1933-02-11 — Page 12

BY MOTOR

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, EMPRESS OF BRITAIN SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 11, 1933.

What To See in

Hong

Kong

will see not only the town and the Colony lying at your fect, but, away

sunset, towards the

a view of waters and islands without rival in strange beauty except perhapa-ori the West Coast of Scotland. You will see, better than anywhere elas in real life, the landscape which Leonardo de Vinci made the setting for Mona Lisa.

Tho, average visitor on going to place for the first tire wishes to see as much of it as he can, Drive Found the New Territories and round the Island of Hongkong and it will be, we are sure, a revelation of scenery unsungassed anywhere in the world. The New Territories are lso particularly interesting, for their glimpse of the normal life of China, peaceful, pleasant and mond- | RACING“ tonous. There will be found old villages and groups of cottars, tilling the oil, by methods, used for thousands of years.

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BY TRAM

For those who put a new ex: perience before comfort, there can bo no better way of seeing the city of Victoria, in all its pluses, thai to take a train. Westward to Kenne-

It may be of interest to passen- Bers of Empress of Britain to note that they will just miss the Anmal Race Meeting in Hongkong, which extends over five days, the first of which is fixed for February 19. Although the day is not an offieint holiday, the whole Colony practical- fly will be at Happy Valley during the day fixed for the race meeting.

might be interesting to visitors to see these poales insation. A special race train leaves Kowloon at 1,05 p.m. Thorois a programme of seven races and it should bo over, and the return journey com- pleted by 7 pm. Those interested in racing should try and make the trip to Fanling to see how the China pony takes the hurdles,

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FOOTBALL

Possibly there are devotees of association football on board the Empress of Britain. To them it will has no news that the Chinese have taken very keenly to the game. In Hongkong there is just as much anthusiasm as in "England over a league match. The crowds are not quite so large, but they know how There are a to make a noise.. number of matches this afternoon and if anyone wants to know how young China plays and watches visit to fouthall they will find Caroline Hill an education.

CRICKET

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Wherever Englishmen go they lay Practically every big merchant in down a cricket ground. The Hong Hong Kong is a race owner, and kong Cricket Club ground in the dy Town or Eastward to Shankiwan, From three hundred ponies will ran local Lords and the Kowloon Cric- You will not travel too quickly, and at the meeting. The ponies are in ket Club ground is the Oval. The you will be able to take in all that two main classes, the China pony British community by no means has What may strike you is and the Australian povy. The it all their own way on the cricket you soc. that you are viewing a new, civili-China ponies are purchased from field, and the champions are the sation, not Chin of the old villages the North, and come mostly from Indian Recreation Club. They have and narrow streets of its own towns Manchuria and Mongolia, A good a delightful ground, reminiscent of certainly not. the Western way of number of them are cross-bred within typical village cricket field in life, which is here seen in the Bussinn, ponies and these prove to England. We are sure, any cricketer Central districts and on the Perkhe far speedier than the thorough who cares to visit any of these It is Chinese entirely Chinese, but | bred "China pony.

clubs, will be assured of a cordial welcome.

dunt

A new China, distinct and indivi-An experiment was tried in the

Colony a few years ago with Aus tralian ponies, and the experimenti proving a success, a good number have since been imported. Austra linn ponies are much faster than China ponics and are not allowed to enter the same events, though they provide very interesting sport in races for their own class.

At night time pay a visit to West Point. There are the Arabian Nights come to life. As to Chinese theatres, there are plenty of them it von care for the experience, but if you want to return for a couple of hours back to suhr native land, there are nudert pieture houses, howing the latest releases from Hallwood, and Elstree, Wo-gene endly reckon to be a little bit ahead of London, and New York-in seeing latest productions.

ON FOOT

For the adventurous ́ and ener

getic, there is nothing better than hiking where you will, up the steep hills and down the quaint lanes and byways of the town.

All the ponies engaged in the forthcoming moeting áfe housed in the Hongkong Jockey Club's stable | nt-the back of Happy Valley, and there is only one training ground, Happy Valley, where a good num- ber of owners, jockeys and other enthusinets. Lurn up in the "early mornings to see the tryouts. Those ing between 0-30 and 8 am, when interested can come along noy moru- they can see the China ponies at work.

China ponies carry very heavy One suggestion for bikers and weights when they race. They are mountaineers at this time of the hardy and 10 stones on their backs year is to go to the very top ofis considered a light weight. They the Peak, which means half an frequently race in the vicinity of hour's brisk walk from the Upper twelve stonca. Peak Tram Station Make the A steeplechase meeting takes journey in the late afternoon. You, place at Fanling on Sunday, and it

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HONG KONG

The Island of Hong Kong Fes off the Kwangtung Province, South China, and is situated 25 North lat, and 113° 55′ East long., about twenty miles to the east of the estuary of the Pearl River, upon which, about thirty miles inland, stands the city of Canton, -"as

After more than two centuries of commercial relations between Can- ton and European merchants Hong Kong was eeded to Great Britain in perpetuity by the Treaty of firmed by the Treaty of Nanking on Canton early in 1841. This was con- August 20th, 1842.

The Island is about 10 miles long and from 21 to 5 miles wide. It is little more than an irregular range of hills rising stcenly from the sen to nearly two thousand feet at the highest point, and presents an im- pressive skyline,, balanced by the equally rugged mainland en the other side of the Harbour.

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