May 1 recommend any readers in Shanghai, or in other parts China, who are thinking. of ce to see Malaya not to forget that we still have one almost untouchs tone typically Malayan beauty spot {ett on our far away' Enst Cosst—the little Siate of Kelantan. years ago it was only each this State by sea, durin months. was not always pleasant especially
there is the Bast linking" Singapore with the north-east, and a luxurious train (with day and night compart. ments and with observation car) takes one up in eighteen hours. The outward journey begins on Sunday evening one arrives. in Kelantan on Monday afternoon, and. it is not necessary Teave again until late on Thursday morning, the arrival back in Singa pore being timed for early Friday morning. In the few days at the traveller's disposal it is possible to see a real, untouched Malay State, Malays working at everything, few Chinese, and hardly any Indiana, very different state of things from what obtains in other parts of Malaya. And there is a special charm about much of Kelantan Which is indescribable. To begin vast rolling plain for hundreds of square miles and which is, 0 pleasant to see after o has. been used to the hilly jungles of which much, of this country: is eomie the face that Seems" concented with Rariot-and has mot yet aped the West very mush. There is tlectre light. in 'Kota' Bhara, the capital, but water still comes from Is, and there are few telephones other abominations of civilisa-
cheap, and the eis usually The, cost of living is very Pleasanter on the East coast than elsewhere in this country. to Kelantan makes an ideal holiday. have keen fly their brethren And in th able to instruct in the art. matter the vision of a being seen to have been correct for he visualized the time when newspapers in Malaya would be sent about the country by air. Recent ly this actually happened and with the ce-operation of the Royal singapore Flying Club's Cutty Sark the "Straits Times" and the "Singapore Free Press" were recently delivered in Kuala Lumpur, our mid-Malayan town,—equidistant from Penang and Singapore (about 250 miles from each).
One can only hope that this development will not bring about fan entire amalgamation of the Malayan Press. This was threatened a ago When a news-per syndicate from home tried to
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