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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938.

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A Flight was Made THE 7200-MILE FLIGHT by fully-laden British bombers was a magnificent achivement. Concerto in E Minor (Mendelssohn) DB-2460-2461-2462 To the world, however, it is a RUBINSTEIN ARTHUR:—

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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 flight-the long-range, high-powered bomb- ing machine,

Bradshaw BRADSHAW'S Railway Guide

I have just become British

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

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

W

like

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

What does it feel to be onc 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 fand a clean record at Scotland Yard, I presume) has bestowed the privilege, I might al- most say the high distinction. of becoming naturalbed British subject.

B

IL

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

am

bren, 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.

few

I came to England right years I intended slaying but П short time and writing a articles writing happens to be my profession). But something hap- pened which changed my whole He

I feli love with England. I fell in love with the English people: with the English language.

1 discovered for myself the Englishman's sincerity. I became captivated by his manners, habits.

attitude of mind. I was fascinated by the quiet beauty of England's scenery, by the grandeur of English

iterature.

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

first time what it means to live in a free country

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

M

EANWHILE, the face ol Europe

became more and more covered with the dictatortal 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 doren atj

Crewe,

have reckoned themselves vic- tims of the oracle, of a mystic

One sympathises with these but, nevertheless, it is their understanding that is at fault. For although bewildered stu- dents may feel that 13 full comprehension of Bradshaw is s remote as that appreciation

enters upon the hundredth 1 year of its existence this month, and arrangements are already pronouncement beyond mother- wit to interpret, of a Brad- being made for a centenary cele- bration in 1939. Although the

shavian jest.

honour of being the first time- table in Britain does not belong to Bradshaw, it alone, of the carly pioneers, has become the authority whose rulings admit of no appeal. Many have com- |plained of the crudition neces-

sary to understand its cabalístic 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 grasped, Bradshaw, like Milton, will not fall to transport his

render.

na

Oh, Mr. Porter,

What shall I do?

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tainty and fear spread from land to land.

So I stayed on and made my home in England,

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

The other day, after the wual formatics and inquiries na to my. past, I received a letter from the Honie Omce informing me that I had been granted naturalisation.

life.

It was the happiest day of my

When a friend of mine, a distin- guished foreign writer, whose work hina been translated into more than twenty languages, heard of this, he wrote to me a letter of congratula- tion, in which he said:

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

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NFORTUNATELY, few British people realise this. They are hardly aware of the great part they are destined to play in the world.

With all their love for Britala and for their democratic institu- tions, they are not fully alive to the fact that they are regarded it Europe as the great bulwark of democracy and therty in a mad world.

The democratic

1:1 peoples Europe may often be disappointed. bewildered, even furlour, at the policy of the British Government towards the Dictators. But their trust in the British people, their

aith in Britain is never shaken. I have had the opportunity of studying these feelings many times- on the continent, hd particularly on my recent visit to a dozen Euro- pean capitals. Everywhere you go you are asked the same questions: What are the British people thinking? What will Britain do next?

T

HE Faselst countries are spending milliona ол propaganda in the scared Ittle capitals of Eastern, Central, and Northern Europe-as in the Near East-with the sole object of persuading the frightened people that Britain is degenerate, that she could not help them i they are attacked; that she lets herself be bullied and her ships bombed on the Spanish coast, be- cause she is losing her power,

And still, somehow, no one be- Heves it on the Continent. On the contrary, more than ever before the democratic peoples of Europe How feel that Britain is their only hope.

It is a thousand pitics that people generally in this country little about their decisive róle in the destiny of nailons,

know

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

It gives one a feeling of awe to belong to that great family of nations of which the British Commonwealth is composed; a commonwealth of all races an creeda which can bring to heel any man who wants to plunge Europe

to a new deluge of blood.

Why this Trouble

Palestine?

In

IT 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, yet such is the fate which hos overcome Palestine.

By

Capt. J. L. Strong

migrated to other parts of the world, Now that our thoughts are diverted They were terrifled to return to their from the European crisis they are own country, and became wanderers turning to the unpleasant situation on the face of the earth. which has arisen in that country, It

Centenary of a

Woman

YESTERDAY MARKED the centenary of the death of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, a 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 linked, and it was in Edin- burgh that she was to spend her latest and most brilliant years.

Anne Mucvicar Was the maiden name of this remarkable woman. As a child of five she was taken by her mother to America, where her soldier father was stationed. Here she unconsciously garnered the im- pressions which she was after- wards to turn to such practical account. She learned to read ni her 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

"Wallace. copy of Blind Harry's gifted by a Scots sergeant. From this, she says, she "caught an en- thusiasm for Scotland that ever since has been like a principle of life." Then brother ollicer of her father presented her with a copy of Million. with the result that the child of Seven electrifed an intellectual gathering by supplying a long and apt quotation from her favourite "Paradise Lost,"

Careless of Spelling

It was not until the year 1708 that the family returned to Glasgow, the father Juving invested his fortune in ground which the American Revolu- tion was afterwards to render value- less.

She describes

this at 1IT

Des hersel time as very tall, very awkward, and so sensitive that a look discon- certed me." Even now, she was forever

down poems of her own con "employing the first

spelling that came to hund." To the end of her days this learned. womun never learnt to spell!

It is difficult to understand the enorinous literary reputation which Mrs. Grant enjoyed when allve. 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 aug gested as the most likely author.

had Sir Walter always

grend admiration for Mrs. Grant, and along with Henry Mackenzie and Lord Jeffrey, he exerted himself to secure her a pension from the Civil List in her later years. But she had a quarter of a century of striving struggling before thts 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 was in her forty-sixth year, that she decided to expitalise her literary talents.

Many Admirers

And

is not easy to understand how and The Balfour Declaration It was n great undertaking for the

why the difficulties have arisen, but 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 lente children. It stood to her credit saddled as she wan with eight de- War provided an opportunity for

now that she had always been an in- Turk from Palestine, and dustrious correspondent. driving the

She had been accustomed to sent-

about 15,000 British troops to pre- serve order.

to

true

Without going too far back in hi-restoring the country tury one can trace the origin of tits successful that in December 1917 without ever troubling to keep in copy. The British campaign was ter her verses among her friends present trouble in the year 150rd Allenby was able to march Into These friends rallied to her aid now. when Turkey first conquered the Lord

the

verses she had showered 11#

For four centuries Jerusalem and proclaim that Pales-T

AIR-The country. | naturally intelligent people were dis-/tine had fallen to British forces, largesse In the past were carefully couraged and enfeebled by the gross Five weeks carlier Lord (then Mr. collected, finally appearing in 1803 misgovernment of the Turks, who Arthur) Balfour, who was at inflicted one hardship after another thine Foreign Secretary, had made on the natives, with the result that on behalf of the British Government thousands of them left Palestine and (Continued on Next Column.)

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Adres. 1906 by Mattel Pentars Bradmale, İsa

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

under

Some the title, "Original Poems with Translations from the Guelic.' The list of subscribers for the volume extended to the unprecedented num- ber of 3,000.

Mrs. Grant was now fairly launch- ed on her literary career, and in spite of mu

many private sorrows, she con- tinued with unfailing courage in her chosen pathway. She was to outlive

her children,

excepting her youngest son, who survived to edit her memelry and correspondence.

her.

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many works, the best known is her "Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland with Translations from the Gaelic." Be- sides being a very capable and con- sclentious writers, she was a brilliant conversationalist. In her last years no Edinburgh gathering was con- sidered complete without the witty Mrs. Grunt of Laggan.

A. W.

་།ཆོ་ག་ན་ ད་དང་ his now historic declaration, which is regarded as the cause of the present. dileulties.

"1s Majesty's Government," sald Lord Dalfour, "view with favour the establishment In Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. and will ure their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of that object. It must be understood that nothing shall be done which may pre- judice the elvit and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the righis and political status enjoyed by the Jews in any other country."

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 n mandate to Great Britain to administer the country,

Arab Majority

For a few years little happened, Lord (then Bir Herbert) Samuel was. appointed as High Commissioner and (Continued on Page 7.)