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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

January 30, 1939.

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DEATH OF FAMOUS IRISH POET

Yeats Initiated Erin's Drama

LONDON, Jan. 29. THE DEATH is announced, in his 74th year, of Mr. William Butler Yeats, famous Irish poet and dramatist-Reuter.

William Butler Yeats, the famous Irish poet and dramatist, was born in Dublin in June, 1805, his father being an artist. His early years were spen

between London and

Sligo where his relation had been In business for many years.

He studied painting for a time, but soon gave it up for literature, con- tributing to Irish periodicals.

In 1880 he was advised by Oscar Wilde to try his fortune In London where, in 1880, he issued his first book of poems "The Wanderings of Olsin" which awakened new interest In the Celtic revival. He served under Henley who was editing the "National Observer."

In the '90's he and Ernest Rhys founded the famous Rhymers' Club. In his eariler poetry may be found the wild and delicate colouring of the West of Ireland. His genius was recognised by R. 1. Stevenson. Wil- liam Morris and others.

Influenced

enced by Frencht symbolism

und the delicate art of the Decadents, le expressed the fairy lore and finger- ing

old-world behels of the Irish countryside in terms of the fin de steele, Sio the "Celtic Twilight," which was an expression of personal moods rather thum a racial phene- menon, was born and became im ex- quisite and frail fashion.

The "Celtic Twilight" essays mul sketches and two Irish stories "John Sherman" and "Dhoya" were followed by his collected poem, the appearance af which in 1805 was recognisert au marking the rise of a new

school,

BEAUTIFUL POEMS

Trish

His best known poem is the beauti- fui "Lake Isle of lanisfree.” The volume "The Wind among the Reeds", holds some of his fined poems,

While Yeats's prose remained rich and embroidered, his later verse br. came uscetic and intellectual strange contrast with his early lyrics so dim-coloured, magical and wist- ful. His first non-political dramas Were "The Countess Kathleen, and "The Land

Hearts

Desire" which was produced in Lon- don in 1894. Then came "The Tables of the Law," "The Adoration of the Magi" and a political play The Shadowy Waters."

NEW IRISH DRAMA

It was to Yeats that the new Irish drama owed its Initiation. In the middle of the '00's he mentioned to Landy Gregory his desire to found

theatre somewhere in the suburby" where bls own and other

literary plays might be produced. George Moore und Edward Martyn joined him in the scheme, but it was Lady Gregory who made the Irish Literary Theatre possible by securing Annncial aid.

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Taking shape in foundations and strel framework, the pavillons of the nations of the world become increasingly visible as the New York World's Fair 1939 nears completion. Viewed from an airplane, the Foreign Zone of the 121636 pere site reveals the importance of the vast Court of Peace, with a capacity of 50,000 persons, as the nerve centre of this unprecedented assembly of three score governments that represent 90 per cent of the globe's inhabited cgions.

In this broad area, dominated by the United States Federal Buliding and flanked by the Halls of Nations, it is hoped that a new spirit of International good-will may be born. The numbered sites, showing various stages of construction, are: 1. United States Federal Building, with the Halls of Nations extending toward the lagoon, all partly enclosed over steel; 2. The Court of Peace; 3. Canada, foundations started; 4. Argentina, foundatians started: 5. Norway, foundations started; 6. Eire, foundations started; 7, Rumania, up in steel; 8. U.S.S.R. foundations completed: 9. Czechoslovakia: 10. Japan, foundations started, 11. Belgium, steel partly enclosed; 12. Sweden, foundations started; 13. Turkey, foundations started; 14. Lagoon of Nations; 15. France, steel being erected; 16. Brazil, foundations startett: 17. British Empire, steel completed: 18. Italy, sieci com- pleted; 19. Chile, foundations started; 20. League of Nations: 21. Portugal; 22. Venezuela; 23, Poland, foundations started; 24. Netherlands, founda- tions started: 25. Switzerland.

In the foreground are shown exposition bulidings and those of private exhibitors, many in an advanced state and ready for Interlar decoration. Constitution Mall also nears completion with its elaborate planting and wide pools of cascading water, dotted with sculpture. Con- strnetion of the entire $150,000,000 expositon is now several weeks ahead of schedule.

AMERICAN GIRL IN SORDID

COURT DRAMA

A FIFTEEN - YEAR - OLD American girl was mentioned in Court this morning in connec- tion with a case in which two Yeats and A.E. (G. W. Russell) then women and a man were charged an interest in a Dublin amateur with exercising control over company which visited London.prostitutes,

took

The cause were Wong Chat-mui, 45-

FIRE IN CANTON ST.

Squatters Rendered Homeless

OVER FOUR HUNDRED refugees were rendered homeless this morning, when fire broke out at 3 a.m. at the squatters' camp they have erected in Cauton Road, near the Jordan Road ferry.

The blaze spread with astonishing rapidity from end to end of

the

Japanese In New Piratical Activities

Hongkong Junk Set Afire Near Colony PIRATICAL ACTIVITIES by Japanese in the vicinity of

app, and was not quelled until 150 Freak Weather Hongkong were responsible on

of the huts had been razed.

Ambulance and fire brigade ap- plances were on the teene

shortly after the outbreak,

There its acting delighted Miss Horniman with the result that she paid the entire cost of converting year-old marled woman, Chan F- All the refugers, fortunately, were some Dublin bülldings into the Abbey van, 52-year-old married woman and able to evacuate the area without In- Theatre. The company there gave Wong Kong, 24-your-old unemployed jury or loss of life. plays by Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady man. Gregory and many other Irish au- thors.

Benson's company

1001

pra-

duced in London "Diarmuid and Granta," written by Yeats in col- laboration with George Moore.

Next year Yeats published his first prose play "Cathleen ni Ioulihan and later a collection of his "Plays

It was revented 251 Court

In Hongkong

ADD TO Hongkong's freak weather conditions of past months the fact that the average The women and children, number mean temperature for January that ing approximately 150, have been Wong Chat-mei had resided for some given shelter at the Mataucheng rehas been the warmest in ten time in New York, where the Ameri-fugee centre. Owing to shortage of years. can girl to believed to have originally accommodation, however, the come from. The girl has been re- must fend for themselves. manded in the custody of the Salva- tion Army.

The Court case was a sequel to a

for an Irish Theatre," including "The raid on Friday night by Miss P.

Hour-Glass," "The Pot of Broth." "The King's Threshold"

Balle's Strand."

HA

Harrop, Lady Assistint of the Seere--

and "Ontariat for Chinese Affairs, on a hotel

His fervent nationalism was tried

by the disturbances over the "Play

In Connaught Road.

The case came before Mr. R. A. D.

men

Mexican Fascists Rounded Up

Mexico City, Jan. 29. The Government to-day arrested boy of the Western World" at the Forrest at the Central Magistracy. prominent Right-Wingers, including Abbey Theatre. The result some topical

was. A week's remand was asked by In-General Francisco Coss, leader of the verse, including the spector E. G. Post, of the S.C.A, who "National Unification Group," well-known lines "Romantic Ireland's stated that a large quantity of do- Attorney Adolfo Leon Ossorio, who dead and gone." He also wrote "Re- veries over Childhood and Youth" ts were seized in the raid and is instigating anti-Jewish riots.

and "Michael Robartes and the Don- cer," the latter dealing with events in Ireland in 1910.

was

the

he received the honour of the Goethe Pinque of the city of Frankfurt.

county

During much of the year he in- Wu Pei-fu Rejects Japanese Overtures

and

Saturday for the seizure and destruction of another junk re- gistered in the Colony,

were abandoned in a small sampan, Twenty-two people aboard the junk in which they drifted until picked up near Cheukehow Island by another vessel.

The junk was set afire and com- pletely destroyed.

the Said

In a report of the incident, jusk-master, Chung Fook-kee, that the vessel was stopped by n motor-boat containing Ave Japanese at 2 p.m. on Saturday, whilst mid- Lamma way between

Island

and Lingting.

Despite the cold spell in the middle of the month, the average mean tem- perature sluce January 1 has been 61.5 degrees, which is two degrees above the normal temperature for the month. The meer maximum temperature since January

has the been over 60 degrees, which is also two degrees above the average and highest average since 1929. from 61 degrees at midnight to G7 Japanese fired the junk.

Temperature this morning degrees at 10 o'clock.

The junk was ordered to precede motor-boat in a westerly direc

the

rose

on until Cheukehow was reached. The master and his 21 companions were then forced to leave small ship's

in the sampan, while the

Another Statement By Wang Ching-wei

were now being translated.

Those detained are okl-time The translation of these documents, revolutionaries.

European Was Too he indicated, might possibly lead to The arrests are considered to be a further charges being preferred probable move smash The Con-

Quick For Thief WINS NOBEL PRIZE

against the defendants.

servative opposition. Extra pollen

Peiping. Jan. 29. The case was remanded until 2.30 are being held in readiness at head-. Yents

Whilst walking along Queen's Road military minion, Chinese papers to- awarded the

Apparently issued by the Japanese Nobel p.m. on January 9. Prize for Literature in 1923. Later

quarters, but the city remains normal, Central, near the Queen's Theatre, a

The

Unification Group recently Chinese bumped into Mr. A. G. Clack Ching-wel's third statement", on the day print what purports to be "Wang opened a central office and pinned of the Colonial Secretary's Office, and banquet for 5,000 revolutionary placed his hand into the inner pocket of the Central Executive Committee. occasion of the fifth plenary session veterans on February 5, the annivers-of Mr. Clark's Jacket and attempted ary of the Constitution of 1917. to extract his wallet. Mr. Clark held

The statement holds that Wang's dismissal from the Kuomintang Is violated by the "Communistle"

legal since it Kong Fun, 30, unemployed,

done by ministration.

ap- Central Standing Committee instead sired the abolition or modification of

Peiping. Jan. 20. the oath of allegiance, he was against

The arrests followed demands by peared before Mr. R. Edwards at the of by the plenary session.-United Informed Chinese circles declare the Labour Party for action, alleging

Central Magistracy this morning Press, Ireland breaking away from the Em-that Wu Pei-fu has refused Japan's that the Rightists were potential after evidence was heard, was sen-

charged

with attempted larceny, and Fascists, at present utilising agitation tenced to four months' hard labour. Japanese authorities Inst night gainst the Jews and also against warned foreign correspondenty to entrance of international brigaders Defendant had two previous con- expect an important statement at into Mexico, in order to start on anti-victions for larceny.

Cardenas movement-United Press,

Defendant denied having placed his hands into Mr. Clark's pocket, but suld he did accidentally bumped into the complainant.

habited a lonely tower in the of Galway.

A supporter of Cos- grave, he was for a time a Senator of

the Irish Free Stale. While he de-

pire. In 1032 he announced the overtures. forthcoming establishment of an frishı Academy of Letters,

Yeats became a champion of beller In survival after death and spoke and wrote much on this question.

"I have always," he said, "sought to bring my mind close to the mind of Indian and Japanese pocts, old women in Connaught and mediums in

Soho,"

he

He was one of the first to welcome the English poems of Rabindranath Tagore, for whose "Gitanjal wrote and introduction, and latterly ich influenced by the "Noh- plays" of Japan which led him to write the plays "At Howl's Well

Was

any moment,

Unofficial Japanese sources stated that this would be an official state- ment about Wit Pei-fu's position,

Tie statement, however, was not mode, and to-day the Japanese au- thorities said that it would "delayed some days.”—Bruter.

Spelling Bee

ba

which, they alleged, is now being the hand.

Brought Letters Into Colony

ad-

Arrested in possession of 182 letters Saturday,

at the Po Tak wharf un

Embezzling Charge Against Clerk

Chung Chol, 49, unemployed, WEB Tang Kim-hing, 41, clerk of Mel- charged before Mr. R. Edwards-atchers and Co., was charged before the Central Magistracy with bringing Mr. R. Edwards at the Central

Ow many of these words are the letter into the Colony without Magistracy this morning with having

(1917) and "Two Plays for Dancers" correct and what is wrong with (1019) His other works include the others?

"Deledre," "In Ute Seven Woods,"

"The Trembling of the Vell," "pinys

in Prose and Verse," "A Vision,"

antideluvian

sforzando : antepinultimate sexagenary

millentum

sexeninl English Oxford Dictionary

Inwful authority.

that

Embezzled $719.10 from his <m- Sub-Inspector 3. Orem said

[ployers on October 21, 1938, Mr. A. Chung was searched by Chinese Wurthman, manager of the Com- revenue officer at the whart and pany's shipping department was the found three packages, containing 162 complainant, peti-lettern, on his person. “

Tang was remanded to. Saturday Anne of $40 of a month's hard and Sub-Inspector R. Cunningham is. labour was imposedi,

In charge of the case,

"E88058,"! "The Tower" (poems) and

The Death of Bynge and other Pas-ings of these words will be found on sages, from a Diary-ID.S.

the paga 2.

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