THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1938,
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AT
SUNDOWN
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and TANG.
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So This Was Old
Old Hongkong!
DEATH IS THE PRESIDING GENIUS
Wrote One Visitor
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-
About Majesty's namo" reveal that the
T is difficult for those who live in Hongkong to-day to even remotely visualise the vast changes Hydraulle which have taken place since 1841. The imagination the can scarcely conceive the dependable, permanent brake i humble beginnings of our of old San Francisco. Its streets might have left their dust to dependence that now
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the American West, began fought one
Ianes and alleys without
more
Their dreams
terises the relationship between the foreign and Chinese comTM Veritable Pandemonium
munities. Indeed, each section Even at this carly day, it is endeavoured to remain aloof with a few score mat-shed hindrance, and it was not related in old letters that "cer- from one another as much as and what inter- shanties, ranged along both safe for a European to pene tain streets of Hongkong, ex- possible,
trate into this maze of
that did occur was sides of a stretch of cleared sheds after dark unless he were by the native population, re- brought about under the guise
mat- clusively and thickly inhabited course 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 even
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, and to be reluctantly tolerated but utterly phenomenal, more or less equal notoriety, which this combination of strident nothing more.
were the scenes of tumultuous sounds creates a veritable pan- were of the time when .............. over, was the growth of the disorder. The most patronised demonium. Houses in the nur- they could return Home
settlement that even by the of these were the Golden Tavern row
and pass the remainder of streets, windows and their days in comfort-away following year, it had begun and the Crown and Ancher. The balconies are luxuriously lit up from any scenes reminiscent of
first was peculiarly cosmopolitan, with coloured the Kowloon to assume much of the as its proprietor was a Sardin- Narrow streets
China. Hence, their sojourn here was always burdened with day, August 15th, 1938, to the aspect of beauty and per- lan named Cachi Giovarni, and passers-by. Eating, drinking, the refrain, which was so
its clientele hailed from the ends gambling, gossiping, swearing, Rev. and Mrs. H. D. Rosenthall, manency, so that English of the earth. This tavern was lirting, prostitution, and all expressed in the verse
visitors to these shores could situated in the heart of Tai- imaginable sorts of degredation Hongkong resident of 1860: record in their diaries such ping-shan, and was regarded as to which human life is subject
"Oh, for the wings of Ariel lines as these: "We were reputable elements which made the nooks and corners of those the natural milieu of all the dis- are conspicuously perceptible in
Far from Cathay, if only for Monday, August 15th., 1938, Jullo surprised to find such a fine that portion of the Island an un- quarters in the Colony of Hong-
a while, C. V. Ribeiro, aged 51 Funeral will pass the Monument town with substantial stone holy spot. Brothels too, abounded #L 5.30 p.. lo-morrow. No
houses, a church and a bar- were reputed to be no less than Great Pence.""
in surprising numbers and there kong called by the Chinese,
Tai-ping-shan-the Bowers by request.
racks...still notwithstand- ing this development all
BIRTH
ROSENTHALL.—At
Hospital, at 2.30 am., on Mon-
daughter.
DEATH
1
| RIBEINO-AL his residence,
Mindien Avenue, Kowloon, on
The
years.
Hongkong Telegraph. around there creeps in a
Monday, August 15, 1033.
ADVERTISING PEACE
By T. PAUL dissentient note which ap GREGORY
paper lanterns. aro full of
of
'Hill
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 Pottinger on June 22, 1843, directing "that the present city, on the northern side
pears to impress on the senses that Death is the pre- 156 of them, and the number of siding genius of Hongkong." inmates as about 1,100.
mer Respectable Chinese Problems of peace were very
Even Dr. James Logge, the chants and their families were much to the fore at the Interna-eminent sinologue and mission- stated to have been conspicuous tional Advertising Convention, ary who arrived here in 1843 re- by their absence, but, neverthe- HUMOUR which attracted 1,100 delegates marked that "whilst he was less, as early as 1846, there were Irom seventeen countries to the charmed with the general ap- Empire Exhibition at Glasgow.
one
of the
to soar
well of a
For a short breathing space to
see no more
Of foreign factions or native
guile;
To leave loquacious sinologues
behind,
To hear no more Confucian
theories,
To catch a breath of fragrance
in the wind
From shores that know not
garlic, cash, or aqueeze.”
OF BENCH AND BAR
Amidst Inughter and with chugiln wits, a word] the interrupter said, “You may pro- to be preferred to ceed with your 'enow, Mr. B."
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reported to be some 388 Chinese THE Scottish Bench, and Bar Loc,
their have hal mercantile establishments in the! Lord Southwood, the President, Pearance of the place, and the Colony. Some of the speciali-perhaps
"humorist," as it implies not only set the tone of the discussions by energy that was manifest in ties of these firms seem to us at humour but also wisdom. One One of our old judges, wishing to urging that business men should laying out the ground and push the present day to be exception-assodales a "humorist" rather with parade his fearning, indulged in a help the cause of peace by directing on building, he could not ally odd, as for instance, there the music halls.
long quotation from Virgil, winding. ing industry along enlightened help but notice that many of were two sheep dealers,
Less than a century ago the Scots up by asking, "What do you say to lines. One of the most interest-the residents were oppressed bonnet maker, six cow keepers vernacular was the common speech that, Mr.?" "My lord," counsel re- in our Courts. To Francis Jeffrey plied. "I have nothing to say, as I
of Hence, on this and eight Manchester Goods buted the introduction Norwegian delegate who argued unhealthiness.”
Oxford "Shall 1 translate it? asked the Pleading English. that it would pay to advertise account it is not to be wondered vendors. In
there nddition,
cilent, Judge. If your lordship considers referred to him
an it relevant," Woa the that day were also
unexpected peace. "The League of Nations" at that many
or two slop sellers
nerant musiclan." Lord Newtoni im. he said. "has the right ideas, were pessimistic of Hongkong's scavengers but these men were inquired. "I suppose ye mean a 'blin' But counsel do not always have it. but it needs a modern adver- future; but fortunately for Lascars and not of Chinese addler?" "Vulgarly so called, my all their own way. An advocate had tising _dpeartment." It could posterity there were empire nationality.
Lord," retorted Jeffrey.
addressed
the
Court at quite usefully spend £10,000,000 a builders and men of vision
The dimeulties of Scots advocates proposterous length, Chinese shops were mostly in olden times when pleading in the
have sold that before," year to convince all the unhappy, amongst those first settlers: it found in Tai-ping-shan, although House of Lords is well Illustrated
in wear
complained the Judge to the anxious and thick-headed indivi-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 duals in the world that nothing splendour and greatness of our located in mat-sheds called after ploughgate of land. In the course of Judge, with good humoured sarcasm, arguing an oppeal relating to a statement. "Well, well," retorted the would be gained by war. This modern Colony.
the names of the first Europeans his speech he repeatedly used the in so long since you said it that sum, he added, was a mere trifle
who settled in that locality. For word "enow" for "enough." Be-I I quite belleve you have forgotten compared with the vast sums
instance, there were such for coming exasperated.
the It," spent on armaments,
learned Lards interrupted by saying, "Ah, my lord," sald counsel, "I am gotten places as Macqueen Row, "Mr. B., please to understand 'ough' surely entitled to some latitude when at Ouchterlony Row, and Duu's is 'uff and not 'ow."
I am pleading for a man necused of a capital offence?"
Talk of Abandoning
The Island
It seems incredible that one time there was even talk of Row. abandoning the Island as
were
not
one
of
By Lichty
The snag is that, if war de- partments and advertising men
Who these individuals Bowing, counsel proceeded, "My can afford to think in terms of
too were no one nowadays has the client, my Lords, is a phiffman, and millions, the League of Nations cannot. The sum suggested for unhealthy for European habits- slightest inkling. They may owns a pluftgate of land. A pluff course," concluded the Judge, "but
gate of land, my Lords, is as much returned Home to
pass land as a pluffman can pluff in n advertising expenses is many tion," and in fact, during the have
many their lives in the tranquillity of day" times the annual budget of the first decade there League. More than
who lamented the circumstance fifty countries share the cost of that the island of Chusan, in
province, had running the peace machine at Chekiang Geneva. From 1920, when the been chosen in its stead. They GRIN AND BEAR IT League 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 League budget, too, comes the and well disposed, the town 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 the other at Geneva, Though enigmatical; or why the arid, 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 treaty."
Council, "than to clean the
streets of London or New York." In addition to its general re- for unhealthiness, It will be seen why the League putation has never had much money to Hongkong was also known far spare for telling the world about and wide as being a veritable The And volun- "Hell-hole of Iniquity." its achievements. inry societies in the various western end of Victoria was countries, such as the British largely a forest of mat-sheds, League of Nations Union, have which WUS nicknamed 31
enough "Bamboo found more than enough to do proriately
pullulated If the Town." Hore on limlied incomes. Lengue is to be advertised, the strange medley of taverns, dives
places of every Governments, instead of adopt and low ing cheeseparing policies at scription, frequented by men of Geneva, will have to be willing to all nationalities, and this dis- increase their contributions.--trict was just as notorious in L.R.A.
the 'forties and early 'fifties as
a
de-
Php6, 1911 by Carled Polen BysŘÍPADA, THÚ
"And with this little microphone-whenever baby howls- you can hear him on the loudspeaker in the living-room!"
Is not the latitude of your dis- its longitude that I object to,
Verbosity, however, is not the monopoly of counsel. Addressing a smull boy, who was a witness in a criminal trial, one of the old Lords of Justiciary said:Now, little boy, If you speak the truth and nothing but the truth, all will be well, but if you deviate
even by a intr- breadth from the strictest veracity you will inevitably involve yourself in a concatenation of circumstances: from which extrication will be difficult-nye, well-nigh impossible. Do you understand what I mean?" which the young witness Instantly replied with this free if perfect paraphrase, "Yes, sir, Hell: fre."
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* Lord MLaren, with his incisive. mathematicn) mind, once rather toolt the wind out of a counsel's saila whọ. endeavoured to ellach his argument by declaring that a proposition which be had just enunciated was as plain. ns that two and two make four.
Ila Lordship quietly pointed out. that two and two 'make four only when of the same denomination.. For example, ho suggested that two horses and two coris do not make-
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four could be written of Lord
A. book
and
One
Young's witty, caustic. interjections
retorts, and stories about him are legion. An example may be
lven.
of his Outer Housa 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 dimeulty fo His written making up his mind. opinions not afrequently disclosed his clouts.
One of his appeals was being debated in the Division when Lord Young remarked, "The Lord Ordinary has found, but by a very narrow majority."
W. A. A. C..
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