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the defence of the Colony and the Empire. Nor is he less enterpris ing, less intelligent, or less loyal than those who stay at Home and are considered competent not merely to manage their own domestic affairs but also to con- trol Imperial policy.
"Surely it is a
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929.
ong Kong Expensive And is unquestions H.K. Good To
Trying ably one of Look Upon
the most ex-
Multiplicity of Discomforts
that
PRAPS
P'RAPS NOT L
"We had a sensational case of kidnapping in oor house lately.".
"Really! How did it happen 7" "The baby slept the whole night."
We look around Hong Kong
and we see that it is good to look pensive places in the world in upon. Every right have we to be which to reside, and those who proud of it and of those of our are in
a position to pronounce countrymen mainly responsible judgment on the point, are unani- for its transformation from mous that its climate-at least for barren rock, and a pirates lair six months in the year-is one of into a world-famous seaport and the most trying (to call it by no a city and colony of beauty and harsher epithet) in the whole of importance. Millions of Chinese the Far East.
have lived happily here and "Gerald, dear," said Gerald's auit, flourished, who otherwise would who was ́ ́ a nervous passenger, Then, how have been (even to-day) at the "aren't you sometimes afraid you'll comes it about mercy of the rapacious officials lose control of the car ?"
year in from which their country has, "Constantly," replied Gerald. year out and unhappily, long suffered.
"I'm two instalments behind al- for quite a long period, we remain
ready." in this old Colony of ours and put up with its multiplicity of discomforts with hardly ever The Sigh Of torrid sunshine,
a murmur of protest. Occasionally, The Exile of which Hong with exceeding the speed limit along of course, we hear a whisper too much, perspiring in a manner (and it may be that pre that is neither good to experience trate of the policeman in the wit- ourselves at times indulge in it) as to "Of to be in Eng-nor good to see, dressed "any oldness box, "that the defendant's car land now that Spring is here." way," is it to be wondered at that went round the corner at 30 miles Or our American friends may we, poor exilés, often cast fond ejaculate something fervently glances (though only of the about "God's own country mind's eye)-at our Home land of despite its tornadoes, floods, etc. fine culture, of pleasing tempera- ture, admirable government, and high hopes and endeavour and But still
we then wonder how it comes about Pegging Away keep pegging that we, year in, year out, live in And Sweltering away. We this sun-baked, no-white-man's his head and looked puzzled.
swelter in in-country?
*
sufferable heat. which the good| Lord surely never intended should be borne by white folk here or anywhere else. And we do so for months on end and, we reiterate, year in, year out.
Hong Kong's
Loveliness
But
in' the
Kong has far
A motorist was
being charged
a country lane.
"Is it a fact," asked the magis-
an hour?"
The policeman nodded. "Yes, sir, it must have been quite that."
"And what gear was he in was the magistrate's next question.
At this the policeman seratebed
"He was travelling too fast for me to see, properly, sir," he said at There was a time last; "but I do remember that he It has Long-it has long since had a bowler hat and a green scarf Since Passed passed when a on."
European mer-
one else ?"
"Well, father got seven years."
chant might come to this part of the world and, with not
"Now, Walter, what is the term: The loveliness assiduity than has to be applied name on a cheque belonging to some more for some one who writes his own of Hong Kong by all of us to-day, earn, in no may, of course, more than a decade, a reasonable prove a magnet, fortune. To strive for such a but surely a year or so of it thing nowadays is precisely like should suffice, for are there not striving for the moon. many places in the British Isles much more attractive, both in na- Quarantine restrictions against Bangkok on account of cholera have 44465655494433655666 withdrawn.
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One case of diphtheria and two cases of enteric fever were notified yesterday, all being Chinese
:
In the club the conversation had turned to the recent success of an old member.
"Yes," said the well-informed man, "Smithson-Bernard has back- ed a winner at last. He's making a fortune in the literary business." "Well, I am glad to hear it," re- marked the secretary, thinking of His Honour the Chief Justice has an unpaid sub. or two.. "When he ordered the next (July) Criminal was in here last he told me he'd Sessions, at the Supreme Court, to been writing for 20 years, and had What's he begin at 10 am. on Monday, July had nothing accepted.
done ? Written a best seller ?"
22.
"Oh, no," replied the other. "He's
"Petrol has gone down." "Yes, I am so pleased!" "Are you buying a car?" "No, I am going to clean my
6 to 8 a.m. and 4 to 5 p.m.
The Government proposes to started a school of writing." Remainder of the Peak erect public latrines in Water-
6 to 9 a.m.
street (80 feet back from Con-1 naught-road West), Wilmer-street *****56969673669$$$$ (on the east side 30 feet distant from Connaught-road West) and An Anomaly curious anomaly tural and artificial charms? Com- near Jardine's Corner, the Peak..
that the Impared with the grandeur of the Owners or occupiers of property in gloves."
Highlands of Scotland, the lovell- the vicinities have up to August 2 perial Government, whilst show-ness of Ireland, the sweet beauty to object to the Colonial Secretary, ing the utmost tender solicitude of England, Hong Kong's beauty in writing. for native customs, should be so-(and there is plenty of it)-is indifferent to British traditions, simply nowhere.
· Lorry driver (telling of crash with a small car)-I see the little
The sympathy of his friends will devil comin' and I thinks "There's be extended to Mr.. L. Cunningham, a fly on me windscreen." Then the "But, of course, of the Canadian Pacific Company, thing dashes through the radiator Some
Hong Kong is
on the occasion of the death of his and Knocks the tops off all me "High-Brow" our Colony. It wife, which occurred yesterday apark plugs.
Thoughts
ie part of the after. a short illness. Last evening British Empire. the funeral took place at the Pro-
many
Many floral tributes
*
*
and that a readiness to introduce our democratic institutions as fast as circumstances permit to people previously, subject to despotic rule should exist side by Our mission here, therefore, is testant Cemetery, Happy Valley, He was one of those smart men side with a stubborn reluctance imperial as well as commercial; and Was attended by
and that of course is high destiny; mourners. to withdraw a bureaucratic or, for does it not imply that we, were placed on the grave. rather, autocratic-form of Gov-individually as well as collectively, ernment from people who have have duties to perform in keeping The award for 1929 of the Henryly to the tale of hard luck, Hong Kong, Saturday, July 13, 1929. been nurtured in the lap of demo- with the history and the destiny Leigh Carslake prize for observers "That's the same old story you of an imperial people? Many in the Fleet Air Arm goes to Lieut- told me the last time you accosted cracy." Even then-in 1921- moons have waxed and waned enant Vincent E. Kennedy, R.A.N., me," he said, when the vagrant had was it recalled that Municipal since the Chinese (with an now serving in the new sexplane-finished.
STILL WATERS
to
who like to show their cleverness.
"Watch me take a rise out of him," he said as the tramp ap- proached. Then he listened solemn-
The Smiths were staying at a
Mr. Smith rose early and in a very farmhouse, and after the first night
bad temper.
Councils function with much suc arrogance whose root was carrier Albatross. Lieutenant "Is it?" was the answering ques-
founded in cess in the Straits Settlements
ígnorance) Kennedy, who graduated from the tion. When did I tell it to you?" In view of the re-
ceased
regard all for Australian Naval College at Jervis "Last week." and in Ceylon without impairing eigners in their midst as "bar Bay, was promoted to his present Rights of cent General Elec-
"Mebba I did, inebbe I did," ad- by one iota the duties and the re-barous." To-day, the boot is so rank in April, 1922, and served as mitted the tramp. Citizenship tion at Home, in
"I'd forgotten sponsibilities of the Governments very much "on the other foot" an observer in the Hermes,
in meeting you. I was in prison all which, of course,
that even Chinese students realise Hong Kong... of these Crown Colonies. Will, lit
last week." this Colony had no vote nor voice, we wonder, the "China Mail" be and in view of the revival, both constrained to reproduce in 1989
BRAVE CONSTABLE in the "China Mail" and the "Sun- the foregoing opinions of 1921
It therefore, Weather And must be (plus DEATH OF CHINESE MEMBER Jay Herald," of the movement in and lament that still nothing has
Commerce
rce the gratifying
OF FORCE favour of the creation of a Muni-been done in the direction as cial instinets) our high imperial COMMENDED FOR VALOUR
of our commer-
"I've had practically no sleep," cipal Council, it may be interest much desired in 1921 as it is in mission that compels us to remain
he complained to his wife. "Троле ing to hark back to 1921 and re-
in Hong Kong or elsewhere in
beastly roosters have been crowing The death occurred at the Gov-out there since dawn. produce this interesting par.
China in such sweltering weather ernment
Goodness Civil Hospital at 11.16 knows why!" from the "China Mail's" 76th
longer than we need or is in any o'clock last night of Chinese Do "Well, darling," murmured hia Anniversary Number": "In these
way good for our health.
tective Sergeant, Keong I (No. wife sweetly, "once, when you got 303) after a splendid career in the up early, you crowed about it for days
Hong Kong's Police Force
over a week climate, for at He joined the Force at the age least six of 22 in 1907 and eight years. months of later he was promoted to Lance Hardware Dealer (to applicant): the year, is such that no white Sergeant. In 1921 he was com- "I am inclined to give you the posi
1929?
A t
certain
per-
"East Is East times
and West
haps more par- Is" Etc. ticularly at
certain seasons
Hankow And Hong Kong
. ... ·
At
ays when every little villagé at Home has its elected Parish Council and the humblest in the land, has been admitted to the Parliamentary franchise, the
-European and American re- man-(unless under great commended by the Captain Superiation if you understand double- system which obtains in this
sidents of Hong Kong must find pulsion of some sort)-would con- tendont for good work and again entry keeping. Colony is an increasingly absurd themselves wondering how it tinue to tolerate it. Of Hankow, in 1928 he was commended for Applicant: "I do, indeed! and unjust anachronism. What,
comes about that, year in, year some 600 miles up the Yangtze, brave work in connection with an my last place I had to do a triple- it may fairly be asked, are the out, they continue to find pleasure ful phrase is often expressed in arrested in the possession of partner, showing the real profits, a happy though somewhat force affair in which two Chinese were double-entry set for the active conditions
Peculiar to Bong
in living in such a place as Hong summer, namely, that it is "Hell bombs and kerosene in Gough and a set for the sleeping partner, Kong which require that as soon
Kong or any other part of South with lid off." Those who have street showing small profits, and a set for as he sets foot in this Colony a
his Colony a China Hong Kong is, of course, that Hong Kong is the hotter and good discipline when Police profits."
summered" in both places know In 1925 following his bravery the income tax officials, showing no man from Home shall be denied either of South nor of North place of the two, Shanghai, Tien launch was fired at by Chinese all those elementary rights of
China, being the famous, most tam and practically every part of from Chinese territory at Sha Tau citizenship which he is entitled to easternly outpost of our "Far: China can also be very hot for a Kok, Koong I was awarded the The new recruit had committed exercise in the United Kingdom?
while, but whereas Shanghailan.Fourth Class Police Medal. He one of the worst possible crimes. flung Empire.
dere and Tientsinners rarely have was again commended for valour He had arrived 15 seconds late for more than a few weeks of it in 1926.
his first dress parade, Hongkongites have to suffer it for In May this year he was pru- "I am very sorry,” he said, în year months.
moted Detective Sergeant, which answer to the sergeant major's re- post he has held until the time marks, “but I awoke rather late It may be that of his death. ...
this morning, and there were only the compara-
10 minutes for me to dress." tively mild Carvings believed to have been Ten minutes roared the winter we ex-wrought by the oldest-known sergeant-oiafor. – “Why, I can dress „perience in this part of the world human race in America, as well as with ease in that time.”
regarded as some sort of com-a petrified forest, have been día. pensation for
stewing we covered in the
of Fire eive in Sumine I so it is Nevada, by an exploration party Indeed very poor, compensation. commissioned by President Hoover
"He does not cease Discharges to bear the Why's
His Duty
Mear in,
burdens of citizen-
ship, he provides
Fand
here
Is It Some Compensation
by his industry funds for carry-pearance, the vast majorit ing on the public services; he dis seem to lice doing so. Ther charges his duty as a juror and, be at least some sort of reason As we have seen in the recent War, for doing so. We wonder what it he is called upon to take part in is
The recruit shifted his weight from one leg to the other.
Yes, sergeant-major" he said, in innocent tones, “but I wash.”.
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