
IN the end I made a list thoughts dwelt for a time on washed sea, when I wondered sible to sink.
Just at this stage I heard that their political views, will have
of the towns and Colombo. Nice people there, why anything so painfully love- cities I felt were qualified to pro- and particularly the Sinhalese.ly had been created Bermudians, I had but three more minutes to learned with the deepest regret vide me with the things I regard. It can be a bit trying when the in the main, are steadfastly Bri- make up my mind, but that the tish, and a finer crowd I never judge, recognising my extremity, of the sudden passing of Sired as common-places in Hong- heat is properly on, but there is hope to meet but there is a had varied the sentence by stat- Austen Chamberlain, noted son kong. Trimmed, it contained much friendliness and very con- prevailing wind that is hard on ing that I could pick six towns
these names: New York, Mont- siderable hospitality.
a wonky chest, hurricanes that or cities for my exile, but that it of a noted father. Politicians real, Halifax (Nova Scotia), But then I recalled the native can uproot trees, and a feeling was essential I should place who had been accustomed to see. Hamilton (Bermuda), Chicago, quarters and the smells they of constant slight dampness that them in one-two-three order. Ling his spruce figure and hear-Colombo (Ceylon), Paris, Mur exude; the resentment of the is not entirely pleasant. Ber- With sighs, I wrote them down wuilles Capetown, Salt Lake British (that is never very palp- muda got about 18 per cent. from thur: 1, San Francisco: 2, Suit ing his vibrant eloquence in the City, Le Touquet, Nice, Geneva, able, but that is definitely just me, but the remaining 2 per Lake City; 3, Quebec; 4. New House of Commons in recent San Francisco, Reno, Rome, below the surface). The rains, cent. was so important that York; 5, Le Touquet; 6, Ber- years found it difficult to realise Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, the winds, and the loss of caste again I had to look elsewhere.
Cologne, Naples, Moscow, Que- that he had passed the alloted bec, Kingston (Jamaica), Monte Palma (Majorca), span of three score years and Carlo, ten. Next to Mr. Lloyd George, troit Johannesburg, Philadel Madeira, Barcelona, Jersey, De-
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longer than any other member, having been first elected over forty years ago. He was always the traditional "House of Com- mone man," and his fine. Parlia- mentary gifts, his dignified bear- ing, and his unruffled courtesy won him the highest respect of all parties. There was a visible reminder of the elder Chamber- lain, his father, in Sir Austen, who sat, as his parent did, with a monoclo screwed into one eye, his hat tipped back and his legs stretched out. Sir Austen and his single cycglass seemed never parted, no more so than his
THERE were over 20
more that did not pass the fairly high-standard_I had set. But 35 was enough to go on with, enough, indeed, even for an exile.
First to be struck out were Rome, Moscow, and Berlin, in that order. I have no wish to apend a moment in dictator. ruled countries, and as I san un- able to discern much difference (particularly so far as liberty of the subject is concerned) be- tween Fascism and Communism I counted Moscow with Rome and Berlin, and marked them out. I would hate to be one of three, and be left wondering the company was a spy. whether the third member of
Britain
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and U.S.
Closer
MANILA SEES SIGNIFICANCE
IN FRIENDLINESS
muda.
TEST GAS ALARM SIGNALS
STROMBOS SIRENS TO
BE PURCHASED
A
For aver an hour yesterday, Hongkong echoed and re-echoed with the screeching of an instrument designed to give the populace warn- ing of gas attacks.
The instrument is a Strombos siren, an adaption of the type used
"Political observers in the Philippines see a new effort at Anglo-American rapprochement in current events in the Far East," says the Manila Bulletin in an editorial article published on the Western Front and in London recently.
"At no time since the American occupation of the Philip- pines have there been so many expressions of Anglo-American friendship and such a free exchange of official visits.
"Part of the circumstances behind these visits, is purely fortuitous. At the same time, many persons in the Philippines are unable to escape the bellef that there is a deliberate and planned attempt on both sides to cultivate this friendship bo-
Americans in the Far East,
"Tension caused by the Keelung in accorded them......The British Air
on accounted in part for the fact modore Smith and his associates. So that the Philippines have entertained far as la known in Manila this is the
during the Great War.
"For some time past it has been. experimented with on the roof of the Imports and Exports Department building. Now it has been removed 10 Police Headquarters, where it was tried out yesterday...
There is no mistaking the noise of the Strombos. Its screeches have been heard as for away as Lycemoon and Shamshulpo.
Police observers have been detailed
to visit distant parts of the Colony to detect the noise of the siren, and their reports are understood to have disclosed a rather amazing range.
However, the local authorities will within the course of slightly more first time that London has ofcially siren. If it is finally decided to not content themselves with one than six weeks 23 British ships and come into contact with Washington adopt the Strombes siren, more than three different official delegations on the strength of an exchange of a dozen will be purchased by the from Hongkong.
courtesies in the Philippines.
Government. They will be erected
"It has long been recognised that on the Peak, in. Kowloon, and at the defence of the South China Sea various other parts of the Colony- from a naval standpoint is based probably que to each police station. upon a triangle. Iis three points are
Although the siren has been tested Hongkong in use north, Manila to more than a dozen times since being the east, and Singapore to the south installed in Hongkong, there are "This la' regarded by the British as thousands of people who apparently
have falled to hear it, an essential part of the entire naval defence of Australia. The strategie Practically no-one appears to have position of Manila in this plan it heard it in the vicinity of the busiest
intersection Pedder Street recognised.
Queen's Road,
and
father and his monocle. There EQUALLY I would hate cause of the deep-seated mutuality of interest of British and
to have my,, move- were other physical resem-ments ordered, my enthusiasm blances, though politically father curtailed to cheera for a person cident in which three British sailors Ministry transmitted to Washington who had decreed I should raise the cancellation of the usual British
were manhandled by Japanese caused its official thanks for the courtesies and son travelled along some them, and my identity sunk in a naval visits to Tokyo. This cancella which had been extended to Air Com- what different roads. Sir Aus- comic coloured shirt. ten's death will not mean, so
There are lovely regions in long as his half-brother, Neville, Rome and in Berlin and Moscow. is on the political scene, a sever-But they would not suit me. ance of the last link in the House want no part of them. Musso- with his father. Neville Cham- lini and Hitler and Stalin can "The most important of these was berlain, now Chancellor of the have the lot. When I vote I will the official visit of the Commander- in-Chief of the British Naval Station Exchequer, and a certainty as vote as I wish to, not at the ring in China, Vice Admiral Sir Charles the next Prime Minister, is well of a bell, or the unfurling of a Little's call was in every sense official, and he, was accorded the customary on the way to seventy, but he flag, or the booming of a gun.
Le Touquet intrigued for a full omelal honours. is a man of marked virility, inwhile, chiefly because I could al- "Additional weight is given to this spite of his years, and it was his ways remember that if my sen- visit from Hongkong by the very re- cent statement of Admiral H.E. ascendancy in the last few years tence were lifted any of my air-Yarnell, Commander-in-Chief of the that marked. Sir Austen's with-pilot pals could run me home in American Asiatic Fleet. Aboard the "It was recently stated privately drawal to the political back-about 20 minutes, and also be flagship Augosta, he had just made and unofficially by high raniding cause at certain seasons it is at Singapore and British newspapers of the American Asiatic Fiest in visit to the British Naval Station British naval officers that the presence ground. It is in the sphere of merely a part of Kensington, in the Straits Settlements reported Manila added over 50 per cent, to foreign affairs that Sir Austen Surbiton, Westminster, Brixton, with enthusiasm that Admiral Yarnell the effectiveness of the British naval made his greatest mark, and and Hampstead. But the re- forth between the British and Ameri
had declared that visits back and defences of Hongkong.. Locarno will over be associated sident hotel-keepers and trades- can ficels would be much
"British newspapers both on the with his name. Unhappily, at
London, Mar. 17. men have the samo the moment the conclusion of a
trick of frequent in the future than they have China coast and in the Straits Settle
been in the past.
The death has occurred of Sir ments have been critical of the new accord to replace the treaty
American withdrawal from
the James Currio, R.C.M.a., who has been which Germany denounced Ing in the squalid hovels of. Bir-
WARM HOSPITALITY Philippines. At the present time, Director of the Empire Cotton Grow-
however, there appears to be growing Corporation since 1922. seems beset with obstacles. Inmingham and other great cities. "A further incident which added ing tendency to forget this criticism Sir James was also Chairman of the past few years, Sir Austen Latterly, he declared that he to this speculation took place when and to emphasise the community of the Governing Body of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, displayed a rather more mellow was never happy with the name British. flying squadron, under the interest between the two countries.
command of Air Commodore
Trinidad. During the Great War, he |-\\""The_exchange of courtcales, bewas Director of Training of Munition than "Conservative. His described as he held office. He ed death removes one expect Smith and what was deferippt es, tween the two countries is therefore Workers in the Labour Supply Dor focussed public attention on the finest types of Parliamentarians, They were received, however, with interpreted in some circles as the partment of the Ministry of Munitions, slum clearance problem by some one who was in every sense retreat enthusiasm by both the British outward manifestation of a growing and from 1910 to 1931 was Controller and the American community in recognition of the need for close co- of the Industrial Training Depari- | remaritably eloquent and moving presentative of the best in Manila, and were warm in their operation between the two government at the Ministry of Labour.
appeals for the "under-dog" liv- British political life.
praise of the hospitality which was ments in the Far East."
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