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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935.

WAR PHOTOS FROM THE GRAN CHACO

ROMANTIC MACAO

Visitors' Impression Of Quaint City

(By Mrs. T. W. Lewis

"Why not take a trip down and! see what it's really like?" suggest- ed the aceretary of the Hongkong. Canton and Macao Steamboat Company in answer to someone who pled, hin with questions about Macne. The proposition meeting with instant approval, two newcomers to the Colony enught the 8 o'clock steamer the next morning, intending to look round Macao for n couple of hours and come back by the afternoon boat. And what did they find?

Historic interest; an almon- phere of tranquility and old-world charm: records of four hundred years' colonisation by a people whose landmarks are imbued with the beauly and dignity of tradi tional culture, and who have pre- served at the same time the best that was there when they came; and evidences of development où all the necessary modern methods adopted by Municipal Councils the new world over.

"We can take the 3 a.m. boat," they decidel, "and round off twenty four wonderful hours."

Hongkong harbour has an in- describable fascination at дпу time. At 8 o'clock 01 a misty morning, with the sun breaking through a drift of rain, lighting the hills behind the city and mak- ing gleaming paths on a plneid sen, it has a quality of mirage, as of a lovely picture that РПЛ neither ant nor occur again ex- cept in memory. A comfortable cane chair on the awninged deck of the "Sul Tal" was a perfect position from which to which grey; Islands disentangling themselves! from the merging distance, tak- ing shape in green and amber, and clipping past, while junks and sampans dipped to the gen- tle ripple of the currents and curved their dun sails to the breeze.

A chance word with one of the steamboat's officers off duty brought a fund of information colouring the way with vivid inj terest: and when the desire for sustenance made itself felt, ministering steward brought cups of delicious hot coffee.

"Well, even if it's a dull place we shall have had this trip," we agreed..

CHARM OF CITY

Four hours after leaving Hong. kong we turned round Barra Point and made dignified progress up the narrow passage that divites the Portuguese from the Chinese shore, steaming up an avenue of fishing junks to the jetty. From the moment when the first light- house built in the Far East (1673), and the ruined face of the old Cathedral became clear, the charm of the city, which is only 21⁄2 miles in area, caught and held นย.

Field artillery in firing position along the advanced Paraguayah

In a junglo camp these Paraguayan youths listen to a comrade's kuitar during a lull in the fighting of the Chaco campaign.

front. Mud and lack of roads are their handicap.

In an airport literally howed out of the jungle, Paraguayan

planes polse ready to hop; practically all are grounded by now.

their liking.

to

Lessons of the World War are remembered in the Chaco, as the claborate scope of this Paraguayan trench system proves.

A priest gives God's blessing on Paraguayan boys kneeling on the

Asuncion drill-ground before starting for the front.

Toward the end of 1834 and the be-

The bullets were whining as the photographer made this picture

of a hasty intrenchment at an advanced post in the Chaco. HUNDRED THOUSAND men | fight against them. The Bolivians | agree to peace terms suggested.

Be dead in the graveyard of are highlanders, and the savuge For six months the Paraguayans the Gran Chico, the bloody battle- guerilla warfare of the steaming hammered at the line of forts and ground where Bolivia and Parti mazes of the jungle was not

defences the Bolivians had built. guny have been locked in a death It is only possible to skim the grip for almost three years. surface of the impression left. That is aiment as many as the but the impulse is strong to put battle casualties of the United the experience of sneh a day on States in the World War, record.

The present bitter fighting Stepping from the jetty. we around Charagua in Bolivia's sou- found ourselves on the oldest part thern province of Santa Cruz has of the waterfront a wide street seen 40,000 soldiers in action and cobbled with small granite blocks has added, perhaps 2,000 to the turned the which have borne the tramp of lengthening lists of the dend. malarial quagmire. generations of feel. There was a And there is no sign of an end. thrill in that. But we had a card!

It neutralised the effect of their better armament, and gave a cor- responding advaninge to the Para- guayans, who were.

used to it.

Paraguayan camps and the de- cimation of her early and veteran armies. For Paraguay has only a million people, and despite the des- perate loyalty and headlong bravery and sacrifices of her people, they cannot furnish fresh cannon-meat forever,

Bolivia controls the air, Para-

And Bolivia has the

glaning of this year, they began to break through, and succeeded in gaining almost all the Chaco.

They swept the Bolivian troops. The war dragged on month after but an area greater than Eng-guay's air force having been

land and Belgium put together. wiped out. month, with continual fighting ex-They were going strong, and the resources, the equipment, and the cept during the rainy season, which edge of Bolivia proper

Was at men. battleground into a hand, with its rolling, opes coun- Unless effective mediation comes, try and its rich oil fields within however, from the neighbouring Forts were taken and retaken,

atriking distance.

South American countries of Argen- n few yards of muddy ditch won

Desperate at this threat of in- tinn, Chile, and perhaps Brazil. to present, so a taxi carried us Across the jungle wastes of the and lost over the bodies of the vasion of her own land, Bolivia from the United States, or from over to the smooth bitumen roads! Chuce the tide of war has swept slain.

the well- of the other sido of the peninsula, since 1932. At first

By the end of 1933, with Bolivia braced, and her green and untried the Lengue of Nations, it is more

roops appear to havo halted the than possible that both these coun where on the tree-sheltered Praya trained and equipped troops of distinctly on the short end, an Paraguayan advance in the present tries will fight each other Into that winds round the foot of the Bolivia appeared to be making, the armistice was effected through a series of battles from Charagun to mutual destruction. rocky headland, the office of tholmest gains. They penetrated well League of Nations commission Villa Montes, lang 125-miles In that case, the Chaco may re- Steamboat agency standa. It Is into the Chaco, that disputed area which visited both countries and front.

main an unsettled South American one of the almost continuous line that Hes between the warring coun- tried to suggest peace terms. But As the losses mount, the Bolivian Alsace-Lorraine, to plague the peace buildings, new and old, commer-tries.

after 16 days of peace, fighting was advantage would seen to Increase, of the western hemisphere for un- cial and residential, which fringes

But then the Chaco

to resumed, when neither side could despite her 30,000 prisoners in counted years to come. the wide boulevarde.

Here we met the kindly cour-

fested in their readiness to show

la apparent.

began

certainly brings excellent results. SPECIAL POINTS

tesy for which many a tourist has

connecting a maze of magic roo-of fabled gods, who strike keries and formal gardens, while note of exotic decoration which design of Macao taken shape as a the Where have we been? And tho to thank the Agent and his son. Four generations of the family

birds sing in the interlaced bran- maintained throughout the in-perfect spot for a rest from the have helped to build up the hi- The places of special interest ches of old trees, and flowering terior. Pale green, cool and reat- tory of Macao, and their pride.. in what is there to see is mani-public lottery (authorised by the memorial stone to George Chin- contrived through pillars of dull tled down happily with the luxury are many and the fact that acpers festoon it all into ful-is-the dominating colour of rush of modern life; a place where smooth legato movement. The the Dance Hall, whose lighting is the repose of a past ago has set- fell to those whose appreciation Government) is drawn three times nery, R.A., who died in Macao in green glass softened by a design of a fastidious new world; where a day, is not without a certain 1840, is set against the wall of a in pink very becoming to the troup no-one bustles, and there is time The gaiety and cleanliness of attraction. The Amah Pagoda peaceful old cemetery, where the of pretty dancing girls. The Macão is its first appeal. The Temple of the Goddess of Heaven English missionary, Robert Morri- green painted chairs at the Ren for the observance of charming

and must be old beyond the identi-son, his wife, and their infant son pastel greens, pinks, buffs blues of the square distempered fication of period, and besides its also sleep. The grotto taurant tables are cleverly con- manners and the pursuit of plea- houses, balconled

where trasted with black, bringing in an sant things. ancient beauty, its treasures shuttored, or

of Lula Camoens, who is to Portugal ultra modern note, and two tiers are in most cases embellished pewter, ita carvings and paint what Virgil is to the Romans, of balconies at either end of the with white stucco ornamentation, inge, must be priceless.

wrote part of his most famous main hall glow with a dimmed and the main colour la thrown The Bishop's Palace on top of poems in 1656, marked by tablets radiance. The gaming room is into relief by the contrasting the headland, whose chapel points axed to the massive stone, and naturally a special interest to the shades of pot plants.

the finger of its graceful apire surrounded by a shady, fragrant visitors. All is very quiet and Some of the new houses on the upwards, le in process of rebuild-garden.

orderly the crowd talding ita Praya Grande, nearing the old ing, but the old stone terraco

NEW ATTRACTION

nnusement with a leisurely Fort on Barra Polat (1657) are around the shrine of S'ta Fatima

joyment. Supper follows swiftly! modern to a degree, with the at- is untouched, and from it a path

Lunch and dinner wo had in the on its order, and all the surround- traction of simplicity, straight leads to one of the original city cool comfort of the Hotel Riviera, Ings are conducive to the relaxa- lines, and restrained design. walls, cleft from the natural rock, and we finished the day in the ac- tion-it is the aim of the manage Wherever you look, the paint is of tremendous height and cepted manner by paying a visit ment to provide.

en-

on

now and clean and the streets afrength.

to "Victoria," the new Palace of Cabins booked beforehand immaculate. We are told that An ancient garden laid out by Entertainment, which was opened the steamer provided dreamless when a house in Magno shows a Chinese millionaire three by a gala night on May 18, and sleep in such comfort that the re- signs of wear and tear the owner generations back, is a place of made a prompt and very definite turn to Hongkong was recolves a note from the Muni- wonder behind high stone walls. success. The main entrance cipal authorities drawing his at- Serpentine lily-grown waterways the huge brilliantly lit building by the repeated knock of a stoward. to plished unknown until announced tention to the fact. The system are crossed by delicate bridges, is guarded by two immense figures Our thoughts adjust themselves.

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