1932-09-22 — Page 7

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932.

CANTON STEAMERS

GO BACK ON RUN. SCOTS PAY TRIBUTE

Strike Settled When Concession Given.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Canton, To-day.

agreement.

TO POET'S MEMORY

THE CHINA HA

ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY CENTENARY DINNER

PIPERS PLAY TO GUESTS

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un-

ARMS PARLEY HAS REACHED

REAL CRISIS?:

{Continued from Page 1.)

MR JP. CHRISTENSEN DIES SUDDENLY

Funeral Of The Late Mr. W. R. Stevens

...*-- "

MR. LO CHUNG KUF'S BURIAL.

Mr

Mr. Henderson," proceeding, de- [clared that the Disarmament: Con- ference had reached its most crucial stage and he urged the delegates to start afresh on a new road. Every: The strike of seamen on the}

thing that had happened since the s.s. Sai On and Charles Hardouin, |

The":"passing" of MrGIR adjournment had strengthened teir Christensen at the home of his son, of the Tung On Company, Hong

case. Fateful decisions" mus "be Mr. E. Christensen, 8, Kimberley Kong, was settled yesterday,

taken,"he said, 31.

Villas, Kowloon, yesterday "morn- Following a conference in which

US is Not Present.

ing, will be learned with much re the company agreed to certain

Geneva, To-day gret by his many friends demands, both vessels left for

The Technical Committee of the Born In 1867 a native of Tern The Hong Kong St. Andrew's contains a description of Bannock Disarmament Conference reopened drup, Zetland, Denmark, Hong Kong.

The mediation of the Ministry Society, with many friends, gather burn, second only to the Flodden its proceedings on September 16 in Christensen came to the East of Civil Affaire assisted the ed last night at a centenary dinner piece in "Marmion, was not so well the absence of the representatives 1899, Joining the Green Laling. in honour of one of the world's received as the previous poems had of Germany, the Soviet Union and Cement Company, Ltd., Hong The terms of settlement in greatest poets, Sir Walter Scott. been, and it was then that Scott, the United States. The reason of Kong, and remaining with them clude the strikers' demand for As a ballad-maker few sank with while looking in a drawer for the non-attendance of the Ameri- for 83 years, the reinstatement of the No. 1 the "Scottish Minstrel and his fishing tackle, came across the

can delegates is understood to be{ Deceased Is survived by three on perpetual finished manuscript of "Waverley the cutting down by the American sons and two daughters. fireman formerly working on the works live

begun ten years previously. He Congress of the credits for the Tung, On, and the dismissal of memorial to the man.

Mr. A. Stevenson. Chieftain of completed the mad sent it to the United States representatives to the Japanese crematorium in goo-

The remains were cremated the present No. 1. The scale of

the St. Andrew's Society Introduced publishers, and then went off on a mere shadow. wages for members of the Tung the maker of the evening, Mr. Wm. trip round the Northern Light As to the Soviet representatives to this, a funeral service was held kunpoo Valley last evening. Prior On Co.'s steamers is to be on a

houses. When he returned he learn the Moscow Government has in by the Rev. E. G. Powell in the similar scale as that of the Hong Kay

"To-night, gentlemen, we are ed to his surprise that Waverley, formed the secretariate of the Protestant cemetery, in the pre- Kong, Canton and Macao Steam-

Dismissals of assembled to honour the memory of which had been published ony Conference that Acting Foreign sence of a large number of friends, boat Company. Chinese crew members shall be a very great and noble character mously, had taken been world by Commissary Litvinoff would attend those present, including Mr.

comes down the storm:

the meeting of the Executive Com Christensen (son), Mr. Allen made known to the Canton Chin-one whose name

In rapid succession came "Guy mittee of the Disarmament Confer Keith, Secretary of the Green ese Seamen's Guild, which will years untarnished by infamy and find new workers to take the unspotted by the breath of scandal Mannering, The Antiquary," "The ence which opened yesterday but faland Cement Co. Mr. Karsten -a Scot of whom every Scot, nay Black Dwarf," "Old Mortality." did not intend at present to nomin- Larssen, Danish Consul, Mr. H. places. The penalty for break. ing this regulation will be a fine a Briton of whom every Briton has "Rob Roy The Bride of Lammerate representatives for the other Dreyer, Mr. J. P. Xavier, Mr. F. of $1,000 to be paid to

moor" and "The Heart of Mid-commissions or sub-commissions of Carvalho, workmen at the factory cause to be proud.": the

The speaker then dealt with lothian. These made Scott a rich the Conference. TRAN Guild.

at Hok Un, members of the clerical Scott's life-story how as an ailing man, and although he had not The German Government, has, it staff at Hok Un, and others. child attacked by lameness he was acknowledged their authorship most is understood, sent a letter to the GANDHI'S FAST MAY BE FATAL sent to the farm of Sandyknowe, knowing critics realised that only Chairman of the Conference, Mr.those from the Directors and mem- Among the wreaths sent. were IN TEN DAYS.

where he developed. life-long pas- Scott could be their creator. He Arthur Henderson explaining, it is bers of the staff of the Green sion for the Borderland and became was lauded and feted everywhere, believed, the reasons why Ger Island Cement Ce saturated with the ballads and his by the Prince of Wales, by foreign many feels unable to attend the tory of that romantic country. At ambassadors, by statesmen, by Disarmament Conference as long the High School, Edinburgh, he was critics at home and abroad, and by as the question of parity remains Poona, Yesterday. noted not as a scholar but as a the man in the street. But he was unsettled.

Government diyer, whose death Gandhi was early astir to-day, story-teller and fighter-a lad" with unmoved. His simplicity of nature Rosie Urges Sympathy, and was fit and well. He received a marvellous memory who read all prevented success from spoiling him.

occurred, anddenly on Home, To-day.

Tuesday whose intervention is

A Tragic Dictation. sorts of books except school text:

afternoon. Whilst working on the del Popolo to-day Harbour pipe-linn. - calculated to terminate the fast books. On leaving school

he In 1817 Scott had his first attack published over the signature of its The remains were interred in the before long, as agreement on the studied law at the University and of serious illness, a form of cramp editor-in-chief a notable article on newly opened upper section of the vexed question of the untouch worked in his father's office, and, as in the stomach (probably gall Germany's claim to parity in the Protestant cemetery, the burial ables' franchise appears to be on a lawyer's apprentice, had some stones). This caused violent pain disarmament question. The article service being perfumed by the

times to make journeys into the and would have deterred anyone of takes the form of sokman warning Rew N. v. Halvard Hot The morning's visitors included then almost unknown Highlands less buoyant temperament and re-and states: "The future of Europe Those present included the the Liberal leaders and Sir Tel where his greatest joy was to talk solute will from writing. While hangs at the moment on an exceed-

Director of Public Works, Hon. Sapru Jayakar who spent two hours with some of Prince Charlie's dictating "The Bride of Lammer-ingly thin thread.” submitting to the Mahatma, a new veterans.

moor," the most tragic of his The writer passionately appeals P. B. Appe R. 80 Logan, A. Mr. E. M. Henderson, and Messrs. scheme evolved by a conference of In spite of his lameness he grew novels, he twisted in agony on the to France to take a reasonable at Nicol, E. Newhouse, L. E. S. Hodge, Hindu leaders at Bombay, and be into a strong and active young man sofa, and ordered the windows and titude in the question of disar A. W. Tickle W. Woodward A lieved to be acceptable to the unto whom a walk of thirty miles a door of the room to be closed lest ment, to save the world from the con- McBride and Gunderson of the touchables themselves.-Reuter. day was nothing unusual. When others should hear his groana. And sequences which a breakdown of Netherlands Harbour Works Com

Compromise Sought.

lever he could escape from the later, when he read that novel in the Disarmament Conference would London, To-day drudgery of law he Bombay reports state that Gandhi Liddesdale, Yarrow, or Ettrick col- a single incident, character or con-just demand for equality of rights

was off to printed form, he could not recollect entail and to grant Germany "her any approves the principle of the lecting ballads which were in danger versation it contained, and treatment. Frans Cocan Kus formula for the solution of the pro of extinction, gossiping with lairds, Otherwise fortune seemed to Min. blem of representation

old wives, beggars and salmon- smile on Scott. Novel after novel,

(Continued, from. Page 1.)

Seeking Agreement

· visitors

the horizon.

int

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"Gazetta

announced Mr. And

Mr. W. R. Stavena Burlada The funeral took place last quan- Ing of the late Mr. W. E. Stivens,

Many wreaths were sent The funeral of Mr. Lo Change Funeral of Mr. La Chung-kue.

kue, well-known Chinese merchan Legislatures of.. the depressed! poachers thereby gaining ex numerous articles and reviews as The following forthcoming wed- and for many years compradora of classes, which emerged on Tuesday perience and local colour for much well as a ponderous "Life of dings are

the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock from a conference between caste, of his later work.

Napoleon" came from his tireless drew Edward Carr Glass, marine Co, Ltd. was held yesterday after- Hindus and depressed classes

The Coming of Fame. pen. He entertained more lavishly engineer, of the Indo-China Steam con. The deceased was formerly leaders. He discussed the formula) Twice before he was thirty he than ever-and in his healthy in- Navigation Company, to Miss firms including the Hong Kong and associated with several commercial yesterday morning "with a deputa-published translations from the tervals fished and hunted. He was Janet Dunn Thomson, steno Yaumati Ferry Company, of which tion including Sir Tej Sapru and German. At that time be regarded a reckless rider with a great fancy grapher, en route to the Colony on he was chairmanÁ CONSP Mr. Jayakar at Yeravda Gaol.

writing as a mere recreation, re-for fording swollen rivers. Mungo board the F. & O. ss. Corfu, from A largely attended service was To-day the depressed classes marking that literature was a good Park's brother, himself a daring Home Mr. Carlos As de S. F. leader, Dr. Ambekar, who also is stuff but a bad crutch. In 1802 be horseman would remonstrate with d'Assumpcao, & United Terrace, Ho held at the Yat Pit Ting ravillion understood to accept the principle produced "The Border Minstrelsy," him "The deif's in ye, Shirral Mun Tin, Kowloon, to Misa Lyce in Kennedy Town yesterday. The of the suggested compromise, and

chief mourners were the five sons. This brought to Scott not only. Ye'll never halt till they bring ye C. dos Santos Oliveira, 14 Ashley and two daughters of the deceased. Pundit Malaviya, will visit Gandal fame but the acquaintanceship of hame wi' your feet foremost," Road, Kowloon.. to discuss the proposal.

dant Prominent persons at the service many men of letters among whom Gandhi's fast which began on were Wordsworth and Coleridge

In 1825 during a great trade de-(Continued from previous column) were the Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax, Tuesday, was undertaken as a pro and from then he became more pression the Ballantyne and Con- there was scarcely a former deper the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood, the Hon. test against a proposal in the Gov anxious to shine as an author. In stable arms with which Scott was dant who did not show similar DR. H. Kotewall, the Hou. Dr. ernment's communal award where 1806 his first great original work, connected failed and Scott, aged tokens of loyal affection.

8. W. Tho, the Hon. Mr. T N Chan by depressed classes, while being "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Pifty-five and suffering from a pain-But no human

Mr. DAWAratu or brain MRER ( permitted to qualify for votes" in

peared, and for the next 27 years ful malady, refusing to go bankrupt could endure auch saKO general Hindu communities, were Scott as poet, essayist, reviewer took upon his now

the Hong for period of 20 years, assured of a novelist and historian was the most shoulders the whole debt of $120,000 Nevertheless bes

droopine 1880 Scott had any minimum number of spokesmen in conspicuous literary figure in and pledged himself to pay off every ing all the orders of the doc the legislatures through separate Europe. electorates." Gandhi vowed that he

creditor in full. Then began the one-the command to stop work "Significant Monument.” - "The Lay of the Last Minstrel most heroic effort in all literary Then came a second with it the merciful illu history,

would fast unto death, until the award

pect

or

His Heroic Effort.

be struggle

in this res which, for a poem, had an unpre For the remainder of his days debt were paid and ha was modified, but the cedented sale, was followed by Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay "Marmion" and "The Lady of the Scott toiled unceasingly displaying MacDonald, stated in his recent

Among many notable pas a courage, determination and

Jetter that the award, which was re

luctantly made at request of the Indians must":

jam never

Borders!

in Marmion we have the famous fifth canto, regarded and only most eritier as the greatest bathi This:charse agreement of the communities description in modern literature, had six

themselves could.... substitute ANY “The Lady of the Lake"" in the best

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for those the Government had

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