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BOTELHO. On December 13, 1928, at her residence, 120 Boone Road, Shanghai, Auna, the beloved wife of Mr. E. P. Botelho, (Nhanho) in her 62nd

year.

RODRIGUES--At the Shanghai General Hospital, In her 67th Filomena Rodrigues,

year,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928.

Ing devoted to scientific research and to the commercial applica tion of the results obtained, and these developments are expected contribute materially to an eventual return to prosperity In the Industry. The prose of

to

THE

REAL KING WENCESLAS

[By Edgar Sumwell.]

When the Christmas scneon

DAY BY DAY..

TO FEAR THE FOE, BINCE FEAR OP- PRESSETI STRENGTH. GIVES IN YOUR WRAKNESS STRENGTH UNTO YOUR FOE-Shakespeare.

The P. and O. s.8. Kalyan, from amalgamation, with the object of comes round, and the Christmas Singapore, is due here at 6 am. on forming larger producing and dispirit is in the air, there is nothing the 23rd instant.

tributing units, has already made

more familiar to our ears than the carol of "Good King Wenceslas."

with societies which make a Heriotis

Sir Elly Kadoorie, Mr.

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The Very Idea!

In a 55-year-old file of an Ameri- can newspaper has been found the story of the very first attempt to by air, which cross the Atlantic everyone seems to have forgotten.

A much bewhiskered gentlemon, Professor John Wise, concolved and

L. planned the great adventure, but some progress, particularly In It is a prime favourito, equallyKadoorie and Mr. A. Nissim left i he quirrelled with the financial control before the start. Never- South Wales, and during the past study of Christmas music and with for Shanghal by the M.M. liner backers and retired from active theless, ballon entled The Daily few months a further, announce the little boys who know neither the Athos II.

A Congregation for the confer-launched amid the applause of huge Graphic was prepared in 1873 and ment has been made of an agree-words nor the tumme with accuracy, yet who insist on singing it at ment for a fusion of a number your front door in the expectation ring af degrees is to be held at crowds in the Capitolina Gardens

the Hongkong University сто of colliery companies in Lanca-of a few coppers.

January 14th." shire, under the title of Manches ter Collieries Limited, Nor has the third Hus of advance been

the advers ignored, although financial results in the various Lo coalfields have so far tended restrict, pregress. Stepa such as these will, it is hoped, do

some-

But, words and music apart, how many of us know anything about the history of the carol? Who was the real King Wenceslas? When did he live? What did he do?

to taken

English people have a rare faculty for adopting things from abroad. Their patron sair, St George, was certainly not an En- thing to restore the coat Industry glishman, and at times they have been more than content with a Thus to a better position. That there king from over the water. is room for improvement may be it has come about that they have their hearts one. gathered from the fact that there Wenceslas, a ruler of Bohemin, has been a marked shrinkage in who was slain by an angry and production even during the past jealous brother on the steps of a twelve months, exports for the first church, or inside it, and has since remained the patron saint of the eight months of 1928 showing, Bohemian people. His real name decline of something like £7,000,- 000 as compared with the period in 1927.

It in obvious that the whole problem of the industry calla for the most serious investigation, und the impression still persists that the Government has by no means done all that it could to grapple with the issues involved, not suddenly This trouble has sprang up; it has long persisted and some serious attempt at solu-

Bame

of Brooklyn, the Long Island suburb of New York City. There dangled from it, instead of the customary The new submarines for the basket, a lifeboat, supported by a Australian Navy, which are now cumple of stout canvas slings. In on their way out from England to the boat sat the skipper (one Wash- Australia, left Columbo on Tues-ington H. Donaldson), an дв day for Belawan,

II.M.S. Hermes is due to arrive here at 5 o'clock to-day from Manila. H.M.S. Kent left port at 2 p.m. for Sandakan and the Blue.

bell arrived from Takou.

sistant, and a newspaperman named Alfred Ford, who was to keep the log of the voyage to Europe. All | went splendidly from the moment of the start-for several minutes. Then The Daily Graphic crashed.

near Cannan, Conn., though the. three neronnuts managed to jump The Westinghonse Electric In-clear just in time. Mr.. Ford sat ternational Co. has issued a down and wrote a stirring account charming wall calendar, a copy of of "How We Did Not Cross the which reaches us from Mesara, Atinntile by Air"-and that wea Reiss, Massey and Co., Ltd., the

local distributors,

Seventeen further cuses of email-pox were notified yesterday, of which 15 were from Kowloon districts. All were Chinese, ex- Japanese case. A repting one golden-Chinese case of diphtherin was

was Vaclay, which, in Ita Latinised form of Wenceslas, has become familiar to us. He flourished in the Bat half of the tenth century, about the time when in this cou Athlestan, the haired boy whom his grandfather, Alfred the Great, had girded with a aword set in a golden scabbard, was King of the Mercians and West Saxons.

In the century before there had out from Byzantium, & mission headed by Cyrillus and gone Methodius, carrying civilisation and Christianity through Central Europe. A powerful centre was established at Velehrad, the chief On the tion is much overdue,

town of the kingdom of Moravia, manner in which the Government and thence, in the course of years, now addresses itself to the ques-it spread to Slovakin and Bohemia,

also reported from Kowloon.

that.

A Hittle boy recently puzzled his mother with this query: "What's the miz?"

"The miz, dear? I'm sure I don't know. Where did you hear about. it?"

"At Sunday school. The superin- tendent said God made Heaven and earth and all that in the iniz!"

·

Yet another delightful perform- aher of "Tom Jones", was given by

Omuibus driver at Tottenham the Philharmonic Society at Lite fined for allowing too many passen- Theatre Royal last night, when the gers: Fold it under great provocn- opera went with a fine swing from lon. So many people wanted to start to finish. There is to be a get to the hospital.

performance matinee 10-day; whilst the final night pro-day that he would not have turned ductions take place on Friday and up to oppose an application if he Saturday. No performance is he had realised that I knew so much law."Judge Cluer at Shoreditch ing given-to-night.

County Court.

at 4.30

"A barrister told me the other

beloved mother. of Mr. V. ton will probably depend the Wenceslas, king of Bohemia, was church, speedily put an end to the Court: Can't a man play the plano

M. de Britto.

The

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19 1928

THE COAL, PROBLEM.

measure of support it will obtain from the voters when the General

Election comes round.

A Classic Innings.

kinaman.

noble

Solicitor at Clerkenwell County

until two in the morning on his wife's birthday?"

"Nothing la worth doing if it is not difcuit."Mr.-Cairns, the Thames magistrate.

'see a well-known cleric state

Launge lizards are effeminate, And such, indeed, might well ap

pear

Most worthy of the manly

sneer,

It seems a fact past question-

but

I pause when I recall the knut, The so-called vapid creature, Been

In England till July, *14. His fearsome ties that matched

his socks

Gave steady-going

shocks.

people

Searce one uud a good ward to

say

About the silly popinjny. They even told him to his face He, was his country's worst

disgrace:

among the first of the Bohemian fast-ebbing life of their converts. He was far and away king. One story runs that even above and beyond his time in the midst. of his death_agony Bohemia in those days was largely Wenceslas absolutely refused to pagan. Feudalism was rampant ft.a band against his treacherous among the barons and landowners, who did not scruple › raid and

The victory in the church which make war as ocension offered.- With their unholy principles and Boleslay thought he had achieved was simply the beginning of his While the Second Test match is misileeds Wenceslas, had not the not over, the position in auch that slightest sympathy, and, what is own defeat. The subjects of Wen- little short of a miracle can pre-worse, he had not the power to ceslas were stricken with horror curb their evil doing. But he at his foul and unnatural murder, Arthur Chapman's men could show, by his own example, and, try as they would, Boleslav from achieving another brilliant what a good man's life should be. could no more stop the rising tide was an excellent Slay and of sympathy for the saintly king triumph. By the time. the last He

Following his than Canute could prevent the English wicket fell yesterday. Latin scholar.

adoption of Christianity, he WAR waves of the sea advancing. lie afternoon, new cricket history had initiated into the School of Cluny, hanged Podivin, the faithful page, been made, and it was a happier the Burgundian of civilisation, with whom, as the caral tells un, Whilst it is comforting, at this circumstance in view of the fact founded by Abbot Odo, and there Wencesian went about secretly at season of the year, to realise that that the Mother Country set the pledged himself to prayer and night, carrying food and clothing practical immediate steps are be-seal on her supremacy to date in meditation, the promotion of peace to the poor and needy. When he throughout his kingdom, and the heard of the miracles said to have been performed at the tomb of the ing taken to relieve the distress the stronghold of Australian cric abolition of paganism.

In his own life he was humble king in St. Vitus Cathedral, he of 634 in the British mining areas, thereket, Sydney. The score will, we feel sure, be a general compiled in reply to a total of 253, and devout, even to the extent of summoned a meeting and charged feeling that the problem is not to sets a new high record for an in-, cutting the grapes and the when the multitude never to speak of 1 great church benefactor. To a man in golden armour appeared, be solved by the mere making of nings in the Anglo-Australian required for sacrament, He was Wenceslas again, but the figure of mney grants to the numerous contests, England's previous best him is due the foundation of St, and, to the accompaniment of a Lord being 589, while when we were Vitus Cathedral on the Irad- terrific thunderstorm, drove the families affected. The

Just down under, Australia hit our schri, which, in its newest though people to their homes. The cult of Mayor's Fund continues to strow,wlers for GUO runs. The out unfinished form, is still one of the King Wenceslas had begun, and Kreat attractions of Prague. ita progress could not be arrested, hetokening a ready sympathy on standing figure in this classic in Pilgrims, to the shrine of St. The Church venerated him as n the part of the public for those innings was Walter Hammond, die Vitus were cured of nervous dis-saint and martyr. A shrine was need of assistance, and it is now youthful Gloucester professional, orders, especially of that distress erected on the site where the king site intimated that the Government who defied the Australian attacking malady to which the saint has fell, and a chapel on the will make a grant of a pound for over seven hours, scored 251 given. his name. Wenceslas was where his page had been executed. It is a singular fact that the sterling for every pound sub- of 455 runs off the bat while he was also successful in reducing hfa

lown dominions to a state of peace ancient crown of Bohemia; con- ar at the wickets and gave only one at least, there was no open war-sisting of four Hlyshaped gold scribed thereto, Under this

borders. The plates atudded with uncut pre- rangement, a sum of £150,000 dillicult chance, a hard return, to fare within his to be paid on account immediately. Ryder. His batting is described pagan regime was, however, still clous stones, is called "the Crown

an superb in every respect, and popular, especially among the of St. Wenceslas,"

Alike in times of national mis- Special measures, we are told, are!

brigand nobles, who saw.. that to be taken by the Government to since all Englishmen know him as under the sweeter infuence of fortune or national prosperity, the an irreproachable stylist, a be-Christianity, a great deal of their name of Wenceslas was on the lips deal with the distressed diniri:45, liever in making the bat hit the power, would be gone. They had of his people and their descen- operating table ready for an ex-..

по use for peaceful ways, and dants, and his aid and protection

Doctor (to attendant)Bring In ball, un artist at driving and a master of every modern acoring preferred to rely for their wealth were invoked. Even during the ethyl chloride.

Young Man (Jumping up)-No, stroke, the deficiencies of Reuter's on what they could steal by force Great War his help was sought, meagre reports can easily be filled of arms than on any more hon- and the refrain of the ancient doctor; please don't bring a woman

ourable source.

chanson in the Slav fiturgy, "Doin here. The malcontents found a ready not leave us nor our children to

in which connexion a special vote

of £100,000 is to be granted at once to assist the familles of the workless miners. What is not apparent at the moment is whether the Government has any definite scheme for tackling this grave problem at its roots.

in. Only L. E. Foster, 287, has made a bigger, seore ́ in t

of Boleslav

But when he heard his country

cull

Ile didn't hesitate at all,

He didn't pose, or make a fuss. But took his gun and fought

for jus

Until his critics owned, indeed, That Britain owned no finer

breed. Gay as of yore he held the trench In mud and blood and lethal

stench Even when hope seemed almost

fled,

And others followed where he

Jed.

So it may be that those we call

Effeminate are, after all, Inside the outer husk as high

In manhood's scale as you or I.

*

A young man was lying on an

amination.

Chorus,

or

Test sympathiser,.indded a leader, in a perish," was heard with reiterated Edgar Wallace in the Daily Mail: Venceslas named forvour. Among some of the pouI would walk a mile to hear Paul match, and all things considered, brother of the contribution must be regard-Boleslav, who eventually deter-sants there firmly persists the be- Robeson sing "Or Man River," or crowning mined to encompass the king's lief that Wenceslas is not dead, Marie Burke telling me why sho ed ая. Hammond's in view of the various efforts triumph in a meteoric career.

Al death. That was nearly a thou- laid in his tomb in Prague cannot help loving that man of hers... being made to improve the posi- though Hammond proved the do-sand years ago, and it is not aur Cathedral, but that he is simply I can sit in a trance while a military tion of the industry, it is interest-minating personality, he received prising that there are different sleeping under the Blanik Moan-band plays the Sullivan operas, or ing to recall that the Royal Com- splendid assistance at different versions of how the fell purpose tain, like King Arthur under the the "Soldiers

was carried out. Castle Hill of Neath, awaiting the Tachaikovsky's "1812," or the over stages, Hendren's 74 being a mission which exhaustively in- sterling effort, and Larwood's 4, According to one ancient chronicle, summons to come to his country's ture to "Lohengrin," because I know that music and love it. But I never vestigated the whole subject in extremely useful. One of the Boleslav sent. Wenceslas an in-aid.

We owe the words of the go to concerts, because they play the winter of 1925-28 expressed most striking features of the long vitation to feast with him at his

innings is contained in the fact castle and stay the night, all of modern carol to the Rev. Dr. John things which are unknown to me, the opinion that the way to pros- that every player down to No. 11 which he cheerfully accepted. Mason Neale, a writer of popular and which, in consequence, bore me perity for the mining industry lies reached double figures. The Aus. What stayed the hand of Boleslav hymns. The poem was intended to death. And yet I can sit have been out in those dark hours before the to suit a mediaeval tune, and it for hours latening to Fritz Kreisler along three chief lines of advance: tralians so far through greater application of played in every department of the dawn may never be known, but might have been little more than and know enough about music to game. The luck of the toss gave certain it is that on the following a translation from the mediaeval, realize that he was playing "God

A Press Club dinner he attended. science to the winning and using the M.C.C. howlers a real oppor- morning Wenceslas walked from but Dr. Neale chose to tell in his Save the King" in the wrong key at

neighbouring own way how demonstrate their the castle to a of coal, through larger units fortunity to

"Good King Wenceslas looked

out production and distribution, and strength, and incidentally, to church, there to offer prayers.

On the Feast of Stephen." through fuller partnership because the critice to reconstruct There, in the porch, he encounter- their estimates. The result of led Boleslav, whom, he saluted with tween employers and employed, the test is well known, though the a brotherly kiss and thanks for his and went forth, followed by the Boleslay's answer faithful page, bearing flesh and The unfortunate stoppage in 1926 prowess of the attack has since hospitality. Inevitably delayed progress, but been overshadowed by the bril: was to plunge his sword into the wine and pinclogs to the peasant

llant batting that has followed. body of the king, who, withdraw living The Australians are now in an ing the weapon, hurled it away almost hopeless position, and Eng-from him and then flung his trea- land's victory, to be confidently cherous brother to the ground: expected, will bring the prospects The fight was a signal to the Dr. Neale a carol remains to this of retaining the "Ashes" definitely brother's followers, who, rushing day a favourite among English

from their hidden places, in the people. nearer to accomplishment.

since the resumption of work a considerable advance hus been re- corded along the lines indicated by the Commission. Much time and money have been and are be

"Underneath the mountain: Right against the forest fence, By St. Agnos fountain.

Mr. Im Pak-hal, who was yeater- day morning fined $50 by the Chiof Justice for failing to ap serve on the jury at the Criminal pear in answer to a summons to Sessions, attended at the Court in the afternoon and explained that his absence was due to the fact that he did not feel well. In the circumstances, the fint was re- duced to $10: