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Kowloon Supplement NO FLATTERING PICTURE

HONG KONG, March 21, 1933,

DEARTH OF SYLVA

THE historian of to-morrow will doubtless regard. this na amers cenary

tariff walls, inflation, and

PROFESSOR FORSTER'S CAUSTIC BOOK IN AID OF KOWLOON SCHOOL

"It is the desire of most foreign The possession of space," he residents in the Far East to be able claims, "is the hallmark of pros- to say that they have experienced, the perity. But it is when we come to

the use nge. In perusing our

full force of a typhoon in the open

of that strictly limitel magazines, periodicals and newsses, and to be able, in retrospect, space which is communal, and | papers he will bei struck by the to dwell on the various aspects of which cannot be appropriated per- incessant reference to gold, silver, the experience," declares Professor find the old conditions wholly in- manently by an individual, that wa Ex-L. Forster, of Hong Kong Univer- adequate to meet the new situation."

sity, in a little book of impressions Roadways were made for pedestri ho has left behind him to perpetuates in the first place, and certain- his name. The author, who makes ly for nothing faster than a horse- no pretence to bo a stylist, never drawn vehicle later. The poor theless sues us all up in a shrewd man walks, and so makes no DXx and dry manner, though he is al- travagant demands on public space. ways tolerant and good-humoured. If he uses the tramcar or omnibus, One gathers that Life to Professor he asks for little more room than Forster was very auch of a stage, he would occupy if he walked; though he obviously classifies him with a rickshaw he doubles at least aclf as an onlooker, rather than a his demand on the city's space, puppet. We are the puppets, who while if he is sufficiently affluent (as he says) * are more or less and owns a car he adds enormously we do not realise what curious Not only does the powerful enr mentally and physically deranged, to his share of the public highway, effects the atmosphere is having on take up the space of ten people at our system. It is no flattering least while motionless, but it re- picture that the author has drawn quires when travelling in addition of Hong Kong and its inhabitants, the least distance within which it but it has little of the cynicism of, can come to a halt. Here the Somerset Maugham's portraits, space demanded is proportionate to After all, Professor Forster was one wealth. It is the individual in the of us; perhaps he has escaped be

seven seater who seriously adds to fore the virus of decay could enter the congestion of ear." We take his system. At any rate, be see

it that Professor Forster does not with uncomfortable clarity into the approve of automobiles anomalies, of our social life..

Old and Na..

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A Gilbertian Situation!

change. The fact is that this generation possibly thinks more about money than any that has gone before it,

Even in Hong Kong we suffer from a silver complex; the happiness of some of us hangs by a quotation, our spirits are re. gulated by the rise and fall of the dollar. Το quote Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spend. ing, we lay waste cur powers." Our trouble is that we think too much of silver, and too little of Byiv Is it that subconsciously we hate to be reminded of the early days of our race, when we walked wasily through leafy glades, and seek to obliterate the memory of those green temples with windowed inonoliths of fegro- concrete: The moderu

LONT-

On his own ground, safely away. planner has little use for trees; at In a thoughtful chapter, The from speculation, the author is the most he will patronisingly Clash of the Old and New," he much more interesting. His chap

on "Excerpts from the confluence of two ters spare an acre of grand, surround streams with that of two radically Cathedral Records" are a fascinat- it with iron railings, and call it a different civilisations. "It is in- ing addition to the history of the public park. It is only in Gerteresting," he observes, to watch Colony, though he devotes only many and other parts of the Con- and meditate on the junction and eighteen pages to this subject. Re the mingling of two civilisations ferring to certain documents which tinent that trees are regarded as which outwardly are 30 separate describe the efforts of the Dean to necessary to the welfare of the and disparate as those of the East, induce the Government to part

and the West.""

with a sum nearer to that which i community. Where, in England, is

was apparently promised, namely, The author writes on a variety £8,000, instead of the £4,600 with there a street of such beauty as

of impressions, from Chow dogs to which they claim to have discharg yachting, from advertisemented their obligations, he comments heardings to "The Oppressed Wo "In this correspondence there is man in China," and bends them the truly Gilbertian situation of all to his particular vision, which the Treasurer and Secretary to the is certainly broader and more Trustees having to write to him- sympathetic than most men's. Here self as Colonial Secretary." and there one strikes a passage which reveals like a flash the true Some of the best chapter in the and slightly socialistic opinions book are those describing the ua- which be harboured, but seldom thor's experiences in China proper. expressed during his sojourn Whether he went up the Yangteze amongst us. Writting of space. took steamer to Haiphong, or paid one of the grave problems of a fleeting visit to Foochow, he saw modern life," he bas little good to the things that escape most of us. say for the motor-car or its owner. (Continued on Page 2.)

the Unter-den-Linden, in Berlin. where thoughtful municipality hua provided seats

under the

scented lime boughts In Hong Kong and Kowloon Mr. Green has done his best to camouflage the barren hillsides, but our streets are woefully made of trees. Nathan Road is the only thoroughfare where the builders have spared the gnarled and ancient banyan trees, though doubtless in time these will be chopped down.

compares

the

There is no sadder sight than a city of stone and concrete, where the only leaf to be seen is in pots outside hotel entrances. No won-at-island-so-bare of verdure Our what little verdure there ever wan der the faces of city dwellers look bills, like the sierras of southern has long since beca sacrified to the so sad they yearn for the

Spain, glare brassily in the sun; hod and the pile-driver. Forests chlorophyll which draws the sun the narrow streets, dark and full of grimy stone shut out the light,

shine to translucent leaf cells Observe in London how the wan plane treea on the Embankment cower under the shadow of grim and sumless buildings.. Shall we cne day ste Kowloon like this? It

of hurt, soon tire the eyes No boardings obscure our sacant sites. wistful palm trees make romantic and it is easier to find a needle in either side of the Harbour, so that a bundle of hay than a blade of instead of coming to an elysium, grass on the Mainland. The dearth one enters a land that is half dod of sylva should cause us more con yard, hall business city. It is in carn than the surplus of silver, yet is one of the disappointments of Kowloor; that dormitory of the the man who has a tree in hia the visitor to Hong Kong to find the Colony, that we expect to And garden might well hoard it with à

(ontinued an nest, solúmn ) trees and parks and gardens, but miserly delight.

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