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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY ✪ May 23, 1940.

The headline of 1940

B NEW

STUDEBAKERS

A Now

Commander !

A New

Champion !!

A New

President !

The line that's ahead in new

What's Wrong With The Old School

Tie?

Icwer prices. new or SIR-CYRIL NORWOOD'S

appeal, new roomy comfort, solld safoly ond

economy 1

Drive a NEW President, Commander or Champion TO-DAY.

Apply HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

It must seem to him like a pro- phecy of the end of civilisation. He can scarcely help ́ feeling that, if the prophecy comes trué, the sun will never shine on England so brightly again.

forecast the other day tion, as I believe strongly in the I sympathise with his emo- long-lived of the future of the public virtue of school patriotism. All schools must have dis- kinds of patriotiam seem to me tressed many a wearer of to be good in moderation

whether national patriotiam, : the Old School Tie. "After::

county patriotism, elvic patriot- this war," he said, "it will fem, village patriotism, or the be found that their day is patriotic sentiments that grow done. Parents who are up around that little nation of glad to pay £200 a year for adolescents, the school.

The Old School Tie has be- an individual boy will be so come a joke in recent years, and few that the system will not it is possible that there are be able to be maintained be enough Old School snobs gad- cause of lack of numbers." ding about to justify the ridicule.

To the public-school man

I myself have never met them. who has a proper feeling of pa-

I have known' one or two Uni- triotism for his old school this versity snobs, but the Old School must come as disastrous news. The affection that most of my snobs have not come my way.

acquaintances have for their Old Schools seems to me as innocent of uppishness as the affection they focl towards relations who have been a part of their happy world..

Stubbs Road Tel. 27778-9

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Thursday, May 23, 1940.

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Faith

The world. ufands to-day at a special crisis in its destinies, and upon France falls the full brunt of the struggle. In the immenso-con- fllet which is raging, the greatest and the most momentous in history,

turn the eyes of all free

tox wards France and as their champions.

ng. It ours to bear the

of right

and liberty, their

and ours,-in-the-forefront

of the battle. They watch to see how

the test. It is far the most terrible and the most searching to which Britain and France, have been subject, and the enemy proclaim that the battle has already been

won. The battle, has not been wan;

the Nazi boast la vain and false. A great concentration of German mechanisation and air power forced the

In our lines in the

this! and

for 24 hours, the.

force of

might But our troops have fallen back fighting where the lines have had to be at their or have remained pasta where the lines are being held. Just so the glorious old Army

had to fall back in those equally dangerous and critical fret! weeks of the last war when the ex-1 Kaiser in his arrogance ordered his host to trample upon the

the "contemp- tible English army." Within weeks

Within a few those "Old Contemptibles" helped to and turn back tie

slay German armies almost

from

the walls of Paris, and shattered for ever the German General Staff's visiona

rapid and easy conquest.

Wo will endure eagerly

of

Our men to-day are sons of the "Old Contemptibles"-men of the same breed and temper. Unlike the heroes who faced and held the furv of the enemy's onslaught. In

1914, they are buoyed up by the know- ledge that behind them there stand ready the resources of Britain, mar- sholled by three years of preparation and the determination of the civil population, and all the Virgin

| strength of the Dominions. They will not prove less, stubborn in ́da- fence, or less ready; at the right moment to turn upon and drive back the foe. A

In England there is no panic and no semblance of panic! The British people are fully aware, we believe, that the situation is grave and even erical, but they look at the facts with steady eyes. They had hoped that the tot

the great efforts of the French,

and Belgian troops would

checked carller and completely onslaught of the enemy of

but the very magnitude and novelty Blitzkrieg rendered Inevitable the withdrawal to linen disappointingly far behind the frontier and desperate- ly-near England's coast

OF DENTISTS

"YOU'VE pulled three, teeth.

I wanted only one pulled," yelled Jones Indignant- ly.

"Yes, I know," replied the dentist blandly. "But we gave you a bit too much sas and I didn't want to waste it.

A small boy visited a dentist. "I want a tooth out," he said hurriedly, "and never mind about gas. I'm in a hurry."

That's a brave boy," said

the dentist. Which tooth is

it?"

"Come Johnnie," shouted the boy, going to the door, "come in and show him your tooth.", "A Scots patient was fumbling in his pockets, i

"You need not pay me in ad- once said the dentist.

vance,'

"I'm no going to," was the re- ply. "I'm only counting my money before you gle me the *NOS.

A country yokel went one evening to a dentist and asked to have a tooth extracted.

The dentist examined his mouth and remarked, "Gas will cost you about ten shillings."

couldna pay that pro lested the yokel. I'll just wait and have it out by

daylight." An economical Scot visited a dentist and inquired: "Will you loosen a tooth for me, please?" "But why only loosen it?” asked the astonished dentist.

"Weel, then I could get it out myself en

was the reply. For the third week in succes- alon the dentist's assistant re- ported that there was a man in the waiting-room who de- clined to see the dentist.

"Perhaps he's nervous," said the dentist. "I go

and sce bim."

So he entered the wafting. room and asked if he could be of any assistance.

"No, thank you," replied the visitor blandly, "I just drop- ped in becausé, you see, I'm rending, a serial in one of your papers."

A dentist allowed his assistant to draw a patient's tooth under his supervision.

"You took a long time over that extraction,” he remarked after the

Yesent had departed, sir," pgreed the assis- tant, but, you see, he married the girl who jjited me!"

An Aberdonlan visited a don- tist and inquired, "How much do you charge for, extracting a tooth?"

“Ten shilling","

What! Ten shillings for ten

magata the den-'.

seconds. work!" exclaimed the Aberdonian.

co/Welips

Bald the dentist,

tist. "of course 1 can extract the tooth very slowly," It you wish.

“A little girl of five paid her first visit to the dentist, to have a tooth out. She came through the ordeal amilingly, and later condded to her mother, "But, I liked the spliting, part best."

Margaret Hillman

We in Hongkong should look upon the position in a sobor:' practical fashion. The Allies have had a heavy blow; the people know it, and, A there is he usa attempting to hide

it, or to minimise what has occurred fullest confidence in our Army, our

as has been suggested to us by more Air Force, our Allies and in our than one person

effect of Germany's zübensk should be to intensity Hong- It would be foolialı, nay, dangor- kong a resolution to offer to the our for any Hongkong newspaper to Motherland everything, in our power. attempt to hide what has occurred The war of 1914-18 proved thải behind a cling of suppression or our troops could take and dish falsity,. We well recall; the; halpiam it out/s/We have no doubt that the Chinese they can do so in 1940. We beat the

Ledilny that gillesond Hankow Germans, after, equally- big revernos |

people when Canton

fell in rapid succession, after false in the last war. The only danger of claims 2151ikels, newspapers Soygar up the hopes unipers and defeat in this wict that the civilian, Very and inot the man in Ugy trendies, Where ruth and redson pro may • Be abla “to fakul vall, there can be no danger of panle

sured that our are will

or unreasoning doublert reading Bavaribe defeated; it is to us to pad and" Viewing the news, wa mihi that we are an, steadfast behind-the maintain-sublimez-faith and the Piraka

And this love of school must not be confused with love of learning. I was devoted to my school, but I regarded it as a good school to stay away from on any discoverable pre- text.

I liked going to it, but I liked betier stilt slipping out of tho grounds by a side gate and attend-

Τ

Tougher on old Trubshaw, what ♬

Remember old Trubbers--skippered, zim

Rugger? Poor old blighter

a sixer in the sneezer

ing a matinee In the theatre when ashamed to admit that you went to but I should know them if they were: I ought to have been in the class the Institution for fear people would restored to their 'teens, so vividly do room. The idle pupil, who makes no think you mean Borstal? This I put their faces and their voices remain. attempt to be a credit to his school, down to the envy of a product of a in the memory People may be frowned on by masters, but rival and inferior establishment.

his patriotism is not by frowns.

be quenched

*

general.

are never so real to us as when we are in our 'terns of younger, As we“ grow up, fewer and swwer people are memorably real to us. When we are at school every boy in an individual; as a Law caricature,

Patriotism of this kind is, 1 Certainly, the day-to-day life of Imagine, selfish in origin. It is the place stands out clearly in the us unmistakable and unforgettable evidence that we have enjoyed go- memory in a golden and entrance ing to school or, as the case may light. The masters, even those whom have been, miching from it, If wo wo respected most profoundly, were had been miserable at school i doubt always partly comic characters, as whether its name

very cordial emotions.

row!

would attr any mastera are bound to be in the eyes

Hence, it is not to be "wondered"at:

us in Inter of schoolboys; and those of them who that some men find happiness In life. Mr. Winston Churchill has cone could on due occasion strike terror talking about their old school; and fessed that he was miserable at Har into our souls were no less amusing how boring such talle can be if you does he care twopence now than the rest when the terror was come from a different school! Listen. adays, 3.wonder, whether Eton or over Looking back on them, we to two Old Puddleloalans exchang Harrow wins at Lord's?

think of them ## Indispensable Sgures ing inane memories. about their

-you have enjoyed school, how in a lille-world-of buzzing cheerful former schoolmasters and school ever, you think of it not only as nest. By this time I feel an affec- mates, and, 11 you are not an Old. different from other schools, but as tion even for the mathematical master Puddletonian yourself, you will be a school unique, incomparable. I who was just about to throw me cut driven to the conclusion that Fuddle- myself was a day-boy at the Royal of the class when the bell rang. And ton College must have been the most Academical Institution-not a name for the writing master, who, in a desperately uninteresting nest of: to suggest Paradise to outsiders and frenzy of excitement,

Frosted me

semi imbeciles that ever existed.

I still can hardly help thinking that to the headmaster for Talk about the Old School should be those who were sent to other schools Boys of London which was then indulged in only when none but deserve somehow to be condoled with, looked on as dangerous literature, pupila of the Old School are present. An Ulsterman of another school sald

I read an article the other day. in As for the boys, I might not re- to me lately. "Is it true that you cognise most of them. If I met them which the writer contended that there boys, when you come to England, are 'to-day after so long a separation; PLEASE Turn To Page 2.

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