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CHINA'S USE OF THE GOAD

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1933.

of 'the field of academics

and idealism and not THE WONGNEICHONG

into the explosive sphere of nu- tional interests. If the Japanese fail to employ wise and concilia- tory statesmanship, China will aggravate them into further in- vasion, and Tokyo will have to face grave complications inter- nationally: China's hopes may be ill-founded but prior to the

SQUATTERS FOUND

II. The Oldest Inhabitant Speaks

By CHAS. VAN-LEO

The Very Idea!

+

EL DORADO

By Eddie Kelly, Fossicker. THESE last few weeks motorists and pedestriana In Queen's Road East and other parts of the Colony must have noticed that the P.W.D. gold diggings bave entered. upon a new phase.

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the

ROM the Road below the Blue Wongnolchong must have offered event. It is not safe to assume

Pool whero laundrymen spread agreeable variation to the general anything. The gentlemen in the out their linen to dry on the bushes, appearance of these barren moun-

Sensational rumours are going House of Commons who applaud across to the distant hillside below tain fastnesses to have induced the Sir John Simon when he de-Stubbs Road, a near view was ob-first Yips to take up their new set-the rounds of Ice House Street that tained of the modern Wongnejchonglement there. Blessed with an a Hongkong Wild West El Dorado clares: I do not intend to allow residential settlement a panorama abundance of mountain strenma and is growing up overnight. The rush Great Britain to become in-of rows upon rows of square con- luxuriant vegetation, its hillsides for claims has not yet reached the volved in the Far East.creto 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 who declaim violently when ling nearer against the slope on top place to live in, and even at a later foverish activity being displayed by of which the Antiquarian stood, period the attractions of its florn the P.W.D. the discovery of the British engineers, are arrest-

were lines of other structures: low, still unimpaired, we found stich main lodo is imminent. ed in Moscow, We do not

ene-storey affairs of typical Chinese lovers of nature, like Bentham, Just to check up on the situation, other the Telograph sent Edward Kelly suggest that they are wrong in village appearanes and built of a Fountain Champion and insisting that the British Gov- dark substanco resembling sun-great botanists, seeking there the to the new gold-olds yesterday, crament exploit every possible dried adobe which presented a vivid variety of wild orchids and raro afternoon. Report herewith. means of securing the release of contrast to the modern structures plants which now perpetuate the Mesura. Thornton and Mac-with which they stood, check by names of their discoverers. Fung-

How beamirchful is the touch of Donald. But it would be en-fowl. They are the habitats where shui, portent omens associated with lightening if one could with live the descendants of the original the elements the mountain, the sea civilisation in our vast open spaces. Take Queen's Road East, for Wongncichong Squatters.

and the direction of the wind-was

the instance. enfety forecast their attitude in where also live the Island's Oldest another consideration with the event of a serious trampling known inhabitant-a direct link carly Chinese settlers, and for the One day it is just a simple, coun- by the Japanese military upon with the bad old pirate days Im-Yips 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,siness taipans, Repulse Bay rendez- Thoy were of the optimistle few who vousers, Edward Kelly and the To what extent would they be occupation. stirred by the occupation of Pe- At the end of one of these lines turned over tho scanty Island soll leasor fry bowl merrily in their king and Tientsin? These are of village huts was a solitary build- for a living.

and

days when it is impossible to ing modern and more pretentious, CREEK OF YELLOW MUD.

rising above the others which

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cars. All is as peaceful as an alarm clock with the works kicked out.

The next day the P.W.D. Gold

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. thods of disposing of an inter- Philosopher, always inke the uplift the easiest means possible, wereShafts and tronches are dug with national dispute. It is for that reach towards the heavens. A pat. Impressed by the consistency of the feverish haste in an endeavour to reason, largely, that the Chinese tern of squares and rectangles in yellow mud in & erock which ex-strike the main lode. Seasoned cannot look across the Pacific village architecture in this instance tended half-way into what is now Californian and Australian Diggers or towards Europe with any con- besides being depressing, does not Happy Valley, and after the fashion are swarming to the now deld, fidence in the policy of gonding give 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 geograpNell are there in all their ferocious possible therefore, so the Anti-hical, topographical or geological finery. Japan to further indiscretions.

quarian ruminated, in this magni-Tentures found, promptly bestowed It was a bright, sunny day when ficent building so sharply brought the name of "Wongreichong" on the the Telegraph expedition into distinction, the Patriarch and area. Into the creek of yellow mud on the new fleids. Village Elder whom ho sought mentioned, a number of streams might be discovered; and towards discharged. The longest, a raging Mr. Ramsay Macdonald is in it he directed his footsteps.

torrent in the summer rains, took America chatting to President THE OLDEST INHABITANT

a course which Yip the Village El- Roosevelt about the forthcoming is DISCOVERED.

der anys you can still trace by the trickle which now descends from the

It's An III Wind-

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arrived

"Koop your eye open for hostile Indians," whispered Peto to us.

"Look! Two men walking along the sidewalk with revolvers at their hips?"

| Economic Conference; experts

(Hush, little one! It was only « are trying to convince their He found he had done that good Blue Pool Into the level of the Val- colleagues and the man in the man an injustice. The Patriarch ley; then here by the Nullah re- couple of Silk policemen:)

Grim-visaged, the men paced the street that bimetallism is the did not abide there, but in the low-celving it and conducting it along,

ly structure directly across the way. until after a circuitous route round dusty pathway, their hands over- one sure saviour of world cur- Contact was to be eventually secur- the southern edge of the Race ready to fush to their hips-in rency; in the meantime un-ed, but after a fashion eminently Course, it discharges into the sea their eyes the blood lust."

"Blood-shot?" employment in the majority of satisfactory. The Archaeologist through Bowrington Canal. This "Lust man-luat)" 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 Ferieds and links; and bring dire calamity and sorrow to down to the lelds. The shades of tion is still in about the most the Antiquarian intent on the facts the ancient homesteads of the provoning were falling. fast as we The undeclared war between uneconomic ratio conceivable, voured on his side with a provident as it were of their destiny and the drow near.

of a hoary Past, was similarly fa- when it marked the turning point China and Japan moves steadily and the law of supply and de-al arrangement by which, through first definite step in the building As far as the eye could towards a more critical stage.

mand seems in danger of becom-successive generations of ripe, he development of the area.

minors were digging up the street.. ing the inere elementary and was to be linked up to the Oldest

Where the main shaft. had falled The nations of the West are con-impracticable theory of a grad Inhabitant himself. Thus in the In due time the Yips were joined to reach the lode, outcroppings sp. centrated upon time-absorbing uated high school boy. All of beginning he discovored 8-year-old by the Nga from Namtao, and bo-peared, criss-crossing each other.

We came across a barricado, matters nearer home. The special which is known as world de-ip Tertius who linked him up to tween them the fortile soll within

"Thut's to stop tho claim Jurn- 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 pere," whispered Pete. We nodded. watch developments in the Tar 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. CB-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 laickee,

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

the other day that reactions The Antiquarian had come to the which hore thrived wonderfully well where out on the deserts of the be withdrawing from the Lan from all of this are not entirely end of his Quest!

with the abundance of fresh water River zone, the adventure having. Tennis and golf ball manu-

it requires. With the mud of the Renk stiff and cold. What hap pened to them? Perhaps we will METHUSALEH SPEAKS.

Valley the first few huta of the nover know. Over this desolate proved costly in men and effort. facturers in England have dis-

The Story Yip the Village Elder new Settlement were bullt, and land broods the menacing command But how long they will be per- covered that sportsmen are play- mitted to rest in peace is a moot ing more and drinking less. has to tell in these columns hark Wongneichong Village, habitat of Ark No Questions!

ened back to the very early days the original Squatters such as we point. The world is informed That the office worker will play of the British occupation. It has know of it until deatroyed by the that the object of the operations an extra round of golf or another to do with a mass of historical facts great deluge of 1923, came

set of tennis at his club in pre-and changes bringing, about the being. 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. centrations of Chinese troops in almost constitutes an argument originated from a clan of Tungkoon tinues his Narrative: the vicinity of the Great Wall. in favour of world depression!

China is warned that Japan will

be compelled to extend the sphere of operations if these troops continue to present them-

Extrality Again

selves as a menace. The situa- The report that the newly con- Bureau of tion, of course, is an impossible stituted Chinese one from a Chinese viewpoint. Navigation is attempting to She is required to sue for peace force foreign shipa operating in at Japan's dictation, nothing Chinese waters to submit to leas. No Chinese politician or examination by the Chinese statesman could risk advocating inspectors is not without inter- such a policy. The "warriors" est. 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 ver Die-hard sup- ance and exhibit their enthus-nacular preas. iaam by terrorising Chinese portera of extrality will possibly China's unilateral merchants and sending threat-point to ening letters, would probably abolition of this part of the aummon 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 sympathisers course has, therefore, been chos- will more probably view this new. on, 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 extend artillery and aeroplanes, The their activities to foreign vessels Japanese are now withdrawing trading on the inland water- rapidly, but it appears to be a ways, If they can demonstrate purely voluntary movement. this they will have.gono 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 sign still demand before agreeing to ficance attaching to these events abolish the various features is, undoubtedly the rellance which constitute the system of It pacems which is still placed upon foreign extraterritoriality. assistance in the crisis now fac

ing China. The Chinese real- only fair that the Chinese ise that their only chance authorities should be given an

their efficiency." is to take the combat out opportunity to prove, or dis-

Yip Kang-fook, our subject,

into

The Oldest Inhabitant here con- Yip the Village Elder had not whose representatives migrated to the Island a century and a half be-been born when the Western men fore he, the last of his race, was came to tho Island: and much of the history of that preceding period born.

of a century and a half was handed "Continued on Page 9.)

Hongkong was then just "a yel low stone set in a silver sca", and

"But, mother, you wouldn't want me to marry a man on

such short acquaintance. May be he doesn't even play bridge,”

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

chinyelven, murmurs Pote, blan- "Dingoes, more likely," we reply. "I'll go and ask the barman." "Wo slink into the bar,

"Have you here?" we ask

got any dingoes "Dingoes? No. We've got Dewar's, Watson's, Haig's, Ain- alie's, Johnny Walker's, and plain Red-Eye, but we've got no dingoo's. 'Ave n rum!

(Go on, Daddy, Tell me moro about the rum)

Well, the shaden of evening wore

falling

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

The shades of evening were fall- ing, when wo observed Pote drink- ing with Dangerous Dan McGrew. The Craigengower Baloon crowded with P.W.D.. minors and Majors.

WAL

Suddenly there was'a commotion outside.

A stranger, with bad hombre- writ all over his face, appeared at the doorway, Hands reached in- stinctively to hips, and those near- cat sidled away. - ;-

Tho stranger Burveyed the scene, asneer of distorted rage on his face. For a minute there was

silence,

Thon be spoke.

"Essen, for God's sake tell me how I can got 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, Holen, has a tiny noRD,

.... A tiny nose,

A tiny noNG,

A much more chle, diviny, noso Than any nosa fa Grecce;

Had Helen had a shiny nose,

Arshing nose,

A shiny, Horde

So'd got some suddy, peños,

We'd get time buddy