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CITY OF MELODRAMA.

Some Impressions of New York.

Lieutenant H. C, Guernsey has.

Mr. Collision Owen, novellet and buildings are not, as Now York beon appointed to HM.. Sand-dramatic crille of the London Dailytgoes, of enormous height. They wich

Telegraph contributes the following are principally what are known as. Impressions of New York to the apartment houses-flats of about sixteen stories, They are bullt of Christian Science Monitor:

A week la New York! Not "A dull red brick, with sparing orna- week in lovely Lucerne," certainly,mentations of stone, and never But how much more interesting since the world began has brick

shall we say melodramatic? been used so effectively.

There communal palaces are And how impossible to say in the compass of a few words what one niasterpieces of restraint and good feels about it

tanto. They ara. only a few years Before I landed in Now York pld. Fifty years should add great- The mator Yeasel Nippon many Americans, here and there, ly to their beauty, although there is (Swedish East Asiatic Co.) is due had said to me: "Of course, Now plenty of that already. They are here from Dunkirk on January S1st. | York is not America. Remember stoel inside, and they are bullt over that. It's not the real America concealed railway tracks that run it's too cosmopolitan...”

far beneath them. If you think of I used to wonder what was worry-how it is all dono, they are as ma- Ing them. I knew New York was terial as anything that architectura all right, even though I had never has given to the modern world, soon it. Different from London or And some of the finta inside them Paria, of course. That was to are rented at $50,000 a yeart be expected, and desired, But a very wonderful city indeed. Every-

and mention may also be made of the mysterious disappearance of the Asiatic Prince, with all on board. The stranding of the White Star liner Celtie, now apparently a total loss; and the series of misfortunes Machiavelli. which has been suffered by the fleet of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company may also be referred to. In the realm of avta-- tion, the worst happening of the year has been in the Italia disaster, whilst the fatal attempt of Liou- tenant Macdonald, a former Hong- kong boy, to fly the Atlantie in a Moth machine, has to be added to the list of tragedies. On the other Bide of the picture, however, the year has been marked by quite number of real aerial achievements, in which category must be placed the eple double journcy across the Atlantic by the Graf Zeppelin, Hinkler's fight to Australia in fifteen days, and the accomplish- | mont by a British airman of the ro cord speed of 319-miles per hour. Happlly, in the world of inter- national politics. there have been no Berious untoward happenings dur- ing the year, with the exception of the regrettable clash between Chian and Japan in Tsinanfu, and such war clouda na have appeared on the horlton have soon been dissipated. China can look back on the last half of the year as marking n very de-

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SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 192P..

THE DYING YEAR.

The Exchange Banks will be closed to the transaction of public business on Tuesday, January 1, 1020.

About Hong Kong.

Do you know (hat~~~~`i

The Colony's Chincso popula tion when the British took pos. session in 1841 was only 5,6607 Of these, 2,550 were villagers and fishermen, scattered about In twenty, hamlets, 800 wero living in the Bazaar (opposite the present Naval Yard), and of the rest 2,000 were living in boats in the harbour.

The returns for 1027 show the Chinese population to be estimated at 977,900.

vancement, whilst there are hopes of the German reparations problem, the biggest of the war issues re-

It is notified that the name of the justed in the near future. For Great Western Hold Company, Limited, has been struck off the Re- Britishers, the year ends with the gister.." dark cloud of His Majesty's serious illness still casting a gloom over all parts of the Empire, and there will be a unanimous and earnest hope that, in spite of the less satisfac- tory newa to hand, our beloved

monarch may soon show such an improvement no to be finally out of danger.

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The Tarif Treaty.

Khan Sahib Nawab Khan and Sirdar Sahib Mohinder Singh have been appointed Assistant Super- intendents of Police.

The Chinese Seamen's Associated Union will formally come into ex istence on January 1st, when the Union's flag will be hoisted.

An intredible city. · A city with

body know lat. So why all this its swarming populations of Rus qualification about it--why all these alan Jows, Italians, Blavs and every

warnings?

"Don't judge America by New other kind of people; with ita town of coloured people at 'Harlem, York." As though one would. And as though it would matter and on the other hand the chaste majesty of Park Avenue:· Flats at one did.

Well, well. One learns. Despite £10,000 a year and policemen who a lifetime of disillusionment, of walk up and down twirling their very formidable. looking clubs. nover Anding any place what one Naver has there been auch a city of had previously thought it, I had a

fixed Idea about New York which contrasts, such a mixture of Bast no amount of veiled warnings would and West Side. New York is one dlaturb. And now I must admit long, melodrama.

'One evening I walked through the that the Americans who tried to prepare me knew their America and astounding press of Broadway, at their New York better than I did, the section where the Great White Way is at ita whitest, reflecting on

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New York in wonderful. But it these things. The stunning effect isn't what one imagined it to be of towering buildings has now worn It fa In some ways incredibly off. After a day or two one magnificent. Yet in many ways it longer gapes upward merely be is very disappointing. I think that cause buildings are high. One ac- when one calls it a melodramatic cepts them. Only when some newly city the right and just comment has discovered example of architectural audacity or majesty discovers itself been made.

It is probably the high quality does one remain to gaze.

I was observing instead, tho of American magazine advertising that is responsible for any mis-varied crowds in the streets and conceptions all to New York's ad-thinking that perhape my various vantage which the English may American acquaintances who had harbour about America's first city tried to prepare me for New York Everybody knows those magazine were right. There were scraps of Henry in my thought my Having reached the last week

advertisements. Whether they can-0. cera fountain pens, motorcars or friends assure me that O. Henry's end of the year, it is fitting that we

merely linoleum, they all give the New York is largely gone and should view 1928 in retrospect.

Impression of a world elegant, rememories of Potash and Perl- The year that is fast dying has had

The B.R. Royal Prince, from New fined and splendid, inhabited ex mutter. Also a few thoughts on York, enfled from Shenghul, yester-clusively by the most charming that amazing recent book, Herbert 'Its glories and Its disappointments,

day at noon and is expected to nr people. If an American manufac Asbury's "The Gangs of New York," as all years have had since time first

rive here on Monday at daylight turer advertised a brand of hot which must surely be one of the began to be reckoned. If we may.

dogs" in the magazines he would de most. Interesting social documenta Bist look close at hand, however,

40 against a background of the very ever writton,

The whole situation is really very question of there will be found distinct grounds

best society, "Hot Dogs in the

lome" would be very pampered bewildering. This For satisfaction regarding the happenings of 1928. In particular

dogs living in very splendid homes, politeness, for instance. Ono had were that there was very little politeness them would feel that they

In New York, it can be placed on record that there

No English observer reading about long been accustomed to believe

merely sauges.

I found a great deal in my hotel, In my innocence, then, having has been a very real rapprochement with her well-known Declarations, His Excellency the Officer Ad-

seen aristocrats consuming break in shops, in all sorts of places. It between this Colony and Canton, Britain has recognised the prin- ministering the Government has a fast foods, and patricians looking is true that I was very polite my- pointed Private John Burran 48 thanks to a growing recognition of ciple of complete national tariff Medical Officer in the Hongkong of ice-cream freezers, I was pre-full measure in return. On more most concerned over the question(self. But everywhero 1 received the fact that it is to the obvious ad- autonomy, while most-favoured-Volunteer Defence Corps, with the pared to and New York all that than one occasion the fact that I vantage of both to remain on terms nation clausea are included. The tank of Lieutenant.

London is an a well-managed city, was a stranger-and an English most-favoured-nation of the closest friendship, and tho | term

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with all the magnificence of tower one at that brought its special of pleasantness... It Is Among passengers on board the ing architecture and the pleasing touch year in closing with a confident feel- rather misleading, since it means ing that the future will witness even

no more than that no country will. Kator Mary from Japan, and display of newly acquired wealth true, all the game.. I think, that if greater amity and co-operatiog be-

be given preferential treatment to

Balling for Europe to-day, is Sen- added to London's sober qualities one. were not polite in New York hor M. A. de Brimul Festosa, But New York in nothing of the the "come back" would be very tween the two centres. The larger China, and Chinese traders in transferred to Belgium.

the detriment of British traders in Brazilian Minister from Tokyo, kind. No traveller's description swift.

Great Britain. Incidentally, there

circumstance that Britain and China have placed their relations on new basis, culminating in the official recognition of the National Government, encourages the hope that the coming twelve months will witness fresh and bigger opportuni- ties for British trade in China and will signalles the deepening of Anglo-Chinese friendship in all its aspects.

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The pubilehed text of the Sino- British tariff treaty reveals an

Mesars. Thornycroft, the ship agreement following much the builders, issue a calendar showing same lines as those concluded by some of the ships they have built ther Powers, and as satisfactory and also their engines. The local

Union. Building. could perhaps be expected in gent is Mr. R. R. Roxburgh of

the circumstances. In accordance

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that I have read gives any real in dication of it. Nor, I am afraid, There is a very charming phrase will this.

which runa ilke prefrain through are means of evasion, not honour Premises nt Nos. 128, 330 and

But let us nibble at the subject. New York life as I found it. It is able, if difficult to challenge. The 332, Des Voeux Road West, the pro- There are large sections of what the equivalent of the "you" of all-important question of the abo- Ltd., have been approved general york which have much of the Paris. It is, "You're welcome." perty of the China Navigation Co., one may fairly call central New London and the "merel bien" of ition of likin, upon which the bonded warehouses for the ware aspect of a gold-rush town that has You buy something, or ask for Powers originally agreed tariff housing of dutiable liquors.

transaction been thrown together in a hurry something. The autonomy should depend, does not

and allowed to stay like that. In done. You say "Thank you"-to figure among the articles of the the local cinemad each showing a regions there are shabby

The Saturday half holiday finds these regions-Important business shop assistant, clerk, doorkeeper, pave or what not-and at once comes the Treaty, but is dealt with in one picture for the last time. There is menta, hoks in the streets and complement, "You're welcome." of the several annexes, Sir Miles "The Divine Woman" at the Queen's general airof municipal Inefficiency. There is an Old World touch about Lampson drawing attention to the "Seventh Heaven" at the World, This was the last thing I had exit that is as unexpected as it is de If we take a glance at world con-

National Government's proclama. and "Paris at Midnight" at the Star, pected. Of late years, since the lightful. My suspicion is that in war, I had grieved to feel that Lon-essence the Americans are as polite ditions, we find that the outstand-tion of July 20th, 1927, announc

Two lots of Crown land are to be don's Strand was a rather shabby as any people in the world. For Ing happenings of 1928 have boening the intention, as soon as pos- sold at the 1. W. D. fed on an old thoroughfare, unworthy of it years, when their country was in sible, to take the necessary steps ary 14th. They are Kowloon In name and fame I had wondered, the making and they were on the of none too cheery a charactor.effectively to abolish líkin, native land Lot 2165 (ares about 16,000 sometimes, what Americans felt as defensive, they concealed it. But customs dues, coast trade duties, square feet, upset price 28,000) and they walked down it. I shall never now that all is well it comes forth. and all other taxes on Imported Kowloon Inland Lot 2166 goods, wheather levied in transit about 2,108 square feet, upset price

33,162).

There has been a lone record of dis- astor's on-sou and on land, and al- though none of these has reached cataclysmic proportions, many have caused considerable loss of life, much damage to property and a great deal of hardship and priva- tion. Barthquake shocks have been recorded In practically all parts of the world, the most serious being in Mexico, the Balkans, Greece, Chile and the Philippines. Of volcanic eruptions, there have been several,

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Human nature is very much worry unduly again.

the same overywhere,

New So one might go on... Yet this, alone, is an absurdly in or en arrival at their destination..

adequate idea to give of New York York, with its everinéting clang and one's Near this shabbiness and untidiclamour coming up to The British Minister asks for,

As a result of a matshed fire on ness, which are not things of yes twelfth atorey bedroom hours after and is given, the assurance that the hillside near Sheung Shiu, atorday, but are now of considerable one has gave to bed; are alarms, the National Government intends Chinese woman was burned to death antiquity, there exlat regions of the elevated, the screeching brakes that goods having once paid the im- on Thursday night. Her remains magnificense of which it is impos of taxis. New York, with its sce- port duty under the new or any were removed to the Kowloon Mor- able to give an adequate descrip thing crowds of citizens who seem subsequent schedule will be freed taary yesterday. A cow, valued at tion. One discovers Fifth Avenue foreign in a world that speaks Eng- internal levies. Without acknow- also burned to death. as soon as possible from illegal $40, belonging to the woman, was and at once agrees that here is lish: its magnificence and its drab-

edging the role of carping critic,

its something really worth talking ness: ita brusqueness and about. That impression le height "You're welcomes: Its astonishing and its hard-working the phrase 'as soon as possible"

Tho continuous movie performened by some of the vistas of wealth seems to us capable of very wide interpretation to say the least, and icon the Star Theatre Uom audacious buildings, that tower up and Its earnest. Ideallats: its many ance at will be magnificence, and groupings of multitudes: Ita flourishing criminals in which connexion those in the therefore, unsatisfactory.

steel who never forget their origin, and It mencing to-morrow, two perform near Central Park: soaring mas descendants of Old Country stock Dutch East Indics and the abnormal seems to be an admission by the ances a day will be given at 5.15 terpieces of stone and activity of Mount Etna may be re- National Government that their and 9.20 with a new orchestra in which surpass in conception any its multitudes who do not know power In the land at the present attendance at each show. Coming that the Gothic masters what the Old Country means, and called. Of typhoons, the Philip time is not such that they can plete changes of programmes will dreamed of and ara hotels, not would not care a potato peeling it pines have experienced the worst promise to carry out abolition take place on alterninie days at the cathedrale And the climax comes they did there never was a city.

with Park Avenue... ·

like it. A thrilling inclodrama, day for many years, whilst hurricanes within any specified period, while World and Star Theatres.

In the most striking section of and night, and more like the movie have done tremendous damngo in tive steps will be takon at once

that majestic thoroughfare, the than the movies can ever hope to b...

there is no guarantee that effec-

and desire to carry out obliga

The health bulletin of Eastern the West Indies, the east coast of in those territorios where their ports for the week ended Saturday the United States, and in England, edlet holds good. There has, for fast, fasued by the Director of In our account of the construction Mr. Jack Buchanan has taken. Hongkong, happily, has had almost instance, been no real effort made Medical and Sanitary Services, of a new lock of buildings on part charge of the Hongkong office of in any contre which might be gives the following cases, the figures of the Victoria View site we aald Mesars. Thomson & Co. Chartered taken as a gesture of good faith in parenthesis indicating deaths: that after consultation with Mr Accountants, in place of Mr. B. 0.

Plague, Tamatave 2, Baghdad, 1 Alfred J. Lane, architect, of China Blaker. tions. This is not the time, how (1); Cholera, Fondicherry (3) Buliding, plans have been prepared ever, to be unduly auspicious. Bangkok 9 (3), Canton 2 (1) by Mr. B. L. Au and Mr. C. Y. A calendar comes to hand from We can only watch the trend of Small-pox, Basrah 5 (8), Pondicher Chin. We should have made the Manufacturers Life Insurance evorts and trust that these will ry (2), Samarinda 8 (2), Pnom clear that Mesars, Au and Chiu are Company of Canada, for which disclose. China's earnest intention Penh 18 (8), Shanghal (14), Can- draughtamen employed in Mr Messrs. Arnold and Co., Ltd., are

the focal agents. of carrying out her professions.ton, 7, Macao (1), Baghdad 5(10). Lane's office,

a record year so far as immunity from typhoon blows is concerned. There have been floods in numerous parte, notably in the United States and in Belgium. Amongst ship ping disasters, the sinking of the Vestris looms up inost prominently,