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THE CHINA

The China Mail

Ninety-Third Year of Publication

manufactured goods of all kinda are pouring into the godowns; shipping companies are cashing in on freights boosted sky high by war risks and war urgency; thousands of tons of diverted traffic enrich the harbour; milit-

3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong ary roads open up the hinterland;

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half a million refugees send pro- perty values rocketing, and scores of big and little concerns that struggled for existence a few months back, are paying divid-

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. ends and dreaming of expansion. In short everybody is making Notice To Contributors..

money or about to. That is All communications intended for everybody but the wage earner. Perversely he finds himself out of the golden race. Unaccount- ably prices continue to soar while wages remain stationary. Dazzled by the surrounding glitter, he is slow to realise that when food costs soar, rents keep pace, and

publication should be addressed to the Editor, and be accompanied by

the Writer's Name and Address,

a guarantee of good faith.

Subscription Rates.

3 Months

not necessarily for insertion but as a tentative request for a salary raise is offset by a casual men- tion of that smart young man from Shanghai, "who is willing to work for half. what we're pay- ing you," prosperity is privation. When debt and eviction make matters painfully clear the wage earner's resentment collapses against the wall of optimism that surrounds the Colony's compla- cent administration. Like the Chartists, politically castrated, the champagne atmosphere is al- together too much for him.

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 18, 1938.

CHAMPAGNE ATMOSPHERE

|Romany—Streamlined

If one may judge from the This time in the year 1848 National Camping and Open Air saw a crowd of twenty thousand Exhibition, which was held re- shivering in a cold rain while cently in London, the manufac- their leader pleaded with Lon-ture of caravans or trailers, as don's Commissioner of Police for they are called in the United permission to cross Kennington States is becoming an import- Bridge. The Commissioner stood ant industry in Britain. The pat, and much to the surprise of business this year is breaking the Duke of Wellington and all records; and, according to greatly to the relief of his soak the Camping Club, which

.pro-

ed Guardsmen, O'Connor return-moted this Exhibition, the sum- ing to the crowd, meekly advised mer should see more than 15,000 them to disperse., Thus ended caravans in use, accommodating the great Chartist demonstration more than 50,000 people. from which that amateur of

rreat events, Carlyle, had freely.The gypsy, "wandering on a predicted a second Commune. foreign strand," has not always

been regarded as a paying guest, That it fizzled out like a damp but in this case he has left squib was neither due to the legacy-in-return for hospitality, miserable weather, nor to the which has done something to line of stalwart red coats, though wipe out the debt. He, himself, it is admittedly difficult to keep may regard the modern luxury- passions beneath a London drizzle flat on wheels, when in the face of cocked pieces, at boiling point.,

In gallant trim the gilded

vessel goes; '

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The explanation was psycholo- Youth on the prow, and gical rather than climatic and

Pleasure at the helm, physical. Politically strangled by as not entirely in the true tradi- the Gentry and callously exploit-tion, and there are out and out ed by the Genteel, the Chartists simple lifers who would go even succumbed at the barricades to further, and protest that to have the all pervading optimism of a genuine roof over one's head the new industrial era. It was a is not playing the game but period of enterprise, expanding these are extreme views. business, and orders round the

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corner. Times were far too brisk] To many who are reluctant to for the gloom of universal dis- discard the comforts, the caravan content to prevail over the happy is a useful compromise: it can optimism of Boom.

provide electric light and heat and water (h. and c.), and still In shadow and substance curi- remain a lodge in the wilder- ously akin to the Hong Kongness. of 1938.

Some, it may be, can get in

touch

With Nature there, ог

Earth, or such.

Times are brisk in the. Colony and discontent universal. The exciting proximity of a major war brought the promise of a becoming a substantial reality. And some, who wish not so much trade expansion that is quickly

Shorn of the Levantine and Cen-to get back to Nature as off the tral European adventurers whose map, can wander with the free- discreet bargainings and glamor-dom of the raggle-taggle gypsies, ous demi-mondaines lend an air yet in the comfortable assurance of plutocratic vivacity to the that they are exemplifying the hotel foyers, the inner core is highest type ever reached of 'solid gain. Iron, steel and nomadic civilisation.