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Badminton League Fixture

University Beat Recreio

No

Surrender Of

Territory

London, Feb. 8. In connection with Herr Hider's recent reference to the Colonies, An Important match in the "A"

the Parliamentary Committee of Division of the Badminton League the Empire Industries Association Men's Doubles was played at King's has adopted a resolution, moved Park last night when the Univer- by Mr. L. M. S. Amery, former Se- alty "A" defeated the Club de Re-cretary of State for the Colonies, creto "A" bolders, by alx sets to against any return of the Colonies three. On the form displayed by to Germany. and Business Office:

the University they are very likely Editorial

15-19, Queen's Road Central

to win the championship. Tel. 30251.

Detailed scores were as follows:- Night Editor (Wanchal Office):

M. A. Oliveira and J. J. Remedios Tel. 24511.

(Recrelo) lost to C. H Soon and London Office: 53. Fleet Street K. & Low 13-21; lost to T. C. Lee

30. 4.

and K. I. Yong. 13-21; lost to R. B Tan and P. K. Hut 18-21.

L. A. Carvalho and A. N. da Silva (Recralo) beat Boon and Lew 21- 13; beat Lee and Yong, 21-14; lost to Tan and Hul 15-21.

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Necessity Of Poetry

(Continued from Page 7).

sound

Children, contrary to the com, being charmed by the Information tention of the cites, create their that she was possessed of an ex- own language before they learn to cellent teeth-holder, yet that is a correct enough scientiae defini- speak or master the use of ortho-

tion of the human face. A more dox words. Generally

certain way to the uncertain bilss such of kisses would surely be to risk a cynical retort, and to use

a poet would considér words as

To experience any of adequate. the deeper emotions of life, in love, in religion, in patriotism; on iná. desire for a happler world, is to know the necessity of poetry.

does not mean enough to a child until it has been rhymed double Very young children never say The resolution re-affirms the "Ma," or "Pa" it is always "Ma- view that there cannot be any ma" and "Pa-pa," and the net dog transference of territories held unis seldom "bow," but "bow-Wow."" der the British dag.

It is not many months from that stage to the next one, which is the vocal

The Committee states that it is convinced that the German claim to transfer would imperil the safety and impair the homogently of the British Empire, especially in Africa. and provide no substantial relief for

raw

Germany regarding materials or settlement of its peo-

CREATION WITHIN THE MIND

means a

Now the appreciation of poetry in this sense is by no coward's escape from reality; it is the creation within the mind, first- of all, of a world of beauty and wonder, and it is followed, in how-

appreciation of nursery rhymes, which most children learn to repeat by memorising the rhyming ends of the various lines. But here we must distinguish be tween true poetry, from the uter- The Committee is ready to con-ary point of view, and mere rhyme. to Lee and Yong 17-21; lost to Tan❘ sider proposals to meet the dim- | For example 'Little Jack Horner ever imperfect a fashion, by the calties of Germany and other is only rhyme, but I had a little States in securing raw materials nut tree' is definitely poetry as is and, food-stuffs- Reuter.

H. A. Alves and E. da Souza (Re-ple. crelo) beat Soon and Liew 2-6; lost

and, Hul 10-21.

MOTOR CARS IN COLLISION

Two motor cars, Nos. 407 and 2990, were involved in a collision at Queen's Road near Pottinger Street last night.

Car No. 407 mounted the pave-

ment and knocked down two pedes trians, a Chinese woman and a man, who had to be sent to hos-

pital

ANOTHER MISHAP

Dashing across

Queen's Road

East suddenly at 2.30 o'clock yes terday afternoon, Liù Fing Plu, & Chinese boy, was knocked down by motor car No. 2796. He was rush-

"Australia To Day" is eloquented to the Government Civil Hos- in every page of the inspiring pital where he was found to be pride of the people of that famous suffering from fracture of both legs. The boy told the Police he Dominion in their magnificent ved at 13 Johnson Read. achievements. Perhaps if other parts of the Empire shared some of that enthusiasm for self-

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the Company will be CLOSED

from SATURDAY, the 13th to

for Imperial commercial prestige.

Australia's "achievement

is

COLONY BILLIARDS

CHAMPIONSHIP

Two matches

the Junior

KING ATTENDS LEVEE

"London, Feb 9.

creation in actuality of some part

at least of the visioned goodness. But when there is no poetical ap-

also 'Ride a Cock-Horse. Little preciation of life there is stagna- Jack Horner is # aug self-tion, or worse still there is selfish- righteous little individual with a ness and' cruelty and death Be-. smug. little tummy, and the ap-fore Jesus announced the truth peal of the rhyme is dednitely that all men are brothers he had gastronomical and in no way as experienced the truth in his owri sists the child to develope its vision mind and heart, he had made ́s or inspire a creative atatude or poetical appreciation of his fellows,

The King drove. In State for the appreciation of life's possibilities, and before we can belleva with:

first time since his accession when he went from Buckingham Palace to St. James's Palace this morning

His Majesty arrived at St. James's shortly after 11 am and was met by the Lord Chamberlain.

The Duke of Gloucester and

Duke of Kent also attended the sand gentlemen were present.- ceremony at which over a thou- Reuter's Bulletin Service.

Paul's Cathedral would never him. we too must make the im have been built if little Christo-aginative effort to attain to his pher Wren had been content to poetical appreciation. To fill in

to attend the levee. He was

'git in his corner

eating his this effort is to fall in love, companied by Gentlemen-in-

Christmas ple', nor could any other A life lived without poetical ap

life. Walting and escorted by Household of the disinterested achievements preciation is a mutilated

of humanity been accomplished by Poetical appreciation of life' and a Cavalry.

the 'Horner spirit and attitude. living appreciation of poetry are I had a little nut-tree' and Ride interdependent. The great tragedy a. Cock-Horse', on the other hand, of modern life is that there is so- do very definitely take the child little of either. We are so easily. out of its immediate environment contented with following "Little and lead it away from the grosser Jack Horner sitting back to com- interests which so readily circumpliment ourselves when we suc- scribe the existence even of adult ceed in pulling out the plums. people. They open up a land of that we become the devotees of mere fairy and romance, with chiming fleeting satisfactiona and bells and beautiful flowers and the animal pleasures.. No sooner, how- mystery of the unknown, a land over, have we settled down like of new experience and new hope.

pigs in our well-appointed, atles. than what de la Mare calls, "a IMAGINATIVE EXPERIENCE In poetry we are continually poor human longingness' comes over us, and the empty dreams being reborn into new realms of

and full stomachs with which we are each had experience which become 80 m-

drugged ourselves tensely real to the mind that we'

shattered, and we are once more, The headquarters of General are compelled to attempt ex-

perhaps after much sweaty strug- Yang Hu-cheng is moved from pression of our experience in actual Stanfu to Kaoling, 40 miles North-existence. This imaginative ergling to construct our sties, thrown

PEACE REIGNS IN SIANFU

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI | FRIDAY, the 26th February, truly remarkable, and demon. Colony billiards championship were stanfu, the city, is almost normal

BANKING CORPORATION

1937, both days inclusive.

Notice is hereby given that

By Order of the Board,

the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of

the Shareholders in this Corpora-

tion will be held at the Head

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary,

Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Hong Kong, ist Feb., 1937.

Queen's Road Central, Hong

Kong, on Saturday, the 27th

February, 1937, at 13.30 a.m.

for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of

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strates the wonderful fertility of that continent which is being beld as a sacred trust for white members of the British race.

A few quotations from this cighly informative and attractive

decided last night.

At the Kowloon Cricket Club, J. C. Remedios defeated Yuen Hong Liu by 300 points to 193...

Wong Yul Chees defeated F. P. Sequeira by 300 points to 214 at the Engineers Institute. -***

annual" will suffice to indicate Shanghai Tramway

Workers On Strike

the march of Australia's pro- The total value of all gress. production for the 1934-35 finan- cial period was. £356,060,000. That for a population of 6,766, 445 is proof of commendable

Accounts for the year ending 3151 DONT FORGET industry. It is significant that

December, 1936.

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday, the 15th February to Saturday, the 27th February. 1937 (both days inclusive) dur- ing which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 8th February, 1937.

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Riot In Wayside District

Shanghat, Feb. 9. The tramway service, in the International Settlement has been disrupted by a strike of employees this morning.

The

a most

when

449,598 are employed in Austra- lian manufacturers, their earn- ings totalling £72,824,649 last"

men behaved in year. This, considered with the orderly manner, but a riot occurred accompanying facts that the in the Wayside district value of plant and machinery strikers attacked a tramcar from the French Concession and broke £122,640,955, and aggregates

the windows. They were then dis- that of land and buildings

persed by the police. 110,840,657. it is a fine testi-Renter mony to the policy of protection which is as dear to this vigorous nation as her "White Australia" policy.

Australia's Davis Cup Leadership

Loyang, Feb. 9. As Nanking troops have entered

again. The populace gave the government forces a hearty wel- come.

west of the provincial capital.

Railway and aerial communica- t'on between Shens and the other provinces have been resumed since yesterday.

ed

Final adjustment is to be decid-

by the Kuomintang C.E.C. parley next Monday, including the future career of General Chang Haueh-liang who started the revolt on December 11- Union News.

CHIANG ARRIVES IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai, Feb. 9. General Chiang Kai-shek, ac- companied by his wife, arrived here by air from Bangchow in order to see a bone specialist. It is understood that he has been advised to have a brace made to support the injured part of his to cause back which continues some pain

The Generalissimo is expected tu stay in Shanghai a few days.—. Heuter.

"Australia's total nineral pro

London, Feb. 9. duction for last year WLS It is stated that Jack Crawford £19,948,830, the gold production and not Adrian Quist will be the alone. representing £8,008,342 captain of the Australian Davis

Cup team meeting mexico in the B.B.C. NEWS SOURCE of that imposing aggregate..

American Zone. The others are Agriculturally Australia is

Vivian McGrath and Bromwich— well up in the lead with Reuter's Bulletin Service.

36,621,347 acres under crop, showing an increase in ten years of 9,607,489 acres.

With wool Australia is pre- eminent. Her flocks total. 113,048,037, and the total re- ceived for wool and sheepskins exported was £65,132,458,

What

the per capita of wealth of the people of this great

Car In Harbour

A police report last night stated that motor car No. 877 fell into the harbour near the Star ferry station.

Central British Association

DISCLOSED

London, Feb.

In reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Post master-General, stated that the B.B.C. derives its Spanish and foreign news from four recognised news agencies.

If any of us are utterly content, Ferience must find issue in some naked to the winds of truth. Few form, and in adult life it appears

or are brave enough, to be happy either In poetry or drama or the

thus spiritually naked, ere lang we begin again to strive to construct novel or in some artistic creation in stone or in sound or on canvas,

protect our another covering to or, and this is just as truly poetic, souls from the inclemency of truth. in some attempt to organise so-

The sun of true joy is too strong clety in such a way that the ideal

for us to bear on or unprotected. of the hour of vision will find hu- pulses, and the winds of truth too

Moreover, the man fulfilment.

biting for the frail uncovered body distance between the old wooden of our souls. Yet it remains eter- doll and the nails and string, othernally true, spiritually as well as things being equal, to the design-physically, that naked we came ing of an ocean liner, is not so far

Into the world and naked we must sa it seems, and the time between leave it. Just as there is no shroud the rag-doll and intelligent mo-

that will not crumble and decay therhood is not to be measured in

so there is no garment which our years and days.

human ingenuity can devise which Upon these considerations the is able to hide the soul from the importance of the poetical appre-piercing winds of God's truth, and clation of life, and the living ap- the passionate burning of Elis love. "Look thy last on all things lovely preciation of poetry, is surely

Every hour, Let no night obvious, for it is from the poet's

Seal thy sense in deathly slumber vision of life that there springs the

Till to delight eventual beauty or reality.

Thou have paid hy utmost

7 blessing;

Poetry has another very impor tant office, it is as an interpreter of actual experience; it makes us articulate when else we had to of being suffer the crucifixion dumb. In hours of passionate happiness or passionate sorrow the rutility of common speech hangs like a weight upon the tongue.

Since that all things thou

wouldst praise

Beauty took from those that

loved thems

In other days.

It is true, we must all return to the streams of lovely true thing

1

If you are looking into eyes, whose to nourish the soul in its naked- smile rucans more to you than any-ness, not in any sense to enable on earth, unless you it to withstand the rigours of life, thing else have succumbed to modern inertia but to make it splendid and un- and the intellectuai laziness which ashamed in its nakedness before 18 called 'slang' you will not be God who made it. The error of content to say in the manner of the ng-leaves was demonstrated the nursery story, What big eyes conclusively in Eden, it needs no He added that the Corporation is you've got you will experience the repetition! Human beings cannot responsible for the accuracy of necessity of being able to express be content to live like savages who news as received...

your poetical appreciation poett-have deluded themselves that they are civilized when they are naught Router.

cally, and will have to have re- course to the poet to interpret but clothed beasts. We must have" something else to make life great your vision in some words such as

and good, a something which will Walter de la Mare's, a

make us proud of our humanity in all its aspects, that satisfies qur hunger for reality and beauty. Duke and Duchess of Kent was Even the most duent conversation- Now that something is richly in christened at Buckingham Palace alist, if he has not talked himself life, the common life of every day. to-day by the Archbishop of Can-out of his finer sensibilities alto- but to perceive it and to appreciate Majesties, the Queen Mother, the passionate realities of life is strick-and the poetical appreciation of 10.397 state schools which pro-reported to have been broken into terbury in the presence of Their gether, in the presence of the it we need the services of poetry baletes, the queen schoucester en dumb. The language of a all things which makes poets out and other members of the Royal crowd of business men on the Star of ordinary men and women

The annual general meeting of and growing nation? The Say the Central British Association will ings Banks deposits tell the be held at the Clubhouse. King's story in a figure the deposita Park, on February 17, at 5.45 p.m. in these Government banks

amount to £224,990,947.

Last year Australia spent

£10,872,752 on free education on

Office Burgled

The P.W.D. Engineers' office 18 vided instruction for 920,889 on Monday night. A clock and pupils. At senior technical some clothing, valued at $51, were schools 68,266 pupils received missing.

their instraction at a cost to the Government of £565,904

ROYAL INFANT CHRISTENED

London, Feb. 9

The infant daughter of the

Family

The infant was named Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel Reuter,

B.M.A: Dorado

like a shadowy sea In the starry darkness of night

Are your eyes to me:"

SQUASH RACQUETS

CHAMPIONSHIP:

Ferry, discussing cricket result, nor even the language of the lead- er in the South China Morning Post, good as that generally is, offers us no adequate scope for the All aspects considered, Austra-pation from Colonial office ad-

expression of our deepest person- exact lia's progress as revealed in this ministration, was courageous and

al' emotions Nor is the language of precise science any very fine publication bears testi- wise in the making of legislative

The RMA, Dorado arrived at more nearly adequate because the mony to the very high standard experiments which have made of living throughout the Common the Commonwealth of Australia Kal Tak yesterday from Penang Ideas which science considers are professional championship of the wealth and also to the great famed the world over for free she carried no passengers but had not complete To return to the British Isles in squash racquets by independ. | on board 4 kilos of freight and description of a woman's face beating D, Butcher 3-4, 9-6, 9-9.-

again, can you imagine any lady Reuter Bulleten benefits which have sccrued to dom, happiness

236.143 kilos of mail matter.

a nation which, after its emanci- ence.

London, Feb.

3. Beer of Queen's Club won the