THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1988.
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SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1938,
DANGEROUS GAME
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GRIN AND BEAR IT ....
By Lichty
"Shall I pay you off in cash-or would you prefer to keep my
lost balls?"
MR. PEPYS in
HONGKONG
night
how it did
ed, but several hurt. At six of the
flat.
that have
Swine
bee
N interesting phase is more even at this early time,
the Chinese hongs
were well- of Chinese life is the secured in, their exclusive pri- prominent part play- vileges and their organisation by those powerful was much the same as that pre-
vailing to-day. institutions known as the The Chinese guilds, moreover, hongs or "Guilds." These have always been far better or- bodies can boast of a very gunised than their most advan- ced European counterpart; for were reckoned as are to place credence in the consisting of soventy-two dis- assertions of Chinese his- tinct organisations, comprising such powerful groups LA the Stubbs Rd. torians, they far surpass sz-hong of the silk merchant to the most sanguine claims to that of the less aristocratic but antiquity of their western still influential chuc-yuk-hong of the pork butcher. Actually, proto-types the collegii however, the number of active mercatorum, or "fraterni- guilds in China is considerably ties of tradesmen" of early in excess of seventy-two, but for all practical purposes. the Rome.
figure may be taken as a stan- Although, however, it is dard as it enters into all discus- usual to trace the history of sions concerning the activities 14th AL the Clubbe to-day wee merry company and among them Mr.. did fall into a discussion upon the J. Jhy and his Lady but lately re- the guilds' rise to positions of of the various groups.
turned from Japan. And it seemed recent fines on owners for that they influence as from the Middle Although, the Chinese honge did enlarge their dogges upon the they had been to a launching, but exert much influence in the beaches. And whyle wee did agree though I did later read the account AT CHANGKUFENG Ages, it can nevertheless be
affairs of the Chinese commu-
that
with so much offal floating in the newes-sheet I could not find.. said that the hongs of China nity in Hongkong, it is in Can- it was wise to check
about the
and sampans ever with us,
Mr. Jay's speech. And I am sorry the dogges,
for it. Later my children did per- Both the Japanese and the have been always the deposi- ton, however, where these in apart from their habits upon the suade mee to Deep Water Bay where
confess I would fain ID Soviet Russians appear to hold Laries of much power. In China, stitutions may be studied to the beaches, I
foresome, but Lord! what I play a see one beach set opart where dogges
ges fob do I make of my iron club shots, the view that the other side is too, owing to the delay in the best advantage, as much of the and also porties may bee taken. This though I put not so ill. After, very mediaeval spirit of exclusive- bluffing in the current
comer border introduction of the machine og ness still permeates their ancient colllston at Shatin, but railway pleasant it was sitting at tables in
dings of the
the shade und Lord Harpenden and dispute which, according
and mass production, the ancient to
structure. Here, too, prior to happen there is no sure explanatioun, others doe join us, and especially one now been cabled despatches, concerns
guilds have practically retained the inauguration of the Chinese By great good fortune no one is kill pretty lady who hath before.
ever somewhat short with mee, but their privileges intact, and republic, the shops of the mem-clock up to the Peake in Mr. A.
now very civil. But whether it bee hill in the Changkuleng area whilst they do not possess the bors of the seventy-two guilds conch and we doe speak of boots, change of heart or the bowl of
Jay's which cannot have any great status or exclusiveness of say were situated in separate streets, wh drinking a glass of wine his I did purchase for her.
This arrangement still prevails doc find he commends Jane Austen, former.
And to my no small surprise I know not, though I doe trust the importance either from a strate-fifty years ago, they are, not to a certain extent, as for exam-which for a man from Amerique
17th (Lord's Day).-Up betimes gic or economic point of view. withstanding, forces to bc ple, Ha-kau-p'a is the situ of is somewhat strange. Martin still and writing, as is now my custom, to In ordinary circumstances there reckoned with. The guilds of the majority of the dealers in friendly but I believe hee doth eat my wife poor wretch, and when I have made an end of it send my would be no question of armed China, moreover, instead of silk. Ivory carvers and their too much for his age.
15th-Up very betimes and to my Fa Wong to the post and fall myself occupation or the use of armed being curbed by harsh laws and shops are mostly located in Tai- omce. In the newes-sheets I do find to sprinkling borax upon the dung ultimately abolished as those of san-lo, whilst members of the no explanation of the accident but which wee have laid in the pits, and force in repulsing such occupa Europe, have been tolerated and either Man-tak-lo
curio guild have their shops in it seems it was a mighty crash, as I after,
doc see the two couches while driving It Aing in the soll and ramming
so 1 doe hope
to escape Aliex tion. The matter would be one encouraged.
or Sai-loi- with Mr. A. Jay in his motor coach. 119 Even at the pre- ch'oh-tei-the latter being the Being come
I have done all that is written in for sensible negotiation and sent day, with
to Sheung Shut I did Mr. Tod his instructions. But Lord!
how hot the attempted so-called "Blackwood Street" of transact the business that called mee hov
I hot and dirty dee get. But by possibly adjudication by a third modernisation of the country, the foreign tourist. Of course, and
and thence to the Golfe Clubbe when good fortune my guests are late and wee shake our thirst with flaggons of I am bathed and trimmed before party. But those are not or- and the rise of the modern there has perhaps never been cool ate and take luncheon
Mistress Louisa and very
her Lord dinary times, nor are the parties kung-wool, or "labour unions" a strictly ideal arrangement pleasantly. Home by Castle Peak, come with Mr. A.'
Mr. A. Jay. Drank n whereby every trade was con- but Lord! to see the myriad houses glasse or two of wine under the. concerned in the dispute ordinary they still remain as potent
trees where fined to one particular
have sprung up along the road street,
doc practice my best nations. Both are militaristic examples of the lingering of but in the past it was pretty I
American
Accent and later muncheon. And how it did to a degree which, earlier in the ancient institutions and ideas much of an accomplished fact; seven of the clock and after to the about I know not but wo did
into the world of the twentieth for one thing the various guilds well-cooked and home with Mr. A. and I first did name about thirty. Hostelry where I dine on a haddock, numbering the States of Amerique century, would have been called century.
found it to their own mutual Jay and so to bed. foolish or dangerous. Both are! What is more, there has de advantage to have all members
10th.-There fell a little rain this old from books I had read or the
mostly
music-hall songs I had known as organised for the mass slaugh-veloped singularly enough a unit as possible, not only on ac- but enough to hinder the contractor was the Pride of Idaho;)—and Inter of the group in as compact a morning though not nigh enough, a boy-(But who now recalls who ter of opponents. Both are at strong sense of co-operation be- count of the obvious betterment sending up the manure I had ordered. the others do prick off but three extremes of political colouring.tween the hongs of the trades of trade, but also for their own week before when also I had order my guests being gone to Mistress And as the last rain had fallen short of the forty-eight. After ten. And both are wrong, as much in men, and the lang-wool of the protection and aggrandisement. cd some, I doc counsel Mr. Hender- Bishopp's where I drink a glasse of
son to order me the like every time wine workmen, so that in many in-
and Anding Mistress Pegg their attitude to the Chang-
stances their intents and
Facts About The Guilds hee doth desire rain. And so shall there, did ask her the name of the kufeng episode as in their treat-purposes have become nearly
wee both be pleased, for I want more two shrubbs she had given mee. Each guild is presided over but as yet it is a little beyond my And she did tell me, but again 1 ment of the matter. No one identical and for these reasons by an official known either as purse, To Mr. Caldbeck's at one as can advise them, of course, be- can well be said to complement the hong-cheung (guild chief) or
one another.
hong-t'au (guild head), who is cause they would not listen to
elected by popular ballot of the he was able to secure. advice and would probably resent
The Earliest Hongs respective members, and who is are alleged to be the secret And I learn that she hath won the it. And after all, they aro The hongs, however, owing to especially nominated for the numerals used in buying and regatta at Wel Hat this second year mature nations, in spite of the their priority of origin and position on account of outstand selling amongst the trade. This again, which I dac believes to be a original scope of organisation, ing abilities in the way of list follows, and may well be of record. To the Peake Clubbe where fact that sometimes their leaders have always been an intriguing either business acumen or leader- interest even to Chinese; forere are five tables and I do meel behave in a manner surprisingly subject. It is said that these ship.
members regard few outside of the hong know of stupid. Each side claims to institutions are first authenti themselves as hong-ka (guild them:
cally mentioned in Chinese his families) and take especial pride have maps and other evidence tory as far back as 300 A.D., but in the fact that they are mem-
Kwa (one showing conclusively that they seem to have attained their bers of the group, and permitted Laan ( two Changkufeng belongs to it. Positions of unrivalled power and secrets.
to share in its various privileges
Waang () three and influence about the begin-
In fact, each guild
him in full daylight his black Each side turns its back on com-ning of the Sung Dynasty (A.D. is more or less a sort of free-
To (1) four
spaniel bitch doth aleep all through promise, and while one marches 960 1280). This date anticipates masonry, and the secrets in- Shou () five
It. And I am minded that some doggen doe use so much energy bark.. men into a territory whose the most ancient European guild, volved are the knowledge of the
Tim (W) aiz
ing all day that they sleep over the Drapers' Company of Ham-shi-yue or trade jargon" which
heavy at night, And I doe counsed ownership has never really been burg (founded A.D, 1188), by like the passwords of a fraternal
Foni () seven
Mr. Franklin to exchange his dogge disputed, or even bothered about, almost two centuries, and what order are the magic formulac Ta (# ) cight
for Mr.. Vinjar'a civet kitten, which the other side threatens to use
which facilitate free intercourse
I doubt not, had bitten the burglar Ch'ut (H) nine
as shrewdly as D8
It seeks to bite him. amongst the members or hong- force to throw the alleged in-in the anti-Comintern pact, who ka. These various secret ter-
Shau () ten
But there are over many of these burglaries and I doe sadly fear that vador cit. And each accuses could not tolerate
minology are of course exceed- Thus for instance, instead of house of the City Watch upon Mount great
C'er long they may break in to the the other of bluffing. Perhaps Russian victory in East Asia, or probably vary in different locali etc., the members of the curio Alleys ill and I think I ingly difficult to ascertain, and the ordinary vat, vi, saam, sci, Gough! This evening rolled in the both are right.
even chance it. The develop-ties. Thus for example, the guild will employ the above jnust There is one thing very cer-meuts from this point are too terms prevalent in Canton will figures in trade conversations and I fall to signing certificates of day up very betimes tain, and Japan and Russin must obvious to need mentioning. hai or Nanking.
not pass muster in either Shang- amongst themselves when it is which there are over many at present. both be alive to the fact, that Suffice it to say that France has
thought that there might be At one o'clock to the Roof Garden Although the writer has been listeners-in who might under where take Chinese food with with her hands full in China fa defensive treaty with the andeavouring for the past stand the ordinary terminology. Misticas Louisa and her Lord. And
and Mr. A. Jay also biddon,
19 Japan cannot plunge recklessly Soviet and Britain is pledged to several years to compile a com-
For example, instead of told them they had forgot Iowa, |Into a struggle with so poten-France.
plote list of the secret numerals saying leung-man meaning Wyoming and Arizona, though how and other phrases in use $2, the adept will frequent Joe I know not. At a quartas after even I did come to forgett" Cowboy tially powerful a nation as the This is the explosive football jumongst the various Canton ly employ instead laan-man. one it did rain in torrents but Soviet without great risk. And which Japan and Russia are guilds, he has been largely un- Similarly for the other figures showers though heavy and too short
and I the risk would not only be to kicking about of the hill at his association for a lengthy ($7) etc. Man (pronounced to our reservoirs well wing
successful. However, owing to 98: Toman (54), foot man showers though Japan. It would inevitably drag | Changkufeng. This is the do-pariod with members of the "mun") of course is the usual tired, dining with my Children and again in the Clubbo and home mighty. into combat the Japaneso allies finition of stupidity.
kwoo-woon-hong or curio guild, Cantonese term for "dollar." Bo to bed.
IL:
The
must needs stay in my office until It was a marvell. Being come back
to LU
come
have forgolt it. is my custom now and there I And a 18th-Lay somewhat Jale. At
nuncheon with Mr. Caldbeck. Later my young friend from the King's what greate frigate Suffolk comes to see mee, she e being here for a day or two.
sheete I
coing t
some small good fortune, 19th-This evening in the news. doe and burglars are again active upon the Peake and after to some other houses, dor break into Mr. Franklin's at High. West. And Lord! though shee bad. barked her head off each time I did visit
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