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(Continued from Page 5) However, in the hundreds of verses which he did write, he mentioned only the Portuguese discoveries. which showed how familiar he wAI with the Luglad.
From this time began a period of promising intellectual inter- course, the most important event of which was the translation of the Lusiad by the Scot, William Julius Mickle. He published his Arst attempts in the well-known Gentleman's Magazine. It really the joint work of a literary generation which Mickle present- ed to the British reading public. John Hoole, Boswell, Goldsmith,
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and all the outstanding celebrities of Dr. Johnson's circle, including Johnson himself. had assisted Mickle at some time or other.
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·FOOT GUARDS"
C. O'ds.—Lt. W. M. Fox is seed, for serv. on the Staff (April 26).
INFANTRY
GOOD METAL IN MODERN CHINESE
SOLDIERS
The opening of hostilities SER- inst Japan quickly changed à #13- ing that had endured in China for a good thousand years or more.
The proverb. "Men do not min good iron, to make nails or good R. Fus-Capt. E. H. L. White is sops to make soldiers” was reversed
by resta. to the estabt, (May ̧, 14); Capt. J. R. E Richardson retires on ret. pay (May 28).
Lincoln R-Lt, D. P. St. Rolasler to be Capt. (May 1).
E York R-Capt H H. Goss is. seed. for serv. on the Staff in India March 281; Capt. E. D. Mackay is restd. to the estabt. (March 28); Lt. J. A. R. Groves-Raines to be Capt (May 23).
Inniskilling Fus--Capt. "R. E Moody is seça. for serv, on the Staf (May 19).
and
Gloster R.-Lt. J. G. C. Waron is restd. to the estabt. (May 18).
D.WR-The follg. Lts. to be Capts. May 6):-R. K. Exham, R. the N. H. C. Bray under the prov. of history of Portugal were compiled Art. 118. Royal Warrant for Pay by Dr. Crowe, of Oxford, who con- and Promotion. 1931, sidered the Luslad as the "epic Border R-Sec. Lt. J. M. Fother poem of commerce" und the gill, from 4th (Cumberland Portuguese as the new ploneers of Westmorland) Ba, Border R., T.A. the mercantile spirit in modern to be Sec. Lt. (May 26). Europe. In the list of subscribers KO.YLI-Capt, W. B. 9, J. A. E. to the Arst edition, we find a wilberforce is secd. for serv. on formidable array of personalities the start May 18); Lt. D.-G. B. such CL5 William Pitt, Joseph
Ridout to be Capt (May 181. Priestley. William Lisle Bowles, not
R.U. R.The following Lts. to excepting David Hume and Gare Capts. (Jan. 31)-M. J. P. M. rick, who were at daggers drawn. Corbally, and remains secd., W. B.
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the Chinese · Government de make s.recruiting slogan and new the soldler has achieved a very
detinite place in the social rals
of the nation.
Through all the ancient litera- ture of the nation, the praises of peace have been sung.
From Confucius and Mencius
downwards, China's wise men have extrolled the scholar and the legislator at the expense of the soldier. It is true that the popular novels and plays have as their herces great military leaders of
ancient times but these are re- garded as classical literature by the scholar.
There is little or no caste system
in China, and probably no country
has less class consciousness, · but
always been looked down upon by there are a few groups which have
them is the common soldier. the rest of the nation, and among
FIFTH IN SCALE
For generations the soldier has come fifth in the scale of worthy profession--scholar, farmer, crafts- man, tradesman, and then soldier. This lowering of the status of the fighting man took much of the D. Dobbs, and remains secd.. Hmartial spinit out of the Chinese,
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causing a form of pacifism which delighted--but which was none the less to deceive the neighbour
Mickle's translation of the Luslad French and remalas secd.. "W exerted a considerable influence. Christie-Miller. Southey and Byron, both then R. Ir. Fus-Sec. Lt. W. A. L quite young, drew their impressions Michell resigns his commn. May across the water. about Portugal from it. The same 28). occurred with Sir Walter Scott. who took it as a model for his poem on the siege of Granada.
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In 1776, Mickle himself spread the rumour that the Oxtora dons were furious. with him for having dared to place Camoens on the same level as Virgil and Milton. However, the opposition shown by the professors of thut, ancleat university did not correspond to the general opinion of the public.. The reputation of the Poet be- came established through Mickie. Later, many leading critics came to admit the great intellectual value of the Lustad..
ROYAL TANK CORPS
"Only good sona can make good soldiers," runs the new alogazi throughout the country. The life
Capt. E. R. Rash, from Ind. Army, to be Capt. May 28), with senyor death of China lies in the hands Jan. 21 and precedence next below of her fighting men and the cream Capt. W, B. Blain.
of the country's virile youth is in uniform, spread in hundreds of thousands north, east and south.
The
ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
Capt. J. T. Feehally is restd. to the estabt. (May 26): 1st CL Staff Sergt. Maj. D. G. Turner to be Lt.
Qr.-Mr.) (May 10).
battle o! Pingshinkwan when thousands of Japanese bit the
the dust;
rearguards of Paoshan who died to a man, and the Doomed Battalion epic of
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
Maj. G. P. Kidd, M.C., to be Lt.-Chapel, showed the true metal of Col. (May, 26)...
China's manpower which clung to the cloak of peace till it was tom from them and 'then turned
Short Service Commission.-W. J
A. Craig. M.B., to be Lt. (on prob.Aghting men as brave as the world
+May 9).
Among the critics. Mr. Felix ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS Walter attributes the spreading of The following Sub-Condra. to be Portuguese literature in Great Lts. (Workshop Executive Of
THE ARMY DENTAL CORPS
Britain to two chance events the May 28):-C. H. Waddley. C. E. Lisbon earthquake (1755) and the Amaby. French invasions (1807-1810). He blamed the Portuguese for levelling all their praise to the Poet of the Lustad, but this statement was perhaps too, far sweeping. In ac- cusing the Portuguese of worship- ping Camoens, he forgot the world-
RICHARD BURTON
Short Service Commission-The following to be Lts. (on prob.)
May 9). F. E. Leake,
Rothwell.
MEMÜRANDA.
J. C
has ever known.-(C.I.C.).
ESTABLISHMENTS wide admiration devoted, through- Inspn. Dept.--Maj. J. G. D. Weir. out the centuries, to such figures R.A., from Asst Inapr. (Cl. CC). a Homer, Socrates, Virgil, Dante, to be Inspr. (C. Z) (Oct. 1, 1937. Erasmus, Luther. Montaigneto Jan. 1 incl.); Lt. J. H. Parsons. Shakespeare. Cervantes. Milton. R.A... to be Asst. Inspr. (C). FF: Goethe and Hugo..
May,14).
Inspn. and Experimental Staff.-- That Richard Burton, the most Capt. J. T. Feehally, R.A.S.C.. re- celebrated traveller of modern inquishes the appt. of Asst. Inspr. times, was devoted to the spirit of C15CC) (May 25). Camoens, one would have much to say. Burton left Goa' on February 20. 1847, taking as usual a patty-
LL. N. C. B. Fellows. R. Tank mar, his. mind 'vibrant with Corps. is granted the local rank of thoughts of his great hero, the Capt, while empld, with the Iraq "Portingall" Camoens. Passages Levies (April 15); Lt, (Qr.-Mr.) 8. from Camoens were frequently in 1. Rose, ER.E. List, is granted the his mouth, and tri bitterest ma- local rank of Capt. (Qr.-Mr.) while ments. in the times of profoundest holding the appt. of Camp Comdt.. dejection, he could always find re- Egypt (May 28); Sec. Lt. D. J. C. lef in the pages of him whom he Armstrong, RA, is granted the reverently called "my master." local rank of Lt. while empld, with
In 1817 Burton commenced a the Iraq-Levies (March, 4). translation of the Luslad, but it
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did not reach the press for thirty- three years. In September of that year, Burton visited' Cailcut-the city above all others associated with Camoens—and here he had
Shanghal, June 8. the pleasure of studying on the
According to Chinese reports spot the scenes connected with the momentous landing of Vasco da about one hundreq,, German war- Gama as described in the seventh plane's ordered by the Japanese to be and most famous book of the military authorities, "are
transhipped to Tsingtao to be Lustad.
assembled.
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The same report added many Gama In imagination, like da and his brave "Portingalls," he German aviators who have been greeted the Moor Monzalda, inter- in Shanghai have, gone to Japan. viewed the Samorim, and circum- Arms depots have been estab- vented the sinister designs of the shed by the Japanese at Soochow, sordid Catual, while his followers Wusth and Thing. A Japanese tramcked for strange webs and paymaster has arrived here to odoriferous gume.
arrange for the transportation of Years later, at Cairo, he gave his the arms and arnmunition,—(Inter- work the finishing touches, and on national);
his return to Trieste in May, 1880,
It was ready for the press.
The language of the people who' discovered every mile, as it were, others, the northern and central of the Western, Southern and regions of America; who created Eastern coasts of the African another empire in southern Ame- Continent; who threw open the rica the great. Brazilian Republic. maritime route to India, where whose population by far exceeds Vasco da Gama, D. Francisco de that of all the other sister repub- Almeida and Afonso de Albuquer-ica of that part of the world put que built up an amazing empire, together--that language is found which stretched from the Red Sea in the greatest oceanic, lyrical and to China, from: Japan to Austra-cosmic poem of all times lasia; who explored, before any Lusiadas.
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