Estes (AGC 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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CHANGE OF COMMAND Captain Waterhouse says good-bye . . . and Captain Peterson takes command

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HONG KONG Hong Kong is the free world ' s oufposf on the fringe of Communist Asia. The Red Chinese border is only a few miles from the bustling modern business center of Victoria. From Hong Kong you can catch a train to Canton, and from there to Peking and Moscow. Few take that train. Many more come the other way ; thousands of refugees from China have swelled the colony ' s population and multiplied its problems. But for us Hong Kong was the city of bargains and an introduction to another foreign culture, the only place in the world where we could save ourselves into debt. Whatever we brought, we spent, and whenever we could borrow, we spent that, too. We remember Hong Kong for many little things — the insistent courtesy of the Indian tailors ; the rickshaw boy ' s cheerful salesmanship ,- Tiger Balm Garden, a fantastic monument to the commercial success of a medicated pomade ; the beautiful harbor seen from the ferry ; the Peak Tram -, and the women, whose classic, leggy style transcends the changing fashions of the West.