Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-03
IN THE DAYS NEWS
MACAO

Glade do Nome de Deos, Mao ha outra mais leal, October 23-Telegraph editors are reasonable shock proof, yet date line like the above might arouse curiosity, if not consternation when the bill for cable tolls rolled around. Yet it would be accurate en- ough, according to 3, bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society. For that is the corporname of the Monte Carlo of the Orient where dispatches, more modernly dated Macao tell how the Southern Chinese government is trying to break up opium smuggling and church lotteries in this Portuguese city. Macoa s longer name means: City of the Name of God, most loyal of the colonieS.'
 From all the controversies raging around the bakers dozen foreign hold
 ings on Chinas coats modest Macao 1 has remained immune until the Can ton regime recently endeavored to cleanup this first European conquest in China, perhaps with the added po- litical motive of thereby insuring Por- tuguese recognition of the Sun Yet- sen regime" the bulletin continues. Not only is Macoa the site of the
 Cathy's coast, but it has cultural tie | with Europe closer knit than the pol | litical relationships of controverted
 areas to the north. It contains the old
 est ruin in China that is associated
 with Europe, and the tamarrd and banyan shade the gardens where the
 Portuguese Chaucer, Camoens, com posed half of The Lusiads, one Of the
 holf dozen of the worlds great epics.
 Inevitably, too, one associates the i location of Macao, on a scant three
 mile peninsula jutting from an island
 in the delta of the Canton River be- low Hongkong, with that colony of Portuguese Americans on the very tip of Cape Cod, made famous by Jo-
 seph Lincoln. In Macao as in Province town and at Goa, on the west coast
 of India, it seems as if the Portuguese had left the very edge of Europe and
 all but missed landing on the headlands
 of other continents. But if history did
 not record the lasting debt that Eu-
 rope owes to Portugal for reaching
 out to every quarter of the globe, Ca
 moens here at Macao, would have left
 in his immortal apic noble monument to Vasco de Cana and other heroes
 of Lusitanian caravels.
 "Once in Macao the traveller may remain to contemplate an out of the
 way shrine of European history. But that is not why most folk board the daily boat from Hongkong to go there
 It is summer resort for the Cantonese , because of its exposure to the cooling monsoons in midsummer. Opium smugglers and gamblers, in recent
 years, have loomed large among it! transients. Formerly the Chinese coolis traffic also had a headquarters here Within a century it's waters may have warranted the characterization of one traveller who called them the mos , dangerous waters of the world iron a police standpoint and added a riv. CT trip is spiced with the risk of {
 piratica1 attack
 Present day Macao is not marred fol the casual traveller by either it's flail dustry. The latter is shipped away to wreak it's havoc; the former bring: the bazaare and the adventurous. From
 an airpiane the msie-wi 1e tongue O land between the two rocky hills tha
 mark it's boundaries Is splotched witf , with brilliant colors. radia,ing iron ! the tile roofs of it's blue, green, red and yellow houses.
 He who lands on a steamer Is cap tivated by it's blend of Portuguese ant
 Chinese people, by pagoda and wester1 . church, and when the summons of hun l ger leads him to . hotel that has beer :. called the ciednest and most beaItifIi' ! ly situated in the Orlen-, the contres = persists. He may order tie famous Por' n tuguese Colares with his yellow watel v chestnut pasties, and choose either ul