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History Of Pont St. Catherine
onangaal July 29. Few, if any of the Shanghai residents who occasionally find themselves in Route de Siccawel, wandering along what at one time were the banks of the now covered creek, or occupying a seat in one of the French Concession buses that travel chac route. pay particular attention to the bus stop that is almost at the very gateway 10 the Chinese City-Pont St. Catherine.
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Except for one or two long-time residents and a handfù of students who have delved into the city's background, it is doubtful if sent day Shanghailanders realize the historical significance of this stop which perpetuates the memory of "the Mother of Shanghai." To mary. no doubt, it comes as a startling surprise that Shanghai
ever had a mother. But the fact that there actually was such a person has once more been brought to light with the arrival in Shang- hal of a photograph of the original "Pont St. Catherine."
Shanghal's "mother" was the late Mrs. Catherine Lockhart. sister of Sir Harry Parkes, H. M. consul in China and later Minister Plenipo tentiary to Japan and China, She and her sister, Isabella were the very first foreign worpen to come to Shanghai.
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ne photograph which has just been received by the "North-Chint Daily News" from Mr. H. E. Lockhart of Pont Piper. Sydney, Austraila, son of the, 'first lady." shows the bridge as it was in 1844 when it was named afte Lockhart who, with her medical missionary husband, lived near by. Mrs Lockhart came out to China with her sister Isabella, afterwards Mrs. Canon McClatchie, to stay with Dr. Gutzlaff, a connection by marriage. Early in their Shanghai life Dr. and Mrs. Lockhart lived awhile near the bridge leading over Slecawei Creek to the Kao Chang Miao, then the arsenal..
The bridge, which has long since disappeared with the covering over of the creek at this point, was soon known as "Catherine's Bridge," al- through Mrs. Lockhart spelled her name. "Catherine." It was called. Pont St. Catherine, ever, though at that time and long after, Mrs. Lockhart was still a resident on "earth.
SCENE OF RIOTS
In the good old days when the bridge was really a bridge and not just a bus stop and a name pointed on a bus. Pont St. Catherine was the scene of many riots which were quelied frequently "by the busy French Police, old residents who remember the bridge say
Just when the creek was covered and the bridge disappeared the several old residente questioned cannot remember, but they are certain that is was a long, time ago. For many years now" Pont St. Catherine' has gone neglected and umsung and the once, graceful stone bridge; over the tree-lined banks has given way to squalor: rickshaw hovels, and beggars and cooiles now frequent the filled-in roadway.
But Pont St. Catherine still pre- serves the memory of "the Mother of Shanghal" although there are now few here who remember her
EMPIRE PARLIAMENTS
The Jubilee Celebrations
There was something. Instantly and instinctively appropriate in the choice of Westminster Hall for the banquet of the Empire Parl.a- mentary Association. That great hall, where Rufus kept his court, where Plantagenet and Tudor sövereigns held their coronation feasts, and where Cromwell was proclaimed Lord Protector, is virtually an epitome of English his tory from the first Empire of the Anglo-Normans to the second and greater Empire of o-day....
The vistor from Hobart or Van- couver who cast his mind back from this happy silver, year of Jubilee into the shadowy past could not but recall that th's great hall has more sombre memories. Here Thomas More was tried and Fisher, sentenced, and here too the Parlia ment that" was first called together by Simon de Montfort in the Chapter House across the way der bated the guilt of Charles L. and Strafford in the charge of treason against the State and the liberties of the people,
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SOVIET AIRMEN RETURN
Feed Pipe Gives Trouble
Moscow, Aug.~ 3. The Soviet airman Levansky took of at dawn on a fight to the North Pole and thence to San Francisco.
It is hoped to establish a regular air service between Russie and America via the Pole..
It is stated that the airman is provided with sufficient equipment and provisions, to live for three months in the event of a forced landing in the Polar regions;
A fleet of icebreakers 400
standing by in the Arctic Circle in Gumerous aeroplanes are. now
case of emergency:
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The Allers reached Barents Sea in the south east corner of the Arctic shortly after noon.
pose in this sangle of events that we call English history will find the golden thread he looks for, in the the mere assembly of notables to development of Parliament from
he effective executive power of this nation and Expire. In this respect the Mother of Parliaments indeed is un.que; for, other States have had their Cortes. their
their Dumas, and have eher dise Pariements, their Reichstags, and carded them or seen them supinission by wireless to pressed. Almost alone the great tained to-day their faith in that English-speaking nations have re- form of responsible government institutions. Why? which is rooted in representative
pragmatic test, our faith squares Partly because, tried by the lower
with the facts of the case. It is neither jingoisin nor vainglory to recall that the English-speaking peoples and English institutions have spread through the world, and have shown by thela survival that the method of government by Parliament and Parliamentary de- bate suits not only our ingrained new environment in the Western national heredity but our adopted Hemisphere and Antipodes. The transplanted seed thea Southern
grows and produces fruit: a fair test of its inherent vitality.
Excessive consumption of ou caused by a faulty feed pipe forced the Soviet allers to ask for per- return,
though the plane was well over frozen Arctic wastes. Permission was given and the machine turned back, arriving at the South Len- ingrad aerodrome at 10.30 p.m.
It is not expected that the flight will be abandoned because the Soviet are determined to exhibit the worth of Soviet machines and their pilots throughout the world, but the mishap has caused great disappointment all over the coun- try ---
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tion: and Our Parliaments have developed, not because they are a mechanism, but because they Parliament stand for something much more.
13, in fact, the mechanism of our State, but it is only that because liberty is the But there is far more to the spirit of our people, and experience argument than this merely prag- shows us that only through this matic sanction that it survives and medium of Parliamentary govern- flourishes. In the long run is it function that fashions structure in indeed, it may be that in the ul- ment can this spirit be expressed-
human as in sub-human history, imate analysis of history it is only not structure that fashions func-in that way it can be preserved.
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