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THE HONOKONG TLEORAPII, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1938.

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SATHWAY, APRIL 30, 1938.

NO ADMITTANCE

TRAFFIC in

P

H.K.

ERHAPS no single and it soon became apparent to factor has contribut- the Japanese at large that the idea had merits; for, it was ed more, or broadly speedily copied by one of them, speaking, is more illustra- who took out a patent on a ve tive of the Colony's progress hicle based on the contraption of than that of transportation, the venerable missionary.

Whilst there has been By the year 1890, rickshás in have constant evolution in the Hongkong seemed to forms of transport, Hong popularity, for from that time

achieved their justly deserved kong, unlike other parts of onwards they became not only the Empire. presents an a necessity but also a problem. incongruous medley of the

By 1901, their numbers nad old and the new. The erst- become so augmented that a while aristocratic sedan- Commission was appointed to re- the conditions under chair, the ubiquitous rick- port on sha, and the lowly coolie the system of ownership

which the pullers worked, and and. with his bamboo cowl-staff hiring out, together with the ply side by side with the ratos charged. latest model motor car, the speedy bus, the lumbering lorry

E

GRIN AND BEAR IT ...

By Lichty

(Cage, 1929 by Dačkoli Pashuru kyndillig

"I tell you that's Reggie De Pupster, my frat husband—f never

forget à face!"

MR. PEPYS in

HONGKONG

Wong doth produce

Fa

and the jangling STRIKES of the pullers occa- sionally occurred, the first tram.

being reported about the year) Although the first three would 1906. The most serious one, undoubtedly be designated however, took place in January, uncompromisingly as "symbola 1908, and affected some 3,000 of degrading slavery" by such coolies. It was brought about by men as Mayor La Guardia of an attempt of the ricksha New York, in the East on the kung-sz or "companies" to in- other hand, they аге re- crease the rate of daily hire by garded 18 necessary. With some four cents. out such humble means of earn- The strike, fortunately, was ing T livelihood. thousands of short duration, being settled would perchance experience the next day when representa-

April 21: *** lal) cua- more realistically than they do tives of the twenty-three ricksha tom, at a halt after six of the clock, but a foule do lower lor my

however my even now the grim spectre of farmers and the pullers met in penury-more dire and more consultation with the then Su-coot da he ball done daily these five and more drastic than any perintendent of Police, the Hon. months, my pansies being as good thing possible to imagine in the Mr. A. W. Brewin, Police Captions fluer than ever before, and as ever I saw them and my carna- more prosperous West. More tain Lyons, the Hon. Sir Kai Ho though they bee in no way so le There is more than a hint of over, the competition of the Kai, and the Hon. Sir Boshan na Mr. J. Bagram's, their perfume concern the part of anti-coolie with the rapidity and Wei Yuk. The conference lasted is mighty sweet. Ate my dinner at The Clubbe but first I did take a democratic powers in Europe at fliciency of motorised transport over an hour, and finally the glasse of Hailands waters with Mr. the indications of Anglo-French be fighting a losing battle, it is tinue as before, and "to consult fall to talking of the Com

is so keen, that though he may kung-z owners agreed to con- Povy, Creed, and others, where we against solidarity. emanating from the economically well-nigh impossi- the Government should

the Andings of the Rent Commission.

t But conferences at which Mr. Neville ble to dispense with his services necessary in the future to in- whatsoever they had found would I doc agree with Creed that

Chamberlain and M. Edouard yet.

crease the fee for hiring rick- have been displeasing to many. But Lordt how quains it bee to see how Daladier are leading their res-

has."

a certain small section of the com- munity

the |pective delegutions.

doe style themselves Certainty THE coolie has played an all It is an event of the utmost im- important part in the settle- THE motor car was also popu. People of Hongkong." After dinner

to rehearsall

the Amateur larised only after some ini- Dramaticle play Distinguished portance, but it is as well toment of the Colony; in the early

days transportation was an al- tiul reluctance. The Chinese Gathering' which shapes pretty well. emphasise its defensive quality. most insurmountable problem, residents did not at all take kind-, Home late and so, very weary, to It would seem that this confer- as the rugged terrain of the ly to the horseless vehicle, and ence is the natural outcome of island did not readily permit the as late as 1912, some 1,700 of the employment of horses. Conse- leading members of the Chinese events in Europe which have quently, the sedan-chair and the community forwarded a petition but Lord! to see how the work of t

carrying-pole were for a number to the Government "requesting of decades the sole means of the total prohibition of all cars transport. The former, especial- at livery.”

1880.

it be

bed.

tennis

men,

pox,

噢

seems

On

April 23: Up betimes and to office and Inter to the Clubbe where I pass on Idle afternoon reading in Burton's Arabian Nights in the Library, 11 we have three editions and lock and key. Later to Kowloon to very valuable and wisely kept under dine with Mrs. Diana and her Lord and after very merry at cards. my way home I doe visit the Clubbe and finding an olde friend there i doc Plose the barre, (as they doe term It) a thing I have not done these many months. But Lord! how empty and quiet it is compared with the twenty years gone and more. Home days when I was a lusty youth these very late and to bed.

April 24 (Lord's Day): Lay very late and then did walk about in my

garden, which I and sadly blemished by the fogge but the white lilles pretty well. The red one I doo find should have re-potted last autumn. But I shall do it next year. Then to the Clubbe where I did take my nuncheon with Mr. N.. Waymouth. after much talk with Mr. John on the production of plays, we drinking a dram of Hollanda waters the while, Later to rehearsall where we doe work upon Act II which doth begin to take ahupe very well, but Lord! how long an I upon the stage and how little doe I say! Yet, as I learn, the cocktail in the Brat Act will bec

•

April 22: Up betimes and to my office and there ordering my papers, department hath increased, though, cast a shadow upon one frontier

praise bec, the King's revenues doc Increase as well, Reading in the w after another and have dis

Newes-sheete I doe learn that the turbed the week-end rest, as a

Rumjahns, who bee cousins, gain to ly, was apparently in the hey- They, morcover, objected to the final round of the doubles Cham- German leader put it so charac-day of extensive use as far back the "coughing, sputtering and pionship at lawn tennis. The other

real one which doth offer mee teristically, of British states as the early 'sixties; it is a pro- honking demon" as a public pair, and I doubt not this will amaze

some small comfort. Home betimes some of my older friends now re- imen, among others. In view of minent feature in the old prints nuisance, and thought that if it for

and so to bed. tired, are the brothers Tsui, sons of of Hongkong scenes, as sketched could not be banished from the our old friend Tadpole. And indeed the persistent efforts at expan-j

by the artists then resident in streets entirely, at least it should until these Inda "did start playing April 25: Reading in the newes- sion politically and commercial- the Colony.

I had not known his real sheete doe find nothing but wors be restricted to certain areas

um by which have marked the recent

The ricksha, on the other hand, and not allowed to run at random me. But they doe play the game or rumours of wars, and I

most excellently and, as I believe, minded that were the newes-sheetes history of Germany and Italy, was 21

10 comparatively recent in the crowded thoroughfares of did win last year. To the Hostelry make publique no more than where I did cat my muncheon with local and Sports news, and Buy the worst enemies of Britain innovation, and first appeared in the Colony.

of other countries Or The establishment of the Mr. A. Jay and two other gentic-naught and France will not blame them the streets of Hongkong about

there would her world the meal being of Chinese polfilcks, Chinese Republic and the general dishes, to which I am mighty partial pence in a mighty short time. For for consulting together, and will

are but enflamed or It seems to have been regard- wave of "queue cutting" which There we doc speake of the new men's minds appreciate that they musted as more of a novelty than occurred about this time, seemed Vaccination Bill against the small-frighted by the rumours, a vast of which to my mind is very well which bee lies, and there is not more understand each other's policies anything else, and even by 1884, to awaken the masses to a more done by our new Chirurgeon General, perilous man than he who is afraid. rehearsall at five of the clock and intentions in any given set it is related that there were not tolerant reception of new ideas, though I doe fear that a many of circumstances. It is not right more than two or three vehicles one of which was typified in Chinese are in mortal dread of it; for act III, and after four of us in a up the Peake, but fair to insinuate that the in the entire Colony. This is not the horseless form of transport, yet i inny bee they may bee taught motor-linckney

beiter велѕе. Dined at the Clubhe Lord! what a fool the driver bec. present conferences are in any surprising, however, when we and from 1013 onwards, the and so to rehearsall.

and speaks no language elther Eng- lish or Chinese. I out of it first at way threatening to any power consider that the ricksha had wealthier members of the Chin-

Magazine Gap and glad to bee alive, or group of powers. If, indead, still to come into its own. ese community became exten-

Thence to dine with the Consul there is an Anglo-French under- Even in Japan the country sive owners of the latest motor- had been in successful operation General for Amerique, and I did at standing with respect to the de- of its origin-it did not attain cars imported from the United since the late 'eighties. The first suppose that he did live in one

and the Con- lower levels tramway, moreover, fence of their own or any other popularity until about 1876, al- States, Britain

of the many houses in the Peake in nation's frontiers, there is rea- though

may be said to innovate the era which I had never been but later I it had been invented tinent. son for neither concern nor some seven or eight years, be-

of cheap transportation for the dot suspect it is one wherein Mr. Frank Crawford and his pretty Lady alarm in any capital innocent of

masses, and Hongkong may be did live these twenty years gone.

at cards with mighty aggressive intentions.

WE must not neglect mention justly regarded as 'possessing Played It is interesting to note in this It is probably natural that connection that, this vehicle systems of the Colony. These sive but also one of the most

of the splendid tramway not only one of the most exten- luck.. Germany, particularly, should

owes its inception to the fertile date from the year 1904, al- economical lines in the Orient show more than ordinary in-brain of an American missionary though the funicular Peak line if not, indeed, in the world. terest in the London parleys in Yokohama, who converted a because of their possible bearing "pram" into vehicle in which upon the future of Czecho- Slovakia. It is true that Mr. he could take his invalid wife FOREIGN AFFAIRS NOTEBOOK out for an airing. He hired a has declined to Chamberlain make any promines with respect coolle to pull it about the streets, to the preservation of Czecho-]

or

fore.

THIS WAS BOHEMIA

LE!

clock in the Peake Church where April 26: This day at four of the

I doe stand God Father to Mistress Joan's son. There I and that of four god-parents there bee three proxies, and I the only one in person. And, it being the best luck possible, John David did protest the whole ime, tho' whether it bee at the cold water or the strange woman who did hold him I know not Home with Slovakian integrity; but the pos- Britain's pledge to France, the independence from Hapsburg rule in 1918.

Czecho-Slovakia, heritage of the once vast Bohemión empire, regained the

company where we doe cat- Czechs and Slovaka severed drink and be merry, though at the sibility of British intervention peace of western Europe. relations with Austria-Hungary and formed a constitutional democracy, first there are over many Ludles for in a general European upheaval It is not proposed to make chiefly through the efforts of Thomas C. Masaryk, who became its first the child's father and myself. But resulting from violation of

later, come other gentlemen, and any excuses for Anglo-French President. If was recognized by the Peace Conference in 1910. Czecho-Slovakian independence collatoration and possible plans Czechs nor Slovak-Include German, Pole, Ruthene, and Magyar minorities, and with him his Lady. Dined and The people-membering 14,000,000 of which 35 per cent, are neither among them my Lord Harpenden. is not thus removed. For for co-operation in defence. who at various times since 1918 have shown signs of discontent. But after, to my greatest possible sur- Britain is pledged to defend The need for such an under- Czecho-Slovakians have on the whole a creditable record in meeting minority prise Mistress Joan and her sister doe France, Belgium and the Nether-standing is apparent to all. demanda.

visit a Picture House, but thanks bee lands against attack. Let it be And so is the need for the Germans, senttered along the north and northwest frontier, number to God they invite me not. And so supposed, then, that Germany speeding of armaments, the about 3,500,000. German pressure has stimulated the smaller pro-Govern- to bed. .

ment German purties to unite, with Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German party found it necessary to take some effective organisation for food which is demanding autonomy. Herr Henlein now has gained control of April 27: Very husy all day of the drastic action in support of the control in emergency, the in 56 seats in a chamber of 300. A Slovakt group led by Andreas Hlinku, la offer Sudeto German minority

the newes of the exirn investigation of overseas aircraft also making Czecho-Slovakia, and that she production with a view to aug the minorities, proportional representation in public offices, with religous le

Gremony demands.

the under the Czecho-Slovakia Treaty of 1919, guarantees pence

upon

Income Tax for, though England, came into collision with France menting the British home

and cultural rights. Schools and government offices in German béns are leve It doth not affect mee as a consequence. (France, it supply, the expansion of the granted the use of German language. But in the past year Premier Hodza medlately, I doubt it will never come must be remembered, docs

scandalously rated as unearned- ing guarantee the Czech frontiers). procesti general tightening-up has opened more State offices to Sudetens, and increased social welfare off, and my pension, which is most

process in the Empiro defence distribution to counteract growing influence. Germany is naturally anxious to system, For naturally British

Surrounded by totalitarian neighbours with territorial ambitions, its come, will be even more niinished. small but strong army insufficient to protect long frontiers, Czecho-Slovakin This night to the Shameen Marque know precisely what the French statesmen, and the ordinary made defensive alliances with France and Russia which these powers have Lodge which since the troubles dod and British are talking about, men, women and children of the again promised to honour, The Reichs, reported to have urged the Czechs make things so hard for it, Coth meet because the results of their con- and, want to be able to enjoy to break off their relations with Russia, offers instead bilateral uprcements in Zotland Hall by dirpensatioun. versations may affect France's their week-ends in spite of woved the Czecha a long way from immediate post-war days when falih in days which will see it run to it's which would give Germany dominating influence. Power polities have But we all doe hope for the better attitude in Czecho-Slovakian af- intrigue and clover diplomacy the League of Nations and co-operation with Rumanin and Yugo-Slavia in roper home. Home carty and, to to 'fairs, and indirectly, because of among their neighbours,

the Little Entente appeared the key to its security.

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and

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