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Editor: But my dear sir, we have all that already.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1930.

FRANCE'S

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PEARL

OF THE EAST.”

Visitor: Eh? Then you are not the Public Works Depart- I have had many surprises in river from the sea, and the weathar ment?

the course of my wanderings was delightful. Kickshas by the All: (giggling) Oh dear no, through the Eust. but in some hundred and little pony-carriages by nothing like that!

ways Salgon is, the greatest sur- the score were on hand to take one Visitor: How extremely vexing.prise of all, I had heard, of about the city at absurdly amali I was directed here by one of your course, that the French called the charges, but 1 walked for miles along English-speaking Chinese Police. metropolis of their rich Asiatic one arbored avenue after another, My curac on you! Au revoir, empire the "Pearl of the East," through fair little squares, into quiet (He vanishes with a sinister growol). but half a dozen other places residence, streets, where the homes All (sadly): He said au révoir, possess characteristics that in of Europeans were all but concealed did you notice?

some degree justify that rather in tropical foliage and banked with Editor: But cheer up, my grandiose designation.

a hundred odorous blossoms, and friends, There is nothing to At any rate, every colonising finally, considerably apart into the worry about.

western. nation, even America; has Chinese section, the only quarter.of Its "Pearl" somewhere in the far- Saigon which in the least degree But reaching Orient." And so one sp-| resembles any other city in the For

France's particular East. proaches All: Never happened?

"Pearl" whether by land or by Editor: Precisely. I have just sea, with mild skepticism. in no remembered that my birthday is wise expecting anything here not_until_next April

markedly different from Manila or Macassar, Batavia or Bangkok, Sourabaya or Singapore. In fact, the tourist probably does not come to Indo-China anyway except to see Angkor, passing through Saigon only incidentally on the way in or out.

All: But think of the Editor: I know, I know. it never happened.

News in Brief.

Mr. John William Franks resumed duty as Superintendent of Prisons on September 27.

But here in France's corner of His Excellency the Governor has Asia there is something distinct- appointed Mr. Wan Yu-shing to be untler hot, tropical skies, a city,

ly different, a city that is Europe Inspector of Vernacular Schools

that, from a western viewpoint, is under section 4 of the Education incomparably the fairest east to Ordinance, 1913, with effect from

Suez. Nothing can prepare you January 11, 1935.

for the charm that is here bazide The current issue of the Govern-river lined with mangrove swamps, what only yesterday was a muddy ment Gazette states that the King's backed

by the impenetrablo Exequatur empowering Mr. H.

Jungle. Vander Straeten to act as Belgian' Consul-General at Hong Kong has received His Majesty's signature.

your generous offer, and I have register and the company will be tropical cllme,

already something of the sort you desire in my drawer. (Opens) drawer) Ah, here it is. May I read it aloud?

Editor: My dear pleasure!

sir,

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The farther I strolled the more I' wondered, for there seemed no end to these splendid avenues and boulevards, avery-one-lined-so-closely with trees as to be actually arbored: overhead. Each avenue led from a square like those from the Place d'Etoile in Paris, and ultimately brought one into another square, expansive like that wherein stands the great Cathedral, or small and inviting like that called the Place de Marechal Joffre upon which, inciden-

tive of all American Consulates in tally, stands one of the most attrac

the Orient,

Saigon's day's activity commences early, ere yet the sun is high enough to be exuding much heat. It pauses at eleven o'clock, not to recommence until four in the after- noon, when the heat has begun to wane. Between these hours every- thing European is closed and every European remains. in seclusion. In the shopping district there is re- newed activity until seven o'clock, but the professional man has long ere that gone out to the Country Club with Its golf course and tennis courts, to the river, or perchance down to Cap St. Jacques, two or three hours by motor, where there is a fine hotel and a never-falling ocean breeze. But by dark Saigon itself is no longer hot, relatively speaking, and its beauty is then at the ultimate, as the lights gleam through the heavy follage everywhere, as the music from several hotel orchestras at the dinner hour recalls the restaurants of Paris or Vienna, as white-clad Europeans stroll or motor A Russian, named V. A. Rudel, often been in Saigon. "Hot," he along the tree-lined boulevards, employed by the Shetland Circus. said, and that was all. The hot- where the night air is accentuating. which is playing for a short season test place in the East, Hot all the perfume of every flower known at the Praya East Reclamation, was the time, day and night. Worae to the tropics. mauled by an animal yesterday: He than

dissolved..

Physically, it is the colonisation achlèvement supreme, this deve- It is notified in the Gazette that lopment of a surpassingly lovely at the expiration of three months the Orient, this building beside city, this complete westernising of

from to-day the Union Bank,

An eastern river. beneath the Limited will, unless cause is shown palms and banyans and amidst to the contrary, be struck off the

the thousand blossoms of in a true Paris in

It is passing strange how in- The engagement is announced at adequate an idea one obtains of Shanghai between Miss Anna

a place even from persona who Petersen, only daughter of Colonel have been there. Saigon was the Hans Petersen of Berlin and Mr. final city of the Far East with Curt von Winterfeldt of Jebsen and which I was yet unfamiliar, and Co., Hong Konog, youngest son ofI asked many people about it. on General and Mrs. von Winterfeldt, the way out here. I began with Berlin.

miniature.

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the Japanese captain of the good ship Koren Maru, for he had

Singapore: Worse than was taken to the Government Civil Sourabaya; worse, reven, than Hospital for treatment.

Shanghal In summer!" And about all I could get from anyone was corroboration of this denb description.

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All: A pleasure! A pleasure! (The Adversarian proceeds to read the document aloud).

"To all whom it may concern-- Dear members, of the public; you who have suffered under the onslaught of journalistic pens, and borne the brunt of offensive opinions; you who have read the tales of mystery and imagination which pass for news; you who are forced to swallow the para- dox and digest the fatuous— listen to my tale. If only you realised how much I have suffered from trying to pump ideas into your pig-headed minds; how try ing it is to have to inculcate sense into intelligences which stopped short with the London Matriculation; how galling it is to fatter your affection for pre- varication by misrepresenting the facts-you would, I know, weep for me the tears of compassion, But it cannot go on. This pose Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 4, 1930. has got to stop. In truth, dear

reader, I have deceived you sad ly. I have not been serious about a single thing that I have writ- ten. All the time I have been pulling your leg. In future" yesterday Mr. H. R. Butters passed I arrived, then, In Saigon late in

Editor: Please, please don't go sentence of one year's hard labour the evening and thus, perhaps, saw The Frenchnan who has come out on! I can't bear it! Its too on a Chinese charged with having the gay little city at its brightest. affecting (weeps).

London Officer:-S. H. Bywaters &Co., Ltd., 30-38, Southampton, Street, Strand, W.C.2.

ADVERSARIA.

"Without fear, favour or malice,

THE LURE OF THE PEN.

And so, having been at Angkor, and having returned from there Two Chinese workmen employed to Phnom Penh, I took an "auto- at the Taikoo Doocks were injured bus" for Saigon. The vehicle yesterday through falling from broke down so many times on the staging on board the 8.8. Hongkeng way that it distinctly recalled a whilst she was undergoing repair in journey in an even more decrepit dry dock. The two men had their one from Haifa to Beirut when, scalps fractured and were removed on a wild and rainy night, and in

to the Government Civil Hospital. an even wilder region, we had to pause for repairs about every five

At the Kowloon Magistracy miles.

The astonishment that this falr French city in the Far East brings to you immediately you enter it is A by-law made under section 16

the greater because nothing has pre- of the Public Heath and Building

pared you for such a place. It is Ordinance, 1908 reads:-No person

Little wonder, then, that If the Orient only as the people of under the age of twelve years shall Rought Angkor and the rest of the Orient are about you. Other be permitted upon any premises used Indo-Chins first, and determined wise it is altogether of Europe. To for the trade of rag-picking, rag to suit from Salgon and to tarry

eee a ricksha coming along the storing, hair-cleaning, feather- there very Uriefly meanwhile splendid Boulevard Norodom, which storing or feather-cleaning.

leads out to the unique Botanical Gardens, is almost as surprising as it would be to find one coming down the Champs Elyaces back in Paris.

In Saigon It is as if the East nad obtruded itself into the West, rather than the contrary. That' is the im- pression the French colonisers have succeeded in producing here, and whether you sympathise with the purpose or not, you cannot but admit that it has been a marvelous feat 'and one without parallel elsewhere.

here to remain five years, ten years, distributed pamphlets likely to I saw large hotels lining broad, tree-.perhaps indefnitely, has determined think we are doomed to that.

All: Too, too' affecting, To cause a breach of the peace at the lined avenues, tables filling the side- to solace himself in bis exile by Kowloon godowns on September 3. walks before them, tropically clad bringing something of France with Adversarian: Tut, tut. Don't A further charge of possession of Europeans listening to the latest him, and he has done it in a degree. take it so badly. You will only pamphlets was dismissed.

music from the Grand Boulevards, that no other colonising people have (Scene: the Editorial department be expected to write seriously.

played by orchestras of Parislan equalled, or, paihapa, attempted. www. | of a Colonial newspaper office. On No one could expect you to think | A matshed in Shamshuipo, belong-musicians. I saw European shops Nor does the Frenchgan wax at the left is a file of newspapers from seriously. There is no strain in- ing to the Lee Ping Kee, which was and cafes surrounding an expansive all fulsome when he calls Saigon the various parts of the world. Near at volved in my decision.

used as coolle quarters, were complaza, in the centre of which stood "Pearl of the Et. It is that, hand are several pairs of scissors Editor: Thank Goodness for that! pletely destroyed by fire yesterday the most elaborate opera house east indeed, and afte! spending a few and pots of paste. In the centre is Very well, and what do you pro-afternoon. It was stated that the of Suez, a model of that in Paris. days there the viitor must needs the Reporters' desk, at which a pose to serve upon your unde-shed caught are through sparks

admit that no othe, Oriental city is number of intellectual gentlemen serving public to-day? What ides failing on it from a pile-driving ma-1 found a new and even fined hotel really entitled to he designation. are hammering on their typewriters serieuz?

chine. The etted was valued at just opening, one with every possible Nor does it differ climatically in any the daily quota of murders, thefla,

Adversarian: I propose that $300 and no one was injured. European amenity. Towering above great measure from other Far East- rapine, suicide, company meetings, no paper be published at all..

the other buildings on the shaded ern cities. I met ne American, and other mental foods for which the. All: No paner! Impossible! In view of discrepancies. between Bund, its terrace dining room facing manager of the Salgin branch of a

En- Editor: populace scems to clamour

Why the Universe atatements made to the Police by the river with its cool evening world-girdling concern, who has trenched behind a bookcase of would stop. The constellations witnesses of an accident, and their breezes, It forms one of the out- been there twenty years and still Encyclopaedia Brittanica's, is the would cease to whirl, and Einstein evidence given in Court, an inquiry standing hostelries of the Orient. enjoys all features of the place, its Adversarian. A little room at the would dance ring-a-roses with held by Mr. R. E. Lindsell and i Moreover, I found none of the pre- life and climate. No ther city in rear is the repository of the Editor Euclid. Civilisation would cease! Coroner's jury into the death of a dicted atmospheric discomfort. I the Orient, he says, so ombines the and all the books, magazines and Adversarian: Exactly; and in boat girl who was knocked down and had been hot, doubtless, during the charms of Europe and of the eastern periodicals that were ever published, that perfect state of the Nihil killed by an Aberdeen motor bus on afternoon, but now there was a tropics. It is a hot, humid morning in would men at length realise the September 24, was adjourned unti! strong, cool breeze blowing up the September. The Editor enters with divine function of the Preas. next Monday afternoon. the quick stride of a busy man).

There would be a re-birth of the Editor: Good morning, gentle

A Drama of a Modern Newspaper Office.

men. :

Superman with a Government of Editora,

...The Entertainments Committee of the New Sailors' and Soldiers' Home met, last night to make arrange ments for providing activities of social and educational Interest for

the members of H. M. Services dur ing the Winter. A billiards toarna-

All: Click, click, click-morn-|- Editor (secretly pleased): Ing-click-m'n'ng click What heresy!

Editor: Ah, there you are, Mr. All Rank revolution! Adversarian. Hiding your might (There is a loud commotion, from under a bookshelf, as usual! outside accompanied by peals of (This sally is greeted by shrieks thunder, flashes of light, and ament for a perpetual challenge cup of huge delight from all)atench of sulphur).

Adversarian: Snip, enlp-ah, All: Ware typhoon.

The Visitor; No, gentlemen; good morning Mr. Editor-snip.|

Lays Down Scissors) merely the Devil.AKANA

Editor: All busy, I see. Well, Editor: Pleased to meet you. the dear public will have its full The Printers' Devil, I presume? ten cents worth to-day, I'm sure. Visitor: Oh no, just Mephis Now I wanted to tell you, Mr. topheles. I have merely come to Adversarian, that to-day being suggest ahem that you gentle my birthday, I have decided to men join league with me in die allow you every opportunity to seminating a few of my prin say what you please In short, ciples,

for the space of the next twenty- All: (shocked) Get behind us, four hours you are a free man, tempter Waat terms do you free to express your most candid offer, Evil One News

Vialtors offer me the thonours for which

offer tye

Adversarian s:(gravely) --Very rood, Mr Quickcopy. I shall en- best in the

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BANKRUPTS IN KENYA.

Judge Says 98 Per Cent. Are Absolute Frauds.

-M. T. G.

prison for a year, and they enquir into the case, it would do aworld of good. Later he committed e man for trial an charges of fraudulent bankruptcy.

The great majority of the bank- uptcies in the Colony are those of small Indian traders, and very few

Europeans appear in the lists.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the" "China, bfall”-

October 4, 1920.)

Striking observations on the fe also being arranged for teams operation of the bankruptcy lawa in drawn from the Navy and Army. Kenya were made by Acting Chief Justice Stephens, recently in the The case against the Shantung course of a bank ptey-cane-in whic Lance-Sergeant and the Shantung an Indian shopkeeper was Involved. Constable charged with assulting I would like a rope to hang a fowe Mr Leung Yuk-kl, a Chinese mer of these bankrupts to a peg," he chant, at the Junction of Hollywood declared. "I do not think I have Road and Queen's Road West, was had more than two or three genuine concluded before, Mr. E.-H. Williams bankrupts during the six years I' yesterday both accused being, con have been in the Colony IBA victed. The records of the two without fear of contradiation that were very good, and, taking this 98 per cent of the bankrupts of the Hong Kong Club: for the Preserva- into consideration, his Worship Colony are absolute fraudation of Westminster Abbey amount- t in tha.| ed (to18772. This with the Cathe hilat admitting that the assault Referring to the banks

Justice draf collections and sums", sub- Barious matter far case before him, the

in the equently received amounted to

view of the said it would be a go

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