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The occasion of the publication of the hundredth volume of the Victoria History of the Counties of England was celebrated re- cently in the University of Lon- don, whose Institute of Histori- cal Research has been respon- sible for the History since 1982. The work is, as Lord Macmillan taking," and it is difficult to declared, "a great national under- exaggerate the importance of the immense accumulation of data that has thus, been made avail- able, and no doubt to a large ex- tent saved from oblivion:

It is an odd fact that the counties of England, so small in area, for so many centuries held together in the one political, soc- ial and cultural frame, and sel- dom divided from one another by geograprical barriers, should yet differ among themselves to the. degree that each has a peculiar body of tradition, and a collec- and tion of customs, manners methods varying more or less from those around. Yet so it is;

Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 14, 1939. and the time is not long past when the natives of one county regarded, not without reason, those of a neighbouring county as "foreigners,”

REFUGEE CARE

From this point of view the Government's attitude towards Victoria History, besides being the Matshed Settlements pro- an amazingly detailed footnote posal, suggested as a solution of to the story of England, has an the problem of housing refugees extra value; for in so far as it who are not destitute but are un-records the progress of commun- able to obtain accommodation, ities that are such by reason of cannot of course be made known the people's characteristics, it until the plan has been submit-attains a little of the significance ted in concrete form. There seems of a history of the nations. no obvious reason, however, why

the response should not be fav- ourable. Official⠀⠀⠀ objection

to

open-door refugees camps was Spelling Bees. based upon the fair assumption

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that knowledge of the existence The B.B.C. has followed up its of such a camp would create recent Anglo-American spelling rather than solve a problem, re- bee by commencing a series of fugees would pour into the Col-these events, and if one. may. ony in ever greater numbers: judge from the success that has the camp would encourage fur-so far attended it, it seems like- ther influx and false pretences ly that this old-fashioned pas- by workshy locals. The new pro- time is going to enjoy a popular posal contains the vital distinc-spell, and that we shall soon hear tion that occupiers of: accommo- the "murmuring of innumerable dation provided would be ex-bees."

pected to pay for it and as (a) It is, of course, something of an official census has disclosed a reflection upon English 'as it is over 25,000 people sleeping in the written and pronounced that a streets, many of them against game of this sort can puzzle with their will and (b) with the threat its intricacies even the most cul- of epidemics ever present it is tured. In fact, a foreign student desirable to be able to exercise of the language may be forgiven some measure of control in the if he imagines at times that the interest of public health, it should English tongue is in its cheek; suffice for the Emergency Re- and it is almost possible to be- DANCE OF THE YOUNG MAIDENS

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Kong or of the Hong Kong Gov-bounds, and when the spelling. ernment. That state of mind ob- bee could have had no sting. To- scures the realities of the situa- day, attempts are made to întro- tion. The refugees are here. Off-duce phonetic spelling, but so cial figures appear to disclose far these have met with little about 175,000. But those figures success, and the efforts of Smith take no account o of those who minor, who is a constant if in- have arrived by junk, or who voluntary pioneer along these have crossed the border on foot, lines, are still frowned on by or have reached the Colony byl

Genres in authority.

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