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THE KONGMOON-SUNNING RAILWAY, INTERESTING JOURNEY DESCRIBED.

The writer recently had occasion City to Sun Wui City, about eight to make a trip up the Kongmoon-or nine miles away; on this road!

there are motor buses and a few Sunning Railway: this, railway is not very much used by foreigners. private motor-cars. any many Hongkong people are unaware of the pleasure of making this trip up country.

Leaving Hongkong any evening at 7.00 p.m. the steamer arrives in Pukkni (the port of Kongmoon) 7.00 am. next morning. about From there one takes the train to Kongmoon elly, about four miles

Sun Wui eity is absolutely the real old style Chinese city; small narrow streets, very dirty, very hot in summer: huge walls encircling the city with gates in the North. South, East and West. It appears a

very busy place and, indeed, | there are over 100,000 inhabitants in such a

very small area. The

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 1st, 1928.

A mudora hotel building at Kungyifu.

old walls are soon to be demolish-launches and if any bridge were Here there are three small towns re all situated along the banks of the ed and, like Konginoon, new ronds built it would have to be a are planned in all directions. Sun yolving bridge which would pro-river, which branches off here. Wal City can also be reached from bably cost a huge amount. Be There three small towns of Sun by railway, being only the next sides, who is ever in a hurry in station up on the line towards South China? Kunyifu.

Soon after crossing the river,. comes to Kungyifu; it is Prem Kongmoon the railway one winds up through very fertile and gulte a small town and owes its "rich

looking countryside: the importance chiefly to the railway scenery is very beautiful all the repair shops which are situated There are about five time amongst low. well-wooden: there.

hills. Abon! three hours afte: parallel streets, all quite modern Teaving Kongmoon the train and lined with modern buildings; arrives audenly on the left bank there is a very large hotel; quife. of the Shunbau or Tankong rivers good. The streets are extremely H will surprise the traveller, eon clean and well kept; as in Kong- siderably to find that the whole moon there is. not yet any wheel train, engine. tender and five traffic in Kungyifu. From Kung- carriages is loaded on to a huge! yifu there is a small branch line ta Sunning nearby. steel lighter and ferried across the running

river. The passage of the river whilst the main line continues up takes about forty-five minutes, through Sun Ning Shi and then. hut if a bridge were constructed curving round, rejoins the coast

The erreitener of the main strerts in Kungyja can be jady- ed from the aluure photograph. from Pakkai. At Pakkni there are still a number of Europeans at the Chinese Maritime Customs, a! the A.P.C. and at the Standard Oil Company of SA. RouLT BERANGKAT City is rather like a smaller Can- ton; it is just in the state of transi tion from the old city to the new; 20 new band is being built many new streets Maloosi are spreading aut in all divertions; everywhere new buildings are re placing old. Quite fair Chinese, Entel arcommodation is available in Kongmon either at the Peug Lai Hotel or at the Kongmoon Hotel. There are no rickshas or motor can in Kangmoon yet, but undoubtedly they will make their the train would cross the river in at its terminus at Towskan,

two or three minutes. Bowever, Leaving the train at Kungyifu appearance in the streets of the

very important the writer proceeded by launch up: eity in the near future. There is, the river is a

ยา Sun Cheong. however, a molar rand, in Sery had waterway and there is a consider- the Tamköng river and an hour condition, leading from Konginoon zable amount of traffic in junks and later arrived

The new railway station at Sun Ning Shi, which was

completed last summer,

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itself is in the midst of woode and THE FUN OF BEING hills and is very lovely; It is quite

are

FORTY.

It was quite early on the bleak winter's morning of December 17, 1908, that those two assiduous brothera, Wilbur and Orville, wheeled forth from a small shed at Kitty Hawk North Carolina, n "I queer-looking winged machino driven by & little engine of 12 h.p. That machine was placed upon

a large thriving town and is entirely modern, every street and building being quite new. There

[By A Woman Who Is] a number of rickshan and

"Good gracious!" you say. motor cars in the elty and the don't see much fun in that!" roads are very clean and well kept. Not even thirty-nine--when one |

From Sun Ning Shi the travel may still think of oneself as in the launching rail. Its engine was Its two propellers ro- ler may either return to Kong-thirties, the prime of life, and cap-started.

Orville Wright, lying moon-Pakkal by the railway or able of enjoying all its pleasures, valved. proceed further up in the direc-without the extreme allliness of prone on the lower wing, grasped tion of Towshan. The railway these in their teens and twenties a couple of controlling levers, and, itself was built by Mr. Chen Yee--but forty! No longer is the as the machine started forward he and was opened in 1912. Mr.first grey hair anxiously awaited.j dong the rail, driven by its whirl- ing screws, Wilbur ran along be- Chen Yee-he is now over 70 years' is there, with many others,

Still, there are so many com- side it, holding the wing to steady old and he built the railway on re-

Along the rail it sped, the spec-. turning from America where he pensations. No need any longer it. spent many years. Later. It was to worry about the slim boylsh made over to a company and now gore, a real problem at thirty-tators forgetting the cold as they nine. On the contrary one can guzed in wonder; and when it had the Government are trying to realize that, for a matron, one is reached the end of that rail it young-amazingly young compar- soured gracefully into the air and confiscate it under their system of nationalizing all the railways ed with a woman of fifty. And flew under perfect contral for 12 That brief fight above the lone- skilfully fashionable, are things of Anyhow, during the Inst few the matron)y gowns and coals, so seconda.

charm and elegance, and, above ly sand dunes now ranks in aerial

records as the first ever made by. Jall, comfort.

It is true that one does not yet; a controllable, power-driven, man- boast of one's age, as do the morej carrying aeroplane. Shortly after- mature matrous of sixty or over.wards, on the same morning, Wil-' One reviews the lust score of bur Wright also made aerial his- years, and wonders how one' ever tory by taking his place in the survived; the strenous times of machine and flew for 59 seconds. hard work, when one fell that one! Whereupon they packed up and was going to do prest things in; returned home, "knowing that the the world; alternating with the age of the flying machine lighthearted abandon, of joyous! come at last,"

play; the uncertainties and delici-

The train ferry, crossing the rover Tam Kong, neur Ngan children: the constant struggling

Wan

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Tous torments of falling in and outi of love; the weighty decision antade between a career and marriage: the joyous task of helping to build home; and the inspiring privi-j lege of guiding the feet of Bitle) Jagainst the necessarily narrow) limits of one's horizon; and hel Cheng, Tikhol and Chong Sha,, years the company has been taxéd įdésperate, striving to keep alive Jike Kungyifs, are quite modern.jan exhorbitantly that it has drop, and resist mental lażiness. The traveller is particularly sur-ped from an exceedingly well pay prised to find all through the Sun- ing conceru till now, when it j hing and Toi Shan districts every sald to be running at a loss.

Mr. Chen Yee-he is still one of) small town and village fully

[By Harry Harper,] equipped with electric Hght in the must active directors of the stallation, telephone system and company, and though the rolling A quié, 'courleons, very retir

stock and general materia hasing little man, who hates being; wireless station:

Leaving Sun Cheong next mors falles into considerable state of made a fuss of and who spends ing at daylight by motor boat, a disrepair during the last two much of his time experimenting in! * delightful trip can be made by go three years, new sleepers are now air private lairatory at Dayton, i ing still further up the river into being laid all along the line, the Ohio, will soon be receiving em, the Taishan district; the gorgeous rolling stock renewed and large gratulations from all the countries scenery along the river banks is modern railway stations erected fof the world. Orville Wright is egol At Sun Ning Shi and Pakkai the his name, and to him belongs the indeed at its best in the

new railway stations are already fame imperishable of being the early hours of the morning.

About three hours after leaving completed; at the later place the first muu in the world to, fly in'n Sun Cheong one cómég in a small stution is situated just opposite ower-driven, heavier-than-air ma-

wharf of the Hongkongchine, village on the left lank, where a the

It is the 25th anniversary of motor road lead to Sun Ning Shi, steamers which leave Kongmon There are plenty of motor buses Pakkai every afternoon at about the momentous feat which is to he p. arriving in Hongkong celebrated this, December, on a

world-wide seate, ning on this road. Sun Ning Shi about 11 or 12 o'clock at night. and a number of private cars run 300

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