They were going to expand the airport and
the sacred mountain over there
off from the airport.
There's the airport, a low lying land
about 12 to 14 feet lower than the airport
across the sacred mountain,
I don't know maybe three quarters of a mile or
a mile square or something like that.
And the sacred mountain was behind it,
and the British had wanted to get the fill from
that mountain to fill in that bottom to make it
expand their airport but they wouldn't dare
touch it because it was Chinese sacred ground,
but when the Japanese took over,
this business of asking permission was gone.
So we were, had little narrow gauge railroads and
we were moving that mountain down and
filling in that bottom.
There were crazy guys coming down that
mountain on these carts and the carts jumping
the rails and are guys going sailing.
It was the first bit of fun we’d had in some time.
But we did move that sacred mountain
from there and after we moved
back to Sham Shui Po, we were still there.
We moved that whole mountain.
We filled that whole bottom in for them
to expand their airport, by hand.