WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1929.
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KING GEORGE V.
THE
AN IDEAL CONSTITUTIONAL
MONARCH
RETROSPECT & APPRECIATION
never
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“AFFILIATION"
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This crossword puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are worned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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135
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1140 141
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पक्ष
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HORIZONTAL
1-To dont 6-Giving a dull.red
light 10-Department in
France
11-A Hawallan food 12-Conjunction 13-An old English
philosophor
15-Decay 10-Evil În cffect 17-A city in 8. France 19-Same as "paddock" 21-A drink (pl)
-in no mannar 24-The heart of an
apple 25-Very small particle 27-An aboma 29-An encysted tumor 30-Personal pronoun 32-Side timber of a
ship 34-Man's name (short) 37-Tavorn 38-Volcanic rock, 42-Greek god of war 43-A river 8, E.
Auxela
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDSKATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
42-A marble [43-Girl's name LO-No (Scot.)
1-Same "Finn"
VERTICAL (Cont) |14-Large earthenware
Jar ¡18-A kind of woman's
cap
[[2-An Incarnation of a 19-The poll or Head
divine wiadom (India)
|54-Interjection.
Questioning
56-A Bwadlah coin 57-A moulding
B-Mother of pearl 59-The north wind
VERTICAL
1-A state and city in
Brazli
2-Small flat, or table:
like surfaco 3-Small csak 4-Mano nama 5-An exudation from
plants
6-A town In
N. France 7-Out (8. Afr, D.) B-A maiden loved by
Jupiter 9-An English poet
laureate
(Scot.)
20-An ending of nouns 22-A BRUCE 20-Me (French) 125-To feel sick
31-A fabled water
nymph 33-Interjection.
Contampt 34-To grow fat 36-A time-parfod 36-Unused
32-Prefix. Not |40-The person to whom
something is not 141-A female servant
(India)
|44-A tuxurioys rich
man
46-A fruit (pl.) 48-Dreadful 49-Famous French
Auther
}01-Ön account of 45-A strong vegetable |11-A city maglatrate In}52–The (German)
fiber.
|68-Interjection
old Rome
For
MR. YOSHIZAWA
Shanghai, Yesterday.-Mr. K.
Yoshizawa (Japanese Minister to China) is leaving for Nanking at 8.50 to-morrow morning by train.
-Reuter.
Imperialist; nor could he regard showy qualities of kingship would with favour a party in which the have been 'a' danger. He has extremists. seemed to have got the known. much sorrow, for the War, upper hand of the moderate see-partaking as it did, by reason of: tlon. His father had just died, his family relationships, of the rancour accused the nature of civil war, was an even and party Liberals of having worried him greater torture for him than for It is a melancholy fact about into his grave.
the majority of his aubjects. All human nature that
the more wonderful is the triumph It
The King's Decision realises how precious possession is Excuses there were in plenty if won by means so elusive, ao be seen inevitable. until it is in danger of losing it. the new King had wished to in- gentle, as to and the truth must have come dulge any personal prejudices that But inevitable it was not. home to many during the King's he might have. For the second could it have been won except by illness. The fear of losing him election of 1910 yielded results natural political gifte so fortified has made our loyal esteem seem that were capable of the inter- by study, and hard work as to be- cold and unappreciative, and has protation that the country was come unerring constitutional in replaced by genuine affection undecided. The Liberal majority, and admiration. It is not for me, apart from the eighty Nationalists, says "Scrutator" in the "Sunday was much the same, and barely Times," to essay an estimate of exceeded twenty, as in the pre- those personal qualities which vious January,' and it might
Shanghai. Yesterday.As the outcome of very friendly associa have contributed to increase a plausibly be argued that it was popular affection the depth and right to exclude the Nationalist, tlon socially and in sport. the 2nd sincerity of which were hardly, whose political aim was Home Bn. Scots Guards on Jan. 18 pre- suspected by the generality of his Rule for Ireland, and who avow.sented the 4th United States subjects. But it may not be in-edly voted on general political statuette of the Guards Drummer. Marines with a beautiful silver appropriate to write of the King issues, not on their merits, but as statesman.' A salutary rule solely to serve that end. So over- The 4th Marines yesterday at the current political controversy, but majority in the Lords that to con beautifully engraved silver sbield ture) presented the Guards with a
while it hides the faults of the vert it into a majority peera unwise, it also obscuros the vir- would have had to be created in "in appreciation of happy affilla- tues of the wise monarch, and it such numbers as to destroy the tion in Shanghal."-Reuter. has worked to the disadvantage of social value of a peerage, King George. All feel that he all he knew, he ran the risk if he has been a good and wise King. yielded of alienating those on hut because his name is sedulous whose help he could rely if popo ly kept out of polities not all know lar excesses threatened the how good ar-how wise,
stability of the State. Yet the George V.'s reign has been the King never hesitated, and when most difficult and anxious if in Lord Morley came down to the some respects the most glorious House of Lords and announced period of our history. Victoria's that the King had consented to task was relatively easy, for she state the necessary number of came to the throne at a time when peers the Opposition at once col- the political clouds left by the lapsed, and the crisis was over. wars with Napoleon were begin- The event proved that the King's ning to clear, and her reign coin-decision was wise, but it was n cided with a growth of national į decision that only one whose un- prosperity for which there have derstanding of what was the duty been few parallels in the history of а constitutional monarch of the world. A young Queen amounted almost to genius could has, too, the advantage of engag. have made. Victoria would prob- ing sentiment, and her virtues ably have decided differently, and were enhanced by the unpopular. Victoria would have been wrong. ity of her predecessors. At the
The Labour Government end of her reign the British Grown A difficulty similar in principle, had gathered an Elizabethan nim-though very different in its inci- bus, less from her political wis-dent, arose when the Labour Gov- dom, which was limited. than ernment, was defeated after being from her length of years and from in power for a few months. the halcyon history of her reign. was a minority Government, and
A sudden fall in temperature, a Edward VII. had the gift of ap it was plausibly argued that an- spell of wet bleak days, these are pealing to crowds and certain other general election was un- trying tests to the stamina of all, aqulline traits of character which
that the King and especially dangerous to those compelled attention everywhere. might invite the larders of the afflicted with constipation, liver He maintained the Crown in the other parties to form a Govern- | weakness, imperfect digestion, prestige which he had inherited, ment. Many Liberals made no such people being particularly but ha reign was felt to be a secret of their expectation. that susceptible to chills and colds. period of transition, and it was the invitation would come to Fortify yourself against such too short to test the quality of his themselves rather than to the weather changes. Sustain your political gifts, considerable As Conservatives, who had just been general health by keeping your these were.
beaten at the polls on the issue of digestive tract in good steady An Unparalleled Strain a General Tariff. Moreover, the working order. Pinkettes, the The testing time came under right to dissolve, Parliament is dainty little laxatives, Ilver regula- George. He became King in the admittedly one of the prerogatives tors, give just the aid you need, middle, of the greatest constitu- of the Crown! But again the and they do without causing the tional crisis since 1688, and for King in interpreting that right slightest pain, discomfort, or in- the next fourbsen or fifteen years, chose to follow the advice of his convenience. In brief, "Pinkettes almost down to the present day, Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, keep you well." Of chemists he was under a consant strain, and again he was wise. As everywhere at 60 cents per vial. greater than, perhaps, any British happened, Labour WAA badly King has ever had to endure. boaten at the polls, and would One alip, a single failure of judg-have profited if Mr. MacDonald's ment or temper, and the accumul-jadvice had been disregarded. ated popularity of the Crown But the union of all parties in might have crumbled. No one support of the Crown might well has ever whispered that there was have been broken for ever. No- one. And the most wonderful evi-thing has been more conspicuous dence of his achievement is that in Parliament than the genuine- few of his subjects ever realisedness of Labour's sympathy with that there was an achievement at the Crown. It seemed to go far all. Thrones tettered all over beyond a personal sympathy with Europe; that his Throne stood the sufferings of a good man and safer than ever was taken as a a kind, gentle soul, and to show simple matter of course by his a genuine attachment to the in- people. A legend of amiability atitution of monarchy in this and gentleness grew up about him, country. Right down to 1880 the and those who troubled to reflect Crown never commanded auch un- Victorian on the strength of the monarchy animity among the in England were satisfied to find
in it a sufficient explanation.
necessary
Radicals.
and
It
Sympathy With the People Victoria's hold en har people in her later years was that of a legend and a symbol. Edward
But mere amiability would not have achieved what he has done. The late Lord Oxford is credited with the saying that King VII. was popular by reason of a George had been born in a pri- personality at once masterful and vate station his political abilities genial and a reputation for state would have made him Prime craft, especially in the depart. Minister. The two were friends, ment of foreign affairs. George as is well known, but Asquith was is the first King whose sympathy never the man to pay dla com- with the people is direct and in- pliments, even to the best of dependent of opinion, class, or frienda. He must have recoghfs-party. He will go down to hig-
ed behind the auavity and moderatory as the ideal constitutional tion political gifts of a very high monarch in our history. Victoria order and, indeed, nothing less made many enemies and took will account for the success with little pains to conceal the partial- which he brought the Crown and ity of her political sympathies. the country through the crisis of Edward VII. had views on foreign his reign.
Testing Time The King came to the throne midway between the two General Elections of 1910. Political pas sfon ran higher in this country than at any time since the Whig Revolution. The Liberals, return |HONG KONG HEIGHTS ed to power four years before by
(The solution of the above oross-word puscle will appear in to-morrow's issus along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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the greatest majority of the cen-
policy which were by no means universally hold by his subjects. King George is the first monarch whose position in politics is so completely detached from his own personal opinions or from those of any party or school of thought that national is the only word that describes it.
The achievement is the more For the information of visitors tury, found their polley thwarted memorable because there is no the following list of some of the by the opposition of the Lords, sort of trouble and anxiety that bighest points on the Island and and, having gone to the country he has not had to face. A grave Mainland is published:-
Victoria Peak
Feet.
Island.
Signal Station Mt. Parker... Mountain Lodge
The Eyrie
1784 1726 1721
Peak Hotel
1805
Talkoo Sanatorium
1000
Mt. Davis.
STT
Bowen Road (filterboda)
Taimoshan
8124
on the cry that the will of the constitutional crisis was solved, people must prevail, had come only to be succeeded by the threat 1828 back with greatly reduced of civil war in Ireland, which was 1774 majority. No King has ever been then superseded by Armageddon, placed in a more difficult position, and that in its turn gave way to for the Opposition regarded the the rise of a new párty, whose result of the election, as a moral successes have from time to time victory for themselves, and were filled even the least rervous with bent on continuing their realat alarm. The King's is not a mas- ance. It was a time when even : terful personality; his distinguish- wise men were in danger of losing qualities are rather, indifness, ́ing their heade." The King had humanity, and balance. It may little cause to love the Liberals, be that these qualities have helpe for, he was known to be a strong, að hin vin eri
Mata da Mainlandı med Feet.
Talmoshan
Kowloon Peak
3124
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