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CANTON TO-DAY,

A TRANSFORMATION SCENE. THE OLD BARBARIC SPLENDOUR.

[FROM THE PEKING CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES."]

theatrical costumery, cafus, mouey changing, vegetables, flowers, grain,

| medicine. There were restaurants and ten shops, hutchers' shops, where they sold the corpses of puppy dogs and anakes for the epicures, and of cats and rats for the poor. Fowls and ducks and fishes, cooked and uncooked, were exposed by the raillion, as well as the myriad other things in demand among 2,000,000 of human beings who were the product of a civilization that took thousands of years to grow and that had stood still for cen- turies.

CANTON, July. Since Fatry Parkes, with the bulldog pertinacity of his race, forced its gates Canton has been revealed to the traveller as one of the marvellous places of the

Canton was, and still is, essentially a earth. Entil modern times foreigners saw incite variety of vessels. The Chinese place of waterways. On these feat an

little of the interior of the city. For cen who owns a boat in these regions lives ou turies it remained practically unchanged it with his wife and his children and bis iu appearance and character, a vast bee-grandchildren, together with manservants hive of human activities, circumscribed and maidservants, according to the ac- commodation. For every able-bodied by the practices and prejudices of the man on a boat there are half a dozen past as effectually us by the thick battle women and children, and it iä typical of uented wall that surrounded it. We the Orient that the man does most of the know how its intense conservátisia re- steering and bis family most of the bar pulsed the earlier foreiga endeavours to work. secure

entrance. All the more astonishing then is it to realize that in five short years this great city has under gone a transformation wonderful as re- gards appearances, equally wonderful as regards the mental outlook of the people. To one who saw Canton as it was 20 years ago the change is a revelation of what can happen in China,

It is a mystery how some of the boat people live, for they, tie up for weeks without moving, yet live on the fat of the land. Mayhap the head of the float- ing house is a pirate with hidden sourers of revenue. The bigger boats, however, are always on the move carrying and dis- charging and loading the vast variety of commodities which constitute the, econ- nic wealth of Kwangtung Province. "10 is said, and easily to be believed, that the eating population of Cantor numbers a quarter of a million soula

The City of Rams, so-called from some mythical connexion about which scholars are not so precise as usual, was destined from the beginning for greatness, for it lies at the apex an extensive deltaic In 181s the work of reconstruction region created by three wide navigable began The ancient walls surrounding a streams known as the East, North, and densely populated area of about 1 mile West Rivers, The wealth from the great square were torn down, all burn section In their area served by these splendid waterways abutting the northern gate. has been converging

upon Cantonplace was made a broad boulevard en- Portuguese corruption of Kwangtung wireling the city. So good did the work since pre-historic times. Two thousand appear that plans were made to widen years ago it was surrounded by a stock the main arteries. This scheme neces- ade of bamboos, the exact situation of Bitated expropriation on a grand scale. which is not known. During the Tang Bitter objections were raised, but the Dynasty, A. D. 700, its commercial value

regiere was a military Government, which was recognized and an Imperial Commis eeeded. Where existing streets were only was not to be denied, and the work pro- sioner appointed to control trade. The earlier Portuguese and Dutch traders in ft. to 9ft wide the new roads had to the Far East were quick to realize its be 70ft, to 100ft, wide. Buildings were importance, and foreign commerce was

demolished. Though compensation was already considerable when the British en promised horrible Injustice was done in innumerable cases, and is still being done to many, and compensation Bas caly be equal to one-third of the loss sus- tained. There are now 30 miles of new

con-

tered the field and established a nexion which eventually led to the open- ing of China for the benefit of the world at large.

Canton used to be a city so tightly packed that there was hardly room for the inhabitants to move about. "Streets were the merest lanes, impassable by wheeled traffic. Buildings were low and rarely execeded one or two storeys. The people were fanatical and wedded to their ancient manners auki mastoms. Innova- tions were unknown. A thousand temples adorned the city and maintained the philosophie and religious beliefs of an age-long past.

A TRANSFORMATION,

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streets between the southern wall and the river, front. Reconstruction is proceed- ing in the western or outer city, and en the other side of the creek bounding the foreign settlement of Shameen a fine new street is rapidly nearing completion.

than soft. high. There is one corner where there is nothing in sight under a hundred feet. As nearly all of the "city is only t. or 3ft. above high-water level, the roads are cracking, and some of the buildings show" a tendency to sink. But ou the whole the result is exceedingly' fine.

" TALL BUILDINGS. Even more remarkable are the new buildings which have suddenly appeared on the frontages made available. 'To make up for the horizontal space of which they have been deprived by extiropria- tion owners have built vertically up to four, ive, and six storeys, and in many Almost in the twinkling of an eye the eases even much higher, one hotel on the scene has changed, and to-day Canton Bund going up to 12 or 13 storeys. One resembles a great European capital, in may motor for many miles along streets the number of splendid streets which in-in which hardly a building stands less tersect it. in the thousands of lofty build- ings that have arisen everywhere," in the hundreds of motor cars which hoot their way through the traffic, in the electric light which brilliantly illumines the night All but a small percentage of the temples are gone, the idols sold, and the sacred precincts given over to industry. The modern tendency is everywhere visible-, The really astonishing thing is to con- in the smart, khaki-clad police eternally template the extent of new building com- angering the triggers of their Mauser pleted in the last four years in a city that pistols, in the interior arrangement of the has been harassed and taxed almost be- shops, in the nature of the goods exhibi yood enduranice by a succession of mili- ed, in the thentres and cinemas, in the tary régimes. To compute the amount traffic regulation. The head of the Gov- expended is impossible, but it must rua erament is a Christina, many of his prin into tens of millions of pounds sterling. cipal subordinates are of the same faith, It was a surprise in the conditions pre- and there is not a hint of objection to vailing to realize that the Customs re- any of them on the ground of their for venue for Canton in 1923 was up 17 per eigo creed and training. Where one and cent, making the increase for the last all would have been stored a few years five years no less than 6 per cent. The ago for their unholy association with the foreign trade of Canton in 1918 was valued outer barbarian, to-day they are accepted at Tacis 104,000,000. In 1:23 it was Thels as a natural consequence of the revoin-19,000,000, figures which speak for them- tionary developments of the tinies. The selves us to the importance of Canton as changes in Cantor are not physical alone. a commercial emporium.

There is proof of a profound mental modi

But waterways are much what they firation, of an awakening to the existence were, and there will be so expropriating of an outside world worth knowing.

the boats, for at the first sign of inter- The street life of old Canton was a

ference they will up anchor and move. fascinating thing. The narrow arteries steamer, the launch, and the, motor-bont But even here there is change, for the were flooded by a tide of humanity, com- pelled to move slowly by the lack of room. are ever growing in number. Forests of All went afoot except mandarins or for whistling and the hooting are as vigorous funnels stretch along the Band, and the eigners, who rode in chairs borne by coolies yelling incessantly to clear the

as on the Thames. way. When such went by wayfarers turn- ed sideways to make room, and, "when two chairs met, darted into the shops to foreign settlement clipt from the fore- Still more in the way of contrast is the avoid being run down. Hosts of coolies, shore of the Pearl River (the agglomera naked but for a loin cloth, were ever on the trot carrying merchandise on poles, the sea) and transformed into an island tion of streams connecting Canton with yelling and sweating. The din was tre- separated but for two gated bridges from mendous, for, added to the objurgations the teeming multitudes of the adjacent of the coolies, were the noises of bar city.

THE FOREIGN QUARTER

gaining at abop-fronts, the calls of the Shameen is 1,000 yards long by 3001 street vendors, the beating of gongs, the broad, constructed by foreign enterprise sound of temple bella, and the bursts of out of the swampy ground that formerly strange music from within doors. In the faced the river. A segment of ercek busier streets perpetual twilight reigned isolates it and constitutes its defence. owing to the innumerable signboards On the front is an open space cut into crossing above or rising high into the air delightful gardens, and at the back there The Chinese shop advertises itself by a is a handsome embankment facing the fat beam that must go outwards or up creek. Two rows of buildings contain wards, with the name and the nature of offices and dwellings, some of them lofty the business painted in brilliant colours, Every shop was open to the street and decorated with heavy carving, gilded or lacquered, hung with coloured silk, paint ed in high tones, and variegated by pic tures or quotations from the sages in acribed on long scrolls. Colour every where, mellowed into perfect harmony in the prevailing dimness, but here and there touched by the sun into splashes of bar baric splendour.

edifices reminiscent of older Calcutta, others simple bungalows with deep veran dabs, embowered in glowing flower beds and tropical shrubs. Some are fine modern buildings of stone.

But the glory of the place is its central avenue, a long stretch of green lawm bounded by towering banyan trees that cast a perpetual shade. In this cathe- dral-like aisle there is peace and quist unspeakable, another world compared Every industry had its own street or with the turmoil and babbub a stone's section of a street. Shoemakers had a

throw "distant. Here is neither rattling long lane to themselves, book stores rickshaw nor grating carriage nor horned another, carvers in ivory and wood automobile, for, wheeled vehicles, sart another, and from the last named fosted only the little coaches that contain sleep- the permeating scent of sandalwood, ang babes, are banished from the sacred very essence of the Orient. There were precincts. And well may the dwellers on sections for fanmakers and idol makers, this little isle make unto themselves a bat and umbrella, mankers, silversmiths contend against, both in the matter of pleasant place, for they have much to and goldsmiths, furriers and musical climate and the strange smells and strument workers, spectacle shops, in- diseases that surround them. cease shops, shops for porcelain, china,

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