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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, -19-17.

The Christmas Moonlight Is Cold

IN

THE CRADLE CHRISTIANITY

OF

In this cradle of Christianity, By ROBERT MILLER and Joseph went five miles from

there is col moonlight, and men are vowing violence and vengeance upon their neigh- bours,

Christmas Eve comes again to the Holy Land.

IDER"

But there is no "multitude of heavenly

to proclaim "pence on varih, goodwill to ward men,"

Instead, there is war, and bloodshed.

There is no Christmas truce between Jew and Arub. Since

the partition of the Holy Lund, voted by the United Nations, the conflict has quickened.

Thei

Jerusalem to Bethlehem. since the United Nations action. Toad le macadamized now in- epil and Today I left atrife behind. Istead of being of

winda It till walked the winding road from gravel, but Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

through hardy olive trees.

Soldiers are still along the read, but now they are British troops in green armoured cars instead of the legions of Caesar Augustus.

This is the highway Mary and Joseph travelled 1947 years ago. As I left the walled city of Jerusalem and descendtd into the valley, I met an aged Fran- cisean friar. He stood looking at the Juffa gate and the an clent Roman guard tower.

He anid: "Some things change but little, even in 2,000 years."

He spoke great truth. There I have just filed a dispatch have been outward changea, but saying that 260 persoas nd hills and rocks and rivers here been killed and 604 wounded are as they were when Mary

Vignette Of A London Shopping Tour

By GERRY HILL

London, Dec. 22. Toyland was daydream stuff to Warborn Sally Thomas, to all her right years, She had never seen a (shop full of toys,

For the first time in seven year,

gently that 107. would not buy even half 'n doll.

CHRISTMAS Once again we welcome in the

There was Santa Claus in a cor- ner. Sally could visit him. It would Christmas season, with its in-

cost 5/6, but of course, she would spiring message of hope, its

She knew Oxford Street and Re-have three photographs taken, hold- ninewed vall to high endeagent Street-her Mummytonk her ing hands with the old gratieman. vour, the glow agd warmth of sometimes when the shopped. But For 11 Sally bought six sticks of it spirit of gladness and good she had never sern the shops of gaily-coloured modelling clay and her

those famous streets as they were: fell upon a glass tank with gol will, of friendship and frater-

this year. nity.

Her mother looked at the pricetag Toyland has really sprang up in the on the aqustium-two feet by three London shops, There were today with six tiny fish swimming in it bears and dolls, skintog, playime as it waid

and glistening.

salespeople were understand. believe trains. It was like the pic-ing. The child, walked past shelf pures from America, and children by after shelf of things she had dreamed the thousands wandered wide-eyed about. They let her touch them, but through the throngs, window-shup she could not take them away. ping for what to ask for at Chris

Plastic tea sets, jet-propelled racing mas and seeking the most for their boots, unbreakable tin soldiers and Christmas-gif money.

animals with articulated arms and legs jostled together. There were tolls of toys which were the outcome of war production and scientific re

arch.

Nothing in the world of inter,

national affairs is live with en couragement, it is true, but this

wider day the

scene may be permitted to recede into the background, and we may count our blessings nearer home, and find cause to rejoice. That is, most of us..

neory

For many in Hong Kong, of course, Christmas Day is one of vivid and tragic memory, of a December 25th six years ago when our world crashed about our ears, leaving us shocked and numbed by the swiftness of calamity, and for many days quite incapable of interpreting the disaster in terus of its personal menning and impact.

tomobiles

inake.

Sally's chubby face glowed and she clutched her few shillings maistly she stared with delight and bure

to her mother:

out

"Can have some of these?"

at 8/10.

Men fought for religious faiths for centuries, and as you pare out of Jerusalem you can of the see the outward signe struggle still going on.

Wailing

Members of the Jewish de- are in fence force Haganah roof-top nests, with rifies and grenades, near the Wall, Araba crouch in simllar rooftop nests, ready to die in defence of the Mosque of Omar.

At the foot of the Mount of Zion, an old man grouches on

the stones.

Just as the cobblers down the centuries set up shops along

ronds, the main

where Bhoo) soles wear thin, so this old man is hammering at leather with crude tools.

new

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

(COPR, 1947 NY WEA SERVES, MG. T. M. REG. U. G. PAT, OPL

"What kills me'ls all this twaddle about the acute shortage

s „of paper!"

To

BBC

Important Programme Tonight

Today, the people of Britain.

ما

The

mlcrophone

will

Tiny donkeys, hidden beneath great piles of olive branches on their backs, crowd the road and I move naide to let them pasa just as travellers on the same read must have done the same day almost 20 centuries ago.

I note there are six

first graves on the Mount of Olives today. Two of them are in the the Commonwealth of Nations bring voices from the continent on the cast and the Empire will be listening of Europe. Chester Wilmot, who Moslem cemetery

I famous will be with British troups and slope and they hold the bodies aimultaneously

Christmas programme, the DPs in Germany, will speak of men who were killed by i

"Round-the - World" from a hut in Luneberg Heath. bomb at the Dumascus Gate. BB C'a

Allthough world- Another commentator will be in On the west slope are four Jews, broadcast.

hook-ups are whose convoy

com- Ainace, where the old battlefields Was ambushed wide radio last week near the Pool of Solomonplace these days, this par-will be re-visited. From Poland, Ucular broadcast is always hold Edward Ward-ex-POW who spent last Christmas Isolated by On down the shiny macadam in special esteem.

Thanks to it, and to the sen-stormy acas on lonely Bishops to two you como road,

timenta and reminiscences that Rock Lighthouse-w! describe plotches the blood of two is evokes, the British peoples are how Christmas is being celebrat young Araba who were shot for a few moments more closely ed in the war-battered city of down a week ago tonight,

Jinked with those who may be Warsaw. Halfway through the journey, many, many miles away. From

mont

dark

the

British Isles....... Sally watched a little American Mather was dubious. The prices

Then will come the voices were more than a little high. The boy take up a toy xylophone, priced you come to the Well of Rest the first broadcasts from micro-

mother snatched it where, tradition says. Mary phones scattered all over from the British Isles.e

and Joseph paused on their world to the final "Christmas were three times the prewar prices away,

Christmas greetings will come and beyond the reach of a family They're 60 cents back home," she way to Bethlehem. The same Message" from His Majesty the from a typical miner's home: Budget built for the problems of fand

worn boulder is still there, King, men snapped. and housing and income tax at nine

and women every from a Fenland farm in Rost Sally looked at the jet-propelled shaded by the olive groves. where ait silently and listen. And Anglia which Buffered with bilings out of every 20

earned.

booss racing about in their linle The place is aptly named Well as they listen, and realise that many others in last winter's That did not mean much to An

root. They cost 28 shillings, but they of Rest, for under the olive those who are in their thoughts eight-year-old who never had a doll it unt Interest fier much, anyways branches, off the read, there is also listening at that self severe flouds; from a Cockney gathering is South London, She looked and looked, and the If, therefore, this sixth anniver-dress or a teddy bear to codile.

"What shall I lay with my tra

face lost its radiance in peace and quiet and the noise same moment, the Spirit of cheerful as ever and getting the Mummy?"

Aher Christma shopping expedi- only an a faint hum.

Christmas becomes more appar shortages and austerity; and Farther on, it is time to turn ent, moro real. of prosperity carely equalled from 25/- for a naked dull to £9 ferien.

a point in mid-Atlantic, 500 smart wardrobe-New Then she

toward spied just what she off the main road

This year's broadcart, which miles west of Ireland, where a Bethlehem, and that brings you will be relayed by ZBW, is en-BBC commentator is spending. price was 12/6 and, if Mammy would to the Tomb of Rachel, an an- titled "Men of Goodwill-The Christmas on beard the Weather lent her the extra, it would be worth clent reminder of the valley of Reunion of Christmas" and will Ship Weather Observer.”

t to go without a joy for herself to the shadow of death into which be introduced by one of Eng- an it in her sister's Mocking.

Muther The purchase was

agreed. The atade.

Sally walked happily from the store, bearing her brightly paint rd wooden rattle, across which were stumped the words:

"Made in America."-United Press.

sary of the Fail of Hong Kong | shil could she buy? Dolls custment at the looming failure of traffic on the highway comes Goodwill that is symbolish by most out of a Christmas of

comes at the closing, of a year What

in the Colony's history, fitting one with a

Look no all. Mummy explained wanted for her baby sister. It

to a festive air, there is call, too, for moments of reflection

and silent thought for those who find it a little more dif ficult to stir gladness in their hearts.

·

100 Years

The Scars Of War The scars left by the Japanese onslaught are not all personal. Much remains to be dont be fore it can be said that they are truly healed. Too many An

arc

Ago

(From the firs of the "China "Mail")

arrived express

about

15

without homes, where o'clock this foremon from Coming-

with alone Christmas can properly moun intelligence that whe

be celebrated. Reconstruction ten or twelve armed Junks had en-

in many fields is essential fered the habit that their

fore we can

object was

an attempt upon

recover the full the Opis vessel the linderwriters ness of life and living, obtain The Agenis

VOUR.

The Commonwealth each woman who is with child land's greatest actors, Sir Lau-

Commonwealth greetings fol- must enter. It was here that rence Olivier. The production is Rachel, wife of Jacob, died in in the hands of Laurence Gil-low those from the British Isles. Descriptions of Christmas Day childbirth while the family was liam and Leonard Cottrell, and moving to Hebron. The tomb the muale will be played by the scenes in Nairobi will be follow. (Continued in Col. 7) London Symphony Orchestra un-ed by a message from Indian der the direction of Muir Mathie-Christians in a welfare mission,

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

that he

trick, South

EUN,

and then-and this will be of poignant interest to many- post-war emigrants from, Bellain (Continued from Col. 4) will broadenst messages home was nearly 2,000 years old on from the Dominions of Canada, the day Mary and Joseph turn New Zealand,

and ed off the high road toward South Africa.

Australia

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

Bethlehem, and its solid aquare The last Christmas merBuge walls, and white dome could not of all, before the King's will MORE PLAYERS

To the fourth finessed the spade J. Seeing the have looked much different from come from the United Nation; KNOW IT

what it is today. 10 drop, he decided East had

Sir John Boyd Orr will be heard It is not so

Then you come to Bethlehem speaking from Washington, DC. the true reward of our endea-lost no time in representing the mat

long ago that the remaining three defense The streets still wing narrowly er to the Admiral, and as un vestel anyone who made a "grand

Thon Sir Laurence Olivier, trumps. Unable to lead trumps past shops and men still loaf who introduced the programme. of war was available at the moment, coup" would go around telling This is applicable to

almost the

the River Company's Steiner "Hong all his friends about it, usual through them any more, he saw in doorways. But the most im- will send London's own greeting every sphere, even to

had to place the lead portant thing untouched by to men our kung" was chartered for the service,y showing them the hand which

of goodwill wherever selves. No-one is inore con several drafts of men were put he had copied down as a token in the dummy when the third- Time in Bethlehem is the hope they may be and the voice of

to-last trick was played. scious than we of the technical until her from the "Hastings," and a

By of peace that was brought here Big Ben will herald His Majesty peunant and White Flag hoisted, of his superlative skill.

so doing, he could compel East ages ago

tired the King. improvements that are, neces which, however, were presently baul principles of the play have be to play before him. To do this travellers slowly made their The programme, which will sary to bring our publications

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in the last few years, that it is own trumpa so that his

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Christmas It is probable summe later intel- by more and more players.

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for his double "except, a' trump holding of some merit. That fact" was also noted by West. who led a third heart to force

obtaining equipment, since the Season's Greetings

war we still have to over. In the meantime, may we with a ruff by dummy and make it come, though an amurance has our readers every, joy this Christ-Impossible for Bouth to lead been received that more eco-mastide and a happy and profper-trumps twice through, whatavar ÷cial itcom-trill 2000; be avail-lous New Years to

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