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YOU NEVER LEARN ANYTHING These remarks are just is applic- FROM THE MAN YOU AGREE WITIE.“ able to Hongkong as they are to | Shanghai, with the added difference that the foe charged hero is only half what it is in the Northern seltlement.

Considering the manner in which the Government is seeking to ex- lend broadcasting here, it must be obvious that the expenditure on the service in all its aspects is far greater than the income, from licence fees. It is equally clear that the more money received in fees, the better programmes will it be possible to arrange. Therefore i it is in the amateur's own Interest

Paymaster Lieut. Commander to H. M. S. Bec. W. D. Stewart has been appointed

Tenders are being invited for the construction of sewers on the Fraya East Reclamation.

The name of Cheng Yik-kwan has been added to the register of chem- ists and druggists.

Colonel D. McHakard and Mr. and Mrs Bowes Swith arrived you terday from Shanghai on Naldera.

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IN NATURE'S REALM.

"Sing Song of "Seasons,"

Now that I have sat down to my For what this poem accomplished typewriter to put this article inte makes it worthy not only of being a final script which will be read-remembered, it deserves a re-read- able to others I find myself ing. In my reading I found joy intrigued by the question (arising in the poem for its own sake. out of my study of the tople under This man Thomson had a rich gift conaklerntion) as to what there is for felicitous phrasing which com- about the climate of Scotland that mands appreciation even as ond should make her poets give special notes his inability to write sus- Poetry carried to attention to the seasona. Being stained poetry. Lancashire-born I may be said to a reat length seems always to Reading But I find this tend to run lo ́prose.

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arrested by fact alone of little avail in Thomson answering the question just men- phrases about "the bright severi tioned. Perhaps a wider reading ty of noon," "the river dimpling of literature on my part might along." Concerning the con- H.M.S. Cleopatra will leave prove that there is no question course of sounds which one Ande Hongkong for England on April 28 instead of April 30 as originally ar-plus the reading of a poem by "all this waste of music is the.

involved. My own experience, in the out-of-doors he tells us that ranged. She is now due at Sheer- Tagore, would lead me to think voice of love." Try that after a ness on June 12.

that this specialized interest in the spell at Hardy. You will appre- -

Ilcre seasons might most readily be clate Thomson the more. During the quarter ended March looked for in the poets of India is more than a felicitous expres- 31st, there were 87 samples taken and America. But my investign- sion; hero is the revolation of a under the Sale of Food and Drugations thus far have brought me deep faith. Ordinance. All were genuine ex- mostly into contact with Scots. I have heard many preachments cepting one of flour.

My interest in the topic was relative to the character-develop. awakened when I happened recent-ing worth of "hard times," but His Excellency the Governor hanly to come upon the poem by Thomson saya in three words what appointed Mr. Chau Taun-nin to be Robert Louis Stevenson on it takes some meu thirty minutes

Member of the Sanitary Board "Autump Fires." Noting the to express. "By hardship. for a term of three years, vice Mr. glory of autumn ho is led, by a sinew'd says much in little. I Tao Seen-wan, O.B., LL.D. natural progression, to think of found myself enjoying the mani

the beauty of each separate sea-fest keenness of the poet's 'oye. Som He is moved, not only to In the portion given to Spring He he tells in a fine descriptive way ecstasy, but to expression.

the story of the sweet processional would have men

of the early year. I notice that Stopford Brooke thinks that tho. detailed descriptions which Thom- son gives of nature are "Loo much catalogues." The analogy did not The Silk forwarded from long-Having made such a good start come to me in my reading of the kong by the Empress of Asin on the toward the fulfillment of his own poem. My opinion would lean 2018 March arrived in New York desire I was in hope that Steven-more to that of Cowper, who said, (St. John's Park) on the 10th Ron would have carried his task "Thomson 1 la admirable In April, having been 21 daya in to an adequate fulfillment. But description." My own conclusion I find it was not no. With regard regarding his felicitous phrasing I to this theme he stopped ere land re-enforced by Tovoy who Apart from a wrote concerning Thomson that had well begun. whimsey or two in his "Child's he has many audacities and many Garden of Verao" he has little felicities of expression, and en- more to say on the matter. What riched the vocabulary even of the he might have done in indicated poets who have disparaged him." In the fine prose he has written here and there about the seasons,

In singing his song of scaKONS Lovers of Stevenson will recall his Thomson did more than write a fragment on "A Winter's Walk in

a new bent to poem, ie gave Corriek and Galloway," and also poetry. It is easy for poets to his easy on "An Autumn Effect" forget their own ancestry, much But these are not songs! feasier is it for their roaders. Yet,

to do the honest thing. In any event, the fee, Ave dollars per annum, is so small that any radio amateur can easily afford to pay il The danger in that the Govern- ment may judge the measure of public Interest in brondensting by the number of licensed owners of sets, aut restrict its services ac cordingly. If all.come in, there will be a far bigger inducement to go forward with new developments. We are at the moment only re- ferring to the "entertaining" side of broadcasting. There art,

of cintes of the Royal Sanitary in- course, other aspects of this ques-stitute appointed this month in- tion of much greater importance,cludes the name of Mr. James Ivor Barnes, Hongkong. As an Ass0- especially in the possibilities that cinte. are opened up for propaganda. But this is quite another matter. We may see developments along this line as time goes on. Suffice it at the moment, to urge on all who listen-in to do their part by contri-trunsit buting what is due to those who are putting out the local

REMEDIOS.--At his residence, No. 308, Nathan Road, Kow- loon, on April 13, 1929, nt. 2,50 | grammes. am, Sigismundo Victor des Remedios, aged 76 years. Funeral will pass the Monu-

at 6.30 p.m. to-day. Į ment (Machu and Shanghai, papera please copy).

Thr

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY APRIL 13, 1929

RADIO "PIRATES."

radio

Disarmament,

pro-

The list of members and naso-

Tenders are being invited for extensions to the Police Recreation Club at Happy Valley. The work consists of extension of the Club Rooms and the erection of a new

verandah.

at

'To-day's naval movements include the arrival of II.M.S. Aphis Shanghai from the Yangtze, that of the Cornflower at Chefon from Welhaiwei and H.M.S. Magnolia at Weihniwel from Chefoo.

"Sing a song of seasona!

Something bright in allì Flowers in the summer,

Fires in the fall."

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If the practical results of the On the 29 inat, there will b. frequent previous meetings of the sold at the P.W.D. offices New Kow nations at the Preparatory Com-loon Inland Lot 1217, situate at Cheung Sha Wan. It has an area mission for the Disarmament of about 1,224 square feet, and the Conference are to be taken as the upset price is $785.

Then I recalled that another remembering that these are tho normal expectation for the future,

poet of Scotland, living long bicentennial years of the writing Lord Cushendun is justified in

before Stevenson, had attempted of "The Seasons," it does not come that for which Stevenson called. amiss to give emphasis to the fact leaving for Genova with a long face. The principal British de-

A poem written two hundred yeaza that our present attitude to nature agro must have rura virtue if it find is largely due to Thomson's legale was most pessimistic in an

many renders in our time. Thom- manner of writing about the sea- Interview yesterday just before

son is not a poet much spoken of none. The judgment of Words- leaving London, saying he did not

in this day. When I was a lad worth, while perhaps a little too. it was the same, The greater sweeping, is worthy of recollection think the prospects of agreement Passengers arriving by the 8.8. very rosy. He did not despair of President Madison included Mr. and worth of Wordsworth was the fact here. Wordsworth wrote:

counted. Thomson Was "It is remarkable that, excepting Mrs. W. M. Giltins, Mr. and Mrs. that getting a move on, though he said Nolasco da Silva, and Mr. and Mrs.: necounted a minor poet. I passed the Nocturnal Reverio by Lady We wonder how many

that no-one. seemed to see quite Francis W. Payne, Mr. Payne ja ahim by that I might the more read Winchelsea, and a passage or two "pirates" there are in Hongkong-how it was to be done. From an- well-known American financier on in Wordsworth, the major poet. in the Windsor Forest of Pope, You will notice that I say "in" the poetry of the period between that is, owners of wireless sets whether point of view, however, Lord his way round the world.

noi "through," Wordsworth. the publication of Paradise Lost Cushendun's ́attitudo is rather listen-in and never pay a cent for curious. It is more than a year

Late on Wednesday night, two remember to this day the patience and the Seasons does not contuln the privilege? The number pro- since the Commission last met, robbers, armed with knives, raided and persistence with which a single new image of external It nature; and scarcely presents a bably runs into many hundreds. If and in the interim there has been village of San Ah, Shataukok, and was no holiday for me.

the Ying Chung grocery, in the worked at "The Excursion."

Yet it familiar one, from which it carr we put the actual payers of radio- an important development in stole money and jewellery to they be that this very discipline be inferred that the eye of the set licences in the Colony, amateurs, International relations, bailed as a value of $46. They also took away in my youth made it possible to poot has been steadily fixed upon

Caso and pleasure the object." a single-barrelled shot gun belang read with we mean, at about three hundred, great atride forward in the causeing to the proprietor, and valued at through (apart from certain judi.} we shall probably be quite near the of world peace, but which must $46.

clous skippings here and there) "The Seasons," by Thonison. mark; yet it has been computed be comparatively valueless, if it that there are fully two thousand is unable to influence disarmament It is notified that vessels are pro-

from mooring to the It interested me to notice that genius. that he came to present amateurs here in possession of arts, delegates to make concessions on hibited

in Yaumati Typhoon had come to the reading of this her in four aspects. Thus to him In other words, by far the larger controversial issues. We refer, of senwall

Shelter between A position poem (or rather series of poems) came the high honour of being proportion get the broadcast pro- tenunciation of war as an instru- the Government

course, to the Kellogg Pael for the 150

the feet to

north of just at the time of their bicen- "the first poet who deliberately led Slipway Fier tennial. Not many poems, the English people into that solf grammes free of charge, leaving

ment of national policy. Not only where a notice board has been erect- especially if they be of the longer tary world of natural description has the Pact been. signed or ed, and the Government Slipway sort, have such survival value.

the honest minority to pay. This

all.

Pler.

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There was some delay in getting the prisoners from the cells into the dock at the Police Court this morning, and Mr. E. W., Hamilton policeman in charge of the dock told the interpreter to Inform the that the surest way to find himself back in the street again was by not having the prisoners arrayed in the dock in time.

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"Nature" then was a poet's In- vention. Thomson brought to nature a seeing eye and a descrip- tive pen

It was a touch of

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COMMON ERROR

IN BRIDGE

AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM

by ww.wentworth,

47. FAILURE TO USE 24- FORMATION GAINED FROM BIDDING

North Dummy)- A032

to Mr.

Weat- Leads

is neither fair to those who pay the adhered to by practically every licence fees nor to the Government nation in this supposedly civilised which does the broadcasting,

world, but a great majority of the This same question has recently Governments concerned with the been raised in Shanghal, where it acceptance

of the Pact have has been suggested that users of carried out the necessary ratifica- crystal aete and those who make tion. If this is progress, and not do with indoor or frame aerials may a mere gesture, it would seem to be tempted to think that their be logical that those same nations modest apparatua should be exempt gathered together in the cause of from licence fees. But the sub-disarmament should be able to

Mr. S. Mugridge, of the Naval scription is due from these people find some formula for the reduc- Store Department, Naval Yard, just as much as from those with tion of armaments acceptable to was the recipient on Thursday mora elaborate neta. and It only

One of the principal items evening of a handsome silver ser- means that the priate with the crys-which opens its sessions on Mon-Invergordon, Scotland, Mr. E. A. on the agenda for the Commission, vice on the occasion of his im pending departure on promotion to tal set or indoor aerial is rather day, is the Russian proposal for S. Hayward, Naval Store Officer, more difficult to run to ground. A complete disarmament over

a made the presentation correspondent, commenting on this period of four or five years. It is Mugridge on behalf of the stat matter, says that in most cases canorally admitted in he impran-wished Mr. Mugridge all success and friends in the Dockyard, and where fee-dodging is deliberate, Beable, but it would be more con-In his new appointment. the actuating motive is the same stent with the Kelloge Part as that of the man who goes to than a retention of full stranoth

The health bulletin, of Eastern great pains to get the better of the in armaments. Lord Chahendum, porta for the week ending April- Income Tax authorities, who takes appears to have no definito pro- 6 gives the following the risk of riding first-class with a posals to make. Judelne by the figures in parentheses indicating deaths. Pingué: Bassein (1). third-class leket, or who chortlestone of his comments, but

Cholera: Bussein (29), Bombay negative than it seems.

(1), Calcutta (89), Moulmein (1) much change on making a purchase.

Rangoon (1), Pondicherry (1), "But," to use the words of the cor, |/

Bangkok 11 (4), Pnom Penh 1 (1). respondent, "Lo endeavour to obtain Errninin our Pictorial Supple-Salgon (1). Small-pox: Aden 9 twelve months broadcasting serment today. E. C. Fincher Is (3), Basrah, 5 (1), Rombay

wrongly described na having won (46), Calcutta 28 (19) Karachi vice for nothing, isn't really funny; the tennis semi-final when he met 48 (33), Madran 104 (26), Mon- to succeed isn't really clever. The M. W. To. In noint of fact. Lo was mein 5 (1). Negapatam 2 (1),

the uteler and he vesterday succeed-Rangoon 2 Taleorte (2). Vien pirate is, in fact, obtaining bied in winning the championship gapntam 14 (3), Pondicherry (1), amusement at the expense of those file in his match with S. A. Rum-Macassar 2 (2), Belawan Delf 1, who do pay the extremely moderate' jaħın.

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CASCH,

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AQ

South (Declarer)—

4 Q1 7

K 108

ODB

AJU SEG

East

that Weat holds Ace of diamonds. East may or may not hold King of clubs. There is no necessity of taking an unnecessary risk,

The Correct Method: East's vid was defensive and made with tho score in mind. It denoted length in spades and possibly. Ace of diamonds or King of clubs... Went's raise however 'must have been based on an outside trick and the only outside trick could be Aco of diamonds. Declarer must not permit East to obtain the lead. Declarer theroforé de termines to load dlarmorids. Do claror wina, this trick with Queen. of diamonds and returns to his hand with King of hearts. The

The Bidding: Rubber game.8 of diamonds is now played and is: Score North and South-24; Eust overtaken by West with Aco of

with delight when he receives to trust the British attitude is leas Rangoon (3), Pnom Penh -1,, (and West-20. North bids, one diamonds. No matter what card

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Bamond. East bids one spade. West plays therafter, Declarer South bids no-trump. West bids is certain of making contract prò

If two spades. North bids two moviding he takes no finesses. Trump and all puss

West had not played Ace of día Deciding the Play: Spades are monda, the King of diamonds. opened and Declarer wins on the would have been played from third round. What suit should Dummy and diamonds continued now be played?.

so that East could not obtain the The Error: Declarer leads 5 of load.

clubs and finesses Queen of clubs. The Principle: The suit to be Brice is based upon the law of played may often be inferred from probabilities. The likelihood Is the bidding.