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STAMPING ON THE 'REDS."
·TRADE UNION POWER BROKEN,
FORMER MAYOR'S ALLEGED DEFALCATIONS.
[ram OUR CHINEAR CORRESPONDENT.]
Outwardly Captop enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous new yent, Ca popular Chinese writer zemarking lunocently that he had never wen so many people buying flowers for decoratua. Pr mary beautifully dressed women and children. If he had looked rather harder he might also have seen an, usually large. number of armed patrols, especially" on Sunday night, but these were not abtrusive rough to suggest that a severe trial of strength,between the Government al the Communist- was in progress, Fortunately for Canton General Li Tsui Hsin has the quality of alertness and a drastic curb out was made in the Lung An Tung suburb. Arus, am munition, omniünist badges and seditious literature were found in plenty and forty-four arrests were made, and follwed by as IBANN summary Verutions. These were carried out quietly and extedi- tiously, and while the general po Pulare hardly knew what was going ***N****
The plot was suppressed. The Government have refused the ase if (several leading poni sistance verts from the Red cause and thes are now on their way to Europe the sal" political to carry on studies.
The Government is pushing w vigorously with its anti-Tande nion policy and the recent plots have had the contrary effect to what the exported. Besides conspirators
calling down the heavy vengeance į of the Government public anion is still farther alienated. Printers, restaurant inen and shop fokir a particularly suffering from the folly of allowing Red “political adven- tarers to exploit them and they are now virtually without organisations to lock after their respective in- terests.
A general warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr. Kan Nei Kuang, former acting Mayor of Canton for the alleged embezzle. ment of $160.com during his three days administration of the office.
More than 1,500 recruits from Wachow Have been made into 'r regiment and stationed ut Sheklung. a town on the East River sector along the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1928.
"BURNS NICHT" IN HONG KONG."
ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY'S ANNUAL COMMEMORATION
DINNER.
SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY FUNCTION,
ELOQUENCE AND GOOD CHEER.
"Royal Bard of Seotia and mankind,
Our thoughts to-night again are wafted to thy shrine Beyond the sens, from whence your visions and poetic gems Endeared us to thy name and made us ever thine, Revealing you as seer and spokesman of the human race. Though you had left this sphere long 'ere you had found your places But still your light.undimine d' does shine,
Enfolding with the years more brilliant light: Rays that illumine the best of human hearts Now with us in our mit to-night..
Sacred and ever dear while life itself shall last,
-HEW MACLAINE.
The annual Burns Nicht anniversary dinner, in comme moration of the birth of Robert Burns, was held yesterday evening at the Volunteer Headquarters, and as usual proved a most successful and happy function. As in previous years, the dinner "was held under the auspices of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's So
riety, but was open to all Scotsmen to attend.
The drill hall, in which the dinner was served, presented a transformed appearance when the company were piped into dinner, National colours drapell the walls with the blue and white of St. Andrew predominant throughout the colour scheme.. Behind the official table was a picturesque arch of greenery set with lights. On the official table were sprays of heather and spanning the hall were other arches of greenery, with some of the lights encased in St. a platform Andrew's colours. At the far end of the, ball was enclosed, with Rags and bunting, and in the midst of the Scottish Arms, the "Lion Rampant" was the portrait of "Bobbie Burns."- To Mr. George Duncan, 0.B.B., and his assistants was due the credit of this most effective sche:ne of decoration.
There were between 0 and 100 present, the majority being tribers of St. Andrew's Society. The Chieftain of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society (Mr. D. Templeton) presided, and among those at the official table were Mr. B. G. Shewas, Mr. W. Kay! Professor RK. 31. Simpson, the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, Mr, J. Jack, Mr. G. Duncan, 0.B.E., Mr G. M. Shaw, Mr. J. W., C. Bonnar. Mr. A. K. Henderson, Mr. G. Grimble, Mr. K. E. Greig, Mr. D. Gow, Mr. A. Stevenson, Dr. Morrison, and Mr. P. Tod.
The company were piped in to dinner by Pipers Nisbet and Brown. At a later stage in the proceedings the Haggis, triumphant.. by borne by Mr. A. Mcleod, and the Barley Bree carried by Mr. B. Wylie were piped in by Piper Nisbet. Grace was said by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, who has performed this office for many year on similar occasions, -.
The dinner was entered for by ¦ But we are not lacking in other the Hong Kong Hotel, and the ser vive was all that could be desired.,
Chinese newspapers in Canton and Hong Kong will resume publica-" tions on the sixth day after New Year, but a number of well-known publications will not appear under their original name. Some of their W,
during the men joined the Reds upheaval and they have been under suspicion ever since.
The Municipal Department of Public Charity in Canton was closed! before Chinese New Year Eve.
TH
A vernacular press review truia conditions in Canton last ver predicts that less than 15 of the bond. ing firms in the Rire Guild will be able to resume trade this year with a clear account. The Guild had a membership of about 100 important firms.
INTRIGUE.
The usual web of intrigue and counter-intrigue ia being asiduously spun by the disinted portions of the Kuomintang.
The Bill o' Faze..
Ellisland Broth. Nithside Salmon Steak. Mauchline Chicken, Haggia. Warm-Reekin-Rich Ah Haggis (Suddenly)" Eh,
I'll be bad the morn." Ayrshire Roast Beef. Cottar's Greens and Potatoeя.
Greenock Dumplings.. Edinburgh Dessert. Coffee.
The Barley Bree!" mrery sangs an friendly cracks,
I wat we will na weary.
Wha
testimonials, for Dr. Johnson when he got off his celebrated gibe about Cats for horses and mach was silent when asked where he said and Aner men than those brought up an oatmeal and the Englishnian who said that we kept the Sabbath and everything else we could lay our hands on was dumbfounded when the reply came that, the only thing his country ever lets drop was the letter H-fapplause)-but we should be very careful in making. these comparisons, and bear in mind the fate of the Colonist who,
and here Swinburne:-
2
Above the storms of praise and
blame
That blur with mist his lustrous
name
His thunderous la ei went and
саме
And lives and dies The road that follows on the fame
When Lightning dies.
LOCAL WEDDING.
STEWART-LANDER.
INTERESTING CEREMONY AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
There was a wedding of consider- able loent interest at St. John's Cathedral yesterday afternoon, and Then 'too there is a fine tribute from it was attended by a very large America by Lowell for Burns Cen-assembly of friends of both bride tenary, which deserves to be better known than it is,
For me to attempt to add to the burning words of these two poets wald in the words of Shakespeare be wasteful and ridiculous exegas. But I will venture one remark. There are some who seem to think that the Scottish poets must be inferior to the English poets. Well let us see. We will take Gray, a highly cultured man and a fair re- presentative of English poetry: Let us see how he and Barns describe the dying day.
and bridegroom, who are both well known in Hong Kong, and very 12 Church poputur, especially circles.
The bride wa Miss Dorothy Sarah Laser, daughter of the Right Rev. G. H. Lander, D.D.. formerly Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, and now Suffragan. Bishop For one months of St. Alban's she has been on the nursing staff of the Matilda Hospital.
The bridegroom was Mr. Evan Paul's George Stewart, of St. College Stewart.
where his brother, the Sub- Rev.
Gray's line the Curfew tolls the knell of pasting day is fine, Warden
The bride. who entered the but does it come up to the quiet. beauty and simplicity of The Cathedral on the arm of the Rev. Wintry Sun the Dag has closed "1 A. D. Stewart, by whom she was I do not think so. It is the differ-siven away, wore a dress of white enee between the two men. One is grorgette And Lace, with veil of Irish lace. She carried bouquet ornate and artificial, the other is
of white sweet peas and maiden- simple and natural. There is, too,
hair ferm. the difference in the setting. was thinking of the rich soil and the fat beeves of the South, the other of the bitter biting North and its wind-swept folds. (Applause.)"
Love For His Tallow-Man,
one..
It is not only as a great poet that we rejoice in Burns, we love hin even more: because he was a man with large hearted love for his fellow ruan. Some, perhaps, who are not great-minded, may murmur "und, fellow women, but much is forgiven to those who love much, and if ever there were a man who loved his fellow-man, it was the m we hold in our hearts to-night. Like Abou Ben Adhens, he would not be a Hely Willie and boast of his love of God, but like modest old Abou, he would ask to be written down as one that loved his fellow men, and like him would find his name "lead all the rest Ha'not only loved them but he sang to them, and to us who come siter, of the glorious privilege of being independent and taught us that an honest man's the noblest work of God and the Peer of any belted Knight or noble Lord. (Applause.)
As Tennyson says Burns is a Poet "for all time, but beyond that he was heart took in all sorts and cenii most lovable loving man whose tions of men and drew no line at the publicans and sinners.
It
was not John Barleycorn but
their Sociability and Conviviality, the own kind in fact that love of kept Burns and Souter Jamie nad the ethers at Tam O'Shanter's and Poosie Naasio's when they ought all His beds. to have been in their hears had room for all God's crea tures and things, down to the poor field-mouse and the modest crimson- tippit Daisy, and nothing he wrote is. I think, more exquisite than his lines to those two lowly objects, From the highest to the lowest all were his brithers.
She was attended by Miss Kath- leen Ann Hewitt, who wore a dress of white net and a Dutch bonnet. There were also in attetidance, on the bride, two pages, Master Hugh Featherstone and Master James Stewart. The pages wore white sailor suits.
The duties of "best man" were carried out by the Rev. N. V. Hal- ward, and the Rev. W. T. Feather- stone (formerly dunestic Chaplain to Bishop Lancer) and the Rev, E. W... Mattin officiated at the Cathedra
During the service, the hymns Thine for Ever" and "O Perfect Lovs
were sung.
Mr. F. Mason (the Cathedral Organist) who was at the organ, played appropriats wedding music, and as the bride and bridegroom left the Cathedral, he played Mendelssoha's Wedding March
Outside the Cathedral, photo graphs were taken, and a peal of bells were rup
A reception was niterwards held at St. Paul's College. Hotel, and later M. and Mrs. Stewart left for their honeymoon, which is being and also at. spent at Taip, Repulse
The bride's going away costume was a three-piece suit of beige frisen and crepe-de-chine
It is interesting to note that the Rev. A. D. Stewart's wife was sister of the bride of yesterday. formerly Miss Lander, and is a an instance of two brothers marry-
ng two sisters,
one I refer to ia burned even deeper in the memory of every Scottish fad from childhood, and wherever he may be his heart will beat and his breast will swell, at the first sound of these noble old words. Need 1 tell you gentleman what that song is I think probably you have guessed it. I am sure Mr. It is the 23rd) Maconachie knews it. Psalm
"Ghosts."!
A pickle atoor, baith heat and were sent out by good Judges." with sharpened sly inspection," but tlemen, the spirits of the past are
hild, This bunnur year! Deil blast the loons! but they
lee'd
For Robin's here."
Just one more word, there are ghosts in this room to-night, Gen- with us here to-night and when you Memory of our beloved Poet, our own Rautin Boring Robin enst drink in silence to the Immortal
your thought back to the men who have gone before you.
But with all his affection for his brither-man, he was not blind to faults, and when necessary he nys that Bubbie Burns is boasting how well his country could scourge hypocrites and Holy deid!
men had dong in the war, was told Willies with words of everlasting Anrestora scorn and contempt. He might as Naturally for your Wha says he lies below the werd,
he says Keek thro' other men (Laughter.) And now the latest I fear the glass in his hand often faults were those of all such warm hae tribute to our merits comes from interfered with his judgment. His America where it seems that no and generous natures, and he was Bank Director will engage a man- ever on the side of the poor op "But how the subject theme anyager for his business who is not a pressed honest man and swift to
Scotsman. And if this is not enough present injustice or arrogance.
Post And Singer. would remind you that a great modern painter, a great modern As a Poet, as a Singer, it needs poet and our present Prime Minister more eloquence than I possess to are all direct descendants of George do him justice. In Humour and Macdonald, a true Scots Preacher, Pathus he holds his own with the Poet and Mystic. I merely men best. What can be finer than the very tion this in passing as we are Humour of The Jolly Beam speakers.
-
Kang
The Toasts.
Let time and chance determine; Perhaps it may turn out a sank. Perhaps turn out a sermon."
The first toast was "The King." submitted by Mr. Templeton and duly homoared.
ደዒ modest people and "too much The Holy Fair or Kiven to hiding
light. our
O'Shanter," and as to Pathes what the heartbreak af "Ae was a true lond
Te Phineas Ryrie, the founder of this Society, and truly the King amang usa, his fine figure, res- plendent in his Tartan from far away Skye.
To Scott of Taikoo, a man entirely after my own heart and his and my friend Fullaiton Henderson, the wittiest and most attractive" of"
To Beancake Billy great Mer- chant Prince, and to James the
(Laughter.) But all the same wha cane" that alone, not to men- Polite, who was indeed always the
"THE IMMORTAL MEMORY." is Uke us! That Burrs - tion "Ye Hanks and Braes" and Pink of Politeness, and a fine maa
-Poet we have the witness
son who declared there never was Mary Morrison and what a
to hard. The OUR HERO'S HEART RULED immortal Poet if Burns be not une, world of sorrow refusing to be com
Chiang Kai Sheke is still busily engaged in building up'n party and in doing so be has to vary the metaphor irons in every fre. He is doing his best to persunde Generals Li Tsai Hain and Li Chung Jen not to press Chung Fat Fui and his Ironsides. latter are said to be getting de- cidedly rusty and Chiang wants to save them for a renewed Northern expedition possibly he is getting afraid of the growing power of Feng Yu Hsiang.
HIS HEAD."
The Immortal Memory of Róbert Burns" was proposed by Mr. R. G. Shewan, a Past President of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society,
Mr. Shewan in submitting. this silent toast, anid:-Chieftain and Gentlemen,-We are met to-night to The Reds." exasperated by celebrate the birthday of a great their bad defeat in Canton are assiduously proclaiming that Swatown whom we are proad to claim as our Countryman, a man who had
The situation in Hunan is obscure. and there are rumours that the pro- Kwafigsi forces have been beaten at Ring Kiang and Fochow,
OFF TO EUROPE.
to
has fallen and that. Chen Ming Shu."misfortunes great and amá, but are. its defender has been wounded and
a heart abune them a'." As the spac bis Fukien troops beaten.
wife on that 25th January, 1759, foretold, in very plain language, he certainly had a weakness for the lasses, but he was not the only one, for, as he points out himself the With regard to our Chinese cor-wisest man the world ever saw respondent's remarks about several shared that weakness with him, so extremists. being their way in face of that we humbler mortals Europe the Web Krung Po states: mast keep silence and leave these Dr. C. C. Wh. Sun Fo, Hu Han greater men to their bonnes fortunes Min, Wu Teh Ching (cx-Superin or misfortunes with the other sex. tendent of Police at Canton), and With men or women, our hero's heart Fu Ping Sheung Clate of the Canton always ruled his head, and well he Customs and Commissioner of knew it, for while he gives excellent Foreign Affairs) boarded, the advice to a young friend, he ends up by hoping that he may bettor -President Wilen at Shanghni vee-
terday (January 25th). Wu Teh reck the rede than ever did the Ching is reported to be going back adviser Wei Scots are often told Canton, while the others are that we have a good conceit of our touring Europe and America vid selves, Well why shouldn't we? A Hong Kong, Singapore, India and country that could produce two such Turkey. They are expected back extremes as Robert Burns and John Knox may well be proud of itself. in China in six months time.
to
and also of Swinburne and Watson, forted is there in the three simple two Masters of Melody, who have
words My Nannie's awa.' sung of Burns in lines which stir the blood of every Scotsman. Doubtless you know them, but may repeat a few verses if only to shew how two such masters of words can turn them into music to do honour to a rival in their own Art.
This is what Watson sys;-
He came when Poets had forgot How rich and strange the human
fat;
How warm the tints of life; how
hot
Are Love and Hate, And what makes truth divine, and
what
Makes Manhood great.
For mid an age of dust and dearth Once more had bloomed immortal
worth
There is the strong splenetic
North
The Spring began..
A mighty mother had brought
forth
A mighty man.
He erred, he sinned, and if there
be
Who, from his hapless frailties
free,
Rich in the poorer virtues, see"
His faults alone--
To such, O Lord of Charity, Be mercy shown!
for all that.
and
To David Gillies, who made the Dock and to his Crony o Mine, Murray Bain of the China Mail.
Time fails me to tell of Gedeon I do not forget the great maraes in Literature when I say that to us and Barnk, that is to any of Sandy Scots Burns is "abuse them a," his fiordon and David, Wood, or Sandy songs will live for ever and be sung. Thomson, said to be the finest in- as Auld Lang Syne is sung now intellect that ever came to China, of Bob Lyall a great ladies' man every corner of the world by all kinds and races of men. But no on the night of the Ball, of Geordir prophet is honoured in his own Aitken, who lived in mortal terror country and Burns and a far greater of Muster Gillies, expecially when than Robert Burns were made to Muster Gillies pulled off his hat feel how ungrateful this world-ean and threw it on the ground and he to its greatest souls. Burns sang stamped on it, and of Fraser-Smith, his whole soul out to the world who created the Hong Kong Tele and we know what he got in return. graph, edited it in jail, And now, Gentlemen. I have kept addressed letters to the public from tryste with the Chiefain who com- The Prisoner Behind the Bars, last, manded me to be here to-night but not least, the great Sir Patrick for Scottish Chiefs do not ask, they Manson and Jeems Cantlie. command saying to this man go he goeth and so I will not detain The old lady rou much loagez. complained that Hamlet was no thing but quotations, so I have done my best to avoid that fault
As for me, my time here is get- and not carry coals to Newenstle
the won moon is set
and by quoting Burns to you. Hui heting short never written anything more than ing beyond the white wave
Tam
O Shanter" and Auid time is setting with me," but if it he would Lang Syne."
have 1 never see you here again. been immortal, for it is matchless, matters not, for we shall all meet although there is a song that is some day in the Land e' the Leal.
doar
LS to
than
Gentlemen, raise your glasses in even "Auld Lang Syne." The two silence, please. I give you the found the" Immortal Memory of Robert gone songs have world together and into many Burns," God bless him. (Loud ap- strange ports and places, but the plause.)
(Continued on next Column.)
more
and
Gentlemen, all these men, these ghosts have passed the Lamp on to you, see that you keep the pure Flame of Love of our Country, old ever Caledonia stern and wild, burning High-and-Clear
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