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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934.
ANDREW LANG
A "WRENS"
REUNION
M.P.S MADE A NIGHT OF IT
And The House Of Stewart
(Special Air Mail Service)
Glasgow, Nov. 152, Professor J. D, Mackle. Glasgow University, delivered the eighth annual lecture under the Andrew Lang Foundation at St. Andrews University. Els subject was "An-. drew Lang and the House of *Stewart."
Humours Of A Long Session
BLIND WOMAN COMPOSER
Successes In Spite Of Handicap
(Special Al-Mail Service).
THE STEEL INDUSTRY
Scot To Take Charge
(Special Air Mail Service),
Edinburgh, Nov. 15. London, Nov. 15. 'Sir Andrew Duncan, chairman of A large audience at the Royal the Central Electricity Board, has been appointed independent chair- Academy of Music listened to the Performance of a set of planoforte man of the Iron and Steel Federa- variations composed by a yomgton. He will resign the chairman- woman student who has been blind ship of the Board,
His new post, it is believed, car- froin birth.
She is Miss May Sabeston Wal-ries a salary of £8000 a year, as insistence of the Homeer, who has revealed exceptional compared with the 10,000 he drew ability and versatility during the chairman of the Electricity Secretary (Slr John Glimour)
time she has been at the Acade- upon getting Clause 18 passed be-
my. She is a saprano of consider- fore the House rose evoked out-
able promise, and was recently spoken comments. "
awarded the Isabel Jay Memorial
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London, Nov, 15. Seventy women who had served in all ranks of the Women's Royal Naval Service met last night at
. (Special Air Mail Service) the annual dinner of their asso-
There was
talk much clation.
London, Nov. 15. about their war experiences, but as they
their also talked about
Government's determina- The present interests one gathered that tion to steamroller the Betting the resourcefulness and organising and Lotteries Bill through Par ability that made the "Wrens" so liament before the prorogatios led to an all-night Commons" sit- He said romance was the lure useful is still being turned to good
Bccount in "social" work.
Dameting, the House rising at 5.7 a.m. which first drew Lang into the Katherine Furse, their comman- yesterday. serious study of Scottish history-dant, proposed the health of the the romance particularly of the
the last days of Jacobitism and the Royal Navy, and recalled
trepidation of the "Wrens in subterranean, adventures of Prince their first association with the Charlie.
Admiralty. She declared that in her anxiety to be well up in naval terms she fell back on Kingston's gea stories and found the Boy's Own Paper" a great help. She excellent dwell on the did not work done by the "Wrens," except been to say, that she had once asked for five "Wrens" to replace seven men cooks at the Crystal which was then in the Palace. possession of the navy.
In this study if individual char- acters Lang was inevitably drawn to the picturesque and the most obscure, but his natural" wayward- ness or independence of thought led him to criticise the universally applauded and to justify the uni- versally condemned. To all his portraits, however, he gave life.
Ferhaps because he had studied the end of the house of Stewart before he studied its beginnings, Lang was always conscious of the unity of the drama, and always Inclined to see the ironies, and the forebodings.
but
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He liked the royal house far better than its enemies, as being more humane and more cultured,
be was conscious that superiority in the polite arts was not political justification, and he set himself to show that the rule of the Stewart House could be Justified by its actual achievement, So doing, he abandoned the field of romance and propounded 3 definite historical theory...
Finding an unexpected ally in John Richard Green, he pointed out the great services rendered by the early kings in crushing the turbulent barons, and, occupying a ground which he found peculiarly congenial, he showed that the later kings overthrew an intolerable tyranny of the Kirk by advancing their rival claim of a divine herr- ditary right.
Surgeon Commander "Parry Price, representing the President, the mother ship of the British navy, on whose books all the "Wrens" were entered, replied to the toast. of the Royal Navy." Miss Buck- master, who is well known to Liberals, proposed the health of the guests,
and that of absent
friends was proposed by Mrs. Denis Brown, who as a "Wren" had spent long nights decoding messages at the Admiralty. Now- adays people read her She is Helen Simpson, the nove 1st.
writings.
Their ultimate failure he attri- tuted mainly to their definite ad- herence to the Roman Church, though he also stated that it was due to the unsympathetic charac- ter of James II. He thought that in Scotland at least Constitutional Ideas were of little weight in decid- ing the issue.
· The
Mr. Herbert Wiliams, the mem- ber for Croydon, charged Sir John with bullying the House,
Sir Nairn Sandeman defended
in rather the Minister
curious fashion.
"I have known him," he said. "since be was a little boy, and he is the hardest-headed man I ever came across. I have often skinhed my knuckles on his head."
Mr. Churchill Joins In
Mr. Churchill, who is scldom seen at a Commons all-night sit- ting, joined in the fray.
The Home Secretary never at
he tempts to buy the House," said. "What he does is to Be down on top of it and crush the life out of it in the most friendly and genial manner."
The Bill came in for a good deal of abuse.
Gold Medal. She has a number of other singing achievements to her credit, and she is also an accomp lished planst,
1
Board.
The Federation includes 14 in- dustries and more than 40 associa tions. It will be 'Sir-Andrew's duty to co-ordinate the diverse inter ests of these industries," and he will play an important part in the
reorganisation of the whole indus-
try.
Sir Andrew is a director of the Bank of England.
She has obtained the highest awards offered by the academy for singing (distinction). pianoforte,
He was born at Irvine 50 years Harmony and aural training, in addition to various gold medals and 480, graduated at Glasgow Univer- exhibitions. And she is not yet, 25.sity, and was admitted a barrister
at Grays Inn in 1920.
During recent years, however, she has devoted herself more and more to composition, and has Just veen awarded the Josephine Troup composition scholarship, of the Academy after submitting a group of works including a violin sonata, a soprano song with orchestral ac- companiment and the pianoforte variations.
Lady Astor Spellbound
Later, when Mr. Churchill de- than Ilvered a speech of more ́half an hour's duration, he said. not wearying
it he hoped he was
the
Sir William Davison styled andigested and undigestible." Mr. Jack Jones 'convulsed House by ejaculating, apropos of nothing in particular-"No won der we lost the war."
A good deal of time was wasted over a Government amendment to strike aut the word calendar" from the phrase "calendar year."
the House.
"Oh, ne." laughed Lady Astor, "we're spellbound."
"I am so glad to see the noble lady back again refreshed," said Mr. Churchill,
Wase Coal Controller Formerly he was secretary and vice-president of the 'Shipbuilding Employers' Federation. From 1919 to 1920 he was Coal Controller.
He has served on many Advisory Committees, including the Econo-
· mic Advisory Council.
RELATIVE IMPROVEMENT IN THE INDUSTRY
HELP FOR FARM PACIFIC AIR-MAIL
SETTLEMENTS
Lord Nuffield's Gift For Unemployed
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London, Nov. 15.
A donation of £30,000 by Lord Nuffeld, President of the League of Industry, to the Upholland scheme for the unemployed, has been an- aounced.
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The scheme was started at farm of seven acres near Wigan last March with the intention of Improving conditions of the un- employed by providing work which
would supplemen: unemployment allowances
SERVICES
U.S.A. And Japan In Development Race
Washington, Now 26. Congressional appropriations to finance an air-mail service be-. and tween the United States China is practically assured it was learned to-day.
Congress authoritative sources said, will be willing to grant funds to conduct the service as soon as the Pan-American Airways can demonstrate the feasibility of an air route from the west coast of the United States to China, by way
of Honolulu and Manila.
Some quarters belleved that an nir development race is about to between Japanese and
with the
Men and Women in the settle-occur ment follow their own trades as American Interests far as possible and also grow vege- governments of each country play- tables and fruit and rear cattle, ing important roles in the back-
ground.
pigs, and poultry. They make their own clothes, and all that is pro- duced is shured among the "mem- bers on the basis of the number of hours, they have worked.
Japan plans to spin a web of air-lines, throughout the Far East. touching all of the important Japanese mandated islands in the south Pacific, according to word
Settlements are to be started in depressd areas with a view to deal-received here. ing with a section of the "unem-
ployables" who, owing to changes in industry, cannot hope to benefit by improved trade conditions.
Lord Nuffield's donation will pro- vide accomodation for 1,250 people.
A
Deeper significance was attached to the establishment of these new air-lines by both countries. Whe all plans are ostensibly civilian commercial enterprises, military and naval officers of both Japan. and the United States are known -to have the greatest interest in their establishment and successful maintenance.
It was recalled here that Japan has
constructed sekplane and
the aeroplane bases
Bonin Islands and the aeroplane route
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substantially follows Japan's purg ported submarine routes-which are designed to intersect "United States communications lines be- tween the United States, the Philippine Islands, and China.
regarding shipbuilding steel prices In connexion with the prospects of the industry, it was reported that there was undoubtedly a little improvement compared with year ago, but that the improve-between Japan and the islands ment was only a relative one on a position of terrible depression. Before the recent infiow or orders (Special Air Mail Service)"
for Admiralty work and mercantile Edinburgh, Nov. 15. work on a small scale only 5 per The Central Board of the Ship-cent. of the berths had been occu- building Employers" Federation pled. About the middle of this held their annual meeting in year the increased volume of work Edinburgh to-day, when the post- brought the berths occupied up to tion of the industry was discussed 30 per cent, but lately there, had in relation to the shipping policy been a steady reduction as work was finished and no new orders were booked, so that to-day there were less than 25-per
cent. of the berths occupied.
of the Government... Lady Astor had been in and Among other matters referred to Qui;of the Chamber, at intervals | were the co-operative arrange all night
ments with the British steelmakers
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