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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1930.
History's Blot
To find a parallel for the in- sensate wave of anti-Semitisin that has overwhelmed Germany one must turn back the pages of history fifty-seven years to the infamous Russian pogrom of 1881. This pogrom was paral Jeled in European history only by the Black Death massacres of the 14th century.
The revulsion of feeling which swept Russia and the rest of Europe after the 1881 massacres led to the belief that the word pogrom would never again be heard in European contemporary history.
Germany has proved to the world that modern civilisation can find room for barbarism in times of peace as well as in times of war. The events of re- cent years had led to the belief that mankind had advanced from the Middle Ages to the ex- tent that the veneer of civilian- tion was sufficiently strong to preserve at least an elementary form of humanity in countries at peace with their neighbours. It is not in the Third Reich.
Majesty of the Law
The spectacle of police con- stables arresting small children for the heinous offence of selling newspapers is, to say the least of it, absurd.
It is realised that they would be denied a licence even if their parents applied for one,
one
Yesterday afternoon, an In- dian constable was observed with a bundle of English news- papers in
hand-the damning evidence-the other hand firmly grasping the coat of a young criminal of some nine years of age-marching him off to the police station. With in- creasing crime in the Colony, it would be thought that the force could be better engaged, cs-
BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER
creator of the famous wartime character, reports :
Old Bill marches again
LYMPIA has sheltered many spec- tacles of considerable diversity in its time-tournaments, prize fights, cir- cuses, mystery plays and exhibitions. But one might safely assume that the recent display was perhaps the most peculiar in the career of the mammoth show garage.
Over a thousand ex-soldiers, each shedding his peare-time garments and rapidly emerging dis-
guised by the British Legion as an entirely new mammal, known as the Plebiscite Policeman--that is what one could sće.
It is only a short while ago that any of this sturdy array of men bevame even Czechoslovakla conscious, yet here they were ready to leave for that tempestuous and agonized land in the.. capacity of Pleb Copi
One might imagine that is most bizarre and unexpected happening would lend to bewildered excitement. Not at all.
Uniforms and equipment were dealt out HIS prosaically as at any military depot, for any ordinary expedition. You can turn yourself into a Plebiscite Policeman as calmly and methodically as collectiu component parts for a meal in a cafeteria.
You just move along; from table to table and collect what you want.
Sturdy, bronzed survivors of the twenty years ago struggle took the whole thing na cabnly as if it were Just one more belated phase of the fast Big Bother, which as a matter of fact it is.
More astonishing still is the fact that the men look not only t enough to be capable temporary policemen, but able to tackle nn- other war as well if necessary. To me they had all the appearance of the best of our veteran soldiers as they existed in reserve battalions when the late war started.
If I had the misfortune to be running a battle at this present time I could wish for no better cast. Put them in khaki and they would be just right for scrambling over mud or lurking in trenches,
This widely representative array of men is culled from all walks of life and from many diverse jobs, 'which, I was glad to hear, are all being kept open for them to go back to when the stunt is over, by the co-operation of their respective employers.
Some few of them are unem- ployed, so one welcomes this falry-
THOSE WHO
CAN SPEAK CZECHOSLOVAKIAN जा
"Let's sec, all I wants now is me knife and
fork."
tale-like opportunity for them to have a short, colourful and novel experience coupled with the feel- Ing that they are doing a good job and getting paid for it.
Whether employed or unem- ployed, whether they come from Devon or Northumberland, Little- Crumble-under-Ledge or London, they all fall into the same mental mould which forever seems to have formed the British soldier.
There he is, as always, the dear fellow, ready to go anywhere Just As a matter of course, and with that "theirs not to reason why' attitude which gives one the mix- ture of a lump in the throat and a laugh.
Terrible as that last war was, it falled to kill the cheer resulting from soldierly companionship. Even the worst wars are not all battle, and these excavated ex- warriors are tickled to death to gather together again, whatever the new Job may bring forth."
Their past experiences In common, the brotherly affection
Personalities of Old Hongkong
Man Who
Prace Parimalath
bred of Joint hardships and an- guish endured in the past, have cemented them forever into one Great fraternity.
They are eminently suitable to play the part they are now being organised to play in Czecho- slovakia, with that restraint and strength which only comes from hard experience.
They are all around 40 or 50 years of age. Aged in the mud, ong might say, and there are not a few who have distinct traces of Old Bilism.
Many and many a memory have they mutually and pleasurably to discuss, and they are not going to wait till they get to Czecho- slovakia to da sol
Their conversation already, although composed of comparing notes on their peace-time homes and Occupations, 19 highly sprinkled
with old war-timp
memories of the "Remember when ̈ ̈ we was back of the line at La
Bassee" order.
To and Old Bill himself in this environment was what I fully ex- pected, and what came to pass.
It may not be generally known, but Old BI is now a taxi-driver, and has been of this persuasion for the last ten years.
He belongs to that almost ex-
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tinct species of driver that has a. car about as old as himself. Rather rare, ultra-lofty within, very high off the ground, a synco- pating engine, and a wheel baso that can do miracles of turning in
possibly narrow streets.
His business largely depends on picking up people when it's pouring with rain and they can't see what they are doing, or being halled by stray and exhausted pedestrians in taxi-less areas in the dead of night.
It is only natural, therefore, that a chance of blowing a whistle at a Plebiscito would form a welcome rest from his normal work.
I found Old Bill in the Water Bottle Department, and I guessed by the profound look on his faco that he was probably calculating how much of the cheapest Pilsen one.receptacle would hold.
"Hullo, Bill." I said, coming up quietly behind him. "So you are off to Czechoslovakia, chi?”
The great amphlblan turned and regarded me with an old and mild starc.
B
"Yus, 'Sir, I never been on Plobbin' job before, but I'll 'ave a good go at it. It's a Plebby sight better than'a war, anyway."
"It's nothing to do with a war, Bul. All you've got to do is help sort everybody out, and see that they all go where they want to go."
Bill frowned.
"I'll get the Homes and Aways
all right, but the Draws is goin' to be dimeult."
A general noise of men niuster- ing together as at a "Fall In" dis- turbed our conversation. Turning. I saw that a company of Legion- naires had by now been completely served out with their equipment, and were about to march in a body out of the hall.
"Como on, Bill, let's see them come out into the road. Perhaps there is a parade out there or something."
Her Majesty's newly acquired Old Bill agreed, and together we
pecially when it is borne in NE of the early officials in the By T. PAUL GREGORY ¡Colony of Hongkong. As a re- left Olympia, going out into the
mind that it has been necessary
service of the Hongkong
SCOTTISH OUTLOOK
The
to mobilise the Special Police Government was Mr. Robert Cay grew up more Scottish than sult of the recognition of Judge road and night outside. Buses Reserve. In any case, the child Dundas Cay, the first Registrar English in his outlook-a fact Hulme of his capacity, Mr. Cay roared past, and a medley of yel- is making an effort to lead an of the Supreme Court. He was which was abundantly evidenced was chosen to accompany him to low street lights punctuated the honest life, and doubtless won- a man of unusual ability, and his in his speech-which, according the Far East as a member of the damp, cold darkness.
Out came the body of Legion- ders why he should be prevented name is inseparably linked with to contemporary accounts, was, personnel of the new Governor, natres, carrying their loaded dark from so doing.
blue kit bags over their shoulders. that of the establishment of in addition to the customary Sir John Davis.
Northumbrian burr distinguish-
For no other reason 'than habit, - It is usually the English news-
British justice in the Far East;|
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they started trudging two deep papers which appear to be for like the founder of the cd by a fund of anecdote typical- singled out for this unpleasant Court,
ly Scottish in origin, and testi- Judge John Walter
Mr. Cay, as a component of along the shiny wet pavement to-
wards Hammersmith. fied his cultural affinities with one of the most distinguished business, although the sellers do Hulme, he was noted for his the land and people of Sir official groups which have ever voterans plodded on, theco self- With slow, confident tread, the not mako a nuisance of them-rigid adherence to the course of Walter Scott and Robble Burns. set sail for the Far East arrived same veterans who had long ago selves by shouting. To say duty. that they cause obstruction is
Although very little is known in Hongkong on board H.M.S. plodden so often together before,
Perhaps to many of them the also absurd, and they are out-
of the early life of Mr. Cay in his Spiteful on May 7, 1844, Mr. Robert Dundas Cay was Homeland, we do know that specific task of creating a com- the pavement, a muddy sunken lamp-posts became shattered trees: numbered by the sellers of the born at North Charlton, Nor- after his graduation at the Uni-pleto court of judicial procedure rond: Hammersmith, maybe, was vernacular papers by probably thumberland in the year 1907. veraity of Edinburgh, he obtain was no sinccure, and it is an Hooge, and the sound of ent. Whe five to one. The sellers of the English newspapers receive two
He was the youngest son of ed the situation of writer to the eloquent testimony to the deter-noise of clanking equipment. Who cents per copy commission, and
Robert Hodshon Cay, Esq., a Signet which he held for many mination of the founders that knows?
By the look on Old Bill's face I are thus able to make a com- landowner of some means and in-years. His diligence in this post the work which they set upon to think they did to him. fortable living. Actually, the cidentally a Calvinist of strong won for him a wide recognition accomplish was completed less commission equals the price at leanings. This factor and the among members of the legal pro- than six months later, and the which some of the Chinese proximity of the County to the fession, so that by the time that Supreme Court of the Colony of papers are sold. Ono wonders Scottish border were largely in ho was thirty-five or thereabouts, Hongkong was opened on Octo whether there is any dis-strumental in determining that he came under the notice of John ber 1, 1844. crimination shown against the education of his son should Walter Hulme, who had just So admirably did Mr. Cay nc- sellers of English journals, and be entirely in a Caledonian beon appointed to organião a quit himself in the duties of his if so, why ?.
atmosphere." | As a result, Mr. Court of Superior Jurisdiction in ·(Contintied on Poge, 11.)
-To-day's Thought.................. PACK up your troubles in the ola kil-bay and Smile, Smile, Smile!
-MARCHING BONO,
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