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THE VENICE

Here at the head of the Gulf of Siam, fifty miles up a narrow river alive with an exotic activity like to nothing else on earth, is the city which epitomizes the life of the Orient in greater degree than even Singapore or Shanghai Bangkok, "Venice of the East."

Of certain cities it is sometimes said that they are more than cities, they are experiences. And so it is of Bangkok. This strange Siamese capital is truly an experience, and a memorable one. Moreover, it is a living refutation of the assertion that novelty hus fled the world before the advance of modernity and Western commerciallum. Modernity has had no effect upon Bangkok, unless to provide for a few good hotels, metalled ronds and an astonishingly efficient railway system.

But the life and activities of a million Asiatics go on as they did a century ago and more. The at mosphere of the stupendous East, in all its colour and all its magic and all its mystery, still maintains here, little altered since the days of the East India Company and the tea clippers. Bangkok is the most Oriental. In

OF THE EAST.

THE

MOSQUITO PEST,

How It Can Be Kept

Down.

CHINA

MAIL.

to see that PROPOSED PEKING

care must be taken tanks must not only be clean and covered, but the manhole. Ild should be securely fastened on. proceed ashore in a sampan whose

The overflow pipe should be cover- operator makes profound obeisance upon receiving ble trifling fes, nor

ed" with mualin or mosquito net- HINTS TO HOUSEHOLDERS. cavils at all at the amount. Here,

ting or a cocoa tin with small perforations in the bottom, would at the outset, is a unique ex- perlence, as

"Surprising as it may seem, make an admirable stop-gap in all who know their

thousand the overflow pipe. are more than a

Failing any East will agree. Then there makes there

as a its appearance a diminutive British species of mosquito in existence, of these precautions and motorcar. of the type felicitously although many of these are quite last resource, it is necessary to known as "vest-pocket size," being harmless," said Mr. F. Higgs, spray your tank every five or six one more of the world-girdling Chief Health Inspector of the days in summer. This, however, products of Birmingham. But, Perth City Council, when discuss becomes irksome to being incumbered only by a "guiting the mosquito pest and how to householder, and is consequently case" and portable typewriter--the deal with it. "It has been de- neglected. wanderer's unvarying luggage-finitely proved that mosquitosa there is room enough. And then are the agents in the spreading for several miles through streets or yellow fever, malaria, dengue resembling those of the Chinesefover, and elephantiasis, but apart from this, the irritating tactics of the pest call for our best endea vours to restrict if not actually to eradicate it."

part of Rangoon, we scurry in quest of the majestically named hotel.

Presently the canals, or klongs, raany scarce a dozen yards across, and no more than a foot deep, yet each carrying some sort of water borne traffic, creas our way under little bridges at frequent inter. vals. Along the broader ones on either side the activities of the streets of an eastern city go on with all the

restlessness and

A

"During its life

mosquito passes through four stages the egg, larvae, pupa,, and image or adult insect. The egg is laid on

of water. the surface

with the exception of one species, female of which deposits her eggs on dry ground. The eggs of the Culex species are formed together in the shape of a raft

the

the average

Gold and Silver Fish. "Where permanent fresh, water lakes or pools abound, it is the

and silver fish owner's business to provide gold (Russian carp), and when this is established it will be found that mosquito

larvae will seldom, if ever,

be

found in auch waters. The shores of lakce, pools, and swamps should be cleaned up so as to A definite border, free of

make vegetation or weed. This method of making a sheet of water not merely ornamental but, perhaps useful, has more to recommend it than the carrying out of costly drainage construction. For instance, Perth. Mosquitoes cannot breed

CONFERENCE.

LEADERS OF RIGHT AND LEFT WINGS TO MEET AGAIN.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1930.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

AT THE NEW SILK STORE.

A NEW SHIPMENT OF CREPE-DE-CHINE

Peking, May 7. General Kung Keng, Chlef Coun elllor to General Yen Hsi-shan, left for Tientsin on Tuesday night to confer with Mr. Chen Kung-po and other Party leaders at the port on Kuomintang affairs.

It has been proposed that the 5, Wyndham St.

leaders of the Right and Left Winga of the Kuomintang should hold a conference at Peking in the near future, Tan Chen, Fu Ju-lin. Chang Chi-pen, Mao Chu-chuan, Quo Tai-chi, Gen- eral Yeh Chi, and General Tac Yeh- kung have sent a joint wire from: Tientsin to Talyuan urging the party leaders at the. Shanei capital city to came to Peking for the con-

Messrs. Chen Kung-po,

ference.

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all the world east of Suez or west, it is unique. It is the East as the East used to be, picturesque, allur ing, unbelievable.

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Generalities in these days carry

Httle conviction. And yet, ere pro ceeding to a more intimate view of Siam and ite · amazing capital, a few generalities are essential by way of preparation. For Slam it- self is the land unique, the climax of the fascination of the East; and Its teeming capital of nearly a mil- lion of the assorted peoples of the

homes, occasionally a small saw- mill, pottery works, or some other industry, line the banks. The turgid stream itself teems and

seethes with life.

Heavy-laden

junks, floating markets, on tiny craft, some scarce able to sup- casional launch and hundreds of

port the weight of a child, weave in and out, spinning a veritable web of such a picturesque life as only this "Venice of the East" knows or ever has known. "But it is in the morning that you should see it," declares my guide, "when the Buddhist monks go

there because the pools are stock- ed with fish and the water's

ed eye, and when hatched out the larvae feed on small particles of animal and vegetable matter floating on the surface

of the edges are defined and kept clear water. Generally known as wrig of overhanging vegetation. It is

Been in

this overhanging vegetation and Wrigglers come to the surface to cellent breeding haunts for the glers, larvae may be pools, tanks, and water barrels.

algae growth that offer such ex-

secording to the breathe, and,

from the

species, some breathe tuft and others

Orient, with a handful of Euro- about in their little sampans.scek. curved tail.

peans all but lost among them, is such a place as dreams form them- selves about and to which the farthest flights of fancy scarce dare venture. And the strange waterside, water-borne life which justifies its characterization as

"The Venice of the East," unlike anything else in the world, lends to Bangkok such A distinction among Eastern cities as Venice it- self holds in the Occident.

In the early morning hours, ere

yet the crimson streaks have faded from the eastern sky, the steamer which has anchored overnight at the mouth of the river-this Menam River which has its source in distant Tibet is underway and moving slowly upstream amidst a constantly increasing flotilla of steamers, launches, junks and sam-

ing their day's contributions of food; and when the water markets are busiest."

And then the hotel is at hand, and I see that this particular "Royal," at least, does not belie Its name. In the "European" part of Bangkok, hard by the British and American Legations, it is startling ly impressive and quite in keeping

And with the environment.

TO

from the head The pupa is the third stage, and this has been termed the comma stage, due to comma-like appear ance owing to the large head and At this stage the pupa does not feed, but strange enough, those previously breathing from the tall Row breathe from the head.

After four or five days the pupa comes and the skin on to the surface

the back splits, the mosquito emerges, and stands up in his own skin canoe, dries his wings, and

a near-by resting place.

Alles to

"There is a

migratory species of mosquito known 88 the

mosquito.

&

When you are bitten by a mos- quito you have

every possibility of becoming yellow fever

phantiasis case. The female mós- patient, or a dengue fever or ele quito lays from 25 to 250 eggs, which she is able to do four or five times in a season, and, ac- cording to some authorities, 75 per cent. of these eggs are fer- tile.

"The example of the difficulties met with in the construction of the Panama Canal owing to the ravages of yellow fever caused by

is

the mosquito should be sufficient to convince us all that every pre- caution must be taken by avery Individual and that co-operation most essential. Where mos- wonder, for was it not once a vast Anopheles, which is capable of quitoes are concerned the watch- palace, constructed by a wealthy travelling # distance of fifty

word must be "War to the knife." Chinese who sought

impress his miles, while, to fead on human neighbours, and did so-winding blood, they frequently travel a Pp with the loss of his entire for mile or so from their haunts. As tune, so far did this huge pile of to the malaria-carrying Anopheles, masonry and teak and sculpture I prefer to leave that question get beyond his expectations! And to the entomologist, for if that of mosquito is so now it is a hotel, and its pro- particular breed pans of every type and maritime prietor is a Parisian culinary here, one naturally wonders why, Already the tall prachedis,"artist" who came to Siam some there are no local cases of or Buddhist relic shrines, begin to time ago to be chef to

a former malaria, dot the countryside, and the shores king. are lined with the wats, or tem- ples, of the riverside villages.

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era.

At frequent intervals irrigation canals lead from the river to the

Water Receptacles. "The work of a health inspec- Learning all that, I regarded

tor is not spectacular in any with some zest the prospects, nor

Such branch of the department's ac was I at all disappointed. manifestations of modernity as tivities, and perhaps the least

SULTAN'S HAREM.

Former Home of Intrigue Becomes a Museum.

The

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Those at Talyana include Messrs. Chou Lu, Hsieh Chih, Wang Fah-

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No formal conference has been'

The party leaders held at Tientsin. there only exchanged opinione re- Et, Pottinger St. garding the organisation of a new Central Kuomintang office.

Tientsin reports say that the manifesto of the members of the lat and 2nd Party Congresses held at Canton and Shanghai has been drafted by Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Party ure expecting to'- receive leaders. leader of the Left Wing.

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vast aweeps of rice field, and about this are not unacceptable, even to noticeable is the work of mosquito debauches, murders and assassina- formed Afteen times daily, is an

the hardened wanderer, particular- reduction. Patrols are constantly their entrances cluster the villages in the East., But they are about draining, spraying, huraing off,

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Bangkok. Yet

are so vast

shallows, and stocking the only ones, aside from such filling amenities of a western city as tele pools with fish in an endeavour phones, electric lights and tram- to keep the pest in check, but the that ways, to conflict with the ages-old swamp areas

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unless we have the co-operation people themselves, especially the above and beyond all this is the of the public much of our work At younger ones, appear to have de- charm of the most unusual, and in would be rendered useless. veloped amphibian characteristics some ways the most attractive, of tention must be paid to all water as rapidly as a South Sea Islander. all the Far Eastern peoples, these receptacles from the sprinkler They splash about from house to polite and over-smiling Siamese. tanks on high buildings to cellar house, propel tiny craft somewhat That, and such interesting con- area resembling an Eskimo kyak, fear tracts with them as is possible all lessly into the steamor's wake and over Siam, is ample subject mat live, scantily clad, a joyous land-ter for another paper.-M.T.G. in

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and-water existence.

Presently, when the ship hes proceeded as for as appears at all practicable into a traffic thicker than the Hung-pu's at Shanghai, she anchors, and an official or two makes the usual appearance. But the Siamese, world-famed for their politeness, place no obstacles what- ever in the way of visitors. In the case of Americans they have even foregone the vise requirement eu- tirely, and in a moment the stranger is at liberty to proceed ashore.

Possibly, if he is the sole pas- senger, as frequently happens with me in unfamiliar ports, he will' wonder Just where he is going when he gets ashore. If he is a true wanderer he will, of course, have made no "reservations," or had any concern with such con- ventionalities, knowing that one of life's little piquancies is arising 'in. the morning with no definte know- lodga of where next he will sleep. However, on this occasion, it ap pears that the pilot, having just gone arbore, has passed the word that there is a European passenger -on this' coastwine vessel. And so, behold, are long a person wearing. 1 cap designated "Royal Hotel" ap pears.

Now I have come to regard with some uncertainty hotels so-called. Deplorably enough they do not always justify the name, "royal" in no? sense But we are some dis the city, and through streets there is not Hleve that one unfamil language will be ab satisfactory way to any satis tory destination

so I go with the polyglot

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