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E14

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Lat

Do.

Bank of East Asia...

$73

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B.

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Ch. Fin. Corp. Ord. S..

Do. Prof. S.

Insuranote

Douglasitetu

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Waterboats

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Anitamoks

Balatcos

Baguio Gold

$1.80 $20

318,001

22 024

6182

13 cts

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Sales\Mumina

$1,090

£103 2ui 220 2.3) $74

3370

Canton Lysaran doa.

3975

Underwriters

31

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$532)

$480

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H.K. Fires.*********

1280

$565 3470 $265

international Assco. 3.

831

Shipping

34.

$35

Steamboats

$54

$30

Indos (pref.)

$20

Do, (def.)

$30 120

90/-

Sheli

*****

90/- $142

$1.80

$1.80

20 cts,

Benguet Consolidated

$14

Do.

Exploration 19 cta.

Do.

Goldfield "...

12 at

Big Wedge....

14 ota

Gold River

ata:

ets

Gold Crock..

15 ct.

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13/0

13/8

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33

14

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· 1.85

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(old))

Du. (DOW)

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

THE SPECTATOR

An Unconquerable Optimist

"I doubt," says a journalist. writing of the crowd that had collected near the Marble Arch to see King George's funeral go by. "If one per cent of them sow anything of the procession of her peris- than through mirrors, or copes " In spite of all the dis- comforts and disappointments in which he is subjected. I tanev that one of the most inextinguish - able human characteristics is the passion of the spectator. As R spectator. man is an unconquer. able optimist, a restless adven- turer. To-day, if he were the lazy animal he sometimes seems, he could find plenty of excuses for avoiding the tedium of wdicing and the pressure of crowds and for witnessing great scenes at second-hand through the beauti- ful photographs in the press, the news-reels in the cinemas. and broad- through listening to the vasiers. The greater the achieve - ments of the camera, the. alm. and wireless, however the mor ardently people long to see scenes Cepicted or described by means of them.

18 Even while one listening to a broadcast running commentary on a great event, one ran scarcely repress the feeling: I would give anything to be there. And yet one knows from experience that. unless one is in.

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$19

$4

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34

$100

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15

$35

$100

319

3102

$6.85

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144

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35.60

$9.70

351

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$70

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144

$74

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840

312

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$0.08

$22

$4.70

$12

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381

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240

$4.83

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$9,80

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314

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$6.40

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that the real reason of die po- pu.arity of the boat-race is that a tradition has grown up that it is one of the things the crowd goes to zee. Even in country places people who have never seen a boat-race laten in to the eye- witnesses description of the Ox- ford" and Cambridge, race, not because they are interested rowing, but because they are in- terested in whatever crowds of men and women are watching. If people cared for rowing they would go in Derby crowds to Henley, where they would see, ex- Citing races, and plenty of them. in a charming secting and with the spectators themselves as 1 Bu' charming part of the scene. Henley has never been the resort of more than the minor mob and therefore the great mob has never felt any compulsion to go there.

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As I grow older, I confess, 1 prefer seeing crowds in photo- graphs and in the films to seeing them in real life. Or, if. I them from a window or balcony. I have no wish to be a spectator of any event in the world at the cost of standing for hours in a mob so densely packed that it is scarcely possible to get one's hand into pocket for a match or a cigarette. I hate standing. In any case, but I hate standing a hun- dred times more in physica; dis- comfort and in a position from which I know that, however much I may long to do so. I cannot escape for hours. I suffer, I im agine, from ochlophobia. The very fact that I cannot escape makes me long to escape.. I feel a prisoner, helpless. swayed this way and that by the pressure of thousands of people as helpless as myself! On the whole, if I were offered the choice between a day in a prison-cell and half a day as a spectator standing in the middle of a vast crowd. I think I should choose the day in the prison-cell.

Obviously, those who share my feelings in this respect must be in a minority. And yet I imagine that even many cchlophobes are drawn by the lure of the crowd and remember the horror of being helpless

In a crowd only when they find themselves priso- ners with no

22, 1936.

Ancient Monuments

Twentieth-century citizenship is rescuing Britain's great heritage of ancient monuments from neg- lect and vandalism, according to Mr. William G, A. Ormsby-Gore, First Commissioner of Works, in an address to the Congress of Archaeological Societies which met here recently,

Government action in this field began with the passing of the An- cient Monuments (Consolidation) Act of 1913 Since then 400 Bonuments have been been, grant- ed state protection, but only 400 are under the direct ownership, custody or guardianship of the State Office of Works. Remark- able progress has, in Mr. Ormsby- Gore's opinion. been" made in this 17-year period in connection with many of the country's greater bas monuments. "Restoration" been carried out with care and conservatism and new work has only been introduced to ensure the stability of ancient structures,

Stone depart-

GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE Of Britain's mysterious eircles, this government ment now has charge of Stone- henge, Stanton Drew in Somerset, Arbor Low in Derbyshire, the Hur- lers in Cornwall and Callerdish in

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NAVAL CONFERENCE MISGIVINGS

London, Feb. 20. M. Norman

chief Davis, the American delegate to the Naval Conference, called on Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary this afternoon and expressed concern about political issues holding up the work of the Conference.

the Island of Lewis. Long Meg and her daughters, near Penrith, and Avebury, regarded 1.3 the most important of all, are not yet These under its guardianship.

Mr. Eden gave an assurance that stone megalithic circles are so

the Conference would concentrate special a feature of Britain's pre-on purely naval matters and would historic remains that their preser- not be unduly prolonged. vation is of Arst importance, Mr. Ormsby-Gore asserted,

Remains of Saxon shore for- tresses Portchester Pevensey, Richborough and Burgh Castle and relics 01 Roman Britain, notably the Amphitheater at Caerleon the town walls of Care- at I went and the Roman. road

Goathland In Yorkshire are also protected by the Office of Works, Mr. Ormsby-Gore declared.

Ruins of the great monastic buildings and castles of the Mid- dle Ages have, up to the present. received the bulk of the Office of Works' expenditure and care.

MANY IN YORKSHIRE

are

"In Yorkshire. alone 10 abbeys and priories and seven castles have been taken over. Castles In North Wales, dating from the time of Edward 1, are also in the hands of this department, with the ex-

which Conway,

13 ception of power to escapɛ. When the crowd begins to sway. you will biten hear women mut- tering hysterically and saying to each other: "I wish I hadn't come here." I imagine that 2 considerable number of the people who faint in the middle of crowds Action to preserve Britain's me- do so through sheer terror. Yet "dieval bildges is also taken by the I have no doubt many of them." Omice of Works. Modern road de- have fainted in. one crowd, wol a

velopment often threatens these year later be unable to resist the bridges, Mr. Ormsby-Gore declar- temptation to join another.

Take, the Derby, for exataple. -- have gone to the Derby Ave times -perhaps oftener-but I have seen the race only twice, having

that I am seat in the press-box in the Junes in

Cuttle which Captain und Sansovino won. The first year I went. I saw little more than the caps of jockeys flyinz past above the heads of the spectators in the distance. An- other year. I stood at Tattenham Corner in a downpour of sold rain, and, as the horses tore past. did not even realise that Coronach was in front, such a tiny moment of the race was visible and so élosely did his colours resemble those of Apple Sammy. Another year. I stood In an open car in the middle of the heath and watched the crowd that watched Felstedd winning. But none of us where I stood knew who had won till a Bookmaker gnt the news #hrough the tictac men.

To-day, it is possible to follow the whole race by listening to the wireless-to see, or limagine che is secing, every significant detall of it, as no ordinary spectator at Epsom can do. Yet who that has the time and energy would g've up a chance of going to see more of the race by proxy as a stener? Nothing seems quite real if we are We not curselves present at it. have a sense of frustration in not being able to see with our eyes the things we hear described. never envy the man who istened-in on an exciting occasion s we envy a man who was pre sent and saw it. The listener- seldom boasts, or. If he does, he does so modestly. The spectator, boasts of what he has seet: 05 though it set him apart from his fellows--boasts in wardly and bosats outwardly. He boasts even if he has been present on a big occasion and has seen almost nothin

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CROWD.ATTRACTS CROWD Probably, it is the crowd itself that attracts the crowd. A great- crowd is enough to make a great occasion. If everybody goes to see something, then everybody else wants to go too. This is the only explanation I can offer of the 86% popularity of the Oxford and

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Cambridge boat-race. Not one spectator in a hundred cars 日 farthing about elther university. Not one in a hundred is interest- ed in rowing or, indeed, could tell good rowing from bad. Apart from this, the race is, as often as not, quite unexciting. In recent bas year, particularly, the race commonly been won almost at thi start and has developed into an exhibition of Darmanship rather than a contest. Yet Londoners stilling the riverbanks in their hundreds of thousands, and, being a 'crowd, become infected with excitement and roar their encour agement to their favoured crews. People

to the boat-race; 1 is sometimes, said, because so inach publicity is given to the training of the crews and their

in prospects

the newspapers beforehand. And there is cer- tainly no other contest-outside horse-racing, perhaps that 1s the subject of so many columna in the press weeks before it takes places. It seems to me, however,

go

HAPPY IN A CROWD

I myself am conscious of this temptation. I still like to be on the edge of a 'crowd if I am able to move about freely. And in youth I could be happy in a crowd even when I was being carried off my feet. There is exhilaration in the company of a vast good- natured mutitude. Some people And even more exhlaration ́n the of a vast ill-natured company multitude. Yet, if one is a specta- for, one has often good reason for hating the crowd, ince the crowd prevents one from seeing what one has come out to sec. Even a man aix foot high can see little of a street procession over the heads of a crowd standing before him thirty or forty deep. In every great crowd there must be tens of thousands of smaller men' and women who can see nothing but the shoulders and hats of the people in front of them. Do they return home disappointed. swent- ing never, to try to see a street procession again, and envious of their weaker brothers and sisters who followed the whole thing comfortably and in detall on the wireless? I fancy not. Probably in their secret hearts they con- gratulate themselves on having been on the spot at a great event as no mere listener is. Their very discomforts become an experience worth remembering The fact that they were unable to see over the heads of the crowd enables them to boast that they were purt of a crowd so enormous that it was worth going miles to see. They feel

a personal association with one of the great hours of history and that they have enjoyed a first-hand experience of this great hour such as no one could possess who was not physically present.

The desire for this experience will, I think, prevent the wireless and the film from ever becoming the ordinary man's ethod of fol- lowing grea eventa. He will use these only as a substitute for the

inalitained by the municipality. Scotland's historic abbeys nearly all under the department's protection, including Melrose, Dry- burgh. Jedburgh, Kelso, Dunferm- line, Inchcolm and Sweetheart,

So far, M. Corbin, the French Ambassador, has not called on Mr. Eden. He a presumably awaiting instructions from Paris on the outcome of the demarche to Wash- ington and on other matters- Reuter.

GERMAN PROTEST TO SWITZERLAND

"CATHOLICS INVOLVED IN ARRESTS

Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

Press (Copyright.)]

Berlin, Feb. 20.

7 Communist leaders, 10 priest. and 45 Lay Brothers of Catholic Young Men's Association were ar rested by a special decree Ja Rrineland and Westphalia, as a result of police action to check mate the simultaneous co-opera- tion between the Catholic Young Men's Association and the illegal Communist Organisations to carry ous joint treasonable activities.-

raniocion News Service

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SWISS ACTION RESENTED

cision of the Federal-Council, for- bidding the National Socialis Party to maintain regional and district leadership in Switzerland.

[Special to "the "Hong Kong Daily

·Presa" (Copyright.)}

Berin, Feb. 20, The German Minister in Berne has been instructed, to present the Berlin, Feb. 20.

Swiss Government a Note empha- The German Minister, in Bernetically prutesting against the de- nay been instructed to hand a Note to the Swiss Governinent energe- tically protesting against the de- cision of the Swiss Federal Coun- ell prohibiting all Nazi crganisa- tions in Switzerland.

is stated that the Note tresses the inadmissibility of the Swiss step, and protests against the political demonstration under- Iying this procedure. Moreover, it expects the revocation of the de- dilston.—

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Reuter's Bulletin Service.

ITALIAN COMMUNIQUE

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daly Preis" ('ajmriahidi "k

Rome, Feb. 20,

ed, and special vigilance is exer- cised for their preservation. "It The Italian war bulletin No. 131 would be a tragedy." he said. "If states that the first army corps 13 such bridges .05 East Farleigh again" advancing southwards, the over the Medway. the Devil's airforce leaving the Abyssinians Bridge at Kirby Lonsdale, the no opportunity to rest. No further Warkworth Bridge over the Coquet reports arrived from Somaliland. were touched or allowed to fall ranantean News Service Into disrepair.”

Mr. Ormsby-Gore considers It fortunate, on the whole, that the new policy of government action for the preservation of Britain's antiquities did not "begin before 1913, "I have E feeling. he declared: "that the standards of archaeological knowledge, and con- science which prevalled in con- nection with all too many of our cathedrals, parish churches, and inhabited castles during the nine- teenth century might have led us into grave and irreparable errors errors which happily we have now helped to set a standard in avoiding.”

real thing when he has no choice In the matter, or as a supplement to the thing. He would rather see a small part of the thing with his - own eyes than 'n film of the whole or the real thing. He would rather even see only the crowd that was imperfectly, seeing the real thing that listen to a perfect

record of it over the wireless. In this I think, he is wise. dolence, age, and ochlophobla

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RUGBY PLAYER'S BRIDE

Edinburgh Borderer Married In The Capital

London, Jan. 24. Apple blossom, palms, juniper, and azaleas decorated St. Mat- thew's Parish Church, Edinburgh. yesterday when Miss Isobel Jean and Pinkerton,, daughter of Mr.. Mrs. David Pinkerton, 15 Corren-

The German Note points out the untenablity of the Swiss decision and expresses the hope that the its de- Federal Council reverts cision.- Transocean News Service.

AMNESTY PROMISED

Great

IN SPAIN

Madrid, Feb. 20 entbustasın has bern aroused throughout Spain by the fact that the new Prime Minister, Senor Azana, has promised an amnesty for 30.000 political pri- soners or exiles concerned in the abortive revolt of 1936

The Prime Minister announced that this would be the first task of Parliament when it opens on March 16.- 'Reuter's Bulleten Service.

SILVER REPORT DENTED

Shanghai, Feb. 21, The report about the Chinese Government requesting bids for silver in London is denied here in authoritative quarters.--- Reuter.

le Drive, Edinburgh, was married SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER to Mr. John Hunter Lamb, a mem- ber of the Edinburgh Borderers Rugby Club, and a son of Mr. J. J. Lamb, 10 Hermitage Gardens, Edinburgh.

The Rev. Frank H. Martin off- ciated, and the bride was given away by her father, and Mr. James Grieve, a fellow-member of the Borderers,, was best man.

The bride, tall and stim, wore an

elegant gown of silver and white

and

brocaded lamé. The corsage, high to the neck and Anished with a In-

wing coller, was racked down the front into the centre seam, make me tum, to the wireless and

had tightly rucked sleeves. Ruck- the cinema as substituted excel- I lent substitutes-for reality,

ing appeared again below the hips, and at the back, at the top of the may tell myself that "few things could have been much more deep-double-pointed train. ly moving than the wireless trans- mission of those last scenes at Windsor. But the thousands of spectators in the London streets

The ends of the veil wers car- who saw nothing had experiences

ried by Muriel Hodge, whose short never to be had in the quiet and comfort of one's home.

fried net, frock was mounted on How I

silver Jamé. envy them their patience, their Invincible spirit, and their memo- riesl

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From a wreath of orange buda fell a long white tulle vell, and the bride carried a sheat of white Madonna W

The bridesmaids were Miss Elsie Pinkerton (sister), Miss. Kathleen

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Wells, Miss Marguerita Cochrane, and Miss Ruth Lamb. (cousin of the bridegroom). Their dresses in dahlia red velvet had draped cape sleeves. They wore halo head- dresses of net to match, and car- ried bouquets of red roses. Their were gifts from the bridegroom evening bags