For several days before the traditional "Dragon Boat Festival, celebrated on Saturday at the Chung Shing Swimming Club at West Point, Hongkong residents saw var ous boats, to be entered in the races, hard at their practice in the harbour.
With 25 or 30 rowers seated one behind the other in the shallow boats, banners fluttering above, and muMed drum beating out the rhythm for the oarsmen, the picture from the Bund called to mind those ttle porcelain boats, complete with crew, which are so popular with perfect unison they moved, the drum never missing its sinister beat, fag the little boat moved among the heavier craft in the harbour.
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