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DEATH
LELLO-Suddenly nt Macao on March 11, Helena Loureiro Lello,
widow of the late Dr. A. P. Lello,
and dearly beloved daughter of Mrs. Mary Loureiro Rond.
The
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SAINT PATRICK
0-DAY, Irishmen the world over, and not least iu Hongkong, are honouring the memory of their patron Saint. And no one has a better right to that title than St. Patrick even though he was born in Scotland or, as some say, in Wales.
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THE STORY of his life, is obscured yet enriched by legends.
St; Patrick's Breastplate-his hymn on the Trinity-was for long supposed by the Irish pen-- santry to have the power of warding off evil.
This was presumably an ex- tension of the Saint's own power to perform miracles.
He is popularly credited with sion of all venemous snakes from being responsible for the expul-
Ireland.
On another occasion, we are
told, he emerged victorious from Druid priest at Tara. a contest in magic skill with a
by
Lucelmael, the Druid, WAS
D. J. C.
able by incunta- tions to cover the plain with snow, though he could only make it disap- pear at the same hour a day later.
The Book of Lismore tells us that when the newly born child was taken for baptism no water could be found to celebrate the sacrament until, when the sign of the Cross was made with the infant's hand. a spring immediately gushed LEGEND APART, however, it
forth.
At sixteen, Patrick was captured by pirates and carried, with many other
"Thou canst do evil, but not good," said St. Patrick, and when he had blessed the plain the snow was no longer there.
is an undoubted historical fact that Irish civilisation awes miuch to St. Patrick.
His missionary work did a great deal to spread the light,
Hongkong Telegraph. persons, to Ireland where not only of Christian knowledge,
for six years he remained a in Con-
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Democracy on Trial WHAT IS clear regarding the rape of Czecho Slovakia is that that country, whilst not perfect in its administration of minorities, suffered dismemberment and obli- vion not for its own sins against
minorities, as Hitler would have us believe, but for the ambitions of other states to confiscate those minorities and the territory they inhabit.
Czecho-Slovakia's fate was sealed not so much because it was damned by its minorities as because it was blessed by geography that became the target for the wort of attack against which even the fastness of Bohemia proved inadequate forti-
flention.
"Whoever is master of Bohemin
naught.
It was there that he first became conscious of the work in which he after wards spent his life,
"I used," he says, "to re- main ever in the woods and on the mountains, and used to rise to prayer before day- light, in the midst of snow and ice and rain, and I felt no injury at all."
HIS
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❖ LIBERATION from slavery came about in pecu- liar way. An angel told him to ask his master to free him.
but of the civilisation and cul- ture that went with it.
He bridged the gap between the Irish and the Roman churches; and in the strength
his organisation gave to the scattered Christian communi- ties of the country did Ireland find the seeds of her future a land of "saints and scholars."
grains
YOUR HEART -Forget It
HAVE you ever been to your
ductor to Dalc for a thorough overhaul? If so, I wager you heaved a bigger sigh of relief on hearing his "Nothing wrong with
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
2-44
Unit Petera N-Vierta, Jes
"Don't forget to cheek the anti-freeze and put a blanket on the
radiator, and let the motor warm up before you drive
and don't you catch cold?"
BRITAIN PREPARES-IV
NATIONAL
SERVICE
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the next war Britain, for the first time in 900 years, will be in grave danger of armed invasion. In the past the navy kept her shore intact. The danger now is from the air. To meet this modern peril, Britain is organising her civil population. Every able-bodied man and woman will have a job to do. This series of articles, which concludes to-day, tells the story of Britain's army of, "passive defence", and of the hundred-and-one other ways in which Britain is preparing for war at home.
ernment plan, local authori ties, public utilities, and private tirms ure doing their own bit for Britain's defence in the next
War.
ALONGSIDE the general Gov-installed Special evacuation plane have been dawn up, and high wall: and deep trenches have beeti dux round the tanks to prevent fire from spreading. At one depot a huge concrete saucer has been built around the tunks to entel the burning liquid. In addition the motor car industry has instituted a national register of its own, and it alreny knows the capacity of 20,000 garages in the country. It has divided Britain into urens and districts with lists of all owners and operators of commercial vehicles, but not private cars. Local offleers will have power to com-
of local authorities, In the care while they have more or less a free hand to decide their own means of defence, they are controlled by the Government to this extent; that the national exchequer will loan from 60 La 85 per cent. of the cost.
His master refused to do this unless he received in payment a mass of gold as large as his head.
"When the angel heard this, he-your-heart, anyway-than-ty-expenditure of about 8,500,000-a-mandeer-in-an-emergency-
said: "Follow yon bour, and he will root a mass of gold out of the ground, and take it with. thee to thy master."
With the gold Patrick re- ceived he was able to buy his
is master of Europe." The thought freedom. was Bismark's, and every attempt of German lenders to move eastward
has impressed them with the saga- city of that observation.
How Herr Hitler will be able to reconcile his previous expressions of the right of self-determination with the seizure of a land in which nearly eight million people now be- come a minority in Germany is
hard to conceive.
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thing else.
People worry about their hearts
100 much, and if it isn't their hearts It's their blood pressure.
I remember n man who ted a sedentary life in town, and reaped its usual fruit in extra fat, a bluish complexion, a tendency to bronchitis, and shortness of breath.
I took him to one of the greatest heart experts, in London. And this is what the specialist said to him: "I wouldn't change hearts with you for worlds. Yours is simply overfed and under-exercised. Go up to the mountains and give it some better
through that unnecessary encum- brance of fat. Go and slim your- seit."
So the man climbed a hill or two
It is estimated that this means an
year over four years, with a continu- ing cust of 70 per cent, of that paid hy the local authorities.
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LIERE ARE some of their schemes: H
The Port of London covers an aren of 45 miles of ducks and quoys and 70 miles of river. It has a
with 20,000,000 population of rudius of 100 miles of the river. An average of 1,000 ships pass through it
every week, and it has an selual pomilation of 60,000, 20,000 of whom work on the river.
To protect this vital source of sup- plies, the balloon barrage and anti- aircraft guns will be particularly closely clustered in the port arca. In addition, the river workers are being trained in special A.R.P. work, and the stevedores are learning to
load and unload at night in minimum of light. to its
IN SPITE of his great work in Ireland he is credited with three hundred the erection of churches, the ordination of three hundred and fifty bishops and three hundred presbyters-St. work to do tha: just pumping blood Patrick never really felt at home in the land of his adoption.
writes one "It is pathetic," authority, "to read how the exile daily. The result was that his heart,
overtired through labouring In September, it will be recalled, would fain visit Britain, his
nourish excess tissue, recovered Herr Hitter purported to desire no home, and Gaul, where he had full strength. He is now the most
active man of his age I know. more than the absorption of Germany friends, but feels himself many's own kin and expressly dis-bound by the spirit to spend the
* chulmed all intention of dominating-rest of his life in self-chosen the Czechs. How then, is the satis- banishment, to maintain his faction of that right for the Czechs work, and especially to protect not as much n sine qua non of Euro- by his influence the Christians, pean peace as the satisfaction of the whom dangers constantly threa rights of the German minority. tened. His energy and undis- There is no reconciling Herr Hit- mayed perseverance had accom- ler's solemn pledges and undertak-plished a great work and he de- ings at Munich, and subsequently, cided not to desert it till death in his speech at Nuremberg, with compelled him." his actions in Central Europe and, to our shame, we have been made, unwittingly perhaps, a party to the
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VERY doctor is fonillar with the worried, pallent
who says "I want you to have a look at my heart; I've been having such pains there lately." The doctor ands in almost every case just what he exprels: }
heart, but a normal stomach overburdened with Antu- lence,
Adults are terribly easily scured about their hurts. When they are overworked or worried their hearts every now and then give a beat out of rhythm. They feel this like a sudden pounding,, and get alarmed.
Yet all they want is a little ex- plonation, the possibility of getting the mid of 菲 better sleep with sedative, and the hope even of a holiday,
Blood pressure is another great phobin. I used to know a clergyman of B1 whose son was a doctor. The with son was very proud of his father's the
County Down. Legend tells dismemberment of a nation which
us that for twelve days after his put its frust in Democracy.
death there was no night, and Democracy's diplomacy las lam- entably failed against the Totalitar that angels "kept guard over his body, and diffused a fragrance lans. Firally, forgotten Halte
as of wine and honey when re- Selassie could at least have been turning to heaven." Emperor of a considerable portion, Down-patrick claima of his country had he broken faith Saul the honour of being his with the nations who broke faith last resting place at any rate with him. Spain would not have there is a stone there which has faced the threat of vasantage to acquired importance as the Romo had Democracy insisted that | Saint's tombstone. the Non-Intervention policy which The same stone indeed is re- it framed had been carried out.puted to cover two other saintly Democracy undoubtedly has falled remains, for there is an Chinn.
couplet which runs-
The record, in fact, is one To- talitarian Stutor will view with Batisfaction and historians with contempt..
...
old
"In Down three saints one tomb fill
Patrick, Bridget and Colum- cillo
blood pressure, which reached astronomical height of 230, yet never seemed to interfere with the old boy's habit of going out into the garden to
new flower-bed in lay out a
morning, and going for a row on the lake in the afternoon.
the
there
So don't worry about the blood pressure or the hardness of the arteries either till your doctor telis you to Before anything adverse happens to you in that line are likely to be great discoveries made. They are on the way now; and I shall tell you about them Flintly.
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Shelters and decontamination and
huls first-aid
are being built. Trenches are being dug, and at some places barges will be used as shelters. It is planned that there will be cover of some
sort every
few hundred yards.
Four thousand
urc
volunteers needed, and it is estimated that 2,000 have
enrolled already.
The seventy miles of river as far az Teddington has been divided into 25 sections, and it la planned to have a Beet of fire-fighting tugs, and barges with Bre-pumps towed by motor-boats. Another idea is to have scores of fast motor-boats as dis- patch riders.
The heads of the heavy industry concerns have been in conference. and have drawn up plans to put it on a wartine basis at 24 hours' notice. The iron and steel industries have n plan of ea-ordination that will enable a turn-out of 14,000,000 tons annually aliguro never yet achieved. The engineering Industry is rendy to switch
10 over munitions, Con- mittees of supply for labour and material have been appointed.
The electricity concerns have de- clled to form a national reservo of equipment. It will cost about £3.- 000,000, and they hope the govern- ment will pay half. The remainder will be rulsed by u levy on authorised undertaldings, but not at the expense of the tax-payer.
THE METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD, some time ago, decided to spend over £100,000 on defence. of which the government promised to provide £103,000. The board has already spent £300,000, and is getting a little worried about the government grant.
on
The money is being spent portable pumping plant, units fur sterliizing fouled mains, steel plates for windows und roofs of pumping stations, Are mains and hydrants, and shelters at works, pumping stations, and in the basement of the head offices. The key personnel of 27,000 has been trained in A.R.P.
Under the direction of the Brilishi Medical Association, the co-ordina- tion of all medical services under single body is being arranged. national register of doctors and nurses is being prepared.
A
series here are some random itemk
AND TO CONCLUDE this showing how Britain has adopted the scouts' motto: "Be Prepared";
Sir John Anderson has stated that and women will be 300,000 men needed for A.I.P, work in wartime. He also said that under the national service scheme recruits will be in- structed less in anti-gas precautions than in incendiary bombs and high explosives.
There were approximately 1,100,-- 000 volunteers for A.R.P.-720,000 men and 300,000 women-at the end
of January.
Southport, Lancashire, is the Brat district to put out the house full" sign for A.R.P. woric, ........
Sandbags are being manufactured at the ante of 2,000,000 a week. all During
the crisis 8,000,000 were
The coal industry has made ar rangements to prevent the rush of miners to the army as they did in the world war.
The motor-car factories aro
over to airplane geared to switch construction.
WHILE THE government labora- teries are experimenting in thethods of propulsion for plant. vehicles and fuel, the oil industry is niso making its own arrangements.
At the oil and gasoline reserves,
the along
Thames, particularly, special fire precautions have been
available. A total of 275,000,000 is scheduled.
One of the organisations under the heading of national service is the Auxillary Territorial Service for women. They are the successors to the famous war-time W.A.A.C.'s, und they will perform non-combatant duties with the regular and ter- ritorial armies and the Royal Air Force. A strength of 2,000 officers (Continued on Page 11.)