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Concert

of world folk songs

More than 1,500 persons al- tended a musical concert of world folk songs held at the Po Hing Theatre yesterday morning.

A successful concert, it was sponsored by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Musical Faculty Research Institue.

According to an official of the Institute, the concert WAS the Arst of its kind in the Colony. More than 20 well-known warld folk songs were sung by vocaliais and played on string instruments by other artistes.

The concert oponed with u mixed chorus which 'sang three Tolk songs including a Polish folk song and a Singklung folk song. The Chorus was followed by a violin solo.

Mr. Wong Chuen, a well-known violinist, played Wieniawalcy's "Kujawiak" and Tschaikowsky's "Humoresque."

Mr. Jameson Huang, a lyric tenor, sang a Tibetan love song end a Malayan folk song-"Terang Eulan."

Mr. Tien Ming-yan, sang three folk

songs-Greig's "lch Libo Dicit", "Sur le pont d'Avignon"; "Santa Lucia."

His fourth song was a Szechwan folk song called "The Romance ots horse-cart driver."

The soprano soloist, Miss Fel Ming-ylang magnificiently. She sang three songs." One in English, another in French and a third In Chinese.

NATIONALISTS ABANDON TAM KON

A "Central News Agency" re port from Talpen yesterday sold that the Nationalists have admitted the abandonment of Tom Kou Is- land in the Poart River estuary. ft added that the Chinesse Com- munist forces had occupied the island on August 3.

During the battle for the Island, the Chinese Comtnunists suffered damage to a gunboat which was set on fire.

RED REVOLT REPORTED

The Indopotulent vernacular "Wali Kiu Yat Po" published an ufconfirmed

report yesterday

from Thipeh that come 30,000 troops of Communist General Chen YI's Third Field Army Group had revolted. The newspaper admitted that the report could not be con- firmed.

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST

hundred

years ago

Tales told in

Personalia PERSONALITY PARADE

Among the passengers who left

for Australia'yesterday by the 'my.

Avos was Mr. W.G. Fla-Gibbon.

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Director of the Royal Observatory

Mr Graham S. P. Heywood however, great opportunities in misaloner for Rovers in Hong DA, of the Hong kong Government | retains the doubtful distinction store for the Observatory, Service:

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and Kong

of being one of the earliest he looks forward to the day when

{it will become not only a weather Right now he sits on the Boy prisoners of the Japanese after centre but a scientific institution Scout Council. He is also Sacre- the outbreak of the Pacifle War as well, undertaking research they of St Andrew's Church,

work

Mr. Fitz-Olbbon, who has been an Official Justice of the Pence since 1923, was up to his doparjure in charge of the Jap.in 1941. anese Trade. Sab-Department of the Department of Supplies and Distribution, and was at the same time Custodian of Enemy Pro- ports'.

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"Chino Mall” filas. This month (June, 1830) closes Lieut.-General James H. Doo- enoiber commorcini year. May it little, the famous Aineriçan air- prove profitable in the trade of man, and Mrs. Doolittic, are due China. The losses in the East to leave here tomorrow for Sin- tlie since 1014 have been beavy but empore on the next stage of while the great Arms in India General's tour of inspection. He have been prostrated one after is now Vico-President and Direç another, the China flems with toy of the Shell Oil Company In one exception-have borne the New York. Many of Hong Kong's shock slly: The new crops of tending residents had the pleasure Tea and Silk promise well; and of menting the General and his with moderate imports, we in very charming wife at a cocktail dulge the hopes that for a term party given by the local Manager of years trade will reward the of the Asinile Petroleum Com- industry of those, engaged in it. pans and Birs. E.C. Hubbard in But this depends in a great degree the Ladies' Lounge of the Hong upon the moderation of Shippers Kong Club on Saturday evening of Home. It is now ascertained. that China can not take an un- Umited quantity of British manu- factures.

From Shanghai the reports of, the grain crops are favourable the wheat has been cut and housed, rice looks well, not there is no dread of another year of scarcity. The Governor is all at Shanghai: he walls for a iclier from Her Majesty lo

Gror the Emperor which was forwarded by the

REYNARD," sloop-of-unc,|| **Reynard" has auxiliary steam power, but on the coast of China a regular steam stoop is a much more serviceable vessel. Bickness in the Garrison.

THE TALKING

ARMY MULE

A special performance of the Universal picture "Francis," the talking Army Mule, was shown at the King's Theatre yesterday mor ning before packett house com- posing of members of the Army, Fire Brigade, Police pad Govern rent Bervants.

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into geophysics, and me Council, teorology. Together with Mr. L.' Starbuck, he was arrested by the enemy on If he has his way, he would the afternoon of December 8, make the Observatory a centre 1041, at Au Tau, in the New Territories, where they find gon to recover some Instruments from the magnetic station there. They both spent the rest of the war behind barbed wire,

Mr. Heywood is the Director of the Rosal Observatory, Hong Kong. His is a difficult job. The Observatory, bullt 67 years ag primarily in order to provide typhoon warnings to the Colony. is today of the greatest benefit to mariners and sirinen who call ut the only remaining interna- tional port in this part of the. world.

He was born in 1903 at Man- chester, and spent most of this Jifa. in Shropshire, described by the poet A. E. Housman as one of the most beautiful counties of England.

Educated at Winchester College, he went to New College, Oxfor

complete his studies. After

to

Mr. G. 8. P. Heywood.

that, he spent two years tenchling for the spread of scientific know- at Radley College.

He was interested in telence

ledge.

Mr. Heywood married in 1937, and his wife and two children are living with him in the Colony. Mrs. Höywood is an unofficial Justice of the Peace, and Boere- tary of the Kowloon branch of the Society for the Protection of Chlidren,

The Director is an outdoor man, when he has the time. Ha has always been fond of rowing and sailing, and years ago ho rowed bow in the Interport Hong Kong IV against Manila,

He is also very fond of moun- talneering, nud las climbed a lot In the Alps and the British_ills. He remains an ardent member of the Alpine Club.

Country life has tways ap- pealed to him, and la the author of the book ...ambles in Hong Kong" which was published before the war. It deals with a, few of most memorable walk- Ing and climblog experiences in the Colony, Once, when 10 "Hong Kong Naturalist" used to | be published here before the wor by Dr. Ilerkiats, he was assistant editor.

Mr. Heywood is the type of Meteorology appeals to him be- man who takes his work serious- and meteorology from youth, and cause it is an outdoor science. Itly. Although he is small and thin, The film, which I soon to be accepted with cagerness an op-i combines two of his greatest in- he is known to possess cxceSBIVO.

pointment

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shown in Hong Kong was shown through the courtesy of Universal

1038 to Besume terests in to outdoor activity energy. It is he who sets Pictures of Hong Kong. Incor-Leafield, in Oxfordshire. He re- porated.

RAIL SERVICE RESUMED

There is a considerable degree of sickness in the garrison. Dur ing the past week or

10 days several of the soldiers have died,

The Canton rail service to the and upwards of 100 of the 50th Hong Kong border has been re- have been in the hospital at one sumed. The service was disrupted time. The prevaling disease is for four days following a derail-⋅ fever, In most cases not of a ment about 70 miles from the violent type, but latterly, we Hong Kong border. The cause of regret to hear that it much re- the deraliment has not been dis- sembles the fever of past years closed.

and has carried off soveral of its

victime in a short time. Civilians are tolerably healthy: the deaths

To

which have occured among them sale a deleterious spirit known are old cases.invalids with in-mong us as "Samahoo." paired constitutions

We will not attempt to account for the mortality among the soldiers nimost, every summer Our opinion of the site chosen for the much lauded "Murray Bar racks

Europeans, particularly in warm weather, this spirit is positively poisonous; nothing lips been more clearly ascertained than the effects of this horrid drug-fever, stupor, apoplexy, congestion, have carried off hundreds of fine healthy young was recorded before the me

the men who have indulged in it per- walls were many feet high, and

and hapa only once. It is so cheap procured for us an abundance of that a man may get drunk for a

-feeling from the

Military penny..and we fear that its cheap- Chiefs who then were in power. nese induces lose who are only But the experience of six sup- mers affords a painful testimony to the correctness of that opinion. We have read many learned dis.. seriations upon the subject, but there a one fact which in the estimation of nearly every man of is a true facf. cominon-tensc That is, had the "model Barracks"

partially acquainted with its dangerous induences to drink to excess.

That the men have been cau- toned against Samshoo cannot be doubted, but mere moral influence

usually tedious in its results: the evil exists and may exist until fine regiment is decimated, been built on either of the ridges unless some stringent measures which form their Eastern and are taken at once. We are leath Western boundaries where they to propose any pet which even would have escaped the influences in appearance interferes with the of a pestilential swamp in the freedom of trade, but under the rear-the inhabitants should have enjoyed better health events they would have slept in a purer" atmosphere. However, apart from mure habitation, there

charge of a research station at and selentine research,

mained at Lenfield for four years. carrying out uninterrupted studies| inte temperature qonditions in the lower atmosphere.

Interest in typhoons

Since 1932

Recently he has come to devote more and more time to typhoons -not unnaturally, for he is the man who has to decide when to hoist the local typhoon signals.

the example of hard work which members of his staff must follow.

He is unduly modest, and is unwilling to take the credit for the Observatory's brilliant post- war work without sharing it with his staff. Paying them a tribute, he says they have shown unifin- ching loyalty to their task despite the irregularity of their hours. There are always officers on

Mr. Heswood gave up this job in 1932 when he was made pro- In the spare moments he basi fessional assistant at the Royal in the office he is writing a prewatch at the Observatory and at Observatory in Hong Kong. His on Hong Kong typhoons. Former association with 'the Colony dates ly, when he had more leisure he the Airport meteorological offices, from that time.

was leader of St. Andrew's Rover | for the weather goes on day and Crew and was also assistant com- night, week days and holidays.

When he arrived, the OBSCT- vatory staff was less than half its

present size, Civil aviation had not then swing into its stride, but as it developed so did the Obser- valory, under Mr. Heywood'n

predecessor's direction.

Mr. Heywood found adjustmen to pescare in Hong Kong casier than most people, and was not avercome by the weather condi- Elois, which interesed him tall{ hours of the day. For years he has been plagued by people who call liln up at odd Umer to inquire N on such a day, he envisagea main, of sufficient proportion to disrupt a bowling game or cricket match. To all such inquiries he has constantly suppiled the standard answer that while a meteorologist; is able to a cartain degree to fore- cast weather, the caprices of Nature remain beyond human control.

In his early days in Hong Kong Mr. Heywood. had more time to spare" than at present. and ho was active in social welfare work, in the Boy Scout Movement, and In church matters.

present circumstances were the At all Legislature to pass an ordinance by which the selling of Samshoo was punishable by · severo cast- gation, no one could reasonably imany Causes for sickness complain. After being duly noti- among the troops

'he was engaged on exposure on fled to the Chinese in their own gused, inability to obtain many language, and after a certain date, comforts essential to health in we propose that all parties con this climate, and, in some degree,, the too common recklessness of the military character, are all pro- Vile of disease.

victed of the offence before any Justice of the Peace be Unite to the infilction of several dozens, and on a second conviction that With regard to the "Murray they have the head shaved. Im Barracks," if they are built in an pricument with the Jail

allowance unhealthy place, as many agree of food is no punishment what- with us in thinking, the sooner over the class who are engaged they are abandoned, and new in this traffic have no sense of quarters provided for the troops the moral degradation either of the batter. The military papers imprisonment or Bagging: the in London, to flatter the vanity fist mode of punishment is a mere of a vain old man, were induced waste of money, the second is im- to speak highly of there buildings, mediate and touching, and the

ap- but even a military Editor is open pleation of the razor in addition to conviction.

to the rattan will have greater exposure, which may be unavold- able, there is one point to which harbour so much the better: we wish the local Authorities Chinese boots aro. contually would direct their altspilon. The stealing under the bows of ships lowest class of Chincic, the very at onchor and the polson is intro- lepers who cripple about the duced among Seamen morant of streets, have in their huts for its influence.

In the years he was here be- fore the Pacific War broke out

the routing] duties of an assistant, and gained valuable

in Experience

all branches of "the "Observatory'c work forecasting climatology, the time service, seismology and magnetism..

A day before the Pacific War broke out-when it was realised by almost everyone in this part. of the world that the clash was Inevitable--be Iwas asked by the thon Director of the Observatory to proceed 16 ̃Âu Tau to try and retjeve some vital instrumchts from a magnatic station in the Now Territories. Ho. mada thej journey with Mr. Starbuck.-

Apart from the Barracks and if the ordinance extends, to the Captured by Japanese

WHAT A

COFFEE!

ITS NEW... ITS OUT OF THIS WORLD *ITE THE IMPROVED CHASI

CHASE

Early on the morning of Dee-l cimber 8 the Japanese mado their] anak nilack Pearl Harbour. and at the same time, untis óf their Expeditionary Force in China crossed the British-Chinese border in an advance on Hong Koup, They accosted air. Heye Wood and Mr. Starbuckz at Âu Tau, arresting them immediately.

For the next... three years cand

Mr. C. C. Quah, Deputy Commissioner of the Hong Kana Boy Scouts Amadolation, making the 'posthumous award of the Cornwall Scouts Badga,'ta' Mr. Yao „Nim-gho, father of Patrol Bacond Vue Chung-kwong to whom the Badga was award- dd. Captain J. Headiem, la:showń at the extreme right of the picture. "China_Mall" photo,

Posthumous award of Scout Badge

At a ceremony held at the Scout Headquarters,

More Hut, yest

yesterday the Cornwell Scout Badge was presented posthumously to Patrol Second Yoo Chung krong, 5th Hong Kong "S" Troop (Wah Yoo College).

eight months, Mr. Heywood was Mr. Yus Cho-nim, received the qword on behalf

interned at Spamshulpo...

After repatriation leave in 1045; which was spent in the United Kingdom, he returned to Hong! Kong, and in Mos, 3046, was

of his son, while Mr, C. C. Quah, Deputy Colony Commissioner of the Boy Scouts As- sociation made the presentation.

The ceremony was attended

given the directorship of the by representatives of all the

Observatory harp.

Scouting Troops of the Colony.

*Ho at onep set about rebuilding. The Citation for the award

the organisation. In the couran of was read to the gathering

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it was in the great fight

off fulland, in 1916, when the British Fleet, was fighting tho German battleships, that, the Boy, Jack Cornwall; on board His Majesty's Shilo Chester,"

which he increased, its star with Pairo) Second undiesingulated himself, by his In the limits imposed by the bude kwong developed cancer

gel. Its work had almost doubled, stomach, about the end of last gallantry. And now, the Observatory in nj year. In spite of that he carried. Before joining the Royal Navy, vilat link in a chalis, of weather on Scouting cheerfully but in Comwell had been a Boy Scout Fratres : spread **throughout this | April this your he became wono (ri London." "He had thero lenrried Pacido to help promote the gran- and enigred, the hospital.lid some of the" "amistinichy trip, dia- fer shfety of all ships and sirerál! | Born his euforing like a Spartün ciplins of the Scouts, and unde plying the Far Easterd" rouler › and in spite of the pain he still ridly had learned that he was. In

Jean MA kept up his interest in Scouting honour bound to do his duty at, In addition to this: he was and larited a fellow Scouts all sets and to "tak to it. called upon to present on to visit bias to discuss and in- In the battle his duly Kuden at various mateorological won him of the Scouting melivi- stand by the fun, with ede-phone cinderances. In 1948 he attended

ties of the various Troops, stro rasional confer of Une He continued to do this until phoned by directing officer, on and to Jisten for orders Role- Kedua Chuka kwote was and te

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Drako Patrol whilebebe, kolika jeden in chermo, of zitie" gun; Malpicante under heavy In April, 1949, FRS" aled at the are of big tholls from the enemy Ao of 171

Thom burat on board apmaks