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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1948.

HONGKONG AN OASIS

H

OF PROSPERITY

·ONGKONG is to be the Far East very much what Switzerland is to Europe

a little oasis of prosperity and stability in a largely chaotic continent.

Its shops are full of consumer goods; its currency, the Hong- kong dollar, amid the vast in- flation of China, is stable and everywhere acceptable, circula- ting throughout South China. moat where it provides the satisfactory, and often the only, reliable, means of exchange.

On this barren rock, which British enterprise and adminis- tration have transformed into a thriving port, law and order prevail when all around there is lawlessness and civil strife.

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BY

MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Mr Muggeridge recently visited this part of the. world to study the changed social and econo- mic conditions brought about by the war and its aftermath. This article was written for the Daily Telegraph (London).

Commercially the colony is thriv- ing as it has never thrived before. In the years before the war it was Janing trade to Shanghat. Now it in the other way, and Shanghai'o trade is moving to Hongkong.

Shanghai, indeed, sincé Japan's defeat, ima been reduced to a melan- choly

condition of commercial stag- nation municipal incompetence a corruption, and financial ruin.

The very streets are left unawept; and with the Chinese national dollor reaching fantasile levels of inflation. snuggling rampant, and the Chinese nuthorities seeking to impede rather than promote foreign commercial retivities, normal trading has be- come difficult, if not impossible.

It is not

not surprising, in these cir- cumstances, that the commercial community in Shanghai, Chinese an well as European, should look with envy at Hongkong.

They see there, under British ad- ministration, the requisite condi- tions for carrying on trade-n stable currency, pori facilities unimpeded by unnecessary controls, and just

Refugees are still coming In at the astonishing, and to the authori- There is a police force whose ties alarming, rate of 100,000 mouth- higher ranks, at any rate, are b beyond suspicion of corruption. stance that while in China, and to laws justly administered. These con-

it is indeed an ironient circum- and a Civil Service which since a certain extent in Hongkong self. itions have enable. Hongkong to be VJ-Day has coped vigorously propaganda favouring the return of prosperous when most of the rest of and competently with the prob- the colony to Chinese Juristliction in the world, and particulary the Far

heing carried on, mord than a Enst, is in Į state of lems of reconstruction.

million Chinese should have to use confusion. Leap's graphic phrase--"veled with

The prices of necessities are effectively controlled. and the destruction of property due to the war. to the Japanese occu- pation, and, perhaps most of all. to an orgy of Chinese Jooting which followed Japan's collapse, is in process of being male good.

Cars to Nylons

come hadi

H

тоге been

Confidence

EV TAVEN American-occupied

economie

thel? feet" in favour, of living under

There CT) British administration,

Japan be little doubt that many

finda in Hongkang 1771! mosi convenient outlet for its slowly re- ould have per lite.

Though the Hongkong authorities viving production, as well as a use- the purchase of have no right, under the terms of the tai murket for

materials imported treaty of 180, wherely the land casential raw

the into the colony from other sterling WAR ceded in

1/ perpetuity British Government, to restrict im- areas.

Travelling about the Far East to- migration, in the interest of the rea

It is impossible to resist the con- day fugees themselves, and public

HE they have elusion that the benefits of British administration, as exemplifted in a NYTHING, from the mon expening in the colony.

been forred at any rate as far as colony like Hongkong, are more sive motor-enr to nylon stre- kings, ein be freely bought, "Food in Possible to discotrage it. the hotels and restaurants in lavish, yaeled and by contemporary stan dards not expensive. Housing is desperately short, both for Europeans and Aslaties, partly in consequence of the unending lattux of refugees from China. There are no signs of malnutrition.. The harbour is full of shipping, and business of every kort is thrivinK.

If such conditions seem parileu, It is by contrast larly, impressize. with Chinn, which is rapidly falling inte condition of irretrievable dis- order and misery.

A long-drawn-out war with Japan and a civil war which shows no signs of ahating have effectively wrecked, the national econoing. Nor has the National Government given any in- dication of being able to deal with This situation. The present tendency is for it to decline in prestige, in competence and, unhappily, in regata

Leased Territory.

Nadition to the island of hout

kong, under the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1898, the British Gov. prnment acquired an a 99 lease a smail portion of the mal land opposite,

once.

preciated, and for that matter more needed, than ever before.

property be taken as an indication of where confidence lies, then there Is more confidence in the future of years Hongkong and Singapore, the rema-

Britain's Great mants of

once in Asia. mighty Colonial

Empire than over before. The banks pre embarrassed by the funds which pour into them for investment, and the authorities by the immigrants for whom they must provide.

If the movement of people and of

1tt

0101

Ironical

in

the

"I told you he stopped between floors if he doesn't get tipped!"

CULTURAL

NEWSLETTER:

WAGNERIAN OPERA RE-ESTABLISHED

IN LONDON

LONDON, Feb. 25.

lim for integrity, American dollars Lebring to enlarge the Kaitak Air- Nanking Government had been ere exiting night of opera slnec before

may suffice to keep It In existence, but can scarcely revive its sinking fortunes.

WRD envert Russian

are

hort.

Squatters Menace

the

Chinese Communtats exper- led to get control of Manchuria, and perhaps extend their induerece to the

the war.

BY R. G. WEETLOCK

rovians

Is Mr Winston Chur-

This territory included the minute

There is no enemy. eity of Kowloon, which it was Sould continue to be under

red a

"AGNERIAN opera defi- plague, however, and as soon as the scare has passed they all begin to Chinese jurisdiction provided mili-

nitely re-established itself narrel again. In its own way the lary arrangements for the defence of

in London last week with olay is quite as ironic as "Family longkong were not prejudiced. fact, in consequence of the incom- Shop Window production of Tristan and Isolde Portrait

at Covent Garden Opera House last week was "The Gorbals Story

The third

new play in London petence ami corruption of Chinese administration, this provision and to

circumstance. Kirston Flagstad singing the by Robert McLeish. The Gorbals is be invoked almost ot

which future historians ore likely part of Isolde Kowloon

a notorious sluta district to Glasgow. City was therefore administered British Influence has contracted

to note, that ny the area of

A start had been made with the The play is performed by the Glas- Hongkong Government Aj to

Inity Theatre Company, a December, 1941, when the Jabane.

Master-sligers In January but the pow the Far East so the pressure ĐI decupied the colony.

population and investment capital performance of Tristan la German repertory company, and it tells in was in many ways superior, and, homely style of the tragedies and 1s The Japanese, during their ecu on those places where it

still largely owing

to Mr. Flagstad's humours of people who live in over- pation of Hongkong, reduced Kow-operative has intensified.

brilliance, gave London its most crowded homes. on City to rubble as part of

The

probability is that,

Most critics were emphatic Harrow History preoccupied with domestic cun in their praise the only really cau-

"Harrow School Yesterday And flict and the problem of reoccupying tious notice being written by Ernest Today" by Dr E, Laborde (Winches- Manchuria when the war ended, a Newman in the Sunday Times. resolute attempt would have been

undoubtedly Mme er Publications, 30s.) is the book wap WHEN the British returned, squat made to prevent Hongkong rever Fingalads evening and it has been that will be of interest to old Har ▼ ters, unable to find accommodating to its former status as a British half humtrously muggested that uns all over the world. One of

this numbers tion elsewhere, built themselves golony,

instead of referring colloquially to chill, and another is Mir L. S. Amery, Yellow River, before this year is aut, precarious and unhealthy dwellings actions the British Government the opera as Tristan we should in who has reviewed the book in the

momong this"rubble. Their numbers

Her singing Sunday future rall it isolle.

Amery praises - were such that their prezence Heavy Immigration

in would have been little inclined 10 had a burnish that shed lustre on the author's skill in recalling vivid- Kowloon City constituted a rerous wrist such an a attempt. In that case everythin # Trewer that earily ly certain aspects of the school's danger to the physical well-being of Hongkong would quickly have fallen triumphed over the orchestra ener is pol surprising, in these circum- the rest of the colony, Steps were into the same melancholy conditionetically conducted as it was-by Kar history and speaks highly of the ud- stances, that there fas been, and taken, therefore, to remove theist.

mirable illustrations. Rankl. runtinnes to be.

the Mr Monre. Heavy Chinese

headintanter of Ar they resisted, it was necessary for The Chinese Press is bitterly Trlesinn was August Selder tatl Imigration into itongkong Under for

Harrow, has described the book as hostile to a continuance of British atthough he looked the part-au-aithful and scrupulous guide the Japanese occupation its popula-

popular demonstrations of protest in that undoubtedly reflects the sent)-nyersharttared by his partner. Hans

was this incident which had to administration in Hongkong, and in a coltivated style he was constantly the buildings, houses and institu-

Pantsed attacks on the British Con- Within the colony an agitation is and two English artists who earned and treasures and legends that cling various parts of Chine, and to erments of the Nanking Government. flotter preveel naglecat Kurwenal ons of the school, their history, their arcana, their embellishments sulate in Canton and other towns being vigorously conducted in the conspicuous ruccess were Constance The greater part of these refugees

to them." Ty a curious illogicality the same sune sense.

Shacklock, a resonant Brangano, and have been starving and landless Chinese who are loudest in their Whatever may

Mr Amery recalls the true story happen In the Norman Walker, a noble and digi- peasants.

of the civil war. viethus of

of Mr Churchill being summoned protests inst

being future, it cannot but be Hongkong but they have included some thou- under

source of the King Mark

whole before Dr Welldon, the then hend- administration. are satisfation to a British visitor that i The performance ou the

that to sands of midle-class and wealthy equally insistent

deprive the colony's present state should was counl to the international master who said to him, "I've seen Chinese seeking security from pulls Chinese of the right to live under compare so favourably with condi-stunlard of tea years ago und two letters in The Harrovian' not tical instability at persecution anf that administration is a monstrous tions elsewhere. Hongkong has been everyone is naw eagerly looking calculated to increase the respect of the possibility of investing their wrong, quite irrespective of whether described as Britain's shop window forward to hearing Me Flagstad as the boys fur. Use constituted authe- maney without fear of currency de- there is any possibility of providing in the Far East. Never in its history Brunnhilde in the Valkyrie next preciation or excessive taxation and them with requisite shelter levies umounting to confiscation.

and has it shown up to better advantage month.

tion declined to about 500,000, but has pubsequally teen faceenged dig the influx of at least a million te fugees from the mainland,

11

British

employment,

To jurige by Its uction in other

as Shunghal.

than today.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

HRILL to the picturisation Left over Tot 40,000 will buffaloes

Dear reader, and would it surprise pursuing the composer Wagner through the trackless

swamps

of the unexplored Amazon, while Mnie. Brahms fights - off the maddened natives of the Andes.

If while reading of this and of

you,

that,

You discovered one more of these

stanzas

On the little round wickerwork

hat?

New Plays

Times. Mr

appropriately friendly

10

almo-

uhere.

Basil Willey was the Professor quest of honour and delivered the Jesus

tecture. He spoke

of the memorial

Lamb's lack of interest in politice-

rities of the school. I shall not dream of asking who wrote them, but if any more of the same sort oppear it may be my painful duty to swish You" I has been busy and successful week also in the legitimate theatre. Lamb For Longevity Perhaps the most vernarkable play One of the best-loved figures in was the "Family Portrait" by two English literature is Charles Lamb, La Zaphroma in action Americans. Lenore Coffee and author of the Essays of Eila, and the Mk of wolves in two with formance described by one critle as

in which Joyce, Cowen, ME. ZAPHROMA, who can tear actress Fay Compton gave a per- Charles Lamb Society last week had

English

annual birthday celebrations of the

her bare hands, balance a helicop-"une of major nehlovements of con- ter on her chest, and stun a rhino temperary slage." geros with one backblow from her The family shown here la the elbow, pleaded that she was only a family of Jesus of Nazareth. weak little unprotected woman when of course does not appear on the secret police accused her

of stage, but the play shows us the forecasting the weather by illicit reactions of his family to n carcer even the name of dreaded Napoleon And again

means, The poor litle thing was so that ended on the cross. They are Honaparte only provoked him to wit- Nothing like this has ever been

pset that she took the door of her a very ordinary everyday bunch of tielsm-and recalled that when peo- seen before in a musical lm.

in Lamb's It 1. What was

your acreage of room off its hinges, and banged the people quite unaware for most part ple argued took sixteen coloured marble or wurzris in 10347 ....We want

three policemen over the head with of Jesus's greatness, alternately nhout public affairs he felt like a

She then tucked one under each (elated at his success as a preacher, boy among

On the gans, each one hundred and twelve plunk, sir,

nem, tied the third round her neck, irritated that he is not there to help other hand it is. Lamb's wit and feet, high, to play the Tonnhauser · L State condition of same

she took them

back to their den, them in their carpentry business and gentleness that have endeared him overture, which is sung by the Min- reaped?...Oh, see above.

She told their superior. beast that at the last dismayed and rather to posterity, and Professor Willy re- neapolis Choir, augmented to 11,591 3. Average width of your wurzels they had fainted while being told ashamed at his fate.

mark that "we need Lamb as a voices. There is an earthquake,

In 1929. Never have used wur- their fortunes,

Another new play, "The Cockpit corrective to state of mind that in-.

Roland, deals with sista on atting everything into by Bridget battle between whales, and tigers in gels, bo yes. únnir-liner, an explosion in

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mixed or group of displaced persons scheme of things." in n German theatre in 1945 and the, It has been suggested that people powerhouse, a stampede of crayfish, Want one blank, dir.

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difficulties of a Brilish officer in try influenced by charm and tranquillity.. a total eclipse of the sun, two forest - ares, a landslide, and a fall of 1937. Same dittoo of above,

ing to dispatch them east and west. of Lamb's writings live long. Several They are all quarrelling among them- members of this Society are over 80 meteorites. And through. It all, like 6. Average height, per ton per

selves until there is sudden scare of including Mr Walter Farrow, the Nature's lullably, throbs the heart- nere....Per, per, per, what good is

bubonic pingue, when they become chairman, and Me Gilbert Coleridge searching muste of Richard Wagner. this, please, Minister?

co-operative in the face of the, who was 09 last week

It

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NANCY Turning the Tables

AUNT FRITZI --- MY TEACHER WAS VERY

ANGRY TODAY

ERNIE

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It

when

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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO

NOW

OH, NOT

ME-

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By Ernie Bushmiller

SHE SAID YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING HOOKEY FROM THE

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