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Kotuloon Supplement FUTURE OF KOWLOON

HONG KONG, March 3, 1933.

THE DRAGON AWAKES

WHAT FIFTY YEARS HAVE DONE--AND IN FIFTY YEARS' FIME?

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Kowloon is well provided for in Chinese pirates and malefactors niet the matter of outdoor recreational | their infamous fate. To-day it In spite of the rapid growth of facilities. The beautiful King's bears evidence of a well-ordered city foreign fats and shops in Kowloon, Park with its numerous sports that will take ita place before long the Mainland still remains more pavilious, has been revved by among the industrial districts with- essentially Chiness than Hong Ordinance for recreation grounds in the confines of Kowloon and the Kong. In Hong Kong an increas only. When the finances of the New Territories. ing number of Chinese have adopt-Colony pornit of it and the recom of the Government mendationis

Capital, though shy, has never ed Western clothing and, to some extent, Western habits. In cosino-appointed Playing Fields Committee been found wanting where profitable politan Victoria the "advanced" are carried out, all clames of the employment can be found in Kow- Chinese sprinkle their conversation community will be catered for..oon. Fifty years ago there was with "Oh, yeah's” and take their

Nor have social service beenYaumati occupying a position on but one solitary brick building`at daily tiffing in foreign restaurants, neglected in so advanced & comi seeming to prefer roast beef or lamb manity like that of Kowloon. The the foreshore surrounded by five cutlets to chow fan." Kowloon European Y.M.C.A. building is acres of agricultural land owned has reserved its national character prominent by reason of its splendid by the first Portuguese settler of more conservatively, and the in- location on Salisbury Road and is Kowloon Seine residents remember fluence of China, only a few hours' growing in popularity for the class the time when, as children, they walking distance from the hills be- of residents it

was designed to paddled in the placid hind Nathan Road,, is much deeper serve. The Committee of the Helena bathing the immaculate sandy beach A stroll through the narrow streets May Institute has opened a branch of Yaumati. A few flimsy matsheds, of Menkok or Yaumati is sufficient in rented premises at Kowloon for on the shoreline, with the small to convince one that the residents of the older Kowloon are supremely ung women. It is hoped that police station on Temple Street, private benefaction will some day were the only habitations thon conscious of their kinship with enable the Committee to necupy existing at Yaumati. Within their Kwangtung. One rarely sees Chin premises of the Institute's proper lifetime Kowloon has grown out of ese in foreign clothes in the erowe ownership. The Home for the Aged all recognition. I had grown into ed environs of Shanghai Street, Peor is under the self-denying care a big and industrious city, and the whose shops and tea-houses preserve of the Little Sisters of the Pour, promise which its future holds for their traditional character. As in Until a few years ago Kowloon it will be more surprising thro London, where the artisan

only known by the anything that has been seen live in humble tenements close be hind the huge and glittering facades notorious riputation it enjoyed of within the past decade or two. of fashionable hotels, so in Kow-being the execution ground where Kowloon's possibility is illimitable. loon new and stately buildings con- ceal a throbbing community that is essentially Chinese. Here the latest "movements" in the North and South are eagerly discussed in the tea-shops or in the market, and street-carner orators hold the n tention of little groups of pedes- trians engar for news of the poli- tical situation. It is no exaggera-

The annual general meeting of tion to say that anything import-

the Kowloon Dock Recreation Club aut which happens in Canton is known within a few hours in Kowas held last Friday, and the fol- loon. To realise the truth of this lowing officem were elected to serve Miss L. Fearon, of D'Almada Bun one has only to recall the riots during the coming year:-Presi-galow, Faaling, occurred on Mon- which occurred in this district in dent, Mr. F. Cullen; Vice Presi- day evening, according to a police 1931, following swiftly on the heels dent, Mr. J. B. Sturgeon; Hon. Report issued yesterday. of the trouble in Shanghai. Kow- Secretary," Mr. C. R. Logan, Hon. loon, being so close to China, al- Treasurer, Mr. J. V. Ramsay. most instantly reacts to events

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beyond the frontier. Observant While working aboard the 8.8. people will have noticed how, ever- Miasso Maru on Tuesday a coolic, since the invasion of Manchuria, Hui, Fuk Sang, 41, accidentally fell the Chinese have displayed an in- into the No. 1 hold. He received creaking nationalism. In the Chia-head injuries and was sent to the ese vernacular schools in Kowloon the pupils now. wear uniforms of hospital by police at Thin Sha Tsui. the Canton Army, and they are exercised in military drill by quali- fied instructors and yesterday we saw one contingent being marched in double file along Austin Road, They were extremely smart and erect and marched in perfect time, following the "left, right," of their officers as though they had been born and bred in barracks. Is this

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MISS FEARON KNOCKS

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An unfortunate accident, result- ing in a seven years old Chinese, girl being knocked down by an Austin Soven motor car driven by

It appears that Miss Fearon, who { is a well-known lady rider, was driving along the road leading from the Sheung Shui Police Station to Fanling, when the front mudguard struck a child who was crossing the road. The girl received slight fa- cial injuries and after being treat- ed at the Taipo Dispensary was al- lowed to go home.

WHIST DRIVE

SUCCESSFUL EVENING AT

Y.M.C.A.

Twenty-five tables were in play-

i ja impossible to ignors its signi- ficance. There can be no doubt that the Dragon is beginning to uncurl from its lang hibernation, to stretch its immchse body, from Nanking to Yaumati, and to prepare for & grim and decisive struggle for self-pro- only two less than record number- servation: Time was when a Viceroy for the Services Whist Drive held a sign of the awakening of China held, suzerainty as far south in the West Lounge of the Euro- and the realisation of its nation Nathan Road and any curious for. pean Y.M.C.A. Kowloon, inat night. hood? It seems to be, and in Kow-signer could see the heads of pirates. The event was, a usual, extremely loon the patriotic spirit is as pro- lopped off by the score. Kowloon well organised and was'n grant auc- minent as in Canton. Lurid pic was very much China then. To-days. Mrs. J. Eladwin gracefully tures of warriors, bayonet in hand, tall buildings rise where the rics presented the prizes, the lady win- adorn the shops, cigarette cartons stalks waved their green banners, ners being: First, Mrs. Burling and match boxes, and one enter but the spirit of the people remains Second Mrs. Moss, Booby, Mrs. prising firm of shoe manufacturers unchanged. The clarion call that McCall. Gentlemen: First, Mr. displays posters showing a soldier atirred the Hans to action in the Wood; Second, Mr. Elliott, booby, of the 19th Route Army in full long ago, when Victoria was the Mr Stevens. Mr. Pelling, of the battle array. Everywhere one sees haunt of pirates, still finda an R-A.F., acted as M.O. Another of signs of militarist propaganda and answering cry in the narrow streets these popular whist drives will be

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