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HONG KONG. MONDAY, JULY

1932.

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NEW YORK TO-DAY IS FINDING A NEW SOUL

THE DRAMATIC SILENT STRUGGLE OF THE CITIZENS AGAINST THE GHOSTS.

New York-Maybe New York: is, wander the streets for à time maybe, 9.15 10.16 12.00 1.18 2.88 402 441 6.56 7.40 dying. The thing is possible. It tants.

They didn't care much they were has happened before to great cities. There are Ur, Babylon, Thebes, a polyglot collection of races with Carthage, and Troy, Cities are no out cohesion, a chaotic Jumble of

isolated communities,

Kowloon

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THE 100 P.C. AMERICAN,

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(July)

Declaration of America Ins dependence, 1770,-

American Consul General At Home" at the American Club from moon to 1,30 p..

P.W.D. Auction Sale of: Crown Land, 3 p.m.

Fencing.-Hong Kong Fencing Club Meeting, 6.15 p.m.)

Lawn Bowls.-Open: Champion. ship: W. Russell H. F. Stong-

But maybe New York is coming

The Jews, Irish, Scandinavians, alive again in a new way, achiev. ing a soul; if I may use the phrase. Negroes, Italians, Mexicans and ham, R. Duncary v. R. S. Nicholls, I don't know. I only know that Slavs and Chinese came and batton- WB. Bradbury v. A. H. Basto, F. ed on the city, to exploit and looty. Ribeiro e L Luck (Kowloon queer things are happening to it.".

The city is suffering horribly, it, camped here; and each race B.G.C.), 3.30 p.m. ailently, secretly. (The suffering brought its language, religion and that showe is nothing to what is customs with it and stuck to them, secret.) Inside the gorgeous shell and formed small cities within the of its buildings it is changing. One city, tribal bodies that administered would say it was rotting except for their own laws, worshipped their this, that a great silent drama is own gods. going on here

They never loved New York or respected its laws. Why should A PHANTOM CITY.

they? They had no civic, but a A phantom city it looked in the tribal, common sense. And they far distance, when, our ship stopped ware at war with each other. at quarantine, ancient as Egypt. huddled mass of warring tribes, suggesting Atlantis risen out of the they became inevitably the hunting sea. Strangely, incredibly beauti-ground of the gangsters; they were ful, it seemed to float on the sur- ready-made material for the racke face of the smooth water, seemed to hover in the pinky gold mist of

But the 100 per cent. Américan, late afternoon, a cluster of ghost well, who was hot Did he exist towers without foundation or any His name, perhaps, was Rockefeller, relation to the fresh green shore of or Pierpont Morgan, or Whitney. Now Jersey, or any

Chore I am Substanceless,

à, senseless and illogical as a dream

toor.

Dumb-bells in

Queen's Theatre: Ermine.

Central Theatre: "The Suicide Fleet

King's Theatro: "The Silent Witness."

Star Theatre: "Shipmates."

World. Theatre:"A Death Fear- ag Hero" (Chinese film).

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Tea Daircas at King's Restaurant THE ST. FRANCIS HOTEL

and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel King' Restaurant and Peninsula Hotel,

Tides-High at 0.00 and 23.35; Low at 2.01 and 16.29.

TUESDAY.

(July 3.)

Rotary Club Tiffin: Lane, Craw and their kind, ween the ar- ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m. istocrats of New York; the mer-Annual Meeting of the Sports. chant princes, and they lived some. Club, 5.30 p.m. Perhaps, I thought, it is nothing what as the de Medicis lived in Lawn Bowls: Open Champion- but a capitalist machine dream; old Florence; but the gulf between ship: F. E. Skinner H Sherriff, perhaps it will vanish now that the them and the populace was much de Rome .. J. Hunter (Tatoo, dream is ended, if it is ended. And greater than anything known in B.C.), 5.30 p.m.; L. E. Lammert v next day, as I hurried through the Italy in the Renaissance or even in A. H. Oswick (Police R.C. ground), het, languid streets, I thought, the Middle Ages. What would they 5.30 p.m.

suppose all this movement were re-do, I used to wonder, if, disaster King's Theatre: The Silent ally automatic, suppose the machine came to the city, if it were visited Witness."

had already broken down, wat by some awful pestilence, or destroy- Central Thestra: The Suicide simply rolling on from inertia, ed by an earthquake? Would they Fleet"

ces or would they come to the rescue

Ermine."

Soon the traffic in the streets would barricade themselves in their pala- Queen's Theatre: "Dumbbells in stop, the city become a lifeless shell, but it would remain standing for awhile, empty, a gaunt ruin, left to remind future men of the bygone age of capitalism,

Maybe, I said again, it is really doomed. That depends on its citi zens, on the swarm who depend on it for life, and who have been awakened suddenly from their own particular dream. Will they aban. don it? Will they swarm out of , migrato, north, south, and west, driven by the fear of starvation?

NEVER BEEN HUMAN.

of the panic-stricken alien popu lace 1

Star Theatre: "Shipmates." World Theatre: A Death. Fear- Well, it has come now, a disastering Hero" (Chinese film). quite as impressive as the Black Tea Dances at King's Restaurant Death of London, and the people and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner of New York have been awakened Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, King's suddenly from their dreams

Need I emphasise the suddenness of the shock of this awakening Perhaps not. And yet I will em phasise it, for I do not believe that anyone who has not seen the city

Restaurant and Peninsula Hotel.

Tides-High at 9.30; Low at 2.42 and 17.09.

European Mail; Outward : Europe vic Siberia (Pres. Wilson) in the days of its prosperity, and 10.30a.m. Europe via Suez (Andre who does not see it now; could, pos

sibly picture the queer, the drama Lebon) 2.30 p.m.

tic, the unbelievable difference.

The dream, you see, was colossal,

They are going already. They are fantastic; but they believed in it; couldn't be true! It isn't; the moving out in their hundreds and that high plateau, that new era of figures are not quite as bad as that. their thousands. That's evident.boundless prosperity.

Tho skyscrapers are half empty,

I got on the telephone," "Go to

the Emergency Burenu," I was told,

so are the great blocks of spart THOUSANDS STARVING" and to the Welfare Council. They have got a social service exchange ments bordering Park. Avenue, and

on Fifth Avenue every third shop That healthy man who was there that unifies all the relief in closed.

willing to work; need ever be idle work in the city. They will give When people are sold up, closed in this city was unbelievable; idle- you all the exact information. Then down, evicted in thousands, because ness was nothing but a disgrace; you could go to the Salvation Army, they cannot pay their rent, they the man who didn't work was the the Bureau for Homeless Women, wander the streets for a time maybe, man who wouldn't work; that a visit the relief centres. The Enter then melt away. That's what is man who wanted to work might gancy Work Bureau has thirty-nine

die slowly of starvation, within ten centres." happening.

The life that was once pumped by yards of Broadway was inconcely- the dynamic heart of the metropolisa

to the high tips of the Woolworth The New Yorker didn't conceive Building, tho Chrysler Building, it Now he is faced with starva the Empire State Building, tion, not as a remote possibility, but ebbing. The vertical population, is as a fact. sinking rapidly to the ground, the

"That will be about all I can manage, I guess." I answered, drop- ping into the American vernacular.

SENSE OF PERIL

So I hurried out into the hot summer streets, under the towering

liffs of masonry listening as went to the hum of the city.

Hundreds of men, women and aky climbing monster has stopped children are literally starving now Climbing, ad, building has practic (they give their children coffee and ally stopped. The energy that once sugar to make them feel less There was a strong leuce bo flung those piles of masonry into hungry); thousands of families are hind and above the feeble surface the air has lapsed suddenly this destitute. Thousands more will be jangle, as if the wearing, metropolis year for the first time in ten starving soon, in the open, unless were holding its-breally. I had twenty, thirty years. No new something is done, and done quick then, as I have now, that sense of tower has sprung from the rock of ly

catastrophe, of curious, almost

ach Manhattan to shout its hymn of How many thousandsf That was unearthly, peri) but when defiance to the heavens

what I wanted to know. And what ed the Emergency Work Bureau I But the city in one things was being done! I would find out had a sense of something quite dif population another. Separate them I had read accounts in the London ferent. I knew as walked into fan your mind to understand the papers that I knew could not be those offices, that a drama wagher

drama that is going on? here for accurate. I had son one state. Ling enacted ant that they are separate, and always have ment to the effort that 1,250,000 peo catre of it wil

been. New York has never been huple were starving and receiving no-struggle of the citisans, against, the manns London is human. Always, relief in the city. Surely that ghost Mary Borden. Inho even in the times of its triumphantafautinued on-ner column.);

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