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FORTY YEARS OF-MEN, AND

MUSIC.

Mark Hamborg was born in

ath and his first recollection is a stal tipse of the sun, Lappened in Russia many

That

years

ata plave called Bogutchar,

MARK HAMBOURG'S- REMINISCENCES.

POET LAUREATE AT PLAY.

MISSIE MAYLOW'S STORY, OTHER TALES AND SCENCA. Joht Mashfield. „Heinemann. Gd. 1 ‘

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11,

REDS DESTROY SPANISH CROPS.

WORKMEN SENT TO RUSSIA.

Madrid, Oct. 9.The Communist rising at Villancera, near Cordoba, continues, and the rioters remE in the country destroying crops. They have spread over an area of about 20 miles.

The town of Villagueva has been By made a centre of Communist or 78.ganisation, and workanen have been

H.K.F.A. MEETING.

LETTER RROM CHINESE

CLUBS

COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO DRAFT REPLY.

The letter addressed by the five local-Chinese clubs to the Hang Kong Football Association (which has already appeared in

our

1931.

letter at this meeting, and he sug rested that a better course would be for a small sub-committee to go fully into the letter and frame a drate reply, which would be. sub-i mitted to the Council. This augges--| tion was supported by Capt. Deakin and agreed to by the meeting.

The meeting also agreed to the Chairman's proposal that Mr. G. T. May, Mr. R. K. Duncan, Capt. Deakin and Mr. J. Ormiston form the sub-committee for this purpose. Challenge Shield Draw. Eight teams entered for the Senior Shield Competition and ten for the Junior Shield. The Arsti round was fixed for November 28.

A POMPEII FIND.

RACING CHARIOT OF IMPERIAL PERIOD..

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RESCUES BY NAVY.

MEN FROM JUNK.

Rouse, Oct. 2-To-day has been | PETERSFIELD SAVES SEVEN a good one for arheology. Pompeii Professor Majuci bas dis covered an ancient chariot of the Imperial period of the house called that of Meandro, where wagnificent specimeca of household plate were found in a chest last winter.

H. M. Navy, over ready in an to be doing emergency, appears Some days ago the Professor yeoman work in the matter of sea. found a wheel, and went on dig rescues of late. Following cla sing with the result that he has upon the magnificent work done by now unearthed the chariot, which H.M.S. Hermes at the wreck of the is nearly six feet long. It is enked i

sent to Russia to study the methods columns) stating the reasons which | The draw for tthe Senior Shield a first examination can prove it land comes news of the saving cl of spreading Communism, District has led to their secession from the authorities have taken energetic

fact, where the great pianist ful mood in his new back of verse. Mr. Masefield appears in a play as born. He tells of this and of

chrise in From Piand to He writes for the most. pari, not measures which, it is expected, will League was mentioned at the meet-

te, his book of reminiscences in the white heat of inspiration, at published. (Cassell. 188.) That hardly gives sufficient hat in the spirit of a narrator set- to the contents of a singularly ting out to entertain this readers. adable vedune, for it is not ex- usively corned with pianos or with mutical matters gentral- Muse, of course, looms large. That the personality of the author ms arger. We find his taste in ph, in litics, in countries (for Las trivelled widely and is at estis Australia for the fourth fth tim, in wine, in cigars. From this even a stranger could artially or struct, the man wad

upwards of forty years (for hely urted as an infant prodigy) has

His book consists of a number of narratives, some of them told dramatic form.

familiar a figure at Lon onvert balls, and could get know something of his vigour. les, his humour and his cek.

Hated Practising..

As a boy of five he hated practising piano and set ran a needle

to his finger on purpose in order:

ing of the H.K.F.A. Council yester- day, Mr. E. J. Ormiston presiding.

Letters expressing inability to at- tend the meeting were sent to the Chairman, by the President. (Mr. R.

was as follows:-

S. W. Borderers Kawicon ground.

On

with earth and ashes, but so far as Ryujin Maru near Turnabout Is-

appears to be in good condition. men from a watery grave by the Kowloon,It is a great find, being the only efforts of what has been truly term

extant. original racing chariot Reproductions have been made ed" The Silent Service," Agylla Navy, Sookunpoo!

H.M.S. Petersfield, with Adiniral Police e. St. Joseph's St. Joseph's from those on Pompe mural de-

the real Sir Howard Kelly, Commander-in- corations, but this is ground.

Chief of the China Station, Recreio H.A.F.C., Recreio thing

Frain Piombino cohes news of board, yesterday rescued seven a Cheung Chau ground.

The South Wales Borderers, the discovery at Populorum of four fishermen from

more Etruscan toruba, which are fishing junk in distress off Tripod stated to be in good condition Island, Steep Island Pass, nad though dne was actually under landed them safely on West Fisher Hey Bty. R.A., and the H.K.F.C.

water. The remains of human man Island. drew byes in the Junior Shield.

skeletons and pieces of Etruscan hat for the first round were: —

jewellery of unusual beauty were The pairs which came out of the Police Argylls, Sookunpoo.

found in them. One of the tombs R.A.F.,

is round, and they are all well beneath the actual level of the ground

put an end to this state of affairs.

A conflict between employers and agriculturel workers has arisen at Gilen, near Seville. Strikers went today to an estate of the Duke of The subjects of Infantado. and" stopped all work M. Dyer), the Hon. Dr. Kotewall, Navy, R.A.0.C.. Kowloon. 12th most of them are familiar-Dick They disarmed a corporal of the Whittington and his Cat, the Re-Civil Guard, who was shot dead turn of lysoss, Henry VIII. and Guards opened fire; killing one his wives; the endless story of the striker and wounding eight others. locusts and the grains of corn.

The verse is, at time, deliberate pedestrian, as when the story King Henry and Rosamund be

In this village the Mayor, a Socialist, not having enough mami- sical funds to help the unemploy. ed, gave them vouchers ordering gine:

the shopkeepers to supply them Dark Eleanor and Henry sat at with food free of charge. Meat

At Woodstock in the royal hunt- ing-seat.

Eleanor said: "The wind bloar

Mr. Masefield is a first-rate story. teller and he contrives to make these various marratives interest- ing. but to discover his burning Will you go out?" King Henry genius as a peet one must turn

other books.

'n doder the ordeal Tet at eight hitter chill...

was playing at a concert in Mrs.

be the Philharmonic So-said, "I will."

the ring of 1989 he was in Lado tenhlp to speak a wordi Panething but Russian. But Felix scheles was a friend of the fami. and the young boy soon found sely among a distinguished en Sering af much older people, Bwhole's house on Sunday after. boek was rom like a salon. and beng Hambourg found Oscar 3 Remard Shaw. Ellen Ter, Stol Keit Hardie, and the mper Delius.

That sa his period of Paderewski

mahin

·Paderewski shone supreme in my w I admired him as a god. He beautiful to look at, and of ex ind He used to take me with

Many marvellouse in the, Chinese Barline Arcade. Once he bought. won. That was a red-letter day adds

For me, lly dis

ty of

erty in

The Umpire's White Coat.

"Young.

John of Chance's Stretch" is the lively story of a young farmer who is drugged and robbed when attending a fair and lift naked in a wood, except for a cricket umpire's white coat that has been tied round his neck Garbed in this fashion, he discovers two men robbing a grave in a church by night and making off with their booty:

The moon had risen high and

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clear

Though taning, when the rose

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to go.

What prompted me I cannot know

But as they left the door. I raised One hand, and held them though crazed

ON

I cried "Why are you robbing me?

Restore my corpse's property.”

I, the half-naked thing in white-

SOVIET CENSORSHIP OF NEWS.

The conditions under which for eigu newspaper correspondents in Moscow have had to work during the Soviet regime are described in Dr Paul Scheffer's retrospectiva review, Seven Years in Soviet Russia," just published. (Putnam, 15. iet.)

Dr. Scheffer was Moscow corres- "Berliner Tage- pondent of the blatt" from 1921 to 1929. Almost every year the censorship of des- patches. together with the "super- vision" of newspaper men by the Secret Police, increased. Litvinay explained it as "an effort to pro- tect you gentlemen from misinter

mastion.'

A favourite device was to shake the reporter's confidence in the accuracy of his information. An- other was to delay official approval of a despatch till the reporter.

Half seen in moon and lantern-pressed for time, would finally ne

Buży Years. Much, residence abroad and in sent travelling made the next to Kuany busy ones. When Mark Handour returned. it was to find situo Farland plunged in "the South, light Airicau wark and himself among clear," intelligentsia, The Mascheles to the asphality continued. People with avard ideas were constant visi-

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cept the wording proposed to him.

Must have seemed walking-corpse There was not infrequent bargain- or chost.

The robbers bleated like the lost Then they both screamed and darted past

Sereaming, and as they ran they

I can remember Ramsay Mac, Donald there is a young man, cast ernestly discussing Socialism, and

Their takings from them, right Hay ther isms.'... Herbert and left. Gladstone (som of the G.0.M.) The happy result of this is that pving a dissertation on music. the young farmer, instead of return

Kave 19 address to ing home as a plucked pigeon, is to IR 17

digier vvening. Lenin. itable to lay the foundations of his ems, had arrived from Sweden, fortune. They br had been attend-

United

Chinese

regard

kover,

Lenin

ing of one piece of news against another; though in such bicker. ings the reporter invariably lost.

"One must bear in mind," he writes, "that those all but scandal. nus conditions arise not so much from the had will of the censors

as from the increasing bad will, so to speak. of the conditions prevail. ing in the Soviet Union.

Isolated.

Foreign correspondents are be

It will be seen that Mr. Mase-ing systematically excluded from

ar, a Socialist congress, completely field's Muss is not in too serious the life which the Soviet Union is

aled, for lack of funds. He mood. And it is clear that he wrote

bed the ad his companiona wari advanced his version of the Adam-and-Eve money by Mr. Mels, a millionaire story in Chaucerian English for who had made a fortune out of soap. rnment tenia repaia every penny of the

hon.

China

aded to

ute by

en pre

Marriage.

Marriage with a daughter of the ale Lord Muir Mackenzie brought Hambourg in touch with pôl- Lies, though not as an active par- ing the

epant Lord Haldane frequently batilities dined at his house, sitting solemnly the narrowest and smallest Em- Fire chain we possessed."

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"

My wife and her family had

fun. For example)

Osely Eva, moder of us, al, Thou wast to nice and grene, ye God wook,

The rede applé round as is a bal thy throat;

Goth doun the selendre golet of

Thou ettist it when thou was tolde root.... lost hir sense.

Wepe, Adam, wepe, thy wyf has

leading. The isolation of foreign correspondents, and, in fact, of all foreigners, in Moscow is now com- plete"

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As for. transient tourists, they are, according to this authority, "subjected from the first to Soviet propaganda which is man- aged with great, skill through the Press Division of the Foreign Com missariat.

"The misery of Russia cries aloud in every Russian street. Bewilder- ment and despair open ma-113 The foreigner in Soviet Sewith thy napron, farewel in-mouths.

Russia wanders about in an invi

nocence.

The most seriously poetical of the sible caga; but only a few never

g. Foca Lord Haldane since child-narratives in the book is the story learn to hear and see!

tegrite

tood. Coming back from the C13 of end Tristan and Iseult. Dr. Scheffer believes that the restal Palace, where he had taken of the of Frist lovers, singing Soviet regime is more fragile to- transformed into day than it was nine years ago.

"It is balanced," he writes, "wha M's large straw hat, with a red, spirita" and horne to Paradise:

ated

them all as children, he allowed

them to dress him up in a

together, are TO-

av wrapped round him. When

And then, lo, they were one, and ly on the life of Stalin and on his

methods."

the ticket collector came, the child all was over

ren addressed him as 'Aunt Sophie,' ILLS and asked him to give up the

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through Moodn

tickets. This he did with perfect ravity undeterred by his unge, estomed headgear."

Their rags and robes were fall' and gleaming things,

Spirits, a lover wing in wing with lover

Were laughing in the air and Shining like stars and flying like

A highly adaptable Chancellor, spreading wings There is ari amusin picture of Mark Twain, whom the author the plover

glass of claret, and then

Laughing aloft and singing and

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knew well in Vienna, providing

arty meals for in artists, but he away himself would take nothing but a

Into some Summer knowing no walk decay.

Most of the other poems are like and the table while we ate te pleasant trifles composed for per fing stories in his slow drawl." Great Figures.

formance by a party of friends, and the verse, as a rule, in on the level

The great figures of music appear with welcxane and intimate fre-

of King Henry VIII's speech to len and Wolsey:

Stalin might disappear at any moment and his departure would make a terrible, perhaps a fatal. crisis for Bcishevism; for "it would at once become apparent how far Stalin has crippled the active for ees of leadership in Russia."

The Future?

The

in this fascinating book the ghosts of Katherine, Anne Bulig itself under a dictatorship: and

Strausses,

Brahms, Ysaye, the Bruckner, Hans Richter, Joachim,

and many more.

r. Hambourg remains a class Exist (though not a narrow gae)

And I am your King and your leader who stood by his strength.

You thought you could sway. him or hold him, or rule in his name:

All three of you prosper'd. but found out your error at length.

All you who attempted to rule of older forms of music.. It began me. I made you all tame:

Yet three were but pawns in the

and an optimist, too,

There are signs at present," he

roncludes, of a reaction in tavour":

few years ago with a return to

Bach Now it is Beethoven's game,

tarn to be popular. Even the popularity of jazz has begun to

When Lenin died in 1924 a power. ful group was already governing the country in his stead. Its mem hers managed to get on with one another, and the Party looked up to them.

"All that is gone now. Party, from the bottom to the top. it fears the dictator as much na the remnant of the bourgeoisie fears him; for. Party members, all the way up to the top, are watch ed no less closely by the G.P.U. than the bourgeoisie is watched. What will become of this frigh

and frightfully fully artificial strained fabric the moment he re

leases control? When the scramble for the power which he has cone.

I us'd vou and let you be lost.centrated in his own hands begins,

Be glad you were worth what

ane before the delicious rhythme your cont

of the old-fashioned Viennese walts of our childhood H

But think not to vex. me "blame"

a reaction against the overstraining

of the past years will be inevitabl within all strata of the Russian popu:

lation."

substantiate Recreio

Recreio

and Mr. McTavish. Dr. Kotewall. in his letter, stated that, if the mat ter was discussed by the Council. the Chinese clabs should be giver the opportunity to

Lai Wah Cup.. their statement that the final ar-ground. rangements for the Malayan team's

This season's Lai Wah Cup Com- visit were concluded only on Satur-

petition will take the form of a day September 19. He expressed triangular contest, the draw pro the hope that any discussion which riding for three watches, the first might take place at the Council of which will be played on Novem- ber 1, while the playing dates for meeting would be conducted in the others will be arranged later. friendly spirit.

The draw resulted as follows:-

Civilians.. Navy. Army Civilians. Navy Army.

Mr. Ormiston said that the desire of the members was to consider the 1 letter in a friendly spirit, but be fore doing so he would ask Mr. Duncan to place before the meeting suggestion which he had made. Mr. Duncan said that the Council would not be able to discuss the

"S.H." Charity Cup. The draw for the Sunday Herald Charity Cup matches was also made at the meeting, both matches to be (Continued on next Column.)

played on the Club ground, Happy Valley.

On Christmas Day, Scotland will meet England, while Wales and Portugal will meet on Boxing Day. Capt. Deakin, having announced that he would be leaving the Colony on November 26, Mr. Duncan, pro- posed a vote of thanks for his great interest in football and the Council meetings. The Council joined in this proposal and Capt. Denkin acknowledged the compliment in I suitable terms

The bare statement issued by the Naval Authorities gave few details and it can only be presumed that the junk came to grief in the very heavy weather that has been pre- I vailing at sea of late.

At the annual turkey sale at Attleborough Norfolk, 4,000 birds were penned as against 5,000 Inst year.

They were mostly of the mammoth bronze breed, plump and The remarkably well developed. average price was round about 1s. 3d. per lb.

With the prevailing depression in agriculture many farmers and small- holders are relying upon their tur- keys and poultry to keep them from bankruptcy.

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