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THE CHINA-MAIL), WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1959,*

THIS HONGKONG:

Monument To Courage

So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of By

Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?

He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee.

He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

PRIDAY afternoon, February 20, 1959, was a dreary day. The clouds were hanging low, and as we made our way to the Diocesan Girls' School the new towering blocks seemed lost in the drizzling rain clouds of the cold afternoon. The rain drove us to shelter under the arches of the new buildings, while the official party stood somewhat forlorn as the Bishop of Hongkong bade us welcome...

Then suddenly, a girls' choir burst into such a paean of joy that the very elements paused in their sultriness. A brighter sun than that idden by the rain clouds seemed to shine. The towering new school black seemed to leap from its foundations, while the stately new hall skipped to the very high heavens.

For the words they sang formed Female Education were the words the Church Society. Universal reserves for such Home influences would help occasions when men praise Mig Baxter rench her decision, God; it was the Hymn of for her father, Mr Robert Baxter was typical of all that wns Thanksgiving, used by most finest, and perhaps, most Indica-

the five of the Victorian era. Chrlatians when by glory of great events, they assemble to worship. It is old, and men generally refer

The very solld worth, the creature comforts, the rigid self- inleted discipline of the middle

class Victorian home, have become subjects of the super- Belal histerlan's rareonie pon. at the Victor'an had a faith,

JOHN LUFF

She worked terribly hard, wishes to learn of the Colony's and her schools grew daily, so early days.

that in 1882, they sent out Mias So Miss Oxlad was placed in Eaton to assist her. For by cherge, but she as a skirmisher, this time there were four did not relish the took after schools, three on the island, and the brave days of pioneering oze at Umhalin (Youmati), with Miss Baxter. Her opinion The Female As it to answer-come of the was supported by

but criticisms hurled at her, Miss Education Scelety,

the School had been Baxter, although abe hra, come Diocesan out to do missionary work, going down so fast that Miss opened a school for the English Oxlnd agreed to postpone her... children of the litary, Among furlough until a new Super- these Army children was intendent could be found. Margaret Johnstone, and 50 He arrived as Bishop Alford seck inspired wes this child that the sent out a circuler to returned to

The this revolutionary institution, years alter Miss Baxter's death, circular,

speaks of Eurasian The Diocesan Native Female to corry on with the work,

found living under Its Miss Baxter was unsparing of children Training School, opened.

deplorable When her physical event doors at a house loaned by Gov.. Eerself. ernment In Albany Terrace, strength gave dul, her great possible.

This wha the Arat girls' heart spurred her on. arheel ever to erme under the

"Gratit-in-A[{"

new

Miss

the Colony some funds for lug proiset

dated January 30.

Her stair. especially Miss 14 scheme. raxlad and Miss Eaton had Wison, a schoolmistress

take her severely to Inte when she would have ventured

but recently arrived from Eng- fard, was placed in temporary

charge.

600.

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condition

The rest is known, and could and be betler told by many in the

Colony.

upon new grounds, they had to threaten that they would with- draw, Not that they meant this, but they could see what she herself refused to see.

THE

HE Diocesan Girls' School

beginning in Bonham Road.

to it by its ancient name, Te Deum, and the Anglican Chant to which it was sung is particularly beautiful.

There was much to thank be the selected people of God's doubt whatever that a Indy of unsparing devotion to her work girls. Mr W. M. B. Arthur, 1925, ond

God for. I suppose the girls thought in terms of new modern buildings, great classrooms, and up-to-date laboratories.

even if they took themselves in

providence,

There was an fraltating air of It-satisfaction, but if they saw favoured they hemives premised they had dultes to fall, and those they performed tend in performing them. Low

I suppose Mrs Nancy their possessions as nought. O'Connell and Miss Nora Edwards

thought of

the beautiful lofty hall

This say, was Vielorianism where their combined his at its best, and R was from

cun

Her

had undermined her health.

She was reluctantly com pelled to seek tid for her school at Talpingshan and got the C.M.S. to take it over.

beloved

of

only, but Which the C.M.S. Gibbing buenme Headmistress

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over

Following Bishop Alford's appeal, the beneats of the

today. A far cry from the humble Miss Baxter arrived in H-

blocesan School and Orphanage kong and immediately threw

were extended to bolli sexes, herself at the immense chal-

ene wing for boys, arother for Miss Sawyer took over in both girls and boys, as the them in fuseful service.' But lenge Hongkong offered. No

It was during her Boys" School was in use as a thig Centenary year, it was that Garrison Schoolmaster, and his headship

the School hospital.

good to hear Blihop Hall. pay gentle birth and Independent

wife were placed in charge of cutablished its fine reputation in Mi Gibbings kit the Colony, tribute to the Indies who means, Miss Baxter could have

23. children. Co-education did Engilch studies.

and Miss Joyce Anderson, now pioneered the way, and in found lofty perch in the so-

rot scem to work in those We come now fo

times Mrs Symons, the prevent Head- particular Miss Baxter. For cial scale.

days, for in

all but the mistress, held the fort all with her, we meet something 1878, the school remembered by But the deliberately dedicated

went back to taking girl pupils youth the Colony. Mis the end of term. herself to the charge the had

ro paradoxical, a place where ity and sorrow meet. A soul Accepted. In S0 doing. she

started up Fairles Girls' School in 1939. In spite of ominous

19 vallant for truth, so practi- wrestled not only against the But this belated step was of in 1892, the girls left Bankem distant thunders of war, Mias Miss A. W. Hurrell arrived in cal In application. frustrating circumstances of no

The avall.

WEITINGA of Road to the boys.

Gibbins 'tockled her

For to see her trek lask with Henglong in March 1040, and old Hongkong, but she did but- 1865, with a terrifio beat and

the optimism which tle with

In 1899,

Characte the School remained true to its those rugged upland paths, an blind prejudico

new Diocesan rises the Colony. of win was too much for a body Girls' School

carly vows, for it received into she walked from Bonham Road rockɔl discrimination,

was opened at grown frull. The spirit was Da Roso Villas, Bonham Road, by

She modernized the School, a care forty girls who had lost to Taipingshan, must have re- We obtain tantalising glimpses strong as ever, and when

the

determination rarely equalled in trionic and musical activities ech home that Susan Baxter at her work as she establishes a une came for her to die, she Miss Skipton and her friend, carly in 1911, a fine new one or both parents during the valed a

wing of eight classrooms and a 'war,

the brave records school in Mosque Terrace and fretled over her

Miss Rose Hawker.

laboratory was added. ;

Now we with greater came. resume

aro back to the of this Colony. Miks Staunton Street, amalgamating Eurasian orphans.

Skipton

head- scope than that afforded

present, End the Diocesan Girls' her schools in 4 building in

mistress for twenty-two years,

School stands mightier than hitherto.

Bonkum Road on a site later But she had trained her and it was during her head-

ever before.

And the sadness to think: sho at ship that the school moved to The Hon Douglas Crozier,

occupied by the old

well, and when Hoya School.

The end of the year saw the occuples

If only the Misses Baxter, never saw her Yorkshire home C.M.G. Director of Educa-

last she laid down the sword, the site it now

Colony defeated. and occupled Eaton, and Oxlad could see it. again, but laid down her lito Miss Oxlad and Mias Eaton Kowloon. This move was made by the Japanese, The bullding Perhaps they can. What say for the tion, no doubt had in mind

Ja 1019. carried on the work.

children she had was looted. Later I was taken they about this fine towering adopted. Gorge Smith, Bishop ot

Miss But the days of the pioneers untit 1921 when Miss Ferguson Gendarmeries, that yet another old school

Skipton corried on OVCI by the Japanese block, seven storeys high? vhalted Bul

Or Yet in all this she was more has torn down its ancient Hongkong. had

Neither was Miss Baxter von- wer over. The Diocesan

these wonderful heme. It was during the time

classrooms than conqueror. For us took over,

that Miss walls

extended

leave there. She School

consolidate its must

Ferguson Miss Gibbins will be remem- it the family gave to prayer and tent to

where their young ladies now hot suffered ill health

Bummer. went among the very worst she gains. The new general must untimely death in

her bered by many

day in 1885 boundaries. And above all, devotion, that be received the

who were in it with a pride and ecportment darkened before her eyes, there And,

the among

1925 closed Stanley Comp as the Head- that would have been consider would be that the thoughts of in- stay at home, and nol venture Mra Joyce Symons, some "call" to Hongkong

and could

a brief career. describable squalor of Talping- from Bonham Road to pursue

mistress of the School

the cd Imposible a hundred years home. time scholar, then teacher, laboured here, rather than in

shan, on the slopes of the Poak guerilla tactics all over the

Nevertheless, the School was internees ran there. Also let li ago? Or of this great hold Comfortable :cme

Yet all this she considered, prosperoikJ

above Kennedy

fortunato during Miss Ferguson's be known and now Headmistress of the

and island.

that Miss Gibbins where a thousand girls assemble, and counted it Town, Partsh

England Bishop

headship, in that she introduced, broke cut of Camp two days smart in their grey ang blue the great work sho undertook. u loss before Diocesan Girls' School, who George Snuth arrived in Hong-

there established a day school. Then the venture suffered modern methods to the cur-carly, and saved the D.G.S. uniforms?

another setback when Miss riculum. Social activities, in- from

And today stands the D.GS. has seen this great wonder kong during March of 1830, and

The year is 1801, and the Eaton left to marry Dr E. J. teresting parents in the School's struction.

further looting and The Diocesin Girls School a monument to the courage of cat.secrated the new Cathedral British have been in Bungkang Ellel, whose come about; surely

In September of that year, Bul

history of Hong- relivities, the streming of the

has come a long way from days all who have laboured for her:- оссаніоп for

twenty years. pride and

It is quite easy

The Diocesan es ces with men of true

Girls' School in Bonham Road where prim For this was her victory, even everyone has been hap-

who School's place in the Community, reopened on October 1, 1945 for Miss Baxter sought to instruct her faith, thanksgiving.

Etic

It was a Godly home. The femlly prayers, the daily Bible

due attended by servants, the general pervading sence of all having a charge as well as a place to keep.

in

vacation, he found that is to see what charge called him to aid those pening. whe were weary and heavy 1:den, rother that to sprak comfortably to there who felt qualled in everything save the erdotal berediction on their selfich pursuits.

Diocen warriors

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The young men stationed here in the camps have found Sume words used by the

England for away. Their very status denies them the society Bishop of Hongkong, Rent

of the more affluent merchant- my mind exploring the past;

men. Quite naturally they turi if I can be excused a cliche, Bishop, Smith, mindful

to the young women around words that

He them. they rang a bell in my the Savior's

Then arrive those not of this children. destined to be the sub- minul.' He spoke of the had other sheep.

fleck, began to cast about to

Jects of a thousand deliberate what could be done.

insults, a hundred thoughtless And what could be done was remarks, dozen wounding

Diocesan Girls' School, now

in its centenary year, and he spoke of Miss Baxter.

Exactly a hundred years ago, in Doncaster, York- of the Bishop was horrified to snobs fangs have caused, but shire, far away in England, wer what un abject figure

us revolutionary a step as could tactless statements. God alone

kong

serves

was

and

ANNE SHARPLEY

be taken. Mrs Smith, the wife knows of the wounds the CONSIDER what it is like to be Kay Kendall, on

ef Chinese rockety was the or- Susan Harriet Sophia Bax- titnay Chinese girl.

fiss

Baxter sought these children out, and rescued them from horror and worse, And when they

Muent European bound up their wounds;

M.V. KUNGSHOLM PASSENGERS:

were

a bad day.

Perhaps it is that devouring but so human curiosity of other people that is hardest to bear.

by simply staring hard enough. As though they thought they could become you:

Four

years ago you'd

Now let's take

a REAL look

at Kay Kendall

So while her husband per-

give it a thought now."

The slender legs take long

ter had made 11 great With a heart so great that it decision. She decided to be could encompass all China, wie hungry, she feuds, and she an honorary missionary to visited the

community and cajoled or gave to them all the love her Hongkong, with special

gently builled them out of their great heart contained; the love simply have been another tall-girl-with, it is true-tween the green go-ahead. theatre noi have done all my mirror for hours,“ convinced she.

bolic of her indecision be- "I go. every night to attention to the recently golden sovereigns. So-In-1859, the world denied them.

the staring at her reflection in a witty aura all your own, to the roaring traffic of ing about Vivien, Betty and me went out to a premiere I was life. Suddenly everyone's talk was incurably ugly. "Before I but just another of Lon- success and the red signal as though we were up to some- always prostrate with misery. don's pretty girls.

to stop, go away, leave her thing siniser. We all love go- This, at least has been con- Now wherever you go alone to the teatro 13 Vur querid,When I was 11 laa there's that. interrogatory The one-time "one of the s it torture not to be able so important that appearance passion, our homework. Rex year I learned that to live was stare 18 though they boys" Kendall, happy to to see other prople acting. didn't matter. And I never weren't just stripping you, have a beer in a bar and but skinning you.

join in the complaints forms before yet one more dot- And the way they try to about how the studio were ing audience in Drury Lane his stridsa round the room like a be disappointed. It's very neglecting her, is a different wite goes to the theatre. house-trained giraffe. Tho What girl since she became Mrs "Never a cincina." At 11.30 diamond-cut face gleams alior- was it that girl said audibly Rex, Harrison, acquiring at the and Mr Harriton have sup nately with will, despair, amust- enough for Miss Kendall to the same time stardom for or together, "Unfair to eat ment and self-mockery. hear: "That awful long- herself and the Lord Chan-

home is delightful, looking thing in glasses. It cellor as brother-in-law. But

cighteenth century and in that can't be Kay Kendall, silly." only because she's got to bookshelf of Chelsea known as But she knew well enough be...

Cheyne Walk. But it is rented. -"When I go Into a pub "We've never had a home for and ask for a Worthington three years, always rented Success vibrates in the

Louses. It we bought a house third Mrs Harrison, tautly I'm mad not to be drinking ably will do next year then we And further back an unproven or a Guinness they think London which we most prob. Just Like the Ivy five thousand times in London's music-holla. almost antagonistically. In champagne."

will find ourselves working in but not Improbable ancestor was New York. Everyone thinks it Captain Cook.

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natural I suppose.

it was.

some, success brings out, a

when he is working."

Thel

all so glamorous but I'm always

note of satisfaction. But ‘OUR PASSION sitting in corners sobbing and

burgling you.

en-

Eyes that

SO. RIGHT

Her pedigree is London. She is Gerli Lawrence, Sylvia Ashley, Jestic Matthews. Her grand- mother Marie Kendall

Bing

She is so wonderfully right weeping because I've got to for all this. And to welcome. But she takes her disappoint- ments too hard perhaps and

for her success means croachment. stare and clutch. People She has developed the pack up again." crowding round you, or heads-down, horn-rimmed Suddenly one sees that she the public's fascination her spectacles, averted-gaze dis must often weep-from nervous not easily enough. And perhaps A mink coat becomes an guise of her husband as be that gave her ulcers at 18 when approachability à stow can have The same nervouscas Ar Horrison Jacks tho embarrassment (one al patiently prises their. two her first film "London Town" for his public. most gets the feeling she pug dogs off each tros in tried to impose stardom on

wore turn along their morning girl not ready for it. was glad her furn stolen). "After all I have walk in Chelsea.

been working, since I was "I love riding on the top decks 11"and" my husband" has of buses. But they stare at you

CONQUERED

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A sudden upacar outside takes › Mrs Harrison rapidly to the window and jual!as" ewitty, downstairs. Her Chindra pus, Higgins, Is: attacking a zosimarij

'mimative sort of wa

in

"IU

mil, right, He's 'got" no

wrong to wear a mink cont be forced to admit that this intuition of what is going to us, in her own Beauuful

lait ??

been an international star as though you were a... The same nervousness that for 26 years.

It's not monkey" Even Darwin, would give what is too forth," she shrieks reasruring

elegant biped was further than hoppen. ! "It anything happens a font-from the nienkeys; Set (usually know about it- fyn illogien way, tio realises hdy * Her eyes, Bo persistently

A hours beforehand. GRfeel "at. Tumillating to Higglars- amolje" But that's not all. Even when coming on. Probably my Iriats propre her wordy had best, and erroneously described pursuing her private but nightly bined betege sa blue, are a nervous marria for theatre-going she left And the same nervoumes

**Terribly BORTY- Higgins,” she

aa, though, gym-no-longue Recurą,

be that said to keep her miserably.

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