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LAND of the ANZACS
AUSTRALIA as a country in which to spend long- service leave is attracting more and more attention from people in the Far East, who no longer can go to Europe because of the dangers consequent upon the
war.
What does it cost to go to Australia? How much does it cost to live there? What is the climate like? Does the coun-
try agree with children?
Which Way Italy?
EDITORIAL
DECENT events, particularly re-
Recht Hallan newspaper attacks,
suggest that Hitler may soon havà an ally.
On the other hand, the anti- British and anti-French campaign in Rome may be part of the old Axis scheme of creating smoke yhilto tho Are Is elsewhere, 'It may be that Mussolini të attempt- ing to immobilise a part of the British Fleet in the Mediterranean whllo Bitter continues his invasion of Scandinavia. But it is a dan÷ gerous game-for Xaly.
Italy occupies a geographical position of supreme strategical im- portance in the Mediterranean, and there is no question but that a hostile Italy would temporarily embarrass the Allies. Italy has, or is about to complete, four elleicht 35,000-ton battleships, and also had
older four
battleships. "Jane's
shows us
Fighing
Ships" ahoy is that, to addition, there
are many torpedo craft, submarines and fast motor torpedo boats. She has an exten- sive air force and a not inconsider- ablo army which has fought three campaigns in the last five years.
But despite her simtegic situa- tion, Haly to-day must recognise
that Beltain retains absolute con- trol over both ends of the Mediter- ranean; with Gibraltar on guard at the west and Port Sakl in the cast. And the Alliès, in a sense, also hold Italy's African'' possessions hustage for a good behaviour.
The Allies would not find the Italian bases in the Dodecanese Is- landis difficult to reduce, and con- trol of the Atrean Sea would quickly be assured.
Above all, Italy must give cons sideration to the strangling effect existence of a onHer coonomie blockade of both ends of the 12,000,000 Mediterranean. Seme
annually, tons of coal are imported
Italy and would lose almost all her Imports of oll
In
Her rich industrial area in the valley of the Po would quickly be overrun by land, and the way would be paved for an Allied In- vasion of Germany, from Italy.
Turkey would immediately cart Allies and Ita lot with tho would prove no mean foe.
Taken all in all, there is every reason to believe that Mussolini, despite the anti-British and anti- French campaign now raging`in Rome, will see that Italy is at the very most malevolently neutral, le has everything to lose and nothing to gain by entering the war f this stage.
These are some of the ques- tions many people in Hong- kong are asking.
You can choose several' routes from Hongkong. If you want to spend most of your time travelling, you'll go to Australia via Singapore and the Western Australia coast, cross the Continent by the famous. trans-Continental railways, and return to Hong- kong along the castern coast, through the beautiful Great Barrier Reef.
This four (It will occupy eight to ten weeks of travel to and from Hongkong) will take you through Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, Western Australia, South Austra- lin, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, New Guinea, the Celebes and the Philippines, You can spend another week or fortnight, if you wish, on a side jaunt to New Zealand, travelling from Melbourne to the Bluff (the southernmost end), thence through and tralo, New Zealand by car
back to Australia (Sydney) ond from Auckland.
The entire trip will cost you only a fraction more that the direct trip from Hongkong to Melbourne. In (act, it ma
it may be less. The fare from Singapore to Perth by one-class Blue Funnel liners is only £25 Australian currency.
Whatever trip you decide to make to Australia, whether by the long or short route, it is much
All's well aboard
H.M.S. Homely
By A. J. McWHINNIE
I SAILED, some weeks ago,
in a cargo steamer, She was moving in convoy across the North Sea,
From her bridge the Skip- per and I peered through binoculars at the nearest escort vessel powerfully armed, a hazy grey shape in
the wind and the rain.
We saw her men always at the guns, ready to bent of anybody who might attack us; her lookouts always at their stations, the officer of the watch always scanning the sea for danger.
You remember, Skipper, how we speculated about those men, won- dered what life was like in their ship, what jokes they shared, what kind of fellows they were.
You
never met them because, having brought you safely to a and British port, they turned
hended out to sea again. Another convoy job was waiting for them. The Other Side
But, Skipper, you're going to meet them now. For, since I sailed with
you, I've seen the convoy business from the other side. I've made a trip in that same escort vessel, salling with the protectors Innlend of die protected.
Let us call her (partly because the Germans mustn't be told her real name, partly because this nick- nome sufla her) H.M.S. Homely.
We didn't know, Skipper, about the gleaming electric kettle that bubbles and whistles an H.M.S. Homely's brlügo.
It'sings merry song during the icy coldness of the middle watch.
The kettle was the sub-lieuten- ant's idea. There's nothing like a hot drink when it's perishing cold during the long hours of a danger-
ous North Sen night. You know that, Skipper!
He
Remember the navigating ofcer we used to see, in his yellow duffle- coat, hooded and muffled-the tail one? They call him "Pilot." provided a nice homely touch on the first day out. He was taking the afternoon watch.
Crumpets!
We were rolling heavily. The wind cut into our faces. It started to hall.
"Pilot" stamped his numbed feet and I said, "Guess what's for tea?" refusing to give the answer.
Eight bells-four o'clock on ( bitterly cold afternoon. "Pilot" off watch. Down two fron was ladders, round the guns, along the boat deck, another Indder and into the wardroom.
"Crumpets!" said the navigating
The oficer. Seiring
wardroom radiator he laid It on its back and over its flung four fat crumpets red-hot Alament.
like
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"Ashore or aflost, there's nothing crumpets," he said, plastering butter, an four golden faces. melting
Sometimes, Skipper, on a clear day, your binoculars showed you H.MS. Homely's Chief Engineer come up to the bridge for a few moments. "Chiefy" doesn't have to suffer the cold like the other officers.
But he visits them sometimes, to share a slab of chocolate his wife and daughter sent him from their Isle of Wight home.
Your glasses may be powerful, but you don't see little kindnesses like that, do you, Skipper?
It was "Chiety" who picked up the two kittens on the quay. Olive and Isobel he named them. Their mother had died. So he brought them aboard, and fed them through fountain pen fülers.
The trouble was that the mother cat died without instructing them in how to wash. The whole ship's company worked on the problem.
The port signalman the dark one, it you ever spotted him, Skip- per-appranched the Captain and suggested smearing their furry conts with butter. (It was before rationing started, anyway.)
Olive and Isobel are now two of the best-washed cats afloat.
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You never heard anything com- Ing from HMS. Homely, skipper, except the roar of her guns and the crashing rumbles of her depth charges as they sought a U-boat. You couldn't hear the music in the wardroom.
It comes from a new wireless set. The officers are buying it by ensy payments, just as thousands of people ashore buy their radio.
A Nice Crowd
The -sub-ileutenant, "Pilot" and "Number One" (the President of
Like Lie Mess)
swing music. "Chiefy" and the gunnery, officer like
concerts. Some symphony times it's necessary to toss up for programmes.
Sometimes, Skipper, you may have looked at the Captain of H.M.S. Homely on his bridge and wondered about him, ife thought he'd finished with the Navy ten years ago. When war broke out he had a shore Job after his own heart-welfare officer to a big en- gineering firm on the banks of the Thames.
But he's back on the bridge again now. Like you, he adds n Hittle to the letter to his wife every day, Like you, he never knows when it can be posted.
And those, Skipper, are some of the men you saw through your binoculars. As you surmised," a nice crowd.
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cheaper than from Hongkong to Europe.
Travel by the direct route from Hongkong to Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne keeps you in aight of land practically the entire distance after you leave Manila.
Ho
are
live in
the
TOW much does it cost
Australia? As in England, the cost varies. Remember that the Australian pound is much" cheaper than the English pound. You can buy an Australian pound in Hong- kong for less than twelve dollars, and it goes Just as for once you arrive in the Commonwealth. Train tures (all the railways are Govern- ment-owned)
rong cheapest In the world, So is aerjul
travel travel. You capital to capital by air as cheaply you can travel by boat or train. The most luxurious hotels in the capitals charge inclusive rutes of from $120 to $240 week. You
per couldn't pay more than that in any part of Australia if you wanted to. (All the prices mentioned here are in Hongkong dollars).
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from
If you are a
man, and mily hotel, you want a nice, quiet can go to first class places for as little as $22 per head per week.
If you don't want to stay in hotels, but prefer to obtain your wn flats (Sydney and Melbourne type rarely have modern flats of seen in Hongkong) you enn obtain them fully furnished and with all conveniences for rentals varying. from $25 to $75 a week, depending on the type of place you want and the locality.
*Servants prezent
a
u problem. They can be gut, but a housemaid demands: $25 a week at the least. The Australian Government per- mits you to take an amah Into the Commonwealth for six months, but you must post a bond of £100 Aus- tration ($1,200 Hongkong) that she'll return to China at the end of six months.
In ever-increasing numbers in- tent on following the sun down past the romantic island ports of call, colourful stepping-stones on the broad bosom of the blue Pa- elfe, that lead to the new world below the equator. With modern ships having become
"cruising hotels." this pursuit of the sun
Jazy
and pleasant, and the traveller, grown blase, perhaps, by too long familiarity with the well-worn tourist tricks of the Far East or Europe, is refreshed to find in 'Aus- tralia the world's newest civilisa- tion building against the primitive background of the world's oldest continent.
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Here he is no longer chasing the sun! It streams down on golden beach and boundless plain, flocks and herds and harvest Acids it alters through the leafy canopy of the giant eucalyptus and bathes the lesser forests in a mellow inve- Iines of mottled light; It heats against the towering buildings of modern cities, two of which have populations of over a million.
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Australian also looks to Sydney as the con- tral playground of this vast island continent. Leaving the myriad intri- gwing twists and turns of the Har- bour, with their àne homes and gar- dens reaching to the water's
the north side, the beny and, tiful Taronga Park Zoological gar- dens, one reaches the nearby ocoan const, scalloped with series of bays where pounding surf rolls in on to broad white sandy beaches. thronged with bronzed battalions of bathers youth and beauty at their best, shooting the breakers, riding on surfboards, or lying on the sands courting the sun. Here is sen-bathing on a scale unequalled elsewhere in the world.
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Farther afield, from Bulli Pass one looks down on mile upon mile of 'creaming surf, breaking on eres- centa of beach which fade into lowering precipitous YDNEY, Australia's oldest,
mado fringing canyons
byn delicate haze of greatest, and gayest city, is the
waterfalls blue, and
that main port of call in the Common- wenlth for liners,
the Blue and Syd- end in mist, characterize
friendly-rock-wallabies. ney harbour, a seemingly fint mir-Mountains, fr ror of silver and turquoise.
(small kangar when they are not
the vis amuse
rc-
veals the beauty that has captivat- ed so many
thousands of world travellers as the liner progresses up The harbour, with curving bays opening out behind bluit, wooded headlands, with the mighty arch of the great bridge that straddies, the harbour in one colossal steadily drawing nearer,
spon
Bustling ferryboats glide ahead of the Harr, leading her onward to the city that rises from the green lawns along the foreshore like Now York's skyline in miniature, and finally the ship ties up at the city's doorway, in the shadow almost of the bridge.
Inces,
pow
Itorn to Jenolan admiring the remarkable stolac- tites and stalagmites of the Ume stone caves; Lake Macquarte, and the 'ford-Uke reaches of the Hawkesbury River never fail to impress the visitor with their calm loveliness; Kosciusko, the roof of Australia, rears its bulic 7,800 feet skyward, drawing mountaineers in water; and flocks of Ing in
thousand-creep, Fråz- paddocks watered by ́the'
and Mur by the Darling rumbidgee, orange groves golden with fruit, broad sweeps of ripen- ing wheat, smaller patches of rice, and sleek dairy herds, are chapters. which focus attention' on the ra To-day the Fifth Continent is at-mance of man's endeavour in this tracting visitors from the For East Land of the Sun.
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