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HONGKONG 'DAILY. PRESS

CABLE

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1941. -PAGE 7

Standing by one of the A.A guns that would help to repel any

aerial attack on Gibraltar,

IMMORTAL MEMORY COMMEMORATED AT PENINSULA HOTEL Witty Speeches Mark Convivial Function

The Burns Night Dinner of the H.K. St. Andrew's Society, held at the Peninsula Hotel Rose Room on Saturday night, was the occasion for a very convivial gathering ani some very interesting and witt speeches in conjunction with th Toasts of the evening.

The Chieftain of the Society. Mr. B. Wylie, presided, and amon, the many notabie persona ities present were Sir David Owen, Sir At- holl MacGregor, Commodore A. C Collinson, · Lleut.-Col. D. J. Mac- Dougall (Royal Scots), Mr. L. C. F. Bellany (President of St. George's Society), Mr. C. E. Terry (President of St. Patrick's Society), Hon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell, Hon, Mr. A. 14 Shields. Bon. Mr. C. G. Perdue, Mr.Addison E. Southard and Lt.-Co!, H, B. Rose.

The Chieftain proposed the the Toast to The Immortal Me- Toast to "The King" and called mory." upon Prot W. Brown to propose

In proposin the Toast, Prof Brown said, in part:-

Contemplating the world chaos'

FANLING HUNT in which our tot is cast, we inevit

POINT-TO-POINT RESULTS

By Ratenicher

Sly Brothel Inmates Bought By Mistresses

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Another benefit which the licens- Ing systent would conter on girls would be the assurance that none under 16 years of age would be permitted to practice this trade.

ment might decide to take the necessary legislation, making V. D. a notifiable disease and Its treatnient at clinics com- pulsory, must be passed. It might shock "Anti-Slavery" to

This scemingly harsh measure know that female children of 11 could be supplemented by preven or 12 years of age have been found tive education, conducted by ladies, to be suffering from V. D.-not in- in the form of lectures on the ser- nocently but through prostitution, tousness of the disease: moving as the records. if avalable, of some pictures; and illustrated books. As of the "Homes" to which these some 20 per cent. of the girls ara poor children have been sent to unable to read or write, printed would show.

literature would be a waste of pub-

In this connexion. It would be le funds. most interesting to know what? were the findings of the Commis-

GOVERNMENT, CONTROL

But, both preventive and cura- slon appointed by Government in tive remedies could only be applied 1938 to go thoroughly into the if the girls are under the control |question of prostitution and V. D. of Government and not scattered in Hongkong. This Commission's all over the Colony as they are at report has never been published. present.

EDUCATION NO SOLUTION Education has never been, and can never be, the sole solution of any problem. Propaganda "work

has been tried by Government in their attempts to reduce tubercu- lasts, cholera, and other malignant diseases. with only a small measure of success.

To ensure the effectiveness of any remedial action Govern-

OF BURNS

Terrorism

Flares Up In Shanghai

SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Reuter) — Terroristic activities hared up again today with the commence- ment of the holiday celebrations.

Starting in the evening and con- tinuing throughout the next few hours hombs were hurled at six well-known

Chinese-owned ca- barets

Actor-Pilot On are here, wounding eight chi-

Taranto Feat

AMERICA'S FINEST

WHISKIES

OLD SCHENLEY

RYE AND BOURBON

"THE HIGHSPOT OF A HIGHBALL"

SOLE. AGENTS:

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

2. CHATER ROAD.

WILLKIE WANTS ALL AID

Mr. Wendell Willkie, who is on nese, two seriously. Fires were his way to London by Clipper, told Įstarted, damaging the buildings.

newspapermen in Lisbon that he Five of these were in the Inter- was going to England to find out a reconstruction of the Fleet national Settlement and the re- what he could and to see how Air Arm's attack on Italian war- maining in the French Concession. American assistance to Britain ships at Taranto, when three The motive is not known but it could be multiplied. states a Lon- battleships and other vessels were is believed that certain Chinese don message. put out of action. was broadcast elements vished to dissuade the by Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Kimmins. people from spending money on the dramatist and film actor.

amusements instead of assisting He served for several years as a their country. pilot in the Fleet Air Arm and has had considerable experience of torpedo-carrying planes,

Describing the attack, during which the British planes descend- ed an low as 2001. he explained that torpedoes dropped by aircraft were propelled through the water by their own engines ard were kept on their course and at the correct depth y complicated me- chanism.

They had to be almed carefully and "nursed" into the water at h reasonably slow speed only just above the surface. ...

and from

The aircraft must be steady on

uf.

its course for some moments te- aoly recall the strikingly similar fore launching the torpedoes. She distress, confusion and ferment at would then be under the point- home and abroad that formed the blank range of enemy gunfire. background to the short career of

KOAR OF ENGINES Burns And-su, tonight, my pur-

Lt. Cmdr. Kimmins described pose is to survey that background, the scene on board the aircraft- Under ideal conditions the FAN. Political, social and economic, and carrier as the planes took LING UNT held their first point-to treat of Burns himself, less as The order "Start up" transformed to-point yesterday. The course

a-poet them as a man and citizen. the quiet of the flying deck into The year of Burns' birth, 1759, ja inferno of roaring engines as started at the back of Kidney Hill and finished on the Kwanti Race-saw the capture of Quebec, and the the planes prepared to

take off consolidation of British power in at the Deck Officer's signal. Canada. Burns has more than one "At last they were over the 1st The Hongkong Club-Snake reference to Wolfe's campaign, the harbour." he

continued. "First Pit-Miss Beryl Fair, on Colora- most familiar being in the first the bombers got busy, dropped do Star, and Capt. F. J. T. Skip- song of the "Jolly Beggars.” “ parachute flares to light up the with, on Bingo; 2nd Royal Scots AMERICAN REVOLUTION target, then aimed and dropped "A"-Capt. H. C. Harland,

Burns was a youth of seventeen, their bombs, and. incidentally, Teviotdale. and B. A. Fargus, on and nearing the end of the dismal tried to draw, the enemy fire. Spectrum: 3. Cottage Club "B" Mount Oliphant period, when the Then the leader of the torpedo Team--R. H. Blake, on Venture, revol of the American Colonies machines gave the algal Down and P. Calderara, on Gold Cur- brought fresh confusion and dis- we go?

course.

The results:

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on

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Hitler And Mussolini Must Sink Or Swim

Together, Says Mr. Steel

"SIGNOR MUSSOLINI IS SHREWD ENOUGH TO SEE THAT WITHOUT HIM HERR HITLER'S NAZIISM MIGHT "I want Britain.to prevail. I am | ALSO BE LOST. They are both in the same boat and against the policy of appeasement must sink or swim together." and I am all out for complete ald to Britain, he said-Special)

The Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of Cañada, pictured with Air Vice-Marshal L. S. Breadner, Chief of the Air Staff, at Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters at Ottawa,

the

tress to his native land. It is said "Now of all forms of air attack Individual placings-1st R. H. to have cost Glasgow-then a ris- there are few quite so thrilling as Blake on Venture, 2nd D. G. Eing town of some 35.000 inhabitants the dive with torpedoes. You have "There's a Middleburg, on Herga;, 3. Missa cool million sterling, in lost an enormous feeling of superiority, buoyancy

sudden feeling of as the weight ut the Beryl Fair on Colorado Star. trade and repudiated debts. both from your height and your torpedo is released. Seventeen teams started.

Then the Now what had. Burns to say speed. The ships look tiny down steep, climbing turn away and the Three distinct routes were cho- about the events of his own times below, and even if they are steam- agonised suspense sen, and at the finish there was Taking. first his attitude to war in ing "full out" their speed in com- back over your shoulder at

as you look little to choose between them. The general, he had no delusions about "arlson to yon pwn two veterans-A. H. Potts and Hits "glamour."

seems not spot where your torpedo plunged He knew only too g C. Macnamara-finished fourth, a well that it produced poverty and

In. I ahea running true she'll SINGING IN DIVE good deal out of breath but five suffering, and filled the land with

find her depth in a few seconds "Your engine is years younger for it.

throttled back and you'll see a streak of bubbles broken men and destitute women and your At the start, the "Charge of the such as he immortalised in "The the maximum diving angle as you Ves, there she

nasc stuffed down to as she races through the water. Light Brigade" was not in it. With Jolly Beggara."

gocs,. heading dust flying, the cavalcade made

try to force the speedometer needle straight for the target. The finest tribute from another off the clock its way to the railway crossing a poet is surely that of Swinburne. between your

The flying wires "The pilot by now is taking the Lowu Brickworks, and thence He calls the poetry of Burna screaming, as they tear through point-blank enemy fire. The ob

main planes are frantic avoiding action from the by devious routes to the finish. "Golden speech that takes no rust the ar. Most pilots shout or sing server. being hurled from side to There were a few casualties, but from cankering years.” fio one was seriously hurt

side of his cockpit, has his eyes TO THE LASSIES

"Six thousand feet, five, four, jalued to that streak of bubbles. After the race, at the "Hunters the roast to "The Lassies," sug-time to steady-up for the

Mr. 3. A. D. Morrison proposed three, two, one.........Now is the He yells down the speaking tube Arms," Mr. H. C. Macnamara call-

final to the pilot: 'She's running-It's | ed on Mrs. Stanton to give away have Burns with us in these times in the thick of the muck. By 200 goes ahe's hit.

gesting "a pity it is that we don't approach. By 800 feet you're right jall.right she's running-there she the prizes, cups to the winners, beer tankards for seconds, and

as there is no lack of material for you're banking steeply on to the "And, from all accounts, that him and his song writing. string riding gloves for third.

Hejline of fire, and as you come into was the popular cry that night at It is seldom that such a crowd could have sung to his heart's con- it you're immediately

checking Taranto; that night, which gaye has been seer at the Hunters' Armetent and, our great enjoyment speed to nurse your fish into the the Navy yet another chance of and one individual was heard to about his Marys in Jodhpurs or drink remark that he had never seen so Jessies in the A.R.P. and I feel sure

THE PRIZES

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as an accompaniment...

going in to attack; that night; "Then comes the great moment. which so altered the whole ba- much "cold tea" drunk there be, that our Hongkong Nursing De. You're at the right height, headed lance of Mediterraneati fore..

tachments would have inspired In the right direction and within power." At various intervals, bits of sad-him to reach his Mary Morrison torpedo range. Will you drop now Lt. Cmdr. Kimmins paid a tri- dlery appeared in the hands of the level."

while the going's good or run the bute to the men who look after local farmers, who would only give Mr. H. L Mackenzie, replying to aunties a little closer and make the torpedoes. Without their ac- it back at a price. The next point- the Toast, said, "The Lassies, I am dead sure of It? You hang on curacy the result would have been to-point will be run on Feb. 23 sure, sympathise with Mr. Morri- Now you're in to only a few hun- a failure, however, carefully the and it is hoped that we can pro- son's wish for Burns in present dred yards. All right! Let her pilot bad almed and whatever vide some more good sport,

day Hongkong.”

[risks he had taken.

The above is a passage from MR. H. WICKHAM STEED'S 'weekly broadcast talk in the series "World Af- fairs," which in the absence of Mr. Steed, who was stated to be indisposed, was read by a B.B.C. announcer in Lon- don on Friday,

Mr. Steed's talk went on to between those who wanted a Ger- declare that the Italian peo-man brand of Nazism and those ple would not take kindly to who wanted. a Rumanian form of

Nazlism. German- tutelage and Signor Mussolini felt that he might be able to strike some kind

of a bargain with Hitler.

„FRENCH ATTITUDE

For Hitler's part he would, per- haps. decide to help Signor Musso-

"Many better men than Herr Hitler have burned their fin-

gers in trying to solve the Kalkan problem," said Mr. Steed, "and Herr Hitler may also and the Balkan pot too hot to hold.

Herr Hitler's arrogant belief in Hint if he was sure of getting full the superiority of the German race collaboration by the French. But may be rudely, shaken when he with every disaster to the Italians, tries to impose this on a people the unwillingness of the French

ho have tasted independence, people to become Hitler's tool was

TURKEY TO BE CONSIDERED steadily increasing.

"Accidents like that have hap-

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"We know very little of what is happening in France, but the little pened before, and I should not we do know is enough to show wonder if of that kind happens in" that Herr Hitler has still not been Rumania. It is a difficult thing to a country able to get what he wants from which is torn by internal strife.

impose one's will in the French. If this is really so,

"And behind any idea of and if Herr Hitler still hopes to re-

Balkan venture there is Turkey to trieve the position in the Near East he would perhaps be advised be considered. One of the great- to undertake some action in the est mistakes a European political leader can make is to imagine that. Balkans as well as upon us."

the people of the Near East have no will or mind of their own.

RUMANIAN POSITION

Mr. Steed then turned to events in Rumania and declared that though it was difficult to say what was actually happening there, it was clear that a civil war had practically broken out in the coun- try. It seemed to be a struggle

Thailand & Indo-China To Come To Conference Table

"Since the brilliant victories of General Wavell in Libya, the Turks and the Arabs and the' Muslim world have seen that Herr Hitler is clearly on the defensive and that an Axis vic- tory.is most improbable. Herr Hitler's invincibility looked more than a little vague to them now.".

ABYSSINIA

Mr. Steed. then commented on TOKYO, Jan. 26 (Reuter)--With the formal acceptance of the the recent developments in Abyssi- Japanese Government's proposal to settle the border dispute be- nia and gave a brief history of the tween Thalland and Indo-China peacefully, the Thai Government country. He recounted that when has begun preparations for armistice negotiations with Indo-China. Abyssinia was abandoned by the Japan's position of leadership in, anese newspaper."Yomiuri, and League of Nations and subdued by East Asia is recognised in the Nichi Nichi comment in editorials. Signor Mussolini in 1938, a wave of Bangkok/Vichy action

accepting Both papers discern "great anger had swept through the coun- Japanese mediation in the Indo- significance" in the acceptance of try against the nations which had China/Thailand dispute, the Jap- Japan's services as mediator.

permitted this to happen.

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"Now, however," the British - · forces are fighting to help Em-.. peror Haile Selassie to regain his country," said Mr. Steed. Mr. Steed referred briefly to the Arst defeat of the Italians by the Abyssinians in 1894. At that time he was the correspondent of The Times and he related how a great battle was fought out at Kassala. which was recently recapatured from the Italian forces by the British.

"I spent a number of anxious days during that time before I" could persuade the Italian Govern- ment to abandón Kassala," said Mr. Steed and related how a suggestion he had made for the erection of a memorial at Kassala had been frowned upon by Lord Kitchener, "I wonder," concluded Mr. Steed, "whether the British forces which entered Kassala recently. found. this monument in the place."