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SIR M. HANKEY,
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RULER OF BRITAIN.”.
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LADY FINED, DANGEROUS DRIVING OF CAR
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(By Milton Bronner), The man that big sums of money literary fame won't tempt that's known in the offices of the cleyer the way Sir Maurice Hankey is
gentlemen whose Job It is to get best sellers written.
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was summoned for having driven car along Nathan Road on October 7, in a manner dangerou to the
Defendant danted public. charge.
By dangling fat check-books in Evidence was given by Mr. C A. front of their eyes, the book pub- Bunney, of the R.A.S.C., who said lishers of America, Germany, that, he was driving the RA. Ser- Britain, and France have been vice Corps car along Nathan Road able to get the World War story to Kowloon City.
When rearing and the peace story of nearly the Police Training School, he evory famous eoldier and states-noticed the defendant's car coming man. All except Hankey. He is up behind a lorry which was travell- adamant. He will probably never ing in the opposite direction. With- write his story: And if he over out tooting her horn the defendant does, he will probably stipulate swung widely out and Mr. Bunney that it shall not be published until had to turn sharply to the left to a hundred years after his death. avold an accident. There were For Hankey knows more big two ladies in the front seit of de secrets than any living man. This fendant'a car, and they had a child little military chap, who looks so between them. unmilitary, has packed away in his Major Harris, who was a pas diaries and note books and doeu-senger in. the R.A.S.C. Car,
gave ments, and also in his clever brain, corroborative evidence. Their speed more inside stuff than any dozen was about 20 milles an hour at the men who have given their memoira time: to the world. He has todian of the "low-down stuff" of cabinets and conferences and com- missions for so long that people forget that he ever did anything
else.
been cus
Lematang
He was born in 1877, educated at Rugby, and went into the Royal ...Empress of Russin Marine Artillery in 1896 when he
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was only 18. At 22 he was 4 Captain and when he finally and definitely retired from that body in 1008 it was with, the rank of lieutenant colonel.
made
Defendant, in giving evidence, said that she did not think any more about the mishap. until one day Sergeant Clarke stopped her in Nathan Road and asked defendant if she had met with an accident. She could not understand how the trouble arose.
·
Mrs. Stokes, who was a passenger in defendant's ear, maintained that that part of Nathan Road where they passed the lorry was the widest place. The complainant's car was travelling at a faster rate than de- fendant's.
Mrs. Winifred Labrum gave evi- dence of a similar nature.
The Magistrate, in convicting. remarked that the defendant should have seen whether the road was clear in front and not have swerved out at 20 miles an hour. A fine of $10 was imposed.
old man of Lloyd George. The tigerlsh.
French Premier, Georges Clemenceau conceived tremen-
were discussing some important point and wanted some particular document to refer to the Tiger would turn to Sir Maurice and say:
"Come along!-Pull it out of that bag of yours."
To his wife, Clemenceau said her husband was the best man în the world.
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Quick Rise to Fame. In the meantime, the government had already found he was an ideal man for all kinds of jobs and 80 all kinds of jobs were given him. From 1809-to 1901 he served on the Ramillies, flagship of the fleet The former artilleryman showed so quick a grasp of naval mattera that from 1902 to 1906 he was Department. In 1907 he was made attached to the Naval Intelligence 6.Naval Intelligence Officer with the
Mediterranean fleat. In 1908 he dous admiration for him, When was given a tremendous boost, the Big Three-President Wilson, being made assistant secretary of | Lloyd George and Clemenceau— the Committee on Imperial De- fence, the body charged with or ganizing all the war defences of the British empire. In four years' time he made himself so indis- Empress of Canada
ponsable that he Was (Due 'Vancouver, B.C., Nov. 14.)
secretary of that body. Parcals ..Oct. 29, 3 p.m.
When the World War broke out Registration
4.15 p.m. and England faced the greatest Letters
.5 p.m.crisis of its history, a spacial War
Cabinet inside the-regular cabinet Given Grant by Parliament, was formed. It was necessary to When the peace' conference was have a secretary and the whole
over a grateful Parliament gëve government turned with (Due San Francisco, Nov. 20.)
one ac him a grunt of $125,000. He has. cord to Haakey. In the following been the chief of the British Registration .Oct. 29, 4.15 p.n
year, Letters
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when the Imperial War secretariat at every international Shanghal and Europe via Siberia Empress of Cahada
Cabinet was formed, Hankey was conference held since the war, once more secretary. He knew so winding up with the recent Naval Registration...Oct. 20, 6 pm. much about the defences of the Conference. In the closing hours Letters
...6 p.mempire, he was so quickly recep- of the latter, when a continental OCTOBER 30..
tive of new ideas and he originated delegate made a speech paying Menado Maru
so many of his own that nobody high compliments to Sir Maurice, else was thought of for the job.nore applauded louder than the When the inventors of the tank American delegates, headed by were fighting army and red tape Secretary of State Stimson:
As soon as the Naval meetings to get the machine adopted, it was Hankey who largely won their were over, Sir Maurice went back battle for them.
to his clerk to the Frivy Council, When the cabinet
had any at which the King discusses with special little job to do they called his Councillors all the secrets of in Hankey. They all remembered empire; Secretary to the Cabinet; what Lord Fisher, the famous and Secretary to the Committee on First. Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Imperial Defence, had once sald of him:
In 1921, when the magazine, theers make betting a profitable side. Der A Wings Round Table, announced an article line, and the backers, Including by him, people thought at last the saloons, collecting and rein- women and children, overcrowd they were going to hear something vesting their winnings from stakes But Sir Maurice only told how of a fow peace. diplomacy by conference had de- veloped as one of the results of the war. He modestly "said he knew a
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"British Colonel House." After a while other people gave him other appelations, Some call ed trim the British Colonel House, little about it as he had attended under 17, betting under 16 years of because of the implicit faith the 488 war-time Premier, Lloyd George, since 1914 and had been on the age, and payment of winninge until, K. Gort. Lois...71% Prema had in him. Others sald he was secretariat-of-all of them. With the next day. The Government's at present, is the real ruler of the country. One equal modesty, as an oid cricket betting revenue. of his gobs was to tell the country player, he compared his job with £220,000 annually. what the war cabinet had decided. that of the wicket keeper!
So nobody was surprised when he "Mistakes by either are apt to was knighted in 1916, The only | prove costly; both have to be pre- surprise was that he did not get pared, for hard knocks, and both A higher honour.
see a good deat of the game." When
statesman the generals met at Versailles to draft | of the game for the past 20 years the peace treaty, Sir Maurice was that the book publishers can't get right there, in charge of the Sir Maurice to write a book about British secretariat and right-hand it. He knows, too much.
Doctor, "I fear your husband is not so well-to-day, Mrs. Murphy: Is he keeping to the simple diet I
Mrs. Murphy:
and It's because he has see so much prescribed? That he's not,
sorr. He says he'll not be starving himself to death just for the sake of living a few years longer."
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