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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.

History's Blot

To find a parallel for the in- sensate wave of anti-Semitism that has overwhelmed Germany one must turn back the pages of -history fifty-seven years to the infamous Russian pogrom of 1881. This pogrom was paral- leled in European history only' by the Black Death massacres of the 14th century.

of The revulsion

feeling which swept Russia and the rest of Europe after the 1881 massacres led to the belief that the word pogrom would never again be heard in European contemporary history.

Germany has proved to the world that modern civilisation can find room for barbarism in times of peace as well as in The events of re- times of war. cent years had led to the belief that mankind had advanced from the Middle Ages to the ex- tent that the veneer of civilisa- tion was sufficiently strong to preserve at least an elementary form of humanity in countries at peace with their neighbours. It is not in the Third Reich.

Majesty of the Law

The spectacle of police con- stables arresting small children. for the heinous offence of selling. newspapers is, to say the least of it, absurd.

It is realised that they would be denied a licence even if their parents applied for one.

Yesterday afternoon, an In- dian constable was observed with a bundle of English news. papers in one hand-the damning evidence the other hand firmly grasping the cost of A young criminal of some nine years of age-marching him off to the police station. With in- creasing crime in the Colony, it would be thought that the force could be better engaged, es- pecially when it is borne mind that it has been, necessary to mobilise the Special Police

O

BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER

creator of the famous wartime character, reports:

Old Bill marches again

LYMPIA has sheltered many spec-

tacles of considerable diversity in its time-tournaments, prize fights, cir- cuses, mystery plays and exhibitions. But one might safely assume that the recent display was perhaps the most peculiar in the career of the mammoth show garage.

Over thousand ex-soldiers, each shedding his peace-time garments and rapidly emerging dis- guised by the British Legion as an entirely new mammal, known as the Plebiscite Policeman-that is what one could see.

It is only a short while ago that any of this Czechoslovakia sturdy array of men became even

to conscious, yet here they

WATU ready

leave

for that tempestuous and agonised land in the capacity of Pleb Cops.

One might imagine that this most bizarre and to bewildered unexpected happening would lead excitement. Not at all.

Uniforms and equipment were deall out n5 prosaiendly as at any military depot, for any ordinary expedition. You can turn yourself into a Plebiscite Policeman as calmly and methodically as collecting component parts for a meal in a cafeteria.

You just move along from table to table and collect what you want.

Sturdy, bronzed survivors of the twenty years ago struggle took the whole thing as calmly as if it were just one more belated phase of the Fast Big Bother, which as a matter

of fnet it ts.

the fact

More astonishing still that the men look not only t enough to be capable temporary policemen, but able to tackle an- other war as well if necessary. To me they had all the appearance of the best of our veteran soldiers as they existed in reserve battalions when the late war started.

If I had the misfortune to be running a battle at this present time I could wish for no better cast. Put them in khaki and they would be just right for scrambling over mud or lurking in trenchca.

This widely representative array of men is culled from all walks of life and from many diverse jobs, which, I was gind to hear, arc all being kept open for them to go back to when the stunt is over, by the co-operation of their respective employers.

Some few of them are unem- ployed, so one welcomes this fairy-

THOSE WHO

CAN SPEAK CZECHOSLOVAKIAN GI

"Let's see, all I wants now is me knife and

fork."

tale-like opportunity for them to have a short, colourful and novel experience coupled with the feel ing that they are doing a good jub, and getting paid for it.

Whether employed or unem- ployed, whether they come from Devon or Northumberland. Little- Crumble-under-Ledge or London, they all fall into the same mental mould which forever seems to have formed the British soldier.

There he is, as always, the dear fellow, ready to go anywhere just as a matter of course, and with that "theirs not to reason why" attitude which gives one the mix- ture of lump in the throat and n laugh,

Terrible as that last war was, it fnlled to kill the cheer resulting

Irom

soldierly companionship. Even the worst wacs are not all battle, and these excavated ex- warriors are tickled to death to father together again, whatever the new job may bring forth.

Their past experiences in common, the brotherly affection

Personalities of Old Hongkong

Brace Barimalah

bred of joint hardships and an- gulsh endured in the past, have cemented them forever into one Kreat fraternity.

They are eminently suitable to play the part they are now being organised

Czecho- to play in slovakia. with that restraint and strength which only comes from hard experience.

They are all around 40 or 5J years of age. Aged in the mud, one might say, and there are not a few who have distinct traces of Old Billsm.

Many and many a memory have they mutually and pleasurably to discuss, and they are not going to wiit till they get to Czecho- slovakia to do so!

Their conversation nlready. although composed of comparing notes on their peace-time homes. and

18 occupations,

highly with sprinkled

old war-timp memories of the "Remember when we was back of the line at La

Basser order.

To and Old Bill himself in this environment was what I fully ex- pected, and what came to pass.

It may not be generally known, but Old B is now a taxi-driver, and has been of this persuasion for the last ten years.

He belongs to that almost ex-

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tinct species of driver that has n caly about old as himself. Rather rare, ultra-lofty within, very high off the ground, a synco- pating engine, and a wheel base that can do miracles of turning in impossibly narrow streets.

His business largely depends on pleking up people when it's pouring with rain and they can't see what they are doing, or belog halled by stray and exhausted pedestrians in taxi-less areas in the dead of night. It is only natural, therefore, that a chance of blowing a whistle at a Plebiscite would form a welcome rest from his normal work..

I found Old Bill in the Water- Bottic Department, and I guessed by the profound look on his face that he was probably calculating how much of the cheapest Pilsen one receptacle would hold.

Hullo, Bill." I said: coming up quietly behind him. "So you are off to Czechoslovakia, eh?"

The great amphibian turned and regarded me with an old and mild stare.

"Yus, Sir, I never been on a Plebbin' job before, but I'li 'ave a good go at it. It's a Plobby sight better than a war, anyway.”

'It's nothing to do with a war. Blil. All you've got to do is help Bort everybody out, and see that they all go where they want to go."

Bill frowned.

"I'll get the Homes and Aways all right, but the Draws is goin' to be dimcult."

A general noise of men muster- ing together as at a "Fall In " dis- turbed our conversation. Turning. I saw that a company of Legion- naires had by now been completely served out with their equipment, and were about to march in a body out of the hall.

Come on, Bill, let's see them come out into the road. Perhaps there is a parade out there or something."

night outside. Buses

ONE of the carly officials in the By T. PAUL GREGORY Colony of Hongkong. As a re- left Olympia, going out into the Her Majesty's newly acquired Old Bill agreed, and together we service of, the Hongkong

was Mr. Robert Cay grew up more Scottish than sult of the recognition of Judge road and

English in his outlook-a fact Hulme of his capacity, Mr. Cay roared past, and a medley of yel- Reserve. In any case, the child Dundas Cay, the first Registrar which was abundantly evidence) was chosen to accompany him to low streat Ughts punctuated the is making an effort to lead an of the Supreme Court. He was in his speech-which, according the Far East as a member of the damp, cold darkness.

a man of unusual ability, and his ders why he should be prevented name is inseparably linked with to contemporary accounts, was, personnel of the new Governor,naires, carrying their loaded dark

that of the establishment of in addition to the customary Sir John Davis.

Northumbrian burr distinguish-

honest life, and doubtless won-

from so doing.

Out came the body of Legion-

warda Hainmersmith,

blue kit bags over their shoulders. For no other reason than habit. British justice in the Far Easted by a fund of anecdote typical- STARTED COURT

they started trudging two deep It is usually the English news- papers which appear to be for like the founder of the ly Scottish in origin, and testi-

Mr. Cay, as a component of along the shiny, wet pavement to- singled out for this unpleasant Court, Judge John Walter

fied his cultural affinities with one of the most distinguished With slow, confident tread, the business, although the sellers do Hulme, he was noted for his the land and people of Sir official groups which have over veterans plodded on, those self- not make a nuisance of them-rigid adherence to the course of Walter Scott and Robbie Burns. set sail for the Far East arrived same veterans who had long ago selves by shouting. To say duty.

Although very little is known in Hongkong on board H.M.S. plodden so often together before.

Perhaps to many of them the that they cause obstruction is

SCOTTISH OUTLOOK of the early life of Mr. Cay in his Spiteful on May 7, 1844. The

lamp-posts became shattered trees; also absurd, and they are out-

Mr. Robert Dundas Cay was Homeland, we do know that specific task of creating a com- the pavement, a muddy sunken numbered by the sellers of the vernacular papers by probably born at North Charlton, Nor- after his graduation at the Uni-plete court of judicial procedure road; Hammersmith, maybe, was

no sinecure, and it is an Hooge, and the sound of bitses the, thumberland in the year 1807. versity of Edinburgh, he obtain was five to one. The sellers of the English newspapers receive two

He was the youngest son of ed the situation of writer to the eloquent testimony to the deter noise of clanking equipment, Who cents per copy commission, and Robert Hodshon Cay, Esq., a Signet which he held for many mitation of the founders that landowner of some means and in-years. His diligence in this post the work which they set upon to aro thus able to make a com fortable living. Actually, the cidentally a Calvinist of strong won for him a wide recognition accomplish was completed less commission equals the price at leanings. This factor and the among members of the legal pro- than, six months later, and the which some of the Chinese proximity of the County to the fesalon, so that by the time that Supreme Court of the Colony of papers are sold. One wonders Scottish border were largely in he was thirty-five or thereabouts, Hongkong was opened on Octo- whether there is any

dia-strumental in determining that he came under the notice of John ber 1, 1844.000434

So admirably did Mr. Cay ac- crimination shown against the education of his son should Walter Hulme, who had just

be entirely in a sellers of English journals, and

Caledonian been appointed to organião a quit himself in the duties of his atmosphere. As a result, Me. Court of Superior Jurisdiction in (Continued on Paga 8.),

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If so, why?

knows?

By the look, on Old Bill's face I think they did to him,

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To-day's Thought: PACK up your troubles in the old Kit-bag and Smile, Smile, Smital

MARCHUNG BONG,