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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 2, 1957.

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

DINNER-DANCE

Welshmen Celebrate

St. David's Day

Some fifty members of the Welsh community with their guests spent a convivial evening at the Glouces- ter Hotel in celebration of

St. David's Day.

The occasion was the annual dîn- LONDON paper has been anner and dance of the Hong Kong

nouncing, not without regret, St. David's Society.

I suspect, that the "last words” of Mr. D. F. Davies, President, was Sir Philip Sidney are among those at the head of the table, others pre- which must be rejected as apocry-sent including Mr. E: Lloyd Jones, phal

Vice-President, Mr. H. Hall; Honor- It is therefore high time that alary Secretary, Mr. E. R. Price, im- Society for the Protection of Last mediate Post President, and the fol Words was formed.

loming Welsh people and guests: Mr. What we need whenever anyone A. Brearley and Miss Brearley, the announces that some hero of the Rev. Mackenzie Dow, Mrs. Davies, past did not use the words (last or Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrop, Mr. and otherwise) attributed to him is a‡Mrs. T. J. Price, Mrs. Hall, Mr. society whose secretary would re- and Mrs. H. S. Dinsdale, Mr. and tort at once "How do you know?" Mrs. Davies, Sur., Mr. D. Davies, Probably there would be very few Capt. T. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. cases in which any precise esidence Burgess, Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Lab-| could be produced on either side and, rum, Mr. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. A. failing evidence to the contrary, J. Blake, Mrs. Chew, Mr. and Mrs. tradition would have not only the J. Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. R. McNeill last word but the last words. A party of N.C.O's and men of the

It is true that there have been Royal Welch Fusiliers were among cases in which alternativė "Last the Society's guests. words" have been produced. Dis- The Loyal Toast was proposed by raeli used to say, for instance, that the President and "Land of My Pitt's last words were not about Fathers” was sung in Welsh by Mr.

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pies of Bellamy, the House of Com-heartily joining in the chorus. mons caterer.

In proposing the toast to St. Da- Sometimes we are left a choice vid, the President apologised in his between two versions of words. At native tongue to the Welsh men- Salamanca, Wellington said to bers for his lack of a more exten- Pakenham at one point, "Do you see sive knowledge of the language and those fellows on the hill? Move on then, continuing in English, said with your division and drive them be was glad that the study of to the devil.”

Welsh was being given more atten- There are two quite different tion in schools now than it was in versions of Pakenham's reply. Ac-jhis younger days. cording to the historian Napier, "The Welshman,” he added, "is a Pakenham said, "Yes, if you will creature of paradoxes; complex give me a grasp of that all-conquer-moody, poetical, imaginative and ing hand," which surely would have sentimental. Perhaps it is no won- surprised the very English Welling-der that our more simply constitut ton considerably. In fact the re-led English friends find it difficult ply is one which might rather have to understand us. (Laughter). Per come from Berthier, or Lannes, or haps it is no wonder that they eas some other of the Little Corporal's ily dub us fickle, insincere and, pos- marshals.

sibly, dangerous! It is so much

The other version of this in- simpler to give us this linguistic cident says that the reply was "Ibawling out than to try to change will, my lord, by God," which sounds us. more authentic.

Another use for this suggested society would be that of rescuing people from the odium of “words” they never used.

Still, some ghosts might echo the words of someone or other on news papermen: "They leave out things I said, but they put in things I wish I had said.”

All this reminds me

of other

HOLLYWOOD STAR PASSES

Hollywood, To-day. Hollywood was robbed of its se- the death yesterday of De Witt Jen- cond star in the past few days with

nings Reuter.

BIBLE SOCIETY MEETING

famous "last words" which, for The annual meeting of the Local some reason, the history books don't Auxiliary of the British and For- publish.

eign Bible Society will be held in

Napoleon: Gosh, what a gold the Bible Depot, 6, Queen's Road at digger Josephine was.

Wellington Blucher won Water-

Ioo.

Blucher: Wellington won Ioo.

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pet gigolo. Both of them looked

Water-very tired. Lady Toupe was, of

course, a Brown.

Any Hong Kong Bank Chair- At the next table was my old man: And we're still losing money friend Dr. Bughaus (Devil Take General Franco: I was in the Him) of Pogranitchnaya. He was pay of Fascism.

The exile of Doorns I

wanted the job anyway,

never

performing his favourite parlour trick of balancing a plate of soup Jon his head while doing “press Me. I think this column is very ups" on the floor. An amused funny

SOCIAL NOTES

spectator was Mr. Claude Digitup, prominent socialite connected with the PW.D.

another table sat Bombardier

In my favourite restaurant not Jones Grenadier Smith (29) · and

a thousand miles from Queen's Grenadier Smith (42) This party Boad the other night I saw Miss was a trifle boisterous owing to it Bunty Card-sharp Whoosit being with her pet Peke "Pansy-Wansy brewer She was feeding it with wa

The little beast,

looked sick

Lady Toupe was ther

should

day, and they were

thin

a dividend soon corner, moodily

the world go

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