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1933.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1983.

SQUATTERS FOUND

II. The Oldest Inhabitant Speaks

Bu CHAS. VAN-LEO

The Very Idea!

EL DORADO

By Eddie Kelly, Folcker. THESE last few weeks motorists THE

and pedestrians in Queen's Rond East and other parts of the

• •

A

#1

tho

Donald. But it would be en-jowl. They are the habitats whore shui, portent omens associated with civilisation in our vast open spaces.

It's An III Wind-

THE OLDEST INHABITANT

IS DISCOVERED.

hips!"

the

(Huah, little one! It was only a

Grim-visaged, the men paced the couple of Silk policamen.) dusty pathway, their hands ever- ready to flash to their hips-in their eyes the blood lust."

"Blood-shot?"

be ill-founded but prior to the FROM the Rond below the Blue Wongnelchong must have offered Colony must have noticed that the event it is not safe to assume Pool where laundrymen spread agreeable variation to the general P.W.D. gold diggings have entered anything. The gentlemen in the out their linen to dry on the bushes, appearance of these barren moun-upon a new phase.

Sensational rumours are going: across to the distant hillside below tain fastnesses to have induced the ' House of Commons who applaud Stubbs Road, a near view was ob- first Yips to take up their now set-the rounds of Ice House Street that Sir John Simon when he de-inined of the modern Wongnelchong tlement there. Blessed with ana Hongkong Wild West El Dorado clares: I do not intend to allow residential settlement-s panorama abundance of mountain streams and is growing up overnight. The rush. Great Britain to become in of rows upon rows of square con- luxuriant vegetation, its Alisides for claims has not yet reached the volved in the Far

East. ereto buildings gleaming white un-covered with forests, the Valley in magnitude of a Kalgoorlie or are the self-same gentlemen der the afternoon sun. But nest-those days must have been a fair Klondyke, but, judging by the who declaim violently when ling nearer against the slope on top place to live in, and even at a inter feverish activity being displayed by British engineers are arrest-of which the Antiquarian stood, period the attractions of its for the PW.D. the discovery of

such main lode le imminent. Bentham. ed in Moscow. We do not were lines of other structures: law, still unimpaired, we found

Just to check up on the situation, other the Telegraph sent Edward Kelly suggest that they are wrong in one-storey atfairs of typical Chinese lovers of nature, like

village appearance and built of a Fountain, Champion and insisting that the British Gov-dark substance resembling sun- great botanists, seeking there the to the now gold-fields yesterday ernment exploit every possible dried adobe which presented a vivid variety of wild orchids and rare afternoon. Report herewith. means of securing the release of contrast to the modern structures plants which now perpetuate the Messrs. Thornton and Mac-with which they stood, check by names of their discoverers. Fung-

How besmirchful in the touch of

Taito Queen's Road East, for lightening if one could with live the descendants of the original the elements-the mountain, the aca Wonguelchong Squatters, and and the direction of the wind-was

the instance. safety forecast their attitude in where niso live the Island's Oldest another consideration with

One day it is just a simple, coun- the event of a serious trampling known Inhabitant direct link early Chinese settlers, and for the by the Japanese military upon with the bad old pirate days im-Yipa it marvellously tuned in with try roadway, upon which tired bu British interests in North China. mediately preceding the British their conceptions of their new home, sincas taipans, Repulse Bay rendez-

They were of the optimistic few who vousers, Edward Kelly and To what extent would they be occupation.

At the end of one of these lines turned over the scanty Island soillesser fry bow! merrily in their stirred by the occupation of Pe-i

cars. All is as peaceful as an alarm king and Tientsin? These are of village hats was a solitary build-for a living.

clock with the works kicked out. days when it is impossible tong modern and more pretentious, CREEK OF YELLOW MUD,'

The next day the P.W.D. Gold rising above the others which estimate the strength of those dwarfed to a height of three. Tradition has it that the Yip Expedition arrives and commences who still adhere to the old me-storeys. Man's thoughts, avers the forbears, coming up the Valley by its search for the elusive metal. were Shafts and trenches oro dug with thods of disposing of an inter- Philosopher, always take the uplift the easiest means possible, national dispute. It is for that reach towards the heavens. A pat-Impressed by the consistency of the feverish haste in an endeavour to main lode. Scanoned reason, largely, that the Chinese tern of squares and rectangles in yellow mud in a creek which ex-strike the cannot look across the Pacific village architecture in this instaucetended half-way into what is now Californian and Australian Diggors or towards Europe with any con- besides being depressing, does not Happy Valley, and after the fashion are swarming to the new field, fidence in the policy of goading ive too much scope for the ex-of Chinese place names which are and Dynamite Annie and Eskimo pression of individuality. It was mainly descriptive of the geograp- Nell are there in all their ferocious possible therefore, so the Anti-hical, topographical or geological finery, Japan to further indiscretions.

quartan ruminated, in this magni- features found, promptly bestowed It was a bright, sunny day when ficent building so sharply brought the name of "Wongnolchong" on the the Telegraph axpedition arrived into distinction, the Patriarch and area. Into the creek of yellow mud on the new fields.

streams he sought mentioned, a number of Village Elder whom

"Keep your eye open for hostile might be discovered: and towards discharged. The longest, a raging Indians," whispered Pete to us. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald is in it he directed his footsteps. turrent in the summer rains, took "Look! Two men walking along a course which Yip the Village El-the sidewalk with revolvers at their America chatting to President Roosevelt about the forthcoming

dor says you can still trace by the trickle which now descends from the Economic Conference; experts are trying to convince their He found he had done that goud Blue Pool into the level of the Val- colleagues and the man in the man an injustice. The Patriarch loy; then here by the Nullah re- street that bimetallism is the did not abide there, but in the low-ceiving it and conducting it along. ly structure directly across the way. until after a circuitous route round one sure saviour of world cur- Contact was to be eventually secur- the southern edge of the Race rency; in the meantime un-ed, but after a fashion eminently Course, it discharges into the sea employment in the majority of satisfactory. The Archaeologist through Bowrington Canal. This the world's cities is steadily In-likes to approach the object of his original stream eventually was to

We hurried past, and walked creasing output and consump researches by Periods and links; and bring dire calamity and sorrow to tion is still in about the most the Antiquarian intent on the facts the ancient homesteads of the Pipa, down to the fields.. The shades of The undeclared war between uneconomic ratio conceivable, of a hoary Past, was similarly fa- when it marked the turning point evening were falling fast as we

As far as the cyo ial arrangement by which, through first definite stop in the building China and Japan moves steadily and the law of supply and devoured on his side with a provident as it were of their destiny and the drew near.

mand seems in danger of becom-successlyo generations of Yips, he development of the arca. more critical stage.

ing the mere elementary and was to be linked up to the Oldest The nations of the West are con- impracticable theory of a grad- Inhabitant himself. Thus in the In due time the Xips were joined centrated upon time-absorbing unted high school boy. All of beginning he discovered 8-year-old by the Nge from Namtno, and be

We came across ʼn barricade. matters nearer home. The special which is known as world de-Yip Tertins who linked him up to tween them the fortile soil within

"That's to stop the claim jum- League Committee appointed to pression, a condition which is 44-year-old Yip Secundus who link-the basin of the Valley was parcell

ed him up to 74-year-old Yiped and sown with a plentitude of pers," whispered Pote. We nodded. watch developments in the Far sapping the industrial and finan-Primus who was the Methusaich rice-crops, vegetables and fruit- Too well we know the fate of East has given no sign of its cial energies of nations to an Himself, discovered reposing with bearing trees. Chief amongst these any who tried to jump a P.W.D. ca-claim. Who knows the number of existence. The Japanese mili-extent even greater than the the serenity of age in a near-by last named, was the laichce,

sentially indigenous to Kwangtung number of bodies that lo Great War. Yet we were told teahouse. tary machine is now reported to

The Antiquarian had come to the which here thrived wonderfully well where out on the desorts of the the other day that reactions

with the abundance of fresh water Peak, stiff and cold. What hap- be withdrawing from the Lan from all of this are not entirely end of his Quest!

it requires. With the mud of the pened to them? Perhaps we will River zone, the adventure having ill. Tennis and golf ball manu- METHUSALEH SPEAKS.......... Valley the first few huts of the never know. Over this desolate built. and land broods the monacing command proved costly in men and effort. facturers in England have dis-

The Story Ylp the Village Elder new Settlement were

Ask No Questions! But how long they will be per-covered that sportsman are play- mitted to rest in peace is

moot ing more and drinking less. has to tell in these columns hark-Wongneichong Village, habitat

ened back to the very early days the original Squatters such as wo point. The world is informed That the office worker will play of the British occupation. It has knew of it until destroyed by the came into the being. that the object of the operations an extra round of golf or another to do with a mass of historical facts great deluge of 1928,

set of tennis at his club in pre- and changes bringing about undertaken in North China was ference to repairing to the club gradual transformation of Wong- WHEN THE WESTERN. the creation of a buffer zone, to house to drink and soliloquise on neichong from the once beautiful MEN CAME. remove the menace of large con- the world of to-day. The point wooded Valley into what it is to-day:

Yip Kanu-fook, our

The Oldest Inhabitant here con-"I'll go and ask the barman." Wa subject,

Blink into the bar. centrations of Chinese troops in almost constitutes an argument originated from a clan of Tungkoon tinues his Narrative:

Yip the Village Eldor had not "Have you got whose representatives migrated to the vicinity of the Great Wall, in favour of world depression!

the Island a century and a half be-been born when the Western man here?" we ask China is warned that Japan will

fore he, the last of his race, was came to the Island; and much of be compelled to extend the

the history of that preceding porfod born. sphere of operations if these

Hongkong was then just a yel of a century and a half was handed

(Continued on Page 9.) troopa continue to present them-

low stone set in a silver sea", andj selves as a menace. The situa The report that the nowly con- Chinese Bureau of tion, of course, is an impossible stituted one from a Chinese viewpoint. | Navigation is attempting to She is required to sue for peace force foreign ships operating in at Japan's dictation, nothing Chinese waters to submit to lcas.

No Chinese politician or examination by the Chinese statesman could risk advocating inspectors is not without inter- such a policy. The "warriors" cst. Students of the extra- of Shanghai and Nanking, who territorial system may attempt manage very successfully to to attach some serious signi- keep their discreet distance ficance to the development, from the fighting zone, who which, it appears, is being prate of patriotism and resist-largely supported by the

Die-hard sup- ance and exhibit their enthus-nacular press. fasm by terrorising Chinese porters of extrality will possibly China's unilateral merchants and sending threat-point to

CHINA'S USE OF THE GOAD.

towards a

Extrality Again

ver.

ening letters, would probably abolition of this part of the summon up sufficient courage to treaties and settle all further stage a covert attempt on such debate by a nod of "I told you a statesman's life. The opposite so". But Chinese sympathlaers course has, therefore, been chos-will more probably view this new en. Counter-offensives have action from the angle that the been undertaken with a heavy Chinese Bureau, having been loss of life. Divisions have been constituted to undertake the decimated in valiant but large-work, are not only satisfied that ly fruitless assaults in the face they can control their own ships, of deadly machine-gun fire and but have developed Western a hail of explosive from field methods sufficiently to extens artillery and aeroplanes. The their activities to foreign vessels Japaneso are now withdrawing trading on the Inland water- rapidly, but it appears to bé a ways. If they can demonstrate purely voluntary movement. this they will have gone a long Meanwhile fresh Chinese troops way to fulfilling the one con- in considerable numbers are dition which the foreign Powers being sent North. The signi- still demand before agreeing to flcance attaching to these events abolish the various features is undoubtedly the relianco which constitute the system of scema which is still placed upon foreign extraterritoriality.It Assistance in the crisis now fac only fair that the Chinese ing China. The Chinese real- ise that their only chance authorities should be given an is to take the combat out opportunity to prove, or dis-

prove, their efficiency.

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"But, mother, you wouldn't want me to marry a man on such short acquaintance. May bo he docan't oven play-bridge," -

of

"Lust man-lust!”

*

could. Bce, miners were digging up the street. Where the main shaft, had falled

to reach the lode, outcroppings ap peared, criss-crossing each other..

some-

Wo mount our brumby ponies, and canter across to the Craigen- gower Saloon, A sharp barking comes from the front verandah.

"Wolves", murmurs Pete, blan-

epingoes, more likely," wo reply.

any dingoes

"Dingoes? No. We've got Dewar'e, Watson's, Halg's, Ain- alle's, Johnny Walker's, and plain Red-Eye, but we've got no dingoo's. 'Avo à rumi

(Go on, Daddy, Tell me more. about the rum.)

Well, the shades of evening were falling,

(But, Daddy, the shades of oven. ing fell five or six paragraphs ago!) WE SAID THE SHADES OF EVENING WERE FAILING————and they'll fall as often as we want them to.

The shades of evening wero fall- ing, when we observed Pote drink- ing with Dangerous Dan McGrew. WAB The Craigengewer saloon crowded with P.W.D. miners and Majors.

Suddenly there was a commotion

outsidanger, with bad hombre

A

writ all over his face, appeared at. the doorway. Hands reached in- stinctively to hips, and those near”. est sidled away.

The stranger surveyed the scope,

WAB

a encer of distorted raga on hin

thore For a minuto silence.

facd

Then he spoke.

"Listen,, for God's sako tell me how I can get my car into Hong- kong through all these blasted P.W.D. diggings, will you?" he whined.

TROJAN OLD SOLDIER'S SONG

Apropos of Practically Nothing.. Oh, Helon has a tiny nose,

A tiny nos0,

A tiny nose,

A much more chle, diviny nose Than any nose in Greece;

Had Helen had a ikiny nose,

A shiny nose,

A shiny nose.

We'd get some ruddy peace,

My lads,

We'd get some ruddy peace.