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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1920.

LORD DUNSANY AS LECTURER.

A THUMB-NAIL SKETCH. "I do not know," said the chairman, "just where Lord Dunsany is," Over Carnegie Hall. ran a ripple of Amusement' politely subdued by the thick red plush of the seats and the furs and velvets of their occupante. The chairman uttered a few platitudes about time allowances for poets, he informed the laboring ushers and the velvet ladies to be seated, that more chairs were being placed on the platform, then he vanished through a carved and panelled paper door.

After a Sve-minute interval be returned followed by a very tall young man with-dark hair and a little dark mustache. He was 50 tall that his correct cutaway had the effect of a dinner jacket and seemed to accentuate the evident! embarrassment with which he followed the trail beaten for him by the chairman through the velvet ladies crowding the plat form. His first act on reaching the front of the stage was to grasp the reading desk, which i reached about to his waist, and hurl it to one side. He then drew forward one of the official arm- chairs and seated himself in it with his long legs crossed and his head resting on his hands

It was the attitude of the poet] meditate. but it seemed to be produced not so much by inspir- ation as by acute discomfort. The chairman leaned over him, whis- pering. Desperately the leng- legged young man felt for "some- thing in his coat pockets, in his

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trousers pockets, in his breast gnomes, the brown Gaone Who lecture platforms if they can pocket. All he produced was & Never Missed with his bow and transform them into amber and blue and red silk handkerchief. his opal-headed arrows. Perhaps opal.-Margaret L. Farrand in the Obviously it was not what be poets should be permitted on Your York Evening Post.

wanted. He replaced iz dejected-

ly and gave up the search leaving the discreetly tittering curiosity of the velvet ladies unsatisfied.

The chairman stepped forward. Lord Dunsany," he said, "is announced to speak on My Own Land, but he says any subject will . I think that from him any subjec: will be welcome.

The long-legged young man arose “Ladies and gentlemen, he began. His voice was high end Rat. He enunciated his wonds too carefully, pronouncing nonexist-) enfiral letters. He clasped his hands in front of him, curling and uncurling the long fingers nerv-| ously. Velvet ladies were still pouring in. They seemed to

asked disturb him. He

the ch irman's permission to wait until they were seated. He dropped again into the armchair! and crossed his long legs. The chairman and the ushers bustled the embarrassed velvet ladies. Silence fell and Lord Dunsany rose again.

For half an hour he talked earnestly, on the place in the state of the poet and

the artist. Now and again his rather trite ideas and commonplace ex- pressions were relieved by gleams of light. The function of a government is not so much to rule as to maintain an equipoise between liberty and license. Do not let your ideals grow lean and die." "Lean ideals," that smacked of the real Dunsany. the Dunsany of "The Gods and "The of the Mountain " Golden Doom." It is cruel to put poets in lecture halls and make them talk about the things of earth. Poets should stay inside their books; they should not be permitted platforms.

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But suddenly the poet ceased to talk of politics. He looked at his watch. "If you like. I will read you one of my tales, one I wrote: only a short while ago." The audience did like, and indicated as much. "And if you don't mind I'll sit down whilst I read be- cause when I stand up I get in my own light." He sat down by the table and pulled out a manuscript. Then he sprang up again: "But first I must tell you that when I was in one of your Western cities! a lady showed me a very interes- ting collection of stones and

we see, not made of flint like most of the arrowheads but of remarkably--be- autiful opal. When I saw it I said, 'I think there is a story in that opal. Then I held it up to the light and I was sure there was a story in it. This is the story,"

He sat down again,

lean- forward in his chair and began to road:

Once on the Amber River," The voice grew deep and distinct and thrilling. The nervousness, the hesitation, the over-enunciation were gone. He was at home, in his own country. Once on the Amber River." The plush seats and the velvet indien vanished, In their place flawed the Amber River and beside it walked the man who stole the wine of the

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London, Feb. 19.

The Daily Express" Vienna correspondent says: Ten Bolshevik divisions are reported to have crossed the Dniester, which the Rumanizas had strongly fortified, and a movement is started to place the Rumanian Army on a war footing. It is believed the Allies will be asked for large amount of war material and financial support to 5ght the Bolsheviks.

Londen, Feb 15. The Associated Press correspondent at Constantinople depicts a serious situation in the Crimea and declares that Allied officials apprehend a general Bolshevik triumph through internal dissension, also that the Reds may reach the Isthmus across the ice. Ten thousand persons at Sebastopol are rest anxious to leave the city, while eleven thousand refugees have arrived from Odessa. Typhus is raging and the Allied warships at Sebastopol are unable to evacuate the population owing to the absence of authority from their re- spective Governments, and no ports are available to accomo- date the refugee. "..

London, Feb. 19.

The weekly authoritive summary says the Bolshevik offen- sive is proceeding in North Russia, where the situation is serious. The Reds carried the Russian forward lines in Onega. valley and on the Vologda railway, largely owing to the mutiny of a Russian regiment whose commander and most of ist officers were killed by their own men. Sve hundred of whom deserted to the Reds. The North Russian Government has re- signed and handed over its power to General Miller. Bolsheviks claim that their captures in Odessa included two haudred officers, thirty thousand men and one hundred guns. The Bolsheviks have introduced industrial conscription by transforming the former military armies into labour armies at Kazan, Perm, Moscow, Chernigov etc., chiefly on account of mutinies.

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A message from Helsingfors reports that Russian news- papers state that five thousand Chinese bave joined the Bol- shevik army for the purpose of receiving special training in Russian military schools. The Bolsheviks are carrying on intense propaganda in China. where they hope the Soviet system will soon be introduced.

LABOUR TROUBLES.

Washington, Feb. 15.

The Railway Union leaders agreed to delay further de- mands alter Prèsident Wilson announced that be intended to appoint a Commission of wage experts to investigate thorough- ↑ ly the railwaymen's claims. President Wilson's letter stated that if and when the railroads were returned to private ownership and laws were enacted providing machinery for dealing with the wages of railwaymen, he would use his in- fluence to bring about the earliest practicable organisation of the machinery thus provided, but if provision was not made legislatively he pledged himself to employ his influence to get railroad companies and employees to join promptly in the creation of & Tribunal to take up the probleme. He concluded by warning the railroad brotherhoods that any other course than co-operation with the Goverment would not only gravely injure the public but be a serious blow to the principle of collective bargaining.

Bombay Feb., 19."

The Indian marine and dockyard men have resumed work.

The labour on the basis of a daily increase of four cands. trables now appear to be over.

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The report of the Committee appointed under the Pro- fiteering Act to enquire into tobacco prioca deals mainly with the operations of the Imperial Tobacco Company, which is believed to control sixty per cent. of Britain's tobacco. The Committee points out that prices have risen 110 per cent. since 1914, but the tobacco duty has risen about 122 per cent. It finds no evidence that the Company's operations have in any way contributed to the rise in prices. The Committee refrains from suggesting a safeguard against the monopoly, but arges the regular publication of the profits of all combinations and also that the Government should take powers to pro- ̈tect the public against a detrimental monopoly. The report does

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It is officially declared that the Supreme Council has received no communication from Viscount Grey or others on the subject of the reply to President Wilson.

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