1935-03-20 — Page 7

THE WONDERS OF INDO

CHINA PRAISED

Interesting Talk At Rotary Club Tiffin

At the weekly tiffin of the Rotary Club yesterday, Mr. M. J. B. Montarris delivered an interesting and instructive address on "A Five-Week's Trip in French Indo-China and Yunnanfu.",

Mr. M. K. Lo was in the chair and there was a large gathering present including the following guests: M. Toulange Tessier (Consul- General for France), Rotarian John Hind (Bishop of Foochow). Rotarian F. Thorpe, of Covina, California, M. Renner, M. de Rouin, Mr. Tusserand, M. Brusset, M. Mancluí, 'M. Stiger, Mr. Shao Tsun, Mr. Ho Chlap Chye. Mr. Tang Eng Hoo, Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dow- bigain, and Mr. W. F. ́Edge.

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Calm And Refined Hong Kong

its walls reflecting themselves in the marshes.

"HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935.

VIVA PORTUGAL

Officers Entertained

caderos.

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THE MACHINE GUN

BATTALION

Hold First Annual Dance

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The Captain and officers of the Portuguese sloop Goncalves Zarco. which arrived here on Monday, were entertained to a tea party by the local Portuguese community at

The Rose Room" of the Peninsula, and Mrs. Macgown, Maj. and Mrs. Hotel was the Club Lusitano yesterday. There

gally decorated last, if, A. “Vohnson, Capt. and Mrs. 8. was a large gathering present and night, the occasion being the first Jarvis, Lieut. Croot, Mr. and Mrs. music was provided by the True-annual dance of the Machine Gun S. A. Gray (H. K. Bank), Capt, and Battalion of the Hong Kong Volun- | Mrs, Mead, Capɩ, and Mrs. H. Owen After Dr. F. M. Graca Ozorio had teer Corps

Hughes, Lleut. J. A. M. Rice-Evans, extended a welcome to the guests. Over three hundred persons" were Lieut, and Mrs. J. Way. Lieut, and on behalf of the Club, Marquis de present, and

the official guests Mrs Moutrie, Capt. E. G. Stewart, Ficalho, the Consul-General for were His Excellency the Governor. and Mrs. Stewart, Lleut, and Mrs. Portugual, said that the Fortuguese Sir William Peel and Lady Feel. M. Richards, Lieut. Stratton, community here was very glad to His Excellency Major-General O. C. Misses B. and F. Fair. Misses P. have the opportunity of welcoming Borrett and Mrs. Borrett, Col, and Potter, (2), Misses V. and C. Capt. "Meireles and the other off- | Mrs. H. Harrison, Col. Graham Crapnell, Miss A Steel, Miss V. cers Capt Meireles, he said. was (Commandant of the Shanghal Blackburn, Mr. and Mrs. PRITY in their midst as an ambassador Volunteer Corps), Col H. B. LWingfelä, Mr. and from the Mother Country and was Dowbiggin and Miss Dowbiggin, Stone, Misses B. and H. Hance, Dr. no stranger to them as he was Col and Mrs. L. G. Bird and Miss Batchelor, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. formerly Minister for Foreign Ar- Bird, Capt, P. M. Wilkinson and fairs. They were all proud of the Lieut. and Mrs. Westlake. enormous strides which had been His Excellency Sir William Peel made in the re-organisation of the and Lady Feel were greeted og ar- Portuguese Navy and the redemptival by a fanfare, of trumpets by tion, of their glorious past in the field of navigation as well as the fact the Portugal was again taking Its place among the navies of the leading "civilised "nations,

men of the 2nd Battalion, the East- In the course of his address,

Lancashire Regiment, after which Roterian Montargis said: Why

they proceeded to the Rose Room are we so negligent of the bean- Although Angkor was discover-

where they were met by the other ties which surround us and whyed sixty years ago It" is s the

oficial guests and officers in do we go so far away to and new vast and slient mystery that i Marquis Fialho then went on to charge of the function. Dancing visions and feel new sensations, was in the beginning; these sleep- say that the Portuguese commun- then commenced until 11.30 when when" at our very door we are ing towns are still asleep. Forty in Hong Kong was proud to the party adjourned to the Roof solicited by unforgettable marvels? some cause still unknown the be Portuguese and never missed an Garden where supper was served. These were, my thoughts after niy populace walked out and never occasion to express its patriotism. Behind the official table was a recent trip, because I have to came back and the jungle moved They were all proud to see a war-six-foot crest of the Volunteers. confess that during my stay in In and covered it for 500 years. ship of the Mother Country in the while the walls of the room were Salgon, fifteen years ago, over- It is strange that this marvellous waters of a friendly nation." He decorated with the colours of the whelmed by work, we neglected culture. testitted by those wonder then assured Capt. Meireles that Corps-red, blue, and yellow. those marvellous spectacles offer- ful remains has been sunk with-

the local Portuguese community ed to the tourist in Indo-China | out a trace Sometimes we had greatly appreciated the present and left the country without see the feeling that people did things administration of Portugal by Dr. ing them. Even when we depart here and will presently be back O Salazar and his colleagues, and ed from Hong Kong last Decem- to do them again: that is the concluded by proposing the toast ber, it was with reluctance, as is

ruins'; great attraction. Every of "Viva Portugal." always the case when I have to leave even for a short time, the calm, civilized and refined Hong Kong (hear, hear).

I can Of course

Is this trip expensive?" assure you it is not. with 140 local collars your hardly get 100 plastres, but you will spend probably less In Indo- China than you do in Hong Kong, and including everything, you will manage very well with an average of 15 plastres a day.

moment you want, to "know what became of these people of whom we know so little.

its towers

Angkor-Vat-with foftler than the tallest palms of the jungle lifted still higher by tricks in perspective that form the most interesting part of their design, "isolated like an island in the middle of a lake," is certain- 13 without peer in the world's antiquities. You are amazed in seeing that the stones were not You leave Hong Kong for squared on the quarries, but on. instance, on a Tuesday afternoon, | the spot and it is why the cause- embarking on one of the luxurious ways leading to the gates are and very comfortable Messageries paved with irregular blocks ad- Maritimes steamers. or "nau-joining. The Khmers either knew tonaphte" as they call them, and you are scarcely settled in your new lodging when on the evening of the Thursday, after steaming along a fringe of blue mountains, you perceive the lights of Cape St. Jacques. Soon the spires and towers of Saigon appear blazing white in the hot sun; they seem like a mirage to which, one never gets any nearer.

SAIGON

are

nothing or cared nothing about cement. The weight of the com- ponent rocks was the chief factor In holding the masonry together: nothing short of an earthquake would have dislodged these stones and yet nature has dismantled the titantic work.

A HIGH TERRACE

It is not perhaps out of place to remind you that Indo-China is roughly speaking a high terrace with peaks 8,000 feet high, porder ed in the North and South by the deltas of the Red River and the Me Kong, on the west by the valley of the Me-Kong and on the east coast by a narrow tongue of land, the mountains sometimes finishing abruptly into the sea and forming cavities that remind you of the Norwegian fjords.

General for Canton, on behalf of Senhor Vasco Merguda, Consur

the Portuguese community, extend- ed greetings to the visitors, after which Capt. Meireles expressed appreciation for the hospitality he and his brother officers had re-

ceived.

has its temple of Heaven where sacrifices are offered within its three circular walls and esplan- ades. The special attractions of Hue full of the charm of bygone. days are its Royal Graves situated in a wide expanse of hills and meadows, washed by clear running waters. Nowhere have the An- namites disclosed better their artistic sense In the choice and laying out of the site reserved for those Imperial Graves.

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A FLYING VISIT

Hue deserves a long sojourn as it represents with Angkor and the Bay of Ha-Long the three won- ders of Indo-China. But we must proceed to Yunnan, and I have no more than 8 or 7 taimutes to take you there and back.

Up to Hanol the road is perfect; I only recommend you to drive slowly, as it is crowded with thousands and thousands of people marching from dawn to night in all directions, 'We' met many Buses on the road, that bear the manies of far distant places.

Those Present

Mrs. H. E.

R. L Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs. R.

Mac Clatchie, Miss F. Humphreys.. Miss Hodgson, Mr. W. H. Rigg, Mr. R. G. Castleton, Mr. G. A. Stewart, Mrs. and Miss G, Saunders, Mr. G. Misses Gerrard, Miss Redhead,

Dunkley, Mr. P. A. Sellars, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Holmes.

Officials The officers in charge of the function were:-

Chairman:-Capt. D. W. Mort-

ock.

Secretary:C.Q.M.S., R. A. Ed-

wards.

ley.

Treasurer Cpl W. A. Mackin-

s. Robertson. MM., and C.QM.S.. Supper Committee: Lieut. C. de

R. A. Edwards.

Decorations:-0. 5. M. "Dudley Amongst those present were:- [and Cpl. G. Fowler. Mal. and Mrs. E. J. R. Mitchell Music and Dancing:--Capt. D. W. (O.C.M.G. Battalion), Commander Mortlock, Cpl. W. A Mackinley, and Mrs. Oram, Lt. Col, and Mrs. | Cpl. A. N. Braude and Pte. A. K. Black. Mr. O. E. C. Marton, Maj. Munro.

MR. J. L. MCPHERSON'S

DEPARTURE

Glowing Tributes Paid At Farewell Dinner

Members and officials of the Chinese Young Men's Christian *Association were hosts to Mr. J. L. McPherson, M. B.-É, at a Chinese dinner, held last night at the Kam Loong Restaurant. Mr... McPherson who had been connected with the Y. M. C. A. movement for over 25 years is leaving the Colony for good on March 22. At last night's function glowing tributes were 'paid to his work in connection with the vast progress" made and many hopes were expressed that he would come back to Hong Kong. As one speaker put it "nobody can take Mae's place; want him again." Mr. McPherson was the recipient of several handsome' presents.

We

At the close of the function Mr. Au told the "gathering that the board of directors of the Chinese Y, M C. A. had elected" Mr. McPherson to be a ̈permanent honorary general secretary of the Institution. There was a large gathering and a feature of the official table was that the total age of the nine people was 627 years or an average of 68.66 years.

to speak.

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Mr. David W. K. Au, the pre- England on the 22nd of this sident of the Association was in month. We will miss him very the chate and he called upon Mr. much, but he will be long remem- Lam Chi Fung, a past president bered as one of the outstanding Hong Kong personalities. Let us Hanol is the capital of Indo-

Addressing the gathering Mr. all wish Mr. McPherson bon China, the residence of the Lam Chi Fung said:

voyage. Governor-General and other high Membery and Friends of the

OTHER SPEAKERS officials of the Colony. It has

Chinese Young" "Men's Christiani Following Mr. Lam's speech Mr. been conquered on the Red River, Association: I bave the honour Wong Mari Lam (J. M. Wong) whose banks are higher then the to address you, this evening on spoke briefly of the good work town; the French Town hás the occasion of this Farewell done by Mr. McPherson and straight and clean streets gay Dinner given in honour of Mr. bungalows, surrounded by de L. McPherson, M.E.E., o retire licious gardens, and also some ment after 30 years of service in Mr. E. H. Munson, secretary of very imposing buildings,

the Chinese Young Men's Chris the Foothow. branch, also spoke. The trip from Hanol to Yun-

He stated that it was an especial tian Association. nantu is another thrill. After

to be present at a Much of the good work of the pleasure crossing the wide Red River on Chinese Young Men's Christian function in honour of a man who the monumental Doumer Bridge,

wished him happiness and con- tentment m the home country,

Once, and not so long ago. the hangs the sea with a wonderful 1,900 yards long, we traveller Association is due to Mr. McPher- had done over 25 years service in

effort.

Saigon is like nothing else that one will find in Asta from Har- bin to Singapore. It has been compared to a French town from Provence settled down the ancient hunting ground of the tiger; but its streets

filled with rickshaws as well as motor cars, a. Chinese city is its prin- cipal suburb, and its metropolitan

fe is a surging melenge of all The road back to Saigon via the yellow, white and brown races Phnom Penh, Boker and Mytho is in "the world. In Hong Kong, we most interesting and varied You -transformed"""TOCKS _and" stones drive through immense rice fields, into an immense garderi; Saigon prosperous pepper.plantations, was built to order on ground tobacco, tea, mulberry trees; and where no city. had stood before, other palm trees. I am sorry. One curiosity is that at noon indeed not to have more time to most of Saigon closes its doors tell you about Phnom Penh, a and goes to sleep. Office hours small peaceful city with wide and run from 7.30 to 11.30 a.m. and well-shaded "streets, with an anti- from 3.30 to 8.30 p.m., except in Cambodian character and a slight British firms and banks. I think touch of unobtrusive French French people stay too much in artistry; Boko, a hill station 3,500 their office.

feet high, in a casket of verdure TO ANGKOR ·

and sun, on a cliff which over-

son's inspiration and untiring the cause of the YM.C.A. Mr. Journey to Angkor could be made view over the gulf of Stam; I through the vast plains of the

When he first came to McPherson, he said, had left an only by boat, a tedious passage must also mention Kep. a bathing Tonkinese delta that disappear Hong Kong, the Association was everlasting impression in Chins that took some five days and only resort, in a Mediterranean, scenery, quickly to follow. closely the during a certain season. Now, as with palm, trees, grass plots re-,

a small instilation. It did not and many good marks are also course, of the River, a penetra own its premises, but instead left by him. None have exerted a conditions change with amazing minding us of the French Riviera, tion through the jungle and one carried on activities in rented greater influence in any one city rapidity in Indo-China you can where the temperature varies. has to cut constantly the tant

Now, the Association than he and he then compared choose your way to Angkor either between 78 F. In summer and 70 pain trees and wild banana trees three large buildings with Mr. McPherson's work to that or via Phnom Penh or better through in winter.

that are extending their branches modern equipments to carry on St. Augustine. The speaker con the "High Road," traced through

BIG GAME HUNTING

activities conducive to gratulated the guest of honour the forest, which brings the upper To reach the Mandarine Road

The Yunnan Railway is 300 moral, mental, and physical wel-nos du one thing alone but to reaches of the Me-Kong valley on the coast, you must not fail to miles long. There are 107 and Anger to within a few hours spend a few days at Dalat the viaducts, bridges or water-pipes, fare of young men. From a few express to Mr. McPherson a happy of Salgon.

pearl of the Far East hill stations. 172 tunnels totalling 12 miles built members it has grown to 2,500 in reunion with his family and if membership. Much of the pro- possible to return for further About 5' p.m. we reached Biem- 5,000 feet high, in the country of in the most extraordinary sites. gress, both spiritual, and material years of service to friends in Reap where has been founded a the Mol, which you reach through I cannot, Fellow Rotarians arid first class modern hotel, but we a wonderful scenery, you find a gentlemen, too strongly engage of the Association, however, is due Hong Kong. In conclusion, he can take- Mac's were anxious to have a sight of small lake, with a central pavilion you to go and spend there a few constructive service place; we want him again.

to his continuous upbuilding and said "nobody the Ruins, on the day of our for tea and diving, where yachting weeks in this marvellous country M McPherson completed his Rev. Wong Of Tong arrival, at twilight, and we went is recommended, a golf course, of which I had not the time to 30 years of service on the 14th eulogised the work of the honour- on from Stem-Reap to Angkor several tennis courts and also the see the tenth part, and of which of March, and he is leaving fored guest of the evening. For the last thirty miles we had best managed hotel in Indo-China. I have not told you one tenth of stopped the car from time to time Those fond of hunting will find what I have seen. But I intend and tried to find on the horizon around Dalat small and big game, the top of the famous towers, bat from snipes and wild ducks to without muccess; even from Stem- elephants and tigers. Reap, we could not discover any- Hus is a wonderful spot, me of thing But suddenly at a curve the most curious cities in the Far of the road we saw over the tops East, in a picturesque situation of the trees, coloured in red by with a special exotic character, on the lust rays of the sun setting. the River of the Perfumes. We the renowned towers, A few visited there the Purple forfidden hundred yards more and Angkor- | City enclosed within its high walls, Vat appeared to us, surrounded by containing the Royal Palace. Hue

over the track, then wh

⠀⠀⠀⠀ NOTE OF THANKS

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PRESIDENTS SPEECH Gentlemen We are gathered

to go again, perhaps organising a selves the wonderful scenery of here this evening to do honour to party in Hong Kong one day, and | Indo-China. If he might be one who is leaving Hong Kong expecting to be of some service to allowed to say 50. Rotarian Mon- after Eaving been associated with you. (Applause),

targla seemed to be an excellent us and Identide with the propaganda agenti A committee of the YMCA in proposing a vote of thanks would soon be formed in Hong thirty years. to the speaker, the Hon Sir W- Kong to advertise to the world dificult for ma liam Shenton said that what the scente beauties of the Colony toast for pas Rotarian Montargis had sald had and he hoped Rotarian Montargis and it is Attr the effect of making all those would become their propaganda present desiring to see for them-agent.

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