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Hodgson, aged 60 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5 o'clock to-day. No flowers by
February 14, 1940.
Happy
days
again
(after to-day)
T is a very old notion
that the birds of the air A perfect pattern of one should Valentine card-is-seen nowadays. choose their mates on be enfolded, layer upon layer, in February 14.
a limp, love-lorn lace-like paper,
According to country folk to-day is the day. when the birds of the air choose their mates.
Eat birds, eat, and make no
waste,
In his poem the Parlia with a heart fearfully transfixed ment of Foules written by by an arrow stiff and straight wooden clapper when he sings:| Geoffrey Chaucer in 1380 and not to be gainsaid. these words are to be read: serts that a good farm goose An old English proverb as. For this wan on Scynt Valentynes should begin laying before
day,
Candlemas, and some Jack and When every fou cometh there to Jill of the rickyard improved
choose his mate..
manner:
Candlemas day,
The invention of the hearsay upon the say-so in the following is a very perfect example of the delicate fancies that so often be-- long to the lore of the country- side.
I lie here and make no
haste;
If my
come-
master chance to
You must fly and I must
run,
And the lonely goose-girl on
The good housewife's goose the green common, allver with
pussy-willows and yellow, with! gorse, what plaint does she carol? 1
Jay';
Valentine's day,
Yours and mine may.
How charming a thing it is toʻ contemplate the fidelity of the birds, the fidelity of these little written in 1477 this sentence In one of the Paston Letters creatures with bright eyes and may be read "And cosyn, uppon shining. feathers who dance Fryday is Saint Valentynes above our heads light as leaves Day, and every brydde chasyth with rosy breasts, him a mate." Certain it is that chaffinches with white opau- there circulate about this central lettes, and the little wrens who day of February strange pro- are always careful to build an creant winds, winds that whistle extra nest for the cock bird to into our ears ever the same
tune:
request. MAHER-At the Queen Mary Hos-linnets
pital on February 13. Maria Janina Barros Malier (Jany), st the age of 73. The cortege will
pass the Monument al 5.30 p.m. to-day, starting from Anderson's Funeral Parlour. No flowers by request. Macao and Shanghating from.
papers please copy.
The
Thongkong Telegraph than he could remember, and
Wednesday, February 14, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong.
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Hongkong And Finland
ELEVEN weeks of war against surging hordes, armed with all the airerait and tanks and artillery that the energies of the continental mass
of Russia can produce, and Finland still unconquered and resolute. From the blows of the giant her hend is bloody but unbowed." Military crities, even the friendliest, thought the Finnish resistance could be no more than a gallant gesture soon overwhelmed. The army of the Finns numbers less than 500,000 men, and Stalin counts his hosts by millions. But
despite bombing of her towns, despite attacks from many points supported by heavy gun-fire and squattron after squadron of tanks and Inoxlinustible waves of infantry, no deadly wound has yet been given to the Finnish defence. The vallant resistance offered to the latest mass- ed onslaught makes most heartening The Finns all maintain reading. themselves against the central threat to divide their country across its norrowest point at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the Manner- helm Line I cross the
Karelian
these aerial
Yesterday returneth not, Perchance to-morrow come
th not; There is to-day; misuse it
I am a pretty wench, And I came a great way
hence
And sweethearts I can get
none;
But every glossy crow Can get sweethearts enow, But I, pretty wench, can'tj
get one.
It was the same little maiden!
perhaps who, as she sat combing
G.O.C. the Canadians won't waste his soldiers
by WILLIAM BARKLEY
་་་་
"I'm a soldier, not a scholar," He said tie words with a laugh.
He had been speaking of the health her hazel locks against the of the Canadian troops on their mossy root of the old ash tree, voyage to Britain. Among them all well sheltered from the wind there were two cases of pneumonin, but, said the general, "they yielded to sulphanilamide treatment."
made up the following verse:
Gray goose and gander Waft your wings together And carry my mother's
daughter
A word which would twist most tongues came trippingly off his. It was when some one said "Spell it" that Major-General A. G. L. Mc- Naughton, comunanding the Canadian. said he was not a scholar. Active Service Force, grinned and
.
I remember being shown by the awan-herd at Abbotsbury two old swans that had been faithful to each other for longer
not. the same constancy may be Shakespeare in A Midsummer observed in the pair of ravens Night's Dream makes Theseus, which every year nest on the the Duke of Athens, playfully great chalk headland of White reproach the pretty lovers he
Over the one strand river. Nose, in Dorset.
And in the cities the same finds sleeping side by side in the forest.
happy unrest is felt. The clouds
In truth he is both scientist un FROM rook to warn, He causes them to be wakened that float above the steeples and soldier. In himself he admirably re
com with his hunting horns and says, the chimney pots of our town presents that quality of adapted panions of our lumpish earth- "Saint Valentine is past: Begin seem to tempt us to a freer life. intelligence which he is bullding Into existence, live under the fond these wood birds but to couple and as we return home from mechanised, expert and technical-
There are rumours in the air his Canadien division. His belter is
modern
unit belief that, fly where they may, now?"
army they never can find a better It is the time of the year when work we know that at every can be built in short time from civil- mate than the one they have we all of us prick up our ears street corner we may meet in fans if the civilians are technical ex- chosen.
again to look about for tangy the daffodil twilight the one we per's already, and particularly if they-
Are Canadians. It may be that the sparrows cakes. It was on Saint Valen have searched for all our life. those favoured outriders of the tine's day that John Ridd met long I goddess Venus have remained Lorna Doone, as all dazed and Up street and down street untroubled by any such honour- half-drowned he regained con- able illusions, fluttering invita- sciousness to see her dark hair tions from rest to crutch every against the first primrose of the hour of the day in spring, sum- year! mer and autumn.
Many of our best nursery
Each window is made of
glass
And if you go.to.the.further
house
You'll find a pretty lass. With the passing of Saint
that
That is where we score us a ploneer country," he told me. "We fare accustomed to #gliting the rigours of nature. We don't need to create technical experience. We have a wealth of it which merely requires adoptali adoptalion."
Andrew or "Andy" McNaughton- "I'm of Scottish ancestry is in him- selt miss
part of that Canadian wealth of It is not to be doubted that rhymes give expression to the Valentine's the careless fellcity of these fancy-free restless yearning for
Day, the softer adaptable experience. He has allpred into khaki as lightly as he slipped it broad-beaked finches contrasts romance that moves our hearts months of the year are before off in 1910. In the last war, as in poorly enough with the high during the weeks of February need not affright us blow as he February 1916 as major of artillery, us. Even the month of March this, he was one of the first Canadian devotion, let us say, of the turtle Fill-Dyke. Boys and girls can- may his donkey's horn.
contingent, landing in France in dove, which Shakespeare so well not live by moil and toil alone. knocks off in The Winter's Tale:
I an old turtle,
Will wing me to some wither'd
bough, and there
My mate, that's never to be
found again.
Lament till I am lost.
This represents an exaggerat- Isthmus defies the massed artillery ed picture of such life-long and the squandered legions of Stalin.infatuations, and who knows but But civilisation must ask Hself how the little roguish house-top Jong human fortitude con struggle against such monstrous odds?
spadgers do not have the best of it! "As long live the merry as the sad."
VALENTINE'S DAY is
Finland is civilisation's outpost against barbarism. If her freedom and the noble way of life which she has won go down before the Robot tyranny of Soviet Russia al Scan- dinavia will be threatened by a like any case, and a day full of "a queynte day" in slavery, The League
of Nations has asked its members severally mischief. Girls who go to sleep In what manner they intend to assist with four bay leaves pinned to Finland in defeating an outrage the four corners of their laven- which they condemned and for which dered pillows on St. Valentine's theressor was expelled. From Eve will be sure to dream
American States, which
has already been given that knowledge without further to do from British as their Valentine-the lucky
the Finna will rece other material, boy who will have the right to
the
demand a new favour for every one of the twelve months.
It is seldom that a proper
were the prime movers in this dect- dreams of grace and pleasure, ston, Finland can only obtain finan-and the first person they see the cial support or, in me, foodstuffs. next morning they must ac On behalf of the British Empire the promise factories aircraft and Britain is acting in close cone with the French. What have
сопсень neutral countries to offer Finland? She is the champion of them all In a desperate fight, and some of the European neutral nations have great material Interest In her causo. Those across the seas owe it the support not only of common humanity, but response as compared with the ald
We in Hongkong, although
the great Powers can give, it is thei away from the scene of Russian
for unity of a world opposed to barbaric barbarism, can do our small bit to sama time. Hongkong'e £465, when aggression that really counts. At the help Finland's resistance. It gratifying to note that, despite the other parts of the world alding in like la multiplied by similar donations from many calls on our pockets, Hongkong manner, may easily be the last strow boa responded readily to the "Friends that will break the Rusalan camel'a
of like ideas.
Is the cause of the whole civilised world and, however small Hongkong's
China Motor Agencies and Sales Co. of Finland fund Inaugurated by the back.
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Consul for Finland, and that the total yesterday stood at $7,734, enabling
The Finna have done miracles and, two remittances totalling £405 to be in aiding the worthy cause launched by the Finalsh Consul in Hongkong,
P.O. Box 673
sent to Finland.
It is well said that Finland's cause we are alding them to continue.
in which he had done militia service since his undergraduate days of 18OP.
THE rook boy, or, as we
BEFORE us are all the He ended the war in command of the call him in Dorset, the crow-starver, has his mind on noons of the summer, Sunday
happy Saturday after-Canadian Heavy Artillery. other matters than his ugly PLEASE Turn To Page 3.
ARF A Mo', ADOLF!
Between wars he has applied his scientific brain to the military art until four years ago his Government put him at the head of the Canadian National Research Council. He is himself the inventor of a cathode- ray direction-findor. Precision Instru ments of altcraft, meteorological equipment, metallurgical research-- auch have been the interests of Canada's Commander. But all the time he was applying his laboratory experience to mechanical warfare,
Just on the outbreak of war he came to London with the War Mission of Canadian manufacturers and returned to sprend his enthusi asm for the newest guns which he had inspected here. Once again he has left the laboratory and back into khaki, the embodiment of slipped the skilled technician who sizes up to his idea of the modern soldier.
At nifty-two he is slim, loan- featured and alert as a blackbird. His black moustache is greying, but there are bushy black eye-brows over the sombre brown eyes which concentrate the frankest and most comprehending gaze as he speaks to
His manner is natural, quite unstudied and all the more impres sive for that. He is grim and
serious.
"This is not a glorious adventure that we are engaged on." he said. "That is not the spirit of my men. We regard it na an unpleasant Job that has got to be done ant done as quickly as possible so that we can
et back to our civil evocations."
War as he wages It is not going to be any affair of wasting, men on gallant but hopeleas exploits. "Machines and intelligence aro' the things
to win the war with" he says, "nal young lives."
¿
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His task now is to extract the
Inst ouneo of benefit from Army's experience and to equip his own OWN magnificent manpower with every device that can render them formidable na a scientific fighting force.