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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,' TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1936.

A NAVAL WIFE GOES EAST

Description Of Visit To Hong Kong

NEVER LONELY IN THE EAST

Even old travellers who are familiar with the big ports in the East and Far East will find Eilleen Walker's new book, “A Naval Wife Goes East," an entertaining volume, for she has suc- ceeded in investing with new interest what were no doubt to many more commonplace incidents in' the days when they were out East. But the book will appeal especially to the wives and daughters of naval officers, and officers themselves will find in It same really good reading. :

The authoress proves an obser- vant traveller, with a knack of re- cording her impressions without ĮSHIMONOSEKI

the effusiveness of some globe- SANTO BOTEL trotters and of criticaing without TAKABAZUKA asperity. She went out in a cargo- (near Kobe) boat to the Far East, where her TAKAASUKA

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AMERICAN NAVAL WIVES

and lazy days during which ya did little except get your, hair set

"WAR CERTAIN IN 3. YEARS'

Warning that war was "almost and your hands manicured. In certain during the next

three the afternoon you probably slept | years" was given by the Marquis a little to make up for the night of Lothian at Newcastle recently"- before, and then went for a drive He was forced to the conclusion. or paid a. 5.30 visit to the movies, he said, that lasting peace was not At 7.30 you retired to your room to compatible with national sover- dress for dinner once more-peo-eignty.

ple dine late in Shanghal-and then the round of night clubs be the League of Nations the only Under the present constitution of

gan.

BACK TO HONG KONG. Describing second visit to Hong Kong, she says:--

"I thought Hong Kong beautiful when I saw it at last free from rain and cloud, but I never got to care for it as much as for other

means of enforcing the covenant was by using force and going to war. It was: Great Britain's duty to look at the almost inevitability. of war and try to avert it.

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PROMOTION FOR LORD CLYDESDALE

Made Wing Commander

Sqdn-Ldr, the Marquess of Doug- Iss and Clydesdale, A.F.C.. has been appointed to the general list of the Auxiliary Air Force, with the rank of Wing Comdr., on relinquishing command of No: 602 (City of Glas- gow) Bomber Squadron. The ap- pointment was announced in the

London Gazette."

Lord Clydesdale, who is 33, 1s the eldest son of the Dure of Hamilton

"I loved Shanghai and enjoyed it all thoroughly, including the late nights. I found I could do with very little sleep. As we drove out after dinner the shining street signs enthralled me, each one so brilliantly lit up and coloured. There is something fascinating about illuminations. I used to love them in London, but Picca- On the voyage to Shanghai there dilly at night cannot compare with...] were among the passengers ten Shanghai, where the lights are far American naval wires with their more elaborate and much greater children." was, in a cosmopoli- | in number....... All night we tan world," she writes. "I went danced and ate and drank and into the smoking-room to have a watched the cabaret shows at the gimiet before dinner and found various clubs we went to. There the American wives there drink were dozens of them." ing practically neat gin and all talking at once. It was an educa- tion to watch them, and it seemed to me that my head must be weak, for I knew I never could have put away half the amount of gin that they poured down their throats. Some of them were very pretty, and without exception they places. Perhaps this was partly were smart and beautifully turned on account of the climate, which and Brandon. frst

out.

did not suit me. I got a cough "Several of the American wives which never left me all the winter were very nice and one of them in fact, it was not until the fol- He was chief pilot of the Mount said to me, 'Say, what I never can

lowing May, when the warm Everest aid expedition in 1933, and figure out is why so few of you

weather began to come in Shang-tà also well known as an amateur

boxer. girls come out after your men. I hal, that I finally got rid of it for 'guess you don't find an American Food. who'll leave her husband to any sweetle who may come along.*

"Patiently I explained that Bri- tish naval wives have to pay their own passages out to China and that many of them can never at- ford to come, especially those with children. I had to save up hard for nearly eight months to get out here myself. I added ruefully. She was astonished. Why did we stand for it? she asked. Ameri- can wives got all their passages paid for them by the American Navy as a matter of course. They would never for one moment put up with being left behind. Why

WELL

CANAL THAT FASCINATES Like most travellers. she deeply impressed with her trip through the Canal and she writes;-

"I sat and watched, fascinated. as we started to pass down the Suez Canal. Prably when you have done the trip half a dozan tlines or so you, forget how ex- citing and interesting it was the ärst time. I spent the whole of that evening on deck, gazing at everything: completely thrilled

every time we tled up to let an- other ship pass, I saw my first string of camel in the far distance crossing the desert. The stars came out and a full moon, and it was late before I could drag my- self away to bed."

"SO THIS WAS CHINA”

She was unfortunate when she first visited Hong Kong. as the vessel arrived there early in the morning, and "I was bitterly dis- appointed," she said. "Hong Kong behaved like a capricious woman and hid herself in mist and streaming rain. Of the Peak you could see nothing; it was inviŝible. A grey stream of water slanted down from the sky to meet grey water below. The atmosphere was hot and close, streamy. I found myself murmuring Humidity," that word you hear on everybody's ps as you go East, meaningless until you have had practical experience of it. So this was China, and I had come roughly 12,000 miles...... Although eventually I came to love China, it took me a long time, and I believe that first sight of Hong Kong had a lot to do with it. It fell so far below my expectations." ATTRACTION THAT IS SO SUBTLE

In a chapter devoted to Wet-hai- wel she sayя. - -

I think I held an exaggerated Idea of the East before I went to China, and it was not until I had been there for some time that I began to appreciate the fact that her attraction is so subtle that it many quite easily be missed al- together by anyone who is looking for the sensational. "Some people no doubt expect more than others and few react in exactly the same way to any one place.

"In Wei-hal-wel, of course, the British-and especially the social -side obtruded itself. Much as I love my fellow countrymen, there were times when I could have wished them all far away. It was only when I set out by myself, pre- ferably in the early morning or the evening, that I could realize even. a little that I was in China.”

PEOPLE WHO DO THEMSELVES WELL

The Glory of China: Peking." which is the title of the next chapter, epitomizes her impres- Bions of that city. "Our « days,"" she says, “were almost too crowd- ed. In between our sightseeing we were lavishly entertained to lunch, dinner, and cocktail parties, and I remember thinking that never, anywhere, had come across such delicious food or exten so much People in Peking do themselves very well. You who have never sampled Peking duck have still one pleasure left to live for-there is no doubt that as I grow older I also grow greedler,

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by showing of the wines which Castilla, Stomach Patna Platulence did notice however, that

Jen Its tenderness and grow stronę, until 200 #Ez a whaprer you. üks and enjoy

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Always see the ove!” BISMAO" trad mark on every

wherever we had a meal our host or hostess would have a little bot tle of his or her own particular patent medicine - close at hand, which was surreptitiously swallow. en before we left the table, so I concluded, that Feking food had Its disadvantages after all."

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did we stand or it? I smiled."

HECTIC NIGHTS AT SHANGHAI

The description of life at Shang- hal is entertaining reading.

"My chief memories of Shang- hai," says the authoress, "are of hectic nights, one after another,

"I knew plenty of people, and everyone in the East is kind so I was not lonely or dull-though there was none of the hectic galety of Shanghal. Hong Kong is Bri- tish, thoroughly respectable, and perhaps a little smug everyone goes to bed early. No staying up to six o'clock_there.”.

"When you are a naval wife," she writes in the same chapter, "the habit of being alone is one that grows on you, unless you are going to spend a lot of time being unhappy. At first, of course, it hurts a good deal, but then you learn to appreciate it and often to prefer your own compary if you cannot be with the one person you want."*

NEVER LONELY IN THE EAST And so the story goes on, most of the principal ports in the Far East. including those of Гарап. being visited, and here is a para-

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"The kindness of people in the East is proverbial, but it is so very great that I can never get over it. but am astonished

atresh every occasion that I meet with it. You could surely never be lonely in the East--at least if you fault, unless you were living out were it would be entirely your own

of human reach. Yet lots of pea ple are lonely in England; you al- most expect to be.”

And here is the concluding paragraph of the book:

"No settled home, few possės- sions--and most of those in store and a great deal of coming and going. Yet, believe me, it is fun to be a naval wife.”—("Naval and Military Record.")

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Now that the strike disturbances are over in Palestine, the troops hands. In Jerusalem, where amuse- have a good deal of time on theita

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by their officers.

The idea originated with the Rev. Alfred Naylor, who is the senior chaplain to the forces in Palestine,

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