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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1938.

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LONDON "NEWS CHRONICLE” REPRESENTATIVE RECENTLY IN HONGKONG, GIVES HIS FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THIS COLONY

E had seen no land

W since leaving

Hanoi, in French Indo-Chinu. We flew at 13,000ft., above a calm sea of cloud which might as easily have concealed the neat little rectangular fields of England as the be- wildering complication of winding dykes that mark the paddy fields of the East.

The machine swung into a slow and cautious spiral and for ten minutes or so we descended through distorted and terrify- ing. masses of vapour. Sudden-.. ly we came out below the "cell- ing and found we were' only two or three hundred feet above the sea.

Half a mile beyond us lay a cruiser at anchor, and our ma

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The

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TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1938,

NO CAUSE FOR PESSIMISM

And

col- that

probably Japanese, and it might not be advisable to go too near her despite the Union Jacks painted on our wings.

A few fishing junks sailed to and fro well within the three- mile limit of territorial waters. Their rather Dutch rig mude them look out of place against the hills of Hongkong island, for these hills and bays remind- ed one vividly of the mountains and lochs of the West coast of Scotland.

WE passed over lovely

ARRIVAL AT

HONG KONG

creeks and came out above a wide channel flanked by ton, in China proper. steep hills covered, with a jum- ble of houses. The machine

Outside the aerodrome dozens

young.

a

from its beautiful hinterland and the much bombed road and railway that lead you on into China is fantastic.

On my first Sunday I sat writ- ing in a garden a mile or two away from the Chinese frontier, On my left was a tee of the golf course with its pleasant click as each player drove off it; on my right was the low rumble of ex- plosions as the Japanese tried to' destroy the railway which is one of China's most valuable life- lines in this war that Tokyo atill calls an incident."

A little way up the hill standa Government House, around which life revolves far more obviously than it revolves. round Buckingham Palace and Westminster. His Excellency-

"H.E." for short-in a Brilish colony probably wields more power than the King he repre- sents, and the good qualities or shortcomings of past Governors are remembered as the good or evil deeds of past monarchs are recorded in children's story books.

NEAR

Government

House are some bar- racks where a dozen men were at bugle practice, and I hurried down the hill again to the be- wilderingly crowded streets and alleys of the Chinese town. Barefooted men, jog-trotting along with terrific burdens on each end of a bamboo stick across their shoulders. Women

trousers

ALL the life of a big with their babies tied pick-a-back so that they do not interfere port against a back- with work. There is good deal of landed and taxied us up to the men with rickshas

of barelegged and barefooted ground of tall Victorian office

A barber busy shaving an old grunted to buildings with one startling juggling about with currencies side of a smart white aeroplane attract

man at a street corner. Women our attention. Most white skyscraper-the these days and the consequences with a large red cross painted trembled with cold; a few still offices

new in lovely ankle-long silk dresses of the Hongkong and slit up the sides or in coarse are difficult to predict. It was on her aides-so elegant a gift sweated from their last run. In Shanghai Bank-and a villa-dot- black foreseen, however, that the or purchase from abroad, but so all weathers they live in their ted mountainside that disappears rolled up far above their knees

jackets and narrowing of China's exchange much less useful than the facilities, designed to protect stretchers and

rickshas and they die very into the clouds. At its top is in rainy and muddy weather. cheap blankets

the Peak, where the colony live Open-fronted shops, crowded the currency and the nation's which might give a decent pro- The aerodrome is at Kowloon, with occasional days of blazing with anything from gorgeous reserves overseas, might actual portion of the wounded a chance

few glory when the view compensates coffins to flat dried ducks of other ly induce the collapse of of recovery.

on the mainland. In minutes the dollar.

a steam them for the weeks of mist. we were on

unexpected foodstuffs. lapse seemed perilously near Cross machines are not allowed

And in any case these Red ferry crossing to Hongkong. The crowd on the water- I wandered round for a couple to some yesterday when Shang- to leave the colony until they women or small children as by noisy. The hotel lobby indescribable Sampans, rowed as often by front

and of hours collecting impressions nai commercial men were

was and smells, and I gave it all up of men, and still showing gay red dense with people clamouring when, in the middle of this co- pessimistically talking of an have given the maximum eight-penny rute. Hongkong guarantees that they will not be strips of paper from Chinese vainly for rooms, gossiping lourful jumble, I came across financial circles, it is learned, do used for fighting or bombing- New Year; Junks with raised about business or the forth an ordinary round red English not share this pessimism. In other machines are not assem- poops that remind you of the coming rates and the affairs of letter-box with the familiar G.R. the first place, looking at the bled in Hongkong at all, but Spanish Armada; British the Colony. Occasionally some monogram on it. Chinese laugh situation from a purely selfish must walt until Japan's own flagship and a destroyer or two body spoke about the war, but readily, but they must have angle, Shanghai's exchange mis- aeroplanes pause long enough to flying British, French or Ameri- the contrast between the atmos- wondered to see me laughing at Complete descriptive catalogue sent on request. fortune will not necessarily do permit of their dispatch in-can colours; dirty old tramp phere of security in Hongkong this familiar pillar of British in-

this Colony, or China, any appre-crates by water or rail to Can- steamers,

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authority than Sir Vandeleur: Grayburn, chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, that Hongkong finances are safe and sound; and the Colonial Treasurer himself has no misgivings, knowing the solid position of the exchange fund. The bogey of a Hong- kong dollar slump does not come into the picture, therefore.

These People Should Not Marry

WE are going to be married

in April, and I shall chuck

"WE my job."

Thus a young girl of mine who As for the benefits which may has the world, as you might say, at result from China's currency her feet and is giving up everything

ut

-Says Pamela Sidney

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to be done in the world. There is. more "to be discovered in medicine nad science than has been discovered during the past two thousand years.

There are books to be written; houses to be built; home laws and International laws to be shaped from their present dismal state of chaos. There are the causes of peace and Justice and education,

Women as well as men can get on with these jobs.

bus? Lady Autor? A copper-colour- There are, let us remember, many ed girl in Honolulu? A typist in

women whose brains New York City? An Eskimo?

could be of more account than their bodies. Let US pull ourselves together. There is no such thing as "a woman."

Let us, once and for all, free our an average woman, equipped with nonsense which lumps

minds of the worn-out sentimental the female £300 a year, plus average powers, average appearance, population together in a brainless

average emotions, average dreams. heading for There are only individual persons, careers

mass; which smiles faluously sharply different,

and achievements, which upsccountable, mouths at the news of every single mysterious.

troubles, let the North China to marry a struggling young clerk salary rose

bonuses. She was currency position be considered. in a small country town. Northern traders do not want

When she had finished her story directorship. she looked

She likes the money. She loves to have anything to do with thewell, aren't you going to con-have all the kick of a really respon- Other Callings

me reproachfully.

the job. She could, if she stayed,) currency of the Peiping regime, gratulate me?"

sible post in a big business house. At the moment, much of the

And she is giving it up. trade of those ports outside the Career Wasted?

"No," I said, "sorry to be tough, jurisdiction of the Central Gov-| ernment is at a standstill. It is

I had to think you. I think possible, indeed highly probable, of that young woman's school career; There, in my view, men that unless the currency situa- wherein she showed so much pro-women who are better without mar- tion is corrected they

mise that her family took the head-ringe; better without children. will

mistress's advice and scraped her endeavour to formulate a barter University fees out of their limited Hackneyed arrangement, selling their goods income. in Hongkong, and using the pro-

WAS 1? I had to think for a But I think you're rather an uns

moment,

ass."

and

I had to think of her progress at

came

this at the I

SAY

risk of a storm of brickbais be- cecda, Hongkong currency, to college; of her degree; of her flying cause I know it is true, Male or purchase in this market what start in the advertising world. they require. This would ob-years the

She has made a big success; in five female, the selfish, brilliant, energe- to the top. Her tic impatient person, who hates a viously be good for local busi-

home and never wants to settle down ness, though a barter system

would make L must impossible parent. norcal would take some time to adjust than guess-work. Indeed, the Why should it always be assumed itself.

whole future insofar as Shang-that every woman must look upon As for Hongkong and the hai's currency is concerned is stined for motherhood? There are South China trade, the same very nebulous. If, as seems scores of women who do not want sort of situation could result if probable, the Central Govern marriage und who do not need it. exchange uncertainties persist.ment in China does not lack Marringe versus career is an old But well-informed opinion is in-oversens credit, it is a compara-argument. It la acknowledged clined to the belief that the tively simple matter to readjust wins. Why?

because marrluge always Shanghai exchange situation the exchange situation by relax-1 am

herself as not only qualified but de-

as

on

woman, whatever her fame or her success, "What o pity she doesn't get married and settle down."

No, my friend,

I am sorry, but I ND among these Individual cannot give my congratulations on persons There

Bro any your engagement; on the untimely benefit neither

I know that the from murringe nor rest of your acquaintances will; and. child-bearing. There is other work maybe you won't miss mine.

ANE bunch of characters who would end of your career,

"THE VERY IDEA"

EDDIE KELLY DECIDES

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ON LOCAL ANSCHLUSS

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By Eddie Kelly, Dictator

THEN THE AUSTRIAN PLEBISCITE IS HELD ON APRIL 10,

ON THE QUESTION OF INDEPENDENCE.

This is a brilliant idea. We wish we had thought of it earlier.

will correct itself and that there ing control, and allowing ex-friend in the advertising business. I

not thinking only of iny kong.

women

who

who

It has possibilities that could easily be introduced to Hong-

will be no great discrepancy be-change transactions to the limit am thinking of many, women who just dying for the privilege of par- Brewery and decide to lower the Six hundred thousand coolies are We could start with the Hongkong tween the Shanghai and Hong-of legitimate business demands.were on their way to great things ticipating in the election of the price of beer to five cents. kong dollar values,

In co-operation with the banka doctors, lawyers, writers, architects, Committee of the Hongkong Club.

Everyone who signs chits at the threw away their One interesting construction there would then be no difficulty training and

ffotein could automatically become their urabition,

We have a lot of friends who be- which has been placed upon the fin fixing, the exchange rate. It settled down

Directors and, as such, decide that to be wives. And lieve with us that Bir Vandeleur

the chils were bad debts, anyway, Chinese: Government's attitude all depends on China and the honestly refuse to join the general Grayburn should show a bit of co-

and wipe them off. in connection with exchange extent of her resources. No-one writer. It is rubbish.

in verdict; the verdict of my letter-operation Arranging. Anancial romißeations of the Hongkong and

His Excellency the Governor would allotments in Shanghai is that knows what game she is play-

find a lot of expert advice available Shanghal Banking Corporation. Just as we say, "It takes all sorts the Central authorities have no ing. But it is reassuring to io make a world,"

from the 1,250,000 new members of "A blessed re-, As a matter of fact, there's no the Legislative Council who would wish to see Shanghai's trade everyone who has her welfare lease," "A happy ovent." so we come reason why we shouldn't follow the automatically become representatives thrive if the Japanese propose at heart to know that her finan

with the hackneyed, popular Gormm. example and all become of the people If our idea is brought

"A woman's to retain the customs, revenue, cial loaders are sound, that they phrase,

place is the members of the dozens of Boards of into force. home." This is a wholly unofficiall are well advised, and that their "A woman." What woman? You? of course, drawing the usual dire simple remedy for Chine in the pres

Directors in Hongkong, each of us, No need to stop at

at Hongkong. A opinion, of course, and no more resources are enormous, *. Me? That dum shape going 'past in

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