Evening star., 1924-06-07
PARIS OF THE! EAST
ON US. FLYERS ROUTE
Hanoi, French Indo-China, Is
, Model Capital of Colonial Pos
| sessions of France.
BAY CITY's SCENIC FEATURE
No Hint of Traditional Inertia Of
Orient in Province.

When our globe-girdling flyers
leave Hongkong, Britains pride OF
the east" they will make for Hal
phong, port city of Hanoi. which is
Frances model colonial capital. ac-
cording to a bulletin from the head
quarters here of the National Geo
graphic Society.
1.-TWO stops will be made in French
do-China, which was the -chief
French interest in Asia until France
was allotted the Syria mandate" the
bulletin continues.
'Haiphong is eighty miles south
east of Hanoi. The port has alb
sorbed many industries which might
mar the capitals beauty. There is
no hint of the sleepy east in Hal
phong's cotton spinning mills, its
liquor and essence distilleries, its tile
and ceramics works or its great
cement plant which employs 1,500
natives and turns out $4,000 tons of
cement and 10000 tons of lime each
year.
Hniphong Busy Harbor.
"Haiphong has one of the busiest
harbors of the South China Sea. 1t
ships out the rice and tobacco of the
Red River delta, the output of
Hanofs tanneries. sawmills and
match factories; while railways ex-
tending to 9unnan, capital OF China's
second largest province, and to the
borders of Kwangsi, have augmented
its trade tremendously.
When our airmen run up to Hanoi
they Will find a marked social con-
trast to Hongkong. The British city
is formal and dignitied. Hanoi has
been called little Paris of the east
because of its beauty. and it's easy
going ways suggest the Latin Quar-
ter Of its European prototype. One
traveller writes, Imagine, in Hong
tripping along the streets in the mid
day heat of summer. in white toupee
end loose morning gown dropping
in at the hotel for luncheon and a
chat; or a military or naval officer of
high rank seated with his wife. after
dinner, a t a small table on the pave
nent outside cafe, slipping liquor,
conversing and gazing at the occu-
pants of passing vehicles
Bay is Scenic Feature.
Close to Haiphong itself is the
Bay d'Along. notable scenic fea-
ture. 1t discloses rocky islands and
peninsulas carved into a wide vari-
ETY. of forms-terraces, minarets, cav
erns and huge tables-of ever-chang-
ing color.
Gated at a splendid harbor, southeast
of Hue, capital of AMMAN. Between
Iaiphong and Tourane the flyers will
keep to the east of the mountain
spine that divides French Indo-China
into two valleys
The flyers third stop on French CO.
lonial soil will be at Saigon, which
formerly was the French administra-
tive center. Saigon is a beautiful
city of wide. shady streets. numerous
rublic buildings and many statues.
it is located thirty-four miles from
the China Sea, on the Saigon River
! In their flight through Indo-China
the aviators will get panorama of
one of the most remarkable and least
known countries of the east. From
the new cotton plantations and ex-
tensive mulberry orchards of the
north they will traverse regions
where the wild elephant. tiger and
rhinoceros abound, and they will
cross the Mekong. where crocodiles
are rife and where snakes frequent
the forested banks. In the south
they will encounter the second rice
producing area in the world. which
also provides the west with consider
able tea, cocoa and coffee