1936-08-17 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1936.

POET'S WIDOW TO

ECLIPSE BROUGHT 'SALVATION'

Bombay,' Aug. 1.

Three hundred thousand people crowded into a small village,—all bent on securing an immortal dip in the sacred pond on the occasion of the solar eclipse. That was the scene late in June at the village of Kurukshetra, Punjab.

The affair is aptly described as "Indin in miniature." Babus. from Bengal wearing white burnooses four yards long, rub- be shoulders with Maswaris from Rajputana; the tall, hefty, turbaned Frontiersmen con. trasted sharply with the puny, barefoot, Orthodox from South India.

Brahmin

Fifty thousand "Badhus" (wander- ing necetics) belonging to 72 sects had gathered from nil parts of Indin.

REBEL H.Q. IN MOROCCO

BOOKS

BURN

AT

HIS

NIGHT

LADY WATSON HITS AT CIVIL LIST PITTANCES

"WORK NEVER APPRECIATED”

By ALAN CLARKE

"SHOULD Britain's greatest men in art, music, philosophy, and literature, or their dependents, be compelled to live on pittances of £60, £70, or £80 a year?

"Is even £100 or £120 a year the proper standard by

assessed?"

Across the bay at Ceuta, headquarters of the Spanish military forces in which even an honorary recompense for genius should be

Morocco, and now focal point of the revoll.

Some of them, riding on princely Oscar Slater Married elephants commanded no less respect than ruling princes, and realized several thousand rupees as offerings: from the simple village folk.

Bender the "radhus," the grounds swarmed with men and women beg gars and lepers, both genuine and fake. They carries a cup or utensil In each hand and demanded liver or copper to pay the debt of the sun. which, nerording the Indina ame trological calendar,

had been in-!

MAN WHO SUFFERED

19 YEARS IN PRISON

Maureen Lady Watson, widow of petition for it. The money will Sir William Watson, the famous poet certainly koop the wolf from the whom Gladstone wished to minko Poet door-but It will not be an English Laureate, put these questions to me when I saw her in the humblo Brighton home where she is now living.

door.

"It spells banishment for WII. liam Watson's dear ones, not, s very creditable picture for this rich country to look upon.

"We can all make a fresh start," the said; “our departure will see the

Sir William Watson died almost penniless last summer at the age of 77, and his widow and two daughters,

to make ends meet. aged 10 and 22, have been hard put inst of the Watsons in England.""

The daughter Geraldine told me she Lady Watson has just been award-thought it was going to be great fun.

we don't know what just yet," she snil.

Oscar Slater, sentenced to death in May, 1909, for the murder prisoned by the planets Rabu and of Miss Marion Gilchrist and vindicated 19 years later, was married Kelu for default. One of there

serpent by declaration in the County Buildings, Glasgow, recently, to Missed a Civil List pension of £120 a year, "We shall get some kind of work, but with a man's head and the other by Lina Wilhelmina Schad.

planete is represented by a

n man with serpent's bend. The

relipse in enured when one or the

other of the planets swallows the

sun for failure to pay his debts, Hej

is released only when some charitable MINE IN

person pays them by giving, alma.

It was estimated that for this eclipse

TRACK

QUEEN

MARY

more than $750,000 was collected to OF THE

release the sun. One beggar collect-

ed £16 in five hours at the tank.

The Maharajas of Nabha and Patin-

Ia Baba Kalf Kamiwala fed. 70,000 |

pilgrims free for several days. One

class which did a roaring business Lanenberg (Nova Scotia) Aug. 10. was the "Pandas," who may literally

ing guests.

Professional speakers and scripture renders invaded the fair aren by the hundreds and were busy from mom-i

In the offelul entry the bride- us Oscar name was given grooms' Joseph Laschziner (04), widower, A bank bookkeeper.

"OUR PROTEST"

"We cannot possibly live on our Amall means in this country," she anld, tion to tell me of the biography of "and on August 22 we leave for Southher husband which she has just com-

Miss Schad, who is 33 and a bru-Africa, where the pound in worth nette, is a bookkeeper in an hotel in about 6s, more.

Square, London. She met

a

Mr. Slater soon after his release.

The case of Oscar Slater was classic example of the diflculty of

officialdom, moving

(writes Clephan Palmer).

E.

Year after year the late Sir Arthur

"You may say that our depar

ture is our protest. The smallness of the pension has convinced me further that Great Britain never really appreciated my husband's work."

Lady Watson broke in our converse-

pleted.

A REVELATION

"It will be a revelation to many when it is published—if it over is -for there are some things which will show a new light on people in high places, but it is the truth," nho anid.

An edition of Sir William's poems

For months before his death Sir Conan Doyle pat evidence before the Secretory for Scotland, and the Lord was published in 1928. The public

way so poor that Lady willam

was busy preparing a newv Advocate to show that Slater was the response

of justice. Watson bought up dozens of copies collection of the poems which he be of a miscarriage victim Year after year the official reply was secretly so that her husband should lieved to be the cream of his work. This collection is entitled "The that nothing had been produced that not know.

Poems of

William Sir

Watson" would justify reopening the case.

SEEMED HOPELESS

(Hnrrap, 78. Gd.). Sir William re- vised many of the poems and there are several new verses, printed for the first time. It is dedicated to his wife and is prefaced with these lines:

be described as "bosts to everybody." A FLOATING mine, weighing a ton, has been picked up in the Carrying their bulky account books dating back to the 28th century, they Atlantic, within half a mile of the surrounded the pilgrims and con- course taken by the Cunard-White vinced them that someone in their Star liner Queen Mary, family had been their "guesia," and thus recruited the newcomers as pay- | The mine was discovered by Captain

Knickle, of the motor-ship Andrava, When was sent up to Scotland by while Ashing on the Grand Banks, the Daily News, to write about the The mine was first seen by one of case I was told by the editor of one of the leading Scottish papers that I ing to midnight preaching. The the Andrava's crew from a dory in was wasting my time. clrcus men, however, attracted more intitude N. 42.50, longitude W. 50.29. crowds.

The fair passed off without tragedy. At the time it was sighted, the fisher- The government supplied ample trains men saw one of the Cunard liners and sanitary facilities for the pil- steaming about half a mile away. grims, spending nearly 205,000. One old pilgrim recalled that 10 years ago] At great hazard to

leased, his ship. there was such scarcity of drinking, Captain Knickle hnd the mine hoisted water that speculators reaped amallabourd, where its timing wires were fortunes often pocketing the money disconnected. It is not known whether but failing to 'deliver the water. This year a water tap was available the nine is of German origin, or on the fair grounds, every twenty how long it has been drifting about paces, and bathing tanks with dis- the Atlantic.--Reutér. infected water were suppliest.-

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He told me that the day before

"I am going to burn them,” she Bald. "I would rather know that they were ashes, than that they should rot forgotten in this Eng- land.

"One night I shall secretly take

ho had lunched with the then Sec-them all to the Sussex Downs and retury for Scotland, who had burn them.

assured him that there was not the faintest chance of Stater being re-

It seemed a hopeless job. Official- dom was

satisfled that Slater was guilty. What chance was there, after 18 years, of persuading the authorities to reopen the case?

This much I know; what,duca 80-

e'er bo mine.

of fame or of oblivion, Time the

İnt

Punetiliously assoasing, shall award Thin have doubted never: this is

anre.

VICTORIAN STANDARDS "Apart from my own circumstances, feel that it is time that Civil List pensions were brought up to date. The present awards data from Victor The volume contains a poem which lan times, when socially £120 was William Watson wrote in 1894, long But the impossible happened. I looked on as the equivalent of any, before he was knighted for his work: still remember the excilement of £300 to-day. Conan Doyle when I told him on the

"I-foel sorry for those dependents of telephone that I had discovered in the famous men who have to manage on slums of Glasgow one of the principal only £60. Itenlly, is it not an insult witnesses at the trial, and that she which most of them have to bear to had made a statement which destroy-live?

ed the validity of the fulal évidence

she gave against Slater.

"But I am concerned with the future

"After that," cried Conan Doyle, of my daughters, for if I die the £120 "they must release him. The whole a year would stop inmediately. case against him has gone now.”

Soon after Slater was released—

"I am grateful for my pension, and after the late Lord Buckmaster, the 1 thank those people who signed the former Lord Chancellor, had threat

Jened

to raise the

the case

in the Lords. "DAILY NEWS" AGITATION

He was a inte convert. Before the Daily News, started its agitation the editor sent him the evidence at the trial and asked for his opinion on the j Verdict of guilty. His reply support- led the verdict.

The only lawyer I met who 'con- sistently maintained that the verdict

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I do not ask to have my fill

Of wine; or love,or-fame,- I do not, for a little ill.

Against the gods ezclaim: One boon of Fortune I implore

With one petition kneel:

At least caroas me not before Thou break me on thy wheel.

In these lines William Watson pro- phesied his own early fame and later misfortune.

Bite Much Worse

Than His Bark

was indefensible was Mr. Roughead,OME in my dear," we can imagine the future Sydney

evidence in the "Famous Trials"

of Edinburgh, who reproduced the

the

dog owner saying to a visitor, "his bite is much

series, and insisted from the day of worse than his bark."

e conviction that it was wrong.

Slater wrote a letter to the Dally

The report recently that dogs in This remarkable achievement took Netus, after the conviction had been Sydney had been "de-barked by place in the Soviet's 40-acre experi- quashed thanking the editor for what painlessly severing their vocal cords, mental station in the Ukraine, where he had done.

fonly went half-way towards solving intensive work has been going on The result showed that officlaldom the problem of the noisy dog in a with the cross-breeding of various will yield only to the pressure of per noisy world. sistent publicity. All

the self- sacrificing work of Conan Doyle had been Ignored. It was not till national newspaper took up the case and. published dally articles for over a month demanding the reepening of the case that'omelaldom

A special

Act of Parliament passed to enable Slater to appeal, and in July, 1028, the verdict was eside on the ground that the jury had been misdirected. Slater later ac- cepted £6,000 from the Government an ex gratia payment for his wrongful conviction.

as

the

Directed First Talkie

WAS

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Describing the animal, Mr. Bryce sald to-day that it was a cross be tween a dingo and a Siberian wolf- hound. It had a much keener scent than either, and could not bark.

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