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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAYA 28, 1938

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T

HURSDAY, 14th. comes Mistress Guy who is by her marriage aunt to my she-child and This day, being with one or two others takes her In the at my house. newer sheetes much outcry at the

Chinese

successes in Shantung. In the after-

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all doe

wager but

To-day, Chinese Boatmen celebrate Japan at China's throat. Yet I record, the distance being the Birthday of-

from

The

little

to din

where

Maundy Thursday, I nunchicon doe come home late to my finding of the Rents Commission and dinner and afterwards "magna et grandis eplatula" from Mr. J. Bregn. But I said not to writing in my chamber. I rend it. It seems at last that there doe bethink myself that it bec confirmation of the bee now one year since I noon walked and at about a half doe praetermit to write in after six of the clock I did visit the

Peak Clubbe. But Lord!--what my Diary, I going upon a

the place

bee' of holyday to England. And evening and rever a soul in the barre with whom to drink a pesset. Home I doe take shame for my and dined early, and

and so to bel. sloath that upon my return- ing to the Colony I did not be holyday I must needs to my offles Saturday, 18th Though the day write again. And I am and there very busy ordering my minded now to doe it there papers until noon when to the Races, where take my nuncheon very being mighty serious doings in pleasantly in Mr. Tang Siu Kin's the East. But Lord! how box, where is company both distin-

"And. strange it bee to think that all guished and merry. was pretty well hore when I did congratulate Mr. Eu Tong Sen whose Desert Chiet did run a splendid race Bayle, but now a great war and and take three secc

seconds doc marvel most that there is little but am sadly put out that my

above a mile. I did not more ado here, there being wi

billets in the

sweepstakes doo profit little pother made of this story me nothing. To the Clubbe and that, in part, as I suppose, I do on my garments of ceremony because both sides doe Lice and

Chirurgeon and with my such liars, that noe man doth his Lady and after to the King's picture house where wee see a ple- credit them; but more because ture called Hurricane. And the plot the mind of man can, it seems, bee taken from two of Mr. 3. the taking. repetition. Thus the situation 18, Drank syftabub at the Hostelry, this Easter tide, that Shanghai being too

athirst strong trade is nigh dead and Hongkong waters to please mee, and so to bed. doth serve as entry and exit for Sunday, 17th (Easter Sunday): tu nunchicon all mechanidise for China. The mer- Lay late. Mistress Guy

part and later with her and my she-child

to

Water ligious devotees to the venerable chants doe for the most

Deep

Bay where prosper pretty well but the price been these two years, but all pretty Cane seem to be in ever in-

of all food is up mightily and it is much the same save that there bre creasing numbers. In fact, the hard to find lodging, so many re more Chinese bathing from the beach,

in no small measure the num- hither. The small-pox is heavy so that the bathing is

to Repulse Bay atill, it having been marred. Later bers of pious visitors who early upon us HE

only important in the third moon began to ar- Epidemick these six months and where we drink a glasse of strong festival which is rive for the festival.

over two thousand cases which waters and after much pleasant dis- doc for the most part die. But course home. celebrated. by the

Monday, 18th: Again to my office for all this, there are mighty few seafaring folk of South

goes on all about us. China is that of the IT is not difficult to appreciate the manifest solicitude on the hau-taan, or "Birthday of part of the local residents of the Friday, 15th (Good Friday): My the Queen of Heaven." vicinity who are concerned with children being all gone to Fanling

I dog resolve to spend the day quiet- ter, both of whom I have known This fete is held each year the success of the annual fete.

past good weather, delights me father Mr. E.

Folter low the Plains of Abraham and on the 23rd of the third entirely to circumstance, but be mightily, the flowers being very fine a century. Mc. R. Hancock proposes surprised and defeated the gal- moon (occurring this year, gin early in the year to prepare lant Montcalm, the French of on April 23), and al- for the reception of hosts of Quebec have been the classic though it is of especial visitors who flock there not only example of a tractable and loyal interest to those who follow from the Colony, but also from

Macao, Fatshan and Canton. minority. So much so, indeed,

SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1938.

NAZIS COME TO CANADA

Nazism has come to Canada;|

at least to that section of.

Canada still known as French,

THE QUEEN

HEAVEN

of

By

grow accustomed to all things by but sadly massed in

London's stories as I did

did perceive,

IL

where I had not

the old and picturesque and T. Paul Gregory prosperity of the locality is due fugees from China, being come und, as I learn, less sand then before

paradoxical province of Quebec -paradoxical because in it one finds the centre of the Do- minion's most intensified indus- trialism, Montreal, and the simpleat and poorest of small farming communities, in the backwoods. And now Naziism among French-Canadians! Ever since Wolfe scaled the cliffs be-

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signs of the great struggle which

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80 thronged with business. eleven of the clock to the Annexe creven to bee holyday, though I am not

of the Clubbe where there is a 're-

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for so late in the Spring. And anon their health very wittily and the Groom makes as good a reply as ever I hear in my life. So I did toast

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dropped and was seen no more. them very heartilly and then back to Indeed, the event proved to be a my office; where anon my she-child.

the Mistress Jona, comes prognostication; for when

and we her drive in a motor-hackney R the girl learned the fate of

Races; and

after a

a glasse or it may a warmth of feeling for their liar appeal to the masses on funds for the carrying out of the brothers, it was revealed that ac cousins in France and for the land, who look upon the colourful and complex cerc-

one hal indeed been drowned, bee two of Hollands with Mr. S. Mitchell and his Lady to nuncheon Box habits, and institutions of that occasion as appropriate for monies, a committee, who are This maiden died at the age of the four of us in the Clubbe been forgotten. If they have sacrifices to the charming people, has almost visiting temples, offering up charged with the task of solicit twenty, and was immediately where we find my Lord Harpentien ing donations of money or kind, deified by the credulous folk, and hec joins us. Very merry all

nt table but after

I am vext my not been looked upon exactly as

Chickens have always been con- billets prout me nothing. After Ave "British" by their English-gods of the Buddhist pan-

This body makes the rounds sidered taboo as offerings to her; of the clock I find Mr. Waymouth speaking brothers, they were theon, and what is of far of every house, and no one would for had it not been for the inter- of the play in which wee both doc who tells mee there is a rehearsall. recognised as the best, and next more significance to them be so callous as to refuse to con-

ruption of the barnyard fowl take a part (but mine a mighty small to the Indian, the "realest" the observance affords a tribute something; for the suc- she would have been entirely ore) so I doc entrust Mistress Joan Canadians. Their loyalty has

cessful completion of their successful in her

attempts to to Lord Harpenden and his Lady, never been in question either in glorious opportunity for a

greatest festival is regarded render succour to her lamented who is now come, and so to the Play- house in the Chins Fleet Clubbe, the defence of Canadian soil or rustic holiday.

brother.

and all very busy there. on occasions when Canadian Many of the Chinese resident very much in the light of a

Even to this day, every pious sacred duty. expeditionary forces were sent in this Colony' are wont to make

As in other Chinese festivals, Chinese is scrupulous in this eb- oversens. It is out of the very a trip to Ch'ek-waan, a market fruit and roast pork in quantity servance, as the presence of the but I am sad to find that the fogge are indispensable as offerings prohibited offering would only the south face of the Peak before and these must invariably be remind the maiden of the past I am done breaking my fast. To my and cause her to grieve again office where very busy all day and for her long lost brother.

intensity of their Canadian town in Chinese territory two "nationalism," it appears, that hours' journey by river- has sprung. Actually the term place there is does not apply, for all that it considerable antiquity which Chicken, which is an important has in common with the German has been the object of pious pil. adjunct to the seasonal offerings system in an antipathy to Com-grimages for generations, and in most native observances, is, munism. There is no question while the edifice has severely however, singularly conspicuous of expansion or anything so suffered from the carking tooth by its absence, which is explain- ridiculous as colonizing or con- of time, its popularity has not ed by the following story: version in the Canadian Nazi declined; for the streams of re- The prototype of Tin-hau or

this so-called Nazi movement] boat from Hongkong. In this

a temple of purchased on the open market,

It

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Tuesday, 19th: Up very betimes

is down though it lifts a little on

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the

after to the rehearsall,

Wednesday, 20th: To the Clubbe to take my muncheon and there I doe that on the days preceding the Barre five bottles of the Pro- THE Chinese are wont to say see upon the dressor at the back of the festival, there is likely to be prietary Brands of whiskey which

into rain, and this is explained by the Clubbe by a vote of members at a

are now brought back fact that Tin-hau is weeping special meeting. But the Clubbe Nevertheless

"Queen of Heaven" scheme.

was, it is over her loss.

blend remains as well and is cheaper dangerous, just as Communism have gone so far as to envisago alleged, a native of Po-t'in in the

In order to appease her grief, by eight cents for one small glass, is dangerous; firstly, because it an autonomous Quebec being province of Fukien, and flourish- it is the custom of the Taan-ka, in there with Mr. Povy and others which doth comfort me much. Tolk- inevitably will be misunder- made the jumping-off place for ed during the balmy days of the or "genfaring population," to I doe learn that much damage hath stood; secondly, because it is anti-democratic bombers from Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1040). celebrate her birthday with a been done in Canton by alre-rakis likely to be persecuted if it be some European state which has On one occasion (so goes the variety of ceremonial ritual. over the week end, and I am sorry comes too militant; and finally, a quarrel with the United States, story) she was sitting alone Elaborate theatricals are held for it. Home early and so to bed. because, under persecution, the The suggestion is too silly to aborbed at her spinning, when at all the local temples in original motivating force may warrant discussion. But the she suddenly fell into a mesmeric mkomory of the goddess, and be misdirected and lead the consequence of perverted pub- trance. Whilst in this state she these last for several days. French-Canadian into the error licity may well be bitterness beheld her three sailor brothers

The worship takes on all the of attempted autonomy, which among the more radical of in dire danger of being drowned; aspects of a rustic carnival; for the rest of Canada will not American democrats, and at- for their vessel had been caught it is believed that should the en- tolerate. Beyond this point it is tempts at pressure, possibly in a typhoon and they had beenthusiasm of the worshippers be- not proposed to venture in con- through the channel of inter-washed overboard. But as the come diminished, the goddess jecture. The possibilities are national trade unionism, upon maiden was endowed with super- would be singularly agitated, distinctly unpleasant for Cana- the Quebec authorities and the natural powers, she accordingly and would wreak her vengeance dians, most of whom take pride Government of the Dominion. dispatched her astral body to upon the seafaring folk by in their own country and their That is to be avoided. It can their aid. She grasped one causing storms to wreck their British nationality.

not be tolerated, indeed, any brother in each hand and seized ships. But this must be said, not by more than the Dominion Govern- the third with her teeth. But,

It is interesting, to mention way of excusing a movement ment will tolerate interference unfortunately, whilst her apiri- in this connection the strange which is mainly directed at by Russia in matters of internal tual self was thus engaged a medley of curious objects which "house-cleaning" in Quebec and business, or by foreign Nazis chicken wandered into the room the pious bring back with them maintaining that form of ad- or Fascists or anybody else.

of

ministration which Quebecois Canada's minority problem is and began to pock at the flaxen from their pilgrimage. These PENINSULA HOTEL Tel. 80081 demand, but to prevent its being just as much her own as is fibres. A neighbour who was include sticks of fragrant in- GLOUCESTER HOTEL Tol. 20038) misunderstood. Already the Czecho-Slovakia's or Poland's strolling by the open door, cense, large paper lanterns, and press, and notably the sensation- or any other nation's. After saw the fowl and called out what is most unusual-peculiar seeking press across the inter- so many years of, peaceful co-to the maiden in order mementos in the form national border, has taken a operation between French and to attract her attention. gally painted roosters with long hand in the game; not with any British in Canada. It is unthink- Upon hearing the sound she en- slender legs, which bear the dis- idea of helping or hindering the able that a minority problem deavoured to rouse, herself from tinctive spithet of poh-oh-kat.......... movement, but simply to provide should actually have arison. her trance, and in so doing open so-called because the temple at readers with exclusivo and ox- But since it has it is Canada's ed her mouth and the brother which they are sold is situate in citing copy American papers-own affair..

who had been held by her teeth the district of Poh-loh,

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Unicorn ONLY the unicorn.

Only the doc, Only such lunar

Creatures know

How from a silver Valo to feed,

How to pluck The tiny socd

From the carth And how, being wary, To eat of the root And feed on the borry.

Only the unicorn, Only the doc.

Flanked by dawn And flecked by snow, Shall in a dream. Of velvet run, Out of the night And into the sun.

HAROLD VINALË