Greatly Impressed by Improvements Since Last Visit: Steps Forward Taken "I feel like singing a 'Te Doum after seeing the rapid progress made by new China," said' Lady Hosie well known authoress and lecturer, who arrived on July 27 in the s. THibadak from Hongkong, in an interview with a representative of the "North-China Herald,"
What had impressed her the most on arrival she said,. was the em cient quarantine service, a thing which China did not possess on her last visit in 1928, and the order which had replaced the former mad seramlblings on the pontoons. Except for a few changes, the Bund skyline was very much the same.
charming personality, Lady Hosie at fifty years of age, positively sparkles with life and displays a vigour which would shame many younger person, Although. only a few hours in port, she had already visited many places and observed much with her keen mind. She was especially attracted by the Chinese women, in, the streets exclaiming delghtediy, "I fell in love with them at once, They look so lovely in their Lady Hosie went on to say, because tourists had spoilt the Islanders who were now continually grasping for money. Java_ was beautiful' and showed deep Chinese influence, The Borobudur, the stupa of 1,000 Buddhas, could be compared" in grandeur of faith with the Temple of Heaven. Going on to Batavia, she was particularly impressed by the museum there, to. which she was taken by the famous expert on ceramics, M. de Flenus, There she saw the wonderful collection of Chinese porcelains dating from the 13th century, which had been gathered by the larier from Siam, Borneo, and their immediate surroundings, 'Lady Hosie said the Chinese who fashioned them had tried to keep the old forms, although they lacked the colours. 'Some, however, were so good, that {hey appeared more rare than' they really were,
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