KING GEORGE'S JUBILEE Thanksgiving Services Held
THEIR EXCELLENCIES AT THE CATHEDRAL:
THE
THE GOVERNOR'S DEPARTURE
LITERARY NOTES
Naval And Military Ceremonial
PROGRAMME ARRANGED
Both the Naval and Military au Jubilee Thanksgiving services thorities have gone to considerable was held at St. John's Cathedral trouble to ensure that His Excel- and other churches in Hong Kong iency the Governor. Sir William and Kowloon yesterday after-Peel, and Lady Peel will have a noon. His Excellency the Gorting send-off when they leave on ernor and Lady Peel accom retirement by the RMS. Empress panied by Captain Walter.
of Japan rext Friday...”. A.D.C. and Mr. Pilcher, attend-| ing the Cathedral.
NA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1935:
BOOKS THAT MAY
BE VALUABLE
SOME PERHAPS BEING PUBLISHED NOW
COLLECTORS ALWAYS WANT FIRST EDITIONS
(By
John Emrys-Jones)
Troops drawn from the Eart Lancashire Regiment, the Punjab. The service there was co-Regiment and the Royal Welch
IR Edmund Gosse, the famous critic. used to lament bitterly ducted by the Rev. H. W. Baines Fusiliers will line the route alone!
S his mistake in having a first edition of Omar Khayyam the lessons being read by Dr.. Garden Road, Queen's Road and which cost a shilling in its original wrappers-nicely rebound G. A C Herklots. and the bless-)
When his library was sold it went for £320. But a fine copy ing and thanksgiving prayers be Jackson Road from the Helena May
Institute The Royal Navy and in the original state has fetched as much as 1,410 in the sale ing read by Bishop R. O. Hall:
East Lancashire Regiment will rooms. A costly mistake. A processional hymn and the singing of "Jerusalem and the Provide a Guard of Honour, which
will be in position on National Anthem were features
EYES ON THE EAST
Problems Debated In The Lords
LORD ADDINGTON ON
SINO JAPANESE
·RELATIONSHIP
(By JAMES AVORY JOYCE) - Earl Peel recently opened very interesting debate on Bri- tish policy in the Far East by re minding the House of Lords that within the last few weeks tiro powerful Eastern nations had Europe. taken a step farther away from severed her membership in the Japan definitely League on the expiry of the two years" notice of resignation; and Chins, on account of the rota- tion rule. had given up her place Do not imagine that books have,
on the League Council to some And if you have not, buy any one else. Was this not a step in side of Connaught Eoad facing books bought in your lifetime can doubt, one of the first four novels noble Lord, and was not Asia to be old to be valuable. New edition and read it it is, without the wrong direction, queried the
on sale of note that have been published in for the Asiatics a Lincolnshire Regiment formed ap
dangerous The Rev. H. Baines, during in Wardley Street facing the Pier, and bucks bought now will mean this century.
and separatist idea?. His Excellency money in five years" time. the course of his sermon. said¦
keep yout other
Although, in the discussion which, to ensued, many speakers set them-1
selves whitewash the recent actions of Japan in abrogating her
of the service. which drew a.
the south
large congregation to the Cathe Queen's Pier, with the band of the show a handsome proft
dral
2
Meanwhile
that the past 25 years during will be preceded by that of His from making the mistake
I propose here to prevent you"firsts" of Maugham: they will
which
Excellency had been King George spared to rile over the Empire, chief. Admiral Sir Frederic "had been years of transition, and Dreyer, and
that now we lived in the day of Sedgwick. the man in the street...
his
will
Living Authors
Gosse up in value, they are gilt-edged
Be
:
GREAT PUBLISHER
PASSES
to
The parents of Roy Hall of
Baltimore were paid life insurance after he was-swept of the ship- board off the Irish coast last a tomm. Now this youth is back in "Amèrica, declaring that he is the lost Roy Hall, and telling the story of having been rescued by British ship and spending mouzbe in hospital.
BANKRUPTCY COURT
(Continued from Page 9);
Counsel: "I put it to you that man who opened up the Tung was a relative of yours, was pu riously employed as a fold in yo firm, and lived on your premises I put it to you further that yo continually paid the Tung Tak money with which to carry on bun ness."
Witness also denied this Mr. Jenkin went on to say the in the first year the Tung Tak E been doing business witness ha advanced to them a sum of no le than $77,000. Witness then re asserted that never at any had he 'advanced money to Tak
BOOKS NOT TAKEN AWAYS
Witness, in answer to anoth question from Mr. Jenkin, said that at the time the bailiff had called to collect the books of his firm had received no telephonic cam munication, neither did he mal
away with the books.
After the premises had bee searched witness decided to come salt his legal advisers and forth with went over to Hong Kong. Af
The arrival of
the Commander-in-
made, or, at least, to warn you. 1 Commodore C. G doubt very much whether you will
treaty obligations and engaging insultation with them a solution which the ferry he met partners repre find a first edition of Omar Khay-
the military occupation of Man-would meet the primary needs of senting all the other firms with His Excellency the Governor Yam on your book belves.
Churia, two points raised in the each and benefit both of them in the the exception of the Tang Tach There had been many royal will arrive at 230 p.m. escorted But you may have something of
subsequent speeches need to be Far EastTM
When they arrive at Messrs. Buss celebrations in the past but these or a mobile unit of the Hong Kong value in the collector's sense
carefully pondered
Likewise Lord Lothian, in draand Co., however, they discovered had usually symbolised victory in Volunteers, and as he alights from canse books, some books, apart from in battle or a new era of pros-
A Mediator Wanted car the *Present"
be their contents, have value in the
ing attention to the essential wis the Tung Tak already there. Mr. T. Fisher. Unwin
dom of the Washington Treaties, and perity.. It was, not so in this ordered
the Lincolnshire strict and commercial sense.
Witness agreed with everything Lord Addington maintained that which had been signed fifteen years except the last statement. He case. Mr. Baines went on to Regiment Band will play six bars
the interests of China and Japan ago but which Japan had now set substituted that he did not see describe some of the events dur of the National Anthem.
THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED An author does not have to be
were not necessarily antagonistic aside, by unilateral action, pleaded members of the Tang Tak at Russ "ing the King's 25 years of reign
ELLE will then board his launch
JOSEPH CONRAD- dead before his books have value,
but complementary. An orderly for an attempt to be made for and Co. on the day in question. and concluded by saying:
and a salute of 17 guns, will be)
China, at peace with Japan, would new international agreement which Chan Tak-wong, managing part "Our prayer is that as Godfred by the HKSRA. A similar although we usually discover out
The man who "ford Conrad mean that Japan's urgent need for would help towards the rapproche (ner of the Tung Woo frm has endowed the King and Queen salute will be fired by the Nary great writers after they are dead
and published the first books of raw materials, and markets could be ment of China and Japan and ensure then called. He stated that with grace to rule for 25 years in as the launch crosses the Ear-
often novelists themselves that they many famous authors, died a few met as in no other way. "What is peace for at least the next fifteen firms was composed of threG PRITA the spirit that they have he will bour.
to boost their weeks ago.
needed now,” he continued is for years; and he expressed the hopes all of whom had contribute also endow the generations that Ships Companies will man war-are not anxious
Mr. T. Fisher Unwin some other member of the family of that the British Government would $1,000 towards the capital. rivals. are to come with grace to fulf ships as the Empress of Japan their high destiny in the name of passes down the Harbour and
death occurred at his home. Oats-tor, and then to work out in con-Treaty powers to that end. God.**
this point antil this the vessel passes through Lyemun writer when they read him. channel men of the 12 Heavy Take Somerset Maugham He is burst, Heyshott. Battery will cheer from Lyeman sepected, but the high place he (Sussex). He was 87.
bolds. and will hold in literature, is Mr. Unwin was born in a street: (called Wowgate-hill, beside Can-
LT. COL. F. EAVES
Leaves Hong Kong On
Retirement
A FULL CAREERS
Fort
Public Meeting...
That is because critics are so
He was
Or alternatively they have not wit enough to know great doyen of London publishers. His nations to play the part of a media begin conversations with the other The bearing was adjourned
tot accorded hi
near Midhurst
To-morrow at 5.30 p.m. punctual- Precious people cannot under-ton-street railway station. His ly, in the Great Hall of the Univer-stand that a very great writer can father was a printer. sity, an address of farewell to His also be a good seller.
He began his publishing experi Excellency the Governor, on behalf, They suspect men like Maugham,ence by addressing envelopes and of the community generally, will be because so many people read him sticking on stamps. read by the Senior Unofficial Mem-with pleasure. They cannot believe
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Early. Success La-Col F. Eaves, who for the ber, the Hon Sir Henry Pollock, that a man can be superbly good In 1882, when he started his own past 12 years has been Acting Land KC., after which a farewell who is also supremely interesting business, it was Officer and prior to that held the address on behalf of the Chinese to the masses of the people. rooms in Holbom Viaduct. positions of Registrar of Mar Community will be read (in the
"One of his early successes was riages, Official Receiver and
First absence through illness of the But the book collectors have no"The Epic of Kings by Firduasi, Police Magistrate in the Hour Hon Sir Shou-son Chow) by the doubts about Maughami. Kong Civil Service, left on retire-Hon. Dr. E. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., the most sought-after modern first
One of the Persian poet.
But the most striking success. ment by the ss.” Nellore last week. LL.D.
editions is his "Of Human Bond-was "The Way-01: An Eagle," by He will visit many countries, fa- His Excellency the Governor will jage."
Miss Ethel M. Dell.. «cluding Australia, Tasmania and the reply to both these addresses and It was published as recently as Fiji Islands, before returning to the proceedings
His firm amalgamated a few years will then ter-1915. It is now worth ten guineas,jago with Ernest Benn, Ltd.: England.
If you are lucky enough to have a Mr. Gawin married Jane, daugă- copy dated 1915 look to see if it haster of Mr. Richard Cobden, the 16 pages of advertisements at the famous Victorian anti-corn law end. Then it is a "first.”
statesman.
L
His Career
On the outbreak of the War, he was practising as a solicitor in Lancaster, and in the following February, was in Flanders 23. 2 Company Commander in that Bat talion under Lt-Col. Lord Richard Cavendish On Col. Cavendish be- coming a casualty, Col. (then Capt-)| Eaves commanded the Battalion at the Battles of Second Ypres, Loos (1915). receiving is first mention in despatches.
and
minate.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE
Women Victimised In Kowloon
JEWELLERY STOLEN
early yesterday morning. after having gained entrance to the pre- mises of No. 1 Cornwall Street, Kowloon Tong
Three Chinese armed with-dag- gers, decamped with jewellery and In 1916, he received his second money to the total value of $581. mention in Despatches, and was awarded the D.SO. In 1917, he commanded the 5th Divisional Raid- ing School (being awarded accele
Chan Fit-mui, one of the two rated substantive promotion to women who were robbed, reported Field Rank), and after passing the
ito the Police that she was awaken-. Senior Officers Course at Aldershot, jed at 6.15 am. by a hand holding he was posted to the 5th Bn. The her throat She tried to scream Royal North Lanes. Rest at the but was prevented. She saw two Battle of Messines, and served with other men, and all three men car- that En at the Second Battle of
İried daggers. Arras, 1918 (the Drocourt-Queant
After one of the robbers had Line), the Battles of the Hinden-torn off the jewellery she was burg Line (the Canal du Nord, and wearing he proceeded to ransack capture of Bourlon Wood), and the the room. Battle and capture of Cambrai.
With the exception of being
gagged.
bound and
Occu-
She was
The robbers then left her room slightly gassed at the capture of and entered another room Messines (whilst attached to thepied by Ho Mo-ying, married wo- 3rd. Australian Division) Col
man, who was likewise bound and Eaves ended four years infantry.
gagged. service on the Western Front with-i out becoming a casualty.
After remaining on the premises for nearly 80 minutes the three
In 1919, he commanded the 18th men decamped. BA The Cameronians (Scottish The haul included six Snger Rifles) on the Rhine, and later in rings, two gold bangles, Ireland at the Curragh From the and jadestone brooch, three pairs a gold
· Curragh he volunteered and was of spectacles and $23 in local accepted for service with the White currency. Russian Army in the Crimea, But,
REBUILT
qwing to a subsequent change YELLOW RIVER BRIDGE TO BE Government policy, he fortunately never arrived there. In 1921-1922, he served on the General Star in Ireland as a Courts Martial Officer
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(By PHYLLIS JUBY)
S the popularity of Dickens increasing in Hong Kong too? Critics insist that he no longer appeals to the sophisti cafed public mind of nowadays, but how are we then to explain the audience which greets the -series of new books on his life and writings, and the excel- lently contrived film of "David Copperfield?" And it is report- ed that preparations, are be- ing made for the revival of cther Dickens stories on the screen. This at least suggests. the trend of public taste,
Sydney Carton is a general fas- ourite, is he not? I, for one, would be more interested in his intro duction on the screen than any other fictional figure 1 can think of at the moment. There always has been a body of admirers, organised to maintain the memory of the author and his works, Perhaps, indeed, it might be said that, cept for Shakespeare, no other writer of the has been
Dickens So eties" and the perio
the regular meetings of the
dical publication "The Dicken- It is also true, according
guished by cactly such tributes
OL
to the testimony of librarians, that while requests for Thackeray have waned and for George Eliot almost disappeared, nevertheless the Dickens stories come and go at an almost modiminished rate. Per- that emotional quality haps it is that Andre Maurois suggests in his
Nanking In view of the ex piration of the insurance on the (G.S.O. 3rd grade) at the special Yellow River Bridge of the Pei- "Le request of the War Office: On Teav ing the Service in June, 1922, Col Ministry of Railways has decid- ping Hankow Railway line the Inn, and was called to the Baried to build a new bridge in the upper reaches of the River, m
Eaves became a member of Gray's
January, 1923. He came to Hong order to insure safety of travel Kong shortly afterwards, (5)
on the line Chekiar Agency.
"He was the first to feel all the constant, everyday, wealth of true emotion existing in every one of those small homeez, ali so like each ather, whose endless rows form a. great city
He was a writer with the power
to lose himself in his subject, al- beit that critics of the past have emphasised his very obvious de Lects and have frowned on the qualities which created his unpre- cedented vogue of the eighteen- forties. Indeed, critics of a gen- eration past have been increasing- ly cold to Dickens. But more than this, whether the view be taken of his literary achievement or of his literary shortcomings, #
will have to be admitted that the Dickens Dovels are
altogether out of line with what is popularly considered the prevailing erary and drama- tir conceptions of the present day. Tet the fact of a "Dickens revival" -Beems to be unmistakable.
One after another, new books on " Dickens and his works issue from the press and all appear to enjoy a wide circulation. And this plic interest and publishers
Dickens
is not the mere perfunctory stenry observance." was born in 1812 and died in 1870. If the present year is an occasion of the sort,
it only be because
**
of the publication in 1885 in the "London Morning Chronicle" of the young reporter Dickens's nearly forgotten "Sketches by Boz"
But for all that is unconvincing "and even impossible in Dickens,
most of us go back to his best || books as to a renzion with old and exceedingly interesting friends. Mother and child, mistress
· andi cook alike find their friends it that astonishing range of chara ter-delineation that calls back a calm and obstinate assertion by the people that their likings for the 'an- thor still exists, no matter what the voice of the critics.
and
How real are his fictitions per- sonalities, and that genuine effervescent nur which plays about them! Perhaps then, we turn to Dickens in relief from the "newly written fiction which,
entirely lacking in those.
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