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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1937.

PUSHKIN

CENTENARY

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IN SHANGHAT

ARRANGEMENTS

METAPHORICAL VINTAGES

با

(Continued from Pato 1.3

WELL IN HAND

Statue To Be Erected French meet at

A series of events is being plan- ned in Shanghai for February next to honour Alexander Push- kin, great Russian post, on the occasion of the centenary of his death,

The centenary will be com- memorated both in Soviet Russia and abroad, and will assume an International aspect in foreign countries.

French Gesture

NO CAUSE FOR ALARM

Continued from Pære 123

But, I should not respond to your thought of being a constant in- expectation if I would restrain my-valid, saying to visitors whom he self to these individual wishes.received this week: "I pray I may For-is it not true?-when so many suffer like a Pope and that I may

the House of be a Pope to the end.” France, they discern amongst them as a new presence, and it seems to them that they perceive, radiant, the very figure of the Fatherland.

His mind is still active and he is reported to be considering a pro- paral for reforming the Catholic action, but Vatican observers ex- press doubts he will ever be able to resume arduous duties. He bears his illness with great fortitude and listens to his secretaries reading the New Testament "arid Thomas à Kampie' Imitation of Christ.-- Reuter-

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RESTLESS NIGHT

Vatican City, Jan. 3. The Pope had a restless night owing to pain in the leg for which Dr. Milani visited him earlier than usual

to

NARROW PREJUDICES France!... Our beloved France! In the universe, there is not a Not only progènitor of Russian nation which, with interest or of envy, or sympathy, or perhaps. poetry-father. in general, Russian Bterature of the nine-hate, does not, at every moment, teenth and beginning of the twen- look at her to fudge her condition, tieth century,-Pushkin is looked because there is not one which, upon by the entire civilized world more or less clearly, does not realise as a symbol of the best that has that, despite all the political trans- been given it by that great litera- formations, it is still with her that ture. which shines with auch is beating the heart, if not of the names a5 those of Gogol, Dos-world, at least of Europe,

So far as we are concerned, exile. His Holiness, agreed with Dr, toyevsky, Turgene. Tolstol,-in

consult some noted their own admission all disciples confers to us the advantage of be- Milani of Pushking

ing divested of narrow prejudices doctor, possibly Professor Buona- and partisan passions,, and, there-mone, to-morrow or on Tuesday.

This morning His Holiness re- fore, we have, to see her, both very

in audience Cardinal lucid eyes and very loving hearts. celved

Dougherty, who is going as Papai And being not in vain the sons of a country which comprises between Legate to the Manila Eucharistic lis.frontiers, Champagne, Burgondy Congress.

Krull.. and Bordelais, we could not be astonished that having been so long a time crushed in the press of economic difficulties, the popular grapes give now a juice somewhat fermenting; and, feeling no sur- prise, we could no more conceive any real anxiety, if, as we wish The French Municipal Council and belleve, all the French mas- ter winedressers, no matter what has given one of its squares for a statue of Pushkin to be erected: may be their personal preferences this, to be built after a design by for white or red wine, unite their Russian architects and sculptors, knowledge and their care in order to secure a happy result to the will be unveiled with ceremony on the day of the centenary-Febru-wine-making we are now witnesses of. With a vigilant hand, they will ary 11, 1937.-at the corner of Route Pichon and Route Ghist, keep away those travellers of I don't know what allogen beverages, giving its name to the square.

brown beer of Munich, or vodka of the Volga; they will manage aera- tlon, that fermentation may not make the barrels explode; and then, nature will slowly achieve its work; froth will be re-absorbed;

In Shanghai, preparations for the occasion have been carried on, these last few months, by a local Pushkin Committee, consist- ing. besides members of the Rus- slan community,

British. of French and Chinese admirers of Russian literature,

The PrograMME

The programme will begin on January 29 and end on February 14. There will be a meeting of the Alliance Francaise, in French,

EARLIER MESSAGE

Vatican City, Jan. 1. His Holiness the. Pope's condition was stated to be unchanged and the intermittent pain is his left leg жаз по worse, allowing him to spend a restful day.

There has been no development or complication of the illness, and Dr. Milani is now concerned in maintaining the Pope's general strength in order to prevent the possibility of gangrene.

The Pope saw the New Year in by attending the Midnight Mass in a little chapel improvised near his bedroom.

Pessimism regarding the Fope's chances of recovery is expressed in the newspaper "Tribuna," whitch pays a tribute to the heroic calm and patience with which the Pope

when Mme. Riviero' and Mme.extervescence will subside, wine will supports his sudering, and adds Nilus will speak; and, on the day settle, and, in our national cellarg. "The physeal condition of the

of the centenary, another meet-

T.

ing. at which the speakers include we shall get a produce whose aroma Prot. Telberg (in Russian), Mr. R will certainly be different of its

Peyton-Grin. (in English) predecessors, but which will, with

out disadvantage, stand comparison and M. d'Auxion de Ruffe (with the best productions of our

history,

as Chateau-Bouvines, Chateau- Jeanne' - d'Arc, Chateau- Valmy. Chateau-Pollu!

French).

opera

|

race,

Pope presents no symptoms or

possibilities of recovery. The Pope

is well aware of this state of affairs,

and accepts the divine will with complete resignation." Beuter

Popular Dancers

(Continued from Páge 1.)

genial way of responding to in- requests for "special rumerable numbers" WLS but one of the Diany characteristics which won for them a sure and lasting place 10 the affections, of those who pupped-in" for good food, good fun and good fellowship at the Rout Garden,

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THE THREE VIRTUES 2. when the best local artistes, to the accompaniment of the Shang-

And 'now, as we have in our hai Municipal Orchestra, are to glasses, not a symbolic liquor, but present Rachmaninoff's

real French wine, which, still "Aleko." written after Pushkin's Hving. bring to us the very juice poem "The Gypsies." The second of our soil, champagne wine, the, part of the soirée, will be devoted true resemblance of our to songs written by Russian com-sparkling. light in appearance, but posers to Pushkin's words, airs concealing a secret strength, gen- trom the "Pushkin operas"-over erative of good temper, energy, and, twenty of his poems and dramas when necessity arises, heroism,-let us draw out of our cups the deter- having, inspired such works; and recitations of poems not only in mination of practising without their original Russian, but in failure during all the year now their English, French and Chinese opened to us, the three virtues

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riding the wave of success with board the original nameplate of

A vivacions leader great gusto. the raider Emden, a Roll of Honour on which are inscribed the

and a very alluring troupe. They have been well named--the names of the 132 gallant men who

Festive Follies. were killed at Cocos, and a bust of Captain Karl Von Muller.

Three years ago the first Em "den's bell was returned to Ger- many by the Australian Govern- ruent.

POST BOX OF “EMDEN”

¿Continued from Pare 1)

charity; falth in

THE PRESIDENT!

My dear fellow countrymen, I drink to you all, to your familles, to the cradles of to-day or to- morrow; and I invite you to join me in drinking, with the same elan, with the same heart, the health of Kong is enthusiastic!! France, and of the upright citizen who represents her to the world.

Ladles and Gentlemen: The Pre-

So on with the fun! "Hong

The Emden's post box, meaaur-sident of the. Republic! ing about 3 ft. x 2 ft, was brought to Singapore on board EMAS. Sydney shortly after the battle at Cocos, and was sold to a local business man. ...

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Mr. Heytman said, however. that it was stolen" at one time, by- a Chinese boy who buried it in a garden. It was dug up again by chance and three years ago came into Mr. Heytman's possession.

The box was cleaned and the identification marks revealed.

FRENCH BUDGET

GUNFIGHT IN SHANGHAI

Police Officer's Murder Vindicated

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· Refusal To Pay Car Hire Alleged

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lice Force, who was shot down in a It was alleged that the two gun fight with four Chinese gang defendants came out of the Tung stera last Thursday morning on Shan Hotel at 2.30 am, and en- the stairs of an office building fol- gaged car 440 to go round the Co- lowing a hold-up.

lony. After going round the island, A ballistic expert announces they refused to pay the driver that the bullet which caused his $8 and offered him 30 cents. death was fired by a gun found in Later the two defendants were the possession of a particular rob seen in a Japanese bar and the ber, who was fatally shot by a complainant called to a constable Chinese policeman in the street who arrested them. The men. The Chamber also adopted the immediately afterwards. The bul- denied the charge. Senate's version of the Fiscal Re-let entered Slater's head near 'the' After giving their evidence his form Bill

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