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Wyndham St., Hongkong
'Phone 26615 April 24, 1939
Deep Shelters
THE WHITE Paper on Air Raid THE
Shelters. Issued in London on Friday, opposes as impracticable for that city the scheme for providing deep bomb-proof shelters for the civilian population.
This would appear to vindicate the policy, apparently adopted in Hong- kong, of favouring a system of dis- perse trenches, which gives protec- tion against blast and splinters, but not against direct hits, incendiarism or fas.
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St. George, Shakespeare, and Shirley Temple
ESTERDAY was St.
George's Day. Shakespeare died 323 years ago, and Shirley Tem- ple was born ten years ago.
Probably more English- speaking people will re- member Miss Temple's anni- versary than will bother about Shakespeare or St. George.
up
At a few subscription dinners held by this society or that, a few chairmen will wind
modelled on the eloquence of Lord Baldwin with the words "Gentlemen,
speeches
toast England."
the
A few solemn companies of men raise their glasses and a muttered echo "England" will go round the room.
I KNOW very few facts about St. George; I suppose
anyone knows
don't many.
There are two St. Georges. One is the real one-the knight in shining armour who, from the back of his splendid charger, digs a writhing dragon in the lady in a nightdress waits for belly with his spear, while
her roleasc.
"
I am sure that he was never a prig, which some people think inevitably accompanies saintli- BC99. He lived as jolly, as laughing, as coloured a life as any other man. He enjoyed his earthly life to the full, but be lleved it to be not the only one.
The finest man I know has
This is St. George and the Dragan as we knew them on the sovereigna and half-sovereigns. The design was by the famous Italian sculptor, Benetto Pistrucci, and it is said that he originally fitended to use it on a gem he was preparing for a private client.
Thin St. George was in fact, I so why not St. George with his suppose. Perseus, who rescued spear? Andromeda; St. George, being a Christian
1
many of the qualities of St. George. He never spenks without reason; he is fearless; not very analyti- cal; prefers to be doing things rather than dis- cussing them;
loves his coun- try, but believes that other coun-
tries should live
in the way that they prefer; is greatly generous but secretly so; likes to rescue beautiful mai-
dens; and grows royes in garden.
his
More Dragons So, like him, there are, I
am sure, many men
He is ours, too, because, al- though he belongs to us he s In any case, he is England's also of the whole world. He martyr, stole the Patron Saint and yesterday was would understand that difficult was beautifully celebrated in the him my cap for a moment. dragon story from Perseus and his day, and I would like to doff problem of loving your country and women in England. And Golden Legend.
and, at the same time, wishing yet I fancy that St. George may well to all the world.
feel a little disappointment as he What he would not under-
looks around him here and there.
A Better Patron
He may think, gazing about
unreal one; the one who lived in The other St. George is the
of noble Christian family; much better patron for us thun ment-a readiness to sacrifice red villas, too many uncultivated history; was born in Cappadocia
FIRST I would say that stand is that too common Eng-
he, is, I think, a very lish habit at the present mo- England, that there are too many served the Emperor Diocletian John Bull, who, in these days men, money, health, anything acres, too many men not only as a soldier; rebuked him for his of close international contacts, for any other country than one's unemployed but not over-anxious persecution of Christianity; and is a little out of date. died a martyr at Nicomedia.
own, of believing that the peo to be employed, too little kind,
Such, however, is not the case.
John Bull is blunt and down. ple of other countries are all generous merriness, too weak a The system of complete protection two figures and think of the square on his two feet; but is he people of one's own country are
I like, myself, to mingle the right and healthy, and stands either white or black while the consciousness of spiritual life. advocated for Hongkong hy newspaper envisages the tunnelling rescuing the princess from the And is there not possibly a little
this fearless soldier who, of the Peak, which is something en
after not, perhaps, a little insensitive? just no colour at all.
But, after all, he is a Saint of tirely different to The latter system soup excavation, dragon, defied Diocletian and arrogance, and a little
But he would understand ready
Common Sense. He has a quick, be us lin-
smile. com- patriotism wherever it might be, dragons so often that he knows was martyred for his faith.
He practicable in Hongkong as it is
has slain I placency over the things that he and his great aim would be to well how many more there are apparently. In London. Apart from suppose the two are incompatible doesn't know, in his rubicund blend the patriotisms of all the to conquer. interference with
underground-or were there dragons in countenance? sewerage systems, etc. the tion of water seepage would at once
ques- Diocletian's time?
countries in the world into a render it diffeult of
One has been apparently shot to me very definitely to belong to
When I look at him he seems common understanding brother- accomplishment
And, as he once again surveys In this Colony.
only this week in West Africa, the world of the Fourth George
hood,
the rivers and the rocky coasts, For that you need sensitive the dim lino of purple hill, the and the Fourth William-aren't ness to other people's feelings thick, dark woods where ha we 150 years older-and possibly which is where I think John hopes the bluebells will be allow- wiser, than he?
Bull is a little lacking.
ed to live undisturbed, he is not But the first beautiful thing to mention it) St. George was a but there are worse things
And then (although I am shy complacent, he is not contented, about St. George is that he is of saint. He died for his faith. worse things, surely, than to be no time and of all time.
We know that he was hand- God. He cared for something weather-beaten,
He believed, that is to say, in Saint and Patron of this old, some, fearless, a protector of the bigger and greater than himself. country. weak; these things are good,
But by reason of its topography, Hongkong, unlike London, can over- come the obstacles inherent to ver- tical excavation by horizontal tun- nelling.
The Peak provides this Colony with almost ready-made facilities for a system of deep air-raid shelters. We have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that the system urged by this newspaper for Hongkong would long ere this have been adopted in London if the topographlen! features present in this Colony were avaliable in England's
Let us polis.
the deep shelters were rejected by Sir reasons why John Anderson. They were:
1-Diversion of material, effort and money from active defence,
2-Technical dimeulites of con- structing a shelter system which would guarantee
speedy and sufflelent access to the population which would want to use it; and
3. The time factor of construc-
-To-day's Thought-
THE Englishman's strong point is a vigorous insu- lartty which he carries with him, portable and sometimes insupportabic.
We are
-INGGINSON,
objection can be sustained in Hong-not a single word on record that at a loss to see how this But best of all perhaps there is kong, unless the authorities here he ever spoke. He was a doeri admit that an emergency is so close
because it is too late...
We Love Display
an-
we
upon us that any attempt to com-of deeds and not a bonster of mence a system of real protection is them. hopeless. That objection is, we be- lleve, a most negative and fatalistic
I am sure that after he had one. It raises the implication that, slain the dragon he took a system of real protection not having princess back to her father, and the been started two or three years ago was considerably embarrassed trulson, nothing can now be done by the torrent of feminine ap- when there was time to bring it to
preciation with which she re- tion
At the risk of becoming repetitive warded him while they were rid- The first objection can
and baring, we will continue to raise ing to the city. apply
hardly this subject of adequate air raid pre- to ra tunnelling system in cautions for Hongkong civillans until Hongkong. The material is avail
When the King acclaimed him, uble and, without doubt, so ja the Government announces 01 definite the trumpeter blow, the people labour. Unlike
scheme for deep mind is the spectacles wo witnessed was to be off and discover
policy, Indelibly glamped on our shouted, his one great desire excavation, tunnelling requires noin Canton astronomical expenditure.
hundreds of torn and other dragon or so. shattered bodies of men, women and The second objection docs not children who apply to tunnelling.
rolled on The
In- adequate system drive would enter virgin rock and sail, Kwangtung capital of protection from utilised in the tc., it would not interfere with blast and splinters- a system which existing underground sewage
ONE reason why has apparently been adopted other systems and
In would not be He
Hongkong From our own expert-our patron is, I am sure, because English chose him for obstructed by the problem of water seepage from river, sea, or subler-demning surface shelters as death-he had very little to say.
ence we have no hesitation in ranean artealon flows. That the traps. We saw between twenty and technical difficulties of constructing a thirly victims dug from a living blazoned with light and colour. Another la that he is so em- tunnel through the Peak from the city to, say, Aberdeen could be over-
tomb in the grounds of the Sun Yat-Have you ever considered how como is borne out by the fact that
sen University, victims of a bomb the length Involved in little, if any,
that exploded 200 yards away. Blood brightly packed with colour our nore than the length of the first
ran red in trenches dug to give blast poetry is, from Chaucer, through tunnel on the Kowloon-Canton Roll-
splinter protection. Way.
did not all occur in Spenser, Shakespeare, Coleridge, tenement areas; many were in what Keats, Tennyson, to Walter de in Unlike London, the major part of Hongkong's population needing pro- standards, sparsely settled atreels.
were, according to Hongkong city Maro? Porhaps because our tection in the event of an air raid is
climate allows us too little of the confined to an area of only a few
China
hair long neres. For the people residing in the
recognised that the system of pro-mont, display.
since sun we love light, colour, move- denrely populated tenement siens on
tection from blast and splintera is the island considered by
Inadequate in mass air raids. somo
In authorities to be the most densely
Chungking,
And St. George, although most the war-time capital populated arta in the world-there
where the terrain is somewhat similar unostentatious, is, with his can be no protection but tunnels.horizontal tunnels, of the type we fresh, jolly complexion, his capa
to that in Hongkong, vast lengths of armour of silver and gold, his Their buildings are death traps and urge for this Colony, have been com-risoned horse, the sunlit land- there is no room fur trenches,
and
DUNVEGAN CASTLE EDINBURGHI
rose-growing.
I seal of the Macleod of Macleod. During one of the first snowstorms. Fire damaged the south wing of fought savagely to quench the flames of the season, more than 200 islanders Scotland's oldest castle, Dunvegan on and salvage the the Isle of Skye, for centuries the' within the ancient walls
historic treasures.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
ploted to provide complete shelter for
colour and movement.
and casualties
These
By Lichty
The third objection in the White at least afty per cent, of the pepula-cape at his back, a knight of "Of course, I hope what I told you about her lan't trual- Paper again ralees the Ume factor. tion..
mü;ust friend, you know!”!: