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HAUNTS OF ROBIN HOOD,

ROMANTIC COUNTRY TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION.

TRADITIONAL SITE OF LITTLE JOHN'S GRAVE.

All children who have read of the romantic deeds of Robin Hood and bis Merrie Men will be interested | in the forthcoming sale of 11,450 acres of his hilly fastness in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak dis-

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VICTIMS OF BRIGANDS, SOLDIERS AND POLL TICIANS.

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THE WEEK'S DIARY.

Today.

Fanling Hunt Meat, Hunters Arms, 2.30 p.m.

H.K.C.C. Taizi Tournament' (details in sports column daily).

Tea Dances: HK Hotel, Hotel Savoy. King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

Hockey Club v. 5/2 Punjabis," U.S.R.C. ground, 5 p.m.

Football United Services Finala

That the landscape, far and wide, is not now dotted with the corpses of hundreds of thousands of sui cides is due only to an apparently at Sookunpoo, Juniors: H.M.S.. infinite capacity for patient endur-Tamar R.A. Reserves, p. When the autioneer mounts his

ance and an unquenchable instinct Seniors: R.A. K.O.S.B.'s, 4 p.m. rostrum to sell this portion of the

Distribution of prizes by Mr. W. Take of Rutland's Derbyshire pro- to live that no Western mind may W. Hornell, C.I.E., M.A. (Vice- perty he will tell a little of its story, ever hope to thoroughly grasp. Chancellor .. University) at St. The country in which Robin Hood! A mother, after having had her Joseph's College, 5.15 p.m. lived under the greenwood tree in-husband and all her children Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, & cludes the portions of Hathersage slaughtered before her eyes, will, on where two upright stones mark the the next day, with no outward show Kr. Tang Bang Tian's Company

John, the faithful servant and com- ity she has just passed through, Theatre Royal, 9.15 p. Circle" panion of Robin Hood, finest of turn her hand to some useful occu- archers and gentlest of robbery,

pation, sad carry on. A child, ROBIN HOOD ONLY A MYTH will immediately fashion for him- robbed in a day of both parents, Commenting on this the Daily self some sort of niche in the econ omic scheme of things and carry on. Telegraph says

A man, maimed for life, deauded of every earthly possession, and har boured

& brief period of

The grace of Little John is for sale. Thousands of acres of the Duke of Rutland's land in the Peak

i are to come to auction, and in this totals in the house of

tract are included the two upright 'n neighbour, will arise from his bed stones in Hathersage village and of pain and straightway put his the 13t. of ground between them hand to the business of rebuilding wherein Robin Hood's lieutenant, what he has lost-carrying on and that renowned brigand" Little the white Westerner who sees and John, was laid to rest. Let no man knows these things may well stand doubt the authenticity of that dust in silent awe with respectfully un-

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Star Theatre: "The Woman Con- "The Lever of Camille." Principal mails:-Outward: America, etc, and Canada via San Francisco (West Cader), 4.30 p.m.

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Thursday.

H.R.C.C. Tennis Tournament (details in sporte column daily).

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cale Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

Rugby Club. Titania, Happy Valley, 5.30 p.m.

Musicale, Helens May Institute, 3.30 p.m.

Cathedral, 3.45 p.m. Choral Evensong,

St. John's

Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, S p.m.

Boxing: Hermes v..K.0.5.B.'s, on H.M.S. Hermes, 8.15 p.m.

Debate, European Y.M.C.A.,

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Queen's Theatre: Frontier."

The Flaming

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and the prying excavator found therein a thigh bone eft 8in. 100 The thigh bong is vanished now, vanished also that other piece of Little John's property, his cap, of Lincoln "green, which once hung in the church to be the prey of certain antiquaries who came, men 94y, from Yorkshire But we have the Frinted records of thigh and cap, and that should be enough to estab.

World Theatre: World" lish their owner's existence.

Star Theatre: Bride of the Yet sceptical scholars criticise our Little Jobn "into nothing. Robin

own complete salvation, Storm;" Waking up the Town." Hood is but Hebin o' th' Wood for them alone, and within a period of Europe

if only they could be let alone. Let Principal Mail:-Outward; via Siberia (General them, a sprite of elf that haunts time that would make sociologists Metzinger), 2.30 p.m. the merry greenwood; or, alterna- tively, he is a sun myth, or a wind gasp, could they but be witnesses, these people of China would become myth, or Odin or one or two other the happiest and most prosperous gods.

in the world, as they were in Honan Little John is therefore still less

for &

period of fity before real, a myth which has grown out their self-created utopia was shot-

Feara of another myth. Of all this na tered through the effect of idens, man is bound to believe more than imported from the West, 43 un- his common-sense pronounces plau-suited and unnecessary, as yet, to sible. and it is not everybody who the needs of these people as re

hypothetical sun myth frigerators to the Eskimos. thinks moré substantial staff than an actual ballad,

Early Records of the Real Man. What we know about Robin Hood begins in the fourteenth century. Then the author of " Piers the Plowman tells us that the Eng- lish countryman knew by her

Slaughtered by hundreds of thou- sands; fleeced, again and again, by unjust "taxes" and military exac- tions; robbed and plundered by the armies of parasite soldiers 23 that top of it all, just now threatened swarm ever all the land, and, on

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Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Boy King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

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bien Antsey, Wesleyan Sailors and Soldiers Home, 8 p.m. Service men invited.

Dianer dance, Cafe Parisien, 8

Queen's Theatre: "The Flaming

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Saturday,

rymes of Robyn Hood and Run-such as has not cursed mase Frontier. dolf, Erle of Chestra," Now, Ran- since the beginning of time, what dolph of Blundeville, Earl of Ches end is there in sight to the miseries ter, was a purely historical person. of these devoted folk1 And if ever He was the sort of great lord who in the history of the world there is a hero of the people, be Bourish has been a condition of affairs that ed under Richard Coeur de Lion and would move a compassionate God in John, he died under Henry II. The His heaven to weep over the infirmi provisional interference, therefore, ties of His creatures below, surely

hould be that Robin Hood was an it is going on in Chinu to-day. equally real person of the same North China Daily News. kind. The next extant evidence comes from 1420. In that year a poct wrote that in 1983 Lytill thon and Robybe Hode" were outlaws highly esteemed. Some of the ballads about them are as old as the fourteenth

century,

We have connected life of Robin

LONDON TO PEKING BY

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Moscow will be brought within thirty hours of London when a night

in the fifteenth, and by the six-flying service starts in April from

teenth a learned Scot is solemnly Croydonance is 1,800 miles, and

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Yachting Service Members' Pre- sented Cup for racing yachts.

Golf: Bogey Fool, Fanling. Macao Inaugural Race Meeting. Ten Dancès: HK Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.20 p.m. Dinner Dance, Cafe Parisien, 8 p.m.

Warden and Members of Marrison

concert renowned Imperial Airways machines will Hall (University)

and leave daily for Berlin, where they dance, City Hall, 8 p.m. will link up with the Berlin-Mos Hong Kong Amateur Dramatie Club present The Last of Mrs. cow airplanes.

An agreement has just been sign- Cheyney Theatre 1: The Flaming Theatre Royal,. 9.15 p.m. ed between German and Russian

transport companies for the Frontier.""

" World Theatre: operation of a day and night air

Loat mail and passenger service of Fok- World.",

Star Theatre: "Bride of the section.

recording how Robertus Hudus and Perves Joannes were brigands, who only robbed the rich, were always polite to women, and had an especial dislike to priests, like all the good outlawa since the dawn of time.

Bir

The

In Spite of the Scholars! The natural human reason" con

nounce that there was once a rather remarkable person called Bobin Experimental fights are also to Principal Mails: Inward: Europe Hood who took Englishmen's fancy, be made from Moscow to Peking, vid Suez (Devanha).."Outward:

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pnes happen to meet a jolly brisk days.

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Tuesday...

H.K.C.C. Tennis Tournament

wherent Robin was much pleased, (details in sports column daily).

Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15

but John in garments of green moat: gay to be seen, and gave him a curi- p.m.

ous long bow, and (to go to another Tea Dances H.K. Hotel, Hotel ballad) those memorable orders, Savoy and Cale Parliaien, 4.30 p.m.

Sunday.

Golf: Bogey Pool, Finling, Yachting: Club v. Ladies, Macas Inaugurel Race Meeting (second day).

Principal Mails:-Inward: U.S.A. Canada, etc. (President Madison).

Monday.

H.K.C.C. Tennis Tournament (details in sports column daily).

Ten Dancea: E.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

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