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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-10-09, Page 7THE DISAPPEARING "MAN'S WORLD" — Woman has invaded another time-honored retreat of the male — the pool hall. Here Masako Ka#sura, the First Lady of billiards, dazzles male on- lookers with her skillful performance. She caroms one ball off another on the table and the first ball jumps up to knock the third ball off the top of bottle. Beauty, Squalor Go Hand in Hand Looking through the 'plane window as we arrived over Hong Kong, I wondered where on earth the landing ground could be, for I could see nothing but fold upon fold of crags and rooks, It must have been diffi. cult for the pilot to know just when to swoop down. The airfield is, in fact, not on the island of Hong Kong but on the mainland of China, or rather that portion of the mainland called Kow-loon, which forms part of the Crown `Colony. Our colony really consists of three sections, First there is the island itself, This was ceded to us in 1841 after what has come to be known as the First Opiuln War. It was a brief war, lasting less than six months. The two sides got together at the end of it and the Chinese offered to give us Hong Kong, Eliot, our chief representative, accepted. When this news reached Lon- don, Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary at the time, was furi- ous. He dismissed Hong Kong as being "no more than a barren island with hardly a house upon it." The Chinese Emperor was equally furious with his repre- sentative. He refused to sur- render Hong Kong. "It is an im- portant place," he said. Both the Chinese representative and our man Eliot were instantly dis- missed — and the war was re- sumed. A few months later this sec- ond flare-up ended. We had de- cided by now to keep Hong Kong and we insisted that China should open five ports to us for trading. Two of these ports, known as Treaty ports, were Canton and Shanghai. It is a pity that those who had doubts about it at that time can't see Hong Kong now. It is without question the loveliest place I have ever visited. The houses and trading offices, some of them in the style of some- what modified skyscrapers, rise in tiers to the top of the peak, and the view from all parts is truly magnificent. It was soon obvious that the island wasn't large enough for the rapidly developing trade. and by 1860 a part of the mainland was ceded to us by China. This is part and parcel of the colony and is completely British. But before long we outgrew this, too, and we began to nego- tiate for still more land. The Chinese agreed to, lease this, not sell it. This third section of the col- ony is the largest part of it — 356 square miles in all. In depth, it stretches as far as from Lon- don to Tunbridge Wells. They say in Hong Kong that it is "bursting at the seams." The population, only 750,000 a few years ago, is now close on three millions. Slowly, this tremen- dous growth is being absorbed by the new industries that are rising almost daily in these new territories. There are factories for mak- ing cigarettes, others for sugar, paint and textiles. I- saw large numbers of film studios making Chinese pictures for sale in Red China, 'writes R. J. Minney in "Tit -Bits." There is, in fact, quite a big trade .between this British. island of ours .and China : proper. Ex- cellent new roads have been built, and a railway now runs from' Kow-loon, on our part of the mainland, right up to the GET ID OF The Way 1 Did. r �1I Simple home treatment Quick.. resells - natural healing. Complete instructions - 93.50. Money refunded if not satisfied. � FrRerE�E JOHN MORTIMER, FREE ew ETI Bost: 128C,•Elora, ,Ont., Can. FACTS 1490,11MS Chinese frontier, from where one can go on by train to Can- ton and Peking. This is all to the good and has made the island extremely prosperous, The houses are of the villa type, such as you see in the South of France, and are sur- rounded by lovely gardens with the most beautiful exotic flowers, There are farms on the island itself, with cows, As a result I drank real milk, the only place where I drank it during the whole of this trip; elsewhere, it was just tinned or, more gener- ally, powdered stuff — even in Tokyo. There is a racecourse — the English population could not live without that — and there are three golf courses, two of them on the island, the third on the mainland. But side by side with this wealth there is great poverty— inevitable in view of the tre- mendous increase in births each year among the Chinese and also through the flow of refugees from the mainland. Vast numbers of new fiats have been built on the mainland sec- tion of Hong Kong. They're fine, handsome blocks, but they soon become slums, because the Chi- nese live many to a room and put out their washing to dry on holes stuck out through the windows. I have seen nothing like it, not even in China, where every- thing appears to be orderly and clean. But here the streets are littered. People crouch on the pavement to eat. Girls grab men by the arm as they walk by. Touts offer to take you to sor- did dance .halls. What a blot all this has brought fo One of the most love- ly settings in the world) But every effort is being made to clean it all up, and 'I have no doubt that in time it will be very different. The squalor, however, is con- fined to the mainland. The island itself is spick and span with tidiness. It rises in glorious tiers to the top of Victoria Peak, from where the views are truly breathtaking, particularly at night, when the lights give it the splendour of fairyland. Scores of ferries travel to and fro all the time and you can go from the mainland to the island in less than five minutes, taking your car with you. The English club occupies a site that must be worth a fortune, right on the GOLDEN BOY? - The battered face of Art (Golden Boy) Ara•. gon bears witness to the savage punching of one-time .middle- weight king Carmen Basila. Basilo knocked Aragon out in *the eighth round in Los Angeles to win the right to fight Sugar Ray Robinson for the middle weight title. It Sugar doesn't re- tire first, that is. seafront in the centre of the town, There are many streets of most fascinating shops, offering you, duty-free, the choicest goods from the ends of the earth. You can buy a Japanese camera there for less than. you would have to pay for it in Tokyo; and superb opera or field glasses which would cost you thirty pounds in England can be bought for two or three pounds. Within twenty-four hours a firm of Chinese tailors made .me a suit of tussore silk for the equivalent of £3 10s. It was an excellent fit. At another place I got a silk dressing -gown for 30s. No duty and a low cost of liv- ing make all this possible. Food is cheap, too—or rather such food as is grown there. But rents are high because of the restricted space. There is wonderful bathing from wide, sandy beaches. The life appears to be ideal; but I was told by those who live there that the summer is almost un- bearable. Winters are waren, like our spring. By the end of April it be- gins to get hot. Those who can get away do so, The rest have to swelter in the steamy atmos- phere. I found at the back of the island a quarter that is known as Aberdeen, so called, I was told, after a regiment that was quartered there a hundred years ago. To -day 46,000 people live there—entirely in boats. They are not refugees—they have al- ways lived like this. The boats are huddled cheek by jowl; you could walk across them for half a mile. Somehow the owners manage to get out and set off with their nets for fishing. It's a picturesque colony, swarming with youngsters who rush ashore and hold out their hands for coins. On the edge of this colony there are two floating restaur- ants, where visitors sail out for a meal. The food is good, and you can get English as well as Chi- nese dishes. Rockets Probe Sun's Eclipse Astronomers all over America are excited at the prospect of giving man on October 12th his first "look" at a total eclipse of the sun from outside the atmos- phere. A ship bristling with rockets is being sent to the South Pa- cific as part of this unique ex- periment. Scientists explain that a ship is being used because the zone in which the sun will be totally obscured crosses no large land areas. On the ship's helicopter flight deck will be carried eight rock- ets, each equipped with a vari- ety of instruments to record the different aspects of solar radia- tion, and radio telemetering equipment totransmit the data 'back to earth. The rocket firings will be car- ried :out as the ship steams back and forth near the Danger Is- , lands, a group of atolls east of Samoa. The experiment will call for extreme accuracy in.launch- ing the rockets. Before , their' nature was fully understood, solar eclipses were regarded with superstitious dread. In the wilds of North- West .Australia it was said that the, sun was "being stolen by a dreadful monster," The total eclipse of 1870, vis- ible in Spain and: Italy, took place while Franco and Germany were at war, Many Trench astronomers were shut up in Paris. At great danger to himself one managed to escape in a balloon from the besieged city 'with the essential parts of his telescope. 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