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DEEDS AS WELL AS WORDS

After all, we are lucky that the war stopped the Olympic Games, otherwise the Italians would be winning all the races!

By CLIVE TURNBULL

Hongkong is Gay

face of

Far

in

East

THE rest of the world is wrong about Hongkong.

According to popular impres- sions it ought to be a woman- less storm-centre; evacuated by its feminine population, and looking constantly to the threat of trouble in the Far East.

It is not in the least like that. This remarkable island, where incredible wealth contrasts with

Threats

KIEFERTER VALENTIJANET ZONGORREA ESTENSIFIED AND IN SPL was given enormous Impetus by its

The author is the representative of the Australian Associated Press in the Far East. The accompanying article, which appeared in the Sydney Morning Telegraph, is interest- ing for its observations on wartime Hong-

__kong_and_its_people._. RTZIOACTER!2:#3

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use 05 a place of shipment for Chinese coolies to Austrália in the gold rushes of the 'Milles--1hose same Chinese who, when entry was denied them at the ports, were, landed at Robe, in South Australia, and smyge gled overland to the diggings.

TWO events were reported by cable yesterday which can be calculated to make a substantial contribution towards dispelling the tension which has grown to such proportions in this part of the world. One was the an- nouncement that Mr Shigemitsu, the Japanese Ambassador to London, had shared a long con- versation with Mr R. A. Butler, during which the Ambassador gave an assurance that Japanese does not intend to attack either British or Dutch territory in the Pacific; the other was the arrival -in-Singapore-of thousands of Australian troops, fully equipped with the most modern war materials, who are to remain in Malaya with other British and Indian forces for the purpose of defending the States against any attack which might be launched. Both Mr Shigemitsu's state- ment and the arrival of Austra- lian reinforcements indicates a realistic attitude by Japan and the British Empire, to the situa- tion in the Far East, and both events are heartily welcome. Furthermore, there must be taken into consideration Mr Butler's ridicule of the sugges- tion that the disposition of British armed forces in Malaya in any way denoted intentions of aggression; that statement was scarcely necessary. Britain does not seek in this part of the world anything more than the maintenance of the status quo as provided for in a number of International treaties. This has

"affair" has put on end to all that, and lines of Chinese rolling stock been so explicitly declared and

THESE

men, European

and stand idle and bleaching in the sun. revealed that no nation can be

Beyond rise the

of China, ranges Chinese, are part of Hong- In any two minds about it. To

kong's great financial structure, an

Nature has given Hongkong much, But this does not affect the American statement that "grass economic stronghold off the coast of but suggest otherwise is a deliberate

with some things she has not been

Itberal. Water supply has been distortion of clear facts and life of the community. There is growing in the streets of unstable China,

Cross in the ferry to Kowloon on island

a problem at times. Soil on the knowledge.

The are still 500 ponies in the magni- Hongkong" is absurd, Japan, in particu-ficent stables of the. Hongkong.

exceedingly poor. Basis of British power and the British mainland, travel a few Peak has a fair growth of vegetation lor, can accept this without Jockey Club, and arrangements British wealth in the Far East, miles through the leased territory; only because there are strict pro-

and you will be in Japanese-occupied hibitions, against cutting timber. qualms, and the cause of so

Hongkong is a centre of re- China and the area of conflict." much of the politicni tension and Pacific, implying, and rightly so, markable people.

Some weeks' travel by land,

"Food must be largely imported; there has been criticim of the Orient would that words have become rather worry in the

The most influential Briton in only four hours by air, les Chung-.

page of the "South, evaporate if Mr Shigemitsu's de- cheap and in more cases than the Far East is Sir Vandeleur king. Hidden away in the women's Government's rice policy, for rice is the simple diet of the Chinese popu- China Morning claration could be accepted with one, meaningless. Undoubtedly Grayburn, chief manager of the rest," as I write, is an obscure papa-

Intion. Japan has manoeuvred herself Hongkong and Shanghat Bank-

eventualities, the same assurance.

stating that Madame Chiang

practice into a delicate position in the Ing corporation, the vast mo- Kal-shek and her sisters, attended a biackouts are held and other meas

charity fele in Hongkong. In any 'ures are taken in Hongkong, Far East, but there la still plenty dern skyscraper of which do-

other

place in the world Mme. But, ordinarily, Hongkong is fully of opportunity to free herself minstes Hongkong's waterfront. Chiang's presence would constitute iluminated. Look down from the from the shackles and to avoid In Hongkong they speak sim- a journalistic sensation; but in this Peak upon the glitter of the elty be plunging the Pacific Into the ply of "the bank," as Londoners colony of understatement it rates a low, and of Kowloon nicross the harbour, and you see a sight of un- The right do when they mean the Bank of few lines on a back page. kind of deeds, as well as the England; and it has something Hongkong, now a focal point of surpassed magnificence-the rival of money and power, was nothing a Sydney and Rio among the stupend- right kind of words, are needed. of the same significance. hundred yours ago." Ita development ous vistas of the world.

To-day the dwellers on the Peak, which rises behind Hongkong's business section, look down on a -One-modern-city.-substantially-built; an admiruble example of colonini development. Kowloon, on the main- land, is a rupidly growing centre, This great financial institu- predominantly Chinese. the bare subsistence level of proceed for the big annual many of the 1,500,000 odd racing carnival. You can still tion is the summit of British

Here are the wharves and, not far Chinese who make up the con- sit on the balcony of the Re- economic power in the Far East. nway. the

drink Its reserve funds alone total, Dockyard. One

Hongkong - Whampoa stantly changing non-European pulse Bay Hotel and

of the principal shareholders in the dock company is population, is to-day one of the Rhine wines, now unobtainable £6,500,000 sterling.

in Australia; and you will be

Mr S. T. Williamson, a New Zea- Vandeleur gayest places in the world,

Sir that There is nothing in Australia told, you inquire,

Grayburn lander with Australian associations, like the scene at the Hongkong business in many quarters is would be a dominant personality and a leading business man of the

Far East. in any community; in British Hotel's dinner-dances. Hun- excellent.

affairs in the East his word The dockyard thinks nothing of an dreds of smartly dressed people who

probably counts more than that order for 10,000-ton ship, and can throng them might be

of any other civilian.

build up to 20,000. Here I saw Aus- tralian steel being made Into Empire 10,000 miles from war and the

And there are Skong residents declare future of Hongkong. NOME responsible Hong-

Nor is he worrying about the ships by Scottish experts and Chinese

craftsmen. rumours of war.

The ore that is mined in South Australia, the steel that comes plenty of pretty girls as part- ners for civilians, the sailors, emphatically that the island will

from the furnaces of Newcastle have the soldiers.

never he menaced. Others be- If you say, "What are all lieve that, if it were, it could

-hold out.

one on the island is familiar these women doing here?" your

with the magnificent dwellings will shrug resident

his It is common talk that vast of Mr Eu Tong Sen.

Beyond Kowloon the road runs into the hills of the leased territory, rug- shoulders. Their presence is quantities of goods, ranging

trucks Mr Eu, an elderly and urbane ged and for the most part poorly one of the mysteries of Hong from flour to motor

timbered, with an occasional rice- kong to-day; theoretically at carried in pieces and assembled Chinese gentleman, is reputedly growing valley. Here, in favoured least, they are engaged in some inland, are entering China at one of the richest men in the places, are country houses with de- essential national service, but various coastal points. I was Empire, if not in the world. lightful views over an undulating those people whose wives have told of one consignment of 20,- The source of his fabulous countryside, been sent away are inclined to 000 motor tyres that had gone possessions is the tin mines of Chinese craft. be bitter about what they con- up the China coast and reached Malaya. And there are other The British railway runs

Chinese residents whose wealth Kowloon to Taipo and there, it pres- sider to be unfair discrimina- the interior,

ent, the service ends. Once, they is counted in millions.

say, you could take a train at Kow- loon and trovel to Calais. The

•

Very pointedly Mr Sumner Welles observed this week that the United States profers deeds to words by Japaneso spokesmen when it comes to a question of International relations in the

tion.

in Every able-bodied man

It is not pretended that the Hongkong is serving in the local Sino-Japanese affair has not defence corps, or in some other had a profound influence upon capacity, and there is obvious British trade; but there

idlo An evidence of military preparation. compensations,

maelstrom of war.

and

are

More than British wealth many destiales, but few, perhaps, abounds in Hongkong. Every- more interesting than this.

but

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or a buy busy with

from

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