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1937
"ST. GEORGE for Eng-
land!" This was the inspiring signal made by Sir Roger Keyes to his flotilla on the occasion of that historic Zeebrugge engagement in
Vauxhalls 1918, the anniversary of
which we celebrate to-day-
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It was a signal given with that happy instinct for the perfectly apposite phrase which has charac- terised so many of our English admirals throughout our glorious annals of sea supremacy.
After many irritating delays, Sir Roger was at last committing to his men the hazard of the operation which demonstrated so effectively that the British Navy had lost none of the fighting spirit of the wars of the eighteenth century,
In invoking St. George he was
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mortalised by Shakespeare in "King Henry V." when he makes the King, at the moment of Phone 27778/9, launching his campaign for the recovery of his rights in France, give as his battle-cry: "God for Harry! England! and St. George!" and in "King Henry VI.," where he makes Talbot, the doughty leader of the troops of the young King, declaim:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Mr. A. P. Greaves and family wish to thank all friends and relations for their kind expressions of sympathy in their recent 830 bereavement, and for the many floral tributes sent and atten- -dance at the funeral.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1037.
"God and St. George, Talbot
and England's_right Prosper our colours in this
dangerous fight."
It is hardly sufficiently known that St. George was no mythical figure, but a great Roman general in the time of the Emperor Diocletian.
Born in the third century A.D.
in Palestine. of Greek parents
ENGLAND!
By Admiral
Sir Sydney Fremantle,
G.C.B., M.V.O.,
Deputy Chairman Of The Royal Society Of St. George
who had become Christians, he MEMBERS of the Order of
Crusaders entering St. Paul's Cathedral for last year's scrvice .
in honour of St. George.
Venice one of the most beautiful race, to keep warm the spirit of chapels in the world.
patriotism, and to remind us of Here in England he is com- our patriotic duties.
T
SAILORS' PETS
HREE monkeys, two gazelles, a white terrier, her five mongrel puppies, two cats, a guinea-fowl, a parrot and a billy-goat made the most varied collection of pets. I have ever seen on a ship at the same time; and the goat was the favourite with the crew. The reason for this popularity was not his ap- pearance, which was far from prepossessing, but his ability to consume, without apparent ill effects, anything he could masticate.
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Scraps of paper, discarded wads of cotton waste on which the engineers had been wiping their grimy hands, and vegetable refuse of all descriptions he de- voured with equal relish, In- deed, our daily entertainment was to watch the cook, seated on an empty box, preparing potatoes for the pot, while, on his knees with his head between the cook's legs, the goat gobbled up the peelings as fast as they fell.
were
As long as Billy confine! his diet to articles of this type no one complained. But there times when his catholic taste led him into serious trouble. Once he devoured sixteen ounces of rank Burmese leaf tobacco, which a thrifty Scot, with the aid of spun yarn and old canvas, hoped to convert into a seaman-like plug.
WINGS AROUND THE rose to high rank in the Roman legions, and accompanied the WORLD
Emperor on an Egyptian cam- paign in 295. He also served in On Wednesday next, Hong-n Persian expedition with the eo- kong will welcome the Emperor Galerius.
Pan-American Airways When Diocletian began the machine to cross the Pacific in persecution of the Christians in memorated by our own lovely The Royal Society of St. Billy was born in Hodeida, a port regular service between this 301, George decided to make a Chapel of St. George at Windsor. George exists to encourage, or on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea. bold stand for his Faith. He The rose, white or red, is his rather to revive, the observance water in that part is scarce, and, Colony, the United States and went to the Emperor, declared emblem, and the day of his of St. George's Day, to stimulate generally rated from deep wells, way points. But the occasion himself a Christian, and refused martyrdom was the birthday of a pride of race, to advance the edu- fluid the goat had been accustomed brackish. On this salty has a greater significance, in further military service.
great Englishman, William cation of the young in patriotism, to refresh himself. Ordinary fresh that it will see the completion of
Shakespeare, who loved and and to emphasise the necessity he came
water he had never encountered until The Dragon honoured in his deathless verse for the continuous exercise of the found it tasteless staff, for he refused on board. Apparently he air links around the world,
"St. George for Merrie England." patriotic spirit.
-to drink it. spanning Atlantic and Pacific, ON April 23, 303, he took the
If we succeed-and we are, suc- Billy died under the knife of his Europe, Asia and America, for step that led to his martyr- Forceful Leaders
dom. He tore down a notice in
cebding we shall surely hear less friend, the cook, off the Australian on Tuesday next the Imperial Nicomedia forbidding Christian THOSE of us who have spent of the spread of Little England- coast, because of a law in that coun
try prohibiting vessels from entering Airways' Dorado, which alone worship, paying with his life for LTD.
much of our working lives ism and cosmopolitanism in our port with livestock on beard. He keeps in operation a time-table this defiance of the Imperial abroad cannot fail to note the universities, of the shortage of met his end quietly: never suspect- between Hongkong and Panang, authority,
contrast between the behaviour of recruits for our Regular and Ter- ing his executioner's intentions until Chater Road. where it links up with the
The English forces in the the Englishman abroad and at ritorial Armies, of the dis- the last moment, and all his mourn- couragement of voluntary mili- see that the carcase was passed over ing admirers went aft in a body to London and Australian service, Crusades fought under the battle home. will drop down at Kai Tak. Its cry of "St. George for England, Abroad,-as-a-general-rule-we-tary training in schools by 80 the side to the sharks instead of into annnnnnnnnnnn veteran pilot will be on hand to and it was no doubt for this find him energetic, self-confident, many of our educational authori- the galley cooking-pots. greet the skipper of the Hong- reason that Edward III. formally proud of the great nation to ties, of weak surrenders to kong Clipper when that mighty adopted St. George as our Patron which he belongs, a leader in clamorous minorities; of the Chinese Pets
Saint.
business and in sport, enterpris- apathy of our population towards ship swoops to a landing in the
physical culture. The story of the dragon, pic- ing and full of initiative. harbour. Much has been written tures and images of St. George's
At home he is too often alack about the progress of aviation, battle with which are so familiar and easy-going, lacking in mental Spur to Action here and elsewhere, in the past to us, is a legend, symbolical of initiative and in public spirit, too few years, and can recall, with the successful fight of the forces ready to take the line of least ST. GEORGE, no doubt, re- a certain amount of satisfaction, of freedom of conscience, of resistance. His patriotism tends. how we predicted Hongkong's honour, and of right, against the to remain but a mere indolent and courage to slay his dragon. greatness as an airport and dark forces of evil.
sentiment divorced from any idea urged the authorities to remove For centuries the banner of St. of action. obstacles in the way of achieve George--the famous blood-red More is required, in these days ment. We can say, now that cross on a white ground-was the of an intense and forceful na-
butcher
this dine, curling-horned the Pan-American and Imperial national flag of England, and tionalism in so many of the great
specimen, while one of the inferior Airways services have finally fluttered proudly in the breeze 'nations, of the spirit of "St.
breed was left, gave him a lengthy decided to meet here, that we from many a stout wooden ship George for England," of the day- Are no longer Danger Months to your have at last become one of the about the seven seas.
to-day exercise of patriotic feel- and they must keep in mind that respite, and in time he was adopted.
pet. 48 a winter garments if you are a user of most prominent air junctions in
ing pervading action in our poli- their patriotism must be not In Madras, that voyage, a large our Zoric Drycleaning method.
His Emblem tical, business and social rela- merely a sentiment, but a con- consignment of shallots was shipped the world; for in Hongkong
tions.
stant spur to action, as the sure for discharge at Rangoon. During Zoric Fluid absolutely penetrates every connect what can safely be T. GEORGE was particularly Let St. George's Day, April 23, foundation for Abre and dislodges any dust or grime called the
national the process of loading, many of these world's greatest which may be there to act as a breeding air
beloved by sailors, for he was be kept by Englishmen, wherever greatness and prosperity, with small onions escaped through spaces in the badly-sewn sacks, to fall on transport organisations. held in high honour by the they are to be found, as a festival, which is necessarily bound up the the deck. I collected a number as a ground for moths, thus leaving the Science, it has been said, knows Venetians, those bold sea rovers Let them wear roses, red and peace and prosperity of the treat for our pet. He devoured them. material Fresh, Clean, Dry and Absono frontiers. It may not always of the Mediterranean, and in his white, the emblem of England, world. lutely Odourless preparatory to staring be the truth. But it is certain honour there exists to-day at as a symbol of the unity of our
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that the science of aviation has literally and metaphorically swept over international bar- riers, and, let us hope, will con- tinue to overcome them in its to still triumphal progress greater conquests in time and space. We think it is fitting that as the Hongkong Clipper roared up from Alameda, Cali-
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quired resolution, strength Englishmen of our time-must exercise similar qualities if they are to maintain inviolate
"This happy breed of men, this
little world,
This precious stone set in the
silver sea,"
our
St. George for England!
If You're MAKING
A
Thinking of WILL.
was
A
ram.
NOTHER unusual pet I sailed with.
large American Originally there had been five of the species, shipped in New-York as stores for the Indian crew. Mutton is the sole animal flesh consumed by those people, and it has to be carried alive, as their religion demands that the beasts must be killed by themselves.
When the ship reached Port Sald, where we replenished our
store of livestock with scraggy Egyptian luctance on the part of the cook to sheep, the ram, still remained. Re
the
ravenously, to the detriment of his breath, and as it turned out his temper. From the peaceful animal we had known, he became a perfect fury, Without, the slightest provoca- tion he would charge anyone who' come near him. Eventually he was rigidly confined to his pen, to ramp- age as he liked until his butchers were ready for him.
I have made several voyages with Chinese crews. These Orientals as a rule do not bother with pots. It was: therefore with mild astonishment that, after leaving Karachi one voy-
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But Matthew Arnold made his containing two green parrots, hang- of Commerce was partment
ing round the Chinese quarters.. In only 13 words.
They An American financier left his Em- will. I have always said: 'If A will, too, is a powerful weapon. delivering to the British
given the best of food, and
time the crew at feeding
Would bassy in Washington permission you make a will it will be left There must be many people alive £300,000 under a will of only eight
say to-day sustaining their positions in words; it read: "All my belongings gather round the cages in knots, talk- for British trans-Atlantic air-to others afterwards to
ing earnestly.
In a few weeks the porrots became craft to land at and make use what it means and you yourself their family by the mystery with I leave to my family
** which they surround their final of American airports for com-cannot put them right."
settlement.
Personal whims can be aired to the both sleek and fat; and the fatter the more animated became they got, Mr. Alexander Grant, a.ög snid Τα give all this, to deny oneself
up mercial purposes. Simultane-
a Welsh philanthropist who disliked I was convinced that some form of ously, the British authorities that recently in the Chancery Divi- the pleasure of adjustments, and full in a will. There was the case of the daily discussions. By this time
alon.
codicits, and the dropping of tantalis- were giving to Washington a He certainly shows a fine con- ing hints in the family circle is in-Spanish onions and German horse friendly rivalry, in which the rest
radish. He strongly expressed his the. Clunese, all inveterato permit jointly signed by Canada, sideration for his descendants to deny deed unselfish.
dislike in his will and tried to provide blers, were financially interested. The making of a will can also be for the punishment not only of the existed between the bird-owners. the Irish Free State and Grent himself the supremely selfish pleasure
the occasion for gestures that are importers but of the Governments Britain for American planes to of making a will.
But alas! I was wrong. The making of our wills is, after impossible in everyday life. We can who allowed their sale. utilise the airport services of all, almost the only entirely voluntary then safely say all those things we
One day, on going aft, I found all. Many expressed desires can never the cages empty. I got hold of the have too long not dared to utter. We those nations. Here is progress act that is to-day left to us.
be fulfilled. A Frenchwoman apart from flying, but a direct often at sufficient leisure to relish the to people who deserve it. We on
"We make them unhindered and can be personal, we can give credit cft £10,000 to any person who bo's'n, "Where are the parrots?”.... I'
asked, result of the need aviation has full power of disposal-whether the even try to be humorous. We can be would watch by her graveside day The Chinese eat um," he replied:
and night for a year, speaking to no created for closer international fortune to be bequeathed is a million curt or long-winded.
a griri of satisfaction: "Yesterday collaboration. It is a lesson for pounds or a sult of clothes.
And the act has all the satisfaction words was admitted to probate, the food and drink. The £10,000 has Chinese Cistmas Day."
Twelve years ago a will-of 97,040 one but the person who brought big and furnished the information, with us in Hongkong.
surrounding generosity with none of longest will ever made. It would not been earned.
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