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undo plumbo stop List in b Tom to our position in Ch ocupation of kuch a wrachet spot brought proat diserait upon un

--Parliamentary Report, karui, 1347.

Smen

Regim löst at 21 months 257

But in this and other rogl mente, it is not merely the deaths which indicate disease and a per- nicious climate; it is the great number of men invalided, and -constantly unfit for duty. One half the men of a company are frequently unable to attend parade; out of 100 men there are

THIS WAS OLD HONGKONG

mined to force public brought great discredit upon opinion to realise that this us."- was the only rational course,

"These morbific gases do not sometimes not more than five or arise from vegetable or animal six fit for duty." decomposition, as the island does

not possess the one or the other.

They even carried their agitu- THOSE IN favour of retaining

"But decomposed mineral AS IF NOT content with this damning summary of Hong- tion to Parilament, and the

the island as a Colony were substances yield an neriform kong, its enemies sought to

soma poison, under sus-Ilouse of Commons in the early accustomed to quote the words

circum- paint a further picture of the part of the year 1847 was seri- of Sir John Francis Davis, the stances of a more deadly nature local climate. Said an ex-army ously invited to consider the second Governor of Hongkong, than those produced by either officer during the 'forties:

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Hongkong Telegraph. Sung to the tune of "Hail Colum-

day be the Carthage of

the

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X

cause it was causing positive in- gentlemen, Hongkong will some

"This gas does not rise more have served in Africa and India jury to Britain.

than a few feet from the earth; feel the effects of the sun in The agitation voiced by the East."

it slowly mingles with the sur- Hongkong in a manner never bc- anti-Hongkong group was echoed The Colony's enemies at rounding atmosphere, and, when fore experienced.

"Even at Macao, only 40 miles by the efforts of song-writers, Home, however, gave these pro- not causing immediate illness, who brought into existence a phetic words. the veritable produces a depressing effect on west of Hongkong, Europeans number of ribald airs lampoon- "horse-laugh", and guffawed in mind and body, which under may walk about the whole day ing the barren rock 'way out in reply:

mines and destroys the strong in the month of July, when to that if

do so at Hongkong would be at Chiney," predicting

"Of course. Sir John Davis is, est constitution."

tended with

certain almost Hongkong were not abandoned,

an old China hand ... he's been

cleath.... then Heaven would see to it that out in the East so long that the

"The Chinese deem it a dan- it turned out to be of no carthly tropical sun. has affected THE REPORT of the Surveyor- advantage to the possessor, his head. He ought to know General to the Home Govern- gerous experiment to prolong One of these ditties, strange- better ... in any ease, it is ment on August 26, 1843 was their abode in the island beyond ly enough, was written by a impossible to raise revenue from likewise held up as eloquent tes- a certain time. They have ever pirate convict in Victoria Gnol. such a place.

Limony to the effect that Hong- viewed Hongkong as injurious

a. Colony was a dis- to health and fatal to life, kong as

"The Europeans who survive astrous experiment.

This official was quoted as a brief residence in this climate, saying: "The number of inter- generally get a lassitude of "How is one going to raise a ments has been so great (in the frame, and an irritability of revenue when there is not one European graveyard at Wan- fibre, which destroys the apring existence. A malign in- respectable Chinese inhabitant chai, which was abandoned in of

has the sixties) that the enclosure fluence operates on the system in the island, and been? Indeed, no respectable is almost full, and the hill be- in a most distressing manner, Chinese will live at Hongkong." hind it so rocky that it is im- which is not removed by a re- possible to dig into it, therefore turn to Europe; on the contrary, geography, is peculiarly vul-

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ere long it will be necessary to the sufferers frequently die in nerable from the air, and the wisdom of the present methods of IT SEEMS absurd to modern

readers that there were so IN ORDER to force the issue, provide another place. But it England soon after their arri-

will be difficult to select another val." the clique of malcontents in cemetery, on account

H ☆ dealing with defence from air at many people so rabidly opposed

England, who were determined rocky and uneven nature of the ATE, however, decreed that tack is seriously open to question.

to possession of the Colony. An exhibition which is to open However, that was apparently that the Government should be island," at the Peninsula Hotel to-morrow the normal state in the late made to rectify its "mistake" in will not lessen the disquiet that has 'forties and early 'fifties, and regard to the selection of Hong- been

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 March 7, 1939

We Must have Them

HONGKONG, by an accident of

bia," it had as its chorus the following malediction:

"Some day praps curthquakes her foundation

Will shake to its deep buse in the sea

A blessing will be to each

nation

When she's crush'd to all Eternity."

"The endeavour to squeeze as much as possible out of a poor struggling settlement sarily causes irritation.

never

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neces-

chortled the

of the

the Colony which

was once

SO widely and thoroughly maligned should be retained as a the simmering in publie some of those afflicted with kong, would quote statements «EE"

dis- British possession, and that the "SEE," mind. Experience in

gruntled element in obvi- quondam atraggling settlement cky "Hongkongphobia" attained for from those who had been out less than a hundred miles away a time considerable notoriety here when the Colony was ous glee, "if they can't find an- of Victoria, built along Queen's founded, and they singled out from this Colony has shown that in and a large following.

the climate to prove their case, other spot to bury in, would it Road, should expand, and be- not be the best thing for Gov- come the vast city that it is to- thickly populated areas deep shel-

Imagine some one nowadays

The following is a description ernment to adopt our policy day, thereby fulfilling the ardent tera are the only certain defence making a statement such as this against bombs. Where deep shel-anent the Colony in which we of the rainy season of Hong- and abandon the blessed place hopes of its founders, who so

kong, taken from the pen of a lock, stock, and barrel."

fervently declared that "some are not used, as in China,ive:

Colony in "Besides," they added, as they day, Hongkong would contain a solemnly shook their heads, "the population equal to that of an- towards the end of destruction of life since our cient Rome, and, moreover,

ters

casualties have been heavy. In "I have devoted twenty years man who left the Spain, and particularly Barcelona, of my life to the investigation of 1844: where subterranean shelters were the Colonies of England," said

re- Mr. Robert Montgomery Martin, May, and throughout June, July, occupation of Hongkong has would be the Tyre of the Far constructed, casualties were duced to almost nil and the danger H, M. Treasurer for the Colonial and August, and part of Sep- been so enormous.

and Consular Service in China, tembor, the rain descends in tor-

"Last year (1843) the deaths

East."

of pante was eliminated, makes this Colony the most vulner-Parliamentary Committee of the ance, such as is never seen in "An India, Africa, Australasia, or able part-of-the-British-Empire House of Commons.

Hongkong's geographical position speaking in March 1847 to the rents, with a force of continu- among the troops in the island T. Paul Gregory

SWALLOWMED the bait-

ONE-EYED SAM

By N.B. W.

in the event of war in the Pacific examination of Hongkong in its any other part of the world.

"The clouda pour down one involving Britain. But our topo- most favourable aspect, induces

washing vast sheet of water, graphy makes it possible for us to me to entertain the opinion purchase comparative immunity for that Hongkong will never be- away hills and rocks, surround- almost the entire population at a come a commercial depot; that ing the island with deep ravines,

hook, line and sinker. fraction of the cost to cities which it is unsuitable for a Colony by and saturating the soft, porous, I

Our initial encounter occurred have no hills into which tunnels reason of its rocky site and bar- putrescent strata, to the extent.

ren structure, and incapable of of many feet, with daily renewed when exercising a yapping can be burrowed.

terrier on the waste ground producing food for one day for moisture. Hongkong has been too near its inhabitants; . .

. and from

"In the intervals of rain, a backing the flats.

There he was, sploshing about to aerial warfare to delude itself) every point of view I consider nearly vertical sun acts with an! that the existing Air Raid precau- the selection of Hongkong as the intense evaporative power, and bare-footed in the dirty puddled

clad, blue with CAM'S excellent English, coupled demeanour, tions are by any means adequate. most unfortunate step that has a noxious' steam or vapour arises mire, scantily

cold and misery in the drizzling, with his general We have seen a succession of vast been taken with regard to our from the foetid soil, yielding loy rain of a Hongkong February at even in his pillable and insuficient and intensive air bombardments position in China. The occupa- gases of a most sickly and de-its worst, the blustering wind which rags, seemed to point to possibilities sweeps that dreary, seemingly end-for redemption from his apparent shocking and devastating in their tion of such a wretched spot has terious nature

less, road scorching Into every woes.

I

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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our

effect less than a hundred miles from our own city; we have had living men and women torn and mangled even in our own territory. Our weakness Iles in our

population, and eduented enemy's advantage will surely lo In attempting to smash the morale of those people. Only one thing can prevent any threat to that morale and that is the knowledge by the masses that real security les in our Colony,

LON Given

1: shallow makeshifts certainly why cannot-there is no reason Hongkong should not be as safe as cltles a thousand miles further from the

of

Besides, scene

conflict. common humanity and the need to protect even our humblest citizen from unnecessary shock and suffer- ing dietate that we should adopt the most effective method of defence. The Only Way

give

thai-deep shellers

FOR THE thickly populated, vul-

nerable areas the deep shelter is the only safe defence. In Hongkong we are fortunate that we can dig herizontally into mountain-sides in- stead of vertically into the bowels of the earth for sheller.

Government is calling for thou- sands of volunteers to mun the vari- ous passive defence forces that are being formed in tile Colony, Volun teers should demand, as a quid pro quo, that Government seriously take into Hand this question of funnels, In order to give safeguards for women and children that all the auxillary fire-fighters, decontamination squads, Guxillary nurses and other voluntary organisations will not be able to pro- vide.

Teating, 1-2-3, tasting, 1-2-3.

crevice of even my well-clothed anatomy.

comparatively

At the time needing a house-coolie I pondered upon the feasibility of One bleary eye regarded me with creating for one at least a far, far

crossly giving what I took to be anxious entreaty: better world, the other was roughly swathed in thought to what might be Sam's own filthy colton, his fleshless paw genkp Ideas of aggrandisement. ing a bottle of lotion.

Eventually I took him upstairs,

na

A greying, bent old figure, he told showed him round (sleeping quar- me in almost faultless English, that ters, etc.,) and foolishly disregarded tallor, that falling the scowls of the already existing eyesight had lost. him his job, and domestle. could I do this or could I do that?

he had been a

Given $10, he was shooed out to

I did that, whereby I seemed to get a bath "chop-chop" and decently have provided myself with a pen-it himself out, tioner--but not far life as things turned out.

No doubt the sequel has been fore- seen. Sam lavanted. Wonder at the mentality which could spurn de-

and miserable soml-existenco was

SAM MADE it his business to discent security in favour of a squalid cover the hours of my gomes mingled with despondancy at my out and my comings-In, and stationed failure in "playing God" and the himself at the entrance to the flats,

And ten cents became his daily breakdown of my fancied talent in

the deviation of character. portion.

And I could but mile ruefully at It was (unworthily but naturally) the "Of course!" and the "I told you some comfort to me later on that his sol" attitudes of my obviously, more damaged eye was really a genuine discerning friends.

amiction.

sent him to hospital, whence he

returned cleanly and expertly band- A SERIES of small-hour burglaries aged and hugging a new boltle of Incensed the occupants of the medicament,

block, scarcely a tenant who had not Where he lived between the haunt-, suffered." ing of my doorstep I had no idea. It was patent that the intruder The first inkling of things being entered via the flat roof, a tour of rather other than they seemed hap-inspection revealing, neally" towed pened one day when I caught sight away beneath the water-lanks, an of Sam (on the other side of the admirably complete equipment of Harbour) in much better trim and good, stout ship's roping.

comfort-

In animated, not to say belligerent able, well-made swingest-all conversation with a mob of not too shipshape and Bristol Lathlon, prepossessing-looking Individual This paraphernalia was handed not of the coolie or beggar type, and over to the police--the pightly. difficult to plece. However, my per visitations continued, ceptive Inculties being still dormant, A further tour unearthedf. i - fully procured through a kindly-hearted replaced apparatus, Probably secret. Chilnoso medical friend a latter of ed during the day to be called for admission to an eficiently adminia at nightlife tered hospital-lova's labour lost, ne will appear,

Officials queationed the fevante, (Continued en Fäd 170