1939-02-13 — Page 30

THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1039.

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The Last

Word in

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'Phone 26615 February 13, 1939

Hainan Invasion

IT IS NOT only France who

will view

the Japanese occupation of Hainan Island with apprehension.

at

True, French interests are those primarily involved. A Japanese submarine base either of Hainan's two scaports would effectively isolate French Indo-China in the event of war. Take a look at a map of this part of the world, and see how effectively Hainan dominates southern China, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippine Is lands.

"Dear Youth, by the ring the pledge of love,

7 prize thee all others far above!

I love thy temper meek and kind

Tucked inderneath cach raised group of flowers in this old-fashioned Valentine was a picture. Be- wrath the forget-me-nots the hero and heroine were

to be seen at the altar..

Those Ardent

T

HE patron Saint of Crinoline, and Whis- kers worn by Lord Dundreary, is with us once again. To-morrow is St. Valentine's Day.

Valentines

A TOKEN DE. AFFE

CONQUEST OF AN ISLAND

NTIL the beginning of UNTIL

Sino-Japanese hostili- tics, Hainan Island, which is about the same size as near- by Formosa and which has a temperate climate similar to that of Hawaiian Islands, had been more or less a "Paradise Lost"-at least in point of public interest-to the rank and file of the Chinese populace and their business leaders. Indeed,

chivalry and gentle femininity. vapid whisperings and plaintive probably not more than half But these, alas! are hidden in gigglings behind small fans at of the European residents How pleasantly this most un- usual name falls upon the car: the limbo of unforgotten things; even smaller jokes made by Cap- of Hongkong knew exactly Valentine! Of the Saint himself, jazz strikes its queer, discordant tain Valentine, of the dashing where it was.

Sullivan 28th, must have been grim per- all that I know is in his favour, note upon the harp a

sons to deal with from a lover's seeing that each year, near by

point of view. the Ides of March, he hands to man and maid tickets transfer- able from honeymoon to far Reno.

once touched,·

11201

1/OUTS-

"Sweet maid, the look within

mother's EPCA

[5] I see

"Be mine," ia translated into:

"Cheerlo, old thing, let us get a kick out of seeing the Registrar bloke,"

Geographically, Hainan is the possession of southernmost

an area of 14,000 And were those maidens real-China, with

Is easily ac- ly so dismally innocent as they square miles. It appeared or are supposed to have cessible by boat or air, being 30 been?

hours by steamor from Canton

But, pretty as the posies were

It is hard to believe that their land three hours by air from which brought, on tace-fringed

open-eyed wonderment in public Hongkong. Lying midway be- scrolls, Love's protestations, it must not be supposed that Valen-I fear me greatly that the old, was carried to such lengths when tween Singapore and Shanghai,

were never again they fine verses

closeted together, the island possesses the possi-- were always those old Valentine will

venture from its tinted album minus Aunt Tabitha. whispered by a Juliet's car.

A Romeo in

buffets of outrageous modern

bility of becoming an important

ní

or its oval frame to brave the And then, too, the gentlemen port of call for South Seas liners. The printer of the day was fortune, although many beauti- of the Valentine period, as a col-

HAICHOW SLEEPY PORT been any- well aware that insults hurled ful examples on which a hint of lection, if their chroniclers are

At present, the only harbour anonymously were things with lace survives can still be bought correct, must have

thing but companions for whom which to swell his passbook, and to-day. so without delay set about de-

000, lying on the northside of the Maybe, phoenix-like, another to borrow money to be spent in note is Hoihow, a sleepy town of 30,-

their company....

Island, facing Kwanglung. This har signing atrocious faces, beneath Valentine will rise, for every

insulting kind:

and in This Year of Grace per- smothered, their humour, as we and exposed to wind. Steamers call- haps we'll see a picture of a sun- read it, would to-day seem "tooling at the island have to stop amid streams and in times of a small storm. bather and a Lido nymph with utterly boring."

Love, we are told, was on boat passengers usually prefer to

the sea to calm these delightful lines beneath:

Valentine's Day a century, age wait for hours for chivalrous, courtly, and gentle, than to risk the crossing in campana. And could not say the things you Cupid seemed to have used a One of the first things that has to

which he set rhymes of the most generation gets what it deserves, Wasp-waisted and pomalum bour is poorly constructed, shallow

Last night, old thing, I was cx-

tremely tight,

thought I might;

putter rather than a driver in be done in developing the Island is to But if at the Berkeley Bar you'll those difficult times, and they build a new harbour, preferably on

meet me, Mabel,

must have been difficult, when the south or west side. F' pop the question and you'll say we remember that the ladies Some 2,500,000 people, who

"Yes" if you are ablch

are

Japanese planes, based on the island, would be brought for the first time within non-stop bomb-

Pretty Custom ing range of the great naval base at Singapore.

ALAS! it was the plain, un- varnished truths that Japanese warships or sub-brought the Valentine into dis- marines, operating from Hai-repute. nan, would effectively control We are told to-day that Valen

tines will one day regain their all shipping cast of Singapore.

former popularity. Let us hope: Hongkong would be as effec-then, on lavender-scented paper,

were in meat safes and the described as "extremely industrious," |tively isolated as if the Japanese and not with a dandelion ram- Personally, I am all for to-day, gentlemen in skin-tight panta- populate the island. Among th

pant on a hymn of hate. even though the modern sophis- loons, which hardly

permitted number are some 500,000 aborigines, controlled Lyemoon Pass.

of Lolo, Mino, and mixed stock of But will a bygone pretty cus- ticated maiden is a trifle start- them to sit, let alone to kneel. The Philippines, also, would tom flourish now, I wonder, in

ling.

The ladies of the 'sixties, with loose lounge suits of to-day, they neither too warm in the summer nor

If they had been attired in the Malays, Indians and Siamese. be within non-stop bombing these days of sex equality? I

The climate of the Island In dry, their down-cast eyes, their con- who knows-might, have range of Japanese planes. The doubt it much. distances between Manila and the nearest point on Hainan Island is only 500 miles,

Hainan is the largest island off the China coast-larger than Formosa. France has no desire

The cocktail of to-day is the to have Japan overlooking her Valentine of yesteryear, while rich territories on the mainland | the dialogue of the sex novel is

the love approach which -territories that are half as

was the song of the commercial minor poet.

large again as France itself. That is why, since the Japanese first threatened Hainan Island ilast year,

the French rushed estra troops, extra planes and

survey indicates that, rubber, coco- nuts, all kinds of tropical fruits, coffee, cotton and numerous other things can be raised on the land. The

The

ankle-long pantalettes

tinual astonishment at the dis- conducted themselves very dif. frigid in the winter. A preliminary

the sixties have gone for ever. which guarded the dainty legs of covery of the obvious, their Women to-day blush only from which their dressing-table, on restlessly side by side. the put and lipstick sleep so

In Dulcet Tones

once

bygone times the swain, beneath the shade of yew or elm, pleaded his cause and urged

extra warships to Inda-Chinm. his suit in dulcet tones breath-

But, as the totalitarian statesing n hope that always do, Japan choose well the time to launch her raid.

France is pre-occupied with Spain. With Franco's troops on her frontier, with a quarter. million refugees streaming across her borders, sho has little time at present to attend to her affairs in the Far East

No dove o'er head

Would truer be

Than this poor heart Flung at the feet Of his adored

For her to trample on. In 1937 this lovely key, used to unlock the floodgates of an- other's soul, has given place to "What about it?"

I have grave doubts whether St. Valentine, born in the pretty Falken hoop, is not for

ever

Not until Spain ceases to dominate affairs in Europe can buried in the unseemly bustle of France, or for that matter, our grandmama. Great Britain, afford to turn too much attention to the Far East. In the meantime, Japan. pro- sents them with another fait And accompl.

THE MING YUEN STUDIO

Cruskin's Iload C, (3rd Floor); opposite Dairy Farm's Fountain, Q's'Rd, C.

A Show Of Chivalry WOULD that it were not so:

would it were possible onco more to applaud even & show of

By Lichtyisland, when fully developed, Is cap-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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SIX DAY BIKE RACE

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"I understand the crowd's been so good they wanna hold wa

over a coupla daya."

able of supporting at least 0,000,000 people, or three times the present number.

Underground there is rich fin ore, touched. which has scarcely been When proper modern mining facil. ties are used, the Island can easily supply one-tenth of the world's in supply. It was pointed out recently that Singapore, whose tin mines were undeveloped some 50 years ago, is to- tiny producing seven-tenths of the world's tin supply as a resuit of well- planned development.

VACATION SPOT -

in a scenic way Hainan should be one. of China's future vaca- tion spots, if the Japanese leave again. Its rugged mountains, with its natural landscape enhanced by on abundance of trees, nee good for hunting. Its beautiful rivers beckon the angler. while its benches provide a well-lold- out natural swimming pool.

The land in days gone by pro- duced many lending statesmen, nu- thors and poets, whose names to-day adorn pages of China's history. Su Tung-pu, the famous poet of the Sung Dynasty, was once exiled Jaland. In modern times, Hainan claims on its native sons and daughters. the

Camily of Mr. T. V. Soong, whose father, the late Rev. Soong

Yoo-ju,

was born on the Islarid,

to this

But to put Hainan on China's in- dustrial, agricultural and tourist map, many things would have to be done. Ope of the more urgent la the fighting of malaria, which has cropped up during the years, when ÷Hainan-was- neglected by the nation's health (atte- thorities.

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