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THE KNOBBLY KNEES SCANDAL

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 14:14

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

Hong Kong has been rocked by much scandal during its colourful history. One little-known rumpus concerned the wearing of shorts on the Peak Tram.

At the end of May 1928 a lady, using the pseudonym "Femina" wrote to the Hong Kong Daily Press:

REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD "DESERT RAT"

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 13:58

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

By Dan Waters

"I'll show you a place called the desert,
It's the land where the fighting was done,
Twas there fell my poor Scottish comrade,
He was shot by an old Eytie (Italian) gun."

First verse of Eighth Army ballad Sung to the tune "Red River Valley."

DISCOVERING THE PLAGUE BACILLUS

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 13:39

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

From the Hong Kong News, the English-language newspaper published by the Japanese occupation forces, of May 30, 1942:

A SPORTING TOUR IN GOVERNOR YEH'S LAND

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 13:30

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

From the Illustrated London News, January 23, 1858, comes an account of a Hong Kong sportsman’s expedition.

"I was asked to join a shooting party going about 30 miles up the coast of China. Croakers said, 'Don't go; you will be sure to be taken by Mandarins.' They looked ominously, and, passing their hands across their necks, showed us what we might expect.

WHEN SHOPS WERE PROPER SHOPS

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 13:26

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

Department stores in Hong Kong today are often boring wastelands of expensive clothes and designer products. They were much more useful in 1879, as can be seen from the adverts of Lane Crawford which appeared in the China Mail in January that year. On sale were:

A VILE EXCREMENTIOUS SUBSTANCE

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 13:22

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

A few days before the start of the year 1800 an edict was published at Canton which condemned in the strongest possible terms the importation of opium into China.

SERVICE IN OLD SHANGHAI

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 13:15

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

In the previous edition of this journal I produced extracts from the publication 'Notes of the China Command 1932' which was printed in Hong Kong and issued to all service officers who were to be posted to the China Command during 1932-33. The publication was divided into three sections, these being Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tientsin.

MEDICAL CORNER: CAULIFLOWER EARS, OPIUM AND ERROL FLYNN

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 12:45

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

By Dr D. Owens, MB, and Dr M.J. Humphries, MRCP. Ruttonjee Sanatorim

Summary:

The appearance of cauliflower ears in elderly Chinese patients may indicate a history of opium abuse. The patient presented here is one of several in whom we have noted this physical sign of historical interest and occasional clinical usefulness.

Case Report:

THE BRITISH PROTESTANT CEMETERY AT SAN PEDRO, MAKATI, MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Submitted by David on Sat, 2018-01-27 12:41

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

In the Eternal Lawn section of the Manila Memorial Park at Paranaque, a southern suburb of the Philippine capital, Manila, in the shade of a candelnut tree, wafted by the fragrance of a nearby frangipani, lie all that is left of the British Protestant Cemetery of Manila.

PRESENTING THE COLOURS IN 1848

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2018-01-27 12:34

This first appeared in issue #2 of 'History Notes', compiled by the late Phillip Bruce. It is reproduced here on Gwulo by kind permission of Mr Bruce's family.

The first presentation of colours to a regiment in Hong Kong took place in 1848 and the event was recalled in the 1930s by local historian Jarrett.

"The regiment concerned was one of the earliest to garrison the colony, the 95th Foot, now known as the Second Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters.

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