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HODCSON-Died at War Memorial Nursing Homo, Hongkong, on February 14, 1940, Paul Mary Hodgaon, aged 60 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5 o'clock to-day. No flowers by

request.

February 14, 1940.

Happy days

again

(after to-day)

T is a very old notion Valentine card is seen nowadays. that the birds of the air A perfect pattern of one should choose their mates on be enfolded, layer upon layer, in February 14.

a limp, love-lorn lace-like paper,

In his poem the Parlia- with a heart fearfully transfixed ment of Foules written by by an arrow stiff and straight

and not to be gainsaid. Geoffrey Chaucer in 1380

An old English proverb as- these words are to be read: serte that a good farm goose For this was on Scynt Valentynes should begin laying before

day, When every foul cometh there to Jill of the rickyard improved Candlemas, and some Jack and choose his mate.

The invention of the hearsay Is a very perfect example of the delicate fancies that so often be- long to the lore of the country. side,

upon the say-so in the following

Candlemas day,

manner:

According to country folk to-day is the day when the birds of the air choose their mates.

wooden chapper when he sings: Eat birds, eat, and make no

waste,

I lie here and make no

haste;

If my master chance to

come

You must fly and I must

run,

And the lonely goose-girl on The good housewife's goose pussy-willows and yellow with the green common, silver with lay;

Valentine's day,

Yours and mine may.

How charming a thing it is to contemplate the fidelity of the birds, the fidelity of these little written in 1477, this sentence In one of the Paston Letters creatures with bright eyes and may be read "And cosyn, uppon shining feathers who dance Fryday is Saint Valentynes above our heads light as leaves Day, and every brydde chasyth MAHER-At the Queen Mary Hog-linnets with rosy breasts, him a mate." Certain it is that

pilat 011 February 13, Maria Janina Barros Maher (Jany), at chaffinches with white epau- there circulate about this central. the age of 73. The cortege will lettes, and the little wrens who day of February strange pro- pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. are always careful to build an creant winds, winds that whistle to-day, starling from Anderson's extra nest for the cock bird to into our cars ever the same

sing from.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, February 14, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE preix "Special to the Telegraph" is wed by the longkong Telegraph to Indicato news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1938, Bach nowa na bears the indication "UP" is recuived in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous ATIRDIGHE

Hongkong And Finland

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tune:

gorse, what plaint does she carol?.

I am a pretty wench, And I came a great way

hence

And sweethearts I can get

none;

7

But every glossy crow Can get sweethearts enow, But I, pretty wench, can't

get one.

It was the same little maiden

perhaps who, as she sat combing Yesterday returneth not,

her hazel locks against the Perchance to-morrow come mossy root of the old ash tree,

th not;

well sheltered from the wind There is to-day; misuse it made up the following verse:

Gray goose and gander Waft your wings together And carry

my mother's daughter

not.

Over the one strand river.

G.O.C. the Canadians

won't waste his soldiers

by

WILLIAM BARKLEY

"I'm a soldier, not a scholar.”

He said the words with a laugh.

He had been speaking of the health of the Canadian troops on their voyage to Britain. Among them all there were two cases of pneumonia, but, said the general, "they yielded to sulphanilamide treatment."

A word which would twist-most

I remember being shown by the swan-herd at Abbotsbury two old swans that had been faithful to each other for longer than he could remember, and the same constancy may be

Shakespeare In A Midsummer observed in the pair of ravens Night's Dream makes Theseus,

longues came trippingly off his. It was when some one sald "Spell it'" which every year nest on the the Duke of Athens, playfully

that Major-General A. G. L. Mc- great chalk headland of White reproach the pretty lovers he Nose, in Dorset,

Naughton, commanding the Canadian finds sleeping side by side in the

And in the cities the same Active Service Force, grinned and forest.

happy unrest is felt. The clouda sald he was not a scholar. FROM rock to

He causes them to be wakened that float above the steeples and soldier. In himself he admirably re- In truth he is both scientist and warm, these aerial com- with his hunting horns and says,

the chimney pots of our town presents that quality of adopted panions of our lumpish carth- "Saint Valentine is past: Begin seem to tempt us to a freer life. Intelligence which he is building into existence, live under the fond these wood birds but to couple There are rumours in the air his Canadian division. His belief is belief that, fly where they may, now?"

and as we return home from that

modern army unit they never can find a better

It is the time of the year when street corner we. may meet in fans if the civilians are technical ex- work we know that at every mechanised, expert and technical- mate than the one they have we all of us prick up our cars the daffodil twilight the one we perts already, and particularly if they

be built can be in short time from civil- again to look about for tansy

are Canadians. It may be that the sparrows cakes. It was on Saint Valen- have searched for all our life are those favoured outriders of the tine's day that John Ridd met

long!

is where we scare "That is goddess Venus have remained Lorna Doone, as all dazed and

Up street and down street

ploneer country," he told me. "We are accustomed to fighting the rigours untroubled by any such honour half-drowned he regained con-

Each window is made of of nature. We don't need to create. able illusions, fluttering invita-sciousness to see her dark hair glass

technical experience. We have a tions from rest to crutch every against the first primrose of the

wealth of it which merely requires hour of the day in spring, sum-

adaptation." year! mer and autumn.

Many of our best nursery

chosen.

And if you go to the further

house

You'll find a pretty lase.

overwhelmed. The army of the Finns It is not to be doubted that rhymes give expression to the Valentine's

ELEVEN weeks of war against surging hordes, armed with all the nirerant and tanks and artilers that the energies of the continental mass of Russia can produce, find Finland still unconquered and resolute. From the blows of the giant her head is bloody but unbowed." Military erities, even the friendliest, thought the Finnish resistance could be no more thun: a gallant gesture soon numbers less than 100,000 men, and Stalin counts his hosts by millions. But despite bombing of her towns, despite attacks from many points supported by heavy gun-fire and Inexhaustible waves of infantry, no queron after squadron of tanks and deadly wound has yet been given to the Finnish defence. The valiant resistance offered to the latest mass- ed onslaught makes most heartening. reading. The Finns still maintain. themselves against the central threat to divide their country across s narrowent point at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the Manner- heim Line' acros the Karellan Isthmus deles the massed artillery and the squandered legions of Stalin. But civilisation must ask itself how long human fortilude can struggle against such monstrous odds?

has

as a

Andrew or "Andy" McNaughton "I'm of Scottish ancestry is in him- With the passing of Saint elf part of that Canadian wealth of the careless felicity of these romance that moves our hearts

fancy-free restless yearning for months of the year are before off in 1010. In the last war, as

Day the Bofter adaptable experience. Ho slipped broad-beaked finches contrasts during the weeks of February need not affright us blow as he contingent, landing in France in Info khaki lightly as he slipped it poorly enough with the high Fill-Dyke. Boys and girls can-

uy. Even the month of March this, he was one of the first Canudien var, as in devotion, let us say, of the turtle

dove, which Shakespeare so well not live by moil and toil alone. may his donkey's horn.

knocks off in The Winter's Tale:

I an old turtle, Will wing me to some wither'd

bough, and there My mate, that's never to be

found again.

Lament till I am lost.

This represents an exaggerat- ed picture of such life-long infatuations, and who knows but the little roguish house-top spadgers do not have the best of it! "As long live the merry as the sad."

VALENTINE'S DAY is

Finland 14 civilisation's outpost against barbarism. If her freedom and the noble way of life which she has won go down before the Robot tyranny of Soviet Russia all Sean- dinavia will be threatened by a like

"a queynte day" in slavery. The League of Nations has any case, and a day full of already asked its members severally mischief. Girls who go to sleep in what manner they intend to assist with four bay leaves pinned to Finland in defeating an

outrage the four corners of their laven- which they condemned and for which the aggressor was expelled. From dered pillows on St. Valentine's the South American States, which Eve will be sure were the prime movers in this deci dreams of grace and pleasure, to dream sion, Finland can only obtain Anon- and the first person they see the cial support or, in time, foodstuffs. On behalf of the British Empire the next morning they must ac promise has already been given that knowledge without further to do the Finns will receive from British factories aircraft and other material, boy who will have the right to as their Valentine-the lucky and Britain is acting in close concert demand a new favour for every with the French, What have the neutral countries to offer Finland? one of the twelve months. She is the champion of them all in a desperato ight, and some of the European neutral nations have great material interest in her causo. Those across the sens owe it the support not only of common humanity, but of like ideas.

It is seldom that a proper

Is the cause of the whole civilised world and, however small Hongkong's response as compared with the ald We in Hongkong, although far

the great Powere can give, It is the away from the scene of tusslun aggression that really counts. At the unity of a world opposed to barbarle barharism, can do our small bit to same time Hongkong's £485, when is multiplied by similar donations from other parts of the world alding in ke manner, may easily be the last straw back,

help Finland's resistance. It gratifying to note that, despite the many calls on our pockets, Hongkong

has responded readily to the "Friends that will break the Russian comel's

China Motor Agencies and Sales Co. of Finland fund inaugurated by the

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Consul for Finland, and that the total yesterday stood at $7.734, enabling two remittances totalling £405 to be sent to Finland

It in well sold that Finland's cause

The Finns have done miractos atid, in aiding the worthy cause launched by the Finnish Consul in Hongkong. we are aiding them to continue;

THE rook boy, or, as we

February 1916 as major of artillery, in which he had done militia servico since his undergraduate days of 1900. BEFORE us are all the He ended the war in command of the of the summer, Sunday

happy Saturday after-Canadian Henvy Artillery. PLEASE Turn To Page 3.

call him in Dorset, the crow-starver, has his mind on noons other matters than his ugly

ARF A Mo', ADOLF!

The second Australian Expeditionary Force has arrived in Egypt.

Armstrong in the Melbourne "Argus

Between wars he has applied his sclentine brain to the military art until four years ago his Government put him at the head of the Canadian National Research Council, lle is himself the Inventor of a cathode- ray direction-finder. Precision Instru ments of aircraft, meteorological equipment, metallurgical research Fuch have been the interests of Canada's Commander. But all the time he was applying his laboratory experience to mechanicni warfore,

Just on the outbreak of war he came to London with the Mission of Canadian manufacture-

War and returned to spread his enthusi asm for the newest guns which he had inspected here, Once again ho has left the inboratory and slipped back into khaki, the embodiment of the skilled technician who sizes up. to his idea of the modem soldier.

At Afty-two, he is slim, lean- featured and alert as a blackbird. His black moustache is greying, but there are bushy black eye-brows over the zombre brown eyes which concentrate the frankest and most comprehending gaze as he speaks to one. His manner is natural, quite unstudied and all the m

the more Impres sive for that. He is grim and serious.

"This is not a that we are engaged on."

glorious adventure ho said. "That is not the spirit of my men. We reward it as an unpleasant-jbly. that has got to be done and dono as quickly as possible so that we can get back to our civil avocations,"

War as he wages it is not going to be any affair of wasting men on gallant bu!

hopeless. exploits. "Machines and intelligenco, are the with" he says,

things to win

in the

"not young lives.

war

H

His tank now is to extract the last ounce of benefit from our Army's experience and to equip his own manificent manpower with overy device that enh render thera formidable as a scientific, fishing force.