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General Sir Robert Cassels, who has recently been appointed Com- mander-in-Chief in India in succes- sion to Sir Philip Chetwode, has been freely backed" for the post for the last three years-
LONDON BUS DRIVER'S STORY
"SAFETY FIRST" CANNON
INTERVIEWED
PARTICULARS OF HIS DAILY LIFE AND WORK
(By Ian Coster)
The LGOC wanted
He has spent nearly all his life in India. except for the four War
IS palm feels as hard and in 1919. rears, during which he distinguish-H polished as a glazed tile. Sergeant Canno ed himself as a cavalry leader He has big development in his Mesopotamata.
The Week's Earnings
So Mr. Cannon has been driv
He has had a long experience of forearms and in the muscles
round his chest.
ing buses ever since. He has That is because he is one of driven over many "roads"-the
the troublesome North-west fron- tier
city for silence.
Still on the right side of 60, Gen- the men who swing London's busman's term for a route-and eral Cassels is a Scot and has the buses through the press of the he has seen the modern improve best qualities of that race force traffic, dodging cyclists, taxis and ment in the vehicles"like of character, modesty, and a capa-jay-walkers, pulling into inch-driving in an armchair now
tight gaps, everlastingly stop and the development of the traf- ping and starting and changing fic problem. gear in the finest exhibition of For a 48-hour week (overtime, cool efficient driving in the time and a half) he ears
Ts 6d. He gets one full day" Like Sir Philip Chetwode, Gen-world- eral Cassels is a "keen and expert Albert Edward Cannon is a a week Turns come in rotation. He is. 54. Early turn means that he has to Jangler. He generally spends part typical bus driver.
of his leave salmon-fishing in Aber- married, with five children. He get up before 5 am. He cooks. deenshire.
has a weather-beaten face and a his own breakfast"a good bus--
FLY-FISHING GENERALS
In his day he was a useful ng-figure which is as solid as his man does not bother about wake. ger player, and he still likes noth common sense. He first got his ing his wife-and picks up his ing better than to see Scotland beat hands on the wheel of a bus of bus at the garage at 5.55
the old London General Omnibus At 10 o'clock he gets half an "the auld enemy" at Murrayfield.
Company in 1913 and he has hour's break and he goes home- His son "Jim" who is in the Seabeen driving practically ever for a cup of tea and a bit of cake. forths, was an infant prodigy at crie-
At 1.20 p.m. he is finished for ket. Like Donald Knight at Mal
the day unless there is a re vern, he went straight from his
quest for emergency work.
elever
Your Daily Smile!
* rabbit?"
*
Misunderstood
fine bead of antlers.
*
Shrewd
We
since.
Lover Of Horses preparatory school into the Rugby There is a popular idea that a He rents a house at South Tot- few years of London driving tenham at 14s. 10d. His wife is Well allowed £35s. with which to run He never quite fulfilled his early gives a man the jitters
household. That lesves promise, although he has repre-after all that time, Mr. Cannon the China Mail terse vivid and colourful sented the Army at cricket, tennis shows as little indication of him on paper. £1 2s. 6d, but
"Gadget" and "blurb" are two of and squash
"nerves" 25. 2 hibernating 6s. 6d. is stopped for unemploy the most wonderful words ever
psthon
ment insurance, benevolent fvad.. Hong Kong, Thursday, May 9, 1935 introduced into English Not
The curious thing about Mr etc. Another 2s. 4d is paid out far behind them in every quality
Camson is that he is really a by him to benevolent and kid- that makes for etymological
horse lover. He was bred dred institutions, and about vividness is "snob," originally a me! Is it a boy?"
Excited Toung Father: “Quick. Tell
among horses.
His father was Christmas there is an extra 3s. Cambridge slang word for some- Norse (carrying bandle): "Well, the horse-keeper for a grain com-a week for a loan cinb final and infallible one who was not a gownsman, one in the midde is.”
pany. When Albert was nine he. His spare time is taken up secular authority in this work-"Bus" has recently been officially
to be kept away from school with benevolent work connected by his father (who was a bit with busmen he holds severe aday and imperfect world is the adopted by the London Passen- Judicial Committee of the House ger Transport Board, and will no Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, to ask should drive home the vans.
A Highlander went into a shop in near-sighted) in order that he official positions. He is also a of Lords, whose pronouncements doubt find its way as a fully the price of
prominent member he carries alone among the edicts of na-fledged member of the English When he was told the price was £5, be At 12 he was a farrier's boy, the standard-for his branch of tions and of men stand inviolable, family of words into the next remarked that that was awfu desc. etching and holding and taking the British Legion and he is changeless and absolute for all edition of the Oxford Dictionary.] “Off a deer!" exclaimed the shop-away, horses, for 98. a week-primo" of the Buffaloes: time It is fitting, therefore. And in spite of what the purists keeper. "Did you think they were Then he went to a riding school But he still finds time to keep that this august body should may say, in spite of their lamen-
[2s a groom.
a good flower garden and to read. have finally pronounced, upon the tations. their diatribes, their
Undisturbed
At a military tournament in He despises novels. His appe ultimate meaning of that pie-jscom and their despair, "OK" Teacher: "Your son is very backward the Agricultural Hall, Islington, tite is for the latest books on turesque. admirably concise now universally used throughout in geography.”..
an officer said to him, “You'd engineering and mechanics. Mr... and, may we add, peppy interlo the English-speaking world and Father: "This does not matter.
make a good soldier. So Albert Cannon is still keeping up with cutory comment "OK." avery largely elsewhere the have no money for travelling
up and joined the 18th Hussars the times. His younger son, 15, "Oke" for short. There has beeni rickshaw coolie in China, the
carries his interest along, be-- in 1899. He was 19. certain indecision about its Kanaia helmsman in the South · Barber. “It's raining, very hard out-l
The South African war came cause the boy is going to be an exact significance hitherto. True. Seas, and probably the fire-wor-side. Why not stay a while and have and he was in the "fying engineer. His elder son is a
an expression signifying shipping savage of Terra del shampoo?"
in destruction" column,” the builder and decorator. -** MacTavish: "No, thanks, Trust Fastern agreement on general lines it Fuego (if any), all answer 3
Transvaal and the His eldest daughter has made- has had its uses. It has been cheerful “OK” to express agree |
keep my hat off walking home.”
Orange Free State, often scour-him a grandfather with three possible, in certain circumstances, ment will very soon loose its
jing the country for a month on grandchildren. The next is at to read into its use a sort of slightly unpleasant odour, just
forewoman in a laundry and the fgrudging praise, eminently satis-as "too true" and "beat it" fying to bachelor uncles who (Shakespeare), "tell the world”? have hesitatingly bestowed stray (Cowper), and "and all that shilling tips on aloof young (Byron) have already done. And nephews, who, passing final judgwhen it does, that will be OK Iment on Uncle Charles, have oc-by us. #casionally remarked: “Oh,żyes.. be's O.K"; than which there is no higher praise. But what of the mystic letters, scribbled in blue pencil at the end of a ship-| ping list or a draft letter in forming "Dear Sir" that "we most regretfully must take for- ther action for the recovery of
Horses. horses, nothing else 'the amount due”? Where, if we News has just been received in The Headquarters will be open to but horses About 1911 some- may coin such a word, does the the Colony of the death at Glasgow the public tomorrow at pan one said to him. Horses are okayer's liability end? Well 2 April 7, after a long illness, of There will also be a sale of work of finished. A young fellow like Their Lordships, sitting in Jai-Robert Ernest Macdougall He beautifully hand dressed dolls, you ought to be keeping his eye cial Committee have apportioned was a member of the staff of Jar cushions, and children's clothing on these motors with a nice judgment the precise dize, Matheson & Co. Ltd., arxiv-made and donated by the Su Jo significance and judicial value of ing in the East in 1911 and retir the bine-pencil-mark, and the ing In 1933 owing to ill health: matter being thus settled for Nearly all his time in the East was evermore, no further argument spent in Hong Kong where he made is necessary.
many friends who will deeply regret It is not surprising, however, his passing to find that the incident has re. As a mark of respect the Ewe opened the thorny question of flag was half masted to-day.
the right of that parvenu of the world of English slang, to enter! into the portals of the elite What is slang, where does it bet igin and end? Does the fact that mug for face first appeared
in 1708 and that to mug mean-
OBITUARY
Mr. R. E. MacDougall Passes In Glasgow
ISLAM SOCIETY PUBLICATION
NEW AMBULANCE
·HEADQUARTERS Governor To Open St. John Building
end with quarter rations
He came out of that war with youngest, 13, is still at school- a slight head wound and a "shat-
A Clean Record A tered little finger from a pom- pom shell. The unlikelihood of getting a pension drove him back astonishing. He has never had
His record as a driver is:
a collision or a bad smash. This
is his 14th year of “safety first”
to the riding school to his old job at 288 a week Then to a job master, who provided horses medals. Two escapes stand out The St. John Ambulance Head- for fire stations After that he his mind. He was "domino" quarters, Tai Hang Road, will be was in charge of fifty polo pomes tram following when two dogs.
(busmanese for full)
with a officially opened by His Excellency for the officers of his old regiran out across the road the Governor, Sir William Peel, ment
KCMG, KB.E, KL. of – Grace, Ven Order St. John of Jerusalem, at 5.30 pm to day.
HEIDEL
SANITARY BOARD
Agenda For To-day's Meeting
Business of this afternoon's meet ing of the Sanitary Board will deal, chiefly with a gummber of appli tions for eating-hous
“These Motor:”
Albert listened. He applied
for a job as a cleaner in a motor cab company. When he was not cleaning he was learning to drive the old French Belsizes
and Bellas and he was picking up
mechanical knowledge. His next job was driver, and garage hand
to another company
(Continued on Page 10)
PROF. TOTTENHAM FAREWELLED
Function Last Night At University
PRESENTATION MADE BY MEDICAL SOCIETY
Members of the Hong Kong Uni versity Medical Society gathered in the Union
In May 1913, having passed large numbers
the Scotland Yard test with ease Assembly Hall last night to bid he got a position with the farewell to Frofessor RE Totten LGOC. His first day's work ham, who is leaving for England on
May 19 was driving an old oper
Kthe presentation of an ivory open-top Daimler
Tetis also will be our 2nd
ing to grow sullen or mope is the Copies Free Of Charge laid on the table. direct root of our present-day
and perfectly respectab adjec- The Hong Kong.Islamie Literary
being 12
The night. The joined up. the 18th Hos
Live "muggy" (as applied to the Society announces the publication, KING'S GRATITUDE one to France weather, for instance); entitle it for free dis Ato be consideri something a cut titled "The
above mere slang 7 Swift wrote Cop
of the slang free
book e-
blic,
the horses again,
Thanks To
load or two acros But
Before the end
Buddha and a phoenix and mounted on blackwood, was made by Professor W1 Gern
half of the Society
Those present rinci sor L. T. - Ride Davis, Professor George Yeung
Liny D. R. BL