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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd, 1928.

JOURNEY TO WUCHOW.

REV, W. R. CANNELL DES- CRIBES EXPERIENCES.

A WELL LAID OUT CITY.

HOMES OF TO- MORROW.

TOWN UNDER ONE ROOF.

"

GROSVENOR HOUSE PARK

LANE

A PRINCIPLE THAT WILL SPREAD,

CANNIBALS OF THE SWAMPS.

STRANGE MIXTURE.

HONOUR AND SAVAGERY.

[By Jack McLAREN, The well-known South Seas travel- ler who wrote “ Sun Man ! and

My Crowded Solituile."}

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The RevB. Cannell writing to. the Dean of Hong Kong from the Anglican Mission, Kweilin, Kwangsi, gives the following account of the journey to WuchowTM---

The steamers have a characteristic of their own. The upper deck where to-morrow will be like let him pro- ment) have been killed in tribal

Grosvenor House. ·

The Delta Division of New Guinea, where a number of natives (given as 500 by two missionaries and as 15 by the Papuan Govern fights, followed by cannibal feasts, is a remarkable place for human beings to inhabit. It is a land of amp-dwellers like the early in- mud and alush, and the people are habitants of the earth. In the Delta Division one might travel for days and never see a scrap of dry

one

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-

LIJN.

Tel.- Abirovk

JAVALYN

Tet. Central 1574

JCJL

"York, Building

Hangkang

QUICKEST SAILING TO JAVA

REGULAR WEEKLY SERVICE BETWEEN HONG KONG AND JAVA

SOUTH BOUND.

EXTECTED

STEAMER

FROM

ON OR

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4th Jans 8th Jane, 4 p.m.

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much so that an early explorer be. TJIMANOEK... DAISY, AMOT 19th June 90th June, lieved they must have had webbed feet! The chief reason is, how-TJIKARANG SEAL, KLUG. 25th Jane 27th June, just under the slash, are mangrove ever, that the natives know where, or other roots. Even so, it is un- candy to watch them skimming along.

NORTH BOUND.

If the inquiring Londoner of to- day is interested to seeing what the heme life of the Londoner of ceed to that decaying stronghold of the cabins for European travellers, Victorian domestic magnificence the European officers and the navi-known as Park-lane and gaze upon gating bridge dre, is protected by On an island site facing Hyde iron gates and wire fencing. There Park, where, until 16 months 280 are two Indian guards, heavily the town mansion of the Duke of

Westminster looked out upon armed always on duty at the gates peaceful garden (both of them and which are locked between ports. httle contemptuous of the busy city

The villages are built on tall There is not much deck space for around them, and bath as enduring stilta; with gangways from walking and one feels more like apparently, as time itself), there house to another. The nativee are

bas arieca a gigantic edifice so remarkably adept in getting about TJIBODAS caged animal Every time the foreign to the Park-lane of tradi- through the mud. Where a white European officers come to meals, tion as to cause more than end in man would sink waist-deep, the TJIKEMBANG SA KLUNG, 11th June 13th Jane, each carries a loaded revolver indigeant badler to turn in his grave. natives seem to skim over it-eo

This lofty building, which domin- his hand. All these precautions are ates its neighbours like a giant against possible piracy for which looking down on pygmies (although the river and its delta is noted. The organized attempt on a large seale only half completed), is the first asual plan is for the pirate frater to solve the complicated problem of nity to join the ship at some point modern housing with service. It as passengers and then at a favour-strikes at the very root of the ser-

vant question. able time and place seize the ship

Ehipwrecked And Kindly Treated. Bebind its severely simple facade and whatever they want. However, of mellow brick is a series of I know these tribes very well. homes, large and small, separate They are the strangest mixture of we did not have this excitement:

yet linked together by an ingenious kindliness and utter savagery I The journey to Wuchow, which network of communicatione which have ever come across. It was in TJISALAK at the most is only -250 miles, could supply all the luxurice as well as this region that I made my first easily be accomplished in less than the essentials of present-day life, acquaintance with the South Seas, TJIKARANG

It is a town within a town, yet having been cast ashore uncɗn- 33 hours. But for some reason or combining all the advantages of anscious from a sailing-cutter wreck- TJITAROEM .. Java,Maxassɛ other 12 hours were wasted at a hotel, a flat, and a private resi

dence, place called Samshul More time

Self-Contained Homes. was lost in having to go back some

This pioneer in the movement miles at another point to take off towards” a new kind of domestic cargo to lighten the ship, in order life is devoted entirely to the needs to get through a shallow channel of the wealthy. The man of small means will look in vain for accom- Then to complete the delay, late on modation euited to his purse. Yet Saturday afternoon, we stuck hard he may well ponder over the splen- dour of the homes in Grosvenor and fast on a sand bank in the House, for the principle is one that deepest channel, just a few miles must ultimately be adopted to the below Wuchow. This is no new requirements of many less fortunate experience, but happens frequently.members of the community. Yet in spite of its frequency, the agents and compradores will persist in piling on the cargo in spite of the protests of the captain.

We finished our journey to Wu- chow on Monday morning in a sampan, leaving our baggage to

come on later..

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The Wall Removed, Wuchow is an old city dating back to A.D. 392, lying on the left bank of the West river at its junction with the Fu or Kwei river. Up to n short time ago it had a brick wall, twenty feet high, eight feet wide and about a mile in circumference, encircling the city and scaling the hills. Fragments of this wall date to the year of the Sung Emperor Kuai Bao, A.D. 390. But to-day the greater part of this wall has been taken down. Some years ago the city was described as anutterably filthy. But that is not true to-day. Broad new streets and roads have been constructed and I was inform- It ed that the drainage and sanitation were as good as any place in the East. On the north-east the city is backed by a range of hills rising. in the highest point to about 1,150 feet. Close to the foot of this range a wireless station has been erected. On the city side there is a large hospital compound belong ing to the American Baptist Mis sion, and there is also the head. quarters of the Commissioner af Customs and his staff.

About 1898/7, Wüchow was open-" ed as a treaty port A British Con- sulate and Offices were erected across the river on a peninsular be tween the Kuei and West. rivers, commanding a magnificent view. But in 1020 these were looted and since that time have been in the oc- cupation, of soldiers and ponies: Their condition is filthy. I under- stand that a consulate is not to be

resumed here.

Mission House Looted. Describing the condition of the Anglican Mission House at Kweilin, Mr. Cannell says:-

On a rapid investigation of may

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Grosvenor House offers its ten- ants, a choice of living as privately as they would in a house entirely their own-in fact, even more so or of using public rooms which offer a wide variety of entertainment and sport. The block which will be opened on May 21st contains flats on the upper floors ranging in size from seven rooms to two ant on the ground floor a restaurant, à ball-room, and a grillroom.

Here are some of the features of the new apartmenté : ̈ ́

50 per cent more heat available than in any other building of the

kind in the country.

on a river-bar. I was utterly at their mercy, and they placed great value on a white man's head; yet they treated me with every con- sideration and nursed me back. to health as if I were one of their own. The first thing I knew, for instance, as I came out of my un- consiousness was that a wrinkled and hideously painted old man was breathing into his cupped hands and holding them to my mouth. I learnt later that he was striving to transfer the breath from his lungs to mine.

Yet some years later i was, COM- pelled to fight for my very life against those same people! There was no particular reason for the attack; it was merely an outburst of their impulsive savagery.

The Native Polles,

It is reported that native police in uniform were leading the war- riors in the recent conflict. But it is most unlikely, that they are the regular police the armed native constabulary, the finest body_of police in the South Pacific. The doubt police mentioned are no village constables.

Central kitchen, from which for a uniform and wear suspended These men have a blus loin-cloth meals are served "on" electrically,

on their chests a metal disc inscrib- heated trolleys conveyed by fated "V.C."-Village constable. The lifts to the service room of each fat."

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Post-box on every floor.

A bathroom for nearly every bedroom.

Maximum of light in all rooms. Improved eystem of ventilation. No electric bells anywhere, but a profusion of telephones.

"kitchenette with electric range in every flat, for the pre- paration of light meals without using the central kitchen,

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V.C.s are usually very proud of their position, but when it comes to a tribal fight they often forget it.

Mort of the fighting is done at night, the natives being warriors of the kind that rely more strategy and surprise than frontal attack. Those shadowy shapes flitting over the mud in the dark, holding their spears, bows and arrowe, and clubs so that they will not rattle, are one of the most unmerving wights I know.-Daily.

The larger flats are so arranged | Mail. that the bedrooms and bathrooms, can be completely cut off from the living roome: "Separate - hallways" are provided for servants.

Universal Cook.

The central kitchen, in the base- ment is considered by its proud chef to be the finest of its kind in ́ Great Britain. One entire room is devoted to refrigerators. There are separate rooms for the washing of glass and china, and for other routine necessities of rapid service; refrigerated tanks for fish, and one for live trout, which will be kept An emergency" dinner party stocked all the year round. will have no terrors for this univer sal family cook. One guest or ten it will be all the same to the man in the kitchen..

HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER,

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Hong Kong Observatory, Juze Int.

PreviousĵOn, Dation Data

Day: at 2pm

8.a.m tip....

-29.69 29.67

Barometer.. Temperature Humidity Wind-

Direction Force

17

77:

96

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Calm

0

H

OR 9.00

OM

0.00

water...

Filghost open-air Temperature, 31st: 78 Lowest open-air Temperature, 1st: 75 The essence of the Grosvenor

BwBlue sky; 0=Cloudy: D- House policy is to supply every Drizale F-Fog; L-Lightning; thing in the way of service at an-Mist; O-Overcast: P-Peasing

EXPECTED

STRAWER

FROX

ON OK

ABOUT

WILL LEAVE

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BATAVIA

4th June 6th Jane

7th June 10th June

18th June 20th June

AMOT, N. CHINA

Axor, SHANGHAI,

KEILUNG Axor, N. CHINA

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Travel in comfort on first class

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Excellent accommodation for pas-

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Wireless telegraphy.

Hong Kong to Batavia (7 days) saloon fare: $175, return $300.

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inclusive price which covers rent showers: Q-Squalls; R-Rain; T Sailings from Europe for Shanghai and Northern Ports-

own house I was soon able to ascer-änd all incidents. The tenant who tain that not. much of any value | so desires may employ his own ser- was missing. Things had been free vants as well.

Whunder.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.

ly scattered about upstairs and The main foyer of Grosvenor moth, insects and rats had made a Hones leads into the public restau- mess of things. Some things had rant, with seating capacity for 300. been smashed and, few were Adjoining is the ball-room, with missing, but the most valuable accommodation for 400, separated were still on the premises. In from the restaurant by a removable. the doctor's house' however, just a partition. Below is the grill-room, lew yards away, there was a terrible one of the most attractive public. rooms in the building, which sug. geste the main hall of a medieval castle with its massive wooden A pillars and cheerful yet dignified

yet dig decorations.

mesa,

The ladies house in another part of the city was not attacked by the mob. However that may be, there seems to have been great confusion and no order in the removal of the things and the condition of the Indies house is worse even than this house which the looters entered The disagreeable thing about the whole business is that so many of our people have helped themselves to things.

Height

Helphi.

From June 2nd to 8th, 1928.* HISH WATER, A. Gow Waran,

Hong

Hong

Kong

Kong

Standard TAE.

Standard

Time.

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62 6

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10 50

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Bat The second half of Grosvenor House, which will be completed in

SUL about a year's time, will contain an ice skating rink, and squash

Mon. courts on the ground floor. Sixty per cent, of the flats above will look Tuss. 5 m 9 34 out over Hyde Park

099 39

The only thing which seems to Wed

be lacking is a centralised family,"

The leaders of the mobs of March, 1927, were arrested soon afterwards If one appears, it will undoubtedly Thur

he that of a lackey in knee-breeches and with powdered hair, furiously, searching for the fanieted glories

and put into, prison. Alter five months they were taken out and shot and since that time there has been no trouble in this district.. of Park-lane.

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