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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1929.

Christmas 1929

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TOMB OF ATTILA

Excavations in the Upper Adige

Rome In the Upper Adige, ori the rond leading from Caldari to La Mendola, near Bolzano, is a huge mound, which has always been known locally as the tomb of Attlia." As Attila died in Hungary, It is not very likely that he was brought here to be buried, but ar chaeologists are of opinion that the mound, which is of far earlier date than Attila, is well worth exdavát. |

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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THE CHINA MAIL,

ROMANTIC HONG KONG

Young World Travellers Enchanted

GREAT THRILLS

Sounds And Smells Peculiarly Oriental !

TREASURES OF THE COLONY

sign of the amateur traveller la the Jone who picks up every souvenir. knick-knack that catches his eyes.

Fine Fettle

Back at the hotel over our tea- cups, we planned a very completa {two-day trip around Hong Kong which our hotel arranged for us for the nominal sum of $15 gold apiece, including motors and every. thing.

Our first day having been an onay one, we were fealing in fine fettle when we started off next morning at 9 o'clock in a good-looking Eng- lish motor. We drove completely

Our steamer was moving slowly up Hong Kong Harbour in around the island of Hong Kong. the rainbow mist of early morning. Everybody was on deck to stopping at Government House, watch the interesting river life around us. From our tremendous, Aberdeen, Deep Water Bay, Cause

way Bay, and the beautiful Repulse high deeks we could.look down upon the swarms of junks, soiling Bay Hotel and resort. chips, humpbacked sampans, and freighters from every part of the globe.

We had come a third of the way around the world by now and had begun to feel we were real world travellers. No amount of reading about places could give us that tremendous thrill of just leaning over a rail in a foreign port—those strange sights and sounds and smells that are so peculiarly Oriental!

We had luncheon at the Repulso Bay Hotel and were so impressed, with its beautiful surroundings of forest and beaches that we asked our driver to let us remain for tho rest of the day. We found out that we could return to Hong Kong any hour on the bus, so we joined n group of laughing bathers and apent one of the jolliest afternoona of our trip swimming, dining, and dancing. The English certainly know how to handle a summer re sort, for Repulse Bay is every bit as swanky as Del Monte. And bags checked at the hotel, and had duction leads to another and

everybody is sociable; one intro- obtained all manner of information, found ourselves wishing we could folders and prices of short trips stay for many months in this gay from the hotel tourist bureau. Hong Kong. After dinner

HIGH ADVENTURE

Our two weeks' trip, from Japan to Korea and through Manchuria and North Chinn down to Shanghai had been such high adventure that we were busy planning how much of South China we could cram into oor stop-over at Hong Kong. Within two weeks another steamer would take us on to Manila. But two weeks with nothing to do but "look see." as the Chinese say, means fourteen full days of busy houna- long enough to see a good deal of | Canton, Kowloon, Macao, besides the beauties and treasures of Hong Kong.

Edith, Serena and I had decided that we'd join forces and go our own way in Japan. The three of us could hire one motor and də things both conveniently and inex- pensively. Besides, we found we were good travelling companions, always ready to see the fun in any situation-which is very important, as you't agree if you've travelled at all.

"How different Hong Kong looks from Shanghai," I said, revelling in the mist-shrouded Peak which was blazing forth with the advancing sun. "Everything was as flat as a pan up there, and here the first thing we see is a peak that looks a mile high. It must be as high as Gibraltar!"

Elegant Accents

At the Kowloon dock where we landed, everybody rushed around, excited and eager to be off for the day. The babble of hundreds of Chinese coolles hauling luggage to docks mingled with the elegant English accents of Hong Kong visitors and new passengers.

We were anxious to be off in the

cool of the morning, so we took the first ferry over to Hong Kong Island, each carrying her own small hand bag. The purser on board had told us that the Hong Kong Hotel

was not far from Blake Pier, where our ferry landed. Perfectly .com- fident, we hailed three richas and directed them to take us to the Hong Kong Hotel "chop-chop," which means "hurry?"

"Well, here we go, girls-the Three Lady Musketeers! We must, be wise now, and act as if we'd always lived in China," Edith giggled as we went jlg-jogging over the streets of Hong Kong. In less than a minute aur ricsha men put down the shafts in front of the hotel. It was in plain sight of our landing place.

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(Across the street the "American were invited to join a party return- Express" could give 118 more ing to the city, ao, we drove back schedules, and Thomas Cook and over hilla bathed in silver moon- Son were just around the corner. light. Who could ask for a more So no matter whether you're travel- perfect day? fing alone or not, you may always The next morning, the second have help in planning your short day of our $15 trip, took us across trips in every large city all over the to the mainland of Kowloon, where world).

we drove through the native city The first day we decided to and out to Castle Poak and Ho Mun browse around Hong Kong by our- Tin, ending up at the famous Fan selves. We hired three sedan Ling Golf Club, one of the finest chairs at 25 cents An hour links in the Orfent. We decided it (imagine?) and jogged off on our was a very reasonable trip. way up the Peak to see what was

(To Be Continued.) on top.

Up On The Peak

Princess Mary has chosen

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All the way up we passed chang. school at Bognor Regis for her ing phases of Chinese life. At the little boys to go to very soon. She base of the hill along Flower Street when she visited the King at Craig

so charmed with the place (which is banked solidly with exotic Oriental flowers of gorgeous colour well House that she made a carefu! search for a good educational ings) we passed a continual to and fro crowd of coolies singing as they centre in the district and found one. Princess Mary is the sort of The teeter-totter shoulder poles they carry are weighed down she looks for, as she is very person who generally finds what with every kind of burden, from

thorough and determined about hampers of silver paper prayer "cash" for the temples to big stone anything she undertakes to do. bathtubs us huge as Nero's private tub. Foor coolies; no wonder they alderman for the Ward of Wal- Polling for the election of an sing to keep up their spirits.

ran.

Percy Vincent.

A little farther up the Peak, we brook resulted in the return of Bir left the poor class of Chinese be- hind and found ourselves passing rich Chinese mansions with wide eaves and pointed mandarin roofs.

Like Kent

Nearer the top the Oriental at mosphere was lost entirely. Holly- hocks and white picket gates en- closed grassy lawns and charming stone and half-timbered English: houses. We felt like rubbing our were not in eyes to be sure we Shropshire, Surrey or Kent.

entrance of the dignified Peak Our carriers set us down at the

Hotel, where we had a delightful tiffin on the veranda; a very proper English waiter serving our banbury tarts and ten.

Gigantic City

From the terrace of the hotel we had a full panorama of the harbour and the gigantic city below. It was a breath-taking view! Two thou sand feet below us the harbour was like a silver sheet dotted with tiny boats, and there on the opposite mainland of China we could see our own great ship no larger than a swan resting on the water. It was easy to see now that Hong Kong la indeed an island; correctly speak-

case you may not know it. The Island and the Crown Colony is Hong Kong.

At the hotel we changed ouring, the city's name is Victoria, in money into Hong Kong currency," receiving two Hong Kong silver dollars for one of purs, which is about the usual rate of exchange. You can imagine how this swelled our shopping funds!

"I'd like to try a tramcar down," I suggested, after we'd spent a Izzy hour walking in the sunny gardens drinking in the view. "The ride down should be as good as the famous Rigi trip in Switzerland."

So we dismissed our sedan chairs: funny little cars built like atops. and rode down the Poak in the

swift descent! Oh, the cool plne-sweet air of that

Poking About

I must admit that we were wiser than most young world travellers because we took the hint of a famous globe trotter shopper on our boat and "proportioned cur shop ping fund." This may sound diff cult, but it certainly pays in the end. If you do not use this fore- sight, you'll find yourself spending nearly all of your extra money on We spent the rest of the after- gorgeous kimonos and irresistibly noon shopping and poking about lovely things in Japan on your first Queen's Road, which is the Fifth stop-over. And then by the time. Avenue of Hong Kong. Thanks! you get around to, Egypt you'll wish | again to our globe trotter friend, you hadn't bought four kimonos so we know that, it was best to wait that you might buy a handsome till we reached Canton" to buy scarab ring from an Alexandrian shawls, Ivories and jados. Of mummy's tomb I

course Shanghal is a (heap place to So take a tip from a seasoned buy Chinese things. But still there traveller and proportion your funds!

are some things in Hong Kong that we can buy no place else, such as If you're going around the world

the handsome blackwood end tables, and have four or five hundred to carved boxes, and peacock wicker spend on shopping, divide it six chairs (which sell as low as threa ways. A sixth of it for Japan, twoż or four dollars gold if you bargain sixths for China (north and for them) south Chin

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We decided to save most of our ending money for Canton, so we

ing, and that discoveries of Helgan a short time ago, have led, 40 more than two-dikthi), another bought Just a few things. I found historical importance may result, far, to the discovery of two point sth for India, that much for

The moand, how overgrown with ed stone hammer-heads, with holes shrubs, covers an area of over 8,000 for the handles, belonging to the Egypt and of course, you'll want a square feet," aid in 38 feet in baight. neolithic period. The larger one pures full for the Riviera. If cezaists of stones heaped one of the two has all, the appearance Kind Helpers.. upon.anotbar, wihout cement of of a weapon, while the smaller one any kind. Excavations, which be-seems just an ordinary tool.

little side street, and Edith bought a cunnleg pewter ship model in x squarlah teapot with cherry blos soms sprawling over it. We tried to limit our buying to those things which we knew we'd have a de In Hong Kong we had our three - Anise use for at home, The vorlest

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