FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927.
COLONEL LAWRENCE. A NOD OR A WINK.
THE MAKING OF A MYSTERY BOOK.
HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
WOMAN'S AUCTION ROOM EXPERIENCE.
MORAL DECAY;
THE CHINA MAIL.
FALSE İDEALS OF MODERN LIFE.
A TASK FOR YOUTH,
UNIFYING EUROPEAN
INTERESTS.
"I have no
Lord Hugh Cecil, speaking at
quarrel with the Oxford at a meeting in support of younger generation. I think they the Bishop of Oxford's appeal for will give the world just as efficient the Church schools of the diocese, 1 business men, just na fertile artists spoke against the modern ideas of "self-expression."
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A WIFE WANTED.
"CHANCE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.".
"FOND OF CHILDREN,"
Miss Evelyn Barlow, sister of Sir Montague Barlow, described her work as an art auctioneer to mem
The Mayor of Lancaster (Alder-i Colonel T. E. Lawrence's long-bers of the Soroptimist Club at expected book, "Revolt in the their weekly, luncheon at the Cri-
and inventors, just as courageous man I. J. Curwen) has in two days Desert," which Mr. Jonathan Cape terion Restaurant. Misa Barlow is
pioneers, and overy bit as able received over 50 replies to the re- has just published, is acknowledged n.director of a well-known firm of Self-expression, he said, meant statesmen as their forbears," sald quest which came from Canada to on every hand as a masterpiece of art auctioneers in Bond Street. "It the ruin of human life. It was er and international financier, who for a bachelor in British Columbia. Mr. Otto Kahn, the American bank assist in finding a "sensible" wife literature, but the making of it has is not generally known," she said, false ideal, held more particularly been a mystery almost unique in that during
The letters come from places ns an auction when by the modern woman. Wamen paying a visit to London, in an the whole annals of publication. valuable things are being sold there put themselves forward as though interview with a Prose representa- far apart as Whitley Bay, London,
To begin with, Colonel Lawrence is absolute silence in the room. they were waiting until their bonds tive
Sheffield, Blackpool and Portadown had to write the book largely from Regular buyera rurely think
The younger, generation," he de- (Ireland). of could be severed, when they could
In about 12 cases photographs memory, for he was so busy during shouting their bids. Each bidder bloom in odiferous splendour. Theclared, are opening their eyes these two feverish years in the de- usually has his own particular sign, true ideal was the desire to be use-wide. They are looking at things are forwarded.
for themselves. They are not tak- Several of the writers explain bo-sach as nodding his head, winking, ful and not merely to express what ing everything for granted simply that they have not been bobbed or sert that he could not make elabo- rate noter.
Having withdraws or raising an eyebrow or a band. was inside oneself. from the Pence Conference, dis. We had an American bidder whose This was an age of great moral because it happens to exist. That shingled, and declare their fond- desire to examine things and values ness for children. One widow appointed at the refusal of the only method of bidding was disintegration, and the idea of self- French to modify their terms about to place his hand on the table and repression was at the root of the and find out whether they are states that she has travelled on the Syria, he sat down in the Emir raise his little finger. This was the matter. Never, therefore, was it genuine and real or false and make- Continent. Felsul's temporary home in the only sign he used even when carry more
"Passable in looks and a reall necessary that education belleve, I consider to be a healthy Avenue du Bofa de Boulogne Ining his bide into thousands of should be coloured and blased by and a hopeful characteristic. I stay-at-home" in a war widow's des
|cription of herself. religion; Paris to tell the story of the won pounds."
am in full sympathy with it" Church were
Mr. Kahn said he welcomed this Another writer says:-- derful Sght for freedom against the Mise Barlow said that it was one schools more necessary.
Moral Turks that he had helped the Arabe of the first duties of an auctioneer restrictions were weakening every to question and find out for them- except when I get vexed. I am tendency of the younger generation I am pleasant and quiet-natured, to make, by bringing the tribes, to know these little signs; other where, and he foresaw an ever selves, because what was uften at daggers drawn with each wise important bids might be miss- Increasing tendency for the gather-cularly required in Europe at the cook him a good dinner, wash,
parti-good-living, economical, and other, under the unifying banner of ed. Hundreds of letters were re-ing together of good people on the present "ime was that nations and mend his clothes, darn his socks
ceived by her firm from people who one side and bad people on the First Ms. Disappears. thought they had articles of value other. The division would grow classes and individuals should try and look after him in health and
to understand one another, try to sickness, I Colonel Lawrence then came to to sell. When a copy of the "Pil- deeper and deeper in such circum- give one another opportunities of do not care for the pictures but I do not go to dances. England with the manuscript, but grima Progress" fetched £6,800 at etances. All religious differences
day the handbag which con- a sale last year they were snowed must be forgotten, and the religious co-operation, not merely from do like a good drama. Above all sense of virtue, but because it was I prefer a ramble in the country tained it, and many photographs under with letters from people who education of the children must be which were to illustrate it, sudden-possessed copies of the "Pilgrims the first care of all Christian to the advantage of everybody that when weather permits,
they should understand and co- the railway Progress," and who thought they people. ly disappeared from
She
operate. station at Reading, where it had must be equally valuable. been left unguarded for a moment, altributed the extraordinary rise and from that day to this nothing in prices realised at auctions to has been heard of the dossier,
Feisal.
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American buyers, who flocked to Britain. It was 21 great pity that so many treasures were being purchased for America.
"GOSSIPERS & BACKBITERS."
The Rev. W. N. Gordon Boxer.
never
£58,000 SCHEME.
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE TRAFFIC CONGESTION.
A acheme to cast £68,000 for the relief of traffic congestion at the Elephant and Castle is recommend-
Improvements Committee.
There was, therefore, nothing for it but to start all over again, relying still more on bis memory, To give him time, Mr. Geoffrey Dawson managed to secure for him leave of absence from All Souls, Oxford, of which he is a Fellow Sir Herbert Barker entertained him in his house in Barton Street, West- minster, and for a whole year priest-in charge of the Episco-ed to the L.C.C. for approval by the Colonel Lawrence laboured at his palian Church of St. Andrew's manuscript, managing to write and St. George at Rosyth, who is Fomething like half a million about to take up duty at Dun words, or nearly 1,400 words every blane, says, in a farewell letter day for twelve months,
printed in the congregational The Book Begins.
magazine: "I cannot pretend to He then got an Oxford
news-be sorry to leave behind me cer- paper, to print his manuscript intain aspects of Church life in ordinary galley" form, which was Rosyth. Unfortunately, there then pulled" on one side of paper have been not a few gossipers, quarto size, two columns to the
busybodies, and backbiters with- page. Eight "pulis" were made, but only ave were assembled in in the congregation. Many of our 1922, the volume, which was called regular worshippers in the course "Pillars of Wisdom: a Triumph," of the last five years have not running into 308 pages, with intro- shown the elementary principles duction and title-pages typewritten of loyalty to their priest or his only.
wife. These people have been to The manuscript itself was de-my face all smiles and flattery: posited in the Bodleias, and the behind my back they have been assembled copies, of which one traducers and whisperers. was retained by Colonel Lawrence
Wary Correspondent.
RAGIC NOTE
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(THE FROTH BLOWERS' ANTHEM)
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"A United States of Europe has Detailed information is furnish-I been a dream for many genera- ed by a 30-year-old spinster who tions," he remarked. "It is easier writes: to dream about than to realise, but
I have blue eyes, am. 7 stones in
it is worth working for, none the weight and take size 3 in shoes, lega. Infinite complications are in Not at all dance crazy or picture the way. Here is a task for the mad. Would be quite willing to go younger generation. Let them un-abroad to gain a good and kind ravel the knots, and, as far as is husband. compatible with varying racial accommodation in a joint letter in Two women display a spirit of political, social, And historical elements, establish a new and ac- the course of which they state: tive inter-relationship between the This is just the chance we have people and markets. of the Old been looking for. We are two quite World, as well as the New,"
retiring thoroughly domesticated women, not above 40 years of age, If one of us in selected for the hon our of this man's wedded wife we' have agreed to remain the best of friends. We are looking forward to a change and life in the open) air."
EXCHANGE.
Hongkong 6th May 27
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The expenditure forms part of a larger scheme put forward by the Ministry of Transport, estimated to cost £377,000. The Improvementa Committee suggest that the Council rhould, without committing itself to the complete scheme, agree to the part which provides for the wid-On Loadou-
ning of Union Road and Harper Street, so to provide a route from Fouthwark Bridge, and also from St. George's Circus, to the New Kent Rond, which will enable much
4 months' sights/- of the traffic between those points Credit: « months' night....4 1.3/18, entirely to avoid the Elephant and Documentary. 4 months alv 2/8 Castle.
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"I am afraid that there has Council's net expenditure, provid- On Bombay. himself, were read by various been abroad in our congregationed that this is not segarded as e literary friends including Mr. Granville Barker and Mr. and Mrs. too great love of gossip and scan-précedent for the larger scheme. Bernard Shaw, the latter of whom dal and too little courage to re- were thanked for "countless sugges-buke evil-speaking, lying, and tiong-and for all the semi-slandering. There are always, of course, those to whom such an indictment does not apply, and 1 trust that they will not pull down over their ears a cap that does not fit them.".
colona."
Then, in 1923, Miss Gertrude Bell, who, unfortunately, has not lived to see the present edition, suggest ed that Colonel Lawrence should publish an edition for private cir- culation. At Arst he was averse from the iden, all the more as he
The boy capable of being very was tired of his task. But at last bad is also capable of being very he tackled the work once more, and good. Canon Hewlett Johnson. cut down his text to almost exactly
half.
A continued progression to the Now, however, he was less. In- Left, a sort of inevitable landslide terested in the actual subject mat- into the abyss, is the characteristic.
of all revolutions.-Mr. Churchill.
ter than in producing a book- beautiful; so he got it set by Mr. Manning Pike, assisted by Mr. H. J. Hodgson, at 25. Charles Street, embellishing it with the reproduc tion of plates by distinguished artists, including Mr. Sargent, Mr. Augustus John, sind Mr. Eric Ken- nington, nineteen of which were in colour and forty-nine in the next.
A Hundred and Seven Coples. Each copy of the book, which appeared last year and ran into 660 pages, cost the subscriber £30, but they really cost Colonel Lawrence nearly double that sum Only 107 coples were printed, and some of these have changed hands recently at £150. It may be added that every copy of this, edition was signed "T. E. S.." for: Colonel Lawrence is now known In the Army as "Private T. E. ́ ́ Shaw," probably as a tribute to Mr. Ber nard Shaw, and, In the edition now hefore the nublic, his nama Colonel T. E. Lawrence is printed within inverted commae. His first enlistment was made in the name of Ross.
Althonch much large sums have been offered for copies of the privatele printed edition the' extra' rice id not, of course. go to Colonel Lawrence, who, in order-to recoup himself, agreed to issue the fully published edition, which is the talk of the town.to-day. ...
This book the title of which has now been chanked to "Revolt in the Desert," contains 126,000 words and sixteen of the original plates, and It is a beautiful piece of typography. which will satisy the artistic tante of its author,
Nothing Vital Onilited.
So fascinating is the text that people would like to read unabridg ed editions. It can. however, be stated, that nothing, vital to the in- terest has been omitted. The first. eight chapters, which were by way Vof historical prolegomena have one entirely by the board, as alsd has his charming, series of dedien. fory verses to S... whose iden tity is known to very few of Colonel Lawrence's friends," MET
In conclusion; it may be doubted franybody except Colonel Law- rence himself has all the three
ditions of his wonderful book
I think I might have been a better nan if i had not been such a good boyProfessor S. Alexander.
Who could be so unreasonable as to believe that this is a reasonable world?Mr. Robert Lynd.
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is bad.-Princess Bibesco.
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Millions of dollars have evaporated into thin air up cats apparatus which automatically reports what is around Sudbury in the last forty years, from the taking place at different parts of the plant, so that. roast heaps and smelters of the nickel mining com- by a glance at the chart, the engineer is able to regu panies. By an ingenious device the Mond Nickel late the manufacture of the acid, pr Company, now captures a fraction of the smoke and
This is, of course, only one of many by-products of thereby supplion all Canada with an essential chemi: the nickel Industry, and the others range all the way cal-sulphuric acid INAU At from platinum to rock ballast for railway beds. The.
Many and varied are the products from the nickel- stone which I separated from the ore crushed and is Scopper ore in addition to the two principal minerals used by the Canadian Pacifle Railway on many miles and in the smelting of the ore into mette vast quantis of its road, some of it going nearly as far west an ties of sulphur are burned away. This process creates Winnipeg. Gold and silver are recovered in the re an unpleasant amoke that devastates follage in the fining, as well as platinum, the precious metals.total- vicinity of the smelters. The Mond Nickel, which ling in value more than a million and a half dollars 'makes economy; of raw material a principle ofțite business, Installed at great expense a plant which con- werte Just ten per cent of the smoke from the smelters The sulphuric acid is mancfactured at Coniston, Dear Sudbury, in that mighty nickel district in the and produces annually fifty thousand tons of vicinity of Budbury, Badbury district produces ninety "phuric acid, which meets all the requirements of war)
Canadian industry. This immense chemical plants per cent of the world's nickel, and in this year, cele one of the amazing products of science, for by mean brating the fortieth anniversary of the discovery of its of various heats and pressures, applied at different Bickel,, which was first detected in the ore In 1887 stages of the process, the acidi je isparated from the The central pleture of the above layout atown a other elements... Different grades of be acid are made typical stretch of Canadian. Pacific, rock-balla to meet the requirements of different markets, but bed. The upper photograph view
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PRAVENOS
'lot of it goes into automobile batterick... The Chemical held manufacturing machinery plast la operated with very. Jttle human aid. “In one here sulphuria Zeid vorage tanks & Con "corner of he buildar 2 vilay office containing dail | Simidryk
One wary correspondent would "like to know a bit more about him from a Salvation Army captain in British 'Columbia,"
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL."
Entertainments.
May 6 Queen's Theatre'; "Mare Nostrum."
May 6-Star Theatre; "Com- promise,"
May 6-World Theatre; "The Cave Man."
May 10-11 Queen's Theatre: "The Temptress."
May 18-Star Theatre; The Wil- bur Players in their latest come- dles arid dramas.
May -Cafe Restaurant Parisien Tea Dance, 4.30 p.m.. Dinner Dance, 8 p.m.
May 6 Annual dinner (Engineer Co.), H.K.V.D.C.. Headquarters, & p.m.
May 12-14-Buster Keaton inj "Seven Chances."
May 18-Smoking, concert at Volunteer Headquarters 9.16 p.m.
Sporta.
May & Royal Artillery Ath- letic Meeting, United Services Re- creation ground, Kowloon, 2 p.m. May 7--V.R.C. amateur boxing tournament. 9 p.m.
May 7 Fifth annual athletic sports meeting at the Cheung Chau football ground, commencing 11.30 A.M.
May 7-Third extra race meeting of the H.K. Jockey Club, Race Course, Happy Valley, 2.80 p.m.
May 8-Fifth annual athletic sports meeting of South China Athletic Assen., Hong Kong Foot- ball Club Ground, Happy Valley,
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Tennis,
May 11-Exhibition. H.K.C.C.. 4 p.m, for M.C.L.
May 24-Meeting of Fanling Hunt Steeplechases.
Auctions.
May 10-At Messrs. Lammert Bros. sales room; a valuable col lection of Postage stamps, 5.15 p.m. Meetings.
May 6 Annual meeting of Wor- shippers at the Peak Church'in St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.
May Third annual meeting of China Underwriters, Ltd, St. George's Bldg., 11.30 a
May 9-Officers Mess Meeting H.K.V.D.C. Headquarters, 6.30 pm
· May 10---Meeting of the Hong Kong Land Investment & Agency, Co., Ltd., Meaars, Jardine Mathe son's board room, noon.
May 14-Fifth yearly meeting of Lane Crawford, Ltd Exchange Bldg., Des Voeux Rd., 11.30 pm.
May 14-China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd.'s thirtieth meeting. St. George's Bldg., noon,
May 16 Meeting of Members of the Hong Kong Generally Chamber of Commerce; City Hall. 4 p.)
May 17 Forty-sinth annual meeting of the Canton Insurance Co.,." Messra." Jardine Matheson'a olices, soon.
May, 20-Fifty-fourth meeting of Union Insurance Society of Canton; Union Bldg, 11 am
May 20 Fifty-bighth meeting of the China" Fire Insurance Co., Ltd, Union, Bidg. 11:20 fm. ESPN * May 20 Sixty-first meeting for British Trader ötd
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