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DEATH.

worthy to be praised. The critics,

if not "with the surest touch," with the pen that recognises true But whatever literary worth.

any critic may say to remind us even that such a thing as "Tam o' Shanter" is in many ways the Estrongest and matures of all his works, that in it he surpasses himself, and that no masterpiece of narrative so concise is to be found even in Chaucer Celebra- tion will continue to be made of one, who was first and last a re- presentative of a great people,- poet-and a man.

The "Immortal Memory."

To-day is Burns Day, and GORDON-On board 5.8. wherever Scotsmen congregate "Hector," on January 23, the "Immortal Memory" will be Gladys, wife of J. H. Gardon. pledged in truly Scottish fashion. (Gibb, Livingston & Co. The name and works of Robert

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known and loved wherever his language is spoken and his named revered and

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Hongkong, Monday, January 26, 1925.honoured wherever Scotsmen are

BURNS.-

CARDINAL MERCIER.

DEATH OF HERO OF "THE" GREAT WAR

BELGIUM IN MOURNING,

(Reuter's Service)

Brussels, Jan. 28 The death is reported of Cardinal Desire) Mercler, Arch- bishop of Malines since 1907.

Body Taken To Malines.

Brussels, Jan. 24.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1926.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

January, 1928.

28, Thurs, Capitulation of Paris.

1871.

29 Fri, Rt. Hon. H. Childers

died. 1896.

Even a sketch, the authenticity' A CALENDAR. 25, Mon, Robert of which has yet to be established, Burns born, 1759. makce pens run, not in Scotland 26, Tues., Robert Applegarth alone but wherever the English

born, 1834...

tongue is spoken. For Burns was 27. Wed., Sam' Gompers, born, more than a Scottish poet in the»

1850;

restricted meaning of the term. His appeal was as wide as the four winde.. He touched the chords of human sympathy as few before him had done, and [30, Sat., John Burnett died, 1914. while the Scottish Dozic in which The crowds thronging outside. Sun., Abolition of the Corn he sang may pass, like other

dialects, I will live in his words, Laws, 1849. the, Narsing Home waiting to file:

To-day is the and sweeten the future of men'a past the body typify to the deep ROBERT BURNS. anniversary of lives. Beauty he saw in things sorrow felt throughout the coun-

the birth of a held vulgar, dignity he revealed try at the passing of Cardinal

really great poet who spoke so in humble toil, and he imprinted Mercier.

His Majesty the King, members that the common people could on the hearts of men the fact, of the Cabinet, the Diplomatic understand him, as well as the coming more and more to be learned. Scotsmen worship him, understood, that there is nothing Corps, and Parliament visited the but he has won great fame necessary low in lowly estate. death chamber..

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The body will be taken to despite his dialect, wherever Eng-

lish is read.

An old chronicle Malines, where it will lie in state-

ST. PAUL'S DAY. says: On the and decked with his full robes

What is the secret of it? Just JANUARY 25. 26th of January symbols of office.

this: He was always the natural

(1554) being St. man, his thoughts were those Paul's Day, was a general proces- which had a universal appeal.sion of St. Paul by every parish, We all of us have felt the call both priests and clerks, in copes, of:-

Cardinal Mercier

It is expected that the Cabinet will grant a State funeral on Thursday.

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to be found-and it is difficult to find a place where they have not. On January 25, 1750, Robert Burns was born, in the Nttle cot- tage built by his father's own

Condolences have been received Time has long since flown when hands, at Alloway, near the town

from all over the world. of Ayr. This "auld clay biggin' it was the custom to generalise is still standing near the banks

Dense Crowds. about Burns as man and Burns as and braes of Bonnie Doon" and

Thirty thousand persons filed poet. We rarely find learned dis not far off is the ruin of Alloway's!

"auld haunted kirk." Burns past Cardinal Mercier's body quisitions in literary journals looked forward to the day when before it became necessary dealing either with Burns or his "man to man the warld o'er shall close the doors. The crowds were work, and the recent flood brithers. be an a' that." That so dense that they became un- of Christmas books, special spirit has been deepened by the [editions, and those "de Locarno agreements in an age of which Burns could have to pro- Juxe" productions which

| vision--an age preceded by a tice collectors and the wealthy. welter of war and the slaying of did not include any of the price. millions of men whose loss the less utterances of the Scottish World deplores as much to-day as during the dark years of the poet. This may buggest Great War Burns could not somnolence on the part of Burns foresee the modern Armageddon, lovers, or, as in other things, that but he had the vision to anticipate

the day when the Locarno spirit | the fashion in poetry is changing is necessary for the uplifting of

en-

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and

THEY SAY THAT

controllable, and, it is reported, following a disturbance, several persons were arrested

BRITISH TRIBUTES..

"Fine Courage and Patriotism."

(British Wireless Service.)

(Cardinal Mercier who was born

"

to the number of an hundred and What is title, what is treasure?7sixty, singing Salve festa dies,

What is reputation's care! If we live a life of pleasure,

sure.

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with ninety" crosses borne. The procession was through Cheap Does it matter how or where?unto Leadenhall. And before went two schools; that is, first, all Well, he lived his life of plea. the children of the Gray Friars, Many blame him. Let and then those of St. Paul's them. We have his imperishable school. There were eight bishops, verse, his fun, satire, and song and she, Bishop of London And we honour him as the great mitred, bearing the Sacrament, opponent of humbug and upholder with many torches burning, and a over. And so of the value of the real qualities of canopy borne man over the superficial.. about the churchyard and in at the West door, with the Lord! It is not at all Mayor and Aldermen, and all the BURNSIANA. strange that every Companies in their best liveries. findi relating to And within a while after, the King Burné excites the keenest interest. eume, and the Lord Cardinal and New Zealand uncovers à frag-the Prince of Piemont, and

ment of his poetry and the news divers, lords and knighta. At the is flashed round the world. foot of the steps to the choir, as Dunfermline unearths three the King went up, kneeled the manuscripts and the Press ia on gentlernen lately pardoned, offer- edge to learn their contents. Aing him. their service. After Broxburn hotel proprietor pur-mass, they returned to the court chases the window of an inn atto dinner And at night bon.. which Burns passed a night in fires, and great ringing of bells in one of his journeys from Edin-every church. And all this joy burgh, and there is a clamour to was For the conversion of the see the pane on which the paet realm. had scratched the lines:-

The ants about the clod employ

their cares

And think the business of the

world is theirs.

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Lo! waxen combs seem palaces

to bees,

And mites conceive the world to

be a cheese.

COMMUNIST CELLS.

SECRET ORGANISATION IN BELGRADE

(Reuter's Service.)

Belgrade, Jan. 24.. According to the newspapers,

I cannot help SHAKESPEARE feeling that Lear

CHARACTER. At the end of his

aplendid career, When he strolled in the teeth Of that storm on that heath, Was-well just a little bit

"queer.!!

FOR PARIS.

LUNCHEON FOR SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN.

(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby, Jan. 24.

Sir Austen Chamberlain, who as a result of the enquiry follow for more than a week has been ing the recent arrests. of Com- confined to his rooms at Rapallo owing to influenza, has now com- munists, it is indicated that a pletely recovered, and will be able secret organisation for the estab-to leave for London or Tuesday. lishment of Communist cella was It is reported that a luncheon," directed by Moscow via Vienna,

at which the French President and The Bolshevik emissary, who M. Briand will attend, has been was arrested, was found in posses-arranged in his honour on Wednes- sion of instructions and funds, and day, when the British Foreign was to have taken back to Moscow Minister will break his journey in certain documenta, which were to Paria. have been procured by Yugo- Slavian Communists.

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HOTEL FIRE.

Rugby, Jan. 24. It is not the men of letters who the nations and the cultivation of High tributes are paid to the have handled Burns with the that, brotherly spirit for which he fine courage and patriotism, dis- Burns em- played during the early stages of surest touch. Men to whom letters pleaded so much.

phasised the manhood of man and the war by Cardinal Mercier, mean little or nothing are quicker because of his splendid spirit of whose death took place at to understand him; and they are democracy all who love their Brussels yesterday.

Mercier's undaunted champion- quicker to understand him be. fellow-men, though separated by

time and space, stretch their ship of Belgium's rights during cause, for all that he wrote or

hands across the vast deep and the invasion by the German

(Reuter's Service,) sang, Burng was essentially a man the distant years, and welcome Armies made him one of the of like passions" whose, weak him as brother; true to the spirit heroic figures of the Great War,

Tokyo, Jan. 23. nesses were very human. In this of Robert Burns they claim kin-

The Directors of the Nippon Since the war Cardinal Mercier Yusen Kaisha and Toyo Kisen respect Burns is everyman, and ship with old Caledonia. Though devoted much of his time to" an Kaisha formally agreed to the ments for a Spring campaign in

born in Scotland Burns belonged effort for effecting a rapproche- everyman is prepared to lend and still belongs to the whole ment among the various branches, amalgamation this afternoon, pro- Morocco willing ear to what he wrote,, and world,

to-day, because of the Christian churches. He vided the Diet grants a subaidy, The campaign is expected to whereby the NYK will be bring the Riffan trouble to a to be told year after year of the of his influence, members of the presided over a meeting at message of his words. His won to one another.

human family are drawn nearer Malines, at which several English enabled to construct superior satisfactory end,

Bishops were present, and a Union trans-Pacific vessels. derful instinct for truth and

of Anglican and Roman Catholie frankness is the secret of his

Churches was discussed. The genius and of his style. No one I love Manchester its foggy movement has up to date proved questions this no one can. He weather and all Manchester au- inclusive, could state a naked truth in the diences gave me the first start in phrase that went home by reason M.P.

my atage career-Mrs. Philipson, in 1852 had been Archbishop of TO VISIT. EX-KAISER ON HIS Malines and Cardinal ince 1907. of its simple directness of form,

We were constantly being held He was the founder of the "Revue and by the ring of sincerity up before the world as a nation Neo-scholastique." During the (Hculer's Servlae.) which came with it. No sermon which had lost its liking for work. Great War he was uncompromising

Amsterdam, January 23. werth so much as a tallow dip has resent that very much.-Lady In his opposition to the German

invaders, and one of his pastoral It is reported that the Nether ever been preached on the life of

etters an eloquent exposition of lands. Government has agreed to Burns, but the mere story of his If a schoolgirl's so-called leisure the civic and, national rights of allow the former Crown Prince of life is an enthralling drama. We filled with dances and other Belgium-resulted in his being Germany to visit Doorn on the may be sure that in the references arown-up forms of amusement she placed under arrest in January, anniversary of the ex-Kaiser's

cannot do serious examination 1915. In November, 1915, he birthday, on January 27. which will be made at this even work-Miss Edwards, Birkenhead invited German ecclesiastics to |ing's celebration by the St. headmistress...

form part of a committee for the COBHAM'S FLIGHT. Andrew's Society, this fact will One reason for the eternal quare investigation of Belgian atrocities, be commented on. The life of a rol of the young with the old is and a year later issued an appeal ARRIVAL IN NORTHERN

RHODESIA. post in those days and in the that the latter used to go about in to public opinion regarding the the guise of repulsive advertise: deportation of Belgians by the more scurrying moments of time

ments of what youth must come to Germans. His War Memories differ little in essentials Tempta Mr. Horace Thorogood.""

appeared in the London Times" tions, and pleasures are much the

(December 19

ha also pub hed Criter

ique same; the only difference is in the ruise in which they appear. It may he thật hát Hurt Gear batter man, he had been a Wors

Gainford...

The Hague, January

Les

BIRTHDAY

(Routery Service.)

FIVE PERSONS KILLED IN AMERICA.

(Reuter's American Service.)"

Allentown (Pennsylvania),

Jan 24 Five persons were killed and eleven, are missing as the result of the fire which destroyed the Hotel Lafyette.

[An earlier cablegram appears elsewhere in this issue. 1

DUTCH FLOODS.

DECORATIONS, FOR ZEAL

AND COURAGE,

(Reuters Service.)

Amsterdam, July, 24.1

A Royal decree institutes

Broken Hill (Northern-special decoration, in the form of Rhodes), Jan. 28eliver or bronze medals, for those Mr. Alan Cobham, the British who most distinguished themselves airman, who she on a flight from by zeal, courage, leadership, and London to the Cape, has arrived Salf-sacrifice" in connection

the recent floods.