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MODERNISING THE KONG MOON

DISTRICT.

OLO CUSTOM AND FUNG SHUI FEARS PASSING AWAY.

WORK ON NEW ROADS GOES

FORWARD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932.

BISHOP OF VICTORIA

LEAVING

Dr. and Mrs. Duppuy

Leaving in April.

Everyone in Hong Kong will learn with the greatest regret that the Bishop of Victorin (The Right Rov, C. R. Duppur, D.D.) has, sont his resignation from the "diense to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Bishop's health has not been very good for a long time, but his many friends hoped that he had made a good recovery from a recent illness and would be carrying on his duties as before.

JOCASTA GOES TO PARIS.

FINDS DAY TIME DULL---BUT GAYER THAN EVER

AT NIGHT...

BRILLIANT AND DARING THEATRE

SHOWS.

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garments

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There is 'n blanket of fog all over stairs in floating England and London is in the ostrich feathers and a diamond up (the real pe-soup) my dear head-dress in which is an ostrich Helena. All round the coast ships pluran at least Ave feit high. Sho are being held up by the fog, but invariably discards "it botare at most of them were hurrying to our tempting to sing and gets a lot of shores in order to dump goods on applause for a very ordinary song. us before the tariff closes down, so She is still an intrapid dancer and perhaps this delay as all for the allows herself to be whirled and flung about the stage in Ane style always finishing with a smile after having risked death in a doron different ways: yes I suppose she

her popularity.

bost,

Komattox, "December 30% seen during those days on the The end of the year funds a large school pinggrounds. The schodi gang of men busily at work on the bund in Pak Kaai, the Port of Kangmoon on the West River. The municipal authorities hare decided to widen the band and to raise ít everal feet above the present height. This is all to the good as marked ability in their amateur per with our representativo said thai teen years I am back in Paria again works hard and doubtless deserves!

closing entertainments were held in the schools on Thursday evening Dec. 24th. The aging in some of the plays was cleverly done. The Chinese appear to be born asters, and the boys and girls show some at times during the high water in formanees. The effective endings in the summer parts of the Bund have the Cantonese language give an ad- titial interest in listening to the beon inundated making it very di-spoken word of the young actors. icult to maintain us and motor |

A Welcome Visitor. traffic. Earth is being, carried up. The British Gum-boat. The Cicala From the river front for fling. has been in Port for a fewxinys. Sower pipes are also being laid) down. The widening process wilbi uninil the alteration of some of the which that congregation has Lastest.

and of the faithfulness at Chin es clergy and our mesary dre

ahop fronts facing on the band.

All the business hangs and house- holders have during the past few months. been asked to pay a special

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Chri

I was conscious all the time that

Mrs. Duppay, in an interview she and the Bishop would be bay. ing the Colony for good in April. So far they had made no plans, and

kaly to do in England. did not know what work they were

time they would probably take vozaplote rest.

For n

Yvonne Printemps.

But what do I care for London fogs, my dear, quico I am writing this letter in Paris, yes, after ump

and find it very little changed in fact, it has altered least han London. which is now altogether to vast to bo pleasant. Traffic in London is

So much for Mistinguett after no longer a problem, it is a night-seeing her I want in doubtful! mare: Paris with its wide boule mood to seo Sacha Guitry and vards and avenues makes life much his famous little wife Tonne Dr. Duppay, was educated at

vasier for both motorist and pede. Printemps in their new production Keble College, Oxford, and graduat.strian. There is only one thing of five short plays but this time was in the Theology Honours School. Wrong with the frame here, and not disappointed. Guitry is a great After being Vicar of Christchurch, that is the rule of the rond" I artist and a subtle actor and as for Bradford, an appointment was no- wepted on the Home Staff of the

never can get used to traffic which runne! She is adorable! She has Church Missionary Society.· ́A whiria paat on the right instead of beauty charm and talent in abund

you may safely assume that I have voice as sweet and true as a the left so if you hear of my demisence, she sings delightfully with a bird'a been crushed by a Rolls-Royce. In nota: ho diction is perfection. In England every other ear is an almost every car appears to be a Austin or a Morris, but in Paris these short plays she appears first ay the faded wife of a great mai: "Rolls" so now we know where thon the craze here just as in London the money goes! Floodlights are

as a gay soubrette with n and as Paris is a city of fountains the effect is enchanting.

"tax for the purchass and up-keup of this is almost certainly the lust orbrenk in this work caras with a new frs-fighting apparatus for the dination service. I shall over hold period of war service as Chaplain City of Kongacon. This fire-fight a Chinese church, for it has beto the Forces, in France. When ing equipment will also be avail.come obvious to me during the past Hong Kong,, Dr.Buppuy was, wor consecrented to the see of Victoria, able for Pak Kaai. On Christmas six months that I must resign my believe, the youngest bishop in the Eve a number of mat-sheds used as

charge as Bishop, and I have pinked Anglican Church. Despite the ha- my resignation in the hands of the and Mrs. Dappuy have been inde dicap of ill health, both the Bishop Archbishop of Canterbury to take fatigible in the work of the im- effect, probably, at the end of June, mense diocese, covering the whole of South China. The work of the English Church has been largely re-prganised, the Victorin Diocesan Association in particular owing an impone amount to the Bishop's Fono"gy and organising ability. Hong Kong has not seen as much of the Bishop as it would have liked because he considered it his duty by personal visits to hearten and eneenrage galinut men and women in the lovely outposts of his

houses at the foot of the large hill near the port called She Shaun sought Bre and for an hour or more the night sky was lurid from the light of the burning matsheds. The firemen cames out from the city and helped to keep the fire from spread ing.

Great Preparations. Creat preparations are being made along the new Kongmoon-Fat- shan public highway for the formal opening of the road on January 1. Here and there all along the high

NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE FROM THE BISHOP

OF VICTORIA,

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

The Bishop of Victoria has sent us the following New Year mesange

As this is my last New Year among you, I am sending you these few thoughts, by the kindness of

the Editor.

I want to ask you to think with me at the beginning of another year about life's purpose. There

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Colour and Gaiety at Night.

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string of lovers: lastly ag "grande dame" of the Pompadoor period and she excelled in every role she undertook.

The Colonial Exhibition.

I was just in time to see the Colonial Exhibition at Vincennes. before it closed it was very in- terosting and exnetly like every other oxhibition: it has been an enormous success and has attracted

hundreds of visitors from every part of Europe.

way talpa laus," or towers constructed with poles and palm leaf covering, are being erected to give visibility and to add interest to this exceedingly important event, many views us to the purpose of and his impressive manner and very to Montmartre where the cinemas but they clear the rink at least mirking, as it does a great advance communications between the ities and important gentres of South China,

By day Paris is dull; gray skies, gray streets and swirls of gray mist beneath trees which might be carved out of jet with never a leaf to hide their nakedness. By night Paris Bashes into colours and gaiety. The boulevards are bright with coloured signn; cafés with diocese, and to give every posible from every brazier nt the street their lighted stoves entice one while help in Canton. The example of corners the appetizing aroma the Bishop's devotion, and wadi-rensting chestnut The Place de ss to be where work was hardest, he Concorde is ablaze with lamps and conditions roughest, has been and the Arc de Triumph shines in

The most attractive spot in Paris pal inspiration to his clergy and the floodlights as

at the moment is the Palais de if carved in. congregations

translacent glass, but for really Gliza" in the Champs Elysée. It Dr. Duppay is a fine preacher, startling alluminations one must go is always gay and always crowded; human life. Some say that we only beautiful voice full every exposta and cabarets still outshine all the have" this short life, therefore we tion of the dignity of his office. should grasp ita plenaurea with both

The Bishop's success in Hong hands, and have as good a time Kong has rested, to no small extent Gangs of men and women are at Broken, it is, of course, bad lack of humour, and easy informality. as possible; us for the poor and upon his personal charm, keen sense work along the new highway, cut on them. Others say, life seems Free Church clergy will be particu- ting down hills and using the earth o eruel and aimless: Just ns acci-rly sorry to lose one who has done and broken rock for putting a sub-dent, and in some cases, a pretty much to promote co-operation be stantial surface on the new road. ghastly one, and merely a striving tween the Anglican and Free Motor work huses ply up and down and ending in nothing. To me, the Churches. In this connection some the road carrying earth and broken pathos of such a view is inexpres of us may remeniber certain pub reck, whil large stone rollers sible. The Christian view is that lie meetings at which the Bishop drawn by about twenty men are underneath are the everlasting arms the Rev. J. Kirk Monachi qsed for putting on the finishing of the Father, and that our lives used to amuse themselves and their touches. The old bager of "fungare in His loving hands. strui(wind,and water) is receiv

hearers by really delightful passages of wit and repartee."

in

ing hard knocks in this new day

"Is There a Providence?"

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"A Very Bead Loss," The Rev. W. W. Rogora, Vicer of Kowloon, in his church magazine for January makes the following departure:

rést.

Montmartre To-day,

chee in every session for waltzing- the ite is perfect and the hand ex-

more ? collent, so what could one wish for.

Mignon Nevada and Anna May Wong.

mont" and the blazing mill wheel

The blue fountains of the Gate of the Moulia Ronge are the most striking examples of what can be done with electric bulbs, but da for pleasurr-well I fear that Montmartre is no longer "a la rande" the "Moulin Rouge" is I went yesterday to a delightful only a cinema now, with a poor song revital given by Mignon little dancing hall attached in Nevada at the "Maison des Nations which shabbily dressed girls look pagerly round for partners, or Americain." There wasu lago and dance together. Le Rat Mort "distinguished audience including and "Le Chat Noir" still catch: the eye with their sinister decora any members of the old French tions, but within they fall Ant as nobility. Looking most attractive ditchwater, and the "Patron"in her "period-costume" of pink pannees upon stray tourists with an and silver, Malle Mignon "Nevada axidity that is likely to prevent

in China Hills are being torn down. Houses and shops of two

Let us ask ourselves at the begin- and three and four storeys are raising of a new year some vital ques- ing their herds above the lower tione. Has life a purpose, and, if levels thus defying the spirits of 30, what is it? Is there a provid the air and of the water. are, however still many of the older One who can supply strength and

en throughout the country places protection for us in our weakness! The news of the Bishop's resigns. who are firm believers in the old Are car lives in the hands of God, tion, conveyed in his letter to us, theory of "fung shui." Olo custom avho is omnipotens love? Is it true will hardly come as a surprise to dropping down and down and one warmly received, dies hard, but things are moving in that His compassions fail not, and those who know in heavy handicap this ancient land, and a greas new

are new every morning? I think under which he has been working day is dawning. The younger

the majority of people really be during recent years, in his own people of China are ambitious for lieve there is a purpose in lifor persistent ill-health and that of but now they have become almost the country, and are not at all and the long story of evolution Mrs. Duppuy. None the less, we tolerant of alt ideas and customs seems clearly to confirm this view shall feel a very real sense of loss which may act as an obstacle in the Throughout the many changes of at his departure, and shall not fail way of progress and achievement. proenas nature has set her seal of to pray" that he may be strengthen

On January 1 it will be possible approval upon the qualities of love Led and guided aright as to his fu-

and reason. During twenty-five ture ministry.

Therence watching over 118, and is there reference to the Bishop's impending them from paying a second visit. gave a number of early-American |

the lesson. "

to go on board a bus in Kongmoon thousand years and more God has and with considerable comfort and speed, compared with old tima been educating man in there quali- methoda, he swiftly borne along the ties, and man so slowly, and at new highway, passing on the way, such great cost, has been learning Tong Ha, Sha Ping, and on to either Koo Low, or Kuk Fau on the West River. Kuk Fau is on the West River opposite Kan Kong.

*Wearing Compistion.

this

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Last Chinese Ordination.

In the course of the letter in ques- tion the Pishop says Most of you, I expect, will also just been taking an Ordination ser

I write this on a day when. I hav agree that life has been given to vice in Canton, and dedicating a un for service, and that we accom- fine new organ in

Of course, this is a bad time for the ballads of the Washington period English visitor since the pound is with charming effect and was very gets fewer and fewer francs in ex-

Parisians will change every week that passes. soon have a chance of hearing ber Prices in Paris are always high, again as she is engaged for the prohibitive, with only 30 francs to forthcoming season at the Paris the pound and the prospect of 100 Opera when the will sing the roles per cent, duty at Dover on frocks of Marguerite, "Desdemona" and bats and perfumes it is better And Fuliette." Among the audience to do one's Xmas shopping in was her mother, Madame Emma London and I, for one, shall have Novads, famous throughout Europe practically nothing to declare "in her youth as one of the greatest when I return to England.

"A New Rovuc.

operatic sopranos. She has handed on her laurels to her daughter, but she still retains all the fragile and dainty charm which made her the We went to the Casing de idol of Madrid in years gone by Paris" to seo Mistinguett in her and she is a celebrated now as a plish this purpose when we spend Church there. At least six hundred fully staged and mounted.

new revue Paris Quí Brille," It teacher as she was Chinese

her youth aa is a marvellous show and wonder- singer. ourselves for other in unselfish love, Chinese

She has a delightful The studio in the Rue de la Pompe the dancing is slipshod, but the colour. where the walls are covered with

our

Wor gathered in

The highway on the east side of But it is nearly always easier to church of Our Saviour this morn- the West River is also nearing do wrong than right, and often ing on the occasion of the Ordina schemes are quiet superlative. I the portraita of famous singers of *..completion. The main street of the insistent demands of our lower tion to the priesthood of the Rov, suppose this is almost the only city to day who owe their success to her

Kou Kong forms the beginning of nature are too strong for our bet Lit Fo Woo: sixteen years ago he in Europe where "nues" are toaching.

maloo" extending from the ter solves: we hear the call to was, a village boy who had never allowed but if all were as beauti- West River through the city and on service, but we pursue a lower heard of Christianity, and it was

I've just been to see the popular ful as those at the Casino I really Chinese actress Anna May Wong in to Lung Shaan, Laing Kong and His followers more than human nn-baptised. Nothing cald have been any reason why the slender figure Dragon." I fed suve that you, my

course. Did Christ then demand of only twolve years ago that he was

can see no objection to them or find her film The Daughter of the continuing on to Fatahan, near Cunton. They expect to have the ture can attain? Left to ourselves mate marked than the re- of a young and lovely girl should den Helens, have already seem buses running in Kau Kong on the We seem to have no power to help verenec of the congregation, scandalize any decent-minded per- this film-and why? Because I have Tat of January. As the West River ourselves: yet we do not quite give and the new, organ given by son! There is a scene

in because the Divine olement isla

called been home for more than six months is too wide for the construction of always working in us. The Chris with

Chinese donor, and plaved “Lumiere et Transparence" where and have visited many provincial du bridge, the passengers will croatian witness throughout the ages Chan-was a real help to our de chiffon dances in the pale moon don, and in every place have found Sne sympathy by Mr. Georgia Graves clad in pearl-gray and seaside towns as well as Lon- on ferry boats. The opening of the new "malo" in Kan ons ply strength and protection, I do of the faces of the eighty persons against a background where these men in Hong Kong. Yes, even in is that there is One who can sup-votions. I caught might of some light with a huge crystal fan films running which I had already increase the importance of this pressed than in the words of the city will help very materially to not know where this is better ex-who came up to receive the Holy gracefulner" rest under jewel- London and Paris they show films large centre of population on the philosopher-Richard Rothe Aiar: there could be no question that silver. It is indescribably beauti-saw months ago!"

Communion one face in particuled trees, against a backcloth of which we exiles from the Far East West River.

retrospect of my whole life anven the service stood (for some great ful and the nearest approach to Hoildays.

Best wishes for a merry Xma me with this impression, that I spiritual reality and experience, fairyland which I have been in this and don't forget that Hong Kong The boys and girls' boarding have been, and am being, guided and I went back in thought to the mundane world of ours. But I am is well ahead in more ways than schools of the United Church of by a gracious and mighty Hand, day when, ten years ago, I canes digressine! I should be telling you one, for you will be saying “fa Canada Mission in Pak Kani which has made, and is making rated that church. I thight of of Mistinguet-but frankly she happy New Year while we

in glosed for the Christmas that possible for me which other confirmation services I have held leaves me, cold! She is neither Europe are still waiting for the holidays. The happy shouts and wann would have bean impossible. there in the past, and of all the young nor pretty and the seems to chimen-Ever, yours, the active forms of the boys that I had always trusted and vicissitudes and danga thugh he perpetually descending fights of and girls ara not heard und vielded myself to ita guidanco."

JOCASTA. (Continued on Previous Columu) "Kosping in Old Bad.”

Paris, November, 1031,

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