WATERLOO BRIDGE FIRE PERILA
TWO BLAZING CARS MIGHT
CAUSE A GAP "
Hemarkable statements regarding Waterloo Bridge wers made by Lièut-Colonel J. Benskin,' Vice-j Chairman of the Improvements Committee of the London County Council, in a paper on "The Brid ges of London-Past, Present, and; Future," read before the Royal Society of Arts.
The paper was written before the Government had announced their decision with regard to the bridge. "I submit,' said the lecturer, "that the fears expressed by our engineers as to the dangers of fire to the propped up Waterloo Brid- ge had a definite justificatioɑA motor accident and two blazing cars might easily cause a gap and dislocation of traffe for several
weeks.
The peril of collapse is always increased by the consist chances of mishandled barge crashing into the wooden props. You will de duce that a delay in coming to a decision over Waterlos Bridge has
HONG HONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933..
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE PANCAKE
SOME ASTONISHING REVELATIONS
(BY REV. J. N. LEWIS BRYAN)
To-day in Shrove Tuesday. You will be eating a pancake or possibly more than one. Have you ever stopped" as you were steering a slab towards your face and asked yourself the question
What is the origin of this 1”....
DR. KOTEWALL'S VISIT TO MALAYA
Greetings from Chinese Friends to Sir C. Clementi
TRIBUTE TO SIR WILLIAMĄ
PEEL
POLITICAL UNREST IN JAPAN
Younger Leaders Want 'A' Coalition
A TRANS
VETERANS URGE
CENDENTARY CABINET
Tokyo, Feb. 20.-Considering that When the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote the days of the Saito Cabinet are wall, O.M.G., and Mrs. Kotwall already numbered, various diver- Look up the definition in a die, their opinion that the reason King paid a visit recently to H.E. Sir sions and excursions are increasing tionary and you will find, "A thin Alfred the Great got biffed on the Cecil Clementi, now Governor of in intensity among the major poll- cake of eggs, flour, sugar, and bean by the enraged housewife was the Straits Settlements and former- tical parties. The most note-
because it milk, fried in a paa."
was Shrove Tuesday, ly Governor of Hong Kong they worthy is a movement sponsored by You may think this is very and he had burned her pancakes took with them & latter from the the younger M.P.'s of the three prosaic, and that the only thing
Then again pancakes introduced Chinese residents of Hong Kong parties, the Seikukai, Minseito and pancakes have done has been to the Normans into England. The conveying, in affectionate terms, the Kokumin Domei, who, submerg cause indigestion, and keep the landed on Pancake Tuesday 1066, greetings to Sir Cecil. The letter ing thair individual differences, medical faculty in motor cars, but and by 12 o'clock all their arrows was signed by about 60 personal are advocating the establishment of you will change your mind when had been exhausted. William the friends of the Governor, including a Government based on pure con you learn that it has played Cong, appreciating the gravity of Sir Shou Son Chow and Sir Robert stitutionalism.
It has been disclosed that the tremendous part in history, and the situation, ordered the cooks to Ho Tung. altered the map of Europe. There dish out the pancakes from the The following is a translation of present Cabinet of Viscount Saito, commendable in many respects, is no question but, that in the company cookers and 'look slippy." the letter:
Respectful greetings!
have on occasions shown the lack light of these investigations the his- This was done, and the Saxons
"It is a long time since we bad of spontaneous unanmity in spite tection, which may be likened to matters relating to Geneva, and Cham" tree; and our thoughts Japan's withdrawal from the Lea the protection afforded by more recently on the question of often turn to you as the sunflower gue membership, and most obser turns to the sun.
vers which has solely been held to- would at last collapse. gether through external pressure
been a constant nightmare to some tory hooks will have to be rewrit-driven in utter confusion over the honour of receiving your pro- of the national crials, especially on
of us."
tuo..
COMMENCING
TO-MORROW
ton,
Senlac Hill.
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Traffic statistics, said Lieut. The panchke was instituted in
The Norman Conquest Had Begun, Colonel Benskin, pointed to the the remotest ages of antiquity. It uses were started because the In later years the "Wars of the desirable of Lambeth Bridgs, was dedicated to the God Pan and chief of the House of Lancaster which at present appeared to have named in his honour. Prof. Pulhad managed to impart an entire heen hardly justified. "But Lam- lizbagsoff of Winoonsin (Ma) hasly new aroma to his pancakes, and beth Bridge," he added, "will have translated an ancient 18 found at refused to broadcast the informs your services to the State may daily "It is our humble prayer that its day for certain."
Phillipi, which describes how at tion to his opposite number in the increase in beneficence, and that the yearly festival the cake of Pan house hold in York.
Among the Elders, the Privy your happiness may be as abundant Councillors and the House of Peers, was offered at his shrine by devot-
The poem starting Scots who as the flowers in spring-time. Cran- it has been held that a Government ed worshippers. It appears that hae" etc. when translated into ing our necks towards the steps of with the least connection with poli- Mr. G. Ward Price, Assistant the march of the priests was known English is found to be a lament your office, we tender you these tical parties. would be most suit- Editor of the Daily Mail, London, as the Pancake Talk," Maidens that the Scots had no pancakes at left for Peking by air last Satur-(somewhat scantily attired danced the Battle of Falkirk (Shrove
humble wishes.
able. They advocate the formation day. Mr. Ward Price will join the in front of the band, playing the Tuesday 1998), owing to some mis tion is characterised by benevolence, This, however, in effect, would be "Your Excellency's administra of a "Transcendentary Cabinet." Eimpress of Britain at Chinwang Hymn of Pan, beautifully orches- take by the Quartermastor. Their and great indeed are your services nothing more than the repetition trated by four cymbals, a dulci- absence on that memorable occa- to your country. When you were of the present error, if error it be. mar, a sackbut a half-but, an all-ision undoubtedly cost England the administering the Government of Such a cabinet, it has been con KING'S THEATRE, a willonka, and acquisition of Scotland.
Hong Kong, your splendid achieve tested, would, under the present of horns. Several cakes were offered, from which the the Bruce himself that in a later kindness so numeroas, that your totally
We have it on the authority of meats were so evident and your condition of Japanese politics, be god chose one. From this arose the battle on the morning of the fight praises are to this day sung by the opinion and to cope with the do- to unify public custom of calling his day Pan the gutdwives had burned the ban-peopl
mestic and international-difficul Cuke Chooseday. The ones he de necks and thus sent their menfolk clined, he hurled back at his devo-jets battle like "razin dells. The apply to you:
Aptly may the following words tios confronting the nation.
'His achievements tess, who, as they were presenting Bannocks had been burned and the extend to the frontiers; bis success therefore, are advocating a coali The younger set of politicians, what architects now call a "South Boots took a terrible revenge on and reputation fill the world." ern elevation" were caught to their the English.
tion cabinet supported by a federa- "We avail ourselves of the oppor- tion of the whole House of Repr discomfitare. Frim this springs Literature owes much to the Pantunity afforded by Dr. Kotewall's sentatives. It has been explained the old Roman Expression Recipere cake. It has now been conclusive-impending voyage to the South to that the Saito Cabinet could not be in collem ie, getting it in the neck ly proved that that John Milton send to Your Excellency this hum considered a whole-nation cabinet"
Those who were thus dealt with write "Paradise Lost" were usually crumbled
Ast message which will serve on
although it called itself one, since an, and Wednesday in Bedford Jail, be express our respectful, sentiments, it has alienated itself from the their ashes buried the following cause owing to the prevailing sincere affection, and good wishes." House, which in turn had no unity day, which gradually became known economic shortage, pancakes had
within itself. as Ash Wednesday. In the Stone been omitted from the diet sheet Age, (according to the great Polish the previous day. Things looked savant Mopitupski) the "egg of a up the following year, and he tricateritops with a permanent wrote his well known sequel "Para- aquint, whose right eye tooth was dise Regained." missing" formed an essential part, Various controversies arose from and it was not until the time of time to time. First the Citronean Artaxercca (352 B.C.) that the Controversy (1011) which was final- simple hen'e egg was used, thoughly settled at the Council of Gour- there
were still certain reserva- tions.
Dr. Sergo Trouserin found a MS. in Shusan of this period which stated that "The egg--must be laid on the eight stroke of mid-night on. the provious New Year's Eve, with the moon on the port bow, and the egg facing due West."
Tense with Thrills „and weird adventtyes. on every hand to and Beg
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Hong Kong, Feb. 10, 1933. (Signed by) Sir Shou Son Chow, Dr. S. W. Tao,
Mr. T. N. Chau, Sir Robert Ho-Tung, Mr. Liang Chiki, Mr. Li Yau Tsun, C.BE, and 55 other leading citizens and merchants of Hong Kong..
Affectionate Regard.
mets (1018 AD) when it was agreed of an interview with the Malay Dr. Kotewall siid in the course that "The bitter fruit of the citTribune that he did not know the ron should be sprinkled on the feelings of the Chinese in Singapore pancake, but the incidental pips and Malaya towards Bir Cecil, but not eaten."
It was from this momentous de-all sections of the Chinese in Hong he could say most emphatically that cision that we have the modern ex- pression "The answer is a lemon," Kong held Sir Cecil in the highest Then came the Controversy of knew him had a most affectionate esteem and regard. All those who Trocadero in 1418 AD, finally set- Another MS. found in Pisidia by tied at the Council of Lyons the regard for him.
55
Prof. Stenche of Vienna dated B.C. reveals the interesting net certain German Firms of somewhat following year. It appears that that in the Roman period: The low repute had been using pan egg (orum) was to be of single cakes at boot-leather, and flooding yoke and laid by not more than the markets with a cheap line in
one hen..
"The MS. seemed to be signed by someone bearing the initials R.L.P. which of course might mean anything.
It is however when we come to modern history that we find the most astonishing revelations.
Kotewall said that the object of Having referred to the letter which he brought to Singapore, Dr. his visit was purely to call on Sir Cecil and Lady Clementi. He was met by the A.D.C. on arrival and footwear. aroused the wrath of the Amalga was taken round Singapore, by Sir This quite naturally after ten at Government House he mated Master Bootmakers, who very right all that he saw, this being his first International Union of Cecil and was most interested in ly protested. To this Council every visit. nation sent a representative, and it
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was from this precedent that thents of Hong Kong hold Sir Cecil League of Nations in Geneva was in great regard," continued Dr. The eminent American professors established in recent years. Drs. Coppem, Skinnam, and Hoo-only difference being that the Coun- officials: Once a representative of The Kotewall, but so do the Chinese kit, have quite recently stated' cil of Lyons did settle something. the Caaton Government told me that if all the Governors and European officials in China like Sir Cecil there would never be ány trouble between the two-coun- tries, because he is sympathetic to the Chinese culture and tradition and he understands the Chinese point of view. He is sincere and the same official told me that when- ever Bir Cecil made a promise he knew that it would be fulfilled.”
Speaking of the trade conditions in Hong Kong, Dr. Kotowall said that they were fortunate in not feeling the depression until about ten months ago and it was not un- til about six months ago that the depression became really bad. He was afraid that conditions" would be even worse but he believed that when once the depths had been plumbed prosperity would be ro gained to an oven greater extent than Hong Kong had ever before experienced.
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Questioned as to the attitude of the Chinese in Hong Kong to the Manchurian and Jchol invasion, Dr. Katawell däid that there was DO anti-Japanese propaganda in Hong Tong because the people realised † the "necessity~ZOT MEINEMIMINEKE
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