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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMMER 8, 1938.

A Flight was Made THE 7,200-MILE FLIGHT by fully-laden British bombers was a magnificent achivement.

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tructive force science has un- leashed on civilisation.

There is no longer isolation

I have just become British

In these days when oppression in so many parts of the world is compelling thousands to flee from their native lands, it is comforting to think that we in this country still harg our freedom.

Here are the thoughts of some- one who has just become a naturalised British citizen, not as a refugce, but as some one who felt happy here.

W

HAT does it feel like to belong to the Bri- tish Empire?

What does it feel liko to be one of those 400,000,000 in the British Com- monwealth of Nations?

Few English people know, for the simple reason that they have never been anything but British subjects, Only a foreigner who has become naturalised could tell you,

I am such a foreigner on whom good fortune tand a clean record at Scotland Yard. I presume) hna bestowed the privilege, I might al most say the high distinction, at becoming

subject.

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naturalised British

UT first, I ought to make something clear: I am not a German, Austrian, any other refugee. 1 not a political exile, If I had

or

m

been, this might have explained why I am so grateful to the coun- try which has given me refuge. But I was not forced to leave my coun- try either because of financial or political circumstances.

SYMPHONY for any nation. The compara-aro. I intended staying but

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the security and isolation en- joyed by the British Isles before Bleirot flew the Channel in 1912.

A fully-laden bomber of the

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I came to England eight years

articles (writing happens to be my short time and writing a few

profession,

But something hap- pened which changed my whole I tell in love with England. I fell In love with the English people; with the Engilsh language.

life.

I discovered for myself the Englishman'a sincerity. I became captivated by his manners, habits. attitude of mind. I was fascinated by the quiet beauty of England's iterature.

LTD. type which flew non-stop from scenery, by the grandeur of English

of

Ismailia in Egypt to Port Dar- Chater Road. win in Australia can cross the

Atlantic, dump ils cargo missiles and re-cross the ocean to its base, It brings every part of Africa within range of

European enemy: closely inhabited part of Aus- tralia or Canada within range of a Pacific aggressor.

It no longer makes Singapore com paratively free from direct air attack.

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The success of this British Royal Air Force flight is the greatest argument in favour of the abolition of the type of plane which made the light-the long-range, high-powered bomb- | ing machine.

Bradshaw- BRADSHAW'S Railway Guide

enters upon the hundredth year of its existence this month, and arrangements are alrendy being made for a centenary cele- bration in 1939. Although the

acquainted myself with And, above all, I discovered for the Britain's history and tradition.

first time what it means to Eve in a free country

I was reborn in England. spiritu- ally and even morally. And after having tasted the sweet fruits.of for me to go back to my native English freedom it was impossible land, where, alast freedom was only a bitter mockery.

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EANWHILE, the face of Europe became more and more covered with the dictatorial leprosy. Countries where liberty prevailed, where the human individual had still a claim upon his soul and body, became fewer and fewer. Unrest, uncer-

To-day's Thought

OUR country is that spot to

which our heart is bound. -VOLTAIRE,

I want to go to Birmingham,

And they're put me down at

Crewe,

have reckoned themselves vic- tims of the oracle, of a mystic pronouncement beyond mother- wit to interpret, of a Brad- shavian jest.

honour of being the first time- One sympathises with these,

table in Britain does not belong

but, nevertheless, it is their to Bradshaw, it alone, of the understanding that is at fault. early pioneers, has become the

For although bewildered stu- authority whose rulings admit

dents may feel that a full of no appeal. Many have com-

comprehension, of Bradshaw in ga remote as that appreciation plained of the ortadition neces- sary to understand its cabalistic of Milton, which is "the last re- symbols; and many, forced to Ward of consummated scholar- make some such pathetic plenship," it is a fact that, once

Ok, Mr. Porter,

What shall I do?

Krasped, Bradshaw, like Milton, will not fall to transport his reader.

tainty and fear spread from land La 'land.

So I stayed on and made my home in England.

Now, after eight years, I have become a British subject and take upon myself all the duties and responsibilities to England in re- turu for the privileges of living as a free citizen.

The other day, after the usunt. formalities and inquiries as to my past, I received a letter from the Home Omeo informing me that I had been granted naturalisation.

It was the happiest day of my Htc.

When a friend of mine, a distin- gulahed foreign writer, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages, heard of thin, he wrole to nie a letter of congratula- tion, in which he sakh:

"In these dark hours of Europe, to become a British citizen is the greatest gift one can expect!"

U

alth in Britain is never shaken.

Centenary of a Woman

YESTERDAY MARKED the centenary of the death of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, á native of Glasgow, where she was born on February 21, 1753. Yet it is with the Highland parish to which she went as a bride of 21 that her name is usually Jinked, and it was in Edin-

I have had the opportunity ofburgh that she was to spend her latest and most brilliant years.

studying these feelings many times on the continent, and particularly on my recent visit to a dozen Euro- pean capitals. Everywhere you go you are asked the same questiona: "What are the British people thinking? What will Britain do next?'"

T

HE Fascist countries are spending millions ON propaganda in the scared little capitals of Eastern, Central, and Northern Europe-an in the Near East-with the sole object 01

persuading the frightened people that Britain is degenerate, that she could not help them it they are altacked; that she lets herself be bullied and her shipa bombed on the Spanish coast, be- cause slie in losing her power.

And atill, somehow, no one be- lleven it on the Continent. On the -contrary, more than ever before the democratle peoples of Europe now feel that Britain is their only

NFORTUNATELY, few British pcople

realise this.

hope. They are hardly aware of the great part they are destined to play in the world.

With all their love for Britain and for their democratic Institu tions, they are not fully allve to the fact that they are regarded in Europe us the great bulwark of democracy and liberty in a mad world.

The democratic peoples in Europe may often be disappointed. bewildered, even furtous, at the polley of the British Government towards the Dictators. But their trust in the British people, their

It is a thousand pities that people generally in this country know so little about their decisive role in the destiny of nations.

That is why one is so conscious of having become a British sub- ject in this fateful hour.

It gives one a feeling of awe to belong to that great family of nations of which the British Commonwealth la composed; n comm.onwealth of all races and creeds which can bring to heel any man who wants to plunge Europe Into a new deluge of blood.

Why this Trouble In Palestine?

is a sad commentary on human nature that the country which saw the birth of Christianity should now be the centre of the most law- less activities, murder, and blood- shed, such is the fate which has

yet overcome Palestine.

By Capt. J. L.

Strong

Now that our thoughts are diverted They were terrified to return to their migrated to other parts of the world, from the European crisis they are own country, and became wanderers turning to the unpleasant situation

which has arisen in that country. I on the face of the earth.

is not easy to understand how and The Balfour Declaration why the difficulties have arisen, but

true

tho

Anne Macvicar Was maiden name of this remarkable woman. As a child of five she was taken by her mother, to America, whare her soldier father was stationed. Hore she unconsciously garnered the im- pressions which she was after- wards to turn to such practical account. She learned to read nt ber mother's knee, but she was given no book excepting the Bible.

At the age of six, however, this precocious child was poring over a copy of Blind Harry's "Wallace.' gifted by a Scota sergeant. From

this, she says, she "caught an en- thusiasm for Scotland that ever since has been like a principle of life. Then a brother officer of her father presented her with a copy of Millon, with the result that the child of reven electrified

an intellectua) gathering by supplying a long ond apt quotation from her favourite "Paradise Lost."

Careless of Spelling

It was not until the year 1768 that the family returned to Glasgow, the father having invested his fortune in ground which the American Revolu- tion was afterwards, to render value- less. She describes herself at this time as "very tall. very

awkward

yo sensitive that a look discon- certed me." forever lottir

cown

Even now, she was, jotting down poems of her composition, "employing the spelling that came to hand. To the end of her days this learned woman never learnt

first

spell!

It is difcult to understand the enormous literary reputation which Mrs. Grant enjoyed when alive. That her standing was very high is certain. Illustrating this is the story that when the mystery

of "Waverley" was perplexing the public, the name of Mrs. Grant of Laggan was sug- Rested as the most likely author.

Sir Walter always had

great admiration for Mrs Grant, and

Mackenale along with Henry

and Lord Jeffrey, he exerted himself to secure her a pension from the Civil List in her later years. But she had quarter of a century of striving and struggling before this was to come.

She was one of the first of those modern women who adopted author- ship as a profession; for, although she scribbled all her life, it was not until the death of her husband, when she decided to capitalise her literary she was in her forty-sixth year, that talents.

Many Admirers

It was a great undertaling for the saddled az she was with eight de-

they have become so serious that they Almost exactly four hundred years widow of an obscure parish minister, have necessitated the dispatch of after the Turkish invasion, the Great licate children. It stood to her credit about 15,000 British troops to pre-War provided an opportunity for now that she had always been an in- serve order.

driving the Turk from Palestine, and dustrious correspondent Without

going too far back in his-restoring the country tory one can trace the origin of the owners.

She had been accustomed to sent- The British campaign was present trouble in the

ter, her versed 1510, so successful, that in December 1917 year

her friends among When Turkey first

the Lord Allenby was able to march into These friends rallied to her aid now. ever troubling to keep a copy. int without country, For

four

centuries a Jerusalem and proclaim that Pales-The

verses she had showered as naturally Intelligent people were distine had fallen to British forces. largesse in the past were carefully. couraged and enfeebled by the gross Five weeks earlier Lord (then Mr. collected, finally appearing in 1003 misgovernment of the Turks, who Arthur) Balfour, who was at the under the title, "Original Poems with Inflicted one hardship after another time Foreign Secretary, had made on the natives, with the result that on behalf of the British Government thousands of them left Palestine and (Contiuned on Next Column.)

conquered

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

(Uven. 1850 to Dentet Zvakara Byadania, kar

"You tell your chef, Albers, that I could simply kill him for mak- Ing such delicious food,"

Grant

The list of subscribers for the volume Some

Translations from the Gaelic.

extended to the unprecedented num- ber of 3,000.

Mrs.

was now fairly launch- ed on her literary career, and in spite of many private sorrows, she con- tinued with unfailing courage in her ebasen pathway. She was to outlive All her children,

excepting her

youngest

Best son, who survived to edit her memoirs and correspondence.

Of her many works, the best known Is her "Essays on the Superstillons of the Highlands of Scotland with Translations from the Gaelic." Be- sides being a very capable and con- selcutious writers, she was a brilliant conversationalist. In her Inst years no Edinburgh gathering was con~ sidered complete without the wilty Mrs. Grant of Laggan.

A. W.

his now historic declaration, which is regarded as the cause of the present difficulties.

"His Majesty's Government," sald Lord Balfour, "view with favour the establishment In Palestine of national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of that object. It must be understood that nothing shall be done which may pre- judice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and pollileal status

any other

couned by the Jews

The declaration was endorsed by the Allied Powers and embodied In the Versailles Treaty, when Palestine was entrusted to the League of Nations, who gave a mandate to Great Britain to administer the country.

Arab Majority

For a few years tile happened. Lord. (then Sir Herbert) Samuel wan appointed as High Cominlaslower art (Continued on Page T.)