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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

in

face

Far 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.

of

Threats

BRANDSHERREINSUNNOTIENNEMENTÍNazarán e¤ Įprastiems, and beste 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.

This remarkable island, where BALSIANIE incredible wealth contrasts with

Song residents declare NOME responsible Hong-

This great financial institu-

1352 19 a place of shipment for Chinese coolies to Australia in the gold rushes of the 'lities-those same Chinese who, when entry was denied them at the ports, were landed at Robe, in South Australia, and smug- xled overland to the diggings.

To-day the dwellers on the Peak which rises behind Hongkong's business section, look down on a fine modern elty, substantially buili, colonial an admirable example of development. Kowloon, on the main- Intid, is a rapidly growing centre, predominantly Chinese.

Here are the wharves and, not far

the sway,

Hengconff - Whampea of the principal shareholders in the dock company is Mr S. T. Williamson, a New Zea-

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 un- 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 of in Singapore of thousands Australian troops, fully equipped with the most modern war materials, who are to remain in 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 Malaya with other British and Chinese who make up the con- sit on the balcony of the Re- economic power in the Far East. Indian forces for the purpose of stantly changing non-European pulse Bay Hotel and drink Its reserve funds alone total Dockyard. One defending the States against any population, is to-day one of the Rhine wines, now unobtainable £6,500,000 sterling.

in Australia; and you will be Sir Vandelcur Grayburn lander with Australian associations,

if you inquire, that attack which might be launched, gayest places in the world.

There is nothing in Austrália told,

in any community; in British Far East. Both Mr Shigemitsu's state- like the scene at the Hongkong business in many quarters. is would be a dominant personality and a leading business man of the

Hun- excellent. Hotel's dinner-dances,

affairs in the East his word The dockyard thinks nothing of an ment and the arrival of Austra-dreds of smartly dressed people

probably counts more than that order for a 10,000-ton ship, and can build up to 20,000. Here I saw Aus- lian reinforcements indicates a who throng them might be

of any other civilian.

tralian steel being made into Empire ships by Scottish experts and Chinese realistic attitude by Japan and | 10,000 miles from war and the

future of Hongkong. And there are

Nor is he worrying about the craftsmen. The ore that is mined in South Australia, the steel that comes the British Empire, to the situa- rumours of war.

plenty of pretty girls as part.

from the furnaces of Newcastle have tion in the Far East, and both hers for civilians, the sailors, emphatically that the island will

More than British wealth many destinies, but few, perhaps, never be menaced. Others be- events are heartily welcome. the soldiers. Furthermore, there must be If you say. "What are all lieve that, if it were, it could abounds in Hongkong. Every more interesting than this,

- one on the island is familiar taken into consideration

with the magnificent dwellings Beyond Kowloon the road runs into Mr these women doing here?" your

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

the hills of the lensed territory, rug- Butler's ridicule of the sugges-

the most part poorly presence is quantities of goods, ranging

rice- tion that the disposition of shoulders. Their

Mr Eu, an elderly and urbane ged and for

timbered, with an occasional British armed forces in Malaya one of the mysteries of Hong- from flour to motor trucks

kong to-day; theoretically at carried in pieces and assembled Chinese gentleman, is reputedly growing valley. Here, in favoured views over an undulating in any way denoted intentions of least, they are engaged in some inland, are entering China at one of the richest men in the places, are country houses with de er a bay busy with aggression; that statement was essential national service, but various coastal points: I was Empire, if not in the world. lightful

The source of his fabulous countryside,

Chinese craft. scarcely necessary. Britain those people, whose wives have told of one consignment of 20,-

possessions Is the tin mines of

The British railway runs from does not seek in this part of the been sent away are inclined to 000 motor tyres that had gone Malaya. And there are other world anything more than the be bitter about what they con- up the China coast and reached

Chinese residents whose wealth Kowloon to Taipa and there, at pres- ent, die service enda. Once, they is counted in millions.

cay, you could take a train at Kow- maintenance of the status quo as sider to be unfair discrimina- the interior.

tion.

loon and travel to Calais. The It is not pretended that the provided for in a number of

"affair" has put an end to all that, Every able-bodied man in

and lines of Chinese rolling stock international treaties. This has Hongkong is serving in the local Sino-Japanese, affair has not profound influence upon

TUIESE men, European and stand idle and bleaching hi the sun. been so explicitly declared and defence corps, or in some other had

THESE

of China, Beyond rise the ranges Beyond Chinese, are part of Hong- an idlo

Nature has given Hongkong much, revealed that no nation can be capacity, and there is obvious British trade; but there are

kong's great financial structure, an in any two minds about it. To evidence of military preparation, compensations, and

But this does not affect the American statement that "grass econemic stronghold off the coast of but with some things she has not streets of unstable China.

been liberal. Water supply has been suggest otherwise is a deliberate

problem at lines. Soll on and life of the community. There is growing in the

Cross in the ferry to Kowloon on distortion of clear facts

are still 500 ponies in the magni. Hongkong" is absurd. knowledge. Japan, in particuficent stables of the Hongkong

Basis of British power and the British mainland, travel a few signd is exceedingly poor.

and you will be in Japanese-occupied only because there are strict pro-

hibitions against cutting timber. lar, can accept this without Jockey Club, and arrangements British wealth in the Far Engt, miles through the leased territory, Peak has a fair growth of vegetation

Hongkong is a centre of re- Chinn and the area of conflict."

Some weeks' travel by land, but Food must be largely Imported; there has been crilleiren of the much of the political tension and Pacific, implying, and rightly so, markable people.

The most influential Briton in only four hours by air, lles Chung- worry in the Orient would that words have become rather 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

write, is an obscuro para- Intion.

Against eventualities, practice - claration could be accepted with one, meaningless. Undoubtedly Grayburn, chief manager of the page, of the "South China Morning the staple diet of the Chinese popu- Japan, has manoeuvred herself Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- graph stating that Madame Chinng the same assurance.

into a delicato position in the ing Corporation, the vast mo- Kal-shek and her sisters attended a blackouts are held and other mens- ether place in the world Mme. But, ordinarily, Hongkong is fully Very pointedly Mr Summer Far East, but there is still plenty dern skyscraper of which do charity fete in Hongkong. In any 'ures. ure taken in Hongkong. Welles observed this week that of opportunity to free herself minates Hongkong'a waterfront. Chiang's presence would constituto luminated. Look down from the In Hongkong they speak sim- a journalistic sensation; but in this Tenk upon the glitter of the city bo- the United States prefers deeds from the shackles and to avoid

harbour, and you see a eight of un- to words by Japanese spokesmen plunging the Pacific into the ply of "the bank," ns Londoners colony of understatement it rates a low; and of Kowloon

maelstrom of war. The right do when they mean the Bank of few inca on a back page,

a focal point of surpassed magnificenco-the rival of money and power, was nothing a Sydney and Bio among the stupend- when it comes to a question of kind of deeds, as well as the England; and it has something nongover

hundred years ago. Its development que vistas of the world. International relations in the right kind of words, are needed, of the same significance.

qualms, and the cause of so

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