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AN IMPRESSION OF HONG KONG.

*Like the Great Shadow of a Chinese Temple Upon the Sky."

FAMOUS WRITER'S VIVID PEN PICTURE.

The following article, written some time ago by the eminent authoress, Miss Stella Benson, is reproduced with acknowledgment to the Editor of "The Athenaeum."

line, for the lights of the Peak climb so high and, the atara climb so low.

until one goes to sea.

THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL TOURISTS SUPPLEMENT.

HONG KONG.

Facts About The Colony.

SHIPPING AND COMMERCE.

IN AND AROUND HONG KONG.

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ant in Ice House Street (directly opposite the Star Ferry wharf), also the Kowloon Hotel in Kowloon (a few minutes' drive from the Ferry In a jinrikisha).

The

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928.

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"FIVE DRAGON TEMPLE”.

Giant Brass Image..

A KOWLOON CITY PLACE OF WORSHIP.

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Other Places of Interest,

In Des Voux Road and other Apart from motor launches that streete there are many Chinese take the visitor to Stonecuttera' restaurants for those who like to Island and numerous inlets, abound-sample Chinese dishes. ing in most beautiful scenery, Miscellaneous Information. there is much to entertain, amuse

Radio Telegraph Office and Instruct without resort to (above the Post Office in Fedder Hong Kong is an island about vehicles. The Chinese curlo shops Street) is open day and night for 10 miles long and from 3 to 6 and Indian stores cannot well be the transmission and reception of miles broad, with a total area of passed over by those in search of radio messages and for reporting 32 square miles; it lies close to novelty or for a souvenir of their vessels entering the harbour. The the mainland, being separated at visit to this enchanted late. There charge to most vessels is 30 cents one point by 4 narrow strait is "China Town," teeming with per word with a minimum charge China-that (Lycemoon) not more than a quar thousands of Chinese living in nar- of $3. It was morning when the ahlpful trade unions in

ter-mile wide, and WAB first

row streets where one can almost There are branches of the East- slid out from under the caves of land af perfect trade unions is the occupied by Great Britain in stretch hands across the "thorough-

crn Extension, Tolegraph Com- pirates' guild. But most of all the January, 1841, and was formally fare," and where glimpses may be pany and the Northern Telegraph Hong Kong. Hong Kong is like

skipper and the mate, and, on oeceded by the Treaty of Nankin in had of typical Chinese life in all Company in Connaught Road the great shadow of a Chinese tem-casions, the pilot and the firm's 1842: British Kowloon was sub-its varied phases.

(facing the water front and just ple upon the sky; Its summit is agent, love to tell very small vague soquently acquired by the Peking A good combination is a bus or beyond the Hong Kong Club).

atories about other sallors. Their Convention of 1860; and the New

motor car drive to Aberdeen These are open day and night for nearly always ruled straight by #

minds are a network of names: Territories, being a peninsula (already referred to) and a tour the transmission of cablegrams to high horizontal mist, its slopes Then there was McKay 'you the southern part of the Kwang through the Chinese fishing village any part of the world. have the optimistic concavity of mind what his bride said when he tung province, by a lease signed if time permits there is also Cable rates are: To Europe via June 9, 1898. The whole colony quaint little hamlet, Applichau, Suez, $1.50 per word; to America,

an. comprises temples, and only luck a titanic found her mother in the larder?

area of about 891 which can be reached in a few $1.75 to $3.80; to Canada, $1 to . and Guthrie, who called for square miles, with a population minutes by вampan. The return 2.20; and to Australia, $1.25, dragon and a curled lion or two to

carrota. in Shanghal...and (1921) of 662,200 (1925, est journey from Aberdeen can be The postage rates are: make the temple suggestion com- what was the tale of Fair-r-guson 874,420). The non-Chinese resimade by launch, in which case the cents per ounce to British

excluding naval and plete. At night, so absurdly ia and the centipede?..."Scotland's denta,

proachos will be found very re-ounce to America and other for- Hong Kang tilted, it loses its out-population must be about five, hun- military, numbered about 15,200 scenery fringing the harbour aptories and China; 10 cents

dred per cent. merchant sailors, 1 (1925, est. 16,500),

freshing after the spell through eign countries. think." One never really appre-

A Free Port,

the Chinese quarters of Aberdeen Travellers' cheques can be cash- ciates the greatness of Scotland The capital of the colony is and Applichau.

ed and payments made on letters For the individual who Victoria, which lies along the

cares of credit issued by other bankers, of the island, not for the joys of motoring by Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son, shore northern But it was morning when my The "Chang-shing" scorned to facing the mainland; and between casual walk through the heart of the C.P.R., and the American Ex-

touch so sophisticated a port 45 the mainland and the city is the the city will reveal much of in- press Co. little ship deftly extricated herself

Shanghai, but one evening at sun-harbour which is one of the finest terest in the way of public build. The principal exchange banks and statues, including-hre: The Hong Kong and Shang- from the tangle of shadows and

set on a sea of glazed crimson she in the world, with a water area of ing

With the although some way out-the Uni-ha! Banking Corporation, Charter- ships in the harbour. Between the passed the mouth of the Yangtze some 10 square miles.

The perspective of the exception of liquor and tobacco the versity of Hong Kong. There are ed Bank of Indin, Australis, and

It taxlenbs and jinrikishas, not to China, the Mercantile Bank tawny junks, the low grey battle- river.

clouds followed that of the river, port is free, and is fortified. ships with decks like petrified and there was a great feather of possesses excellent lacks, capable mention sedan chairs, but in the Indin. the Banque de l'indo-Chine.

"Five Dragon Templo" at Kow- Chung, he showed great divize foresis, the dark, rusty tramp wine-coloured, cloud rooted, as it of holding the largest vessels for case of the two latter the legal and the City National Rank of New

(International the purposes of repair. There is fare should always be ascertained York

Banking boon City is well worth the trouble | Prodigy on different occasions, and otherwise the Corporation)-all situated in

much more in the Yuen and Ming, steamers, the hooded sampans on seemed in the sun itself; the tipa considerable ship repairing and beforehand

may Queen's Road Central. Shipping "stranger within the gates"

of visiting as it contains many ob

Dynasties. which the Chinese water coolies of the plume hung low over our construction industry.

When the Emperor And himself the victim of mast. The river withdrew into a entered (1923) 26,701,120 tons. A

pro- For other useful information ect of interest to the European. Shai Tea of the Yuen Dynasty first with their cats and flowers and low confusion of hills, and into that railway, of which 23 miles belong

fiteering.

concerning Hong Kong the tourist Chair and Jinrikisha Fares. may be recommended to purchase Hanging on the wall is a scroll in established his capital at Peking,

he revealed the appearance of his. women and bables, live--between confusion the sun sank down alive. to the Government, runs from Kow-

For chairs the tariff is-two a copy of the "Dollar Directory" English which gives the history of Divine Tortoise and Snake on the this and that my little ship picked

We ran into a fog that night, loon to Canton; the length north and the "Chang-shing" rent her of the Sham Chun River (which bearers-15 cents for the first ten published at, 3a, Wyndham Street. the giant "Chan Mo" or "Pak Tai" | Ko Leung river in the 12th moon her way. Hong Kong itself was

soul and mine, with cries of warn- is the boundary of the British ter-minutes; 20 cents for a quarter of

CANTON. dim, but across the harbour the ing to an apparently empty world. ritory) is controlled by the Chinese an hour; 30 cents for half an hour: Government. A light railway and 25 cents for every subsequent

an image over 500 years old repos.dation of the Sung Dynasty, 'Á clouds were crystallised into balls But the fog was like the curtain runs through the fertile valleys of hour. For four bearers the fares

commercial Capital and ing on the altar of honour. temple was therefore built for his and loops of "silver that blow about between two acts, for when at noon the north-east portion of the New are exactly double, with the ex-most interesting. City of South

Mr. Tanng Foo, the local coal worship. Seventy-four years later, on a "Tin Shau" festival in the Yan among the gaunt hills of South next day we shook ourselves clear Territories from Fanling to Sha-ception that every subsequent hour China, is in direct communication

after the first is charged 40 centa.with Hong Kong by steamer merchant is mainly responsible for of it we were in northern seas, and tau-kok, a distance

Jinrikisha charges are:

cents railway. the great square-gailed grey junke Good roads connect the principal for 10 minutes; 20 cents

There are dally (Sun- the temple's erection, having pur Chung Dynasty he again showed for days excepted) services of steamers chased the brass Idol from Canton his appearance in Mo Tung Hill. When Hong Kong slipped over that travelled across our sight were districts with the railway.

quarter of an hour. 30 centa

Kam Luk Temple. for both directions. The journey island supervised the building outside half an hour; and 40 cents for an about 62 to 8 hours by steamer, his villa und school. A typical ex

Therefore, the Kam Luk Temple the grey-glazed rim of the sen the of a new and more austere shape. содат was. florcer and

hour. little shipshe had Chinese The

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The island is broken in shape

according to steamer and tide, and ample of foreign influence in Chin was built, and the Five Dragon Kowloon and New Territories. We-hai-wei, that name, shall we call her the "Chang British home from home, broke the being Victoria Penk, which is

more scarred.

and mountainous, the highest point)

A reference to Kowloon has 12 hours by train.

ese life is noticeable in Mr. Tsang's Monastery was renovated to make On arrival in Canton clients of house which adjoins the temple offerings to him every year. In the shing-seemed all alone like a

the suggested tours-namely, to favourite place of re-

by an experienced and competent and

guide who has conducted the prin- strictly Chinese type and the semi- the Ming Dynasty, great develop, # Chinese ment was again made to this Tem- the dark formidable outlines of the sidence, and is reserved for Euro- Castle Peak, Fanling, Taipo

The new Territories con- A good afternoon's outing can

cipal visitors through this fas- European type, while China Squadron, and a mother-ship peans. so much ulone on the sea before. of submarines with her frolicsome tain peaks from 1,800 to 3,000 be spent at Kowloon City, omni- cinating City for many years. The pond has two foreign-style rowing ple and Monastery. In the record

tour usually embraces Chun-ka-chi boats in it and the garden har a And at Wel-hai-wel, feet. The hot season lasts from

Ferry at Kowloon. Point (10 cents the 500 Genil, City been too much my ways; too often though we did not put into har May to October. During the win-buses to which run from the Star Ancestral Temples, Temples of wind-driven water condenser minde kwan, 'will be found the following

of the Dead. Illinois, U.S.A. fare from Hong Kong to Kowloon). on ships there have been men and bour, à large number of passengers March, the climate is cooler, drier, En route a glimpse is afforded of Angfisher's feather, Work-Jade, There are images worked in brass Shing Tao. He is great, divine and women between me and the sea, alighted. They were courtesy pasand more invigorating. The aver-the whole of the Kowloon Bay, with Flowery

Ricepaper picture. Painters, of sengers, like me, a great company age daily maximum temperature Lycemoon Pass in the distance.

Pagoda, Jade Stone of a tortoise and a snake, which have listened to the voices

most incorrigible landlab-ranges from 87 degress in July to Eventually the granite wall off

Street, Old Embroidery Shops and represent the deities who carry out Sai Hing Street, etc. travelling salesmen on the subject of the

God's benevolent orders. That the of modern drama rather than to the hers, most unsuitably dressed for a 63 degrees in February, and the the old city of Kowloon will be

For the guidance of those whose natives of Kowloon attach much I have sea-journey. Finchers, jays, little average daily minimum tempera- reached, containing the old-time passing words of the sea.

time is limited, the following importance to the temple is evident criminally associated ships with tentative flautists, nameless to me, ture. from 78 degrees in July to 55 residence of the official representa-itinerary is given.

with degrees in February. The average tive of the Emperor of China.

from the large incense containers smooth grey-crested dandies

One Whole Day in Canton. There is also a School for the Leave Hong Kong scarlet throats, pigeons, a couple of annual rainfall is 84 in., of which

bestowed in the place of worship. sparrow-hawks lion and lamb alike no less than 75 per cent. falls he Blind, where dainty articles may arrive Canton 9 to 10 a.m.

"Chan Me." they had been sitting for the last the S.W. monsoon prevails.

tween May and September, when

be purchased.

Leave Canton .......................... 3.80 p.m. Below we give an Returning by a bus marked Arrive Hong Kong (about)

interesting twenty-four hours in agitated rows

translation:- "Yaumat?" the tourlat can alight) upon our deck and rigging. They

10.30 to 11.30 p.m. in Jordan Road and spend an en- The trusted me to an unexpected ex-

fare provides first class}

History of the brass image of the tent, though not to the point of vast trade in many kinds of pro-are laid out football, tennis, and dinner, service of competent pri-Monastery.

Hong Kong is the centre of a joyable time in King's Park, where travel tickets, breakfast, lunch and god "Chan Mo" in the Five Dragon eating the crumbs which I spread duce, chiefly camphor, coal, cot-bowls grounds for various Clubs vate Guide for sightseeing by

Shiu-wing allas "Mr. Teang Some of the tons, flour, gunnies, hides, iron and institutions, Chinese sailors betrayed their trust and steel goods, leather, matches,

sedan chair to City of the Dead, Tang Foo bought the image at As an alternative a visit may be Flowery Pagoda, Ancestral Temple, Canton for a sum of $1,200, and caught one or two. The sea-oils, rice, silks, sugar, tea and tin commended to Kowloon Tong etc.

Much encouragement is given which lies off the main bus and gulls laughed loud. raucous, nau-

For full information, reserva-measures 8 feet high, and weight tient laughter at this innocent in- by the Government to education in motor road in Kowloon, namely, tions and tickets apply to Cook's over 1,000 cattles. At the left of

In 1924 there were Nathan Road. This is destined to Hong Kong Office. the colony. vasion.

But the passengers knew 1,079 schools aubject to Govern- be a model settlement and garden! what they were about. They ment supervision, attended by city combined, and the self-For one person alighted as one bird at Wei-hal-wei. 68,930 pupils. The University contained houses, each with a strip For each of party of 2

We reached the port of Cheefo (opened in 1912) includes faculties of garden, are a distinct change late on our sixth night. All next of medicine, engineering, and arts. from the row day, while coolies, dyed bright blue Hong Kong is a Crown colony, which the vehicles with indigo, piled into precarious and its government is administer-Nathan and other rends lighters the oozing sacks of oured by a Governor, aided by

Executive Council of 9 members,

- China.

Climate.

of 7 miles.

The

and

19 It is known in the vernacular, of that year, prophesying the foun

guest in a strange land; a great outline of the cliffs, and we could about 1,820 feet high. The Penkalready been made in the third of Messrs. Thos, Cook & Son, are met The grounds contain buildings of years of the Emperor Wing Lok of

see the bulls of the herd at rest, District is

company of remote Islands stood

about her and, withont welcome,

watched her pass, I had never been

The ways of the globe-trotter have

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cheap emotions and cheap scent.

The "Chang-shing" carried only indigo and, by courtesy, me. She was only smart in comparison with And perhaps Home of the junks. in order to show herself to advan- tage, for the first two days of her voyage north

she rolled snorting proudly up the rough ruts plunging avenue of junks. Chinese fishing junks are like akeletons in crinolines. Their tattered matting sails are stiffened like fans with their bamboos; wreathed about

red paper prayers, figures are struggling to catch the attention of heedless gods. Often these junks were tilted forward, stern high and bow awash, na though the vessel contemplated diving. They swung

at anchor, jealously guarding their little clairns in the sea, each claim

young,

out before them.

ter months, from November to

Vast Trade,

Shatin.

an loan.

upon row of flats:

in Kow-

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Inclusive Charges:

2 a.m.

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26.00

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25.60 26.20

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of the Mo Tung Hill by Wong To-

quotations:-"Powerful is Emperor

Under him peaco awe-inspiring. prevalled at home and abroad. All this was owing to the help of Chan Mo, who came down to guide the 6 Armies of the Emperor. To award his services, great repaire were made to his Temples. Then pros. perity reigned throughout the Em pire, and the power of the Emperor was extended to the farthest coun try. Indeed the different temples built in honour of Chan Mo were as numerous as stars in the sky." This shows that the worship of this god was more zealous in the Sung Dynasty than in the reign of Yuen, and therefore his temples could be

found everywhere in the Empire.

Made At Peking. its robe, are inscribed the 18 char- This brass Image was manufac acters, "Yan Chai Tuk Li Kwong tured under the supervision of a -$31.00 Tung Chu Chi Shi Pok Kim Kin native of Tai Hing of Shun Tin. 27.60 Im" (Imperial Inspector-General of From this we can tell that it was 26.50 Canton Shipping and Salt Commis-made at Peking and during the The date sloner), but the part, beneath this Dynasty of Wing Lok. has been torn away. At the right Kwal Mau of the Emperor Man Lik Rates for larger parties are re-corner are found the 17 characters, inscribed thereon is the date of the cargo, the skipper and I explored together with a Legislative Council catered for. Besides the rinks of cipants and will be furnished

Lovers of lawn bowls are well gulated by the number of parti- "Tai Ming Man Lik Sam Shap Yat erection of the Temple and not the manufacture of the ataked out by a hedge of flagged the sordid and sun-stricken city of of 14 members, including himself. the Club de Recreio at King's Park application.

on Nin Shui Chi Kwal Mau Kwai date of the

Chau Kat Yat Kin" (manufactur- | image. The Imperial Inspector- barnbons floating upright. China, Chefoo.

I cannot bear to think representative from the Chamber there are bowling greens at the The above rates provide for three ed on a lucky day in the 9th moon General of Canton Shipping and with hills dull red or dunes bleak that Chefoo still exists, a city bak-of Commerce, and a representative Kowloon Bowling Green Club, in coolies per chair.

Should four of the Kwal Mau year, ie, the Salt Commissioner engraved on the ly white, ran by us to the west;ed and caked in squalor. On every of the Justices of the Peace. There Austin Road (off Nathan Road), coolics be considered necessary by Thirsty-First year of Man Lik of image, was the builder of the Tem- there was never a sign of life on aide there were two inevitable is also a Sanitary Board. partly the Kowloon Cricket Club, and the the

Guide in charge, the cost of the Great Ming Dynasty). On the ple, but unfortunately his name has the coast, and at night never a sights-cruelty and churches. The elected, which

certain Kowloon Dock. Tennis can be had the additional coolic is payable to back of the image, there are 21 been

However, during light. We passed a lighthouse on

Club courts at King's him direct. men beat the horses, the boys beat sanitary measures. the third day; white and sophis-

Park, at the United Services Clitb Tours of longer duration and characters in 3 rows, which read the Dynasty of Shan Chung many ticated, it sprang up in a primitive

(opposite King's Park), the Kow- including passage by 8 am, steamer thus: "Pak King Shun Tin Fu servants of the Imperial Household non Cricket Club, and the Kow may be arranged. and dreambound world. Could It

Fares on ap-Tai Hing Yuen Cheung Chiu Wong were sent out to make heavy levies loon Rowling Green Club, Football plication.

be that men and not gods lived in such isolation? How the sea must count to them.

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"You an' him can have a the sen for me," said the Skipper, who is from Dundee, and like most Bailors, believes that he wants to rather Не, ваув Bettle down. prettily that he wants to see of the aca for the rest of his life is a "wee for Beelver edge." And he talks little of the immediate sea;

the dogs, the babies tortured the little flame-coloured lizards, that

ran about the walls. The streets,

controls

at many

MACAO.

the

torn off.

Tao Kun Tso Chu Chi To Shi Tong on the income of merchants, and it seemed to me, were full of dark, to the importance of the occupant. is played at King's Park and on

To Chan" (manufactured under the from this, we can deduce that the earth-blackened, naked bodles.con- The cities of the living and the the ground of the Kowloon Football

supervision of Cheung Chin and image was brought to Kwong Tung torted with anger and the power of cities of the dead were not 'divid-Club, facing the harbour in

Wong Tao of the Tai Hing District from Peking by one of such ser making anger felt. The churches ed. It is a proud and honourable Chatham Road. Cricket is provid A Portuguese, Colony and

of the Shun Tin Prefecture, Peking vante, and was enshrined in a tem- decorously, feeling

nothing to be dead in China, and the ed at King's Park and at the Kow-pioneer settlement of the Far East, and Tong To Chan, the Priest in ple at Canton after the name of looked on doubt that here was useful copy for choice between one mud house and loon Cricket Club.

being founded in 1657. It is a I was glad when endless sermons.

another is A very small choice. On the Island there is no end to picturesque spot at the mouth of Charge). The image was the pro- the manufacturer and the date of of the Sze Taz Shim Lam manufacture had been engraved on the "Chang-shing" went out of Movement--in the land was chiefly the variety of outdoor sport to be the San Paulo, Camoes Gardens Monastery, and that it fell into the t

the Canon River, with the ruins of Perty Chefoo into the clean yellow sea.

provided by the salt-mills; liko indulged in or watched, the prin The Yellow Sea is really yellow, merry-go-rounds at a home fair, cipal, ground being at Happy and Grotto, and Fan-tan Gambling hands of some ordinary individuals

Sport in Hong Kong.

which seems wonderful to me. It they apan and span, lacking only Valley, which can be reached in a

"

Alas! over 500 years have elaps- Saloons.

after the political change in the ed since the Wing Lok Dynasty. Steamers leave Hong Kong. on San. Hol year. On reference to The image was removed from Pé was yellower than probability the music and the colour and the very short time by tramear, taxi week days at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.; some Taoist Authorities, it has king to Canton, and again from a his stories, which hold me spell- would allow, so yellow and so matt❘ merrimont. Sometimes mudcaked cab, or motor car, not to mention

B Buddhiet bound over a lingering mango or in surface that a atfing of camels babies ran down on to a mud beach the slower jinrikisha if time is no and Macao at 8 a.m., and 2 p.m. been, found that "Chan Mo" was Taoist Temple into liches for hours after the meal would have seemed less surprising to throw themselves down in the object. There is a fine Racecourse, Passage 4 hours. Single journey born in the 3rd moon of the 3rd Monastery and just some time ago

184; return $7 where races are held at various proper is over, deal with remote ad- on its horizon than a junk. A golden, wave caused by the "Chang periods from the middle of Fab

There is also a special excursion year of the Emperor Hoi of the It had a narrow escape from being ventures-tigers in the

to Macao every Sunday leaving Tsui Dynasty. He was born a destroyed. Can it be the case that South pilot, full of wheezy jacosity, came shing" passing. In that wave the rúary to the beginning of Decem Hong Kong at 9 a.m., returning at divine sage. He took oath to re-even a lifeless object has its time China hills, quarrels and hot on board and inserted the "Chang-moored fishing boats stirred uneaalber. nights in Indian porte, inside shing" into the Pol-ho river, Two ly; they were like dragon-flies Of other sports to be had of 8.30 p.m., return fare $5; week-end move all evil spirits, and to protect of prosperity and misfortune?

The Temple. the people. He gave up his secular. anecdotes of the North Sea. in Chinese mud-forts, long proved asleep, their nets were stretched on Happy Valley, there are football excursion, returns fare $6.00.

Hfe, and took up the study of Tro Now Mr. Tsang having obtained and Rugby, codes), war-time, the pursuit of gold futile by British naval guns in the quivering bamboos at the tops of ("soccer"

ism. After pursuing his study in the image, has erected a temple for cricket, baseball, and tennis. The one Weather Boxer rising, still keep up the pre- hinged mastā.

Mo Tung Hill for 43 years, he sucit at Kowloon under the name of r-r-beaten Brown, the occasional tence of guarding that narrow Once, as the fringes of the smoke "home" of local cricket is the Hong illicit relief of Port Arthur mouth, bus. the "Chang-shing" ig- that overhangs. Tientsin began to Kong Cricket Club opposite Murray For the information of visitors ceeded in becoming an immortal. the Five Dragon Temple the very Barracks in Queen's Road. It is the following list of some of the He took the North under his pro- original name of the Monastery during the Russo-Japanese war, nored them and began fealing her shut out the sun, there was musle on this ground that interport highest points on the laland and tection. He showed his appearance from which it cams. This history

way up a waterway which is like beside us, and I looked down into a matches are played, teams coming Mainland te published: Feet.

in Australia by

politics and the dog-ward tendency

of poor England, the first voyage a puzzle founded on a timeless re- fishing boat on its way home from once in two years from Shanghal of an apprentice round the world petition of the last letter of the sen. In the show sat the musician, and less frequently from Malaya, in a calling-ship thirty years ago alphabet. The earth was no less singing softly and vagrantly to a Where to Dine or Stay,

Sometimes the talk

For the tourist cooped up at sea comes golden than the sea, the evening long-necked gultar: in the stern his closer and turns on typhoons or was an orgy of old gald. The vil-partner had unbraided hiwaist-for days on end there are many pirates. These things are so com- lages were of yellow mud, the mud long blue-black hair, and combed it facilities for lunch (or timin) and mon, they rarely find a new ear for houses were eveless, their crumbl slowly with luxurious fingers, dinner, Including the Hong Kong their reception in the China trade. ing doors gaped; there was no tawny little boy in a single blus Hotel and the Café Regent in Pedder Street Lane, Crawford's Every island talks of one typhoon colour but yellow in their streets. garment propelled the unhurried Restaurant, in Des Voeux Road until the next stops the talk; every There were graves everywhere, boat in time to the song And then (along which the tramcars run river-mouth echoes with the doings cones of mud varying in height and the city and the end of the little the King Edward Hotel, the Savoy of pirates. One of the most power-perfection of symmetry according voyage invaded us.

Hotel, and the Alexandra. Restaur.

·HONG KONG HEIGHTS.

Island. Victoria Peak Signal Station:: Mt. Parker a Mountain Lodge The Evrlo

Peak Hotel Talkoo Sanatorium Mt. Dav Bowen Road (filterbeds

Mainland Tambahan. Kowloon Peak

1828

1774 1734 1725

on the solicitation of any man, and is written for the advice of those suppressed any evil spirit when who may worship the god and pray asked.to. He came down among him to remove any cause of misfor- the people every Kang, San or Kap tune. Taz day and every ord or 7th day, Written by the True Retired 1725 to remove all causes of misfortune Scholar of Kowloon on the 15th of It is stated in the Annals of the the 12th moon, of the Yam Shut. Mo Tung Hill that the place where year (31.1.28) Chan Mo resided in retirement, was the Five Dragon Monastery. Dor ing the Dynasties of the Emperora Tong Tal Chung and Sung Chan

1305

1000)

877

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Feet

8124

(1971

Chop of Chan Pak-tó,

Chop of the True Retired Scholar of Kowloon (nom-de-plume of Chan Pak-to).