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HODGSON-Died at War Memorial Narsing Home, Hongkong. February 14, 1040, Paul Mary
on
Hodgson, aged 60 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at o'clock 10-day. No flowers by requesi.
February 14, 1940.
Happy days
again
(after to-day)
T is a very old notion valentine card is seen nowadays. that the birds of the air A perfect pattern of one should choose their mates on be enfolded, layer upon layer, in February 14.
a limp, love-lorn lace-like paper, In his poem the Parlia- with a heart fearfully transfixed ment of Foules written by by an arrow stiff and straight
and not to he gainsaid. Geoffrey Chaucer in 1380 An. old English proverb as- these words are to be read: serts that a good farm goose For this was on Scint Valentynes should begin laying before
day,
Candlemas, and, some Jack and When every joul cometh there to Jill of the rickyard improved
choose his mate.
The invention of the hearsay is a very perfect example of the delicate fancies that so often be- long to the lore of the country- side.
upon the sny-so in the following
manner:
Candlemas day,
According to country folk to-day is the dau when the birds of the air choose their mates.
wooden clapper when he sings: Eat birds, cat, and make no
waste,
I lie here and make no
haste;
If my master chance to
come-
You must fly and I must
.run.
And the lonely goose-girl on the green common, silver-with The good housewife's goose pussy-willows and yellow with
lay;
Valentine's day, How charming a thing it is to Yours and mine may. contemplate the fidelity of the In one of the Paston Letters birds, the fidelity of these little written in 1477 this sentence creatures with bright eyes and may be read "And cosyn, uppon shining
dance Frýdny is feathers who
Saint Valentynes above our heads light as leaves Day, and every brydde chasyth MAHER,--At the Queen Mary Hos-innets with rosy breasts, him a mate." Certain it is that pital on February 13. Maria chaflinches with white epau- there circulate about this central Janina Barros Malier (Jany), at the age of 73. The cartege will lettes, and the little wrens who day of February strange pro- pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. are always careful to build an creant winds, winds that whistle to-day starting from Anderson's extra nest for the cock bird to into our OITS ever the same Funeral Parlour. No flowers by request. Macao and Shanghai Sing from. papers picase copy.
Yesterday returneth not, Perchance to-morrow come
th not; There is to-day; misuse it
'not.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wednesday, February 14, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20610
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Hongkong And Finland
tune:
I remember being shown by the swan-herd at Abbotsbury two old swans that had been faithful to each other for longer than he could remember, and
Shakespeare in A Midsummer the same constancy may be observed in the pair of ravens Night's Dream makes Theseus, which every year nest on the the Duke of Athena, playfully great chalk headland pf White reproach the pretty lovers he finds sleeping side by side in the Nose, in Dorset.
forest.
+
gorse, what plaint does she carol?
•
I am a pretty wench, And I came a great way
hence
And aweethearts I can get.
none;
But every glossy crow Can get sweethearts enow, But 1, pretty wench, can't
get one.
It was the same little maiden perhaps who, as she sat combing her hazel locks against the mossy root of the old ash tree, well sheltered from the wind made up the following verse:
Gray goose and gander Waft your wings together And carry my mother's
daughter
G.O.C: the Canadians won't waste
soldiers
his
by. WILLIAM BARKLEY
"I'm a soldier, not a scholar.
He said the words with a laugh. lie had been spenking of the health of the Canadian troops on their voyage to Britain, Among them all there were two cases of pacumonia, but, said the general, "they yielded to sulphanilamide treatment,"
A word which would twist most tongues came trippingly off his. It was when some one said "Spell [" that Major-General A, G, IL Hom Naughton, commanding the Canadian Active Service Force, grinned and said he was not a scholar.
Over the one strand river. And in the cities the same happy unrest is felt. The clouds
Ya truth he is both scientist and soldier. In himself he admirably re- He causes them to be wakened that float above the steeples and FROM rook to warn,
the chimney pots of our town presents that quality of adapted these aerial com with his hunting horns and says,
into. panions of our lampish earth- "Saint Valentine is past: Begin seem to tempt us to a freer life. intelligence which he is building
There are rumours in the air his Canadian division. Hla bellef is.. existeme, live under the fond these wood birds but to couple and as we return home from mechanised, expert and technical- that a modern army unit- belief that, fly where they may, now?"
better they never can find a
It is the time of the year when work we know that at every can be bulli in short me from civil- mate than the one they have we all of us prick up our cars street corner we may meet in ions if the civilians are technical ex-
the daffodil twilight the one, we perts alre
already, and particularly if they chosen.'
again to look about for tamay have searched for all our life are Canadians, It may be that the sparrows cakes. It was on Saint Valen-
long! those favoured outriders of the tine's day that John Ridd met goddess Venus-have remained Lorna Doone, as all dazed-and- of Russia can produce, find Finland untroubled by any such honour- half-drowned he regained con- still unconquered and resolute. From able illusions, fluttering invita-sciousness to see her dark hair the blows of the giant her hand is Itions from rest to crutch every
against the first primrose of the bloody but unbowed." Military
year! tritics, even the friendliest, thought hour of the day in spring, sum- the Finnish resistance could be no mer and autumn.. more than a gallant gesture soon overwhelmed. The army of the Finns
ELEVEN weeks of war against
aircraft-and-tanks”and ́artillery that i the energies of the continental muss
surging hordes, armed with all the
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 and squadron after squadron of tanics and inexhaustible waves of infantry, no deadly wound has yet been given the Finnish defence, The
Vallant resistance offered to the latest mass- ed onslaught makes most heartening reading.
The
Finns sill maintain themselves against the central threat lo divide their country across narrowest point at the head of the Gulf of Bothnin, and the Manner- belm Line across the Karellan Isthumus defer the marsed arilllery and the squandered legions of Stalin. But civilisation must ask itself how long human fortitude can struggle
nguinst· such monstrous odds?
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Many of our best nursery
Up street and down street Each window is made of
glasg
And if you go to the further
house You'll And
pretty lass.
ploneer
as a
That is That is where we scare
"We oneer country," he told me. are necustomed to fighting the rigours of nature. We don't need to create technical experience. We have wealth of it which merely requires adaptation."
D
Andrew or "Andy" McNaughton. "I'm of Scottish ancestry"--is în him-
KITA OF With the passing of Saint self part of that Canadian wealth of rhymes give expression to the Valentine's Day the softer
adaptable experience. Ho has slipped) the careless felicity of these romance that moves our hearts
It is not to be doubted that fancy-free restless yearning for months of the year are before into khaki as lightly as he slipped it
in 1019. In last war, as broad-beaked finches contrasts during the weeks of February- need not affright us blow as he contingent, landing in France
us. Even the month of March this, he was one of the first Canadian poorly enough with the high Fill-Dyke. Boys and girls ean- may his donkey's horn.
devotion, let us say, of the turtle
dove, which Shakespeare so well not live by moll 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- ed picture of such life-long infatuations, and who knows but the little roguish house-top padgers do not have the best of it "As long live the merry [as the sad."--
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
VALENTINE'S DAY 18 tyranny of Soviet Russia all Scan-
"à queynte day? in dinavia will be threatened
by a
Jiko slavery. The League of Nations any case, and a day full of 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 which they condom an outrage the four corners of their laven- the sugressor was expelled. From dered pillows on St. Valentine's the South American States, which Eve will be sure to dream were the prime movers in this deci- dreams of grace and pleasure, sion, Finland can only obtain finan- and the first person they see the cial support or, in time, foodstuffs. On behalf of the British Empire the
next morning they must: ne- promise has already been given that knowledge without further to do the Finns will receive from. Brush as their. Valentine the lucky
and for which
factories alreraft and other material, boy who will have the right to and Britain is acting in close concert demand a new favour for every with the French. What have the
neutral countries to
offer Finiandr one of the twelve months.
She is the champion of them all in
A desperate night, and some of the European neutral nations'have_great material interest in her cause. Those
9
It is seldom that a proper
across the seas owe it the support world and, however small Hongkong
is, the cause of the whole civilised not only of common humanity, but of like Ideas.
response as compared with the aid We in Hongkong, although far unity of a world opposed to barbaric the great Powers can give, it is the away from the scene of Russian Langression that really counts. At the barbariam, can do our small bit to help Finland's resistance... It
same time 'Hongkong'a £405, when gentifying to note that, despite the
is multiplied by similar donations from other parts of the world alding in like many calls on our pockets, Hongkong manner, may easily be the last straw has responded readily to the Friends that will break the Rusalan, camel's Cónsul for Finland, and that the total
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by the Finnish Consul In Hongkong,
It is well said that Finland's cause we are alding them to continue,
THE rook boy, or, as we
BEFORE us are all the call him in Doract, the
happy Saturday after- crow-starver, has his mind on noons of the summer, Sunday other matters than his ugly PLEASE Turn To Page 3.
ARF A Mo', ADOLF!
The second Australian Expeditionary Force has arrived
"Armstrong In the Melbourno
Egypt
February 1915. ns major of artillery, In which he had done militia service- since his undergraduate days of 1900. He ended the war in command of the Canadian Heavy Artillery.
Between warn he has applied his scientiac, brala. to the military art.
until four yours ago his Government, pul him at the head of the Canadian National Research Council. He is himself the inventor of a cathode- rey direction-finder, Precision Instru menis
of aircraft,
meteorological metallurgical research--- equipment, such 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 be come to London, with the War Mission of Canadian manufacturers and returned to spread his enthusi- nem for the newest guns which ho hud inspected here. Once again be- has left the laboratory and slipped back into khaki, the embodiment of the skilled technician who sizes up to his idea of the modern soldier,
At ifty-two he is slim, léan...... 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 one. His manner la natural quito unstudied and all the more impres sive for that. He is grim and serious. terhis, is not a glorious adventure that we are engaged on," he said. "That is not the spirit of my mea. We regard it as on unpleasant job that has got to be done and done as quickly as possible so that we can get back to our civil avocation
War, as he wagos, it is not going any affair of wasting men on
but
hopelous "Machines and intelligence
to
gallant
things to win the
not young lives."
wor
exploite
Are the
with" he says,
Ille task now is to extract the last ounce. of benent from Army's experience and to equip own magnificent manpower, with every device that can render Uiem formidable as a scientifle ight force