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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1947.

CASSANDRA of the "Daily Mirror recently completed, a Far East tour and spent considerable time in. Hong Kong. Here are his comments on what he calis

JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND

I tell you a difficult thing 1 puro lard as you can carry? Ajexceed a billion dollars, so it to do in the British Empire in koore of fresh eggs? A cask of is not really surprising that these threndbare and emaciated Pekoo tea? Galantine pork and only the Intent Cadillacs,

days it is to find a place tongue! (1)b. Jars, and any Studebakera, Chryslers and where you can sit in front of number of jars, at that.) Buicks are used .an taxicabs In

a gigantic T-bone steak equal Currants, sultanas, raiana, Hong Kong. It is not part of to the toin! of about three chopped peel, figs, ginger in dur business (nor. Indeed, weeks meat rations on the cur-syrup (five coloura), pure would it pay us) to prevent rent Strachey standard.

French olive oil (gal; tins), or twenty-four different kinda of sweets, 'ranging from marsh mallows to 5lb. containers of hard candiest,

Moreover. It is pretty rare, to be able to order the whole thing over again, if you have that sort of stomach, and then quité legally Don to a Tournedo Rossin (with Pate All theso foodstuffs, and de Fole-Gras) a Fliet Mignon, much more, can be bought with a Chateaubriand with Sauce out coupons in one single shop Bearnalse and a Mihute Steak in Hong Kong, Butter, flour, Bordelaise that would start a sugar and rice alone are ra- Trappist monk whimpering tioned-and even then the with Joy.

citizens were presented with an extra pound of butter lust month when a refrigerator strike threatened.

This appetising scene is not in the Black Markets of Bru- aels, Cairo or Rome. It is in Hong Kong-John Bull's H little other island off the China Const. The choice of food con- travenes no regulation.

Nor is this terrific fare a re-

How does this little colony, recently so full of Johnny Japs caressing the Hong Kongdana with 4ft. poles, half-drowning them with the water-torture, and burning them with blazing blow-lamps, now produce, this surfeit of merchandise?

in

rich Chinese coming to Hong Kong with their dollara and using them in the Amerienus market.

The Chinese prefer trading under British protection, and the mounting whirlwind of graft, bribery and "squeeze" In South China today has prob- ably become more than enough for those who have made their pile and wish to hold on what they have.

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The popular Western concep tion of the Chinese trader as n cross between a wise philoso- her contemplating the almond blossom, and an old' gentleman with a pigtall paying his res- Hects to his ancestors, is bas- ed on facts as solid as the theory that the moon is mado of rationed cheese.

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turnar

COPR. 1947 BY REA BERVICE, INC, T.'IN, ROS, IA I PAY, DIF.

"Oh, look! He's getting the Purple Heart because I spanked him!**

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

“The Authority on Authorities"

MUST KNOW

THIS PLAY

Reflection told him that East, Enr his vulnerable overcali in etuba, must have the pads K. 20 that the finesse was marked

A new noise, of particularly penetrating quality, has been added to the clamour in which we live. This may not appear, at first mention, to be a matter worthy of special comment, for the noises of Hong Kong, like the poor, are always with us. All are agreed on one point only that our Colony is a very noisy It is not only above-board place indeed and whether we re it is actually right there sizz gard this fact with a certain naling on the board just waiting tive pride, with resignation born to eaten, with the police of endurance, ur with exaspera available to see that the pro-

Moreover, how do they do it his own family circle, in

The 1947 Chinese, outside tion and irritability, is largely a prictor gives you full measure with income tax at exnetly intense individualist who re question of temperament and the

for your money,

nothing in the not even one state of our nerves. From time to

single thin cent for inland re- gards palm oil as the essential Hult of n Kigantie conspiracy cenue out of a Hong Kong only he doesn't call it palm oil lubricant of modern business-- time the authorities have been

between stirred into making a somewhat who have cornerod the world's

gourmet-millionaires 100dol. bill?«

It is a result of luck, a tem-, he calls it "tea money." (half-hearted campaign against supply of Grilled Tenderloin porary artificial situation, a lot The Western Iden of a com

the dia, but their efforts invari Stenk, lobster Thermider (of hard work, and one of the mercial company composed of ably fade away after the opening am now quoting a few items best Colonial Governments

shareholders who trust each bour. Tie police, who have the from one Hong Kong menu the British Empire.

other and the directors, seema Both the

A trick stealing play, which love. What to do? Then be re- duty of seeing that such pro-

that offers a total of 142 differ-new Governor and the Colonial ridiculous to him. Why should you should know for your remembered a play the old-time ex- hibitory orders as exist, regarding ent dishes), Beef Stroganoff, Secretary are shrewd and able they? And even if they did, use upon occasion, and which you port Wilbur Whitehead had unecessary noises, are observed, Red Caviar, Garoupa Flurenmen who know a great deal how would they all get their also should understand if you taught him years before. for use

tine, Whole Spring Chicken about administering this

hope to protect yourself against in just such an emergency, and would appear to be almost im-

key The smuggling that goes on it, Involves the effort to prevent he had the perfect situation mune, for they frequently allow Viennoia with Mushrooms-all port of the Far East,

right, I'll stopand Eggs,

a jouer hetween Hong Kong and the against a king is marked to loan try it. He led his spade 3 to the the din to continue unchecked, in Ponched, Boiled, Fried (3).

China count is typical Britlah It is a lead by a suit declarer ta forth the spade 4 from the dum

dummy' A. Then he brought their very ears. Some of the noises.

Hong Kong in 1947 is a preventivo officers in Hong the nce in dummy, instead of which assail us are both useful

If you are still on your feet, small paradise of law and or-Kong manage to acize vast Rnessing the queen, and then my. East was sure South meant vast quantities of contraband before return of the suit for an apparten in the suit. Covering it with to ruth that, having had single- and necessary, but only if made you might care to do a little der compared with the with a reasonable understanding shopping.

neighbouring chaos of corrupthey ever get out of part-butent ruff in the endeavour to es the K would only set up the suit of their purpose. It would be

NYLONS? Six dozen patra?tion und strife that is called not all.

What eludes them goes, not interesting to enquire of soine of You'll find-a score of Chinese China.

shops within fifty yards where Rich Chinese, like riefi, busi- furtively by junk at night to our multitudinous motoring com- they'll radiate with pleasure at nessmen claewhere, do not care be landed on soms lonely beach, munity, what they imagine to be your vider and gria, even more for crazy inflation (you need a bat in brond daylight by the reasons for which a motorist if you ask for, double the quan-suitenneful of Chinese dollars steamer to Chinese harbours. is intended to sound his horn. Is tity. Prices? Average about to buy your lunch in Shanghai) The Chinese Customs authori it intended to announce to the 88, or 9s. a pair.

and they bring some of their tles then come on board, ex- DAK049 entire neighbourhood the interest- SHOES? If the beat leather dollars-American dollars-totruct their "tea money" (they

C104 ing CITAS that he is passing you have ever seen (much of Hong Kong.

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I then warning particular persons of his no objection, then come along. vestments in the United States openly off-loaded over the side. approach? Judging by the inces- All sizes, all styles and not a sant application of extremely coupon fer a carload. loud horns which many of our drivers deem necessary, it would seem that they subscribe to the former opinion. Other noises cari only be classed as the useless and unnecessary. These include the loud. monotonous cry of the itinerant" hawker, the rattling and

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the trumpet voluntaries of the olive seller. It may be that there

is a peculiar satisfaction to be

derived from buying ‘olives from

a man who serenades his custom ers with a trumpet, but is it too much to ask that his afforts br confined to the daylight hours. when it may contend or mingle with the thousand and one other noises which assault the atmos-

of pliere, instead resoundin through the (comparative) quiet of the midnight hours. And now a new noise has joined the throng ... a noise so piercing that it can be heard above the wildest tu-

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Hong Kong's Rat Menace

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quickly for South. So he played the 7 then was flabbergasted when the 8 won the trick. The heart A and 10 were scared then, and the declarer was in position to one his diamond Q for A club discard, then lead a club to as- sure his contract.

If East, irad known the play, ho would have smelled' a'rat" when the spade 4 instead of the 10 was led from dummy, and should havo covered it if he

guessed right.

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Harbourage Explaining the problem of

rat control in Hong Kong an official anid yesterday that It is a particularly difficult one

an

to deal with effectively for

out amongst the rats, causing a widespread, and in

many

was on him now bɔ be sure that be made his contract as partial of sliced bacon? Or bacon slab potential menaces to the health urgent

One of tho most serious af World War II, and the amends for loss of a juicy

penalty in 14b. chunks? Half-a-hun-of Hong Kong is now being valuable

need to conserve against the opponents. West tok

foodstuffs, dred-weight of soap? As much fought by the Colony's Health scientifle research on rat climi- third round for East to ruff and that the diamond K and A and led a

authorities. The battle is between nation was carried out in Bri-South to over-ruff. Seeing the nerable). the Rodent Control stair and [tain. The results of this are certainty of losing a trick in clubs,

Why is an opening bid of 1- South did not dare also lose a Spade.sounder for South than a the heavy rat population, and the basis.

the present trick in spades. its 100 per cent successful out- methods

pras?. come depends to a large extent here. on the individual actions of A technique has been de public health authorities say in the battle against the rat is membera of the public.

veloped whereby poisons, auch there are no grounds for com-the extensive damage these The rat situation in Hong na zine phosphide, arsenic and placency on this account. In creatures do to buildings Kong remains "critical" but red squf are used together formor years, this "terrible af property, Articles which the authorities belleve that we with a special pre-baiting fiction which respects neither frequently made

useless may yet look forward to the method to completely eliminate class nor race, took a high toll damaged by rats include cloth- disappearance of this infestation rat and pouso infestations. in lives from the Colony. Since ing, household furniture and if proper consideration is given

Not Always Possible its disappearance in 1924 how fittings, papers, office, docu- to the problem by the entire An official of the Rodent ever, plague has still smoulder-monts, bara of soap and many population,

ed in a number of nearby South other commodities. Control here said yesterday: After four and a half years

· 250,- |mult... as indeed it is meant to mutter, hut we rejoice to see the cf occupation and the abyman is not always possible to / China ports and in spite of all do. The latest engines of the leading members of this com of methodical checking of the methods and the older less ef- there is the ever-present possi-

employ the most

that is done to prevent It. desirable Hong Kong Fire Brigade are fitmunity returning to the venerat pests' growth in number. it is ficient ones as, for instance the bility of ita re-introduction ted with sirens of such power as ed customs of their native land not surprising that to-day the use of traps and sticky boards through the medium of sea or to inform

everyone for miles even in matters of amusement. Colony is troubled with huge are used. The break-back type around when the fire brigade is A county Race Bail at home is numbers of the rodents who of trap with a treadle is pre- Plague Stages out! We would be the last to open to every person of good breed and multiply under at ferable to the cage type, and In the Initial stages of -300.- minimise in any way the excel- character, and the highest Peer least two ideal shelters-bomb- sticky boards give a fair mea-opidemic, plague frat breaks three main reasons. These are

lent work of the fire service. It the land meets the family ofed sites, and collections of rub sure of success."

a consoling thought to every

the respectable Yeoman without ble. compromising his dignity. By

Rat bins are, provided responsible citizen to know that such association, in a great de staff are already undertaking members of the public, and rodents.

for sickness followed by death to places very heavy, rat popular Hong Kong's Rodent Control the disposal of rats killed by a large number of these tion; the existence; practically an efficient and well equipped gree, the old arlstrocracy claim systematic treatment of

When a plague rat everywhere of excellent har- service is ready and available in the affections of the people.

these are placed in prominent dies, the infected flens harbour bourage and frequent inability mero serious infestations and,

most effective rat case of fire... and. more, es- No sensible man, in'

positions along China

the Colony's ed on ita body leave the rat in to use. the would wish to see society disor they render advice and assist public thoroughfares. They search of another prey, and poisons due to the risk of harm

anoo whenever possible. On where fire escapes have been left ganised. In the most democratic the other hand, the public can inches deep and 6-1/2 inches host the flea in infected aud

are metal drums measuring 10 after feeding upon the now to the people.

Said the official: out of the plans of most buildings, countries there are marked display its own, part by remem wide with hinged Hds and sup- also dies. It is not difficult to last two reasons present the "These

But is it really necessary to sound

Here, és elsewhere, bering that prevention is bet piled with a quantity of disin understand how quickly plague real crux of the problem. - Con- people, in private life, wish to ter than cure. that siren... so reminiscent, ssociate with their own class of the telephone, or writing a siderable number of rats are if they have been left uncheck rat harbourage we have to con- Before lifting fectant fluid. Although a con- may spread amongst the rats sidering first the question of many, of air raids and bombs those they suppose, their equals hasty nate calling assistance to deposited in them there for the entire distance of their but on a fenilve occasion, and get rid of rats, the would-be many people who leave

are ed, and when a number of rats tend with many undesirable. journeys? An appliance was reat a public ball, the distinctions complainant might ask himself dead vermin, in the streets and fected flens released from them tion of buildings and dwelling their die. It is not long before the in- features in the actual construc- cently observed traversing the of class are best sat halde-It in

the following questions:" Causeway Bay road. It was even- a time when every one should

other public places

are forced to feed upon human places. So very often harbour- Question's ing, the causeway was 'well it have an opportunity of making

Mecent statistics concerning beings, thus starting an epide-age is found to exist In hollow: Am I careful about the way rat elimination caused by the mic amongst the people spaces beneath floors, over coll- and completely devoid of traffic, himself happy. A low friends not a vehicle nor a pedestrian form a party to attend a public food and catables are kept, or Rodent Control staff in Hong “But plague, although the ings, under staircases, behind along the whole length and be ball, and they dance with each do I feed rata as well as my hong show that in September, most serious, is by no means panelling, in the roof and in the number of poisoning treat; the only disease carried by a great many other places; All- yond, as far as the eye could see. tions if they have double as to

other; they do not ask Introduc- own family?

Where do 1 throw my refuse, ments carried out -- Including rats and conveyable to mann, * too frequently the owners and Yet the screaming siten, which whether, it, will be agreeable to in a rat-proof container with those by the "block control" Hong Kong is also faced occuptors, of promises accumu had been heard approaching for the other party; and standing up a properly fitting lid, or just method--was 30. The number with another serious problem late all manner a of rubbish several secondi, never ceased, at the same quadrille does not anywhere?

s of rats destroyed as a result caused by the presence of rats, which If It never":"/sorves any Even in the busy streets of the constitute an acquaintanceko Do 1 tolerate any form of "of this la not known since the This is the wasto of valuable other purpose," affords *Mispla Metropolis, where a fire, bell is. We believe that at home it is harbourage for rata which majority of bodies cannot be facd which,, during the présent protection and a breeding still considered to afford ample fisual to apply to the Stewards could well be eliminated 7. réçayored........... An average of day world wide food shortage, ground: for, rats: With regard and sufficiently distinctive warn Uckets; there is thus a check Aru my premises cloan, or 2.864 traps were set every day in of vital economic importance to the polaoning of rats, this ing, the bell is not rung conting upon improper applicants, in are there fragments of food and 4,973 rate were caught. It has been estimated that rats method is used for preference

the present instante tiekote, are and crumbs lying about? satt Altogether 10,000 rats were spoil; four, Umes as much-food | wherever "It Is considered "86 ously. Admittedly, Hong Kong to be had at the Club, but we Public co-operation of this collected from the blank as they actually, eat, yet in fact to do so, yet for many/infeitad crowds are farsi less road and do not believe that any one who kind would help the authorl. Altliqugh bubonic plague has the amount spoiled is probably, tenement blocks it is necess traffic conscious, but why the should not be prusent will be as tien a long way, fabritev not been known in Hong Kong | oven greator. Native

to resort to ass fiffen when the road-la-cleart- foolish as.s

la. It was not until the threat,iin, recent years, Government essi Paint thrug to be considered I meshesta feree

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