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St.

George, Shakespeare, Shirley

ESTERDAY was St. George's Day Shakespeare died 323 years ago, and Shirley Tem- ple was born ten years ago. Probably more English- speaking people will re- member Miss Temple's anni- versary than will bother

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a.m,

25th.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

George.

At a few subscription dinners held by this society or that, a few chairmen will wind up modelled speeches

оп the eloquence of Lord Baldwin with

the words "Gentlemen, the tonst is England."

A few solemn companies of men raise their glasses and a muttered echo "England" will go round the room.

I

KNOW very few facts about St. George: I don't suppose anyone knows many.

There are two St. Georges. One is the real one-the knight in shining armour who, from. the back of his splendid charger, digs a writhing dragon in the belly with his spear, while

П

Wyndham St., Hongkongndy in a nightdress waits for

'Phone 26615 April 24, 1939

Deep Shelters.

THE WHITE Paper on Air Raid Shelters. issued in London on Friday, opposes impracticable for that city the scheme for providing deep bomb-proof, shelters for civilian population.

the

or gas.

her release.

and

Temple

I am sure that he was never prig, which some people think inevitably accompanies saintll- ness. He lived as jolly, as laughing, as coloured a lifo as any other man. Ho enjoyed his earthly life to the full, but be- lieved it to be not the only one.

The finest man I know has

This is St. George and the Dragon as we knew them on the sovereigns and half-sovereigna. The design was by the famous Halian sculptor, Benetto Pistrucci, and it is said that he originally intended to use it on a gem hë was preparing for a private client.

This St. George was in fact, I so why not St. George with his suppose, Perseus, who, rescued spear?

He is ours, too, because, al- though he belongs to us he is

would understand that difficult

many of

the

qualities of St.. George. He never speaks without reason; he is fearless; not very analyti- cal; prefers to be doing things rather than dis- cussing them; loves his coun- try, but believes

that other coun-

tries should live

in the way that they prefer; is greatly generous but secretly 80; likes to reacue beautiful mai-

dens; and grows roges in

garden.

his

More Dragons So, like him, there are, I

am sure, many men

Andromeda; St. George, being a In any case, he is England's also of the whole world. He Christian martyr, stole the Patron Saint and yesterday was dragon story from Perseus and his day, and I would like to doff problem of loving your country and women in England. And was beautifully celebrated in the him my cap for a moment.

and, at the same time, wishing yet I fancy that St. George may Golden Legend.

feel a little disappointment as he looks around him here and there.

The other St. George is the unreal one; the one who lived in history: was born in Cappadocia

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well to all the world.

What

he would not

under-

A Better Patron

FIRST I would say that stand is that too common Eng- He may think, gazing about he is, I think, a very lish habit at the present mo- England, that there are too many This would appear to vindicate the of a noble. Christian family; much better patron for us than ment-a readiness to sacrifice red villas, too many uncultivated policy, apparently adopted in Hong-

men not only kong of favouring a system of dis served the Emperor Diocletian John Bull, who, in these days men, money, health, anything acres, too many persed trenches, which gives protec- as a soldier; rebuked him for his of close international contacts, for any other country than one's unemployed but not over-anxious www.tion against blast and splinters, but persecution of Christianity; and is a little out of date.

not against direct hits, incendiarism died a martyr at Nicomedia.

own, of believing that the peo to be employed; too little kind,. all generous merriness, too weak & John Bull is blunt and down- ple of other countries are Such, however, is not the case. I like, myself, to mingle the right and healthy, and stands either white or black while the consciousness of spiritun! life. The system of complete protection two figures and think of the square on his two feet; but is he people of one's own country are. But, after all, he is a Saint of advocated for Hongkong by this fearless soldier who, after not, perhaps, a little insensitive? just no colour at all.

Common Sense. He has a quick, newspaper envisages the tummelling rescuing the princess from the And is there not possibly a little

But he would understand ready smile. He of the Peak, which is something en-

has slain. tirely different to deep exenvation dragon, defied Diocletian and arrogance, and little com- patriotism wherever it might be, dragons so often that he knows The latter system would be us im- was martyred for his faith. I placency over the things that he and his great nim would be to well how many more there are practicable in Hongkong as it is suppose the two are incompatible doesn't know, in his rubicund blend the patriotisms of all the to conquer. apparently, in London. Apart from interference

countries in the world into a there dragons in countenance? underground or were sewerage systems, etc., the ques-Diocletian's time?

When I look at him he seems common understanding brother- tion of water seepage would at once

hood. render it dimeult of accomplishment One has been apparently shot to me very definitely to belong to in this Colony.

only this week in West Africa, the world of the Fourth George For that you need sensitive- the dim line of purple hill, the and the Fourth William-aren't ness to other people's feelings- thick, dark woods where he we 150 years older-and possibly which is where I think John hopes the bluebells will be allow- ed to live undisturbed, he is not Bull is a little lacking. wiser, than he?

And then. (although I am shy complacent, he is not contented, But the first beautiful thing about St. George is that he is of to mention it) St. George was a but there are worse things

saint. He died for his faith. Worse things, surely, than to be He believed, that is to say, in Saint and Patron of this old, Wo know that he was hand- God. He cared for something weather-beaten, rose-growing- some, fearless, a protector of the bigger and greater than himself. country. weak; these things are good.

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But by reason of its topography, Hongkong, unlike London, can over- come the obstacles inherent to ver- tical excavation by horizontal (un- nelling.

The Peak provides this Colony with almost ready-made facilities for a system of deep air-raid shelters. We have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that the system urged by this newspaper for Hongkong would long ere this bave been adopted in London

To-day's Thought-

strong THE Englishman's"

point is a vigorous inau- larity which he carries with him, portable and sometimes insupportabic.

-HIGGINSON.

no time and of all time.

if the topographical features present We are at a loss to see how this But best of all perhaps there is

in this Colony were available in objection can be sustained in Hong-not a single word on record that kong, unless the authorities here he ever spoke. He was a doer England's metropolls.

admit that an emergency is so close

Let us examine the reasons why deep shelters were rejected by Sir John Anderson. They were:

upon us that any attempt to com-of deeds and not a boaster of raence a system of real protection is them. hopeless. That 1-Diversion of material, effortleve, a most negative and fatalistic

objection ia, we bc- I am sure that after he had and money from active defence. one. It raises the implication that,

hatislain the dragon he took the 2.-Technical dimeulties of con-a system of real protection not having princess back to her father, and structing a shelter system which been started two or three years ago, was considerably embarrassed would guerantco speedy and when there was time to bring it to sufficient necess to the population fruition, nothing can now be done by the torrent of feminine ap- which would want to use it; and

because it is too late...

preciation with which she re- 3. The time factor of construc-

At the risk of becoming repetitive warded him while they were rid- tion.

and boring, we will continue to raise ing to the city. this subject of adequate air roid pre- Apply to a tunnelling system in cautions for Hongkong civilians until When the King acclaimed him, Hongkong. The material is avail- Government announces a definite the trumpeter blew, the people

The first objection сать hardly

We Love Display

ONE reason why we English chose him' for

able and, without doubt, so is the policy. labour. Unlike a scheme for deep mind is the spectaclen we witnessed was to be off and discover an

Indelibly stamped on our ahouted, his one great desire excavation, tunnelling requires no astronomical expenditure.

In Canton of hundreds of torn and

torn and other dragon or so. shattered bodies of

of men, women and The second objection does not children who relied on the apply to lunnelling. The drive adequate system utilised in the would enter virgin rock and soll, Kwangtung capital of protection from Le, it would not interfere with blast and splinters a system which existing underground sewage and has apparently been, adopted in other systems and would not be Hongkong. From our own experi- our patron is, I am sure, because obstrueled by the problem of water ence we have no hesitation in con he had very little to say. seepage from, river, sea, or subter- demning surface shelters as death- rancan artesian DowE. That the traps. We saw between twenty aud technical dificulties of constructing a

thirty

Another is that he is so cm- victims, dug from a living blazoned with light and colour. tunnel through the Peak from the tomb in the grounds of the Sun Yat-Have you ever considered how city to, say, Aberdeen could be over- sen University, victims of a bomb:

como

borne aut by the fact that that exploded 200 yards away. Blood brightly packed with colour our the length involved is little, if any, ran red in trenches dug to give blast poetry is, from Chaucer, through more than the length of the first and splinter protection. There Sponser, Shakespeare, Coleridge, tunnel on the Kowloon-Canton Rall- | casualties did not all occur in

way.

our

tenement areas; many were in what Keats, Tennyson, to Walter do la Unlike London, the major part of were, according to Hongkong city Mare? Perhaps because Hongkong's population needing pro-standards, sparsoly settled streets, climate allows us too little of the tection in the event of an air raid is China itself has. long since sun we love light, colour, move- confined to an area of only a few recognised that the system of proment, display. acres. For the people realding in the tection from blast and splinters is

i densely populated fenement areas on Inadeqato in mass air ralda. In And St, George, although most the land-considered by some Chungking, tho war-ilmo capital unostentatious, is, with his authorities to be the

most densely where the terrain is somewhat similar: populated area in the world-there to tint. In: Hongkong, vast lengths of armour of silver and gold, his cha be no protection but tunnels,horizontal tunnels, of the type we fresh, jolly complexion, his copa- Their buildings are death traps and urgo for this Colony, have been con-risoned horse, the sunlit "land- there is no room for trenches,

plated to provide complete shelter for

The third oblection in the White at least fifty per cent of the popula-capo at his back, a knight of

Paper again raises the time factor, tion.

colour and movement.

DUNVEGAN CASTLE

EDINBURGH.

And, as he once again surveys the rivers and the rocky consts,

} seat of the Macleod of Macleod.

During one of the first snowstorms. of the season, more than 200 islanders. Fire damaged the south wlog off fought savagely to quench the fames Scotland's oldest castle, Dunvegan on and salvage the historic

the Isle of Skye, for centuries the within the ancient walls.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

treasures.

By Lichty'

"Of course, I hope that I told you about her isn't truel-Sho's

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