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Faith

The world stands to-day at a special crisis in its destinies, and upon France falls the full brunt of the struggle. In the Immense con- fiet which B ̄ raging, the greatest and the most momentous in history, the eyes of all

free

peoples turn to- words France and England as their champlona. It is ours to bear the standard of right and liberty, their standard and ours, in the forefront of the battle. They watch eagerly to see how we will endure the test, It is for the most terrible and the

to

most searching. which Britain and France-have-been-she battle bas enemy proclaim that

-and-the

already been won. The battle has not been won; the Nazl boast is vain and false. A great concentration of German mechanisation and air power forced the breach in our lines in the frontier region, and through this breach poured, unchallenged for 24 hours, the full force of Nazi might.

But our troops have fallen back fighting where the lines have had to be straightened, or have remained at their posts where the lines are being hold. Just so the glorious old Army had to fall back in those equally dangerous and critical first weeks of the last war when the ex- Kaiser in his arrogance ordered his host to trample upon the "contemp- ible English army." Within a few weeks those "Old Contemptibles" helped to stay and turn back the German armies almost from the walls of Paris, and shattered for ever the German General Staff's visions of rapid and easy conquest.

Our men to-day are sons of the "Old Contemptibles"

esmen of the same breed and temper. Unlike the heroes who faced and held the fury of the enemy' onslaught in 1914. they are buoyed up by the know- ledge that behind them there stand ready the resources of Britain, mar- shalled by

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 de- fence, or less ready at the right moment to tum upon and drive back the foc.

In England there is no panic and no semblance of panie. The British people are fully aware, we believe, that the situation is grave and even critical, but they look at the facts with steady eyes. They had hoped that the great efforts of the French, British and Belgian troops would have checked earlier and completely the onslaught of the enemy, but the very magnitude and novelty of the rendered inevitable the

Blitzkrieg withdrawal to lines disappointingly far behind the frontier and desperate- ly bear England's coast,

What's Wrong With The Old School

Tie?

SIR

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

IR CYRIL NORWOOD'S

I sympathise with his amo- · forecast the other day tion, as I believe strongly in the 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- the Old School Tie. "After whether national patriotism, county patriotism, civic patriot- this war" he said, "it will lam, 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. an individual boy will be so few that the system will not be able to be maintained be cause of lack of numbers.”

To the public-school man who has a proper feeling of pa- triotism for his old school this must come as disastrous news.

SPEAKING OF DENTISTS

"YOU'VE pulled three teeth.

I wanted only one pulled," yelled Jones Indignant-

"Yes, I know," replied the dentist blandly. "But we gave you a bit too much gos, 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

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

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

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

gas.'

A country yokel went one evening to a dentist and asked to have a tooth extracted, dentist examined The mouth and remarked, "Gas will cost you about ten shillings."

his

"I couldna pay that" pro- tested the yoket. "111 just wait and have it out by daylight."

An economical Sent visted 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," was the reply.

For the third week in succes- alon the dentist's assistant re- ported that there was

man

in the waiting-room who de- clined to see the dentist.

"Perhaps he's nervous," said the dentist. "I'll go and see him."

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

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

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

"You took a

that

a long time over extraction," he remarked after the patient had departed. "Yes, sir," agreed the assis tant, "but, you see, he married the girl who jilted me!"

An Aberdonian vialled a den- tist and inquired, "How much do you charge for extracting tooth?"

Д

"Ten shillings," said the den- tist

"What! Ten shillings for ten seconds work!" exclaimed the Aberdonian.

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"Well," said the dental, "of course I can extract the tooth very slowly, if you wish!

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

Margaret Elliman

We in Hongkong should look upor the position in a sober practical fashion, The Allies have had a heavy blow; the people know it, and there is no uso 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.

selves. The effect of Germany's success should be to intensity Hong- the

It would be foolish, nay, danger- 'kong's 'resolution to offer to ous, for any Hongkong newspaper to Motherland everything in our power, attempt to hide what has occurred The war of 1914-18 proved that behind a cloak of suppression or our troops could take it and dish falsity. We woll recall the helpless it out." We have no doubt that feeling that engulfed the Chinese they can do so in 1940, . We beat the people when Canton and Hankow Germans after equally big rev

reverseE foll in rapid succession, after false in the last war. The only danger of claims by their newspapers had defeat in this war is that the civilian, butoyed up their hopes until the very and not lie man in the trenches, last-Where-truth-and-reason-phy or 16 BOE 10 take it”, “Wa vail there can be no danger of panic may rest assured that our arms will or unreasoning doubts. In reading never be defeated: it is to us to sea and viewing the news, we must that wo are as steadfast behind the maintain

sublime fall and the line as our troops are in them.

The Old School Tie has be-

come a joke in recent years, and it is possible that there are enough Old School snobs gad- ding about to justify the ridicule. I myself have never met them. I have known one or two Uni- versity snobs, but the Old School snobs have not come my way. The affection that most of my acquaintances have, for their Old Schools seems to me as innocent of uppishness as, the affection they feel towards relations who' have been a part of their happy world,

“Toughers "on" old _Trubshaw," what ? Remember old Trubbers--skippered us 'at, Rugger ? « Poor old hlighter's got a sixer in the sneezer”

And this love of school mut not be confused with love of learning, I was devoted to my school, but I regarded it as a good school to slay away from on any discoverable pre- text. I liked going to it, but I liked better at slipping out el the grounds by a side gate and attend- ing

amatince in the theatre when Bahamed to admit that you went to but I should know them if they were- the Institution, for fear people would restored to their 'toons, so vividly do ought to have been in the elnas- think you mean Borstal?" This I put their faces and their voices remain. room. The idle pupil, who makes no down to the envy of a product of a in the memory. People in general attempt to be a credit to his school, rival and inferior establishment.

may be frowned on by masters, but his patriotism is not to be quenched by frowns,

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Patriotism of

Certainly, the day-to-day this kind is, I

life of

aro never so real to us as when we are in our 'teens or younger. As we- grow up, fewer and tower people aro niemorably real to us. When we are

imagine, selfish

in

origin. It is the place stands out clearly in the at school every boy is an individual: evidence that we have enjoyed so memory in a golden and entrancing as unmistakable and as unforgettable ing to school er, as the case may light. The masters, even those whom 05 a-Low caricature. have been, miching from it. If we wo respected most profoundly, were had been miserable at school I doubt always partly comic characters, as

Hence, It is not to be wondered at whether its name would stir any masters are found to be in the eyes

SCI men find happiness in very cordial emotions in us in later of schoolboys; and those of them who that He. Mr. Winston Churchill has con- 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 talk can be if you row: does he care twopence now than the "rest when the terror was come from-a-different schooli-Listen. adays, I wonder, whether Eten or over. Looking back on them, we le two Old Puddletonians exchang Harrow wins at Lord's?

think of them as indispensable figures ing inone memories about their

a

of

desperately

If you have enjoyed school, how in a little world of buzzing cheerful- former schoolmasters and school-

are not an If you a

Old ever, you think of it not only as ness. By this time I feel an affec. mates, and, if different from other schools, but ng tion even for the mathematical master Puddletonian yourself, you will be school unique, incomparable. I who was just about to throw me out driven to the conclusion that Puddle- myself was a day-boy at the Royal of the class when the bell rang. And ton College must have been the most uninteresting леве of Academical Institution-not a name for the writing master, who, in

that ever existed. to suggest Paradise to outsiders-and frenzy

semi-imbeciles reported excitement, I still can hardly help thinking that to the headmaster for reading The 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 ex-- deserve somehow to be condoled with looked on as dangerous literature:- pupils of the Old School are present- An Ulterman of another school said As for the boys, I might not re- I read an article the other day in to me lately. "Is it true that you cognize 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 Pago 2.

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