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the
UNTIL recently
guise dancers in Corn- War on the Defensive wall, as elsewhere, used to act the traditional play of "St.
ONCE MORE the initiative in George and the Dragon." Many
the Sino-Japanese War passes versions of this are found all from the hands of Japan to the over Britain, but the principal Chinese. Only in the air and "characters" are the same in all. on the ses does Japan now ap-The party Was generally pear to hold undisputed sway introduced by "Old Father She has used the former to Christmas." launch an almost unprecedented campaign of terror on Chinese
Stepping out from the half-
cities and towns, the latter to circle of players assembled in tighten a blockade that, to all the big friendly kitchens of the intents and purposes, has the farm-houses, he proclaimed: subjugation of 470,000,000 Here comes, I, old Father Christ- people by starvation 25 its
never be forgot.
mas, welcome or welcome not. objective. This maval blockade, I do hope old Father Christmas will about which so little is said, may one day prove a decisive factor in the war, as a similar blockade did twenty years ago. Chinn, remember, cannot feed itself, but must import vast A resplendent St. George was quantities of rice and other followed by the sombre figure
you don't b'lieve what I do say, Come in, St. George, and clear the
way.
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THE
Twelve Days of Christmas culminate
at Haxey, in Lincolnshire, with an extraordinary game called "Throwing the Hood," which has been played there for more than six hundred years. On tho afternoon of January 6 the men of the five rival hamlots which form the parish assemble on a bleak hill-top overlooking the Fens. The leader of the game, called the "Lord," is dressed in a scarlet tunic with a Morris dancer's top hat decorated with flowers. Round him he places his twelve red-jersled "boggina”. to form a hundred-yard circle- as if for rounders,
Then, taking a "hood," which is made of a tightly fastened roll of sacking, about two feet long, he chants the formula:
Hoos again hovs, toon again loon, If a Man meet a man knock a
a Man down
---But don't hurt him!
and hurls it into the air. In a moment the crowd is on it, each man striving to capture the hood and escape with it, past the boggins, to his own village.
IN this way the game
goes on for an hour. Then comes the "sway." Ima- gine a giant football scrum com- posed of a hundred men locked Immovably over an unseen ball and you have some idea of what this is.
Bit by bit the weaker side is driven down the hill, contesting every inch, for "luck" goes to the winners. At last, without need of referee or whilstle, the acrum pressure slackens, the breaks up-and another of Haxey's hood games has come to an end.
A.K.H. Jenkins
WOMAN NEED NOT TELL
com-
This centuries-old rule of law was
refused ап
Mrs.
foods from the outside world, of the Turkish Knight, and his costumes still parade the town into the darkness. The clavie is China fares better on land companion the Dragon. After on New Year's Night carrying finally demolished whilst still and it seems evident from the a great deal of boasting and pans of blazing tar upon their burning, and the crowd rush to news of the past few days that country wit, a fight takes place heads. Led by a band, they seize the glowing embers, which large-scale attacks are begin-in which the Turkish Knight is gather in the market place, are thought to bring good luck. ning both in Kwangtung and knocked out by St. George, where a huge bonfire is lighted. The same idea of good luck Honan. What influence these Then in comes the Doctor. With Further north, at Burghead underlies the New Year custom A WIDOW cannot be offensives will have upon the his magic medicine he resurrects on the Moray Firth, the fire of Wassailing. On January 7 pelled to disclose statements campaign and how much terri-the "Turkey Snipo" and the festival appears again in
the villagers of Carhampton in made to her by her husband tory China will be able to wrest battle is renewed.
ceremony called "Burning the Somerset carry into the orch- during their marriage. back from Japan remains to be
ards a milk pan full of cider Clavia." This takes place on seen. It is two months since.
January 11, which is Hogmanay into which roasted apples have Canton and Hankow fell, and
or New Year's Eve-old style. been broken. Each man fills his upheld in the Chancery Division re- the Japanese are still where
application by St. again they were then on all fronts.
The "Clavie" is manufactured mug and after drinking some of cently, when Mr. Justice Simonds BUT onco
out of a tar barrel with odd bits the cider throws the rest at the Florence Annie Shenton, who wished George The Japanese have made re-
proves the
aloud to scare away evil spirits. Edmund
Edith Lilian peated efforts to add to their champion, the Turkish Knight is of wood, and is lighted from a loud to the same time shouting to deliver interrogatories to Mrs.. burning peat no other method Sometimes one of the roasted star Deeble Tyler, to sub- gains, to consolidate their exist-slain and he, and the Dragon,
may be used.
stantiate her claim that Mr. Tyler- ing seizures. But they are are dragged off the stage by
apples or a piece of bread which left his widow about £70,000 subject As a reward It is afterwards carried with has been soaked in the cider, is to a promise that she would pay hampered, firstly, by a with-"Old Beelzebub." drawal of troops that is almost for his valour, St. George (in much ceremony to a neighbour placed in the trees to encourage Mrs. Shenton £2 a week during her
fetime. sensational in character, second- some versions) is given the hand ing hillock where fresh fuel is the good spirits to ensure a
The addresses of the parties in the- ly, by weather conditions which of Princess Sabra, the King of added, and the flames shoot high bountiful crop.
case were not disclosed.
Mr. for the next five months will Egypt's daughter, in marriage!
Roger Turnbull, for Mrs. favour the defenders, thirdly,
Shenton, said her case was that Mr. Tyler communicated to his wife his wish that she should pay to Mrs. Shenton £2 a week during her life- Lime.
This ancient mummers' play
by the birth of new confidence is still acted at Christmas time GRIN AND BEAR IT
in China.
Time Marches On
battles.
in some of the villages of Hamp- shire. The players here are farm labourers, and wear a
ON FRONTS hundreds of miles traditional costume consisting of apart, Japanese divisions are a Norman helmet and something menaced by irregular forces resembling a coat of mail. Their who harass their communica- faces are hidden by fluttering tions and often receive support strips of wall-paper which hang Bufficient to provoke major down over their clothing and {give them a wild appearance.
As one meets them trudging | Japan has already thrown a million men into this struggic, through the lanes, they look China three times that number, more like a troop of dancers Japan claims that China's losses than sober English countrymen.
transplanted from the jungle} are staggering, her own in- finitesimal. On the other hand, For hundreds of years the Japan has dipped dangerously play has been associated with into the reserves of man-power St. George, the Patron Saint of she must keep at home and in England: yet the "plot" is Manchuria against a possible probably far older than any of conflict with Russia, Chinese the "characters." There is reserves of man-power are in- little doubt that it dates from exhaustible and, in fact, are an before the time of Christianity, embarrassment because of lack and that the slaying of the of arma. Dr. Sun Fo, President Turkish Knight and the victory of the Legislative Yuan, recent-of St. George originally sym- ly claimed that by the middle bolised the defeat of Winter and of 1939 China will have an and the triumph of Spring. armed army of 10,000,000 men
in the field. Cut that number The "Twelve Days" was also fire festival. Everywhere by fly per cent. even, and the a total in formidable and some throughout Europe great bon- thing for Japan to ponder over. fires were lighted at this time The war has by no means to encourage the mid-winter sun reached a decisive phase, and to regain its power. timo in certainly on the side of j At Allendalo, in Northumber- China,
land, twenty-four men in quainti
Серг, 1938
By Lichty
"Her mother picked him, but she put her foot down and insisted on picking the gown!"
widow of Mr.
PAYMENTS STOPPED Mrs. Tyler, it was alleged, gave him such a promise.
Mrs. Shenton received the pay- ments until March, 1937, when they were discontinued. The question was, what steps could be taken compel Mrs. Tyler to disclose the alleged bargain in which the husband said: "If you will pay the lady tha weekly sum I will let you have my residuary estate."
Mr. Turnbull contended that the rule of common law which said that no wife should be compellable to dis- close any communication made to. her by her husband during marringe had no application to a widow.
SACRED CONFIDENCES Mr. G. D, Johnston, for Mrs. Tyler, said it was an absolute rule of law that no husband or wife could be compelled to disclose any com munication made during marriage, It would be detrimental to the court to
sacred confidences be- disclose tween husband and wife.
Mr. Justice Simonds sald that in her defence to the action Mrs. Tyler denied that any auch wish was expressed by her husband, or pro- mize made. Mrs. Shenton cought to establish her caso by Interrogating Mrs. Tyler,
A widow always was an admissible witness, as was a woman who was divorced but, whether a widow or a divorced woman, she was not com- pellable or admissible as a witness la: regard to matters which had passed between herself and her hur. band during the married statu.
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