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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1929.

HIGH LIFE IN HONG KONG.

"HEAVE-HO, MY LADS, HEAVE HO!"

AN EVENING IN THE NAVAL CANTEEN.

SONGS OF THE MODERN JACK TAR.

"A life on the ocean wave

7 better than going to sea!" -Olde Bime.

I took a seat at a marble-topped table and called lustily for the boy. "A wet sheet and a flowing sea! What are you going to have?" I asked my companion, a dapper Chief Petty Officer from one of the cruisers in harbour. I had known him as a messmate in the days

before the War.

"Mine's a strongtop," he replied, So "strongtops they were.

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(By HERBERT FIELD.]

"O Sole Mio." Somebody struck a few chords on the plaso and then a burly Gun- ner's Mate commenced to sing.

"Of all the girls that I ler-hur,

There'i noue to me like Sally!" The voice of the singer did not lack strength, whatever might be said concerning its tonal qualities. Fortunately, his memory would not carry him beyond one verse and, while he was mentally groping for another verse, the pianist was wad ing not inartistically through "O

Sole Mio."

A young Yeoman of Signals took up the song, and sang with a plear

Italian.

The Petty Officer's lounge was well-filled and a hum of chattering tenor voice in quite passable with -óccasional bursts of laughter ***The new Navy," commented my had a cheering effect. True, one friend. "No doubt you can recall had to peer very hard, at times, the ridicule we youngsters had to put up with from the old hands through the thick haze of tobacco-because we preferred to read good smoke, despite the fans, to distin-hooks rather than play kitty nap guish faces at other tables, but who and chose lime-juice and threepence a day to pay for correspondence cared!

courses rather than drink our rum issue."

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Reminiscences.

"Do you remember the day the Commander put his toe behind you for laughing when he slipped and fell on the quarter deck? queried my old mcasmate, as we sipped our beer.

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Old Fashioned Lady," "The World is Waiting for the Sunrine." "Billy Boy." "Sonny Boy," and "Where is that Sona of Songs for Me " followed with bewildering rapidity. providing much food for thought for the psychologist.

Everybody did not sing. Many of the Petty Officers just est quietly drinking and yarning, but every melody struck up by the pianist provoked a strong vocal accom- paciment.

The Grey North Sea.

My mind went back to the dreary days and weary nights of wartime the grey waters of the vigil on North Sea; the blizzard-swept dreary Orkneys and bleak Scapa Flow, to the time when Poldhu sect us radio news of reverse after re- verse on the Western Front, and it was evident that the Jutland holocaust was not to be repeated.

Waiting, that was all we were doing, just waiting!

But we found that waiting WAS Nor "Yes," I replied, they used to weary nerve-racking job. call rum Sailors' Blood and I was it made more easy by the fre have known some pretty bad fights quent reports of air raids which take place on the lower deck over filtered through Mails were irre- one man having a slightly larger gular and, from sheer boredom and tot than another! How do the monotony, we could have fought messmates. But men like the new change I know with our the officers are pleased with the there came occasions gleams of Navy's present-day personnel."

sunshine into out drab, everyday existence,

Jack the Gentleman. :

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I did. Not satisfied with sand and cativas and holystones, the Commander had ordered soft soap to be used to restore the virginal

In the last dog-watch,_sing-songs whiteness of our quarter deck after docking. That he should elip and "A greater sense of exprit-de- would be held on deck. Old favour. spraw full-length and finish up in carpe exists on the lower deck. Menites would be roared forth and the acuppers with his hat over his take an interest in their work be many a homesick boy had to fight eyes seemed merely poetic justice cause the highly-mechanised side hard to check the tears which tend. to the seamen's way of thinking. of Naval duties to-day leads themed to flow when one of the songs I had dared to laugh, and paid the somewhere in after life. They his mother used to sing was tackled penalty for too openly demonstrat-know that they are following an by the crowd of us....

honourable career and not merely "I go home to-morrow-home to ing a sense of humour

Hastily, I changed the subject. soldiering on for twelve years or old England. My time is up and I "Do you remember our celebrat-more. How often do you see a suppose I shall soon be hunting for ing your 21st birthday with a bluejacket drunk, anshipshape, or a job!" fanny full of rum?' I retaliated. is any other way disgracing his

My friend's voice brought me "You kissed the Officer of the uniform when he is ashore ?"

back to earth. Watch He was a hardened old Warrant, and punched you on the Bose instead of jugging you."

"Ah, but times were different then. Funny how we stuck to gether, you and I

and Waffles I'

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He grew silent. Then "Poor, old Waffles," he sighed. "He was our first casualty at Jutland. He never knew what hit him. I can see his shattered body And old. Waffles was no end proud of his curly hair

He was the best Devon lad that ever donned a sailor's jump. er," I remarked. Had he lived he'd have been a real true buddy. Still here's hoping !"

The pianist was playing "Sanc tuary of the Heart" and quite a number of the assembled company were joining in singing the words.. their voices harmonising very plea | santly.

"It used to be, Give a sailor his grog and there's nothing gook wrong! Now it seems that a good song to which they can harmonise pleases the boys just as much," I ventured.

My companion nodded assent. "Shenandoah," "A Song of the

"Still," he went on, "the world's a small place. No doubt we shall meet again. We parted last time at Portsmouth in 1918 and we meet next, still pals, in Hong Kong in 1999 After ten years! Two of a trio "

Shat up I growled then "Boy "

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"Three-piecie strongtop beers !”. My friend looked at me inquir- ingly,

"One for good old Waffles." I Sea" from, the "Mikado," "Ain't explained shamefacedly.

Sote-. She Sweet," "Kathleen Mavour-haw, I feel that the old bird isn't neen," "Annie Laurie," "Weary so far away, after all "* River," "Roiling Home," "Mada "Good old Malaya. "sighed moiselle from Armentieres," Buddy.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-Gaj

(October 8.)

Lawn Bowls: Kowloon Bowling Green v. Shanghai.

Tea Dance: Hong Kong Hotel, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.an.

H.E.F.A. Council Meeting, 5.30

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Radio Oficial Opening Concert, 9 ..

Queca's Theatre: "The Lios and the Mouse."

"Faust," and

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World Theatre: "Girls Gone! Wild."

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Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: The Lion and Billiards: Steel Coulson League: the Mouse."

Star Theatre: "Faust." World Theatre: "Girls Gone Wild."

Tides: Low, 8.16 a.m.

Thursday.

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General Holiday. Chinese National Day.

Winners Rest. Somerset L.I. Sergia, Mess, 6 p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.mi.

H.K.C.C. annual meeting, Club Favilion, 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre:

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World Theatre: "Morgans Last Bald."

China Merchants Club, At Home, 11 ..

Chinese Y.ML.0.A. Kowloon Opening by H.E.

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Tea Dance: Hong Kong Hotel, ,& p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30, p.m.

Queen's Theatre: The Last Warning"

"Tides: High; 1.3 am; Low,"

Saturday.' (October 12.)

St Peters Club Fete, 86, Booban Road, 2.30 p.m

League Football-Senior: South China . R.A., Caroline Hill; St. Star Theatre The Country Joseph's v. Kowloon, St. Joseph's Doctor 9.15 p.m. "The Peepground; Recreio v. Royal Navy, Show," (Warwick Revue Co.).

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