THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1938.
A WHISKY
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So This Was Old Hongkong!
DEATH IS THE PRESIDING GENIUS
T is difficult for those Wrote One Visitor About Majesty's name" reveal that the
who live in Hongkong
to-day to even remotely visualise the vast changes
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Hongkong Ninety }
Years Ago
1
Island, shall be called by Her Colony was even then practically self-sufficient. There were pre- sent settlers of almost every craft, from the blacksmith and farrier to the druggist and physician; for in that day, there had not been developed the ad-
charac- terises the relationship between
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the opprobious "Barbary Coast" honourable retirement, or they mirable spirit of mutual inter- present city of Victoria, were, morcover, A scene of rest in "Happy Valley."
the foreign and Chinese com- disorder. Coolles which like a "boom town" of perpetual
munities. Indeed, each section in Lhe fought one another the American West, began lanes and alleys without Even at this early day, it is endeavoured to remain aloof with a few score mat-shed hindrance, and it was not related in old letters that "eer- from one another as much as and what inter- that titl occur was
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Veritable Pandemonium
shanties, ranged along both safe for a European to pene- tain streets of Hongkong, ex- possible,
trate into this maze of mat- clusively and thickly inhabited course
even more
Their dreams
were of the time when
sides of a stretch of cleared sheds after dark unless he were by the native population, re- brought about under the guise and levelled ground some. in company or else armed. The sound at night with promiscuous of sheer necessity. The majority fifty feet in width, which names of some of these long noises of the continuous beating of Europeans was
vanished dives have been pre- of gongs, the playing of fiddles than now of the conviction that the settlers were pleased to served, and for instance, there and flutes, and the firing of a residence in Hongkong was designate as a "Road." So were at least six "pubs", of more crackers peculiarly Chinese, und to be reluctantly tolerated but
or less equal notoriety, which this combination of strident nothing more. utterly phenomenal, more-
were the scenes of tumultuous sounds creates a veritable pan- they could return Home over, was the growth of the disorder. The most patronised demonium. Houses in the nar- and pass the remainder of
streets, windows and settlement that even by the of these were the Golden Tavern row
their days in comfort-away following year, it had begun and the Crown and Anchor. The balconies are luxuriously lit up from any scenes reminiscent of first was peculiarly cosmopolitan, with coloured paper lanterns.
Chin. Hence, their sojourn to assume much of the as its proprietor was a Sardin- Narrow
are full of
here was always burdened with Hospital, at 2.30 am, on Mon-aspect of beauty and per- its clientele hailed from the ends gambling, gossiping, swearing, expressed in the verse
ian named Cachi Giovarni, and passers-by. Eating. drinking, the refrain, which was so well Hey, and as. Ir. D. Rosenthal, manency, so that English of the earth. This Lavern was flirting, prostitution, and all Hongkong resident of 1850: visitors to these shores could situated in the heart of Tai imaginable sorts of degredation record in their diaries such ping-shan, and was regarded as to which human life is subject the natural milieu of all the dis- are conspicuously perceptible in lines as these: "We were reputable elements which made the nooks and corners of those
BIRTH
ROSENTHALL-AL the Kowloon
day, August 15th., 1938, to the:
daughter.
The
streets
Hongkong Telegraph. surprised to find such a fine that portion of the Istand an un- quarters in the Colony of Hong-
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1038.
ADVERTISING PEACE
Hill
town with substantial stone holy spot. Brothels too, abounded kong called by the Chinese, in surprising numbers and there
Tai-ping-shun-the houses, a church and a bar- were reputed to be no less than Great Peace.'" racks...still notwithstand-
ing this development all By
By T. PAUL
around there creeps in a dissentient note which ap- pears to impress on the
GREGORY
of.
As for the other portion of the town, Queen's Road was the main artery of European circula- tion. Old directories published three or four years after the official proclamation of Sir Henry
Problems of peace were very much to the fore at the Interna- tional Advertising Convention, senses that Death is the pre- 156 of them, and the number of Pottinger on June 22, 1843, which attracted 1,100 delegates siding genius of Hongkong." inmates as about 1,400.
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ی سورنا
directing that the present city, northern side of the
0
of it
"Oh, for the wings of Ariel
to soar Far from Cathay, if only for
a while,
For a short breathing-space to
see no more Of foreign factions or native
guile;
To leave loquacious sinologues
behind,
To hear no more theories,
Confucian
To catch a breath of fragrance
in the wind
From shores that know not. garlic, cash, or squeeze.”.
#1
English.
there musician."
10 referred
for Pleading
him as an
11
Juan."
answer.
that
BAR
before,"
Respectable Chinese mer- on the trom seventeen countries to the
Even Dr. James Legge, the chants and their families were eminent sinologue and mission- stated to have been conspicuous Lord Southwood, the President, set the tone of the discussions by who arrived here in 1843 re- by their absence, but, neverthe HUMOUR OF BENCH AND
Amidst laughter and with chagrin reported to be some 388 Chinese THE Scottish Bench, and Bar too,
trud have
their jurging that business men should harked that "whilst he was less, as early as 1846, there were
with a word the interrupter said, "You may pro-· to be preferred to reed with your 'enow," Mr. B." help the cause of peace by direct- charmed with the general ap- mercantile establishments in the
* ing industry along enlightened pearance of the place, and the Colony, Some of the speciali-humorist," as it implies not only
but also wisdem. One One of our old judges, wishing to energy that was manifest in ties of these firms seem to us at humour lines. One of the most interest-laying out the ground and push- the present day to be exception-associates a "humorist" rather with parade his learning, indulged in a ing suggestions came from aing on buikling, he could not ally odd, as for instance, there the music hails.
up by asiting, "What do you say to one Less than a century ago the Scots on quotation from Virgil, winding Norwegian delegate who argued help but notice that
sheep dealers, many of were two
vernacular was the common speech that, Mr. "My lord," counsel re- that it would pay to advertise the residents were oppressed bonnet maker, six cow keepers in our Courts. To Francis Jeffrey plied. "I have nothing to say, us peace. "The League of Nations" with gloom because of the (dairies?), one lanthorn maker, fafterwards Lord Jeffrey) is attri-have not understood a ward of it." of Oxford Shall I translate it?" asked the
client, he said, "has the right ideas, unhealthiness." Hence, on this and eight. Manchester Goods buted the introduction
"If your lordship considers addition,
was the unexpected but it needs a modern adver-account it is not to be wondered vendors. In
that day were also at that many of
two slop sellers or
Lord Newton! 'blin'i tising dpcartment." It could
suppose ye mean
But counsel do not always have it were pessimistic of Hongkong's scavengers but these men were inquired, "I supply co called, my all their own way. An advocate and usefully spend £10,000,000 a future; but fortunately for Lascars and not of Chinese
the addressed
Court af quite Lord," retorted Jeffrey. year to convince all the unhappy, posterity there
empire nationality. were
The difculties of Scots advocates preposterous length,
You have anid anxious and thick-headed indivi-builders and
of vision men
Chinese shops were mostly in okien times when pleading in the duals in the world that nothing amongst those first settlers: it found in Tai-ping-shan, although louse of Lords is well Illustrated in wearily complained the Judge to the is to them that we owe the in the western end many were the case of an advocate who was speaker, who heatedly disputed the would be gained by war. This
in the ploughgate of land.
course of Judge, with good humoured parensm, sum, he added, was a mere trifle splendour and greatness of our located in mat-sheds called after arguing an appeal relating to a statement. "Well, well," retorted the the names of the first Europeans his speech he repeatedly used the "it is so long since you said it that
for "enough."
Be-1
quite believe you have forgotten compared with the vast sums
who settled in that locality. For word "chow" Talk of Abandoning
of the ft. 11. exosperated, spent on armaments.
instance, there were such for coming
learned Lords interrupted by saying. "Ah, my lord," said counsel, "I om The Island
gotten places as Macqueen Row, "Mr. B., please to understand 'ough surely entitled to some fatitude when I am pleading for a man accused of It seems
incredible that at Ouchterlony Row, and Duu's suff' and not ow.
Who these individuals: Bowing, counsel proceeded, "My a capital offence?"
"It is not the latitude of your dis- can afford to think in terms of one time there was even talk of Row.
too were no one nowadays has the client, my Lords, is a pluffman, and millions, the League of Nations | abandoning the Island as
ate of lund, my Lords, is as much its longitude that I object to." cannot. The sum suggested for "unhealthy for European habita slightest inkling. They may owns a pluftgate of land. A pluft-course," concluded the Judge, "but a pluffman ean pluff in a Verbosity, however, is not the Addressing a monopoly of counsel. advertising expenses is many tion," and in fact, during the have returned Home to pass
their lives in the tranquillity of day."
small boy, who was a witness in a many times the annual budget of the first decade there were
criminal trial, one of the old Lords who lamented the circumstance League. More than fifty
of Justiciary sald:-"Now, little boy. countries share the cost of that the island of Chusan, in
If you speak the truth and nothing but the truth, all will be well, but If you deviate even by a hairs breadth from the strictest veracity you will inevitably involve yourself In a concatenation of circumstances from which extrication will: difficult-nye, well-nigh Impossible. Do you understand what I mean?" To which the young witness instantly replied with this tree it
The snag is that, if war de- partments and advertising men
modern Colony.
running the peace machine at Chekiang province, had not GRIN AND BEAR IT Geneva. From 1920, when the been chosen in its stead. They Lengue was founded, until the pointed out that "Chusan is blest beginning of 1938 their total with the most productive soil; contributions had amounted to its internal resources are abun- · under £16,000,000. Out of the dant, the inhabitants orderly town League budget, too, comes the and well disposed, the cost of two other useful institu- particularly well-built, and the tions, the Permanent Court of climate the most salubrious in International Justice and the China. How all these advan- International Labour Organisa-tages could have been overlook- tion, the one at The Hague and ed by our diplomatists appears' Though enigmatical; or why the arid, the other at Geneva. critics often complain about the fetid, broiling spot, Hongkong, cost of the League, so much has should have been fixed
upon
to be done on a very slender (except for its contiguity to budget that the utmost economy Canton) as a British Colony. is essential. "It costs no more must remain a riddle to be ex- to run the League," a prominent plained by the negotiators of the delegate once told the League Council, "thun to clean the streets of London or New York."
treaty."
Was
The
In addition to its general re- putation fok unhealthiness, It will be seen why the Lenguc has never had much money to Hongkong was also known fur spare for telling the world about and wide na being a veritable
And volun- "Hell-hole of Iniquity," its achievements.
of Victorin was tary societies in the various western end
of mat-sheds, countries, such as the British largely a forest
nicknamed ap- League of Nations Union, have which
enough "Bamboo found more than enough to do proriately
Here pullulated 籍 on limited incomes. If the Town." League is to be advertised, the strange medley of taverns, dives Governments, instead of adopt and low places of overy de- ing checarparing policies at scription, frequented by men of Geneva, will have to be willing to all nationalities, and this dis- notorious in increase their contributionstrict was, just as
the 'forties and early 'fifties as --L.R.A
one
By Lichty
Car, PA be 1stled Puslare Frachute, for
"And tollh this little microphone-whenever baby howls~~~~ you can hear him on the loudspeaker in the living-room!"
be
perfect paraphrase. "Yes, sir. Heil Bre."
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Lord M'Laren, with his incisive
mathematical mind, once rather took the wind out of counsel's sails who endeavoured to clinch his argument by declaring that a proposition which he had just enunciated wus as plain as that two und two make four.
lis Lordship quietly pointed out that two and two make four only when of the sume denomination. For
example, he suggested that two horses and two carts do not make four of anything.
pro
A book could be written of Lord Young's witty, caustic interjections and retorts, and stories about him legion. An example may be Outer House of his given. One brethren had in an unusual degree the unfortunate capacity for being unduly impressed by both sides of an argument, with the consequent result that he had great difeully in making up his mind. His written opinions not infrequently disclosed his doubts.
One of his appeals was being debated in the Division when Lord Young romarked, "The Lord Ordinary has found, but by a very narrow majority,"
W. A, A. Q.