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THE HONGKOng Telegraph, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1939.

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10-DAY, Irishmen the world over, and not least in Hongkong, are honouring the memory of their patron Saint. And no one has a better right to that title than St. Patrick -even though he was born in Scotland or, as some say, in Wales.

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St. Patrick's Breastplate-his hym on the Trinity--was for long supposed by the Irish pen- santry to have the power of warding off evil.

This was presumably an ex- tension of the Saint's own power to perform miracles.

He is popularly credited with sion of all venomous snakes from being responsible for the expul-

Ireland.

On another occasion, we, arc

told, he emerged victorious from

Druid priest at Tarn. a contest in magic skill, with a

Lucetmael. the Druid, was

by D. J. C.

of Lismore tells us that when the newly born child

was taken for baptism no water could be found to celebrate the sacrament until, when the sign of the Cross was made with the infant's hand, a Spring immediately gushed

able by incanta-

tions to cover the plain with snow, though he could only make it disap- pear at the same hour a day later. Thou canst do evil, but not good," said St. Patrick, and when he had blessed the plain the snow was no longer there.

+ EGEND APART, however, it is an undoubled historical fact that Irish civilisation owes Peak At sixteen, Patrick was much to St. Patrick.

LELLO,—-Suddenly Macao on March 11, Helena Loureiro Lello, widow of the late Dr. A. P. Lello, and dearly beloved daughter of forth. Mrs. Mary Loureiro Read,

The

captured by pirates and

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His missionary work did a carried, with many other grent deal to spread the light,

Hongkong Telegraph. persons, to Ireland where not only of Christian knowledge, Wyndham St., Hongkong shepherd-slave

naught.

for six years he remained a but of the civilisation and cul-

in Con- ture that went with it.

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March 17, 1939

Democracy on Trial WHAT

HAT IS clear regarding the rape of Czecho-Slovakin is that that country, whilst not perfect in its administration of minorities, suffered dismemberment and obli- vion not for its own sins against

minorities, ns Hitler would have us belleve, but for the ambitions of other states to conflecate those minorities and the territory they

inhabit.

Czecho-Slovakia's fate wan scaled not so much because it was damned by its minorities ns because it was hleused by geography that became the target for the sort of attack against which even the fastness of Bohemia proved inadequate forti- fication.

"Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." The thought was Bismark's, and every attempt of German leaders to move eastward | has impressed them with the saga- city of that observation.

How Herr Hitler will be able to reconcile his previous expressions of the right of self-determination with the seizure of a land in which nearly eight million people now be come a minority in Germany is hard to conceive.

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It was there that he first became conscious of the work in which he after- wards spent his life.

"I used," he says, "to re- main ever in the woods and on the mountains, and used to rise to prayer before day- light, in the midst of snow and ice and rain, and I felt no injury at all."

from

LIBERATION HIS

slavery enme about in pecu- liar way. An angel told him to ask his master to free him.

His master refused to do this unless he received in payment a mass of gold as large as his head.

He bridged the gap between the Irish and the Roman

churches; and in the strength his organisation gave to the senttered

Christian communi- ties of the country did Ireland find the seeds of her future greatness as

and scholars."

a land of "saints

YOUR HEART -Forget It

HAVE you ever been to your

doctor fo nsk for A thorough overhaul? If so, I wage: you heaved a bigger sigh of relief on hearing his "Nothing wrong with your heart, anyway" then at any-

else.

When the angel heard this, he said:"Follow yon boar, and-hething will root a mass of gold out of the ground, and take it with thee to thy master."

With the gold Patrick re- ceived he was able to buy his freedom.

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IN SPITE of his great work in Ireland-he is credited with the erection of. three hundred churches, the ordination of three hundred and fifty bishops and three hundred presbyters-St. Patrick never really felt at home in the land of his adoption.

"It is pathetic," writes one authority, "to read how the exile In September, it will be recalled, would fain visit Britain, his Herr Hitler purported to desire no home, and Gaul, where he had more than the absorption of er many friends, but feels himself many's own kin and expre dis-bound by the spirit to spend the elnimed all intention of dom... ting rest of his life in self-chosen

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People worry about their hearts too much, and if it isn't their hearts it's their blood pressure.

I remember fL man who led á sedentary life in town, and reaped ila usinil fruit in extra fat, à bluish complexion, a tendency to bronchitis, and shortness of breath.

I took him to one of the greatest heart experts in London. And this Is what the specialist said to him: "I wouldn't change hearts, with you for worlds. Yours is simply overfed and under-exercised. Go up to the mountains and give it some beller work to do than just pumping blood through that unnecessary encum- brance of fat. Go and slim your- self."

So the man climbed a hill or two daily. The result was that his heart, through labouring lo overtred nourish excess tissue, recovered Its full strength. He is now the most active man of his age I know.

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EV maintain his

fuetion of that right for the Czechs work, and especially to protect not as much a sine qua non of Eare- by his influence the Christians, pean peace as the satisfaction of the whom dangera constantly threa- rights of the German minority, tened. His energy and undia- There is no reconeiling Herr Hit-mayed perseverance had accom- ler'a solemn pledges and undertak-plished a great work and he de- inga at Munich, and subsequently, cided not to desert, it till death in his speech at Nuremberg, with compelled him."

his actions in Central Europe and, to our shame, we have been made, unwittingly perhaps, a party to the

Haile

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HE DIED in 181 at Soul in

County Down. Legend tellu us that for twelve days after his death there was no night, and that angels "kept guard over his body, and diffused a fragrance 8 of wine and honey when re- turning to heaven."

dismemberment of a nation which pit its trust in Democracy,

Democracy's diplomacy has lam- entably failed against the Totalltar Jans. Firstly, forgotten Selassie could at least have been Emperor of a considerable portion

Down-patrick claims with of his country had ho broken fall Saul the honour of being his with the nations who broke faith lust resting place at any rate with him. Spain would not have there is a stone there which has да the faced the threat of vassalage to acquired importance Rome had Democracy insisted that Saint's tombstone. the Non-Intervention policy which The same stone indeed is re- it framed had been carried outputed to cover two other saintly Democracy undoubtedly has failed remains, for there is an old

couplet which runs--

China.

The record, in fact, is one To- talitarian States will view with satisfaction and historians with contempt.

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VERY doclor is famillar with the worried patient who says "I want you to have a look at my heart; I've been having such pains there lately," The doctor finds in almost every case just what he expects; normal heart, but a stomach overburdened with fatu- lence.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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"Don't forget to check the anti-freeze and put a blanket on the

radiator, at let the motor warm up before you drive

-and don't you catch cold!!"

BRITAIN PREPARES-IV

NATIONAL

SERVICE

in

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the next war Britain, for the first time in 900 years, will be in grave danger of armed invasion.

The danger now. is the past the navy kept her shore intact. from the air. To meet this modern peril, Britain is organising her civil population. Every able-bodied man and woman will have a job to do. This series of articles, which concludes to-day, tells the story of Britain's army of "passive defence"," and of the hundred-and-one other ways in which Britain is preparing for war at home.

ALONGSIDE the general Gov-

ernment plan, local authori- ties, public utilities, and private firms are doing their own bit for Britain's defence in the next

war.

In the case of local authorities, while they have more or less a free hand to decide their own means of defence, they are controlled by the Government to this extent; that the national exchequer will loan from 10 to 85 per cent, of the cost.

It is estimated that this means an expenditure of about £8,500,000 n -year over four years, with a continu- Ing cost of 70 per cent, of that paid by the local authorities.

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ITERE ARE some of their schemes:

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The Port of London covers an aren of 45 miles of docks and quaya and 70 miles of river. It has a

with population of 20,000,000 rodius of 100 miles of the river, Au average of 1,000 ships pass through it every week, and it has an actual population of 40,000, 20,000 of whom work on the river.

To protect this vital source of sup- plies, the balloon barrage and anti- aircraft guns will be particularly closely efustered in the port area. In addition, the river workers are being trained in special A.R.P. work, and the stevedores are learning to load and unload at night In a minimum of light.

Shelters and decontamination and first-nid huis Are being bullt Trenches are being dug, and at some places barges will be used as shelters. It is planned that there will be cover of some sort every few hundred yards.

thousand needed, and 11 is estimated that 2,000 have enrolled already.

Four

volunteers arc

The seventy miles of river as for as Teddington has been divided into 25 sections, and it is planned to have a fleet of fire-fighting tuge, and barges with fire-pumps towed by motor-boats, Another idea is to have scores of fust motor-boats as dis- patch riders.

Adults are terribly easily scared about their hearts. When they are overworked or worried their hearts every now and then give a beat out

The heads of the heavy Industry of rhythm. They feel this like a

concerns have been in conference, sudden pounding, and get alarmed. and have drawn up plans to put it

Yet all they want is a

on r little ex-

n wartine basis at 24 hours' notice. The iron and steel industries have a planation, the possibility of getting better sleep with the aid of 2

plan of co-ordination that will enable sedative, and the hope even of a

a turn-out of 14,000,000 tons annually holiday.

- figure never yet achieved. The engineering industry is ready to

to switch over munitions. Com- mittees of supply for labour and material have been appointed.

The coal industry has made ar- the rush of rangements to prevent miners to the army as they did in the world war.

Blood pressure is another great phobla. I used to know a clergyman of 01 whose son was u doctor. The son was very proud of his father's blood pressure, which reached the

seemed to interfere with the old boy's stronomical height of 239, yet never habit of going out into the garden to lay out a new flower-bed in the morning, and going for a row on the take in the afternoon.

So don't worry about the blood pressure or the hardness of the

arteries either til your doctor tells you to. Before anything adverse happens to you in that line there "In Down three saints one

are likely to be great discoveries tomb fill

made, They are on the way now; Patrick, Bridget and Columnd I shall tell you about them oille."

shortly,

The motor-car factories to all over to airplane geared to switch construction.

WHILE THE government, labora-

Installed. Special evacuation plans

have been drawn up, and high walls and deep trenches have been dug around the tanks to prevent are from spreading. At une depot a huge concrete saucer has been built around the tanks to catel the burning liquid,

In addition the motor car industry has Instituted a national register of its own, and it alreay knows the capacity of 20,000 garages in the country. Ins divided Britain Into Areas and districts with lists of all owners and operators of commercial vehicles, but not private cars. Local officers wir have power to com- mandeer in an emergency.

The electricity concerns have_de-. cided to form a national reserve of equipment. It will cost about £3,- 000,000, and they hope the govern- ment will pay half. The remainder will be raised by a lovy on authorised undertakings, but not at the expense of the tax-payer.

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THE METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD, some time ago, decided to spend over £400,000 on défence. of which the government promised to provide £165,000. The board has already spent £300,000, and is getting a little worried about the government grant,

On

The money is being spent portable pumping plant, units for sterilizing fouled mains, steel plates for windown and roofs of pumping slations, fire mains and hydrants, and chellers at works, pumping stations. and in the basement of the head offices. The key personnel of 27,000

has been trained in A.R.P

Under the direction of the British Medical Association, the co-ordina tion of all medical services under a single body is being arranged. A

doctors national register of nurses is being prepared,

and

AND TO CONCLUDE this series here are some random items showing how Britain has adopted the scouts' molto: "Be Prepared":

Sir John Anderson has stated that ivomen will be 500,000 men and needed for A.R.P. work in wartime. He also said that under the national service scheme recruits will be in- structed less in anti-gas precautions than in incendiary bombs and high explosives.

There were approximately 1,100,- 000 volunteers for ARP-720,000 men and 180,000 women-at the ent of January.

Southport, Lancashire, is the first district to put out the "house full" sign for A.R.P. work.

Sandbags are being manufactured at the ate of 2,000,000 a week During the erlais 0,000,000 available. A total of 275,000,000 In scheduled.

were

One of the organisations under the hending of national service is the Auxiliary

for Territorial Service women. They are the successors to

Warles are experimenting in methods of propulsion for plant, the famous war-time W.A.A.C.'s, and vehicles and fuel, the bil industry in they will perform non-combatant duties with the regular and ter- also making its own arrangements.

At the oil and gasoline reserves, ritorial armies and the Royal Air

the along

Thames, Force. A strength of 2,000 ofcors particularly

(Continued on Page 11.) special fire precautions have been