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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.

History's Bloi

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.

The revulsion of 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 times of war. The events of re- cent years had led to the belief that mankind had advanced from the Middle Ages to the ex- tent that the vencer of civilisa- tion was sufficiently strong to preserve at least an elementary form of humanity in countries at peace with their neighbours. It is wel 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 wouki 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 171 one hand-the damning evidence-the other hand firmly grasping the coat 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, in

mind that it has been necessary

honest life, and doubtless won-

from so doing.

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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, "clr- 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 a thousand ex-soldiers, each shedding his peace-time, garments and rapidly emerging dis- gulsed by the British Legion as an entirely new mammal, known as the Plebiscite Policeman-Dat is what one could rec.

iv ready

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

they were

leave conscious, yet for that tempestuous and agonised land in the capacity of Pleb 'Cops.

here

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

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

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

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

of fact it is.

More astonishing still is the fact that the men look not only f enough to be capable temporary policemen, but able to tackle au- ther 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 Lim I could wish for no better cast. Put them in khaki and they would be just right for scrambling over mud or lurking in trenches.

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

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

THOSE WHO

CAN SPEAK CZECHOSLOVAKIAN

"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 jab and getting paid for it.

Whether employed or unen- nloyed, 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 Iellow, ready to go anywhere just as a matter of course, and with that "theirs not to reason why attitude which gives une the mix- ture of a lump in the throat and a laugh,

Terrible as that last war was. It falled to kill the cheer resulting from soldierly companionship. Even the worst wars are not all battle, and these excavated ex- warriors are tickled to death to Kather together again, whatever the new job may bring forth.

Their past experiences common, the brotherly affcetion

Personalities of Old Hongkong

Brace Baimahether

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

They are eminently suitable to play the part they are now being Czecho- crganised to play in slovakia, with that restraint and strength which only comes from hard experience.

They are all around 10 or 53 years of age. Aged in the mud, on? might say, and there are not a few who have distinct traces of Old Billism.

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

Thel conversation alrendy. although composed of comparing nutes on their peace-time homes

is And

highly occupations, aprinkled with vid war-time memories of the "Remember when we way back of the line at La

Basses" order.

To find Old B1 himself in this environment was what I fully ex- pected, and what came to pass.

It may not be generally known, but Old Bill 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 a cat about old as himself. Rather rare, ultra-lofty within, very high off the ground, i synco- pating engine, and a wheel base. that can do miracles of turning in impossibly narrow streets.

His business largely depends on picking up people when it's pouring with min and they can't see what they are doing..or being hailed 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 Bottle Department, and I guessed by the profound look on his faco that he was probably calculating how much of the cheapest Pilson ono 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 starc.

"Yus, Sir, I never been on a Plebbin' job before, but I'll love a good go at it. It's a Plebby sight better than a war, anyway."

"It's nothing to do with a war, B. All you've got to do is help sort 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 difficult."

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- Baires 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."

Old Bill agreed, and together we

NE of the early officials in the By T. PAUL GREGORY Her Majesty's newly acquired

Colony of Hongkong. As a re-lett Olympia, going out into the

service of

the Hongkong ;

Walter

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Out came the body of Legion-

blue kit bags over their shoulders. For no other reason than habit, they started trudging two deep along the shiny wet pavement to-

wards Hammersmith.

Mr. Robert Cay grew up more Scottish than sult of the recognition of Judge road and night outside: Buses to mobilise the Special Police Government was Reserve. In any case, the child Dundas Cay, the first Registrar English in his outlook-a fact Hulme of his capacity, Mr. Cay reared past, and a medley of yel- is making an effort to lead an of the Supreme Court. He was which was abundantly evidenced was chosen to accompany him to low streat lights punctuated the

a man of unusual ability, and his in his speech-which, according the Far East as a member of the damp, cold darkness. 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 ofin addition to the customary Sir John Davis.

Northumbrian burr distinguish-

STARTED COURT It is usually the English newB- British justice in the Far East;

which

be for like the founder of the ed by a fund of anecdote typical- appear to

ly Scottish in origin, and testi- Mr. Cay, as a component of singled out for this unpleasant Court, Judge John

fled his cultural affinities with one of the most distinguished business, although the sellers do Hulme, he was noted for his the land and people of Sir official groups which have ever 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. that they cause obstruction is also absurd, and they are out- numbered by the sellers of the vernacular papers by probably five to one. The sellers of the English newspapers receive two cents per copy commission, and are thus able to make a com- fortable living. Actually, the commission equals the price at which some of the Chinese papers are sold. One wonders whother there in any dls crimination shown against sellers of English journals, and

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if so, why?

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With slow, confident tread, the veterans plodded on, those well- Although very little is known in Hongkong on board H.M.S. plodden so often together before.

Perhaps to many of them the SCOTTISH OUTLOOK of the early life of Mr. Cay in his Spiteful on May 7, 1844.

lamp-posts became shattered trees; Mr. Robert Dundas Cay was Homeland, we do know that specific task of creating a com- the pavement, a muddy sunken born at North Charlton, Nor- after his graduation at the Uni-pleto court of judicial procedure road; Hammersmith, maybe, was thumberland in the year 1807. versity of Edinburgh, he obtain- was no sinccure, and it is an Hoage, and the sound of bus. Whe He was the youngest son of ed the situation of writer to the eloquent testimony to the deter-noise of clanking equipment. Who Robert Hodshon Cay, Esq., a Signet which he held for many mination of the founders that knows?

By the look on Old Bill's face r landowner of some means and in years. His diligence in this post the work which they set upon to think they did to him. cidontally a Calvinist of strong won for him a wide recognition accomplish was completed less leanings. This factor and the among members of the legal pro-than six months later, and the proximity of the County to the fession, so that by the time that Supreme Court of the Colony of Scottish border were largely in-ho was thirty-five or thereabouts, Hongkong was opened on Octo- strumental in determining that he came under the notice of John ber 1, 1844.

So admirably did Mr. Cay ac- the education of his son should Walter Hulme, who had just be entirely in 4 Caledonian been appointed to organise a quit himself in the duties of his atmosphere. As a result, Mr. Court of Superior Jurisdiction in, (Continued on Page 5.)

-To-day's Thought- PACK up your troubles th

the old kit-bag ́ ́and-i Emile, Smile, Emite!

—MARCHING SONG.