Kenneth Whiting (AV 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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AND BOY, WHAT A SHOW THEY GAVE US

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One of the few gates and Confucius Temple nervous collapse, so most of us played it safe and hoofed it. Of course, the real reason for the incessant horn-blowing is the law. It mat- ters little how many pedestrians you run over so long as you sound the horn first. However, this applies to people only. After leaving this strange land and its greatly overcrowded people, it is difficult to appreciate the opalescent waters, silvery rivers, and maj- estic green mountains. Somehow the oozing mud of the city streets, the filth from over-popu- lation, the poverty from not enough land, con- tinued to be the indelible stigma. But with all this we learned that it is a free land, and as little as it is, it ' s all these people have. And being aware of the great problems that face them, as we moved out of sight into the For- mosa Straits we could not help but wonder how they will eventually resolve them. tjBi . . .ki Nixon and guide peer down on patio that has been site for many an execution. f tl Uc Seventeenth century deer Tabaka, Miertschin and Nixcn inspect Long Terns cf 300 years ago. INSIDE THE WALLED CITY H INSIDE THE WALLED CITY — Located in Tainan, it is the oldest city on Formosa. Built by the Dutch in 1650, Fort Providenlia served as the political center and bastion of defense. The bespattered walls depict age and many wars.

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THE PHILIPPINES Entrance to the old Walled City located just outside the business district of Manila. Odds have it that when that fellow, Magel- lan, threaded his way through the passages of the 7000 islands that make up the Philippine Archipelago in his search for a prize package for Spain, his fondest dream failed to stretch so far as to visualize that some 400 years hence this strange land would become one of the strongest and proudest nations in Asia. Nor could he visualize that the big island, Luzon, would be the site for a capital city of well over a million people. This is Manila today. On go ing ashore for a fast look, the first noticeable aspect was its contrasting features. The whole city is an agglomeration of the new and modern and the very old; of the bringing together a group of villages to form one city. A mixture of western and oriental, it is huge and unplanned, and sprawls along the coastal lowlands of the bay and the sluggish Pasig River. Unlike in the western nations, there is little or no zoning. There are factories next to large, elaborate homes with extensive landscaped gardens. Clusters of nipa or corrugated iron huts lean against air-conditioned offices and public buildings, moving picture houses and night clubs. And although the population is well over a million, one ' s surroundings give the 57