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No. 22939. ¶¤Ã±Ø **A***** HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1932. *# ***** Price Single Copy, 10 cts.

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DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(February 3.)

Licensing Board Mesting, Council Chambers, 3'p.m.

Prize-giving coromony Paul's College, è p.m.

12

at

CHANGING ENGLAND.

THE LAND OF COMMERCE AND

SCIENCE.

8. PROFESSOR MIDDLETON-SMITH ON THE

“BATTLE WITH SHRIEKING TYPHOON.”

H.M.S. Cumberland Dance at Garrison Lecture Hall, 3.30 p.m.

Whist Drive at Seamon's ID- stitute.

Hockey Hong Kong Hockoy Club a. Argylls & Sutherland High- landera,

Central Theatre: Only the Bravo."

Queen's Theatre: "Politica.***

King's Theatre: "The Virtuous Sin."

World Theatre: "Ono for the Other (Chinese. Alm);

Star Theatre:: "The Locked Door."

Harmston's Circus at Kowloon, 10:15 p.m.

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and King's Restaurant.

European Mail:-Outward: Europe via Siberis (Empl of Asia) 10.30 3.11

}}} THURSDAY.

(February 4.)

Helenn May Institute, Concert by Mr. and Mrs. A. M. 3owes-Smith.

Harmston's Circus at Kowloon,

8.15 p.

F

Hockey: Radio. Sports Club v. Hong Kong Folies.

Golf Completion of Fourth Round, Taggart Cup (edies).

Queen's Theatre

Central Theatro: Bravo."...

King's Theatre's

Sin."..

Star Thent Door"

Professor W. Middleton Smith, who was the speaker, at yes terday's meeting of the Hong Kong Rotary Club, give an address on Changing England.

This old England of ours," "said the Professor, is like a ship batuling with a shrieking typhoon, but still carrying her colours bravely at the mast.

"I found her dispirited; not wonk; but well knowing that she had seen dark days before: indeed with a certain pride in the struggle

The Vice-President of the Club, The Hon. Dr. Tao, was in the Chair,

BELIEF IN HER DESTINY.

Changing England,

In England, recently, I saw that amazing now playCavalendo" which gives the panorama of the history of my generation.

Wir a contrast is the England of to-day, with that which I left some twenty years ago, when, I accepted the invitation to come to Hong Kong; and so found a depressing climate and indefatigable critics, but lost the privilege of serving on a jury and paying income tax.

What had happened in the mean time in Englandit Things are not Free Souljust na they used to be. The most Only the striking of the changes have been brought about, not by the poll The Virtuous ticians, not by the persona, but by

the men of applied science.

Mass-production, modern methods of transport, such as motor-cara, airplanes and electric trains, havo changed the daily lives of millions. Broadcasting has brought voices from afar into almost every home in the country.

-

The Locked

World Theatre: One for the Other" (Chinese fim);

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant.

FRIDAY,

February 8.)

Golf: Completion of Bend round, Ladies Championship.

Hockey Hong Kong Hockey Y.M.C.A (King's Park), 5 n.m.; Incognito. St. Andrews, Caroline Hill.

Club

King's Theatre: The Virtuous Sin,"

Central Theatre: "Only The Brave,"

It has already exerted a remark tble induence on disteners. It has educated them to appreciate good language, good books and good

music.

The Metropolis."..

What in this magnet that ha drawn within such a small circle-w population greater than that of all- Canada or Australia? Why are there more people in London to-day than there were in the whole of England in the days of good Queen Beas!

Virgil said that the ses divided the poor Britons utterly from other peoples; but modern science has made the aos for England a ring af marriage with all the nationa

London are geography and the sea

I suppose the main reasons for and following close on that, the peculiar genius of the English. people for machinery and commerce Geography made London, as it has made Hong Kong but English energy, reinforced by the canniness and thrift of the Scot, created' the two gresit. parts in the Wast and the Bast.

The Metropolis has changed, and yet the City is unchangeable. There aro now tubes, electric under. ground railways, moving staircases and flickering electric signs. at night. But Gog and Magog, the Tower, the City Companies, and the Lord Mayor's Show remain.

The nowspapers feature crimno more vividly, but the simple human emotions of laughter and domestic affection are as prevalent as of old; The invention of the steam engine the Englishman's home is still his Ind to the transformation of Eng-castle and to do his duty to his land from an agricultural to a manufacturing nation. To-day com family and fellows yet remains his

meron is King.

New York."

World Theatre: Ons for the Other."

Yet it is the ambition of every Queen's Theatre: "Sidewalks city worker to own a seat in the country. The banker or the wealthy driven the Earl from his castle. manufacturer, time after time, has But each year fewer people work on the land.

Star Theatre: "The Lorked

Door."

Toa Dances at Hong Kong Hotel And King's Restaurant. Dinner Dances at King's Restaurant. Pen- insula Hotel and Hong Kong Hotal

The rush to the cities continues and Loadon daily increases the number of its inhabitants and the area of its suburbs. There are eight Mail: award; millions in greater Loudon to-day European Europe via Negapatam (Katori and it was recently reckoned by an Maru); London (parcels only): Bar-authority on town planning that in pedon; Outward: Europe via Bucz thirty years the number will be (Terukuni Maru) 6 p.m.

twelve millions.

main ambition.

Taxis have replaced the hansome cabs of my youth; the cinema has enused the old-type of music-hall to

disappear.

In London to-day you see the new Boy Scouts and the old-time Beefeater. You find, as of old, the nurse-moide smiling at the Guards; but the girl-typist now accompanie the male to the office, and city banks employ smartly dressed Phyllis to decode cables and add up columns of other people's money.

ed.

In my life-time women has emorg- She is in Parliament and even

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