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BURNS NIGHT
DINNER
(Continued from Pare 1)
Your Excellency, this large and distinguished gathering is but a modest tribute to the estrem and popularity you have attained in your short stay in the Colony. You have endeared yourself to 'all, and last Tuesday Hong Kong fearned with dismay of your trans- fer and nothing but expressions of regret were heard on every side that we were to lose you so soon. Whilst we heartily congratulate you on your promotion, the Colony deeply regrets your removal and will be the poorer by your depar- ture, Our best wishes will go with you in your new sphere of labour and I'm sure you will be as success- ful in Ceylon as you have been here:
On behalf of the Society I wish to thank you for your presence here this evening. I know you will have something to say of particu- lar interest to all of us regard- ing our National Bard.
And now gentlemen, I shall not; detain you
any longer but pray silence for His Excellency Bir An- drew Caldecott for the Toast of the Evening. "The Immortal Memory." Gentlemen, Sir: Andrew Caldecott.
"PERIPATETIC UNION JACK" Replying to Mr. McLay, HE. Sir Andrew Caldecott, in the course of his address said:-
I am wondering to what possible qualification I από the high honour of proposing the toast of the Immortal Memory of the poet Burns this evening. Perhaps. however, I am right in attributing my selection to the fact that an- cestry has produced in my single person a representative gathering of British nationalities. My ma- ternal great-grandmother was a pure-Scotswoman, an Ogilvie; my paternal grandmother was Irish: and my English forebears lived for a considerable period of their his- tory in Wales. I am therefore a sort of peripatetic Union Jack and I am proud of, and grateful" for my miscellaneous extraction. Grate- ful, because I feel that I have in- herited from the Irish strain certain equability of temperament and clarity of thought, from the Englan a characteristic lack of reserve or insularity, and from the Scots a happy carelessness about domestic money matters. I hope, gentlemen, that you not deem me either vain or irrelevant in claim- Ing for myself this trinity of national virtues: I am merely try- ing to justify, as best I can, your Chieftain's selection of me 3.5 $ speaker this evening.
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I have been recently asking my self, why it is that all of us respond with alacrity and
spon- taneity to the idea of a Burns night dinner. The Scotsman will, of course, answer at once that it is because Burns for him spells, or rather sings, his native Scotland and that after all it is free food for the Sassenach. I believe in- deed that the English, if ever they could be persuaded to subscribe to a poet daner in memory of (they would of course infinitely prefer cricketer) would choose for this honour not Shakespeare, certainly not Milton, more cer- tainly not Wordsworth, most cer- tainly not Browning, nor Shelley, nor' Keats, nor Byron, nor Tenny-
but-Burns The son,
cynics among you will of course say that the reason for this would be two- fold; first that Englishmen never read Burns and, second, that Burns wasn't an Englishman. That, I concede, would be partially right and yet not, I submit, totally right Because I can quite well Imagine that, if the Bt. George's Boclety "ever organized such function, Englishmen would gladly subscribe a dinner given in the linmense memory of Dr. Johnson, a memory which, incidentally, Englishmen owe almost entirely to the Scotsman Boswell
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The above photograph was taken at Kwanti when the January.. Meeting was held. It gives a good idea of the crowd at the rails In the members' enclosure.
“HOOLIGANS” OF RAILWAY ·
GLASGOW
(Continged from Paro 1,}
Ballle John Warren, who heard Lord Aitchison's remarks, said: "There is only one way to deal with such hooligans-the 'cat.'
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"Men who jab each other in the face
with broken ..bottles cleave each other's heads with hatchets are beasts."
then
KILLED FELLOW GANGSTER The
sentenced by Lord Aitchison were Richard McGuin- ness (ten years' penal servitude). Daniel McGuinness (seven years), Robert Longmuir (four years), and James Farrell (three years), all members of a gang known as the "Savoy Arcadiaria" and sald to have attacked George Stankovitch, a fellow gungster, with a bottle, a poker, and a knife, so ferociously that he died.
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Train Fire Sequel
Three oficials of the Ministry of Railway, Nanking, were among the passengers who disembarked at Hong Kong yesterday by the 4.8. "Jean Laborde" on its arrival from the North. They were Dr. Fung Tin-tung (Chief of the Manage- ment Department), M. Cantre adviser to the "Ministry) and Mr. Chan Tas (engineer),
They were met at the wharf by Major R. D. Walker, M.C., Manager and Engineer of the Kowloon Can- ton Railway, and were entertain- Lord Aitchison told them, ed by the latter in his office until "People who use knives, pokers, the time of departure of their train and batchets, towards a fellow to Canton. There they, will im- citizen are not entitled to be heard imediately to say that they did not mean to kiu.
"Had it not been that there was provocation you would have been under sentence of death for mur- der."
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ลท enquiry
into the cause of the recent out- break of fire on the Kowloon-Can- ton expresa, which took toll of nearly 80 lives. «
The party will remain in Can- ton for four or five days during which time they will also endea- vour to improve the system of the
ne under their control.
They will return to the North the Canton-Hankow railway
into go simply
either language: there is no adjustable padding to them; If you add an extra adjective to a Burns lyric or by if you omit one, the result is the same: you smashr or spoil the whole thing.
I wish that you could have seen my caddie's face yesterday at Fanling when I addressed him as a "wee, sleekit, tim'rous, cowering beastle'! Unfortunately he wasn't In the least sleekit, and very in- aufficiently tim'rous. And I must WAJ now further confess that it not until I was asked to propose this
toast that I clothed my skeleton knowledge of the poet's career with some adipose tissue from the Encyclopaedia Britan-. enjoyed nica; "and I have much
the realization of my anticipation that I should not be too greatly Nevertheless the human edified. that emerges from that condensed blography is the same human who sings to me from the lyrics: Burns was not a great man, but he was a man for a' that and great poet
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Sir Stephen Tallents, Control- ler of Public Relations to the B.B.C., and Mr. A. P. Ryan, As- sistant Controller of Public Re- lations, listened to the debate from a gallery,
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THE IMMORTAL MEMORY And now, ere we lift our glassesed to this toast, I want us all to imagine that he is coming to sit and enjoy himself with us to- night; that he will come to us, not from a carousal or a courting, but fresh from a walk on the slopes of Tai Mo Shan, where he will have been wistfully reminded of his own native hills.
In concluding, His Excellency proposed the toast to "The im- mortal memory of Robert Burns."
THE HAGGIS
Scottish chivalry featured the toast to "The Ladies," to which Mr. J. F. Leys, replied suitably.
The haggis was piped in by Pipe- Major W. C. K. Mackle who followed by Mr. E C. Watson, carrying Scotland's national dish The Barley Bree was carried, in, at the conclusion of the dinner; by Messrs. T. P. Baunderson and D. L. Prophet.
Entertainment was provided by Mr. RA. N. Keown, BolDist accom- planted by Mr. Lindsay Lafford on the piano. Ark
THE PERFECT GUEST' I am convinced that if it were within our power, sitting round these tables to-night, to conjure up from the grave some great figure in British literature to join us, it would be either Robert Burns or Samuel Johnson. Now this criterion of a perfect. dinner guest is a crucial and acid test; it rules
OFFICIAL GUESTS out at once anybody who had
Among the official guests were:- artificiality, or inesse or any un- due refinament about him,
HLE the Coverrot, Bir Andrew should want for a companion a Caldecott; ELE the General Officer plain, flesh and blood, weak, Commanding, Major-General A W. Bartholomew; Mr. R. M McLay strong, kind, cruel, good, bad, happy, sad human. And this is. T Chieftain of St Andrew's Society think, the secret of Burns' appeal Bir Atholl MacGregor; Hon Mr. N. to all people that on earth do L. Smith; Mr. Charles L."Hoover, dwell as distinct from his special Consul-General for the United racial appeal to Scotsmen. He is States; Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden; if my memory, serves me, about Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor: COL H C the only poet whose lyrics I have Harrison; Lieut-Col J. Muirhead; not been forced to dishonour, at Dr. G. DR. Black; Mr. M. J. Uppingham or at Oxford, by un- Abbott, Mr. M. T. Johnson, Mr. V. worthy translation into Greek or Latin verse. That is because they
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