10 THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, December 17, 1938.
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T IS NOT GENERAL
LY KNOWN that there is within two days steam of Hongkong one of the finest natural harbours in the world.
Rivalling Sydney and Rin de Janeiro in the perfection of its natural lay-out, yet known only to sailors and a few travellers, the Bay of Cam-Ranh flanks the great sea highway from Europe to the Far East.
To be accurate, the route from Singapore to Hongkong is tan-
Midway Between Hong- kong And Singapore Is The Finest Natural Harbour In The World. Because It Belongs To France, Hongkong Is Deeply Interested In Plans To Fortify The
these days of competition. As: a result, the riches of Indo- Chma, are, to a great extent, wasted for want of a good and accessible port.
With the development of Cam- ranh, less than an hour's de- viation from the main sea high- way, every ship sailing to the Far East will call at the new port,
With improved access to the world's markets for her exports, both visible and invisible, Indo- China's economic future should be one of great promise.
BAY OF CAM RANH
gent to the coast of Indo China exactly at this point.
The least observant of travel lers, as he enters the bay, can hardly fail to be impressed by the obvious possibilities of Cam- ranh as a port.
narrows from 23
One hundred and forty yes-
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A narrow entrance channel, In that year, the Russian FROM THE BRITISH point of like the neck of a bottle, gives fleet, under Admiral Rojdestven- view, a half-way house on access to the harbour itself. sky, sailing from Europe to the 1,600 mile stretch between The neck, which is three miles Vladivostok, put into the bay. Singapore and Hongkong has its in length,
obvious advantages. breadth of a mile and a half at the sea entrance to about half sels, composing the fleet and its An intermediate port on this that breadth at the entrance to attendant ships, passed safely long run, a typhoon shelter and the harbour proper. The latter and unpiloted into the harbour, a refuge from the N.E. monsoon!, Probably, as helisembarks on covers an area of about seven where they anchored for three providing at the same time all
square miles of deep water; days before resuming their ill- having a rock bed, it is in no fated journey to Vladivostock the maintenance and other ser- danger of silting.
and Tsushima.
vices of a modern harbour will' be an asset to merchant ship- Hills up to 1,000 feet com- Economically, the advantage
ping. mand the whole area of the har- of a well-equipped port in the
the unpretention jetty at B- ngoi, he will wonder at the ab- sence of any signs of activity or development. For, apart from the harest indications of Euro- pean influence in the form of a stone pier, a minute
Wyndham St., Hongkongngoi, has remained unchanged
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Programme for Sunday, 18th Dec., 1938.
1 p.m.
2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME
1. Retura from abroad. Overture.
Mendelssohn.
2. Cuban Serenade
3. La Reine du Malin.
Waltz
Herbert. Ivanovici,
4. The Pearlfishers. Selection
3. Lucia
.Bizet. Bertram.
G. Humoresque
..Dvorak.
7. Dle Dollarprinzessin. Marsch
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December 17, 1988
Lonely Men
any other part of the Empire
the world of lonely men.
from the Annamite fishing vil Inge of a hundred years ago.
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by-
MAJOR A. S. COLLEY
who recently spent a holiday in French Indo-China
It is for the British navy, however, that the Cam-ranh base has its greatest potential value.
Secure in the territory of an allied and friendly Power, it is.
safe rallying point, in emer- gency, for the scattered ele-* ments of our fleet in the Far
East.
IT MUST NOT be thought, how-
ever, that the French are bour, including the entrance Bay of Cam-ranh would be hard
It will also be available to our YOU FIND THEM in Hong-
kong more, perhaps, than in ignorant of the natural resources channel which is formed by two to overestimate. At present, no
ships and sea-planes as an alter- foreign (i.c. non- of their Colonial Empire nor ob- high promontories; an ideal con- ship of
formation for defence. Lastly,
native base, with complete fuell- livious to its economie or strate- the entrance is unmistakable and
French) lines plying between gic requirements.
deep, so that ships can enter and Europe and the Far East touching and repair facilities, in the event of an enemy denying them the use of our own. For over thirty years French leave without the services of a Indo China,
pilot.
Saigon is a river port, seventy. In effect, the Cam-ranh pro- miles from the sex. Haiphong ject, while still in the blue-print
In the hoarding houses and in the guest houses. He sits next to you on the ferry, of broods alone in the hotel. You see him miserably buy his single ticket at the box office of the cinema. Solitude stalks through our Colony, for we do ant warm our hearts to strangers.
Truly the man who quoth, "For Herr am I so alone as when I am in a ermed" uttered a great heart cry. A cry that so often dies unanswered in this unfriendly outpost of Empire.
How many times have we sat around him. He hears our voices. He can count our foot-
though steps. But,
he may dwell in his room for a year and
pass his fellow lodgers on the stairs every day of his life, no word is spoken..
No one asks his name. For no one cares. The solitude of a desert is as nothing to the solitude that stalks through the boarding houses and hotels of Hongkong.
We cling so desperately in Hongkong to the god of Con- vention. We sharpen the knives that cut into the heart of the strangers in our midst.
Christmas is near. We still have a week to discard our worn-out shibboleths that make introduction a prerequisite of comradeship.
False pride has a lot to answer for. It is the handmaid of loneliness,
Heavens, let's banish it, and be human for once in our lives!
.
We're All Right HITLER reviews the gains of six years rule, claims that Germany proud, united. strong and peaceful. The Nazi programme for 1939 is to be still stronger.
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But Mr. Neville Chamberlain spilled the beans yesterday. It isn't the aeroplanes, the bomby and the big Berthas that count in war-it's the staying power. And the British Empire has more money, mau-power and re- sources than any two of the Totalitarians.
We can also build ships and planes and guns, and we've got the money to build two or three for every one built by a possible aggressor. What's more, we've got the men and the raw ma- terials to make our war toys go. America is the only other nation in the world who can make the same claim and if it ever comes to a showdown you won't find the United States on the other
side of the fence.
This Empire of oura la rich
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD, enough, too, to give us buiter
with our guns. We're the only ooooona i people who have both.
sailors have advanced the claims of Cam-ranh as ideally suited for
the construction of a naval base, IF FURTHER PROOF is need- is well off the main reate. Both stage, assumes a role in British ed of the potentialities of ports are unsuitable for big naval strategy the importance Before the War, M. Paul Dou- Cam-ranh as a naval base, it was ships and, in any case, their re of which, under present condi- mer, when Governor-General of afforded in 1904, during the moteness entails a deviation far' tions, shows little prospect of Indo-China, pressed for its de- Russo-Japanese War.
too costly in time and fuel in diminishing. velopment with characteristic energy. But, like most defence measures which in time of peace run contrary to economic in- terests, the· scheme received seant support.
all saw in
Dejected Postscript, by GEOFFREY SUCKLING, on
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"A MELLY KLISSMAS”.
Even now his presence is fell intelling us how to make turkey cut- how the streets of Hongkong. In the shop lets.
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Saigon capital of Indo-Chinn and seat of the government; Cholon, the principal rice mar- ket; Haiphong, port of Tonkin-OFFICIAL RETURNS are often
the new project a
published, telling us threat to their prosperity and many cases there are of meningi-windows I notice bottles of whisky
It would be much more to the point And tis, small-pox and measles in flying on beds of cotton wool, Inter-fit they would tell us how to get the opposed its development. so, the Cam-ranh naval base, Colony, but no mention is made have seen such un-Christmassy things money to buy the turkeyt barely conceived except in the of what is, at this time of the as electric fans covered with snow- minds of a few far-sering men, year, the commonest complaint flakest came to a premature end, the victim of vested interests.
mingled with sprigs of holly, and I
of all-the "Christmas Spirit.".
Every year I do my best to avoid contracting the ailment, but without VESTERDAY I WALKED into one avail. I know it is going to be the of the big Chinese stores to buy same this year,
some razor blades, and what did I and?-Old Father Christmas staring me in the face!
1 begin by making up my mind SINCE LAST YEAR, however, that Christmas means nothing to me.
Japan's aggressive policy in It is merely an occasion to spend "Only seven more days to Christ- the Far East has lent a new and more than I can afford, eat more than mast" scream the newspapers, and urgent interest to questions of enn digest and drink more then is really they are the worst offenders defence."
good for me.
But what happens?
of the luf.
From now on until December 20 Powers with colonial empires Sooner or later I fall a victim to they will be, printing nothing but in that region, have had to re-old Santa Claus.
recipes for Christmas puddinga and view the security of their posesj sions in the light of a. more formidable threat than ever be fore.
Indo-China's weakness, at pre-l sent, is the lack of a base cap- able of harbouring and repairing capital ships and of maintaining an army in time of war..
What more natural, therefore, than that the French authorities. should have ré-examined the! claims of Cam-runh and, as a re- sult, decided to proceed with the construction of a naval base?
Their policy has already been translated into action by the ear- marking of a substantial share of Indo-China's 300,000,000 frane defence, budget for its equipment. In fact, the dis- carded project of pre-war years has, under altered circumstances, become an imperint necessity.
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THE BAY OF CAM-RANH
occupies a "koy" position in the South China Sea, being ap- proximatoly equidistant from Chinn, the Philippines and the Straits.
the
Nature. has enhanced value of its strategic position, by contributing the perfect harbour.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Of courad I'm tired---F bien-on my feet all day!"
However much you try to escape, you are bound to be dragged into the "Christmas" whirlpool. The nearer to Christmas, the stronger the influence.
ND THE SHOPS are so cunning. Yesterday, as I told you, I went to buy some *razor to the stores blades, and what did I come away with?
A doll for Peggy (that's my eldest giri), a Meccano set for John (he'll he seven in February) and a mechan- ical monkey, who not only crack- ed nuts but swallowed them, for Peter (he's the youngest).
So there you are! I got $1.50 change out of two ten-dollar bills,
IT'S NO GOOD. Christmas will be There again in a few days, and before I know what I am doing I shall find myself wearing a most ridiculous: paper hat, blowing a tin trumpet and pulling crackers with a stranger whom I have never met before and whom I am never likely to see again.
Now how about the day of reckon»- ing?
Putting it conservatively, I estimate that this coming Christmas will cost me at least $100. And what do I get out of 7 A fat head, an upset Ilver and a hole in any bank accounti
But it's no good worrying, Christ- mas is coming and I can't stop it.
"A motly Kissmash" my lift boy will say to me on Christmas - Eve, and I shall give him q dollar.
Who wants a "melly". Christmas anyhow?
Fate Crosses Ex-Fighter
CAMDEN, N. J. Billy Angelo, 30, one a leading weller-weight, fought for nine years in the ring without affering any serious injuries. Walle playing with his 4-year-old niece, she stuck her finger in his eye. Angelo went to a hospital, where irgeon 're- moved the eye.