THE IMMORTAL MEMORY
ROBERT BURNS THE POET-AND THE MAN.
LOCAL SCOTSMEN CELEBRATE "BURN'S NICHT":
SOME STRIKING TRIBUTES.
Local Scotsmen celebrated Burns Nicht" on Saturday` at · Mossrs. Lane Crawford's Restaurant. There was a very largo attendance, which was presided over by Mr. T. R... Show. Chieftain of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Socisty.
The toast of "The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns" was eloquently proposed by Professor R. Robertson. The tons of "The Lassics" was proposed by Dr. J. W. Anderson and Mr. W. L. Handyside replied "on behalf of the fair sox.”.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1931.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
LAST WEEK'S ACTIVITIES.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18-
Mr. Schreiber dined at Govern. mont House.
MONDAY, JANUARY 10:-
The following wore the guests at luncheon:-Mr. Kennorley Rum- ford and Dame Clara Butt, Mr. and Mrs E. J. R. Mitcimll, M. und Mrs. Butler, Captain. Baldwin.
Lady Feel attended the Halcyon Club At Home given by Mrs. H. T. Creasy.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20:-
CANTON BANDITS DEN RAIDED.
THREE OUTLAWS SHOT AND TWO CAPTURED.
Érnom our own cORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, Jan. 23. Thanks to the smart, work of the Canton detectives, another bandits! den was raided in Tai Chuo village, some 16 miles north of Canton, early yesterday morning.
PROF. ROBERTSON'S ELOQUENT SPEECH.Lady Peel, attended by His Ex-two were captured.
Three bandits, including Yang Hon, the chief, were shot and killed His Excellency the Governor and outright while trying to escape, and coliency's personal staff, watched The bodies of the three outlaws the flying practice from HM.S.and those captured were brought to Hermes. Professor Robertson, proposing Burns would not have been a true The following dined at Govern- Canton yesterday. The captured The Immortal Memory of Robert Scot if he had not been a theulement House:-Colonel and Miss bandita are being tried. and will Burns" said his unwary response gical disputer. The manner of his Cousco, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Lecky, have to face the firing squad, prob was due to the deep cunning of life was bound to bring him into Mr. and Mrs. de Martin, Mr. Meably this afternoon at sunset. Mr. Shaw in choosing to mention conflict with the Scottish Kirk as
bourne, Mr. and Mrs. Carrio, Lt.- the matter to him on the morning it then, existed. But he did not Comdr. Crockett, Bir. Moxon and aucceeding Hogmanay (laughter). war with religion or the Kirk, only Mr. Williams. That was a morning in which the with hypocrisy, and the self- strains of "Auld Lang Syne" were righteousness of the upeo' guid still ringing in a Scotsman's car, The influence of his work had done He should have boon doubly cau much to remove the hand, unbend-Government House, tions, as a year ago a collenguo at|ing rigour which was charactoria-' the University had stood there in tie of Beotland in the 18th Century THURSDAY, JANUARY, 2:— a similar capacity. It might be (Applause.) thought thero was a deep-laid achome afoot to introduce the cold and dry atmosphere of the lecture room into the mild and genial humidity of those annual gather ings. But even professors were human; and in the lilt of Burns' verse their academic trappings foll
from them.
Orities Silenced,
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WEDNESDAY, JAKUARY, 21 :—
Mr. J. J. Paterson lunched 'at
His Excellency the Governor pre- sided at the meeting of the Ex- ecutive Council. FRIDAY, JANUARY 23:-
trad really
In addition, Burns, by his work,
saved Lowland Scotch that
what little
for the homage, which Scots pay tained to day. "If it had not been
On behalf of His Excellency the to their post, I doubt if Lowland Governor, Captain T. A. H. Colt man, A.D.C., paid à call on the Scotch would have been known to
added the speaker. (Ap.U.S.9. Mindanao to express to dlay," plause.)
Mrs. Schoop and the Officera, U.S.N. River Fatrel, His Ex celleney's condolence on the death of Captain Schoop, Commander of
Concluding, the speaker said The hardened free liver will find no text in Burns to support the
We are
silonco of his conscience. not made worse by reading Burns; wo are more likely to be made bettor men, I give you the immortal memory of Robert Burns." (Loud
The Scottish people were rightly suspicious of all nendomić attempts to measure Burns the man, ` Liter- ary critics wore silenced by the sheer intensity of the human tear- porament as displayed in his works. It was the ordinary man, with all his impulags and failings | Applause.) And ambitions and self-question- ings, who could best understand Burns.
The Lassioa,''
Dr. J. W. Antlerson, proposing the toast of "The Lassics" said - Chieftain Shaw and Gentlemen, -It is my privilege to-night to propose the toast of the "Lassies" Better words of praise than mine might have been found but a re-. quest from our good friend Mr. Bryden is hard to evade and so here I stand..
A gathering such as this would perhaps have seemed strange to Burns, but he would soon have de customed hingolf to it. He would not have boon long in making him- self the leader of the assembly, in fact. He would have welcomed the haggis, no doubt, and would have hailed the Scots drink, about which he wrote in so effective `n I feel like Burns that to do 'strain that it seems churlish to rejusties to such a theme.
fuse another glass (laughter and applause). But what he would have welcomed above all would be the good fellowship that chanso terised the gathering. And he would have viewed with great quanimity the idea of a Professor proposing his health. His attitudo to education, to say the least, was ambiguous (laughter), but no doubt ho would have found an excuse
even for a Professor of Economics, subh wore the failings of human nature (more laughter).
"I wind in vain essay the
strain.
The deed too daring brave is ospecially as we have just listened to a most eloquent discourse from the lips of Prôl Robertson,
The relations of our National Bard with the Lassies were many and varied. It is customary for those who took to doory Robert Burns to point out that his private life was not all that it might have beca and that many of his love songs drew their inspiration from women of rather doubtful darao ter.
Burns, the Realist. Everything that Burns did was done intensely. And the best of what he did came white-hot from Many people cannot see the wood the fire of his exporicaoo. He was for the trees and it is by taking not a contemplative poet; no the long view that we get Burns poetry had ever smelled less of the | and his life in proper perspective, lamp. There was not in his boat As his friend and admiror Mrs. work any taint of insinoority, any Riddel said: "It is only on the infusion of the artificial ́ His | gem that we are disturbed to see franknose made his poetry his best the dust; the pebble may be soiled biography, and when he spoke of but we disregard it." himself, he spoke out. There was no self deception; he was, in truth, a realist..
"Oh, wad some power the
giftio gio us.
To bo oursels as ithers ace us."!
He did not need to address these
words to himself. Ho had no illusions about himself, and it was this characteristic that made his work appeal to all men,
I would ask you one question- Are there any of our modern gallants who can produce songs to their ladies with oven a fraction of the spontanoity of Burne 7
Are they in the habit of walk- ing ten or twenty miles at night to keep a trysti, as bo and ots eronios did f
(Laughter.)
Tribute to Woman.
What more beautiful tribute vo a beautiful woman. can we have
No, they take a car to Repulss Bay and dance to the strains of calion music to which ng better The speaker went on to trace the verse can be found than lines bo different phases in the poet's life,gioning My baby's n Wow." beginning with his gradual realian tion, in his native village, that he was a poet born to express in deathless verso the essentials of human existence. Later he was in the contact with the highest in land, in Edinburgh. But he would never have been satisfied by per manent association with literary Edinburgh of that day, So he left, returning to the land, only to find ns before that it gave a poor return for a man's labours
A Full Life.
Burns lived his life with quaty, "Life called to him," said Raleigh, "and he listened." Edinburgh chilled him, perhaps, but it could not freeze out the vitality that was in him. He died at 37, but be had crowded into that short span a full and varied life. He could be said to have thrown himself at life,
the recking nothing of Bequences.
con-
The mair they talk, I'm kont
the better, Een let them clash."..
H
Raise through the force of his Kerius Burns born and bred a peasant, BION OF INTE pormitbed to enost pastants. poster ranged over a wider fold if he had been merely a than
ploughman post. But it was true that some of his best work was thiab in which he interproted the lves and manners of the Boot tish peasantry; ;
than these lines in bis Eisgy on Miss Burnot: man
Thy form and mind, sweet maid, can I forgot In richest ore the brightest
jewol set.
In theo, High Heaven above
was truly shown As by His noblest work the
Godhead best is know.
"Whao'er ye be that women love To this be never b'ind
|
Three revolvers and several dozen rounds of ammunitions were seized during the raid,
The raid was, the result of in- formation secretly furnished to the Canton Police by a farmer, who had been victimized by the desperadors, Detectives and soldiers, 115 in num- ber, all heavily armed, went out in ter 'buses at about 3 o'clock in the morning, taking the Kwong-Poon- Fah highway. The bandits were asleep when the soldiers arrived at the villago, and they were taken completely unaware. The soldiers knocked at their doors, which were unusually strong, firing a volley of shots into the air to show the ban- dits that they meant business. The bandits, instead of complying with the order, opened Bre from the inside of the house, to which thei raiders replied. When they realized that they were trapped, they rushed out in an attempt to make their Ho has given us a inimitable escape, firing as they went. Three picture of the country losses of his bandits fell before the onslaught of day of their industry, their mis-soldiers and detectives in ambush. fortunes and their undaunted The other two realized the danger cheerfulness. They in their day had of resisting and surrendered. not the advantages of their professed that they took an
Upon trial the two bandits cou- sent-day daughter-they had "not
nctive
the Patrol.
Captain Baldwin lunched at Government House,
Wing Commander A. W. Glenny, Comdr. F. R. Baxter, Flight Liout Allinson and Mr. Baskorvyle Glegg dined at Government House
the opportunities of travel to part in the recent robbery of a broaden their minds and enrich train on the Canton-Hankow Rail their leisure-their noses were alway. They further, admitted that ways to the grindstone,
they had been guilty of all sorts of pillaging.
and expensive but nevertheless Facilities for education were faw
those women were, imbued with the native strength of character and cheerfulness in faces of difficulties which is the heritage and chame teristic of the lassies of our řáca, (Applause.)..
The Women of Edinburgh. Of the women of Edinburgh, Burns is equally descriptive and The eighteenth cen- enthusiastic, tury saw our capital city a liter ary centre of considerable import- ance and credit for its encourago. ment is due in large part to these gifted ladies in whose drawing rooms Burns was received and lonised, and whom he has immor talised in his verse,
The bandit chief carried a prize of $500 on his head, being this re- ward of the town of Chang Kong in Fabsien. for his capture, dead or alive.........
DISCOVERY OF GOLD NEAR CANTON.
ASSAY ONE OUNCE PER TON OF ORE.
f.
(FROM OUR OWN CORKKIPONDENT.]
CANTON, JAU, 95. The discovery of gold in the Motaze Mountains in the district of Teangsheng, near Canton, is at No other post has dealt with|trasting considerable attention in the Lassies so faithfully or extoll-official circles,
As he said to Clorinda:— "What is life when wanting love Night without a morning Love's the cloudless summer sua Nature gay adorning.” And again:- "Auld Nature swears tho' lovely
deara
ed their virtues in a érüer manner A party, consisting of Mr. Tang than Burns. Sentimental he may Yin Wa, Commissioner of Recon- be, but never sloppy
struction, 31r. Tai Chi Tau, Presi sident of the Examination Yuan of the Nanking Government, Mr. Kin Tsinng Ching, Commissioner of Education, Mr. Law Man Chuşa, Judge of the Provincial Supreme Court, and Mr. Heu Chung Ching, Commissioner of Civil Affairs, making a special trip to the place. The party left Canton yesterday morning in several automobiles, which were well guarded.
Her nobles work she classes, O. Her 'prentice hand she tried on
And then she made the Lassies,
0."
Gentlemon I give you the lassies, The Mothers who boro as The lassics we love...
A Man's Man,'
The pipers, led by Pips-Major Mackie, then paraded round the room, amidst great enthusiasm, after which Mr. W. L. Handyside, m a humorous speech, responded Tho on behalf of The Inseios.” speaker: donlt in amusing manner. with the poet's fondness for the fair Box But, he added, it bad dos been generally realised that the `lassies, adanirod Burns primarily because he was al mamoʼe man, which
A survey of the mine recently made, has revealed that as much as one ounce of gold could be extract- ed from each ton of ore. This is considered profitable in view of the bigh value of the metal, and pre- parations are under way to open up the mine.
RED MENACE IN KWANGTUNG.
CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA AT CANTON.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT;]
CANTON, Jan. 23. Mr. Bhon Taoi Wo, the newly- appointed President of the Contral Bank of China in Canton, will be formally inducted into office next Saturday morning, to succeed Mr. Fan Ki Mu, who resigned.
In an aterview with local Press.
Government depository is in a very men today, Mr. Shen said that the healthy condition. The amount of silver in reserve is now well over $10,000,000.
İLLEGAL PRINTING PRESS.
FINE
$1,000 IMPOSED.
native of six months' hard labour, A fine of $1,000, with the alter-
was the sentence passed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell on a Chinese who was convicted of possession of a printing press without a permit from the authorities..
Originally five men were arrested by the police at 12, Wo Hop Street, but after hearing the ovidence his Worship convicted only one mad. This man maintained that he was only an employee on the premises and did know what went on in tha basement of the house, where the printing press was found.
N.C.O. INJURED.
ARGYLL OFFICER IN MOTOR ACCIDENT.
An N.C.O. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders fractured an arm when an unpleasant motor accident occurred on the Shatin Road on Friday afternoon. Two placers of the same Regiment wore involved in the accident, but fortu nately escaped without injuries.
It is understood that Lieut. J. C. Church was driving a two-seater roadster along the Shatin Road, travelling towards Taipo at about 1.30 p.ni, on Friday. When he had reached a point obout 200 yards be yond the Shatin Railway Station, the car ran over the embankment and turned a complete somersault.
There was another officer in the seat next to the driver's, while Sergeant Anderson, the injured N.CO., was riding in the "dicky" seat. The sergeant was later sent to the Military Hospital.
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I
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(Old Boys) King's College Division
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HEALTH IN EASTERN
PORTS.
The following health bulletin of Eastern ports, for the work ended January 17, has been issued:
Plague.
Casco. Dont
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANZON, Jan. 25.. The Rola are again moancing tensity could mot but meet with the lastes
One who loved with such in-quality was an attraction to allnorthern Kwangtung. The hordes of Communists and outlaws under disappointments and rebaffe Fick.. leness the had his full share of but
Burns, the poet, rocked little of Li Ming Sui, formerly a subordinate the now soience of psychology, of General Wong Shiu Hung, but he was never bittor
which in point of fact, was ar old who was later driven out of Kwang-
We were told now si because of his professed Com as the hills. that we must suppress ourselves. munistic tendency, are overrunning Burns, on the contrary, always the small towns and villages on the sought to express himself Al-Kwangtung-Hutan border, plunder. though Burns might have been ing and pillaging as they go. Ulamed for his "varied association” with the fusion, the speaker hadcial contro on the Little North rover at any time beard of the River, is reported to have tallon
Rangoon into hair bands. inssies being blamed for their as
Bangkok It appears that this organized': sociation with him "That," said
Rabbie Burna.”
Nan forlio t'is though fickie
tho prove A workin has't' by kind”
O woman, lovely woman fair An angel form's fa'n to thy
share
Twad been o'er meiklo to gien
I mean an ángel mind;
Alexandria Baghdad Bassein gates Pnom Penh
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Cholera.
Lingehan, an important commer-
Bombay
Calcutta
30
Madras
·
Kinnge!TM through" sonthern” “Hunan That was about as Inrd as An entertaining musical pro- and northem Kwangtung to join Burns ever was on the lasson, „and pramme followed, Messrs, MacLeod the notorious Communists under after all their so-called fickleness and Anderson responding freely to Chu Tak and Mo Chak Tung
~~~~~
Emall-por.
Bombay Calentia
Cochin
Madras
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Penang
Tho gathering occluded on a nota troops to the northern border to: of sustained cordiality,
cope with the situation.
Saigon
Shanghai
is but an added charm and to himnumerous encores Mr. Grimble General Chen Tsai Tong is dis
it was but a spur to further con- quests.
(Continued on neri Volumn.)
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