Foreign Correspondentt' CluIยก of Hong Kong
May'79
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President:
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First Vice President: Second Vice President and
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Treasurer:
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Victoria Wakefield, of UPI's Unicom News, became the Hong Kong FCCt first woman president-
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Altogether 102 correspondent members took part in the voting. Freelance photographer Hubert
Van Es, and Cathay Pacific public relations officer Tim Rossi, wqre unopposed as lst and 2nd Vice
Presidents.
Correspondent members elected
for
1979/80 were Albert E Kaff (UPl), Henry Hartzenbusch (AP), Frank Ching (The Asian Wall Street Journal), David Devoss
(Time), Frederic A. Moritz (Christian Science Monitor), V.G. Kulkarni (Depthnews Asia) and
Mike Keats (UPl).
Warren Rooke, of Radio Television Hong Kong, was unopposed
as Journalist Member
Governor.
to use FCC facilities for
meetings.
We have much to give one another. To accomplish these goals I am seeking your support.
lf I am gíven the opportunity to serve you as FCC president, I will place emphasis on profes' I will play an active, on-the-spot role in answering to the
sionalism. And membershíp.
I look forward to serving you.
Club Subs
May Rise Outgoing 1978/79 President Tony Paul, of Reader's Digest, discusses members'problems.at the 1íth Floor bar, a lot that now
Whatever
falls to Ms Wakefield.
Six journalist members and 142 Later she worked for other associates joined the correspon- publications around the US Middents in voting for the three Associ- west, before moving to New York
As you know, I am a candidate for president of the FCC. My 25 years as a iournalist has
in 1964. There she was principal writer
only reinforced my firm belíef that ourc is a profession which requires continuing exchanges of ideas and
ate Member Governor places. These went to Tim Street (Levi Strauss Ltd), Sheila Dennis (Bruni Hong Kong Ltd), and Barry Burton (Hong Kong Polytechnic). The Election Committee, chair-
ed by Edward Wu, declared two ballots invalid. Vicky Wakefield, the new president, is 47, and has lived in Hong Kong since 1973.
She was
a copy editor
with
in 1974, and started work with UPI two years later. She took over UPI's Unicom Business lnternational
for
and
Macy's editorial department, a major job was the annual
Thanksgiving Day Parade. Vicky moved to Washington DC
in 1970, becoming book editor for the American lnstitute of Architects. After that, she was named press secretary
for the Hon. Edward
Hutchison of Míchigan, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee during the
Division.
bsequent Watergate inqui ry. She married Dean M. Wakefield, who is Hong Kong-based marketing communications rñanager for Dow Chemical Pacific, in 1955.
Vicky graduated from Michigan State University School of Journal-
Before the election, both Presidental candidates canvassed sup-
News service in 1977, and is currently manager of Unicom's Asia
ism in 1953. She started her professional career as wire editor of the Bowling Green Ohio (Sentínel Tribune) newspaper. 4
su
port among the
correspondent
members.
This is what Vicky had to
say-
Wakefield
information.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club should play a vital role ín such exchanges, and I believe we all
should place the highest priority on makíng our group more professionally responsive - to each other and to the public. More newsmakers and policy shapers should be encouraged to
give us their views
-
press conferences,
at
seminars,
professional
luncheons. And we should be prepared to take active roles in these meetings.
to
We should offer our facilities
members who share common specialities. Financial writers, for example, should be encouraged to meet together to exchange ideas. Photo journalists should be invited
the result of a
pre-
AGM emergency meeting of the outgoing Board of Governors- May 21 was beyond our deadline for the May issue of rhe Correspondent -
it
seems
likely that club subs may
increased bv $2S to $50 in the near future. The issue was raised at a May meeting of the former Board, where the consensus was that subs would have to be raised above the Present $100 level. This was to cover continued
be
inflation which is affecting
catering concerns
in
Racing driver Jim Sweeney, who did so well in Malaysia last month, had another success when he went to the club's ltalian Night. Here Sweeney (left) is presented with a case of assorted Italian wines by Mr Mauro Mauriello, of Vine e Salumi.
all
Hong Kong.
degree of hesitancy was felt about the move, because it partly contradicts the prices versus subs argument put to members only a short time ago, when price increases on food and drink took effect. But the feeling was outweíghed
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by the bald realisation that subs must go up to make ends meet. It was noted that even at $150 a month, the FCC compared favourably with, say, the American Club, whose subs were nearer $200. But Henry Hartzenbusch pointed out that the American
Merit increases averaging five per cent were proposed by the manager
Club offered more amenities.
during which the Board also looked
at current salaries applicable at other clubs, hotels and restaurants.
But it is a separate increment and approved by the Board for. payment to staff from May 1. from the general salary revìew This is a normal procedure, which takes place later in the year.
NESCH WOUNDED
Erich
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There sprawls Udo Nesch over
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"About Sam, London and New
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spondents and wanting to know what the hell is going on and who is filing on Bhutto and, of course, none of us know he is even hanged
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only about 100 people left.
"l am getting out of the car when suddenly I am shot in the &'
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by a %y4ó*ll'&= teat'
gas cannister
that is fired by a *)*('&"+
="+'(l*Vo3/¿ cop about 15 yards away".
The CBS team got back to "There we were in lslamabad for Bhgtto's execution and all the Karachi, from where Udo managed press were conned nicely by to fly to Hongkong. General Zia's offsider who was By the time he got to Kai Tak, having dinner with us saying the leg wæ badly swollen and he "Meanwhile, they are hanging Bhutto and flying his body home to
Crawford House
"So we shoot off down to where the riot is but by the time we get
yet.
"Well, we get out on the streets and we are taking some reaction film, you know, people reading newspapers with black strips and all that kind of stuff, then we hear there is a riot.
couldnt walk. Doctors told him to rest at home, but it kept getting worse. Finally, he ended up in hospital. One of his biggest worries was getting out in time to go on holiday in Malaysia, where the avid motorracing fan was involved in organising a racing team. "The cars were in my name, and they couldn't be imported into the
I was there or another name replaced mine. "What a mess, "lmägine being shot by a 45890
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On Saturday May 5,
Lynn
Wilson, wife of CBC camerman lan, gave birth to a son, Nicholas, who v'reighed in at 7 lbs.
Nick was born by
caesarian
operation in the Park Lane Clinic in Johannesburg.
lan, who sounded kind of confused when he called
to give
the
us
news, had just made it back in time from an assignment in Uganda.
Anybody wanting
to get
touch with the happy parents
do so at 14O, 15th
in
can
Street,
Parkhurst, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Padilla's Progress
Javier Martinez Lindbergh Padilla, the Spanish Lazarus,
returned once more
to
de has
Spain,
of La Vanguardia, says the trip is for a summer-long holiday in Barcelona Padilla, correspondent
and Madrid, where he owns apartment.
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during the last seven Years. Verchere has joined the Bank of
Correspondents Leave
in Tokyo as Director of Corporate Communications for
Amòrica Asia.
The Club held farewells recently
for two well-known correspondent members Verchere.
-
Holger Jensen and lan 1
Holger, Newsweek's flamboyant Bureau Chief, and a veteran chronicler of events in Asia, continued the exodus towards South Africa,
whence went former Hong Kongbased CBC cameraman lan Wilson a
few months ago.
The blond Jensen is to head up Newsweek's bureau in Johannesburg.
A week after this
Verchere chats with 74-75 FCC President and GIS offícer Keith Robinson.
Al Kaff, of lJPl
(teft),
dismissal of my abilities".
He further points out that,
as
far as he is aware, his latest appointment as editor of lnsight "is a little
more permanent" than we
had
indicated with the comment "until
Pacific Communications can find somebody suitable to run the magazine",
farewell,
another gathering said goodbye to lan Verchere, editor of Asia Travel Trade and then of lnsight Holger Jensen makes a last speach on the 1îth Floor, watched by former FCC President Bert Okuley and
J
Our three paragraph brief entitled "Changes at lnsight" in the April Correspondent, incidentally, drew a letter frorn ATT editor Murray Bailey suggesting that our crediting Verchere with the rise of ATT and lnsight "certainly wæ
Barry Simpson, of Reuters, presents lan Verchere with the traditional club tie. Watching is wife Doloris Verchere'
Say ft with flowers!!!
used to have fantastic New Year's Eve parties up there at which PePi
to sit and play the piano. O This was at the old Kotewall
used
Ref lections
A
Road place? Yes. You went right to the end, and there was a sort of drive uP,
and not a very large carpark, and a sort
Film Set For 'Love is q
Mqny Splendoured Thittg'
Correspondents' Club?
A lt
must have been when I got back from Batavia, with the Bank. l'm just thinking. About 1949, or the tail end of 1948.
O Where was the club then? A lt wæ in the original old place up in Kotewall Road - they had a small house.
O lt had actually been set up in Hong Kong in 1949, having
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moved from Shanghai? No, apparently Liao came dow¡, as far as I can remember, from Chungking. The idea basically of setting up the Foreign Cor-
respondents' Club was that, as you'll have gathered, there was
a slight conflagration going on between the KMT and the Commies, and the various correspondents who were covering it needed some place in Hong Kong as a sort of R and R thing. So they got this house, which had about four bedrooms in it, and they came and went, and as the war got hotter and hotter, more of them went than came, 72
so they found out it was rather an expense to keep the thing going, and they got about 30 to 50 associate members to join, and I was one of those. There
was Peter Griffths,
Douglas
Nelson was another, and there
were
a few boys from the - Lee Hatcher
if you had 44 people around it was still comfortably filled. And the service was good. Old Liao was behind the bar. He'd just come down and he was only a No 1 barman then. A great guy. ably filled, and
until three in the morning. As
Holden.
clue. Oh, Ken Nelson wâs a
the early '50s. The club spent a good six or seven years there,
had a tremendous guy there called Pepi Tolzan-the spelling was something like that-who wæ a Hungar-
ian. Pepi was the sort of
manager. This was a
about 1950/51. The thing was,
club
little later on,
it
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Road?
A That I think
must have been in
probably longer. And then I went away off on leave and resigned, and Chris Casey said in 1967 would I rejoin, so I
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rejoined again. I must confess I still think it's one of the best clubs in town.
was the best
place in town. No two ways about
it, and like the Windmill Theatre it never closed until the last guy passed
(for a nice dinner, for being
Road came, to the huge house, where had had these emormous lawns and a drive. That's where they shot the film "Love is a Many Splendoured Thing" with William
O When was the move to Conduit
was a fabulous place. They
..
I
was one. But anyway, we all joined, and we used to pay $5 a month, so that'll give you a
It
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say, it was a great place. Then the move down to Conduit
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founder too.
garden,
ground floor it was like a normal home and they'd got the bar uP against one wall. The bar was not that big, so if you had four people around it was comfort-
1979 marks the 30th anníversary of the founding of the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong. This issue we begín a series of reflections by members vvho recall the club's lively early days, and even its erratic progress between Shanghai and Chungking before 1949. Here, local businessman Mike Lovatt, who was born in Hankow, takes up the story in interview form.
O When did you join the Foreign
of weather-beaten
and a sort of foundation in it, which many people have fallen into l'm quite sure. O How was it physically laid out? There was a bar obviously . . . A Yes, you went in and on the
out.
The scene there used to be, on Saturdays, we'd go swimming, go
back to bed, then hit the FCC about nine o'clock and stay there
But in the early days, as I say, it wæ really geared as an R and R haven for the guys who were working up in China proper. I think they
wanted
to
hedge their bets
a bit
so they ¡nvited a bunch of idiots in from outside who were really nothing to do with it. But it cer-
tainly got the place going. They'
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up the monthly due from $5 to
O How many staff were there? A I should think with the kitchen the whole thing was run by about six people. Because you know chaps used to live there -
$10. Everybody was threatening to resign in high dudgeon.
O When was that? A I think they did that just before the move to the big place in
they used to pay to stay in these
of
meals would be
just 50
available?
A Well that's a good one. I don't
associates.
people clamouring
They
some quite good
to pay the rent.
people together
was always reasonably cheap.
but it
was something
incredibly little, about $0OO
a fearful furore when
month
somebody said they wanted to put
rest of us.
there weren't so many cars. I mean
fee. lt was just that we knew the boys and they needed to get 50
meals,
It
Well, there may have been later. ln fgct l'm sure there wæ, but
when they asked us I dont think we had to pay an entrance
used
be
charging
A
as
well?
they had to feed the correspondents from this kitchen at
that had to
paid, being impecunious like the
l've forgotten what she was
the time drinking. Oh, you could get sandwiches, and there was quite a good a la carte, because
There was
standing bills
O Wasnt it a l¡ttle out of the way? A Yes, but it didn't really seem to make any difference. lt's like everything else, if you've got an atmosphere and a club and you've got something going for you and people want to try it I reckon you would have driven to Repulse Bay. I suppose it was a little out of the way. Don't forget in those days
O Was there an entrance fee
to churn out
and when they did come down a lot of them found a few out-
had
to get in.
think I ever really ate there very often. We used to spend most of
the back,,so I suppose they
these fellows were coming down,
Conduit Road. Mind you by that time the club had lots more than
rooms upstairs.
O What sort
then there was staff wages on top which you had to maintain because you never knew when
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I think. But of course I
give you a case in point. The car
had was a humpback
Canadian
Ford and the number was 457. No
prefix or anything. Really
there
were very few cars relatively speak-
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ing whereas nowadays it is unbelievable. Then you could drive
up to the FCC and you were lucky
if you passed three or four cars, O What about other clubs? The
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Hong Kong Club had obviously been going for some time. What about other national clubs like the American Club? The American Club was in the Hong Kong Bank building on the seventh floor. There was a lovely cæe when somebody came out
from the States and took
!
a
picture and said 'this is where
the
American Club is, and a bank on the ground floor'. That caused no end of trouble as far as Sir Arthur
á
there's å
Walsh was concerned.
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The other club that was around
at that time was the Lusitano, a building in exactly the same style as
the Hong Kong Club one is, old
colonial stuff with wide staircases and things. And there was also the
right on the ront. That was popular.
Recreation Club, waterf
From the Bank we had an hour for lunch so we'd go over to the Recreation Club and swim for half an hour, lie in the sun for fifteen
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When the Foreign Correspondents' Club was in Shanghai, ít was located in Broadway Mansions, the tall building on the left, which is presently known as Shanghai Mansions. Picture supplied by Edward Wu.
minutes, eat some sandwiches and
China and down again
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ít was
ings on. lt wæ a sort of Mecca for everybody.
a
pretty large front, you know, go back. lt was where the Tamar gates are now. lt had a rowing stretching from Chungking right section as well as the swimming the way across and all down the pool. Now it's moved over to Sai sea, all down the coastline. Kung Peninsula somewhere. The O Can you remember any of the City Hall in 1949 of course was all correspondents? under water. A No I can't actually. I think l've got some old pictures someO Roughly how many correspondents we¡e there then? where of these various New A lt was such a moveable feast. A Year's Eve parties. Fantastic few came down from China but things they always were. Even then they started relocating when we went to the big place 6 themselves. They there were some incredible gowere up in
O Were there other large club social occasions apart from New Year's Eve?
A
No, because in the old place in
Kotewall Road there wasn't really enough room to throw very large parties. We used to crowd in and sit down at tables in the corners. lt was rnore or less a living room with about eight or ten tables stuffed in
it. That
was, shall we say, the
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civ¡c room end
of it, and the
bar was up the other end.
There was a classic case - | won't give you any names - about
a chap who'd had a superb argument at the bar. and the other fellow was sitting there and theY were both nudging each other when suddenly he leapt uP and struck this fellow, who fell to the floor. Then the downed chaPPY got up and slashed the other one across the face with his hand and said 'l'll see you at the JockeY Club in the morning. Bring your
own pistol'. And he did turn up, this chappy. The other one
didn't, thank goodness.
The American Embassy staff used to use the club a lot, and the marine people. O Were they nearby? A Well, they all used to live around
there. lt became sort of, cosmopolitan, much as it is now really, with more and more asspciate members and fewer, correspondents, Those corre-
quite a few little shindigs there.
We h ad the most
fantastic
firework display one time at the lower garden, which wæ superb because you could walk out
O The move to Conduit Road was simply occasioned bY burgeon'
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from the club itself across this patio affair and lean on this stone ballustrade and watch what was going on. lt was a fantastic display. As I say they used the club in one or two scenes for the film 'Love is a Many Splendoured Thing' with William Holden and Jennifer
Jones. I haven't seen the film for a long t¡me, but we all went to it
because it was shot in Hong Kong and we wanted to see how accurate they were. I remember there were one or two amusing things like
them getting into the water at South Bay, and emerging after a short swim at Arrowhead which is Alvares' house in DeePwater Bay. As far as I can recall the last scene had them walking into the sunset, out of the club and over the hill and into China.
ing membership? I think so yes, plus the fact that
the landlady wanted her house back. And the correspondents realised that with the enlarging membership theY needed larger premises. This place came uP, and it's my understanding that
the then committee got
an
extremely good deal. That's why they moved. lt was again a private house, but a huge place. Thousands of square feet of land. I'm not too sure what there was upstairs - maybe a few rooms, I think there must have been - but you went in, and there was th¡s big hall and staircase going up, with one side used as the dining room, and the other as the bar. lt was very nice, very substantial. lt did the correspondents a power of good. lt was a superb drinking spot with bloody good com'
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spondents that wanted to stay in Hong Kong staYed, but the
nundef
rest moved on elsewhere. Once the thing in China had Packed
up only the
dedicated China
watchers stayed on and the others moved to Pastures new,
which seemed Pretty sensible. But it was a very cosmoPolitan place and you'd meet the most extraordinary People, the most delightful people, and in was
a verY
interesting place to be.
You got a cross section
of
humanity going through there. O The Club at Conduit Road was considerably large?
A Oh, that
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