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Deep Shelters

4

HE WHITE Paper on Air Raid THE

Shelters, Issued in London on Friday, apposes us impracticable for that elty the scheme for providing deep bomb-proof shelters for the civilian population.

Y

St. George,

Shakespeare, and Shirley Temple

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 member Miss Temple's anni- versary than will bother about Shakespeare or St. George.

re-

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

eloquence of Lord Baldwin with the words. "Gentlemen, the toast 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 lady in a nightdress waits for belly with his spear, while her release.

I am sure that he was never # prig, which some people think inevitably accompanies saintli- ness. He lived as jolly, as laughing, as coloured a life 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-sovereigns. The design was by the famous Italian sculptor, Benetto Pistrucci, and it is said that he originally intended to use it on a gom ho was preparing for a private client,

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

that other coun-

tries should live

in the way that they profer; is greatly generous but secretly 50; likes to rescue beautiful maj-

dens; and growB roses in his garden.

More Dragons

So, like him, there are, I

am Bure, many men

This St. George was in fact, I so why not St. George with his He is ours, too, because, al- suppose, Perseus, who rescued spear?

though he belongs to us he 18 Andromeda; St. George, being a This would appear to vindicate the Christian

In any case, he is England's also of the whole world. He martyr. stole policy, apparently adopted in Hong-dragon story from Perseus and his day, and I would like to doff problem of loving your country and women in England. And

the Patron Saint and yesterday was would understand that difficult kong, of favouring a system of dis- was beautifully celebrated in the him my cap for a moment. persed trenches, which gives protec-Golden Legend.

and, at the same time, wishing yet I fancy that St. George may tion against blast and splinters, but

well to all the world.

feel a little disappointment as he looks around him here and there. What he would not under-

or gas.

A Better Patron

not against direct hits, incendiarism unreal one; the one who lived in The other St. George is the

Such, however, is not the case.

history; was born in Cappadocia

FIRST I would say that stand is that too common Eng- He may think, gazing about of n The system of complete protection served the Emperor Diocletian John Bull, who, in these days men, money, health, anything acres, too many

lie is, I think, a very lish habit at the present noble Christian family; much better patron for us than ment a readiness to sacrifice red villas, too many uncultivated mo- England, that there are too many advocated for Hongkong by this newspaper envisages the tunnelling as a soldier; rebuked him for his of close international contacts, for any other country than one's unemployed but not over-anxious men not only of the Peak, which is something en-persecution of Christianity; and is a little out of date. tirely different to deep excavation, died a martyr at Nicomedia.

own, of believing that the peo- to be employed, too little kind, The latter system would be us im-

John Bull is blunt and down- ple of other countries are practicable in Hongkong, as it is two figures and think of the square on his two feet; but is he people of one's own country are.

I like, myself, to mingle the right and healthy, and stands either white or black while the consciousness of spiritual life.

all generous merriness, too weak-a

apparently, in London. Apart from fearless soldler who, interference with underground rescuing the princess from the And is there not possibly a little

after not, perhaps, a little insensitive? just no colour at all.

But, after all, he is a Saint of sewerage systems, etc., the ques-dragon, defled Diocletian and arrogance, and a little. com- patriotism wherever it might be, dragons so often that he knows

But he would understand ready

Common Sense. He has a quick, tion of water seepage would at once was martyred for his faith. I placency over the things that he and his great aim would be to well-how-many more there are smile. He has stain render it difficult of accomplishment suppose the two are incompatible doesn't know, in his rubicund blend the patriotisms of all the to conquer.

But by reason of Its topography.Diocletian's time?

or were there dragons in countenance?

countries in the world into a Hongkong, unlike London, can over- come the obstacles inherent to ver- One has been apparently shot to me very definitely to belong to hood.

When I look at him he seems common understanding brother tical excavation by horizontal tun-only this week in West Africa, the world of the Fourth George nelling.

For that you need sensitive and the Fourth William-aren't ness to other people's feelings

in this Colony. -----

The Peak provides this Colony with alnost 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 have been adopted in London

if the topographical features present

In this Colony were available in England's inetropolis.

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

To-day's Thought-

THE Englishman's strong point is a vigorous insu- larity which he carries with him, portable and sometimes insupportable.

HIGGINSON,

And, as he once again surveys the rivers and the rocky coasts, the dim line of purple hill, the thick, dark woods where he ed to live undisturbed, he is not But the first beautiful thing

And then (although I am shy complacent, he is not contented,. about St. George is that he is of to mention it) St. George was à but there are worse things no time and of all time.

saint. He died for his faith. worse things, surely, than to be We know that he was hand- God. He cared for something weather-beaten,

He believed, that is to say, in Saint and Patron of this old, some, fearless, a protector of the bigger and greater than himself, country.

rose-growing weak; these things are good.

we 150 years older--and possibly which is where I think John hopes the bluebells will be allow- wiser, than he?

Bull is a little lacking.

We are at a loss to see how this But best of all perhaps there is objection can be sustained in Hong- not a single word on record that admit that an emergency is so close he ever spoke. He was a doer kong. unless the authorities here upon us that any attempt

them, hopeless.

That

com-

1.-Diversion of material, effort | menco a system of real of deeds and not a boaster of

is

and money from active defence.

objection is, we be 2.-Technical difficulties of con-lieve, a most negative and fatalistic

would

I am sure that after he had

structing shelter system which one. It raises the Implication that, slain the dragon he took the n system of real protection not having princess back to her father, and guarantee speedy and been started two or three years ago, sumclent access to the population when there was time to bring it to was considerably embarrassed which would want to use it; and fruition, nothing can now be done by the torrent of femining ap-

3. The lime factor of construc- because it is too late..

preciation with which she re- flon.

At the risk of becoming repetitive warded him while they were rid- The first objection can hardly and boring, we will continue to raise ing to the city. upply to tunnelling system in this subject of adequate air raid pre- Hongkong. The material is avail-

cautions for Hongkong civilians until When the King acclaimed him, able and, without doubt, so is the policy.

Government announces a definite the trumpeter blow, the people labour. Unlike a scheme for deep mind is the spectacles wo witnessed was to be off and discover an

Indelibly stamped on our shouted, his one great desire. excavation, tunnelling requires no Lastronomical expenditure.

in Canton of hundreds of torn and shattered bodies of men, women and other dragon or 80. The second objection does not [ children who relied on the in- apply to tunnelling. The drive adequate system utilised in the would enter virgin rock and soil, Kwangtung capital of prolection from

We Love Display Le, it would not interfere with blast and splinters a system which existing underground sewage and has apparently been adopted In

ONE reason

why we other systems and obstructed by the problem of water ence we have no hesitation in con he had very little to say.

English chose him for: would not be Honglong. From our own.

experi-

four patron is, I am sure, because seepage from river, sea, or subter- demning surface shelters as death- ranean artesian flows. That the traps. We saw between twenly and technical difficulties of constructing a thirty. victims dug from a living

Another is that he is so.em-

tunnel through the Peak from the tomb in the grounds of the Sun Yat blazoned with light and colour. bomb Have you over considered how Blood brightly packed with colour our

elty to, any, Aberdeen could be over-sen University, victims of cune is borne out by the fact that that exploded 200 yards away. 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 Arst and tunnel on the Kowloon-Canton

splinter protection. These Spenser, Shakespeare, Coleridge,

nil occur In tenement areas; many were in what Keats, Tennyson, to Walter de la

way.

Rall-casualties did

nat

In

our

Unlike London, the major part of were, according to Hongkong city Maro? Perhaps because Hongkong's population needing pro- standards, sparsely settled streets. tection in the event of an air rald is

climate allows us too little of the conned to an area of only a few

China itself hus Jong since sun we love light, colour, move- acres. For the people residing in the tection from blast and splinters is ment, display.

recognised that the system of pro- densely populated tenement areas on

laland-considered

inadequate in masa air raids. by Bome Chungking the war-time capital unostentatious, is,

And St. George, although most authorities to be the most densely where the terrain is somewhat similar populated area in the world-there can be no protection but tunnels, horizontal tunnels, of the type we fresh, Jolly complexion, his capa- to that in Hongkong, vast lengths of armour of allver and. gold, his Their buildings are death traps and urge for this Colony, have been com-rinoned horse, the sunlit land- there is no room for trenches.

picted to provide complete shelter for

the

with

his

The third objection in the White at least fifty per cent. of the popula-cape at his back, a knight of

colour and movement.

Paper again raises the tune factor. tion

DUNVEGAN CASTLE

EDINBURGH.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Of course, 'I hope that I told you about her isn't true! She's

my best friend, you know!"