People in the north are, perhaps, somewhat prone to think of Hongkong as meaning no more than the island of that name and of Kowloon as a mere collection of whalyes and warehouses, a sort of local Pootung, except that it is under British control. It is worth a visit. the south only to sce what Kow~ loon really means, and to let one's imagination play round the thought of how much more it will be in years to, come, as the Government's reclamation and housing schemes take full effect.
Of Kowloon's manifold beauties 1 have already spoken in another article. What I would dwell on here is its size—it measures roughly 36 miles from west to east by 20 from north to south, with a road round it, smooth as a dining table on which one may motor for a distance of 60 miles—and its possibilities as a place of residence. The well-to-do will oilways, one imagines, live on the top: amd sides of the Peak.. But the day is not far off when for the man of moderate means the lower Jevels of Victoria will be to Kowloon as the City of London to Fulham and Putney, a place for business only, with all homes across the water. Already this is the case for many of Hongkong's inhabitants and further - development in the same direction has been immensely stimulated by the influx of refugees from Canton.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.