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Harry GREGSON
mists like a giant tor- toise with its head buried in the waves, avoided by of large ships on account of its reputation for fog and sud- den squalls, lies the little known island of Hainan, blood feuds, which exist also the occupation of which by plentifully to-day among the the Japanese is a vital aborigines. Blood fouds descend threat to British, French from father to son. Revenge is and American ini
interests in a sacred duty.
There are numerous Christian the Far East.
graves on Hainan.
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Yet, although the interior of this mountainous and jungle- covered island, about the size of
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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.
IT HAS been referred to as "The Siberia of China," for
Rice, cotton, sugar and indigo to Hainan were banished exiles
aro cultivated along the coastal the Chinese Empire. 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 ten, which the inhabitants call "Celestial" ten, legendary hero habitants. Su Tung-Po lived and its popular cattle, among during the reign of Emperor them albino buffalocs.
It will be something new for Shen-Tsung.. His banishment
the inhabitants to handle bags Prime Minister. In three years. The invaders are reported to from 1098-1100, this carly Se have conscripted all civilians cialist pioneer taught the people and to have begun building letters and court dialect and shrines to his memory are found large aerodromes. at frequent points in the constal districts.
Hongkong Telegraph. followed differences with the of cement for the Japanese.
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 March 10, 1939
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A PERMANENT Japanese oe
As They
See It Abroad
THIS
THIS RAW AND misty morn~]
ing Tillie, as she skims the broad and whitened steps of
NO
WHO GOES
THERE?"
["Washington Post"
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TILLIE TAKES A
LETTER -by- N. B. W.
the V.B., has something of the In the matter of trial mar- cupation of Hainan would aspect of a slightly enraged BD-5445 Don't let that moon get away-F.T. Hylton's Orchestra THIS newspaper respectfully but riages, Hainan preceded the constituto a permanent threat kitten, her rounded little chin Armly disagrees with a morning United States by centuries. to Hongkong, French Indo- sunk into the cosy depths of her Why doesn't somebody tell me these things-1.T.
which attacks
and us When a youth casts his eyes on China
tofur, dark blue eyes smouldering, contemporary
trade routes
Tillie's matutinal desire to BD-5441 I've got a pocketful of dreams-Quick step...........
ridiculous the Government's plans for a girl whom he thinks might Australia and the Far East. mass evacuation of the population to make. a suitable wife, the Indeed, because of its strate scratch and bite has been fired by the New Territories in the event of parents build a bachelor house gic situation, it has been termed the appearancs upon an already
of for their daughter.
If the the "Minorca of the Far East," overburdened wall of another
couple of glaring but plaintively ing manoeuvring for a chance at
a bathroom. evacuation has been proven beyond couple get on well together, they and like Minorca's Port Mahon, worded entreaties from the man-
But she trips off, dangerously all doubt in Spain and in Chinn. are married. If not, they part. Hainan has an excellent naval agement, the silkiness of which
An enemy is not going to waste ex-It is claimed that marriages in harbour, Yu-Ling Kang, which does not by any manner of means Inalert to the needs of passing traffic, down the hill and office- pensive bombs on refugee camps Hainan are very successful.
was used by the Russian Im-deceive:
"wards. when there are more fruitful objec-
"Will residents picass perial Fleat on its way to fight
"Members are again reminded tives, and the parts of Hongkong that
the Japanese fleet. vill suffer will be the overcrowded
All the principal centres of island and HAINAN WAS known' tenement areas on the
Alexander Selkirk, hero of French Indo-China are domin mainland.
Since, as Wing Commander Steele- called at Yu-Ling Kang, one of It is only 260 miles from Hanoi, Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," who ated completely from Hainan. 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. THE BUSINESS BAROMETER bombers, the obvious course is to home after his years of exile on the new French naval base of
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protecting
empty them.
these tenements
from
Our contemporary attacks the plan on the grounds that it cannot be car- ried into effect unless a fleet of liners is to be employed to convey the is land population across the harbour, unless ample food-kitchens are-to-be, available at short notice, and unless
San Juan Fernandez.
to
Camran Bay.
JAPANESE AIR bases on Hai-
that
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Up in the lift she goes, with a pleasant "Good Morning".to the skinny little operator; even her
before the wide and impish grin POSSIBLY TILLIE'S conscience temporarily feline mood sweetens pricks as regards the use of the sloppily-uniformed little
clandestino methods), Anyhow, her equilibrium has been entirely unbalanced by a scram bled breakfast, itself necessitated by the customary nerve-exhaust
various
"Hullo, lanses and lads! Any- body here?"
"No, Til, Jimmie's not here, and Panto won't be-gome to Macao- ponies, I betcan't be refugees."
"Oke" and she disappears into the attenuated dressingroom, fings off her outside gear, dabs
Hainan is also known to the British Navy, which has had many a hard fought encounter
nan would bring Hongkong, with pirates, who preyed on shipping from the rocky lairs of Manila and Singapore within more easily exert pressure on France to cease munitione traffic rench_of_bombers, while, as a
a port and upturned nose; and so the dangerous ecasts,
The existence of the island is submarine base, Hainan could
to work. on-the-Tonkin-Yunnan-railway
Off with a clatter comes the first acknowledged in history by scarcely be excelled for cur Far between French Indo-China and
cover of the Underwood. yester the Chinese in the years 246-210 Eastern trade routes.
day's dust is 'perfunctorily blown
an army of robots is to be trained to carry on the work of the Colony. We are in a position to reveal that B.C.
a fleet--not of liners but of launches
China.
So important is the island to About 100 years afterwards, the security of French Indo-
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and other smaller ships-is available Lu-Po-Teh, the Chinese general, China that China agreed with JAPAN HAS given an assur-
not envisage a complete evacuation
off.
Sho zazes disconsolately at the
"Just as soon as I get these
ance, the sincerity of which filing basket. to carry elvilians across the harbour brought a huge force over in France in 1897 never to cede the is negatived by outspoken state- at a moment's notice, and that plans junks to subjugate the islanders, island to ย third Power, ments by her military leaders, things spread out all over the have been prepared for over twelve He found people totally dif- and Britain has repeatedly last that the occupation of Hainan place, somebody will want some
thine, vou'll rec." months for setting up camps and ferent from the Chinese. Their year warned Japan that occupa- is not permanent.
"Well, they've got to be done, food kitchens to care for refugees.
But the fate of this Minorca let's do them together." Finally, the Government plans do 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 irls proceed amicably
dopend, like Minorca nearer fo sort their letters into order, of population, but an evacuation of They had high cheek bones, able complications.
were almost beardless, and had that port of the population not en-
chatting-and Hainan is the latest pawn in Britain, on what effective action inconsequentially gaged in essential services.
long black straight hair.
the Japanese effort to obtain Britain and France, with posthis manoeuvro required a We believe that, in following the
Lu-Po-Teh's men used their non-intervention in China by sibly the United States, can siderable acreage of elbowroom.
"R7-Bz-BzI"! 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
"Therol I told you so. Toris, is emergency, the Government is acting arrows of the aborigines, led by "Japanese" Hainan, Japan can their interests.
it for you or for me? MET wisely. But at the same time we in their lap cared chief. When the
All right. T. T'U get on with tend to go on demanding deep shel-island was conquered, the Chin- ters and tunnels 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 Yai (or Pearl Shore) in the are expensive--so is everything con- nected with defence but, cheap as north.
human life is sometimes regarded in
this part of the world, it is not so
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cheap that everything possible should TO-DAY three distinct races not be done to protect it.
are found in Hainan. They
We would suggest that some of the
the Chinese immigrants, refugees who are costing the Gov-are 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, place to live in in war-time. It has been sold 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
Kubla! Khan reconquered Hai nan later, the inhabitants of which have always resisted, especially in the south, Chinese soldiery.
THE BRITISH guarantees for a
Ioar of £10,000,000 by Hong kong and Chinese banks for the pur- pose of stabliising China's currency, In 1680, a courageous Jesuit coming so soon on top of the recent priest, Benoit de Mathos, went "Anglo-American credits, Indicates to the island. He found the that the democracies are no longer natives with curious, customs, prepared to take the Japanese policy of economic exclusion bing down. many of which continue to-day.
There is every Indication, Ind
¡Indeed, "Dry" mourning is the fashion. that the position in China is rapidly in Hainan, It is "not done" to approaching a point that bodesl for Japan's future ageranditement. cry at a funeral. Sorrow Is dis In addition to the already-announced played by swallowing huge old 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 Hainan Island, and there are also possibit put in, the mourning procession ties that Britain and America have is preceded by a native who by no means made their Anal gesture strews eggs in its path. When Japan, In short, is beginning to an egg does not break, that is reap the harvest of rough-had the burial spot. policy that has antagonised the Father do Mathos also found nations that count.
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
-in school
COTI
it and scare interferera away."
| TILLIE SNATCHES
notebook
and pencil, casts a glance Into the diminutive wall-mirror, and trins Into the tunior, Dartner's well-found and comfortable.office. "Worning, Mlag Texborough: Must get down to it to-day. Want to write to that chap, Petorton first. John Petorton. Fan., Kalmati Oh! here you are, take his letter: John Peterton. Exa., Dear Sir, We are in receipt of your letter of“. the 14th Inaiant, and note that vou are unable to say note with regret planso come to terms with the Toen! Company "fall, stop paragraph.***
Ting-a-ling! P
"Hullo! Eddystono spanking. No, sorry can't be done. Sorry.. The to the MisaUA." What? Right-o”.
"Where
Aid we get to? Better ränd. It; please." meine
Tillle does so, disentangling and diplomatically omitting the various Interjections. She has been endenge. murring to reall the pedantic admont- Hong of the. "effalanes”: exnert Valuava annene. interested in the subject at hand": (is she expected to {*ates_n_internet, 'In' Ihman. semi-con- fitential. family' affair«7) / "Don't stare vacantly out of a window when n hiatus ocrise in the dictation"t Wheel 1e a girl in do???
Thank Um-Er Company rome, in farms with. Ther franke northe nong with reward to the fitting, une of the new, factory fullastan.c:Vou w1] pomamber (bet he foren't), that the latest report stated-en-
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