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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA-

94.

HIS LIFE AND WORK

Rotarians Hear Dean Wilson

On Great Personality

An interesting and fascinating account ofT. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), his life, his work and his inner struggle, was given by the Very Reg. J. L. Wilson, Dean of St. John's

·Cathedral, when he addressed the Rotary Club at its weekly tiffin at the Hongkong Hotel "yesterday.

Dr. Arthur W. Woo, vice-president, was in the chair, and welcomed the following guests:-Dr. Wong Man (Shaukiwan), Messrs. W. E, E Coates, L. C. Baker, Walter Hanming Chen, W. Wright, H. C, Millett, J, L. Mouat and Max Malint, the famous magician, who is on one of his frequent visits to the Colony, and nis son, Ozar Malini.“

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It was hoped, sald Dr. Woo, to been a little Irritating to his have the opportunity of listening senior officers, because he hated to Mr. Malini at next week's tifin meeting.

Dean Wilson, who was heartily applauded and was at the conclu- sion of his talk, thanked by Major:

·R. D. Walker, sald. in part:—

There are few subjects on which

red tape, was careless in his dress. and seemed to have an omnt- science that appeared to be in- tolerable concelt,

But his exactness' and his hu- mour eventually won the day, and he was given a chance, at his own

I should like to talk for an hour, request, to go to Arabia and re- but T. E, Lawrence is one of them.] port on Д small rising of the

I admit to being an enthusiast Western Arabs.

PEACE CONFERENCE

for Lawrence, I am thrilled, not so much by his Arab campaign, about which I do not know a great He went to the Peace Confer- deal, but by his prose. his art of ence in Paris to try and consoli- living. by his attempt at a date the victories that had been philosphy of life and, above all. won. His object was to try to imp~ by his sincerity and courage, and plement the promises of freedom I frankly submit that, in my which had been given to the Araps, opinion, he was not only one of but the stumbling block was the the greatest men of the age. but French desire for Syria, and the also one of the greatest men of demand of the Indian Government the last 100 years.

to control Iraq.

He was born in 1883; his father

Anglo-Irish, his

Was

mother

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He came back from Paris be- wildered and disappointed. The Highland Scot; and he was born interest of France, in the Near in Wales. The predominant na- East. had been one of a hundred tional characteristic seems to have years. and she could not lightly been Irish, or at least that is the let it go. one to which he refers most.

FIVE SONS

Lawrence came back to Oxford as a Fellow of All Souls, and be- gan writing the book. "The Seven There were five sons. of whom Pillars of Wisdom," which he felt Edward was the second, and this had to be written because he alone young family wandered about a knew the whole facts of the good deal in their early years, but | campaign.

eventually, when T.E., known then Months of toil were spent on the as "Ned." was 12 years old, they book, and when it was finished it came to Oxford, and the boys was stolen from a railway carriage went to Oxford High School. 'at Reading, and has never been

When he left school, he got a seen since. Like Carlyle, he be scholarship to Jesus College, Ox-gan his labour all over again, ford, and there read the English School of History. But again he

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was D strong Individualist, and He was short of cash, but retus- determined to find things out for ed to make any money at all out himself.

He spent all his vaca-of his Arab campaign. He felt tions wandering over castles, col- that it was the price of blood. lecting brasses from churches and various posts were offered to him. exploring ruins,

but he refused all till Winston While doing his research. he Churchill was appointed to the

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deep influence on him throughout nial Office, and invited him on to his life, and it was Hogarth who his staff. suggested a research, scholarship at Magdalen College, which meant going to Carchomish on what was known as a "dig" or excavation. He worked under Hogarth, Camė- bell Thompson and Leonard Wool- ley, and they were often visited by those two Middle East scholars, Professor Sayce. and Gertrude Bell.

Cholera And Tuberculosis

Toll In H.K.

Girl Pupil

Settlement of the case in which custody of Lucia Lu, a 12-year- old pupil Di St. Mary's Girls' School, is being contested by Mrs. Lu Ching-chi, her foster-mother, and by Mr. C. Y. Liu, of No. 45, Hillwood Road, 1st floor, her half- brother, was referred by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon Court yesterday to the Secretariat for LEAST ATTRACTIVE

Chinese Affairs, buth parties hav- During the three or four years Eight deaths from cholera, outing expressed

that the desire that he was on this particular job of a total of 18 cases, 6 deaths Court proceedings be discontinued. he seems to have gone through a from enteric fever, out of a total

Mrs. Liu, who was represented time when he was least attractive of 28 cases, 8 deaths from dysen- by Mr. Alfred Y. Hon, was charged to his fellow Englishmen. buttery, out of a total of 30 cases made some friendships with one (2 imported) and 91 deaths from with failure to report the custody or two Arabs which lasted to the tuberculosis, out of a total of 128 of a ward. Lucia Liu, in the wit- end of his Hfe.

cases (2 Imported), occurred in ness-box, when questioned by Mr. He was in England when the war the Colony for the week ending Hon, said that she would prefer broke out, and it was not till Sep- Sept. 23, according to the weekly to live with Mrs. Liu whom she tember that the offer of his ex-returns furnished by the Health regarded as her mother,

In support of his claim for cua- perience was accepted, and he was Department. drafted as a young subaltern to Other returns include 2 deathstody of the girl, Mr. C. Y. Liu Egypt. He was put on to maps, from diphtheria, out of a total of stated from the witness-box, he cérebro- could produce a doçament given and he must at this time have 10 cases, 2 deaths from

him by his father, appointing him guardian of her.

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spinal fever, out of a total of 3 cases, one death from measles, out of a total of 2 cases, and one death from puerperal fever.

"His wishes in regard to the girl, Mr. Lü stated, were that she Five cases of cholera were not should remain in Hongkong with fed to the authorities on Monday the family and continue to attend In addition to 23 cases of tuber school. He understood that Mr. culosis, 4 cases of dysentery, 3

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AMAZING PLUCK

OF CARPENTER Cheung Ping-wong, 47, carpen- ter, and his wife, were awakened In the early hours of yesterday by two armed men who had gained admittance into their house.

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responsible for his half-sister, he could not permit this.

JAPANESE KILL FISHERMAN

A fisherman, Ho. Po, 45, of junk No. T865, who was brought to Hongkong on Saturday in another junk, and admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital with „two stab Acting with amazing pluck, the carpenter, seized one of the in-wounds, died yesterday.

Ho Po Junk is said to have been truders while the wife shouted for help. The other man immediately attacked by an arined Japanese decamped, but before help could

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come, the captive robber also Juries during the attack, which was broke away from the carpenter's made near Au Tau. grasp and made good his escapė.

When the police arrived to in- vestigate they found a fully load- ed revolver on the floor, Cheung had a light, wound on the back, probably caused by a knife, or other sharpsnstrument, during the course of his struggle with the

Intruder.

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