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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1949

SAIGON AND THE STRANGER

It may be perfectly true to speak of Saigon as the Paris of the Far East. But Frenchman. He will amuco

and

not to a only ba

his own

is evident

not been

to

say in ecstatic way: "Ah, it

that you Parcel".

havo

By A "China Mail" Reporter

Hotel

can be seCN

the day

Grande Mande dubling with

Forbidden City

Good

Amethinks

are

That midinettes' strike in Paris seems to be pretty well sewn up.

Headlines la a contemporary yesterday:

"Shanghal Factories. "Warned Not to Leave City." So even plant and buildings to follow the party have now

told, though, that some of thein wooden listen.

platform for touring Parisienne entertainers. At the moment, the night club in featuring a well- known Paris ballet troupe which 1 remaining in Salgon for a service three-month season, performing Catinat. two wheels, school children ridej auto's

Men standards are poor by comparison. duting the week-ends. them to classes and play.

to work and even however.

the Commos mount them

is a busy house of The most popular place for re- their native amehs soom perfectly

laxation is the Croix de Sud on roulette, fantan etc calling the grinding their molars just at the The foremost impression gained home with the machine.

st

Frenchmen moet spare cash of enger speculators. moment, upon by the Stranger

arrival Then there are several madi-Catinat. Hore

while a Customers entering Grande at Saigon proper was the Amazfications of the rickshaw except for their evening sip

Dane Mondo are searched by police are strictly ing outward calm of its inhabi-the. model requiring human bro-Filipino orchestra plays.

This was done away ing at the Croix is on Saturday parties and cameras dormant pulsion. tants, although tense,

forbidden. unreat exist hardly outside it with by the French some time ago. and Sundays only.

In its place to delicabund

there is the Sunday to the French in Salgon city limits.

the holiday and they take it vory The city

is divided into two du- motorrick, the

The

parade on the Salgon, donkey cart. The last mentioned seriously. tinct parts, down town.

The Forbidden City, conspicu- predominated by Europeans in particularly popular around the street begins after Mass when at

11 a.m. all Saigon

ceous brothel In Cholon, is a large be estimated at more than 20,00 be- suburbs at the city.

and they take along Catinat or sitting at the extablishment on Gallient and is Bides

ml:issy the

(Eurasians) Taxis are low Advertisements and Business come and the native Annamites; and full loods with passengers paying cafes of the Continental, the Colx patrouined mostly by the military. informants 'told the Stranger that city's the

busy their share of the fare. The buses or the Pacifique. vast.

Attire generally is extremely

many a dancing girl from Canton munications should to addressed Chalon,

are invariably packed, and go

The women are sur and particularly Hong Kong has of the the Company CHINA MAIL rice-milling China-town.

Saigon in smaller than Hong about in bright colours advertis- Informal. LTD.

Kong but it is lens compacting the city's merchandise. Tram prisingly simply dressed. Though found her way to Cholon.

In all, Saigon town life today Brond avenues and boulevards cars too, contribute to the trame less fashionable than the women

is peaceful and calm. travela on "the of Hong Kong, the French which spread the city out and its pro all of

great- to wear their clothing with

Cost of living in Saigon la fit AMETHYST ESCAPE portionately smaller buildings

The short-cheap and is estimated to be less wrong side of the road."

er case and neatness. The French in Saigon lead an into the city to give it a clean

cont that of Hung per. easy life, spending age of dress material in Sgon than 80 unhurried, British hearts all over the comfortable look..

for no extravagant Kong's. Foreign goods, however, The elly, Bt present.

is Just most of their free time sipping is a renner

are unobtainable or yery expen- world are glad today because

leisurely An and gossiping

at the mode in the city. big splurge of

Places interesting particularly sive in the black market which in pavement of a small but significant in-a

estimated more than 50,000

numerous, ploturesque cident-the daring escape of French troops are quartered in cafes, or sauntering aimlessly to the newcomer are Saigon's two Saigon's lucrative trasiness.

or cooling gardens, the Town the sloop Amethyst from Saigon, which has more soldiers along the boulevards,

The Jardin Botanique.

the price in Hong Kong. Communist captivity in the than any other city in Indo-China off in the spacious parks.

Saigon's housing problem in as The galety of Saigon is now a The troops in-

are stationed in

thing of the past probably because serious as any other cities in the Yangtse. Held tolerable conditions of heat Saigon and permanently alerted

of the curfew. The night clubs world today, to deal with emergencies in the

Chalan, the

The people, however, seem con- Chlo Chick! and confinement, the reduced suburbs and beyond.

Daily pat

The busy centre of the city function mostly in rols

Here can China-town cunheeted with Sni- tent with their own standards and

(A pretty American woman is conducted by troops is along Rue Catiant. ship's complement

But activities of bound all that makes Saigon. Ken by the three-kilometre long live the dny hoping for settlement sitting on a 50ft, pole for two structions from London broke from the city.

elements, subversive

concentrated along road. the Boulevarde de Gallienl. of its political affairs at the same weeks in protest over the hous the em-the

Shopping is

hern la the time wanting very much to retaining shortage). The popular apot Is the successfully from

Vietanh.

main this road which

Grande Monde, ritzy entertain their own status. brace of the glorious people's Vietn

thoroughfare of the city. Here

ment house in the city, patronised alan the pride of the city in hon- telry, the Hotel Continental, the mostly by the city's social elite hig department stores, Granda Magasins Charner and the Nouve

under

on

flance before through the boom.

This is in the best traditions of the Royal Navy, and typi- cal of the British qualities of enterprise

and courage

*

khaki.

the

at a are

minimum with a year ago,

Curfew Enforced

Busy Centre

.

and tourlata.

Grande Monde

Britain's New Growing Up

вест

A

"Papa, why is American China polley all wet?"

"Beenuse the State Department has a headachesoni"

Thinking of what Garden atul tin of Gold Flake cost three times.

To the visitor the people are polite and helpful, flattered when you tell them that they speaki provides the good English and unmindful that

you speak an French.

They avoid politics but once caught In nacursion, are out to convince you that they are doing

Baby Fast

By GRAHAM STANFORD ·

ins right.

Perlings

the

pence and tran-

ite necom~ plishes, Truman's cyes may get starry, but others' get all Dewey.

Giddy glamdur roosting there. Fifty feet up in the air,

Props some passing millionaire With a lonely, lofty soul May assist you gain your goal. Perch a love nest on

Dole!

•

your

Maybe

Some people in that African quility of Saigon (or is it the tribe seem to object to having a intriguing under-current of

stenographer as Queen. in- stability)--can best be seen from she is just not their type, the deserted

"streets. of the city in the afternoon, when, under the bright hot sun, within their shut- tered windows, the city takes its siesta, as the church bella peal

Clergy, the afternoon office of Saigon's

state, her guns speaking de-compared with precautions are she crashed being taken by the French

authorities. The Vietminha re blous Communistic faction un- the underground der Dr., Ito Chi-minh-are well "rganised in within the city.

Occasionally a stir is raised and against oxids-the traits which a grenade thrown. Recently for welfare instance, the Nam Kwong Thentre the spoon-feeding state is doing its best to dis-in Rue Verdun was the scene of Vietminh sabotage, and a young killed when a sipate at Home. It is, in fact. French girl was

the order piece of shrapnel fodged in her surprising that from Whitehall was given at abdomen. all, and we can well imagine

To plant their rice descendants the months of weak-kneed

Sarawak is Britain's youngest { trembling and heart burning

All night and day. patrolling Culony and celebrates its third of the old head-hunters hava ruth easly felled and burned valuable Police in trucks tour birthday this month.

Uyaks which Attlee and his grim- Military

*rv city. Curfew la en-

farming. co-operative visaged crew experienced be the whole

No doubt you have read of this timber. Today the

learning fore allowing the order to go forced for five hours beginning range innd on Borneo's Norin

Apart from this, strat const, for the While Rajahs and experimental plots are being out. Be it to their credit that at midnight.

Sago production is increasing they eventually did give it. Saigon lives the remainder of the who rules for a century and the

day in striking unconcern.

and great efforts are being made This decision may mean Saigon, lke any other Wester-head-hunters

to put pepper gardens back into the end of the indiscrimin-nised city in the East, presente publicity.

It was ceded to Britain in 1940 order after damage done during ate policy of appeasement its share of enchanting contrast,

city's transportation is by Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, last the Japanese occupation. The

What of

of the future? Here, the of the White Rajahs. For the past which

obviously was SO

will hold the failure. It is omething that doomed to

its three years a hard-working band again, so much depends on what visitor interested. Along

Empire-builders have been happens to the world price of special holiday variety are boulevards, of

new bat. It is the country's most im causing trouble in Switzerland. and rondk probably necessary for Hong long

to carve out a And

the natives

In Zurich can be heard alike struggling Kong to trade with China Frenchmen

Constitution and a new future for portant export and as in Malaya

made rapid] Industry -the sometimes call

complaints of thousands of would. even under totalitarian rule, travel by assorted means.

The most popular means of con- the land which

post-war recovery.

be Swing holidaymakers who have but let us do it on our terms,

But it will bo a sad day for whut The Shanghai veyance is the bicycle. Men anded "Malaya's poor relation."

How are they doing? In view not theirs.

or all the difficulties they should Sarawak if American syntheticised sunny week-ends' at the

rubber holdings are not to be held profession, pedal the bike.

wins the battle, for the coast and in the country because

of faulty forecasts. feel fairly proud of themselves.

The trouble began at Easter by giving in to every whim

An estimated budget defelt of growth of this Colony will us

be impeded.

when as late

as Easter Saturday, of the conqueror.

radio bulletins

Listening in to the persistently makers ignored the sunshine out-

Amethyst's escape brings

an

end

a

miser-

re-

women, no matter

Housewives do

thair

their shopping|

Scottish Air

In Africa

Moors when

CHINESE OPTICAL CO. carry consignments of non- Morocco, must have

SUN-GLASSES STATION

RAY-BAN

POLOROID

of old had

is

Koris

cultivated.

14

Weather Trouble

Weather

forecasts ...the

more than £100,000 has been turn-US happens, Sarawak is the thrice-day a wet-week-ond.

ed into a surplus of £350,000, and

Democracy Liked

put

wore

Pin Ups Not Permitted

Italian police will confente

In swimming any photos of Winston Churchill apolloguise!

togs.

And

по

"Typhoon Hending For · Tal----- wan"... And everyone already running round in circles there.

Free For All

The French Assembly certainly the spirit of the entered into Atlantic Pact during the ratifien-

tion debate.

"Adam Had 'Em" says Ripley is A short poem and "I, Why" is even shorter.... How about....

U,

Brevity is Soul of Nitwit

2.

gloomy forecasts the holiday- The "Little Gem"

What ship is at present the aide-and cancelled their holiday brightest jewel in the imperial bookings.

Yot Switzerland had Crown?

its Anest and warmest Eastor on record.

Even

then the disappointed holi- daymakers were prepared to for-

This "splice-the-mainbrace" is

the so-called "poor relation" last taking no charces and is doing to

n favourable trade its utmost of develop other pro- YERT had Lable

which episode

balance of more than £9,000,000, ducts in case rubber does go.

She is a wise enough baby to flects credit on no one but

with experts breaking all records

know that it is dangerous to who the officers and men

all your eggs into one basket. To hear the traditional Scot-nt more than £20,000,000. underwent the shelling and

Knives Sheathed privations of that criminally lish tune "Will Ye No Come: on April 20, Back Again?" sung by a crowd futile display

of enthusiastic

Compared with other territories when a warship was sent to

their Sultan recently left Fez, Decendants of the Dyak head-

East in South

Asia this is a ahunters are learning the laws of been

give and forget. Not so, however, a rum sort of expression. peaceful place.

when the same thing happened essential comforts to

to the Swis The old controversy over the our moving experience. Not only democratic rule, and one-third of

again. Writing direct the Moors adopted this the people are now under local

cession to meteorological Station the holiday- No Oilve Branch or wrongs of gationals in Nanking while have

authorities.

still lingers, but

The Russians are doing a lot the makers prelested forcibly. The present system is still far opposing armies faced each song for the apropriate occa-

can Ko to their other,

Now, writes Hugo Kuranda, of worrying about this American finger on trigger, sion but have also set another

official:

The

in peace. plantations

with yet another faulty forecast Noah's Ark business on their This was Scottish song. "Auld Lang Syne" romoved from the adult franchise, rubber-Lappers

but, to quote an across the river.

and two to Arabic words.

Death doesn't lurk behind these given last week-end the protests frontier. Putting two Dyaks are taking to democracy fantastic, but to make mat-

It was a former Scottish Com-as ducks take to water."

trees, and so far, at any rate, of the holidaymakers have been together, as it were? to the Sultan,]

doesn't appear to mander-in-Chief

The whole country hungers for Communism

joined ters even more incredible to

ined by indignant letters from half the popu- have reared its head.

hotel and boarding house keepers.. future historians, other valu- the late Cald Sir Harry Mac-

About 100 years ago head-hunt Finding reservations cancelled able

lation have no sent in Lean, who originated mustert knowledge. Necational facili

A Prince from. Apla has lost It broke hoteliers are probably was

teachers, Sara-with the people here. ogle for schools and

considering sueing his pearls in San Francisco, has 364 schools without again during the war and the Meteorological Station for "Never mind," he says, "Samoa Thas never been discovered. Iteaching them his rocco are 34,000 pupila wak now has

student several hundred Japs lost their wilful damage" to their basiness. where they came from."

heads in the traditional manner. teachers in training,

Public health is improving and Today police report that head. hayo sheathed their try will have 14 travelling die knives and there wasn't a single

caso last year. pensaries instead of two.

And so 1 say farewell to Bri- tain's youngest Colony, which-it the rubber war is won-secms.set fair for a very fine future.

fine

CALOBAR, after her for what purpose evenings among the Moors and ties, but, after a throo-year strug- ing was described as a passion even on the finest week-ends the

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links, with They could not possibly help Scottish

rod- meat a You may and

of strong. Amethyst, course, damaged themselves. headed Moor who will tell you..

of a British prestige in the Far Seot lo

who

was

nd 125

a grandre forces and to at the end of the year the coun-hunters East sank to a new low level stoorish guide who re

Now we have a little of

our

there in actually a

own back, and local people speaking of Mac and Charlie Guthrie.

company

yesterday

fox-

in the Scottish name

of

boasts a Ver Morocco

Moreover, said Scottish "saint", a shipwrecked

Red Tape Slashed

Among

all these Empire- 蠱 Hole of rightly, "Is their face Red!" sailor named McDowall who was builders there is

Mogador centuries Lurgency, and I am glad to report Of course we can expect rescued at reprisals. Britons in Shang-go and devoted the rest of his that red tape in ruthlessly slashed

is to get on with the job. days to good deeds. Ho hai and Nanking are report-known now as Sidi Megdoul. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the ed to have rejoiced openly, Finally, your own correspon Social Commissioner for South while at the same time feel dent in Morocco,, who provided East Aala, is so sold on Sarawak ing sure that they will be this information is Donald Me- that he made to pay. There can be Cormick,-Scots enqugh himself. little doubt that their appre-

also.

Sunday Radio

who

In Belgium there has been ad- complaint by radio other me

services listeners. This time the subject is

Sunday evening book about it tha he is writing Sarawak has certainly wol- broadcast over the Belgian radio, These services, writes Gavin comed moro "visiting fremon" fa the past three years than any Gordon, have become increasingly

since popular

the war, with can other Colonial territory. hensions are correct. The patriotle citizens who

Experts have flown

in from the Listeners Research Stations re

hundreds porting

of people indirect terrorism until now possibly afford the time to mostly concentrated on the be at the dock when the Colonial Office.

Even the United Nations Secre- listening to them in every town. Americans will probably be gallant craft comes in. The

at Britain's new baby.

cannot go to church and have extended to British residents Navy will have its welcom-tariat was anxious to take a look Scores of the listeners are people Sarawak is really a test case of mado a habit of following the It may, however, being "committee" there. Why tempered by the Commun-not the government too? how soon a British Colony ran get broadcasts instead.

Now, the regular listeners com lats long-term needs, and Why not have a band play on its feat.

The progress report includes plain that the services are being their present intentions to ing? Let the ladies be there the holding of the first population constantly interrupted just before

sermon

In letters to the use Hong Kong as a trading in their prettlest dresses, census, a country-wide search for the

and

Belgium's Brond base for essential require and let's have some rousing coal, and „an ́serial topographical papers House they point out that

survey to comb out mineral casting

the sources.

sermon isor should be the church Further, we would strong- One of the great handicaps to most important part of a We, are glad to learn that

the Empire-builders is lack of service. To have it interrupted the Navy this time does not ly recommend the Forces ing intend the returning ship to Welfare Committee to call an information. Until the census and the programme switched to enter our harbour under a emergency meeting today, they had no idea of the popularamophons records or variety, is

the аду complaints,

proof that virtual cloak, of secrecy. to see that hospitality and tion, had no reports on the quality

chiefs Amethyst is tentatively due kindness are afforded these of agricultural land, and only the Belgium Broadcasting House, does

broadcasting the Colony's mineral "resources. ⠀⠀ about 11am tomorrow, brave lada who have stood axlest Idea of the extent of the mat "know" its listeners, more detailed Information to so much without breaking,

have promised that be announced in Wednesday and who after more than

do what they can to haya morning's paper three months retained enough

Slowly things are sorting them the sermons broadcast in all It is true that Hong Kong high devilment to cock their is blase about the arrival of mooks at the Kremlin selves out and the Colony if the Meanwhile they maintain that if warships, but this is a special tooges, so that their fine ing shape. The majority of the better to interrupt -

population, are farmers, but their before it has really started than occasion, and in this instance, ship could sail in Zreedom primitive methods have horrified to wait until it has almost finish-

visiting experts. we would strongly urge all once again.

ments.

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