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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." THURSDAY, ·APRIL 8, 1937.

OLD COLONIAL Looks

at LONDON

ENYK

San Francisco vja Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

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"T

HERE'S an empty saddle in the

old corral....!

A mendicant gramophone Wis complaining miserably to a cinema

queue about it.

And there, was an empty look in the eye of the Old Colonial, as he looked on. Maybe he was, thinking of an empty saddle in an old corral.

"Homesick?” I ventured sympathetically. The empty look immediately filled with sus❤ plclon. Behind him in New Zealand House was a warning about "confidence tricksters,” and he obviously expected mo to produce a "gold brick." But a gush of sentiment in him made him soften. He was look- ing for someone in whom to confide his sorrows.

"What have they done?" he asked, mournfully; indicating the cinema. "Where's the old Tivall?"

I told him they had pulled it down 14 or 15 years ago.

"Then I hope the ghost of Marie Lloyd haunts the so-and- sos for the rest of their so-and- solives," he exclaimed in a - voice which would have chilled a Canterbury lamb.

"Many's a time I've stood in the gods and chorused Tho Rooins wat Cromwell knocked abaht a bit. Many's a time I've...."

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HE

was of on the

long.-. long trail that winds back into the sentimental days of Yester- year, and I was at his heels,

It turned out that he was a New Zealander, a sheep-farmer. But he had been born in London arty odd years ago, in Bethnal Green, and he had kept his Cockney accent as well as his affection for London. He had gone to New Zealand with an assisted passago nearly 30 years ago, and, except as an Anzac, during the War, he had not been back since.

Jo we made a compact (a) that I' should not try to sell him any gold bricks, but would show him Lon- don as it is to-day. (b) that he

WILL POLONI

NEW LONDON

cony. "Struth, Bill, I'd 'ave knowed you any- where. Remember the time I jammed your hehd in the railings when you tried to kiss me?.

And. in the boisterous reunion and the food-tide of shrill reminiscences, his outraged sentiment found a respite.

But for all her "jollying," even Liz could not reconelle him to the three-room and kitchen fat.

"Look at the barfroom, Bill," she pleaded. "Remember the alley on Satur- - day night?"

"Where are the slums that were here when I was a boy?” he asked

a Tory friend.

"Those Socialists have destroyed them," was the reply. "They respect nothing !”

would show me London as it was yesterday.

With him I went back to school, at a time when children were sent home if they did not have the money to pay for their schooling Into a London where horses still drew the trums and the buses. Into badly lit streets, with footpads, pickpockets and professional "pugs" ready to start a fight for what it was worth.

Into Arbour Square Police Court to see his father fined as one of the endless stream of drunks from an East End which drugged its misery and its hopelessness with bad liquor.

Into a workhouse un ono occa sion when his father was thrown out of work and the family left · destitute to be rent apart by Bum- blodom.

Into the alum kitchen on Satur- day night when a family of twelve was bathed in decreasingly and in- creasingly dirty water in a gal- vanised tub, from a kettle on the range.

AND

ND with him, I saw again that famly put hurriedly to bed ("before the Ole Man would get home spoiling for a fight") on

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floor-mattresses and truckle- beds, piled somehow into two small rooms.

Together with him I played "coppers and burglars,". with the coppers" always getting the worst of it, in a mud- clogged alley or in a backyard where the clothes never got a chance to dry.

And I saw him, through his own mischievous memories, BS the young grocer's apprentice smash- ing the windows of an Infant "Co- "at the Instigation of his em- ployer.

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Then WO Joined his noisy "gang" In Joining in the choruses and "gagging" the comedians from the "gods," at the Old Brit- tania, Hoxton, or the Canterbury in Westminster Bridge-road, or to Collins' at Islington Green, to have drinks and saveloys and pease pudding served while they sang.

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"An' 'er gowlden 'air was 'angin' dahin her back."

Or, when they had funds to ge “up West" to the Empire, or the Alhambra, or "The Pav," or the Tivoll, to suck oranges in the "gods" and spit the plps into the stalls.

"And look at it now," he said, disgustedly, pointing to the Tivoli, "a cinema!

He

But worse was to come. found the Alhambra in ruins, a cinema on, the site of the Empire, the Pavillon another cinema, and, to him the cruel- lest of all, the fate of the Leicester Bar.

"WHEN people dropped

off at Singapore," he said," they used to say to those going on to Hong-Kong or Auckland, 'Bee you in the Leicester Bar some- And look at it now-a time. milk bar! ".

Then

we went on to the Embankment to see the ruins of Adelphi and Shell-Mex House rearing its tower in place of The Cecil, but he did not get as far as them,

Oy, what have they done to my Waterloo Briday he blustered. I slept in an alcove on it once for nights on end, when I lost a Job because we thought we could ask the guvnor for a rise and get Away with it. Who did it?" he demanded, surveying the sacrilege. "Oh, the Labour L.C.C." I cx- plained, getting between him and County Hail in case his blasphemy. blew it up.

AND

It

AND- then we went on a sentimental journey down to his old slum.. There was not one. had gone, "Where's the alley where I played conkers?" he com- plained fretfully. "Where's the backyard where I broke Bill 'Iggins's nose? Who did all this?"

Oh, these Labour people," I said, cowering before the storm, and added hastily, "But they've put up some nice flats for the folks." Four and a half acres of slutas had been swept away, and 1,000 people rehoused. We went off to find some of them.

"Well, if it isn't. Bill Perkins↑ " stout, rosy-faced exclaimed a woman, leaning over her new bal-

-To-day's Thought- BETTER bulid schoolrooms for

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"Oh, I don't know." he said grudgingly." There was something about them old days. All the kids splashing in the kitchen and the galvanised tub slopping over and mam. getting madder and madder. Not that you haven't a nice place. here, Liza," he added hastily.

"The kids like it," she said, nod- ding over the balcony at the children romping in the safety of the garden square. "Better'n what we had, Bill, the alley, the yard and up among the chimneys on the flat-roof of the Trust Building."

“But Old Columini was still resynt---- ful when we were leaving.

"This isn't like the old place at all," he said to Liza.

"You're telling mel" said Liza who goes to the pictures. "Who built them? *** "Oh, them Labour blokes," sald Lizi....

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I broke the news gently that it was now in ruins.

"What "he exclaimed, his eyes popping with reluctant yet indig- nant admiration, "Did them Labour blokes do that too?"

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.strange,

13 Masculine name, one of twelve, 14 Material often useful when a

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10 Hark! This gives wrong in-

about n formation

Roman

10

numeral.

Not a "super" musical box, but a container for millinery.

20. No brave caveman, he comes

from a cavern only.

21 The high part of 17 down.

26 A Paris sight

27 This girl is not altogether pollie.

28

The process that makes for

• harmony.

20 A milltary headdress.

30 Negligent about a fallare.

31 If the name of this town were

put

up carelessly near a river it might lead to accidents.

DOWN

1 An idol perhaps in unenlighten-

ci countries and in France in a -Ash.

2.Gipsy.

9 Outflow.

4. #Teaser" (anag.),

Though an addition it is often taken from the body.

7. Popular French watering-placo with one good hotel in it ob- ́vlourly,

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8 A sign of age in wine.

12 "O go hard" seema an apt

anogram.

15 The head of 19 across.

16 A cargo boat loaded with timber will have at least two more useful than all the others..........

17 When father carved the goose it. was easy for him because he was this.

18 Tree.

19 What in a car might be expected to help one to find one's direc- tion.

22 Retire

23 A vaster change.

24 Bird...

25 A meteor:

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