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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 10, 1937.

GLORIFICATION OF AN IRISH REPUBLIC

Woman Writes Well-Documented Book On Easter

CONCERNED — Alphonse Gas- nier-Dupare, French Minister of Marino, whose post has become an increasingly important one, following urgent consultations between France and Britain over the Spanish rituation. The decision to maintain solid 'Anglo-French front against any intervention violation in the Spanish war keeps him deeply concerned.

U.S. Link With Famed Adventurer

SINN FEINERS GUNS

"The Irish Republic." By Dorothy Macardie; with Preface by Mr. Da Valera (Gollancz, 25. net), What would have been the outcome if the German gun-running ship "Aud" had, on reaching Tralee Day Jon Apting to receive her cargo?

20, 1910, found the Irish re- can imagine

bels

We

that the Easter

Rebellion would not have been sub- stantially less abortive than it was, subsequent career of the

or

that the

but never even Irish Republic would have been less futile or less Inglorious for all concerned.

Joft-proclaimed

partially existent

Д

In December 1919, the Daily Mail the Sinn Fein movement as

Zetermined, national, dis-

revolt."

and, above all, intelligent It was never, in fact, any of these of these things, nor can any praiseworthy adjectives be applied to the politicians and others called upon to cope with it or to the methods used.

Never at any time could the Sinh Feiner get enough support to turn murder and ambush into open war- murde Hare. Never would Mr. Lloyd George and his colleagues recognize that they were face to face with anything but a handful of malcontents or take the bloodless, but effective, economic stops that would have brought the Irish to their senses.

THE PROOF

The proof of this is in the reading. Miss Dorothy Macardie's painstaking and well-documented, but extremely

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE based, book is equally devoted to the

TABLET FOUND

glorification of De Valera and of the Irish Republican Army. Yet we have witnessed, not long since, the re- markable spectacle of Mr. De Valera still play-acting, on the one hand, at an Irish Republic and, on the other, banning the Irish Republican Army as an unlawful body.

San Francisco, Cal. May 1.

Discovery of a small brass plate on the shore of San Francisco Bay by an obscure Fortunately for her, Miss Macnrdle is not called upon to explain these clerk may write a new chap-strange happenings, for she confines ter in history, California his-herself to the period 1916-1923 and

torical authorities say.

such prefatory excursions into ancient Irish history as no Irish patriot, with the possible exception of Michael Collins, has ever tried to get along

without.

N

written

Sir Francis Drake placed the tarnished bit of brass on

impartint history of these "greate and firme post" to claim this new and strange land for troublous times has so far been at

is aver likely to be Queen Elizabeth in 1579. There templed or

Miss Macardle is the first it lay until the clerk discovered to attempt an ambitious and detalled it, when he needed a bit of metal. story of the trish Republican move- ment, and we may take it that if it Professor Herbert Eugene Bolton, had not been written from the ultra world's leading authority on Cali-Republican point of view it would

written at all.

an exciled group of scientista nt a meeting last night."

"Here it is!" he shouted, pro. fessorini dignity lost in his burst of

those

fornia history, waved the plate before never have who know enough of what really happened to skim off the blas, a useful historical residue remains. of how biased the book is one exam- ple is sufficient. Under the heading "Executed Republicans" Miss Macar die gives three lists, one of 16 men executed in 1016, one of 24 men executed in 1920-1921, and a third, for 1922-1023, of 77 men.

cnihusiasm.

The plate bore the inscription:

all men by "Bee it known unto these presents Jvne 17, 1570.

-EXECUTED-BY-IRISH

Rebellion

THE WORLD'S

PREMIER HIGH-CLASS

BLACK

CIGARETTE

GLACIER

STATE EXPRESS

HALTS SLIDE

555

Washington, April 21.

The All-Alaska glacier sweep- stakes has lost its odds-on favourite through announcement by the U. S. Geological Survey that the Black Rapids glacier is just about where it started 27 years ago.

The big plece of lee, according to published reports, had been thun- dering, groaning and crushing down Its ice-way at a world's recorti spied 220 feet a day. There didn't appear lo be a chance for another of '

thousand-odd glaciers in Alaska

mark like that.

of,

the

to make

Then, with

with typical scientific In- credulity, the geologists col out the performance charts, had the course surveyed from the air and decided not to make orangements to clock the finish for a few cons.

INSPECTION MADE FROM PLANE

After Dean James H. Hance of the mining school of the University of Alaska had flown over the glacier to check tips that Black Rapids was a run-away, S. R. Cuppe.

ement

geologist-in-Alaska work,

that the glacier's foot was about ย quarter of a mile from the Delte River.

That, explained Capps, is just where it was when he helped to map

School-boys and girls of the Ussuri district in Siberia listening for first time the start of the derby back in 1910.

to a gramophone which the school has bought.

Hugh

Walpole Pays High Tribute To British Journalism

"Glaciers just don't act that way." he said, "There's no evidence of any- thing dramatic having happened. The fastest glaciers in the world are Greenland glaciers, and the fastest For those does not move a quarter as fast as Black Rapids is supposed to be moving."

Geologists suggested several ex- planations for reports that something phenomenal was going on at the foot of Black Rapids. But first they ex- plained that to understand glaciers it is necessary to understand how something can go backward and for- ward at the same time.

MELTING ALWAYS OCCURS

While the tongue of ice which com- prises a glacier may be moving down mountain valley at a fast pace, wich as four inches a day for an Alaskan glacier, the foot is melting and break- ing off. Thus a glacier can actually recede while it is moving forward if the melting exceeds the advance of

"Journalism is a passionate desire of some human being to tell another human being a piece of news," said Mr. Hugh Walpole, the novelist, when he proposed the toast of "The In- stitute of Journalists" at the annual dinner of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland District, held in the North British Station Hotel, company of about 120-Mr. Frank Moran, and attended by a chairman of the district, presiding.

Geological Survey sleuths, know- Mr. Walpole paid a high tribute to There were Meredith and Hardy, ing that a lot of glaciers reverse their British journalism and the Institute, and the greatest journalist we had form on occasion and retreat up their respective mountain courses, suggeat- amusing incidents ever known, Rudyard Kipling him-ed that perhaps Black Rapids had and told some which occurred during his stay in self. What did they all do? These done Just that in recent years while were all men who at least were de no one was looking and then started Hollywood..

termined that the immediate moment to move forward again. should be caught by them. Literature was simply question of the moment being given some kind of eternal rhythm.

World

everyone was

EXPENSIVE SENTENCES

He had been for nearly two years in Hollywood. There he discovered why he was not, and never could be, a journalist. He was there a long time, and nothing seemed to be hap-

the

Even a slight though sudden ad- vance, caused by heavy snows or perhaps an earthquake near glacier's head, would account for the groaning and cracking which was re- ported to have scared the family of a roadhouse keeper near the foot hair to death, they said.

SCIENTISTS ASSERT THEY'RE RIGHT

-"I-TAKE-POSSESSION"

No mention is made of the murders The Institute, Mr. Walpole said, "By the grace of God and in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for which many of these men were provided all kinds of camaraderie, of England and herr successors for executed, nor is attention drawn to and, much more important, it saw ever I take possession of this king the fact that the last 77 men were all that it kept high and clear the whole dome whose king and people freely executed by the Irish themselves, reputation of journalism in Britain. and resigned their right and tile in the Compared with suppressions of this The problem which was of great

Macardle's reference to whole lond unto herr majesties keep-sort, Miss

real importance to me and to be the Morning Post as "the huplac- what in the first place journalism ing now named by

men as Nova Albion. able enemy of Ireland" is a trifling really was, where it began, and in known unto all

deed what kind of work it was set Professor Bolton received the plate falsity.

it is always dilleult for the en- in the world to do.

But the scientists were adamanti from Beryle Shynn, Oakland Depart- ment store clerk who found it on the thusiastle historian to adjust him

Journalism was a passionate de- Pening, He had been brought out in their opinion that Black Rapids: southern shore of point San Quentin, (or her) self when the heroes of

to revise the script of "David Cop-had not advanced three and a half close to the mouth of Corte Madera yesterday have become the villainous sire of some human being to tell an perfield," and to see that the Eng-miles since last fell, as reported, crock, a short two miles south of San enemies of to-day, and it must be ad- other human being a piece of newlish atmosphere was all right. They whatever else might be going on

milled at Miss Macardle Is more We were all, to that extent, every ind Rafael.

grand time, but he began to along the Delta River 125 miles carefully impressive when trying to let the day and hour of our lives journalists. get anxious to do something

south of Fairbanks. The noted authority cleaned it, revealing the inscription. Free Staters down lightly than when

After that, however, the real prob-

Mr. Walpole described how he at One of the best Alaskan reverse- Dr. Bolton pointed out that dis-painting the Brilish in every con- lem began. Not only had you to tell

last was allotted a scene, and how form glaciers Is Grand Pacific, which covery of the plate on the shore of ceivable shade of black.

after a considerable time he went to has been travelling backward so far Yet there is always the underlying somebody about something, but you San Francisco Boy, an area Drake was

inquire what was being done with it, as the eye of a non-scientific man is not believed to have touched when he suggestion-the currency of Irish had to tell something to 2,000, or Innded on the California coast, may literary exchange that if an Irish-10,000, or more than a million: You He found on the director's desic in concerned for the last 43 years. At

all the people of the

lils cathedral-like

office

his script last reports it had sneaked over the revise history.

man fires the pistol it is the detested had to tell

something in such a way that Saxon that with devilish subtlety, they would be so excited they would with one word written across line into Canada without a passport,

it-a word

solemn in giving that country technical has compelled him to pull the trigger come out and buy your paper twice America, the word "lousy" (Laugh-harbour. Through the years, Grand

dignified and Miss Macardie's book, B5 already its often as before. (Laughter.) You fer.) In conversation with the direc-Pacific has retreated no less than 12 stated, ends with the year 1923, There that Drake landed on what is now is, however, a sort of post-word in had got to this that the journalist for afterwards, he was informed that miles.

could go. up to Arthur's Seat and he had written eighteen sentences, known as "Drake Bay or Bodega which she concludes with the pious have the whole platform before him, and that there should only be five, Bay, called a "convenient at Har-hope that she may "sco an Irish Re- the distant hills crowded with people and one reason given to him was borough" by the explorer.

public make, with the British Com-as thick as Ales, and he had to raise The theory was that Drake salied monwealth of Nations, a compact of his finger and say, “Last night I loot that every sentence cost 500 dollars. past San Francisco Bay in a deep fog.amity and peace."

my collar stud(laughter)and he

After experience of all sorts of must be discarded, ' Drake This now must cartoon San Fran. We may all see it of course. Whint had to say it in such a way that the journalism abroad, he believed it to

a pity the material blessings of whole audience

wondering be true, that we Britons had every Dominion association so heavily out what was to happen next. (Laughter.), right in the world to be extremely weigh the bright but inedible attrac-

proud of our journalism. There QUALITY OF PERMANENCE tions of the sovereign statusi

were certain things he had not real- There was something further. This iscd-to how low and how base a thing they told this mass of people use Journalism could be brought in such a way-had it got any kind until he had his two years in But the plate may have been car-

of equality of permanence? You be Angeles. Some American papers had Meanwhile, the plate, purchased then to propound the question some magnificent journalists. Tied to where it was found by E- dians, historians said. In that case, from Shinn by historians for $2,000, "Is journalison literature has it earlier theories may be correct. will be placed in the University of any, character beyond that first in-

Hoping to checks their theories, his- California Museum. Plans to erect terest of nowa?" You could looks was no law of libel in America; or tralian Education Department. torical leaders plan to sift soll in the a suitable memorial will be discussed back a long time; and it was aston- area of the discovery in an effort to by the California historical society. Ishing the names of those you could discover a aixpence which Drake in--United Press.

WHERE DRAKE LANDED The most widely accepted theory is

cisco Bay,

The idea that the San Carlos was to sail through the the first boat golden gate in 1775 also must be dis- carried and tile Golden Hinde in 1579 replace IL.

serted in the plate and spikes with which it was nailed to its posts:

World's Smallest Baby

Lives Just One Day

New York. Apr. 10.

THE

FUE world's smallest baby has died in a New York hospital after approxi-

mately one day of life.

At birth, the baby, a girl, was small enough to fit into the palm of an adult's band, and weighed less than a pound.

Doctors were amazed when Mrs. Max Fost, the wife of an employes of the Works Progress Administration, gave birth to the premature baby at the fashionable Park East Hospital.

Narses were afraid to handle the tiny Infant, whose respiration at birth was 45 to the minute instead of the normal 40 breaths of a new-born child.

were

find to illustrate this point.

10,000 Mile Tour For School-teacher

Miss Gwladys Powell, a Welsh- schoolmistress who went to Aus- tralia eight years ago, has been But, so far as he could see, Qere given a novel job by the Aus-

..

at least anyone bringing an action She is to go on a 10,000 mile against a newspaper would have a tour with a company that is tak small chance of success. By ailu- slons,

hints, innuendoes, the life of ing "White Horse Inn" all round In Chaucer could we not see the every human being was constantly Australia, in order to look after whole world contemporary with ust menaced and everyone was frighten- the education of ten small girl Shakespeare, perhaps. In the mid-ed, and they were utterly defence actresses who are part of the dle of the eighteenth century you less. He hoped we would keep well came into world of some of the above this sort of thing. (Applause.) show. finest journalists-solemn, porten- tous Addison, gay, illogical Dick Steele, the caustic Swift, Daniel Defoc-four of the greatest journal- Iste in our history. Then there were Coleridge, Thackeray, Dickens, and R. L. Stevenson, with his little articles of 1870.

SOVIET DOCUMENTS

The little girls' ages range from six to twelve years and they arc only able to play en condition that their schooling is not neglected. Miss Powell plans to give them two London, May 3,

hours of lessons in the morning, and Yagoda, the former chief of the two hours in the afternoon. She is GPU who was arrested some weeks very thrilled with her new appoint- In this period we had a brilliant ago, has deposited abroad documents mient and has already made friends eoruscation of authors, one after the Incriminating the Soviet Government, with her new puplis. "I hope to other, all dealing with the moment thereby following the example set by have as many classes in the open air as it files, and translating it into a Radek, Sokolnikoff and others, the as possible," she said, "to offset the kind of crystallised colour that had Morning Post" reports from Hel- Indoor atmosphere of the theatre,

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