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LET us try to polish up
the old war-word "hero" and put a fresh shine on the bloom of its patina, for one of the last acts of the late King George V was to graci- ously approve the award of the Victoria Cross to a dead hero,
The noble prose of the award stirs the blood like the sound of
we need a Victoria Cross for moral courage,
the courage to defend us from war •
by JAMES DOUGLAS
men had surrounded the for-
I know the first V.C. because he was an Ulsterman. But our Irlah heroes are not as well known as they ought to be. And who was the first V.C.?
His name was Charles David Lucas. He was born at Donegal; Co. Armagh, on February 10, 1934. The Lucas family soat was Castle Shane.
Lucas was a lad of eightcon when he won the Victoris Gross, which had been instituted by Queen Victorin, and which be came known as "the pann'orth of bronze."
E served in H.M.S. Hecla in HE
the Crimean war, the most. wanton and witless war in our annale.
The Hecla attacked the for- tress of Bomarsund, in the Gulf of Bothnia, which was armed with eighty guns. The range was 500 yards. Almost every Russian shot told.
Luchs picked up a live shell and hurled it into the sea, where it burst with a terrific roar. Queen Victoria herself gave him. the Victoria Cross. He subse-
dead can cheer in their abode ward troops, Captain Meynell line. The League of Nations the nineties. He was a fine old I met Admiral Lucas at a din- a trumpet, and if our million Frontier. The Mohmand tribes- THERE will be no bellicose quently became an admiral.
archbishops in the thin red nor of the Ulster Association In of peace and honour we may be found them in sore straits.
Union will not be there. They sca-dog, with a ragged red sure that they all lifted up their
The Mohmand warriors were will not die like Captain Meynell beard, and he was as modest as voices in praise of "the under closing in from three sides. in the war they will have evoked he was brave. I could not per- mentioned officer":
Captain Meynell had only thirty and provoked. For them the suade him to talk about his
famous feat. men, with two Lewis guns, rest will be silence. which were damaged beyond "Be brave" is the Meynell repair.
war cry. The Victoria -Cross is
it overboard."
"Sure," he said, "I only threw
The late Captain Godfrey Meynell, M.C., 5th Battalion (Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides), Indian Army, for most conspicuous gallantry and extreme devotion to duty. All his men were either killed deserve the traditional bravery courage is the sort of courage
"I am very proud," said Brig- adier-General Godfrey Meynell.
During the last stand Captain the reward of courage in every Meynell was mortally wounded. forlorn hope. Are we sure we
or wounded.
"My son's wife is very proud, THROUGHOUT
of the British soldier? Where are all the V.C.s of the great war? Some of them are out of action work. The V.C. is not a pass
I sometimes think we ought to have a moral Victoria Cross for moral courage, for moral
wo need in times of peace--the courage to defend our soldiers and sailors and our youth from unnecessary. wars
wickedly tho
too, to learn how his courage Captain Moynell endeavour- port to work. has been recognised. She and ed by all means to communicate Godfrey lost his life."
Hongkong Telegraph. her little son were in India when
TUESDAY, FEB, 4, 1930,
THE BETTING PROBLEM
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THE award was announced in
the
situation to battalion head-
hold on at all costs, and encour.
have forgotten all that "ex-
quarters, but he determined to OUR war memory is short. We aged his men to fight to the last treme devotion to duty" which
Flanders
like the Crimean war, which was caused by the cowardice of our statesmen (and crowned by their incompotence) Dgainst their own better judgment.
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It was a war entered into the London Gazette on By so doing he inflicted on saved our souls alive. There wantonly and waged without Christmas Eve, just before the the enemy very heavy casual were not enough V.C.s to go foresight, a monument of dam- King died, and it came in time ties,,which provented them from round the heroes of France and noble mismanagement redeemed and Gallipoll, the a little by the greatest heroine to comfort the war widow who exploiting their success.
heroes of the sea epic, the men of our race, Florence Nightin- was spending a sad Christmas
"The fine example Captain of the Royal Navy and the gale, with her fatherless boy, one year old, and his war-scarred Meynell set to his men," says Royal Naval Reserve, the mer grandfather in the ancient home the Gazette, "coupled with his chant seamen and the fisher- WHAT we need in this hour of determination to hold the posi- men who manned. the mine- destiny is the moral courage of the Meynells at Meynell tion to the last, maintain the sweepers, all the great unknown of this ploncer of womanhood in Langley, near Derby.
traditions of the Army and who kept our command of the Last September there was a reflect the highest credit on the sea.. its last meeting, the Legislative little war on the North-West fallen officer and his comrades."
The names of our V.C.s ought Council passed an amending
Captain Meynell was wound to be household words. How ed five times. His last words many of them do we know? were: "Be brave, we shall get help soon."
As ir England, so. in Hong- kong, the laws on gambling contain many anomalies, mainly due to the fact that certain forms of bolting are legalised and others declared illegal.
At
Ordinance directed at certain NOTES OF THE DAY
types of betting, the changes having apparently been found desirable. By, the amendment now in force, it is an offence to bot in the streets, or to conduct s club or building for the pure poses of betting. Gambling and betting as authorised by the Betting Duty Ordinance are not, however, affected. Nothing was said when the amending Bill was introduced, nor in the Objects and Reasons, to point
SIR OWEN SEAMAN
The award of the Victoria When the late Sir Owen Seaman; Cross to Captain Meynell is the the well-known editor of Punch, first since 1921, when Ishan whose death is a national loss, Singh, a sepoy, was awarded the learned that he was to be made a V.C. for bravery in Waziristan. Doctor of Laws during a visit to It is therefore the second V.C. Edinburgh, he made witty speech awarded since the greater paying a tribute to the Scottfah and the first awarded to sense of humour. "Such a choice British soldier. as he himself for the honour of Doctor of Laws," he said, "revail-
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the relief of human suffering. The women of England can save the men of England from the inferno of a wicked and wanton war which may wreck the British Empire.
VETERAN DRINKERS
I NEVER kent onybody killed wi' drinking;
though I hae kent some that dee'd in the training."
moment when our Support is lent to the ed on the part of the University peacemakers are war-mongers observation attributed to a an extremely koen sense of who are trying to drag us into humour of the situation--that
had falsely alleged the Scottish
tain Meynell's "extreme dovo-
glasses of ale.
Charles Macklin, the actor, who was born in 1690 and died in 1797, is said to have eaten when he was hungry, drunk when he
was.
thirsty, and gone to bad when; he felt inclined. His favourite be- verage was ale, porter, or white- wine thickened to the consistence of a syrup with sugar."
An extract from the Scots Maga. zine of July 1788 runs:-"Died at
the necessity or desirability of very virtue of which the ignorance war we do well to honour Cap- Highland laird by the an- the changes made. Strect bet- and jealousy of the Southerner tion to duty," for it is men like nouncement that a Hamp- Selkirk, aged one hundred and six-": ting, as it is known in England, race to be congenitally incapable him who will bear the burden shire lady of 91 attributes is, as far as we are aware, by how falsely, he could testify of "extreme devotion to duty" her longevity to three daily no means prevalent here, but thousand times over." Sir. Owen without the help of the furious
told a story of being once asked war-at-any-price bombasters. that there are numerous cluba by an interviewer if it was true [... and buildings used for the pur- that he had said that Punch got poses of gambling, whether 75 per cent of its humour from Scotsmen. He was peevish when wholly or mainly devoted there-interviewed and had dismissed his to or not, there can be no ques- interviewer curtly with the state- tion. Organised botting onment that he had said nothing of the kind. A few days afterwards Home football is also widely in he received a cutting from a Dün- dulged in locally, and it remains dee paper to the effect that "Sir to be seen whether the amond- Owen Seaman states that he never said he got 75 per cent of the ments now brought into force humour of his paper from Scots- will affect this, and also whether men. We do not know who spread certain clubs can be defined as the rumour, but for years wo gaming houses within the ex-Scotsmen have been writhing under
this persion." tonded meaning given to that
term under the changes made. that as betting in all shapes and This general question of betting forms is injurious morally, its has, we observe, been engaging complete suppression is demand- per yard the renewed attention of the ed. The moderates reply that
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authorities at Home, where a as betting is a habit common to Chief Constable has frankly humanity, it can never be to- advocated that ready-money bet tally suppressed, backing up their assertions with: a reminder ting should be legalised, the of the deplorable results that | argument being that as it can have followed all attempts to put not be suppressed, it should be down the liquor traffic by legis regulated. It is contended that lative means. Looking at the street betting should remain whole question, it must be con- illegal, in the hope that heavier at Home and here in Hongkong, ceded that the betting laws, both
penalties will eventually have are in a chaotic and absurd con- the effect of stamping it out, but dition. They come plainly that provision should be made. within the category of class for the supervision of betting legislation, legalising
forms of betting and permitting businesses, by the imposing of
others which only differ in ap- restrictions and conditions to
pearance. We shall shortly have the licences. The Home Office that fact, pointedly illustrated has, in fact, been urged to make whilst the annual Race Meeting changes along these lines, and is in progress, when, at tho the public is awaiting with deep same time, hapless coolits who interest its decision. The total happen to be caught engaging prohibitionists, of course, bring i be sent to prison for having in a mild flutter, will no doubt forward the familiar argument broken the laws.
some
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Eddio's mother writes wonderful excuses when he's late.
She used to be a teacher herself.
teen, Willam Riddel. In the early part of his life he dealt deeply in the amuggling and drinking of brandy, and was always so fond of good ale that he had boon often heard to declare he had never taken a single draught of water. He could never be called a habitual drinker, but frequently fell Into Intemperate rambles of several days continuance, and even after ho was ninety, he at one time drank a fortnight before he went to bed. Ho married his third wife when he was ninety-five, and re- tained his memory and judgment to the last. For the last two years of his life he subsisted chiefly on àle and spirits mixed with a little bread."
In the Bedfordshire churchyard of Turvey, a stone bears the curious epitaph:--
"Here lies Jim, the wandering gipsy,
Who tona sometimes sober, yet oftener Lipsy;
But with the world he seemect
to thrive,
For he lived to the age of
· hundred and five.”
A tombstone in the churchyard of Kirkcudbright, appropriately blazoned with. ram's horns and horn spoons, marks the, resting- place of Billy Marshall, King of the Galloway Tinkers, who died in 1792 at the age of one hundred and twenty Billy had boon married seventeen timia, and had been posted as an army deserter on at least seven occasions.
After exhaustivo inquiries, Sir Walter Scott, summed up his estimate of the patriarch in the suggestive sentence: It cannot bo said that this unusially long lesso. of existence was noted by any peculiar excellence of conduct; or habits of Nie”
JMOW