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ICELAND AND YUNNAN

Interesting Points

Similarity

Ofxed resolve to quit the land of

At the Rotary Club yesterday, Dr. K. Mackenzie of the Hongkong University gave an address in the course of which he compared Ice- land to Yurinan and pointed out many interesting similarities be- tween the two countries, which he had observed, when he visited these places,

Mr. T.-B. Wilson presided over the lunch and introduced, several visitors including Messrs. G. M. Warren, C. M Squarey and Rota- - flan Utter from Shanghai. ! It was announced that the An- nual Meeting of the Club would take place during the first week -in May and that meanwhile Ro- tarians Perrin, Tso and MacPher- son be appointed members of the nomination committee.

were

his fathers, he had taken away

the door posts of his house, and

these he ΣΟΥ cast overboard.

Where they were driven ashore, he established his house, now the site of a flourishing city which re- members his name in Reykjav♫— the harbour of Rey Kir.

Political Situation"

constituent

The political situation of these! countries has some Interesting points of similarity. Iceland is nominally subject to Denmark, while Yunnan, is a member of the Chinese Republic. Both appear to exercise privileges of Home Rule, and both have powerful neighbours who considerable interest in the main- tenance of such autonomy.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934.

CORRESPONDENCE

(To the Editor of the "Hong Kong

Daily Fress")

(All letters intended for publi-

cation must be accompanied by the

name and address of the writer, not for publication, unless su desired but as evidence of good faith.-ED.j

CANTONESE LESSONS OVER THE RADIO

Sir,-As the one who wrote to you suggesting the desirability of the Radio Committee arranging for Dr. Wells to broadcast his

valued

lessons in Cantonese, may I be

through your permitted correspondence column, upon the completion of the present series of lessons by Dr. Wells this evening,

A LONE ISLAND

WANTS LIFE

They Think Bagpipes

Would Do

Has any one any bagpipes to

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FRASER

To Be Given By A.D.C.

Following the great success of

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The inhabitants of Arranmore, Dramatic Club has for some weeks Joha one of Britain's loneliest islands, past, been rehearsing St. which hes four-and-a-half miles Ervine's delightful light comedy off the coast of Donegal, are look-The First Mrs Fraser." which are hereby notified that their cargo ing for some but cannot find will be presented at the China will be discharged into Holt's Wharfi

them.

There is not a single wireless set or gramophone on the island. The only musical Instrument is a mouth

ongan.

The 600 inhabitants decided to form a band.

They asked Mr. Anthony O'Don-

Fleet Club Theatre (lately known as the Royal Νανμέ Canteen Theatre) on

the nights of Apr 11, 12, 13 and 14. Excellent pro gress is being made and theatre- goers may lock forward to an ea- joyable evening's entertainment. In the selection of this play the

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esa risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 26th Mar.

bere, unless notice has been given Optional cargo will not be landed prior to steamer's arrival but carried on from port to port to the final prot of call to which the option extenda

All broken, chafed, and damaged where they will be examined onany goods are to be left in the Godowns, Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 A.M. and Noor withia the free storage period..

to express to him and to the com-nell, the king of the island, to Committee have been guided by mittee my very hearty apprecia-ind them some bagpipes. tion of his 'excellent and self-

popular demand for something denying teaching, also to suggest O'Donnell asked his brother in business man need have no qualms New ones cost nearly £80, so Mr.light and amusing, and the tired that it would not only be a London to find, some second-hand that be will not be catered for. The laws of" both countries are

gracious act but a helpful one a number of interested "listeners-

enes, but there. aren't any.

An entirely new cast

has been Before the business of the meet- elaborate and comprehensive. They

The "king" said to a "Sunday secured; and several or the players in" would write either to you or ing commenced,

No claims will be admitted after members

both include a prohibition clause to the Committee or to Dr. Wells Express" representative, We are will be seen on the local boards for the Goods have left the steamer's asked to stand up for a minute in —in Iceland, on alcohol, in Yun-

personally and express their grati-world for weeks by had weather, be taken by Fay Grossman, who undelivered after the 2nd Apr., will sometimes cut off from the outside the first time. The name part will Godown, sad all Goods remaining memory of the late Rotarian Enan, on oplum. But in both cases

tude, Probably it would be sur Stone.

the probibition is illusory. I saw prising to know how far-reaching and a little music would make life needs no introduction to the Honghe subject to rent. Dr. Mackenzie in the course of as much drinking in Iceland as the influence of this teaching of

brighter."

Kong public. The return to the All Claims against the Steamer must his address, sald Iceland lies at oplum addiction in Yunnan. The the local dialect has been over the

Lootlights of this talented lady, who be presented to the undersigned on the edge of the Arctie circle, Yun-system of fines in Iceland is alr, and how many persons have

duction to her laurels, recently added an outstanding pro or before the 18th Apr., or they will nan on the edge of the tropical purely nominal. Since the coun-benefitted by it.

will he not be recognised. beartily welcomed by all. 10 James Fraser, we have an actor of Jamca Walker, who will play

considerable experience in the out- porte and Faith Jupp, cast for Elsie Fraser, comes to us with s

zone.

So it would be

reasonable

to expect a startling difference in climate. Actually, the difference is The Iceland comparatively small. summer is a fierce affair: the sun shines for 20 hours of the 24, and in the interior where the volcanoes have devastated the vegetation and the plains of sand and lava lie naked in the sun, I have been nearer to heat stroke than ever I have been in China. Though I have not been there in winter I am told the climate is remarkably mild-it seldom falls to freezing point although the day is only four hours long, and when snow talls, it seldom lles upon ground.

Iceland's History

the

of

try has no police (a circumstances I was amazed to learn recently in which it differs most remarked-

Chinese a

gentleman in ly from Yunnan!) and no, serious Toronto sending an enquiry re- cime, the question of prohibition garding the text-book used in the remains largely a matter of per-Cantonese lessons to which he had sonal opinion, in which as usual, been listening in Toronto, broad-. many of the worth. are found wanting.

cast from Z.B.W. Hong Kong.

This Chinese man does not speak In Yunnan, the oplum prohibl Cantonese, but was picking it up tion functions even more strange- by listening to Dr.. Wells's simple ly. am informed (I hope tacor-expositions over the radio! rectly that a fine is levied upon any farmer who grows the poppy, and that this fine is assessed (and

extracted) in the early part of the year, Whereupon the farmer, in order to cover his losses, pro- ceeds to grow oplum and sell it

a use of prohibition ordinances quite as novel and striking as anything in Iceland.

Another Similarity

Another

I wonder how far 2.B.W."can be heard. Anywhere beyond Toronto? It would be interesting to know

how many classes of people and how many different nationalities in various parts of the world have been listening-in to the Cantonese

lessons.

and greatly beloved sinologue, Dr. Wells, who has laboured incessant- ly for almost half a century in Hong Kong, I am, Yours, etc.

E. E. 8.. Hong Kong, March 27, 1934,

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Farming in Hong Kong and the New Territories and, whenever possible, I willingly gave what assistance I could to foster this important Industry. Personally, I know of officials in high places, talpans, I am indeed, glad to see that, clerks, coolles, men, women and at last, the egg supply in Hong

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TONSIGNEES of Cargo by the are delighted with the "Cantonese am not without hope that before and is carried out as follows:

sbove-named Steamer are hereby Yunnan has frequently been

Made Easy" over the

informed that their Goods, with the alır. Along we shall not have to depend Drop all eggs "termed the Switzerland of China. The two countries have also a Chinese young man came down entirely on outside sources for the containing enough cold water to ables, are being landed and placed at in a receptaclesxception of Opium, Tresents and Valu An elevated plateau of about 6.000 disease in common--leprosy. This from feet, hemmed in with mountains disease is largely one of bad living ago, and was greatly distressed to

the North, a few months Colony's requirements.

cover the eggs and some three their risk in the Godowas of the Hong I observe that eggs are invari-inches. in excess. Eggs lying ab- Kang and Kowloon Wharf and Godowe more than twice as high, landlock-conditions and defective personal and that he could not understandably advertised and sold as "Fresh solutely even ed and dimcult of access, it is a hygiene, and is favoured in Ice- or be understood by his fellow- Eggs" This term covers a some position at the bottom of the re-

in a longitudinal Co., Ltd, Kowloon, whence Delivery can.

be obtained as the Goods are landed. temperate island in the midst of land by the depressing winter countrymen in this Southland, and what wide range of eggs even to ceptacle are new laid. A seven- the tropics.

Goods not cleared within 7 days, in- How then am I to conditions of darkness and con- he told me he felt like a fish out thirty days old and over, held in day old egg would lay at a slight cluding date of arrival, will be subject to Justify this parallel between the sequent lack of outdoor work. It of water; I advised him to get cold storage or otherwise. For angle the large end inclining up- Rent" two regions so totally alien? I to

is dying out now, because the old Dr. Wells's text-book and go over eggs of the latter description wards. As the egg becomes older so merely as an observer with a

turf and stone houses are being it with the friends in the bome prices asked are high and it would the angle increases and at the age mild taste for travelling a little replaced by large airy concrete in which he was living, also to

be well for the housewife to know. off the beaten track, and a mild buildings. It is doubtful whether Isten-in to the Radio lectures,

The quality of a new-laid egg In curiosity in natural customs. the diet of salt fish. which was which he gladly did, with the re- by hens properly fed must be as- formerly blamed for this scourge, sult that within a few weeks he sumed to be perfect, nothing can had anything to do with it. In

was speaking to and understand- be done to improve it. Therefore Yunnan. leprosy is deplorably ing those around him

such eggs can fairly be advertised In the historical aspect. Ice- common, and segregation is not Star Ferry a few days ago, I told Justify the price asked and paid Upon meeting Dr. Wells on the and sold as "new-lald eggs" and land is one of the most interesting efficiently carried out. countries in the world. It was in very, common complaint is goltre, him of some of the expressions for them. the year 890 that Norway became which is frequently extremely of appreciation I had heard and Now on the question of deter-themselves that their supply comes unified under the control of Harold disfiguring. A semieretinqua con-

asked him if he had been spoken mining a new-lald egg I wonder from a farm that runs the dock Halfair. and certain of his sub-dition is widely spread in Yunnan

to by many persons. I was glad it is not often housewives can entirely free of roosters as one of jects, disliking the change from a with the usual accompaniments

to hear that he had been cheered easily tell when an egg is new-

the worst causes of deterioration is nominal to an actual vassalage, of stunted growth and feable by many expressions of apprecia- laid, or otherwise. There is a found in fertile eggs. Such eggs set out to find new lands where mentality. I have no doubt that tlon, not a few of which were quite simple method and it is easy commence to incubate at 68 degree the principle of self determination it is far more the lack of iodine stance, he told of frequently being

especially interesting. For In- to explain.

F. H. and Hong Kong summer The correct way to find out is temperature registers above this could still be practical Voyaging in the soil than the prevalence of stopped by strangers on the street the candle-test. A very small air degree. north and east by the stars, Rey opium that accounts "for the de- Kir, the boldest of these outcasts, graded condition of the people.

or in lifts, when they overheard cell as it is commonly known, It may also be stated that it found himself after two months

him talking to someone, and visible on the large end of the will be wise to avoid imported eggs Rotarian Montargis in salling and rowing, on the

witty being asked: "Ts It not your voice e8g approximately under half an from places of origin which are coast speech thanked Dr. Mackenzie, for I hear teaching Cantonese over inch in diameter, indicates new situated far away from Hong of a new land. In token of his his interesting address.

the Radio?"

laid and this air cell expands in Kong. Many tests of such eggs SERVICE TO READERS THE M.V Dr. Wells told of one of the size according to the age of the have been made and eggs under most "-striking and cheering ex- egg. This method may not always' some five weeks old remain to be periences he has had, when at a be very convenient for various found public dinner not long ago, he was reasons, The alternative is the told by seven out of eight persons water-test which is quite reliable sitting near him at the table that they had been listening-in to his Radio expositions of Cantonese, amptg them being a Consul," a Taipan, and other prominent per- sons, including 'a couple of ladies. The conversation began by $ Chinese gentleman sitting next to Dr. Wells remarking on a subject taught in a recent 'Cantonese broadcast lecture. It is probable that many Cantonese persons are surprised to find that they are actually using certain "tones" etc., of which they are utterly, uncon-- scious!

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Dr. Wells Informs me that the various requests received ··· from listeners, some of whom wish him to go faster and others slower, some to make it simpler and others not so simple, only proves that he is in the "post- tion of the proverbial man with the donkey, who was trying to please everyone! W

Hoping many others may take the opportunity at this appropriate": time, of writing to express appre- clation of the faithful and pains- taking teaching of the veteran

·J. A. SELAVISA ALVES. Hong Kong, March 27, 1934.

A scene from "I am Suzanne” with: "Lifan Harvey and Gene Raymond coming to the King's Theatre.

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