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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1931.

THOMAS HARDY MEMORIAL.

UNVEILED BY SIR JAMES BARRIE

TRIBUTE OF AN OLD FRIEND,

Sir Inmos Barrie, a friend of long standing, unveiled with n characteristic speech a statue of Mr. Thomas Hardy, the work of Mr. Eric Kennington, which has been erected on a commanding site at the novelist's beloved Dorches

tor.

"For à very few minutes only shall I venture to stund between you and what we have all come. here to see, the figure, that is le hind these sheets, Sir James said

"He was a great man. That was his hard fate In this matter you and I are the lucky ones. Our lot to be soon forgotten, not to be messed about by the spade men of the future-it is 'n warming thought for us, and what the kind Creator meant; but Hardy has to miss it. I believe he would have preferred to share our right "to the shorter span ones his task was accomplished and the long day done:

FRENCH RAIL LOSSES.

£2,000,000 A MONTH.

HOW TO MEET ROAD

COMPETITION.

Paris. A complete reform of the French railway system is envisaged in the plan that will be submitted to Parliament in the autumn."

The French railways have been losing money for years. The de Aicit in the common fund, which was instituted in 1921, amounted last year to over £14,000,000, and it is estimated that the aggregate loss of a the lines is something like £3,000,000 a month.

BENDIEN CANCER

TEST.

CHECKING ITS ACCURACY,

The result of further investiga tions of the Brudien test for ch

recent issue of cor are given in a the British Medical Journal,

Au examination on an extensiy sale is being conducted at the Staffordshire County Laboratory, and Dr. J. Fine reports that the first four cases tosted afforded a dramatic surprise. The Bendion reaction for number I was positive. and negative for the

1 the serum. but in number camo from a patient believe cd to bo suffering from heart disease, whereas number was a cancer patient

rest:

Before any adverse opinion was" formed the cases were re-investi The raising of passenger fares gated, when it was found that and reduction of taxes which oe number 1 patient showed clinical

and radiographical signs of com curred recently are quite inademencing malignant disease of the quate, it is realised, to macet this ung, which were only just becom situation. New methods are re-ing porneptible, whereas in nut

bor, 2-the cancer patien—an ex- quired to it the new conditions, the tensive operation two months pra present statute of the railwaye, viously had removed the growth, and, there is at present reason tu which dates from 1857, taking no

bope that the disease had account of the changes which have then been entirely eradicated. The other two samples came froni occurred in communications, espeonses of gastric ulceration, a con If it is the living image of himcially through the development, ofdition in which the early diagnosis.

"I believe, indeed, that in one way this statue must be a failure,

whom it portrays you will find when the sheet is removed, that there is no statue there. It will. have done what Mr. Hard would have done. if he had heard that there was a great concourse of people to do him honour-slipped quietly away. I hope I have made our sculptor a little uneasy. I may be a warning to him not to do so well in the futures

An Anxious Moment. What is it precisely that we are expecting to sen? Our ideas must be very variod.

the motor.car

It has been decided to adapt the railways to these new conditions, and important changes will shortly be introduced with a view to sup pressing the competition between rail and road and making the two means of transport co-operators instead of rivals.

of the presence or absence of can cer is of the most vital import

ance.

Dr. Fine remarks: "If further results prove as consistent as it Bendien chemical, test will be the above batch the case for the greatly strengthener. The fact that a positive result is obtained in three different conditions caremome, namely,

tuberculosis and gall stones, with jaundice-- The railway having the advan- does not very greatly detract from tage over long distances will in the value of the test, for it must future be regarded essentially as seldom constitute a difficult pro means of travelling between dis-blem for the clinician to distin tant centres, the liaison between guish between these conditions." smaller tad more closely situated communities being entrusted in principle to the motor-bus.

Smak local lines which were

tween country districts, but have Become largely superfluous since the introduction of the motor, will be suppressed or converted for the use of auto-cara

Tower Stations.

A Great Advangs."

"When the child Hardy was born, the doctor thought. am dead, and dropped him into a basket. That was an anxious moment for this

In view of some rather hasty country. But a woman slipped forward to make sure, and found he was alive. A statue to this wo-originally the only connection be criticism which has been ruade, Dr. maa-Mr. Kennington could have

Fine emphasises the point that the Bandien test consists of two parts. done worse than give us that.

"What interests me still more is

the Grip of which the chemica this was Hardy shamming in the

part is of more immediate interest in view of its simplicity and ap basket! If so, it was the only

parent validity. The second part- Lime in his life that he ever sham-"

the spectrophotometric investiga med. Yet, knowing what we know.

tion although of great scientific of him now, we may think that, at

On the more important lines the interest, a mora delicate pro his first night of life he liked it an

number of stations will be consider cedure, and presents more chancer little that bolay very still

"There was never any more fal-ably reduced, fiteon miles being in of error at present, tering. The mdaunted mind, future the minimum distance be- Anreviously mentioned the un- That was Hardy. That is a statue tween stops. Intermediate locali.deniable fact remains that cancer ties will be served by connecting has been diagnosed by examination I be

"Let me admit to you a certain motor-buses of an improved type of blood samples by the Bendiers Technical improve ments in the test will increase the longing I have. I know some things capable of carrying a large amount procedure. about Hardy that feel sure can- of heavy luggage... not ho in Mr. Kennington's work,

applicability of this great ad. and I should like to come here some

vance in medical science, and will night soon--maybe to-night-when it is thought. The running of slow,be furthered by critical comments all of you are in bed-especially frequently stopping, and often which are therefore to be welcom Mr. Kennington-I should like to empty trains is known to be theed.. steal here in a white cost, with a lenst economies function of the hammer and chisel and chip those railways, and motor transport is more eficient and cheaper for the shorter distances.

little bits in.

"Perhaps I shall find the statue surrounded by critics, all in white costs, all chipping; each one of us so zaalous to get in some favourite bit of his own that he forgets it can only be done by shipping some better bit off.

Mistaken for Pessimism.

The saving in money due to these innovations should be considerable,

Dr. Fine mentions a line of im provement which he is himself ac tunlly exploring at the moment, and the probability of the test soon becoming widely available is The motor-bus services wil. of thus increasing. The British Em- course, be run by the mailways, pire Cancer Campaign is expected who have already instituted themed to issue a report on Monday. at various points, so that the re- form really only represents an ex- tension of a feadency that has already begun.

SPEEDING UP OF A MECHANISED ARMY.

The darkness of his spirit, for instance, which some people, long forgiven, mistook for pessimism. There were years certainly, when I thought him the most unhappy man I had over known; but if he had casaped his weird we could not ONE OF THE OBJECTS OF have had our Hardy,

FRENCH MANŒUVRES,

"And, after all, can one be al- together unhappy even when rid

den by the Furies, if he is produc Paris-The most important of ing masterpieces? May we not the French Army manoeuvres will The War Offico announce that the suspect that he has moments of take place this year from Septem physical standards for recruits for exultation which are denied tober 10 to 16 in the district to the the Infantry of the Line have been other mortale. I dare say the north-east of Rheims, the theatre of raised-the minimum height stand-shades of the departed Great ga-operations forming a triangle with ard from 6ft 2in. to 6ft 4in, and thered in that room at Max Gate its points at that city, Laon and the minimum woight from 112lb. to to watch their brother write tho Rethel p 115lb.-and that restrictions on the last page of "The Dynasta Hap numbers enlisting for other arms pily after that he was to pass into it is understood, will be devoted to the study of special tactical and of the Service have been imposed a long evening of serenity.

The President of the Tomort strategical methada. During the These restrictions, in the words

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of an official announcement, areals had ended his sport with Hardy:second period an army of little less

"I will not further delay your tann 30,000 men will deliver an at-a Charm that due to the decision not to proceed in the present financial atringency seeing the status Our sculptor hae tack from an easterly direction. with the effort to reduce the de chosen to show you, I think very The attacking force will be led by ficiencies on establishments of units wisely, Mr. Hardy as you know General Maitre, who commands the him best in Dorchester, as you may 2nd Army Corps at Amiens, and at Home."

often have met that quietest Bgure the defenders by General Lacapella, in literature on your country walks the Military Governor of Metz and and bis, as you and he went home Commander of the eth Army Corps. General Claudel, Inspector-Geo- along. "I am as curious as you for, ox-eral of the Colonial Forces will cept in the photograph, I only saw direct operations, and these will be the statue long ago in the making observed by General Woygand and Hope it has grown so true to him General Camelin, Chief of the Gen- that I shall even know what is eral Staff, in his pockets; probably a piece of string and ta old kaifs ....

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The intake of recruits so far this year has been above the normal It is added, and if allowed to pro coed ht the present rate a very considerable addition to the Army Estimates in 1932-33 would have bees incurred

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It is believed that one important point to be studied will be the pos sibility of each unit of a mechanis At the conclusion of his addressed army utilieing its maximum spoed instead of being limited-as during last year's manquvres--to are int the foot of the status. the speed of the slowest uitst Another was laid from the English Spenking Union inscribed, Thy nario is Wessex,"

who day came home they keeping down the strength. The Sir James placed wreath of proudly were in their brow-bands amouncement of course, constitutes the three medals to which they the complete reversal of the policy were entitled, the 3914 Star, the pursued earlier in the year, which Victory and War Medals,

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"I have never known anything strength. like it in my own war experience

of teams" said Major. J. J Bell,

The Countess of Ilchester, Chair- to many of whom Hardy's figure man of the Memorial Committee, had hoon familiar

Barne Next to Bir/Jame formally presented the statue to the town, and the Mayor (Mr. W unveiling Ceremon

Hardy's widow and shear Fare) accepted its

D.B.O., assistant secretary of the In 1920 and 1921 the hornes ap Royal Artillery Institution, Wool peared at Olympia, but their wich. “Even If a horse went sick greatest post-war distinction was

A civic proceation, which includere Bass Kate Hardy, the nov would mean breaking up the that of pulling the guncarrisga aed Mayors of neighbouring towns.. tosim na ho would probably be the burial of the Unkdown Warrior was met on the way to the status. And

ardy a relativesi returned as a remount to come in the Abbey on Armistice Day by a big gathering of Wessex folk, and Mr

Lacey, one of 1920. They retired' three years Collier unit."

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