THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1989.
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BD-5437 Two Sleepy People Slow F.T.
While a cigarette was burning-Slow F.T.
.Geraldo's Orchestra
BD-5428 Is that the way to treat a sweetheart-F.T...Geraldo's Orchestra
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reputation for fog and sud-
den squalls, lies the little known island of Hainan,
-by- Harry GREGSON
Full sized body, generous the occupation of which by blood feuds, which exist also plentifully to-day among the room for 5 passengers.. the Japanese is a vital aborigines, Blood-feuds descend threat to British, French from father to son. Revenge is and American interests in a sacred daty. Excellent top gear perform the Far East.
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There are numerous Christian
Yet, although the interior of graves on Hainan. this mountainous and jungle- covered island, about the size of
Belgium, is largely unexplored, it has claims to fame apart from its strategic situation.
IT HAS been referred to as "The Siberia of China," for to Hainan were banished exiles
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IN 1875 the island was eeded to Portugal, but the Por- tuguese returned it to China. An island, so frequently visited by earthquakes and with such a dangerous coast, was of little! use to them.
Rice, cotton, sugar and indigo
Phones from the Chinese Empire. are cultivated along the coastal 27778/9 Among them was one of the regions and in the north. The earliest experimenters in So. island is also noted for a very cialism Su Tung-Po, now
the earthy-flavoured tea, which the legendary hero of the in- inhabitants call "Celestial" tea, habitants. Su Tung-Fo lived and its popular cattle, among during the reign of Emperor them albino buffaloes.
It will be something new for Shen-Tsung.
banishment
Hongkong Telegraph.
BD-5439 Lave makes the world go round--Quick step. Hylton's Orchestra Wyndham St., Hongkong
The Chesnut Treo-Quick step
BD-5140 Stop Beatin' round the mulberry bush-Quick slep
All Ashore-F.T.
BD-5426 Stardust Slow F.T.
Who-Quick step
BD-448 Blue Skies are round the corner-F.T.
I'm singing a song for the old folks--F.T.
.Hylton's Orchestra
'Phone 26615. March 10, 1939
The Ballyhooligans
Air Raids Hylton's Orchestra
Why doesn't somebody tell me these lings-F.T. BD-5441 I've got a pocketful of dreams-Quick step.Pierre's Orchestra
Two Sleepy People-F.T.
food dierences with the the inhabitants to handle bugs
Prime Minister. In three years,
of cement for the Japanese.
from 10983-1100, this cary. The invaders are reported to cialist plonçer taught the people have conscripted all civilians letters and court dialect and and to have begun buliding shrines to his memory are found large aerodromes. at frequent points in the coastal districts.
BD-5445 Don't let that moon get away-F.T.........Hylton's Orchestra newspaper respectfully but firmly disagrees with a morning
attacks which
as contemporary ridiculous the Government's plans for mass evacuation of the population to make ......Pierre's Orchestra
the New Territories in the event of The eMency of an emergency, evacuation has been proven beyond all doubt in Spain and in China.
BD-5442 Cinderela-Waliz
1-5842
I-8841
Blue Skies are round the Corner--Quick setp You must have been a beautiful baby-F.T...Dorsey's Orchestra Stop beatin' round the mulberry bush-F.T. Blue Interlude-F.T.
.Benny Goodman's Orchestra
My Melancholy Baby-F.T.
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An enemy is not going to waste ex pensive bombs on refugee cumps when there are more fruitful objec- tives, and the parts of Hongkong that will suffer will be the overcrowded tonement areas on the island mainland.
protecting these tenements
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WHO GOES
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THIS RAW AND misty morn-
Ting Tillie, as she skims
NO
ADMITTANCE EXCEPT BY ORDER JAPAH
TILLIE TAKES A LETTER -by- N. B. W.
the broad and whitened steps of A PERMANENT Japanese oc- the V.B., has something of the In the matter of trial mar- cupation of Hainan would aspect of a slightly enraged riages, Hainan preceded the constitute & permanent threat kitten, her rounded little chin United States by centuries. to Hongkong, French Indo sunk into the cosy depths of her to fur, dark blue eyes smouldering. When a youth casts his eyes on China and trade routes
Tillio's matutinal desire to a girl whom he things might Australia and the Far East. the a suitable wife,
Indeed, because of its strate-scratch and bite has been fired by the appearance upon an already parents build a bachelor house gic situation, it has been termed overburdened wall of another
a chance at for their daughter. If the the "Minorca of the Far East," couple of glaring but plaintively ing manoeuvring for
a bathroom. couple get on well together, they and like Minorca's Port Mahon, worded entreaties from the man-
But she trips off, dangerously. are married. If not, they part. Hainan has an excellent naval agement, the silkiness of which It is claimed that marriages in harbour, Yu-Ling Kang, which does not by any manner of means inalert to the needs of passing trafic, down the hill and office- Hainan are very successful.
"wards.
Up in the lift she goes, with a plansant "Good Morning" to the skinny little operator; even her temporarily folino mood sweetene
pricks as regards the use of the sloppily-uniformed little
and
HAINAN WAS
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empty them.
to
known Alexander Selkirk, hero of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," who
was used by the Russian Im- deceive:
"Will residents please perial Fleet on its way to fight
"Members aro again reminded the Japanese fleet.
All the principal centres of French Indo-China are domin-
It is only 260 miles from Hanoi, the new French naval base of Camron Bay.
that
various
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Since, as Wing Commander Steele- called at Yu-Ling Kang, one of ated completely from Hainan. POSSIBLY TILLIE'S conscience before the wide and impish grin Perkins admits, there is no method of the main harbours, on his way 480 from Saigon and 500 from of current (toast can be made by mannikin.
home after his years of exile on San Juan Fernandez.
Hainan is also known to the British Navy, which has had many a hard fought encounter with pirates, who preyed on shipping from the rocky lairs of the dangerous coasts,
Our contemporary attacks the plan on the grounds that it cannot be car-
ried into effect unless a ficct of liners is-to-be-employed to convey the is Iand population across the harbour, unless ample food kitchens are to be available at short notice, and unless an army of robots is to be trained to carry on the work of the Colony. We are in a position to reveal that
a feet-aot of liners but of launches
not envisage a complete evacuation
JAPANESE AIR bases on Hal
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clandestine methods). "Hullo, lasses and lads! Any Anyhow, her equilibrium has been body here?" entirely unbalanced by a scram- "No, Til, Jimmie's not here and blod breakfast, itself necessiated Panto von't be grme to Macao- by the customary nerve-oxhaustponics, I bet can't be refugees." "Oke!" and she disappears into the attenuated dressingroom,
pert and upturned nose; and so to work.
nan would bring Hongkong, Manila and Singapore within more easily exert pressure on flings-off her outside gear, dabs. France to cease munitions traffic reach of bombers, while, as a
be Tonkin-Yunnan railway The existence of the island is submarine hase, Hainan coukl
tween French Indo-China and first acknowledged in history by scarcely be excelled for our Far
China. the Chinese in the years 246-210 Eastern trade routes. B.C.
So important is the island to About 100 years afterwards, the security of French Indo-
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Off with a clatter comes the cover of the Underwood. yester day's dust is perfunctorily blown
off.
"There! I told von so. Doris, is it for you or for me? MEI
"All right. Til. "'ll get on with it and scare Interferors away."
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She cares disconsolately at the and other smaller ships--is available Lu-Po-Teh, the Chinese general, China that China agreed with,APAN HAS given an assur-)
ance, the sincerity of which line basket.
"Just as soon as I get these. to carry civilians across the harbour brought a huge force over in France in 1897 never to cede the is negatived by outspoken state-things spread out all over the at a moment's notice, and that plans junks to subjugate the islanders. island to
third Power, ments by her military leaders, place, somebody will want some- have been prepared for over twelve He found people totally dif- and Britain has repeatedly last that the occupation of Hainaning you'll rec." months for setting up camps and
"Well, they've got to be done, food kitchens to care for refugees. ferent from the Chinese. Their year warned Japan that occupa-is not permanent,
But the fate of this Minorca let's do them together." Finally, the Government plans de eyes were not oblique, their tion of Hainan by Japanese
skins were copper-coloured. forces could give rise to undesir-the Far East seems likely to The two girls proceed amicably
depend, like Minorca nearer to sort their letters into order- of population, but an evacuation of They had high cheek bones, able complications.
thetting-and that part of the population not en- were almost beardless, and had Hainan is the latest pawn in Britain, on what effective action inconsequentially
thin manoeuvre required ä cons gaged in essential services,
long black straight hair. the Japanese effort to obtain Britain and France, with pos- We believe that, in following the
Lu-Po-Teh's men used their non-intervention in China by sibly the United States, can aiderahia serange of elbowroom.
"Rr-Bz-Bz 1". examples of Spain and China in ar- ranging for evacuation in times of Swords against the bows and the Western Powers. With a take to remove a dire threat to emergency, the Government is acting arrows of the aborigines, led by "Japanese" Hainan, Japan can, their interests. wisely. But at the same time we in their lop eared chief. When the tend to go on demanding deep shellslund was conquered, the Chin- tera and tunnels as the only ade- quate method of protection for that ese divided it into two main considerable part of the population provinces-Tan-Urh (or Droop which will have to remain in the ing Ear) in the south, and Chu built-up areas. We know that they Yal (or Pearl Shore) in the aro expensive-zo is everything con-
north. nected with defence-bui, cheap as human life is sometimes regarded in this part of the world, it is not so cheap that everything possible should TO-DAY three distinct races are found in Hainan. They We would suggest that some of the refugees who are costing the Gov- are the Chinese immigrants, ernment thousands of dollars a day civilised aborigines, or Shu-Li, for maintenance could be employed and the wild aborigines in the in helping to make the Colony a safe remote unexplored interior, been said that there is no point in known as Sheng-LI, totalling in setting an unemployed man to dig all 2. millions souls in a land a hole in the ground. Well, now about the size of Belgium. there is a point, and an urgent one, The Harvest
not be done to protect it.
place to live in in war-time. It has
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Kublai Khan reconquered Hai- nan later, the inhabitants of which have always resisted, THE BRITISH guarantees for a especially in the south, Chinese
loan of £10,000,000 by Hong- goldiery.
kong and Chinese banks for the pur
pose of stabilising China's currency, In 1630, a courageous Jesuit coming so soon on top of the recent priest, Bonolt de Mathos, went Anglo-American credits, indicates that the democracles are no longer to the island. He found the prepared to take the Japanese policy natives with curious customs, of economic exclusion ring down. many of which continue to-day. There is every indication, indeed, "Dry" mourning is the fashion that the position in China is rapidly in Hainan. It is “not done" to approaching a point that bodes ill cry at a funeral. Sorrow is dis- for Japan's future aggrandizement. In addition to the already-announced played by swallowing huge ald from Britain and the United quantities of raw meat, the States, it seems possible that France coffin, is a hollow tree trunk, will create large credits as a reply and, after the body has been to Japan's action in invading Halaan. Island, and there are also possiblll put in, the mourning procession des that Britain and America have is preceded by a native who by no means made their final gesture, strews.ogga in its path. When
Japan, In short, is beginning to: roep the harvest of a rough had an egg does not break, that is polley that has antagoniserka the burial spot nations, that count, nya
Father de Mathos also found
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
«Don't you find it awfully
school
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notebook [PILLIE' SNATCHES
and pencil, costa a glance. into the diminutive wall-mirror, and trins into the funior partner's well-found and comfortable office. Maring, Miss Texborough, Must got down to it to-day. Want to write to that chap Poterton Art. John Peterton. Fan,, RAD" Oh here you are, take his letter. John Peterton. Exo. Dear Sir, We are in recefot of your letter of the 14th instant, and note that von are unable to say note with regret olmuse, come to terms with the Ton! Company full, stop naragraph."
Ting-a-line! 1"
"Hullol Eddystone, speaking.. No, sorry can't be done. Forry. Trivia In the
Míasus. What? Righteo":
Where did we get to? Better read it, plonée.”
9911!* down 80, disentangling-and- dintomatically omitting the various interjections. She has been endeavo mering to recall the pedontia admoni- flons of the "efficienes" experte.... Halwave annme, interested in the subject at hand" (is she expected to enten ne interest in these xemf-con- dental, family nffairs? Don't stare vacantly out of a window when hiatus occurs in the dietation","[ What is a girl to do?iranj
Thanks Um-Er..."Company come to ferme, with the least-com- none, with regard to the filine up of the new factory, full, "stone" You, tri2] remember- (betcha dosen't)? that the Inlert poport Tatater BELLET