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The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Saturday. Oct. 1, 1932.

Populations In The Pacific,

the

CHENGAH.

BY SANDY SAUNDERS.

The occasion for these verses; (Which perhaps you'll great with

." curses)

Is the farewell of the "poet" to Hong

Koog;"

ין.

For no more will I make merry On the chugging Kowloon ferry, And I'm going back to where I do

belong..

So, goodbye to Happy Valley, Where the aportamen love to dally With a whisky-soda" and a spicy]

yarn:

Ada so long, ye welcome beaches With your sun that burns and

bleaches, And mosquitoes that make Life not

worth a darn.

Y

Nevermore will I see Kowloon In the grip of howling typhoon, Or the temperature of 90 in the

shade: ***

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

1932.

The Bagpipes From The Inside

Skirl Takes Twenty-Six Years To Mellow

The World Wants Pipes

Glasgow. slowly maturing

is used

I see upon authority which cannot None

till

по

shelves.

it la

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be questioned that Glasgow means years old: some pieces of if are 30 "the beloved green place." It meant for 40 years old.

•

that long ago. Nowadays it means The old read, makes the music of the approved grey place.

the pipes more mellow, saya the No more greenness and love: It is expert explaining things to me, and the second city of the realm, and, the sound at last of that recognised Nor retire to bed perspiring, like the first city, its stations and Scots adjective, "mellow," strikes a With the smell of fah expiring, its quays have become Its repre- homely note on my ear. "None is And the thought of compradores sentative centres, writes J. M. N.used till it is 26 years old,” Ala

Jeffries. that must be paid.

that this should be said of cane for Yes, I'm tired of crawling roaches into it and hurrying out of it for

Strangers are always Hurrying bagpipes only. and Krank And the beggar that approaches weeks or fortnights or months or The skins for the bags, however,

English Sheep Won't Do.. You with whining pleas and scars whatever it may be in Scotland. are homegrown, the hides of Scots.

and even many of its own popula-sheep. Not even the hides of Eng So, adieu, ye junks and sampans, tion have a trick of leaving. It inish sheep will do. English sheep With your pirates, fish and

lanterns, And your 'maskee' coolies doing a

they please.

of dread disease:

When I'm Home and quietly

sitting,

I shall miss the gentle spitting

the East!

Down the lanes where humans live

far worse than beast." And perhaps I'll get that craving Once again to hear the raving of the hawkers that infest this

sloping town: P'raps Fll miss the Peak'a old

halo:

But for me the watchword's

'Sail, O!

And right now I'm on my way

without a frown.

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..

*

the evening.

were tried and proved wanting, or They hasten away to some beloy-proved too porous. They were flae ed green place up the Clyde. This is cid; they might have held some the fate of cities in return for such slow, Southern breath, but not the greatness as has come to Glasgow, savage exhalations of Highland

No doubt I should have slipped in pipers. and 'out with the Summer host off To hold this, even the skins of That pervades the strident music of travellers if someone had not spoken the Scottish sheep must be strange

to me of the bagpipe factory. The ly treated; they are filled with And I'll miss the cheerful clip-thought of the bagpipe factory sort of syrup made from unrefined ·

elop

pleased me it raised visions of cane sugar, and then hung up till That goes on and on without simpler days; it seemed to keep this has dripped like the sweet tears

stop.

Glasgow's foot on the soil.

of the goddess Harmony, all out of Summing the situation up rather the chanter. wilfully, I decided that for whatever)

Then the pipes are ready and the I might have to say about Scotland piper can point his three optimistic bagpipes would be a sound begin pipes to the sky and skirt. These ning.

pipes are called the "drones," and The World Wants Pipes. .'

they give the accompaniment to the There are some steep, stern hill tune upon the chanter. streets in the centre of Glasgow,

Lochiel Bellc. very effective, too, like commanding As for the silver, it is used for features in a man, and off one of the tuning-stick. You can

see it advent of the white men

these is the bagpipe factory, an shining if you watch a piper in the Not that it is Factory in the sun, which is a fine sight to watch. natives led a happy, busy life. Their

common sense of that word; I use "It keeps the sticks from wearing," head-hunting forays provided ex-

it for want of a better one, and says the expert, and, after a pause, citement, and necessitated elaborate

perhaps because this home of an "It has beauty, which is the first clet music was larger than I extime I have heard an expert use preparations in the shape of the con- struction of war canoes and the

pected.

that word. I do not think that I had ever

The bagpipe experts are in touch stocking of them with food. The

visualised properly how bagpipes with old music and old beauty. return of these expeditions was cele-

came to be made, irrationally I had This one opened a desk in his office brated with feasts and dances,

associated them with weavers in a little later, and there, lying As a fitting celebration of the remote cottages working hand-casually among papers and odd- which also required preparation.}

ments, was another piece of silver, The

The Pacific Islanders are reputed twenty-second year of Portuguese looms. Congress recent Science

Independance, a formal dance is Or else women rocked cradles with a brooch such as fastens a plaid. not to be addicted to toil. But covered a wide range of subjects, |

scheduled to take place at the Club one hand and wove bagpipes with It was of fine white silver with blus in their primitive state they had Lusitano on Wednesday next, the other, gathering the material innfelio tracery, ancient. ^. and produced papers and discus

enough to do to prevent time from October 5.

some feminine way round the essen "Do you know whose that we sions of quite remarkable interest.

hanging heavily on their hands. The festivities are of great in-tial sticks. Their husbands took he said. "Lockiel's.” „ The stocktaking at this clearing Then came the white man, who, with terest to the whole of the Portu- the articles when finished and walk- Do you remember Campbell's house of ideas shows what is being the best intentions in the world, pro- guese community. Three clubs are ed down the glen to test them. poem, "Lochidi, Lochiel beware of These tester husbands all wore the day," and how the gentle done by investigators in the hibited head-hunting and certain sponsoring the dance, Club de universities and laboratories of dances on moral grounds. "He gave Recreio, Club Lusitano and Liga beards-I think by way of asserting Lochiel spurned the gipsy's or

the natives implements which en-| Portugueza.

their manliness, for really they had witch's warning, and went to Australia, New Zealand, and their abled them to execute a piece of

A record attendance is expected, an easy life. They had just mar-Culloden?

His clansmen carried him sorely territories. It casts illuminating work in fewer hours than days had as the incentive for the "Besta" is ried into bagpipes,

Historic Caps.

wounded from the field. He escap light upon problems which will been previously needed. These inter- one of Portugal's greatest national

Absurd notions, I am well aware, ed with the forlorn few who accom holidays. closely affect the destiny of man-

ferences with his habita left the

but how many abaurd notions we do panted Bonny Prince Charlie to a kind, living and yet to be. Among native listless and bored; and, as

existence had lost its savour, he MR. S. A. ROBERTS have about Scotland. In point of French frigate, and ere going gave the very informative addresses pined and died, a subconscious

fact, bagpipes come, or those I saw the brooch from his shoulder to a DIES SUDDENLY. delivered were those dealing with victim of 'ennui This picture, we

came, from a group of good-sized faithful clansman.se - fra mang work-rooms." Bir Hubert

There the brooch lies in the denk populations in the Western Pacific. are told, is overdrawn.

There is a constant demand for of his descendant to-day, and makes Naturally there was not unanimity Murray, it is true, armed with rich

pipes; Highland regiments want, Glasgow momentarily nearer to the experience, believes that native in the opinions expressed. With psychology and the effect on it of

pipes, and Scottish societies and dear green place it was ones, different the passing of the old native life, conditions varying` in

the all over

world want localities, generalisations are dif- are factor in.. the de-

pipes, and Ghoorkhas in India want LYTTON REPORT IS The. death occurred population, and

at the pipes, and bands in Africa want that it is cult. For instance, a colony which

Victoria Hospital yesterday evening pipes.

READY TO PRINT. essential that interests lost through of Mr. Samuel Archibald Roberts, The result of this, in Renfrew- came under European influence at the disturbance of former customs of the Buildings Office of the Public street in Glasgow, is a scene half Release In Shanghai a late date, when the administra-brought about by the impact of Works Department, after a short ill-familiar and half-exotic. tion could be better regulated and civilisation should be replaced by

On Sunday. conducted along enlightened lines, others. But in regard to the Mr. Roberts, horn on Febru-strangest, so to put it. Men under

weight to be assigned to this fac-| might supply phenomena absent in tor, he says, medical men and an-ary 18, 1892, was formerly attached lowered electric lights Stand at those occupied by Europeans in thropologists are not at one. The to the Royal Engineers. He was ledges illed with wols and carry The full text and press summary "the old days," when the processes latter argue that the native lores appointed in England to Hong Kong out all sorts of excruciating niceties of the Lytton Report was formally of the native mind had not been heart, and therefore succumbs to where he arrived in March 1920, to bits of metal or wood azed in delivered to the Chinese Foreign Office at 7 p.m. to-day by a member the first malady that attacks him; taking up a post as second class vices. studied, when the administration the doctors, that the loss of heart first class engineer in 1924 and was bands working their lathes. The The Foreign Office is sending a

joverseer. He was promoted to The room is noisy with revolving of the Lytton Commission stan. grew up in a haphazard fashion, is the result and not the cause of and when many of the newcomers fil-health, which is probably que acting inspector of furniture in men are clad in dings...“ dungarees with copies in Chinese and English

and wear historic caps, like all ex- were of a highly undesirable type. to a deficiency, of food. It is in-

diaputable, however, that a conse Mr. Roberts was a valuable mem-perienced mechanica Peoples who from the outset of quence of the invasion of the Paci- ber of the Ex-Active Service Men's There is nothing eldritch, bonny, Shanghai in the afternoon. Ther their contact with Europeans have fic by Europeans has been the in- Association, and served on the com- or skirling in fight; not a Scots will be distributed to the foreign been cherished and protected from troduction of certain diseases, sevmittee for some years. He was adjective is applicable; the effect, and Chinese press at 8p.m. exploitation should, other things eral of which, not greatly dreaded also well known in Masonic circles so Intent and careful are the work-

by Europeans, are lethal to batives and had held once in the United ers, is of Swiss watchmakers. being equal, be more virile than unsalted by centuries of exposure Services Lodge.

- LEAGUE COMMITTEE My Charled Logs N those who did not receive these to them. However, many examples

But the floor is dark with some ON FAR EAST benefits until much irreparable can be cited to prove that associa-

Infinitely fine shredding in apota is mischief had been wrought

tion with Europeans does not in

black with It. - This is not ordinary

Called To Deci several points,

17|ituelf, mean the raci

dust; it is the exotic dust of ebony however,

Ph.D., will

On Report coloured people.n

Hop Yat Curious gnarled logs

piled speakers at the conference in the Maoris have held

Bond, at 7.30 breast high in this room and ceiling substantial agreement, an

org in groups

high in an uppez them should comf

P.W.D. Officer Passes At Early Age.

ness.

1931,

Personal Pars.

Rev. Dr. E.

clubo

The familiar side is perhaps the

cut into sections and

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Nanking, Kest

special messenger to Shanghai

on Sunday Morning, arriving in

Reuter.