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In Memory of Burns
Countrymen Gather
To
Pay Homage
To Scotland's Poet
.
Common esteem for the Imperishable verse of Scotsman Robert Burns brought 245 men together the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel last night. The occasion was the annual din- ner in celebration of the great poet's birth.
The conviviality of the ocension demonstrated how strong a Jink between Scotsmen-In fact, between all true verse lovers--- this love of Burns has become. The programme of the evening very fittingly bore this printed protest:
Who says that Robbie Burns is defd?
Wha says he lies below the weed,
A pichle stoor, baith heart and hold,
This hunner year?
Dell blast the loons! but they line lee'd, For Robin's here.
It was Wordsworth who said that
The fare was Scotch and simple→; have little doubt that when he wrote though no humble Scotch cottage those lines he meant and fell every ever saw such luxurious service, word of them. "Scotch Broth" led up to "Herrin' an'| Tallies." Then follwed the "Has ceremoniously played in, and next enme "Rousilt Button an' Bashed Tatting" "Aipple Dumplin" rund- ed off the dinner and the evening became lively "WP merry sans an' friendly cracks" in which all gladly joined
Northcote, With them
the best poetry should consist of "emotion recollected in tranquility" and it was, I think, just in this res- pect that Burns and the other omantics blazed a completely new
trail.
and so
I
privilege of being used by another young Scot who died too soon. Freddie Talt was not the greatest golfer of all time any more than Robble Burns was the greatest poet of all time, but they both seem to have had that little something that!
WATER CUT OFF
lasts beyond the grave. It is barely Landlord's Action When
40 years since Freddle Talt was kill-
ed in South Africa, and Robbie Burnsi
in already about a hundred years nhead of that.
Tonants Do Not Pay
0
Sald to be the first summons of its "Immortal" is a big word to use, kind taken out since the issue of the but I have personally little doubi recent emergency regulations for the that a century hence, unless some control of water in the Colony,
against totalitarian has meanwhite put all summons was brought persons of Scottish race into intern-Shiu-fal, of 57 Robinson Road, be- ment camps, men will still be gather fore Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Con- ing all over the world as we are tral Magistracy yesterday, for caus-
altered, to-night
to, celebrate this twenty-ing or permitting to be
Toast of "The Lassies"
A
ff of January. And that in about service connected to the Waterworks, as far ahead as most of us dare to at No. 34 Russell Street, Wanchal.
Mr. A. I. Cash, Waterworks over- look these days,
seer, said that towards the end of Gentlemen, I give you the last year, the majority of landlords Immortal Memory of Robert Burns.
in the Colony were Informed by the Water Authority that they would be In a refreshing speech that was responsible for the water supply in offen interrupted by delighted laugh- their houses. The defendunt," land- fer, Mr. H. L. Mackenzie proposed lord of No. 34 Nussell Street, was 20 the toast of "The Lassies," lie began informed, and he in turn notified his with the quotation.
tenants that they were responsible "Auld Nature
they used. He also swears the lovely for the water
demanded $5 from the tenant of cach Поог
as a charge for the waler supply. The tenants refused to pay this, and defendant accordingly hired a street plumber and instructed the man to eut a section of the water These may be hackneyed lines, but, pipe and thus disconnect the water nevertheless, has ever a finer com-supply to the flats. He had pliment been paid to womankind? authority to do this..
"Her 'prentice hand she tried on
dears
Her noblest word she classes, o Her 'prentice hand she tried on
min
And then she made the Lassies, o" and then continued:
And then she made the Lassies, o"
The defendant was fined $100.
NUISANCE CREATED -
Water Supply to Upper
Storeys Impeded
Ro
Secondly Burns was lucity in being brought up in what was, until the Mr. W. Kay, Chieftain of the long days of wireless and cheap news- kong St. Andrew's Society, presided papers, probably the most cultured That, however, is only one of the and the Governor, Sir Gy peasantry that the world has ever any compliments which Burns paid
was guest of honour, seen.
We may laugh at their inter-to women. And the great charm of at the principal table ninable disputations about pre-these compliments, as indeed of all were the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl destination and
Burns's poetry, is their simplicity. free-will
Mr. H. H. Rose, în overseer of the MacGregor. Mr. Justier R. E. Lind forth; but we should not do well,
The poet Browning on being asked Water Oflice, P.W.D., was the com- sell. Hon. Mr. N. L. Smill, Hon. Mr. think, to laughs at that picture of to interpret a difficult passage in one plainant in a case before Mr. Q. A. A. T. 11. King, Hon. Mr. S. II. Dudwell, low living and with thinking which this poems sale, mod wrote Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- Prof. L. R. Shore, Rev. K. Merw
that, only myself and
tracy yesterday, when Ho Po-ting, of knows." But the compliments of There
on a sustmons for having permitted ts true story which illus-Burns to the Lassies are unlike this: the inside water services of his pre- trales this point. The old schoolmaster they are simple and sincere. who had taught Robbie and won a
mises to be altered without the ap- Indeed Burns is the only national proval of the Water Authority, Rood friend of the family was pout who never maligned women. December 25.
knew
Kenzie Dow, Dr. D. G. R. Black, mat is perts in the "Coltar's Saturwhat it meant. Now, God only 232 Shanghai Street, was fined san
Messrs. E. S. Carter, P. 5. Cassidy, F. A. Joseph, K. S. Morrison, J. A.j Plummer, C. J. Sollis, and B. Wylie,
The Immortal Memory
day
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above.
071
water
January, 26, 1939.
THOUSANDS KILLED IN 'QUAKE
Santiago, Chile, Jan. 24.
A strong earthquake bilt Santinge to-day. The epicentre in reported to have been between Cepihue and North Hemuco. The shock Was strong at Tulca, north of Copilue,
It is reported that some houses collapsed at Valparaiso and Curicao, terrotising the inhabitants who gathered at the Plaza Victoria while the Cathedral lower hung danger- ugly, with pieces of masonry falling Into the streets,
Many windows in the business centre were broken and communi.
cation with Santiago was stopped.-- United Press.
Two Thousand Dead
Santlogo de Chille, Jan. 25.
A radio report from an amateur at Concepelon, intercepted here, ca- mates that 2,000 are dend in the city and at least 40 per cent, of homes destroyed.
The Minister of the Interior an- nounces that a state of siege has been proclaimed at Talcahuano where 14 are said to be dead. Including ratings from the naval base, and 67 wounded, while one-quarter of the town has been destroyed,
four
Government reports indicate that at least 100 persons are known to be dead. Many communilles have not been heard from. Government de- pariments worited all night trying to establish the casualties and damage and organise relief measures.
Reports which have altered by means of radio indicate many wound- ed and heavy property damage in- eluding the razing of several towns.
It was the strongest earthquake felt in recent years. The centre of it was in a region extending south from Taken to Traiguen and west from Cordillera to the coastal elty of Concepcion.
The Chile Telephone Company re- Pallahueque and Traiguen were scri- ports that the towns of Angol, Parin, ously damaged,
Fires arc raging in Concepcion, Chile's third largest clty with more than 77,000 Inhabitants, also the naval base of Talcahuano four miles north.
Talca reported that eight dead cluding a 64-year-old woman who were carried into the morgue in-
Armedly reported that when the walls
fire killing 10. ers escaped and the guards opened
There were three strong tremors. The Grat fasting three minutes began at 11.30 p.m. and the others were of shorter duration. It is feared that the death toll may be large owing to the late hour when most people in the stricken area were sleeping.
United Press. EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN
Tokyo, Jan. 25. Fairly strong carthquake shocks were experienced over a wide aren in the north-eastern and eastern dis- tricts of Japan proper at 1.02 p.m. on Tuesday.
The toast of the "immortal Memory enabled near the end of his life to Take a glance at of Robert Hurns" was proposed by visit London in order to meet the women from other national represen-sequence of complaints from tenants the opinions on Mr. Roce stated that In con- the Colonial Secretary, Hori. Mr. Nintellectuals of that cily. Now if you tatires. "Frailty, thy name is wo-of the upper storeys of the premises, died in hospital. It is also uncon- L. Smith. He said:
Having heard this toast proposed that
know your Boswell you will realise man," said Shakespeare; and again; he visited the defendant's
110or on last year and the year before by two that there was some good conversa-"God hath given you one face and January 3 and found that two stop-of Talca gaol collapsed, the prison-
Hon in London about then-Geld-you make yourselves another." From cocks had been fitted to the succesalve Governors, I feel rather smith and Burke and Garrick and Russia we have Tolstoi's pronounce pipes in such a manner as to impede overawed by the gravity of the task Adam Smith and Reynolds and the ment: Women are a necessary un- the water from running to the floors that has been imposed upon me to-reat, besides Johnsort and Boswell pleasantness in social Life.” night. I must confess, however, themselves. It is not recorded which The Spanish poet says: "Woman's The magistrate remarked that the that I accepted the Chieftain's hit any of these intellectual giants the chief weapon is her tongue: therefore offence was more in the nature of a vitation without much real healtation old dominie met; but it is recorded she takes good care that it doesn't nuisance to the occupiers of the other As I admit that I have been for the that when he got back to his Low-rust."
floors. Mr. Rose agreed, and said that best part of my life something of
of land home he gave his considered But why pursue this unsavoury the P.W.D. had also been given some nowadays be what would!
called a opinion that London had nothing to tack of appreciation? Sumen it to inconvenience, for as a result of the Burns "fan" By this I do not mean offer compared with the talk that he say that Burns's native Scottish gal-reports they had to send workmen to to suggest that I have
hat I have read all his had for years been hearing in the lantry made it impossible for him to the premises and thus much time had poems, and I frequently stall my Burns farmhouse.
think of woman in those cynien! been wasted. The matter had now engine over his broader examples of is it to be wondered at that the
ferms.
been rectified. the Dorie. But in my schooldays outstanding figure
For Burns owes as much to the In hoposing the dne, the magistrate came under the influence of Thomas
It is said that he could fine defendant his ploughshare lassies, as they owe to him. Carlyle's le
peasantry, book about "Heroen and Hero-warship" and so naturally turned up a field-mouse, instead of undeniable that the best of Burns's anything up to $250, which was the grew up with something. Like an in-ordinary yakel, should go home and knew all kinds the lovely
expletive like an Poetry could not have been written maximum penalty.
"if 'twerena for the lassies, o". betlef that Robert Burns has immortalize that "sleckit beastle" in Morrison, the cultured Clarinda the CLOTHES LINE AERIAL
He Mary certain claims to be included among lines that have rung through the delicate Highland Mary, and the the world's great men.
civilized world?.
honest Jean Armour. He knew also: Silence and Soludo
The sulky, sullen dame, And that leads, me to the third
Gathering her brows like gather-
ing storm, his early employ-
Nursing her wrath to keep it
warm,' and who could bully her husband sa
grained beitef
Now you may say that a person: who was born and bred, ns Carlyle
letting out
when
of such
was, in a place called Ecclcfechan point in which I think Burns was would be liable to a certain amount lucky-I mean
of racial prejudice or even local pre-ment.
Judice. But this is not at all borne novela tasub courud in one of hist
place in such a team of stars.
014
on
neid
"He must to her his dear friends!
secrets tell,
Fine Imposed for Having Unlicensed Radio
tened
tures to stop clocks and rend frigh
The tremours were strong enough in Fukushima and Ibaraki Protec-
people out of doors. No casualuca are reported yet.
The epicentre is described as being ut a point about 20 kilometres off the eastern
of Fukushima
coast
woman, Lam Mul, of 15 Lan Kwal
A fine of $10 was imposed on aPrefecture in the Pacific.-Domei.
Fonk, by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday, for being in possession of a radio set without a licence, She pleaded gulity, and said the set had been given her by a man who had left the So it is but atting to remember Colony.
And dreads a curtain lecture worse
than hell."
tory.
"The Lassies" in History
IN MUSICAL COMEDY
Chinese Cast to Perform
of the effect on a man's out by the other names in his mind of living in list of "Iferoes"
salling --Cromwell
and the inestimable benents Napoleon. Martin
rtin Luther and John
at that Knox, Dante and Shakespeare and should think that ploughing a
ond solllude" are his words; and I Samuel Johnaun—in addition,
spring morning is
is the early an course, to Robert Burns himself. nearest And one is at once impelled to ask
equivalent that the dry land on what grounds could it be right to can offer in the way of silence and
solitude. It is select this Scottish peasant for a that many of Burns's carly poems and, as 4 Burns supper assumer said that the set was found on in-.
an undoubted fact
the lassies on occasions such as this;) Mr. J. Key. Inspector of Wireless,
Play for Relief were composed actually at the tail of national character, it is also niting formation received. A clothes line I suppose it would at Orst sight the plough; and throughout his life to remember the part which "The on the root was used as
Theatre goers will have the op- seems paradoxical to apply the word we can surely see the traces of that Lassien have played in Scottish His- and was so cleverly disguised that play of excellent quality "Debutante
an aerial,
portunity of seeing on American "lucky to
a man who was born to early apprenticeship. grinding poverty and hard manual You all know his weaknesses. He
it was dimeult to detect. No owner Goes To Town," acted by an entire who suffered all his life from drank too much, especially towards Catherine "Barlass, Mary, Queen of summons was taken out against the on March 1, 2 and
We are all acquainted with Deldre, for the set could be found, so a Chinese cast, at the Queen's Theatre grievous health; who spent his the end of his life. He let his head Seats, days dodging creditors and duns be turned too easily by his sudden what of the Lassies that remain and Flora MacDonald. But
principal tenant, in this case the
With Dr. Rhodes, of Lingnen Uni- and bailiffs; and who finally died rise to fame.
defendant. And he no more "unwept, unhonoured, and unsung?"
verstly, as supervisor, O'Yang Yu-- quite some time before his fortieth attempted to resist any of the "Inssies There is, for example, the immortal licence for the set a few days after chen, director, L! Fa, stage manag→
The woman, he added, took out a birthday. But I think it is justifiable o than he tried to interfere with the Jenny Geddes who flung a stool at its discovery, but there was reason Daisy O'Keefe, dancing director, this er, M. Andre, music director and to say that in certain respects Burns green growth of the "rashes 0." the minister in St. Giles Cathedral, to believe that the set did not belong musical comedy was lucky or perhaps it would be) I Am tempted to quote what and thus net ablaze the smouldering to her but to someone who had used produced for the purpose of raising is being carefully more proper to say that the world another poet wrote about yet another Scottish discontent at English rel-her name to take out the licence. was lucky in certain of Burns cle- poet:
glous Interference. Now, Jenny ha:
funds for relief work, cumstances.
An application for confiscation of "Such stains there are as when never been given her due. Indeed, the set was not granted.
a Grace
some have tried to rob the lassies of Sprinicies another's laughing the reflected glory by declaring that
face
Jenny was a man in woman's clothi- ing, That theory, however,
the
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
The Chinese Youth's Medical Re- In Arst place it was lucky that
lief Association, which has a good Burns flourished (if that is the ap-
reputation for its national salvation propriate word) right on the crest of
work has organised the play, which that amazing tidal wave that we call
With nectar and runs on."
has a cast of notable and experienc- "New Romance" which started, Very improper to splash another promptly derided by the irrefutable Outline of Buddhism," scheduled to
15 The lecture entitled "A Short ed amateur players, I suppose, with Rousseau and a few
lady's face but after all she was argument that had Jenny been
Grace Cheng and Banky Yip will others and swept clean through Grace, and after all it was nectar. man the stool would have hit, and Brother Chee Hay, has been
abe delivered to-day by the Ven.play the leading roles, and the Europe in the last years of the So, may one not say-after all it was not missed, the minister.
can-famous Chang Kung in' On the celled owing to the lecturer's un-
The eighteenth century. In literature, in Robble Burns, and after all we did other hand, it is urged that the off-veldable departure from Hongkong. Hierbert Tong, will show oft himself Romance of the Western Chamber," musle, and above all in polities men get the nectar of those heavenly clating clergyman was for some reason suddenly started to love-songs of his?
A married Instead, the Manuk Lodge of the man, and thus an expert through Theosophical Society will hold
in un ente Pr throw out their chests and breathe
It is not altogether easy at this long practice in uvolding missiles.
The cast includes Blanky Grace the pure air of reality and simplicity distance of time to understand the
social teu and question and answer But the flower of all Scottish meeting, to which all friends of the Ilaya Kwok,
Cheng, Gran Mo, 1lerbert Tong, and sincerity after centuries of im- reasons for the Immense and im heroines "the Star that shines abune Lodge are welcome.
Kay Ma, Fred prisonment in the elinins of the mediate "rage" for Burns and his
them a + remains anonymous. She
Chong, Eisle Wong, George Chow, classical tradition.
poems. I have suggested that his led no armies, and won no wars.
Elsle Cheong, Wilfred Selo, Dara sincerity and his simplicity and his But "pence hath her victories no less he was served with good old Scottish Gorden Lee. Bella Ma, David Oul, Chow, Lali Po-kel. Mary Chan, Take a simple process like falling hatred of hypocrisy were something victory was indeed a most peaceful those days not known in England. Kenneth Wong, Beatrice Law, Ken- renowned than watt and this lassic's parritch-a dish, as you know, in Salina Luk, George N. Lily Chan, in love. Here is how Dryden, only Duchessea in Edingburgh had never one. Yet she did what all the in- The guidwife of the house rather neth Wong, Mary Yao, James Poon,
quite new In those days, a few years earlier, would manage come across funt that sort of plough- telligentsia of London dared not do. timidly enquired how he had liked Priscilla Ho, Hugh Chen, Florence
"I attempt from love's sickness to tumbled ilko ninepins. And at the Johnson, and, "mirabile dictu." left politeness, replied: "Good enough Thu,
before and they naturally She answered back the great Dr. it. and Johnson, with characteristic Lam, Tony Wong, Elsle Law, Ann fly in vain.
Patricia Ho, Since
other end of the social senle there is him without um myself my own
11 word to say. The for the hom fever and pain."
Softly, yet instantly, Art Carneiro. an interesting sidelight in a chance faint
Ince famous lexicographer had arrived in came the answer: "Then, sir, let me Very beautiful and very elegant, no
remark made by Lockhart, the Scotland full of his nntl-Scottish give you some more". doubt; but about as passionate as that when Burns on his travels came unes:
blographer of Scott, who saya prejudice. (You know the sort of
And It is with a deep sense of cross-word puzzle.
"Much may be made of a gratitude to the lassies for what they to an inn af night it was usual for Septeman-If he be caught young") have dune for Scotland and for Burns Burns on the other hand very even the waiters and estiera.io Jump At his first breakfast over the Border that I ask you all to be upstanding wisely starts by falling violently in leye, and then when he can restrain out of bed and dress hurriedly so
it;
with Dryden
hisolf no longer te bursts out:
boy
as to miss nathing of his wonderfulį
sort nowadays-not so much
And I will luve theo still, my dear, poets as film-stars and nulators and
Spelling Bee
So deep in luve am I,
"As fair art thou, my bonnie lata,
conversation.
this
Well we are used to something of
Till
Till a'
n' the scan gang dry.
And
I
And the rocks melt wi' the sun,
While the sands of life shall run."
I will luve thee still, my dear,
Personally Survives
a personally which manages to sur-the others? vive even after death?
the seas gang dry, my dear, the like. But how are we to explain HW many of there words are
correct and what is wrong with
mitligate Mohawk
Acquatic aquamarine -aquaduct:
It is true that he did not always If you go to certain obscure club- Molchan wait for the rocks to melt before houses in Scotland you will still find. English Oxford Dictionary. spell- transferring his eternal devotion to preserved there a eleck or a putter inga of these words will be found on some other Bonnie lass, but one canlor. even a ball that has had the page
BO
and drink to the health of "tic Lassies."
"We've faults and fallings-granted
Clearly We're trail, backsliding mortals
merely Fo-bonnte squad, priests wyte
them sheerly.
For oor grand fa
But still, but stul, I love them
dearly
God bless them g?"
Mr. J. Moodle mado an able response on behalf of "The Lasies":
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