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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

KINGS Ban

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SHE'S THE "TAPS!”

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-7 HOT HIT TUNES BY COLE PORTER "Easy to Love"

"I've Got You Under

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SUN.

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JOEL MCCREAD

Screenplay by...EILLIAN HELLMANA

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"CHAMPAGNE WALTZ Fred

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A PARAMOUNT MUSICAL

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Ban On

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1937.

Gambling Reduces

Shumchun To Ghost Town

FASHIONABLE KWANGTUNG

RESORT MAY BECOME

ORPHANAGE FOR CHILDREN

LESS than a year after its closing last summer, Shum- chun, formerly the smart gambling rendezvous of

Hongkong and South China, remains unkempt and desert Empress Liner

ed, with hope for a re-opening becoming dimmer month by month.

Takes Pilgrims

Since General Chan Chal-tong fled from Canton, and the To Sancian Isle

Nat ng Government took over, gambling has been frowned upon

in South China, and Macao now has an absolute monopoly.

A mass transfer of passengers from the Canadian Pacific liner Empress ut

Shumchun is just over the border from Hongkong's New Territories. In a position so close to the Kowloon Canton Railway-Junun to the Empress of Russia look as to invite the attention of all passengers.

Until July last year, Shumchun glittered with a multitude of electric lights, its newly-built Casino and Hotel the centre, for thousands of week-end visitors, European and Chinese.

place at No. 1 Kowloon wharf this. morning.

St.

Two hundred Catholic pilgrims, who arrived here on the Empress of Japan, comprise a special party which The end for Shumchun was | officials, presumably with more hins chartered the Empress of Russia knew for, a special pilgrimage to Sancion sudden and one may add, tragic. money and time than they

what to with. For these and such Island where, 30 years ago. It was after hundreds of thous these, Shumchun possessed an at-Francis Xavier died. sands of dollars were freshly traction which amount of a pro- sunk into the business, and many digal but wholly artificial hospitality more lakhs were to have follow- could have enhanced. ed had it been allowed to attain the proportions desired for it by its promoters.

The irony, too, was that it should have followed almost upon the very moment chosen for casting to the winds all the business caution hither- to restraining an "all-in" activity for Shumchun-a enution inspired by the notorious instability of South China politics.

The departure of General Chin Chai-long ended Shumchun's heelle career, but left it with a lot of build ing property:

What to do with it apparently not so much the important question being considered as to whom it be- longs. The Nanking control now exercised from Canton holds that a sam of eight million dollars was owed the National Treasury distinct from the Provincial Purse) from revenue under one account or this claim It is ollier; and under holding on to land and buildings now depreciated to little more than a rural value,

A PAINLESS SOLUTION

If, ultimately, it has to be a ques- tion of malding the best possible use of a very extensive area unsuited to normal requirements, a solution has been offered by a multi-millionaire as painless as the balm he sells s n cure for headaches and n host of other body allments.

This philanthropist has made it known that he is willing to take over the properly and, at his own expense, reconvert.it into the very last thing one would expect from a place with such a tainted history ---—-an-orphanage.----

If the proposal be accepted-as it has every chance of being so-the fate may be speculated of those two houseboats in the little pond which were amongst the chief features of the gambling resort. As far as can be gathered, they are about the only two craft in this world that were Jaunched in a pool hardly bigger thun their combined width, or, having been duly launched, had never solled the scas.

They served as restaurant and lodging place for gamesters staying overnight at Shumchun. That was before these die-liards betook them- selves to the more formal hostel built and completed just before the ban on gambling reduced Shumchun to o ghost town.

In the hey-day of its prosperity, Shumchun attracted besides the Chinese, many a foreign resident and visitor from Hengkong, who prefer- red it to the longer excursion to Macao,

ARTIFICIAL HOSPITALITY · Most notorious among the more frequent visitors drawn to its fan tan, the dice and roulette tables were "neglected" secondary wives and con- cubines of rich merchants

miles from Hongkong, and is under

Sancion Island is approximately 300

the jurisdiction of the Marykno!! Procuration, with Father "Sandy" Cairns in charge.

On the support I could have con- tinued to receive, principally from Hongkong and Canton, Shumchun St. Francis Xavier was buried on was then well on its destined road of the island for some time, until, his being the Monte Carlo of the Far remains were disinterred and taken East, a role into which it Insisted in to Gon, where they still remain. working a Far Eastern texture by But the Tomb on Sancian Island is transferring to itself some of the still the mecca of hundreds of devout glories now lost to Hongkong's West Catholics, and several pilgrimages Point quarter.

have taken place from Hongkong. Into the very ambitious scheme.

The Empress of Russia will be the vert to have entered a restaurant, largest vessel to visit Sancian Island. cabarot,

theatre for the jaded Owing to shallowness of water, she gamester to dine, wine and dance, will be forced to anchor 15 miles off- Or for him, if he so wished, to dope shore, and pligrims will be conveyed himself to death with opium, or to ashore in Hreboats.

be entertained, let it be said, by i The Empress leaves Hongkong at'] Snow Jade or one or other of her 15 pm, and will proced direct from equally ravishing sing song sisters, Sanclan Island to Mania.

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