SEK KON. (The New Territories.) Nov 11th
A train from Kowloon runs right up to Fanling near the border.
By train you can travel 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class. We went 2nd class. It was very clean & freshly painted. The windows let down very low to give you a clear unrestricted view. The 1st class is very similar to our 1st class in England. All the time there is a vendor for English sweets walking up and down as well as some one selling fruit.
The colony launch takes visitors free to the Colony every Saturday, leaving Queen's Pier at 2 p.m.
Today Marion and I have been riding bicycles round the New Territories. We caught the bus to Fanling - the last village before the frontier. There were queues of people all going to the country to see their relations for Chinese New Year. At Shatin we saw a fleeting part of a Lion Dance - traditionally performed at this time. One person wears a very elaborate and brightly coloured mask representing a lion. He dances around accompanied by the banging of gongs and drums with a peculiar tinny sound. Often, this is followed by displays of shadow boxing.
This is the report of a successful crash-landing after mechanical failure. Two weeks later the same pilot had a fatal crash at Lion Rock Ridge (see http://gwulo.com/node/20835)
hawker crash 1962