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Scotland's National Bard Honoured

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one has to forget." I told the tale sion the silver-tongued President of to Henry Taylor that evening: but his answer was: "Burns's exquisite songs and Burns'a serious efforts are to me alike tedious and disagreeable read ing."

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No, Str, we Scots rejoice to cele- brate this night and to think of all that the name of Burns means to each of us, but we do not need any speaker to recall the verses that to each of us are especially dear: There is none of us who would not rather read for himself in the privacy of his own home whatever it is that makes a more especial appeal to him.

that Society in a most witty speech twitted. us with certain 'noisy matutinal habits-pre-porridge pip- me was the illiterative phrase he used. I was aware that centuries ago the pipes were played to waken the retainers in the morning, but I was under the impression that the custom had fallen into desuetude and that the members of St. George's Society were being mis- informed.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935.

GENERAL UNDER

ARREST

Neglect Of Duty Alleged

Sungkan, northern Kweichow, on General Hou came here from

the 18th inst. to receive instruc tions from General Ho and Gen- eral Liu Hsiang Commander-in- chief of the Szechuen Bandit- suppression Forces.

Chungking, Jan. 20.

governing reward and punishment Strictly enforcing the measures

for the bandit-suppression forces, the General Stan Corps of the Provisional Headquarters. President of the Military Affairs of the

Commission, headed by General Ho Kuo-kwang, has placed Gen- eral Hou Chih-tan. Vice-Commian- However, when re-der of the 25th (Kwelchow) Army. membered Sir William Hornell's under detentions for neglect of deserved reputation for accuracy duty. land veracity I had to find another explanation, and I think I have found it. Sir William must have Emblem of Scotland

meant that on some visit to Scot- To-night we regard Burns from land he, for reasons into which we a different point of view, the gym-

need not go, was so late coming bol and emblem of our dear coun-

down to breakfast that the pibroch try. No race has given more

was already sounding over moun- pioneers to the cause of the ad-tain and glen. In such circum- vancement of civilisation through- .stances he is to be congratulated out the world. All over the globe on being able does one And Scots, essentially adaptable to their new surround- ings and happy in them, yet wherever a Scot, may be and what- ever his walk in life Scotland still calls to him. Scottish poetry is full of that characteristic home- sickness. Nell Munro put it thus:

Are you not weary in your distant

places

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Far far from Scotland of the

mist and storm,

In drowsy airs, the sun--smite on

your faces,

The days so, long and warm? When all around you He the

strange fields sleeping The dreary woods where no fond

memories roam,

Do not your sad hearts over seas

come leaping

To the highlands and the low-

lands of your Home?

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and the great Canadian boat song expresses the same yearning

From the lone shelling of the

misty island » ̧. Mountains divide us, and the

waste of seas Yet stil the blood is strong, the

heart is Highland,

And we in dreams behold the

Hebrides.

Great is our affection for Burns but still greater is our love for our country which speaks to us in every line he wrote. This day is to every Scot a day of great national re- union, when we rejoice to meet to- gether with our friends, with those national dishes which remind us of Scotland, with a sufficiency of our great national, beverage, to look. through the magic portal which the name of Burns opens to each of us, at our far off homeland and to recall the happy days we spent there. Burns is so much a part of": Scotland that in honouring him we i are honouring the great land of ¦ which each of us is thinking this evening.

face his porridge.

I trust that to-morrow morning he will attack his breakfast with a clear eye and a ravenous appetite. (Laughter.)

But Sir, even if it were true that we as a race daily indulged in this riot of morning melody it would, I suggest, be more impressive and more tuneful, than the before- breakfast bath-bellowing in which the English traditionally indulge. which they often allude to as sing- ing and which usually quite un- truthfully they associate with "A cold tub every morning by Jove Sir."

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His-witty speech was particularly pleasing to me for the reason that he frankly admitted that Society of St. Andrew stood alone f its strength, in its expression of true, national unity and affection and its Scottish ceremonial. That is what the memory of Burns real ly means to every Scat to-night"

From Scottish Pen!

It is interesting also to know that the charming verses in praise cf the English countryside which formed such an effective peroration to Sir William's speech were not the work of any great English poet or culled from any 'English anothology. No, Sir, they taken from the columns of that good Scots"newspaper the "Glas- 50w Herald” ri

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were

A humble unpublished "versiñer has written these lines:~~

Pure water is the best of drinks. So did old Pindar sing: But who am I that I should have The best or everything" Let monarchs sip the flowing

brook,

Feers with the pump make free. But whiskey, wine, or even beer Is good enough for me. Gentlemen

Whiskey and freedom gang

togfther

Tak off your" dram

to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns.

Chieftain's Thanks

n

In a telegram to General Chiang Kai-shek, 'President of the Military Affairs Commission, the General- Staff Corps blames General Hon for allowing the "Reds" under Chu Te and Mao Tse-tung to cross the Wa Klang (River), and holds him responsible for the loss of several important clties in northern Kwelchow.

Ho is also charged with leaving. his garrison post without orders and causing delay in the military operations.

It may be pointed out in this connection that the units under General Hou Chih-tan were originally assigned to defend the northern bank of the Wu Klang (River). Failing to prevent the Reds from crossing the River, General Ho abandoned such im- portant and strategic cities Meltan, Tsunyi and Tungtau in northern Kweichow to their fate without fighting, and withdrew his men northwards to Sungkan to establish contact with the Sze- chuan troops along the Szechuan- Kwelchow border. "By, doing so, he has disrupted the plans of the Government troops to liquidate the "Reds" south of the Wu River Kuo Min.

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY

Canton, Jan. 23. Owing to the development of the Canton-Bankow Railway and the necessity for rapid communication, Mr. Li Si Han, Manager of the Southern Section of the railway, is planning the linking up of the different stations by telephones, beginning from Wong Sha ant ex-] tending to shiu, Kwan and Lok Cheong-

The main stations are already in telephonic communication with each other, but it has now been decided to connect up all the in- tervening stations as a matter of convenience, and in order to pre- vent accidents.

Nám Wah Tat Po.

Huge Dredging Total

A great applause was given by

A dredging record round Shang- the gathering to the Chief Justicebat appears to have been establish for his magnificent speech. The ed during the past year, it being

"St. George's Dragon "' Some of us were privileged a few 'days ago to attend the annual re- union of the Society of that ad- jacent country which prides itself on its representation among the Saints by a money leader from Antioch usually portrayed on a prancing charger administering the coup-de-grace" to a minoz Loch Ness monster,” a most suitable per- | a good thany years past, and I can son to represent such a conglom-honestly say that I have enjoyed eration of races as is modern Eng-to-night's speech with all my

land. (Laughter.) On that occa-

DOCTOR'S AMAZING EXPERIENCE WITH INDIGESTION

Chairman, MË. Mackichan ad- dressing the gathering thankęd Mr. MacGregor for proposing the toast in such a unique manner "I have attended these dinners for

estimated that 4,500,000 tons of mud were removed by eleven credgers 1,000 mow feet. In other words, a depth of one foot of mud over an area of 10,000

mow.

• " The Reply

your glasses and drink to the toast heart and with all my soul, if I of "Jean Armour and the lave." may put, it that way. Once again I thank you, Mr. MacGregor for your unique speech. (Applause). "The Lassleg

JD

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Note:-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the words required.

Across 1-It's a fiendish word to solve:

(7). 5-One may get stiff in the back

taking a turn to dig (5). -No father, or mother. is

without thia (5), - 9-One has to give authority for

this (7).

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nymph (6).

14-The father who takes thought

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cated (7).

Down

To this life the

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2-The height of one's ambitran

(3).

PASSENGERS

S.S. President Hoover The following passengers disem

3-It's not used for renewal,

which shows a real loss (3). 4-Une saw this might very like

ly be buzzing round (8)." A memento of the past (5). 6-One swallow doesn't make a this, but too many will. (5).

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(5).

17-See 97 concerning the nose

(5),

18-Who was the squire of Budi.

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“8.8. President” Grant ” toast, said:-Centlemen: It has

The List of passengers who dis- always been a source of worder to embarked ex sa. President Grant Mr Campbell iri proposing the me why it is that bachelors have which arrived yesterday from the toast of "The Lassiest sald-Te in the honour of proposing or reply- States via ports included:-Mrs. T. the job of poets to make loving to the Toast of "The Lassies." B. Askew, Mr T, S. Au; Mr. Y. Ban but Burns differed from most In proposing this toast Mr. in that he put his whole Heart Campbell has, I'm afraid, soared Buch in, Mr. P. Carey, Mr. Chan.

ño, Mr. R." E. Binna, Mr? W, M Who would expect a well-known into his profession and worked to poetie heights to which I dare Wing, Mr. Y. X. Chan Mr. Chang. doctor to be a victim of persistent hard to get on. He slaved at the not aspire in my reply. Now, I'm Mr. T. C. Chang Miss Y. T. Chen. stomach, trouble? His own medicine task day and night, and made not a poet-never have I claimed Miss Y. W. Chen, Mr. Chew Tze did him no good, Then at last he himself proficient. (Laughter), to have done anything in that line Chang, Dr. S. F. Chien, Mrs. 8. F found the way to conquer obstinate stomach disorder. Here are his And he did not confine himself to more than scan an examination Chien, Mr. Wa, Chiu, Mr. Chung own words!

one, branch,, dying for the love of a hard-hearted Laura, or Phyllis He adopted, the modern business man's motto of" "Service" for, all”

test-paper unsuccessfully, so his. Foon, Miss F. Chwang, Mr. "I find that 'Bisurated Magnesiu

eloquent speech has rather a Ralph H. Clark, Mrs. Ralph H taken after my meals is the only.

special appeal to me,

Clark, Mr. Ralph H. Clark, Jr.Mr. thing that keeps me free from pain

In this modern age to appeal to D: Cohen, MH Cohen, Miss and discomfort, and I take it re

What Burns would have done a maiden with poetical stuff is a Mary Coleman Mr H S. Coppage gularly. I often prescribe it for to-day I don't know, Probably be complete wash-out. Look at Mr. U. Cox, Mr. Delvaux de Fenfie my patients

apil have had very would have had less hesitation in Burns: bit of a post we all know, Mr. William Roy, MLF. W. Tur Mr. jood results."

sailing Westward, even without an but when there, were any lasses H. Gledhill, Mr. JH. Green, Miss II. G., M.A., MRCS, LROP Invitation to go up and see her around, he was practical to a dep Y. Ho, Mr. Ho Sheung Kwan,

Amazing evidence of the remark

sometime. uble speed with which indigestion probably the thought of the admiration for Burns: he had an Mr. A. Keith, Mrs Ewan Shook (Laughter) More gree." (Laughter) I've a. great Capt. J G Hom, Mr. G. Koonsin, and stomach pains can be stopped so-called crooners would have uncanny knack of knowing when Hing, Mr. 8. L. Kwong, Mr. B. B has been revealed by medical er periments and X-ray photographs chased him off. Put any one of to write poetry and when not to of actual, cases. These

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