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"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 1918, the anniversary of which we celebrate to-day- St. George's Day.
It was a signal given with that happy instinct for the perfecily apposite phrase which has charac terised so many of our English admirala throughout our glorious We assist you in this connection | annals of sea supremacy. without any trouble or complica-
After many irritating delays, tion to yourself. delivered Sir Roger was at last committing to you at home and subsequently to his men the hazard of the in Hongkong.
operation which demonstrated so effectively that the British Navy had lost none of the fighting spirit of the wars of the eighteenth century,
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mortalised by Shakespeare in "King Henry V." when he makes the King. at the moment of Phone 27778/9. Iaunching 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:
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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937.
"God and St. George, Talbot
and England's right Prosper our coloura 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
WINGS AROUND THE rose to high rank in the Roman
WORLD
kong first
The Dragon
ON April 23, 303, he took the step that led to his martyr- dom. He tore down a notice in
Crusaders entering St. Paul's Cathedral for last year's service
in honour of St. George.
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
The reason for this. popularity was not his ap- pearance, which was far from prepossessing, but his ability
crew.
to consume, without apparent ill effects, anything he could masticate.
Scraps of paper, discardied 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 goal gobbled up the peelings as fast as they fell
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As long as Billy confined his diet to articles of this type no one complained.
were But there times when his catholic taste led. him into serious trouble. Once he devoured sixteen ounces of legions, and accompanied the
rank Burmese leaf tobacco, which Emperor on an Egyptian cam-
a thrifty Scot, with the aid of paign in 295. He also served in On Wednesday next, Hong-a Persian expedition with the co- Venice one of the most beautiful race, to keep warm the spirit of spun-yarn and old canvas, hoped
chapels in the world.
patriotism, and to remind us of to convert into a seaman-like will welcome the Emperor Galerius.
Here in England - he is
plug. When Diocletian began the
com- our patriotic duties. Pan-American Airways'
Billy was born in Hodelda, a port persecution of the Christians in memorated by our own lovely The Royal Society of St.
on the Arabian coast of the Red Seu. machine to cross the Pacific in 301, George decided to make a Chapel of St. George at Windsor. George exists to encourage, or Water in that part is scarce, and, regular service between this bold stand for his Faith. He The rose, white or red, is his rather to revive, the observance when not obtained from deep wells, Colony, the United States and went to the Emperor, declared emblem, and the day of his of St. George's Day, to stimulate generally brackish, On this salty way points. But the occasion himself a Christian, and refused martyrdom was the birthday of a pride of race, to advance the edu- fuld the goat had been accustomed great Englishman, William cation of the young in patriotism, water he had never encountered until refresh himself. Ordinary fresh has a greater significance,, in further military service.
Shakespeare, who loved and and to emphasise the necessity
he came
on board. Apparently he that it will see the completion of
honoured in his deathless verse for the continuous exercise of the found it tasteless stuff, for he refused air links around the world,
to drink it. "St. George for Merrie England."
patriotic spirit.
If we succeed-and we are suc- Billy died under the knife of his spanning Atlantic and Pacific,
Forceful Leaders,
ceeding--we shall surely hear less friend, the cook, off the Australian Europe, Asia und America, for
try prohibiting vessels on Tuesday next the Imperial Nicomedia forbidding Christian THOSE of us who have spent of the spread of Little England- coast, because of a les from entering Airways' Dorado, which alone worship, paying with his life for
much of our working lives ism and cosmopolitanism in our port with livestockt on board. He S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. 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- contrast between the behaviour of recruits for our Regular and Ter- Ing his executioner's intentions until between Hongkong and Panang, authority.
The English forces in the the Englishman abroad and at ritorial Armies, of the dis- the last moment, and all his mourn- where it links up with the
see that the carcase was passed over Chater Road.
couragement of voluntary mili- ing admirers went aft in a body to London and Australian- service, Crusades fought under the battle- home. will drop down at Ki Tak. Its cry of "St. George for England,"Abroad, ns-a-general-rule, we tary training in schools by so the side to the sharks instead of into
it was no doubt for this find him energetic, self-confident, many of our educational authort the galley-cooking-pols... VÕIENEVEJEKJEVOVEJ veteran pilot will be on hand to
greet the skipper of the Hong- reason that Edward III. formally proud of the great nation to ties, of weak surrenders to Chinese Pets kong Clipper when that mighty adopted St. George as our Patron which he belongs, a leader in clamorous minorities, of the business and in sport, enterpris-, apathy of our population towards
ANOTHER unusun pet I salled with physical culture.
large American ship swoops to a landing in the
The story of the dragon, pie- ing and full of initiative.
Originally there had been. five of the harbour. Much has been written tures and images of St. George's. At home he is too often slack Spur to Action
species, shipped in New York as stores for the Indian crew. Mutton is the about the progress of aviation, battle with which are so familiar and easy-going, lacking in mental here and elsewhere, in the past to us, is a legend, symbolical of initiative and in public spirit, too
quired resolution, strength people, and it has to be carried alive,. few years, and can recall, with the successful fight of the forces ready to take the line of least ST. GEORGE, no doubt, re- sole animal flesh consumed by those
His patriotism tends a certain amount of satisfaction, of freedom of conscience, of resistance.
beasts must be killed by themselves.
When the ship reached Port Said, store of how we predicted Hongkong's honour, and of right, against the to remain but a mere indolent and courage to slay, his dragon, as their religion demands that the
sentiment divorced from any idea. Englishmen of our time must greatness as an airport and dark forces of evil.
exercise similar qualities if they where we.replenished our
livestock with Ecroggy Egyptian urged the authorities to remove For centuries the banner of St. of action.
sheep, the rem still remained. Re- More is required, in these days are to maintain inviolate
"This happy breed of men, this luctance on the part of the cook to obstacles in the way of achieve George the famous blood-red
little world,
butcher this Ane, curling-horned ment, We can say, now that cross on a white ground-was the of an intense and forceful na- of England, and 'tionalism in so many of the great
This precious stone set in the specimen, while one of the inferior the Pan-American and Imperial national flag
breed was left, gave him a lengthy silver sca;" Airways services have finally fluttered proudly in the breeze 'nations, of the spirit of "St..
a pet. decided to meet here, that we from many a stout wooden ship George for England," of the day-
to-day exercise of patriotic feel- and they must keep in mind that respite, and in time he was adopted ing pervading action in our poli- their patriotism must be not In Madras, that voyage, a large have at last become one of the about the seven seas.
His Emblem tical, business and social rela- merely a sentiment, but a con- consignment of shallots was shipped most prominent air junctions in the world; for in Hongkong
tions.
stant spur to action, as the sure for discharge at Rangoon. During leading, many of these our national the process of Let St. George's Day, April 23, foundation for
fall Zorie Fluid absolutely penetrates every connect what can safely be ST. GEORGE was particularly
in the badly-sewn sacks, to world's called the
greatest beloved by sailors, for he was be kept by Englishmen, wherever greatness and prosperity, with all onions escaped through spaces Abre and dislodges any dust or grime air 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 materini Fresh, Clean, Dry and Abso-no frontiers. It may not always of the Mediterranean, and in his white, the emblem of England, world. lutely Odourless preparatory to storing be the truth. But it is certain honour there exists to-day at as a symbol of the unity of our . away for the summer season,
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that the science of aviation has literally arch metaphorically swept over International bar- riers, and, let us hope, will con- tinue to overcome them in its
to triumphal progress
still greater conquests in time and space. We think it is fitting that as the Hongkong Clipper roared up from Alameda, Cali-
and
Saint.
If You're MAKING
St. George for England!
Thinking of A WILL.
was a
гал
on
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 came near him. Eventually he was rigidly confined to his pen, to ramp- uge 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 pets. It was therefore with mild astonishment that, after leaving Karachi one voy-
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But Matthew Arnold made his will containing two green parrots, hang- Ing round the Chinese quarters. always refuse to make aregrets. **
in only 13 words. partment of Commerce was
An American financier left his They were given the best of food, and A will, too, is a powerful weapon. delivering to the British Em-will. I havo always said: 'If
be many people alive £300,000 under a will of only eight at feeding time the crew bassy in Washington permission you make a will it will be left There must
say to-day sustaining, their positions in words; it read: "All my belongings gather round the cages in knols, talic-
ing earnestly. for British trans-Atlantic air-to others afterwards to
In a few weeks the parrots became they surround their final • 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 settlement.
whims Personal can be aired to the both sleet and fat; and the fatter of American airports for com-cannot put them right.'"
Mr. Alexander Grant; n said To give up all this, to deny oneself full in a will. There was the case of they got, the more animated became mercial purposes. Simultane
was convinced that some form of ously, the British authorities that recently in the Chancery Divi- the pleasure of adjustments, and a Welsh philanthropist who disliked the daily discussions. By this time
slon..
codicils, and the dropping of tantalis- Spanish onions and German horse-
Chinese, all inveterate gom- were giving to Wilshington a
He certainly shows a fine con- ing hints in the family circle is in- radish. He strongly expressed his friendly rivalry, In which the rest of
dislike in his will and tried to provide the permit jointly signed by Canada, sideration for his descendants to deny deed unselfish.
The making of a will can also be for the punishment not only of the blers, were financially interested, the bird-owners. the Irish Free State and Great himself the supremely selfish pleasure
the occasion for gestures that are importers but of the Governments existed between
But alas! I was wrong, Britain for American planes to of making a will.
The making of our wills is, after impossible in everyday life. We can who allowed their sale.
One day, on going eft, I found all utilise the airport services of all, almost the only entirely voluntary then safely say all those things we
Many expressed desires can never have too long not dared to utter. We be fulfilled. A Frenchwoman once the cages empty, I got hold of the who bo's'n. Where are the parrots?" I those nations. Here is progress act that is to-day left to us.
We make them unhindered and can be personal, we can give credit left £10,000 to any person apart from flying, but a direct
often at sufficient lelsure to reilsh the to people who deserve it. We can would watch by her graveside day asked.
"The Chinese cat um," he replied; result of the need aviation has full power of disposal whether the oven try to be humorous. We can be and night for a year, speaking to no
one but the person who brought his and furnished the information, with created for closer international fortune to be bequeathed is a million curt or long-winded.
Twelve years ago a will of 97,940 food and drink. The £10,000 has a grin of antisfaction: "Yesterday
Chinese Chistmas Day." collaboration.It is a leason for pounds or a suit of clothes,
And the act has all the satisfaction words was admitted to probale, the not been earned.
A. D. H us in Hongkong.
surrounding generosity with none of longest will ever made. It would
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