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HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH

May 21, 1940.

MAGAZINE SACRIFICE

We All Think

Is The...

OTHER FELLOW'S PIGEON!

-Says Jane Quest

"Most things are not obtained, simply because they are ant attempted." says Gracian. How true that is.

We all want this or that, in a leisurely fashion, but we make very little effort to obtain what we want. It is caster to think about it. *

WE should like to spunk languages other than our own, but that means hard work and concen- tration. We yearn to have the gifts riches can bring us, but we won't work to obtain them. We'd rather take a ticket in a lottery and hope for the best. We want to be loved, but we will not make

urselves lovable.

We'd like to travel, see the world, but not one cigarelle would we sacrifice towards it.

We want to be aim and svelte, but we like

our good meals, and exercise bores us.

We resent growing old, but we don't cultivate our minds. We just let them go, like some old ploughed, feld that, neglected, grows only weeds and thistles.

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BABY PICTURES

OOD baby pictures are easy to take indoors, with photo lights, provided you follow a few simple rules.

Probably the chief difficulty, in Indoor shots, is that your subject ilkes to crawl about and thus gets -away from the spot. Illuminated by your photo lights. There are two simple solutions for this. Either give the baby toy is amuse him and help him "sty put," or else "Place"

* him where his movements TC- restricted. For example, in the erib or play pen.

Here is a simple routine which will help you get better baby pic- tures Indoors. Firl, load the camera with high speed fm. Pick a suitable spot for the pictures, and trange your photo lights for a soft, diffused, lighting. with no harsh

shadows. A

No. 1 and a No. 2 "food" bulb in cardboard reflectors. four feet from the subject, are cor- rect for box-camera mapahiots on high speed film.

Turn on the light before you place the baby. Put him in posi. ilon-give him a bright-coloured loy or one that makes a noise and start shooting. Wind the nim im- mediately after each shot, so as to be ready for the next pose or change.

lon. A whole series of of expression. good pictures can be leken in a few

and the best minutes,

expressions will usually come within that time. Five

minutes is long enough for the average session of baby pictures.

A fast camera is in" advantage In taking these pictures! Use a shutter speed of 1750-second, with / lens opening, or 1/100 second at 1/0.3—and you are more sure of a sharp picture, even if the baby muves slightly at the moment of exposure.

With a fast lens, you can also tuke indoor pictures by daylight-or hunlight coming through a window, The baby picture above was taken in that manner. A 1/6.3 or 1/4.5 lens is fast enough, If you use high speed film and a 1/20 second shut- ter speed. In the picture above, the bedspread acts as a relector, throwing light into the shadows. This is desirable, as there should be no harsh, black sndows in a btby pleture.

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EVERYTHING in this world, that is worth having must be worked for, even Peace.

We all like Peace, want Pence, think we ought to have Peace.

But some of us are content to let the Other Fellow gel it for us. The Other Fellow is such a convenien! sort of person, Let him fight our battles, carry our burdens, die for us if necessary, We'd all of us like to help win the war, it we did not have to sacrifice too much. After all, thi

sacrifice.

is the Other Fellow's pigeon

The rest of us just sit round and wish for Peace.

"Most things are not outained, simply because they are not attempted."

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Mt. De Posken kralicka, Bot.

"You must be extra attentive and tender to Rufus, dear.

now that he's an expectant father!"

BEDSIDE BOOK

ALL list week I was in bed with A the popular calnych. It was a very evil weak, for I have not spent a day in bed fur five years, and was not accustomed to the ignominy of it.

So I read, and i read History. There's nothing like History for the related dumps. History properly reduces you to your proper sinture. You dare not complin of caturth as you witness the Sack of Rome, the massacres of Saint Bartholo- mew, or the agonised death of Robespierre.

ATTACKS ON SHIPPING

Britain (ocean-going tonnage) 11,500,000 at the outbreak of war,

Loes 667,000 tons.

·France 2,912,000-LUNK

A 74,000 sens.

Norway 4,133,008 conti

Los 108,000 tons

Sweden 1,377,800 tons

Long 10.000 KOTTA

Denmark 1.175,000 Trai.

Lnk 64,900. Lens.

Holland 2479 DIE EINE

Greece 1.TR8,000 tanı

Germany's counter-blockade has been directed mainly at the merchant shipping, of Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland. Greeco in the only other country which has had losses on the same scilo. Out of a total of 1,248,000. "tons sunk, 1,132,000 belonged to there seven countries. The total shipping owned by them at the outbreak'of the war and the propor tion of Tom (represented approximate- ly by the part in' black at the end of

tanks section).... albine showna vida - Bila kama diagrant, Following ` the` invasion of Norway and Denmark, Germany In attempting to seize na much shipping yo as possible belonging to these countries,"

I did not, however, in these days cuddle myself in horrors. I rend that most noble work, John Mor- ley's Cromwell, the opening volume of Gardiner's Civil War, und a volume of Toynbee's magnificent but dimeult Study of History,

John Morley is grand. Is he for- Rutten now? I don't know. In any case, his prose is superb. It is deup and polid and wise.

rhythmic also surprisingly human, This I lind not expected,

It is and

TOW history should be written

Hwas to me also exemplified by

a delightful and exciting new book "Archbishop Laud," by H. R Trevor Roper. This costs a guinea, but ask for it at your library.

Can a book about Laud be in- teresting? you ask yourself--Laud, that little intriguing, narıpw, state- serving sycophant?...--

It can indeed. For one thing, Laud lived in one of the most excit- Ing periods of English history. Tho duel between Charles I and Crom- well, between despotism and de- mocracy, is being fought again in

our own

day.

This book is therefore extraordi- narily apropos. Its style is good and sound, its argument exciting. You will begin it Inzily and finish it excitingly.

FOUND a little book of Infinito charm: The Swan, of Vek, of Heien Ashion. It may he remem bered that Helen Ashion, Rávé, year or two ago, a delightful rendering of the lives of William: and Dorothy Wordsworth: Now she „hing donà in the sanie' manner a life. of Henry: Vaughan, ibe:doctor-and- sipõet ot, the Civil War and after;-

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BRITISH REGIMENTS

The BLACK Coldstream

WATCH

OF the many Scot-

tish regiments which have sorved with the highest dis- tinction in the British Army, none can boast of a prouder record than that held by the famous Black Watch, the senior of all the Highland Regiments.

Its offelal existence dites; from 1740, the year in which it was brought on to the British establish- ment, but it was actually formedt In 1927.

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In that year, the British Govern

of the ment

day

decided establish a unit of loyal High- landers who would maintain order In the north of Britain, and separate, companies were forined. The men in these companies were the flower of many noble Scottish families.

Ten years later, four ti¿w com- panies

were raised and wal- gamated with the existing sx, the whole force being given the name of the 42nd Foot. Later, the regi- ment adopted a dark tartan for its uniform and so became known as the Black Watch after the sombre colour of the tarian.

The courage of the Black Watch Is proverbial. From its carliest days it attracted men of amazing daring, and the regiment's long record is full of deeds of valour,

At the battle of Fontenay, for, example, when the French defeat- ed an allied force of British, Austrian and Dutch tops, the

Chaplain of the Black Watch charged, with drawn sword, at the hend of the regiment.

rear.

The Colonel at once intervened, and ordered the Chaplain to the

"Damn

the my commission," Chaplain replied, and raising his sword once more dashed into the thick of the night.

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AFTER the formation of the 1st

-

Guards

REFUSAL to obey a

King's command

is not usually a deed to be remembered with pride, but such an episode is cherish- ed with pride in the annals of the Cold- stream Guards, one of the most famous of all the regiments in the British Army.

This régiment descends from force raised by Cromwell in 1080, the companies comprising it being then stationed at Newcastle. The command being given to Colonel Monek, the regiment was first known as Colonel Monck's Regi- ment, and later as the Lord Gen- eral's Regiment of Guards.

"On" January 1, 1860, the regiment" marched with Monck qui of Coldstream, à village in Scotland frem which it derives its name, on its way to London. It was to play

its part in the Restoration to the English Throes of Charles II, and .it was the only Puritan foot regi- ment to be kept for service in the Royal army.

...When the regiment was even- tually reviewed by Charles II, his- tory has it that he exmmanded them to lay down their arms as a sign that they renounced the Com- monwealth, and he then ordered them to plek up their arms ence more as his "Second Foot Guards."

To a man, the regiment refused to move. They stood solidly with their arms lold on the ground be- fore them, and the King was visibly disturbed, Colond Munck then sald to him, "Sire, this re-

"battalion, a second was raised-in-iment refuses to be known

1780. becoming the 73rd Regiment

in 1786. This regiment discarded the kilt in 1809, but that uniform was restored when the 3rd was amalgamated with the 42nd Foot in 1881.

The red vulture plume which the "regiment***wears" was won

Geldermalsen, in 1795, when the Black, Watch charged and routed French cavalry in order to reseur two guns that had been lost. It has been sold that the red plume originated from the fact that men of the Black Watch had dipped the white feathers they 'wore in the blood of the enemy.

Another famous battle with which the regiment will always be associated was that of Corunn During the height of the struggle, that great General, Sir John More, called out to the mer

men of the Black Watch, "Remember Egypt, High- landers." The devout Scots, bow- ever, were reported to have sten "the shroud of death hovering over their leader, and soon after. it fell to men of the Tegiment

fu curry him back to the rear a dying

man.

In

the historic siege of Manga- lore, 200 min of the Black Watch, assisted by 1,500 sepoys, held out agains huge odds for nine months, while at the battle of Mogersion- tein General Wauchope fell lead- ing them into action.

During the Great War of 1014- 1918. the Black Watch suffered a tremendously high percentage of casualties. They raised 25 new battalions, and out of a total of 53,000 men there were 34,000 casualties,

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THEIR battle honours include Guadalope. 1758; Martinique, 1702, N. America, 1703-4, Mysore, Corunna, Toulouse, Waterloo, S. Africa, 1840-7, and 1851, 2, 3, Alma,

Lucknow, Tel-el Kebir. Egypt, 1882-84, Nile, 1884-5, and S. Africa, 1800-1902.

In the Great War they fought at the Barne, 1914 and '18, Ypres, 1914,17 and 18, Loos, the Blomme, 1916 and 18, Arras, 1917 and 18. the Hindenburg Line, and Kut el Amara, 1917,

The regiment is known throtigh- out the Brilsh Army as the 'Forty Twas"-ho Sesttini equivalent of the "Forty Twos." The regimental marches are "Highland Laddle" and "Blue Bonnets Over the BOT- der," stirring, lunes when played by the pipers.

"Blue Bonnels Over the Border” will always be associated with Ser- geant Daniel Laidlaw, the piper of Loos, who won the Victoria Cross' in one of the most Inspiring in- eldents of the Great War,

second to any in the British Army,"

The King immediately altered his command,

“Coldstream,Guards," he dular- ed "take up your arms."

name camy Thus the original .into existence, and with it the proud regimental motto "Nubi Secundus" ("Scéend to None").

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AFTER Monek's death, however, the regiment came to be known as the "Queen's Regiment," and it was not until 1673 that the tile of "2nd Foot or Coldstream Guards" In 1817 the first was resumed. part of the tie was allowed to lupse, and the regiment has bech known by its present name ever since. The right to wear the bear- skin cap followed in 1930.

The regiment is now made up of three Battalions, ench Batlallen having its separate badges, That of the 1st Battalion shows the Star of the Garter ensigned with the Imperial Crown, and at the base the Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt." With

slight addition, the same badge is used for the 3rd Battalion, The badge of the 2nd Battalion is an eight-pointed star in sliver within the Garter and ensigned with an, Imperial Crown. At the base is the Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt."

The exploits of the Coldstream Guards are fully in keeping with their historic traditions. Among the regiment's battle honours are Tangler, 1680, Namur, 1895, Gibral- tor, 1704-5, Oudenarde, Dettingen, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevas- topol, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, 1882, Modder River, and other famous engagements.

In the Great War, all the tradi- tions were fully maintained in the historic Retreat from Mong, at the Marne in 1914, the Aime. 1914, Ypres, 1914, and -17, Loos, the Somme, 1918 und-18, Arraz, 1018,- Hazebrouck, and in the battles on the Hindenburg Line.

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AT the end of 1914, outside Ypres, the Coldstream Guards won imperishable tame by holding a position, unrelieved, for three weeks, despite the tremendous force of enemy attacks.

His Majesty King George Viüi is Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment, and like the other regiments in the Brigade of Guards the Coldstream Guards have n

association with Royalty close datinguished from the other "Guards' rogiments in several ways. The Coldstream bearskin cap has a red plume attached, while the but- tons of the Coldstream uniform are grouped in twos.-The-Band round the ordiary emp is white.

The Coldstream Guards can be

With his bagpipes tucked under "his him, he mirched up and down the No Man's Land of Loos-under a hall of fire-playing "Blue Bon- note Over the Border" while, his regiment, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, charged the enemy with-- axed bayonets

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