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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936.

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says LASZLO SCHWARTZ, Hungarian Caricaturist, who found, in Sir HENRY POLLOCK, a “best seller". TRANGE as it may sound tered on his own scale of

at first hearing, I take emotions. STUDEBAKER the same delight in reading

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a fascinating face as I would a good book.

With this difference: there are but few books that I would care to read again and again.

Of the thousands of leading men and women I have inter

vlowed and caricatured in all lands, I have never once wearied of playing a game of guessing when I wend my way to them.

and though not once have I come I try to visualise the face,

anywhere within 1,000 miles of approaching the "original", nevertheless, the same old thrill is still gained from this little private game all my own;

1

But Sir, Henry was homeward bent, and

80 же the mist of Hong- walked through

kong and there

31.2. Portod

than all put together Whither will it

lead up or down? Whither 7. To

On the other hand, there are faces that I never seem

finer fuller flowerings of n Real Civilisation, or to to tire of in my efforts to

the bottomless abyss? decipher. What

My journey to Sir Henry was no exchange of humour. Then we parted. The mist passes for

the non- Pollock's office proved no excep- No, nothing one could laugh at. swallowed up both of us, and I reader of faces as mere wrinkles tion and furrows left in the wake game.

to playing my guessing What two men walking through couldn't help. feeling all of passing years,

However, when I came the haze were searching for was the way home that there gedies, ecstasies and the rest of thought to

cares, tra- face to face, I no longer gave a clear conception and a better is not a joke or jest in the Land the thrills and chills that make and somehow I even forgot that stein we created to serve in its have told which would have my "misreading" understanding of this Franken- of Mirth that Sir Henry could Life, to the keen reader of faces up this polyglot affair enlled I was hunting humeur.

awe-inspiring double roles-for brought us as close to one. serves as just so many of Dame All I wanted was just a da

good and for evil-"propagan- another as our groping through Fortune's shorthand notes to be chance to sit there and read by.

the-mist-of-Hongkong-in-cur pieced together, to be read, to the hour. To read a face that

pathetic mental soarch for this Yes-propaganda. One of the clusive be understood, and to be regis- conveyed to me so much that I mightiest forces of the Machine where it would lead all that we

monster's destination. value as the crystallised quintes. Age. As mighty as guns, bom- to-day for the lack of a more sente of wisdom gathered bers, submarines, poison gas. truth-bearing word call-Civili- throughoirt a long and full life. And and perhaps mightier sation.

Hongkong Telegraph. NOTES OF THE DAY

THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936.

CANADA'S OPPORTUNITY

The suggestion of Mr. William

TESTS FOR CYLISTS

Hongkong rond-tisers who have been subjected to risks from trick cyclists may be interested to learn that amongst the suggestions put forward by an English depart- mental committee, which has been

enquiring into the road safety of

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ISLANDS OF THE VIKINGS

two Islanda Ile nearly Are hundred feet tanned which descended upon the Holy

mlin apart-one far out in the northern ocean, the Ultima Thule of Great Britain; Northumbria, and the on Mak the other under the sheltering wing of

them inaalonder one. Another

irect

between

shadowy

from the one to

Sirovich, contained in a resolu- tion submitted to Congress, that position of tests for cyclists, sirai- school-children, Is one that the Im- Canada should be allowed to lar to those for motorists, Should enter into confederation with the be considered. There are millions, which may be elted in Jantination of United States of America, will of cyclists in Britain; next to this article, in the fact that last autume the

pedestrians, they are the largest welterjed not be treated seriously by the body of road-users. Obviously, American people. And it is too therefore, the task of testing all

The of Unet--the northernmost of the hetland group-has long been known preposterous even to be consider. these people would be of almost a summer holder

rewort. People who super-human dimensions. ed an affront by Canadians. But the application of a riding test to

Even want

to get away from-everything, and have a really quiet time. And their way thither year by year, and are not disappointed,

ncense beaution have strong

the other.

to the rest of the world, and to children, who presumably stand also an angler's paradise, while its

manner

This small bland has many historie an kociations and many interesting remains of an earlier civiliation.

While fully appreciating the advantages that are now theirs under Drita rule, many

regime, under which each tiller of the sull of the islanders at hanker after he áld Some of them also indulge in peeles of

recuented no superior save the Almighty.

beto-wordhip of the old vikings who in the right, ninth, and tenth centuries ruled the LPER KNO ravaged the coals of Western Europe. To this case distanco norely lends enchantment to the view, for a clone aleily. of the exploits of those freebooters qulekly banishes any illusion one may have regarding them.

The lands of the far north provided an. excellent rendevous for their war galleys, and it was often from the sheltering Voen of Orkney and Shetland that the vikiname

It not have been from some land-locked haven in our northernmost island that the, vikin

Island of Linilisfarne in the rear 780, and

wrongbt auch havoa thera†

Might Was Right

after his death about a century earlier) d not permit them to escape unpunished for their chieftain was vislied with a cruel death by the English, and a short time after their whip were destroyed by a storm and many of them perished, white a few who swam

thure were killed without plly."

lunas, tad been radiating from Lindufarne. Fury of the Norsemen"

For a century and a half the benign light of Chrkilanlty" ($sulle! by m

while the islands of the far north shrouded in the gloom of pageniam,

were

It may have been, and no doubt wat, przeniem of a fairly high enter, but it was the antithesis of the new and humane religion which was destined to supersedo it two hun dred years later. Carlyle has described the old Noran faith exude hut earnest com sneration, of valour," but that dictum can scarcely be said to apply in the case of the vikings. Citage and daring they certainly had, but with them might was always right and they had no scruple in benenting shem bent the expense of the weak and de fenceless.

men Zamź- kayo mew what - happened -nt - Binilatarne, where a small eukony of monks, were estas hed who were busy propasting the Grepel in the north of England. We quote from the chronicle of Monk Bimeon of Durham, wha Ilved early in the twelfth century

The heatham came from the northern coun tries to Britain like stinging warps, roamed about like savage wolten, tobbing, killḥg. not only homes, sheep, and caille, but also price onlytes, monka, and una. Th went to Lindisfarne Church, destroyed every- thing in the most miserable manner, throw down the altars, robbed the tresures of the Church, killed some of the brothers, carried other away in explivily, mocked many and ftung them away naked, and threw Home Into the ocean. But Ht. Cuthbert (the famoUN shop of Lindisfarne who had been canonlped

This is a strong Indielment even when making allowance for the naturally perjudiowi source; but in vlow of what we find in other r-cord it cannot be regarded as 'over-drawn. Mummaties, abbeys, and churches were the cuy prey of these lawless men, so much so Host special petition was nɛlded to the Litany which ran-From the fury of the Norsemen good Lord deliver unt"

On the wall of the Fredriksborg Palace In Denmark thero la an anelent mural paint- ing which depicts the plundering and burn- Ing of Tavistock Abbey by the vikings in 1002. In the foreground we have the beater of the gang dragging along a young woman by-the-wadank-while-in-his-cher-hand he Juide a sprar and the end of a cord which attached to a monk Immediately behind him, who bears a treasure chest on his back.

In front of the warrior is puncheon of wing which he in poching along with hin foot In the background of the picture are the amoking ruins of the abbey bultalings and some of the raiders driving a number of sheep and cattle toward the shore where the galleys are moored. The picture is not a picaminar nna, although the beaming smile on the old viking's face indicates that he is thoroughly enjoying the situation; but give a fair Ides of how those ancient piraten comported themselves.

To do them justice, however, it must be memitted that they improved as time went un; and, gradually abandoning the practice of ordinary piracy, ultimately assumed the enfe of conquerors, with far-reaching eat- sequences, ka, every student of history known.

SIDE GLANCES By George. Clark A Hasty Retreat

those who may not realise the most in need of it, would be a national pride of Canadians and over, no test, however searching, formidable undertaking, More- their unswerving loyalty to the would ensure the elimination of Empire in which they hold anthe youth impetuosity which is increasingly important position.yclists find themselves in trouble often to blame when juvenile it may appear that there is an on the roads. Altogether, the Idea undercurrent of secessionism in of a test does not look like prac- Canada which prompts the un-tical politics. As for the trick official offer of union with the to bring them to book when they cyclists, all that can be done is United States. There have been are caught riding in a times, particularly in the lean dangerous either to themselves or

others. years, when elements decidedly non-British in origin, have actually talked secession

in 1,000 miles through British set forth on their nefarious expedition, May Canada. But these have been in Columbia. A8 for capital. such a puny minority that their Canada has sufficient; and the words were never taken serious-There is more than sufficient of same can be said for labour. ly. It would be safe to say that this commodity. any Government which even eon-Sirovich speaks of the advan- When Mr. sidered the idea would find itself tages of union to America he out of office over-night. So displays the motive of his plan. much for the Canadian attitude. He speaks of "the vast arens As for the offer of Mr. Sirovich, da and the opportunity for in- awaiting development" in Cana- its terms are too transparent to creasing the sales of American deceive even the advocate of industry across the border. secession, who was never very And he maintains the develop- ardent any way.

Mr. Sirovichment of Canada would solve the reviews the benefits which union unemployment problem of both would bring to Canada: ice-free are sound; the second is debat- countries. The first two points winter ports; the linking of the able. There are twelve millions railway systems of the two na-of unemployed in America, and tions; the joining of their high-the Canadian provinces would ways; and the free flow of Presumably be expected to ab- sorb them. They, could not. capital and labour. The Cana-And besides, Canadians want dian. Great Lake ports and their own natural resources, for Montreal arc, admittedly, Ice-they are vital to a swiftly grow- bound for the long wintering nation. And Canada is months. But Canada still has growing, very well without outlets on her Atlantic and years ago Vancouver, B.C., was American assistance. Fifty Pacific coasts, and the railways a logging camp. Now it is the adequately serve the country third largest city in Canada, during the period of freeze-up. with a population approaching No doubt American ports and 300,000, and growing all the American railways would appre-to Mr. Sirovich, and the others time. We should like to suggest clate Canada's winter business, who believe in his plan, that if but they can, and do, obtain a the United States were to offer ahara of it without political to rejoin the British Empire union. As for the linking up of there would be more chance of highways, the thing is an accom-achieving such a union than plished fact, and the latest thero is of the political absorp development in this direction is tion of Canadians by their pro- the lang-moated California-gressive and possessive nolgh Alaska link which will run for boura.,

"The real fun comes in writing the next chapter-two gun fights and 'an ax murder.“

After an Eaterval of fourteen years, dar Ing which period the monastia buildings had beet restored, the

viking

again alder Lindisfarne. When the monks saw the remed Norse galleys approaching, they realised what was store for them; so, hatily gathering Logether thels most chorlake poslati (including the famous Lindisfarns, apelas, they up up the coffin containing the remaina of St. Cuthbert, and, bearing it reverently in their mist, erused to the malaiend, never more to return.

Th's incident marked the close of what has been called the "golden' age" of Line diafarne and so far as known this wind remained uninhabited until 1069, when the bones of St. Cuthbert were brought back, to repors there until their final removal to Dur hama year after. The Priory, whose ruine are now a centre of interest, was erected in 1160, and Drople come from far and Erer to. viart the abrine. They ate came to enjoy the peace and freedom which this "all-best-fa“ afford, The drive seross the three mile of

and which is discloved at low tide is a novel. experlance, as is the sense of Isolation that comes to one as one watehes the water once more closing in around the land. You look across at England Its Leemlag milons and Ila ceasles untest, and feel grateful that you have been granted brief respite from the strome of everyday life.

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Gradually you fall under the swell of your surroundings. The Priory rulna naturally elaim your attention in the fat instance, then, the dream castle by the shore, which you, view with gind 'strprise, for there is an air of unreality about it, though it a substantial enough. Perched by die on the summit of a orainance which rise abruptly from the surrounding plain seems (when viewed from the weath to hang between heaven and earth-a thing of beauty and romancewaving a friendly grwoling to the mealre. pile of Bamborough in the dance. The architect who restore (i d b work well, for it seems to grow eat of the rock on which it is in

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As for the rest, one cannot do better than quote the words of a contemporary writer who himselt had experienced the, charos of Holy Taland "You are fat away from that thing called civilisation as 837 man en Ím in England. The solitude closos In on you, and you draw from it whatever is in your

W. Fordyce Clark,