SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933.
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H.M. The King Prefers
Humorous Items,
www
ENJOYS COMMAND PERFORMANCE
London.
Once a year the King becomes Commoner for 24 hours.
of York went too.
looked fitter for years.
Military Efficiency
MAY VISIT TURKEY AND RUSSIA
(From Our Own Correspondent.] Rome, July 2.
VIGOROUS
VETERANS
Sir Ian Hamilton
Active At 80.
EARLY RISING STATESMEN
*
London.
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story.
THE UNSEEN
COLLECTION
By Stefan.
Zweig,
WO stations out of Dresden little provincial town, rare speci-
Ta stately gentleman got mens, right up to our own day. Hus
So I had
·
MONDAY'S STORY
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into our carriage, greeted the letters were masterpieces of cali- Marshal Chang Haueh-liang and; Sir Ian Hamilton was born in company courteously, and then, saphy, neatly written, and all sums his family, who are now in residence Corfu, 80 years ago. To-day he as I looked up, nooded again. to were underlined with a ruler in red alin Rome. had an excellent voyage to is one of our few really Grandme as to an old acquaintance.
link. And no wrote all his figures Italy, and have all settled down as Old Men.
could not place him at first, but twice, so that there should be mo I used to Occidental customs. The What a life he has lived! He as soon as he smilingly mention-possibility of error. He goes with the Queen to the bealth of all is excellent, despite the was in the Afghan War, the led his name I instantly remem-fact that he only used odd scraps This, and the London Palladium for the Command food problem, and they have already Boer War, the Nile Expedition, bered him. He was, one of the of paper and saved envelopes, Indi- Variety Performance and with her adjusted themselves to the strange the Burmese Expedition and the most respected art and antique cated the pettiness and fanatical)
conditions.
Defence of Ladysmith. Then he dealers in Berlin, and before the thrift of a hopeless provincial. In enjoys the simple humours of the
The Marshal is employed investi-served as Military Representa war I had often been to him to addition to his name, these, remark- man in the street. And how he does gating the Fascist movement, and tive of India with the Japanese view and buy old books and auto-able documents were always formal- enjoy it!
to this end has the assistance of a Field Army in Manchuria. And graphs. We chatted a bit about ly signed with all his titles- This year the Duke and Duchess leading party member, though he is he went to work with enormous things that didn't matter. Then Forestry Commissioner,
more interested in the administra-vigour during the Great War as he suddenly said:-
retired, Lieutenant, retired, Holder of the tion of the military and air forces Commander of the Mediterranean "I must tell you where I have Iron Cross, First Class. As a It was "Crazy Week" at the Pal-than the political aspects of the Expeditionary force.
just come from. It is the strangest veteran of the war of the 70's he Zadium. All the turns were mixed movement.
His famous message to Bird- experience I have had in the thirty-must. if he were still alive, be carry- up and overlapped into each other an English tutor, and his daughter membered: -
His two sons are studying under wood at Anzac will always be re- seven years of my career as an arting a good eighty years un his
"You have got to dealer. Comedians wandered into the stalls under an Englian governess, in the get through this difficult busi-things are now in art-dealing, since simonious person manifested
You probably know how back. But this absurdly par or fell into the orchestra pit. And hope of being able, early, to attendiness. Now you have only to dig the value of money began to dis-collector extraordinary discernment, £3,000 was raised for music-hall school in England, while Marshal dig, dig,. until you are safe"
Chang hopes very soon to continue
sipate Hike vapour. The new rich amazing knowledge and excellent charities
Now he devotes much of his have suddenly discovered a love of taste..
As I slowly drew up the bis investigations of military and time to upholding the rights of Gothic Madonnas and incunabula, bist of his orders over a period of The King was given a great wel air administrations both in France the ex-soldier. They say he re old etchings and pictures. You can- nearly sixty years, the earliest come. Everybody had been worried and England.
ceives more than 30 letters He has just returned from a two day, many of them from
not give them as much as they want. amounting only to a few shillings, by reports about his health, and the
weeks motor trip as far as Paris who hope he will find work for against them lest they clear you vincial at a time when you could men You must actually be on your guard I realised that that this little pro- pessimists had been specially busy travelling different routes. From them. He does the best he can. out of house and home. They would have bought for a dollar a stack of when it was announced that he Paris ne flew to London by an Im- Recently he inauguranted an love to buy the very stud out of the finest German woodcuts, must would not attend the first Courts perial Airways air liner and retura-Empire wine week at at West your shirt-sleeve, the lamp off your have quietly got together collec- of the season. So everyone strained, ed by a French plane.
End Hotel, and paid a graceful writing-table. So it is getting eno-tion of prints that could hold its During his few days in England tribute to some of the Empire's stantly more difficult to find new own at the side of the most famous forward as they rose for the en- The saw the military display at vintage. trance of the Royal Party. And it'Olympia and the Aldershot Talloo,
goods. He is one of the most inde-i was decided that the King had not from both of which he learned much. fatigable men of his age. He istunity of this sudden buying manis "Against the penetrating impor- and was impressed not only by the called every day at a 6.45 am, all resistance is futile. It was great to see him sitting liness of the immense crowds. Attish business men of half his age. I would have preferred to poll down military efficiency but by the order which is earlier than most Bri-overnight been cleared, out again. eagerly in his box, a merry twinkle in his eye and laughter on his lips going and coming in great good mornings from the time he is established business that my father the Tattoo he saw over 60,000 people Sir Ian writes in bed most the blinds, ashamed that our old- Now and then the King would miss humour, and had the experience of called a point, and then the Duchess of walking after midnight in the midst Scotch oatmeal
until they bring his had taken over from my grand- York would lean forward and ex of a great English crowd from the eight o'clock or so.
porrridge at father had nothing left to offer ex- plain it to him. Once Teddy Knox Tattoo grounds to Aldershot, where he gets up and tackles his day's days no street-hawker would have bought from us alone for shillings
After that cept some rubbish that in the old
in the new State. What he had dressed as a coster flower-seller,
letters. threw a pink carnation to the Royal he stayed the night.
He expects to spend several weeks
put on his barrow. Box and the Duke of York stood
in England in the near future, dur-early risers among the elderly idea of going through our old books, present values an amazing sum; and In this quandary I hit on the and pence at a time in the course of half a century represented at up and secured it for the King.
fing which
time he hopes to see men than among the young ones to dig out some of our old custom-on top of that one would expect him There were fine spectacular scenes many leading industries and pro- these days. and elaborate dance displays in the minent people.
ers, from whom I might be able to to have pulled off as good bargains, show, but it seemed to be the come visit Turkey, and if possible Russia, Hyde Park before breakfast. Mr. ly came on a big bundle of letters 1914 we had not received another Mr. Baldwin often walks in cajole back a few things. 1.sudden at auctions and other dealers. Since dians, with their simple domestic to see for himself what is happen- Ramsay MacDonald is usually from perhaps the oldest of our cus humour that most appealed to the ing in those countries, and no doubt sitting down to breakfast with tomers,
order from him. I knew every- King and Queen.
he will spend a little time in Ger-Ishbel by about eight o'clock
who had escaped my thing, however, that had happened memory only because since the war in the art world, and the auction They obviously loved Billy Ben-many." nett ("Almost a Gentleman") in his: He is enjoying the best of health young man is Mr. Gordon Sel-come to us for a single purchase or could not have escaped me. And
But the real terror of the slack had broken out in 1914 he had not
or private sale of such a collection epics of nonsense such as "Alumette, and during the motor trip took spells fridge, who runs the big depart-inquiry.
at the wheel, averaging 200 miles ment store in Oxford Street. He back this is no
The correspondence went consequently this amazing "Yes," Billy would say. "The doc- Since, he abandoned his old environ- always gets there by nine o'clock nearly sixty yeRIT.
exaggeration
must still be alive, or the collection for sent me up the mountains for ment he is a new man.
He had bought was in the hands of his heirs. in the morning! Reuter, found I never my kidneys--but
During his first weeks in Rome!
from my father and grandfather,
"The matter interested me 50. them. So I had a cup of coffee. 1,the Marshal had talks with both
yet I could not recall that he had
next had it half-and-half; half in the cup Signor Mussolini and the H.M. the
ever entered our shop during the en-much that I left the very and half in the saucer."
King, and found them both very In-
tire thirty-seven years I had been evening, last night, it was straight And the Queen would shake with terested in affairs in China.
there. Everything pointed to his for one of those impossible provin being
old-fashioned,cial towns you find in Saxony. As queer, punctilious old gentleman, one
I came of
out of the tiny railway those backwoods Germans who have station and strolled along the High here and there survived in some Street, it seemed to me almost im- possible that in the midst of these banal stucco buildings with their bourgeois lumber there should be living in one of these houses a man who owned the most magnificent prints of Rembrandt, Duerer and
of the Follies Squeegee."
laughter.
He also wants to
Then Billy would tell about his DESPERATE ·
adventures in a restaurant.
"I walked right up to the man- ager and asked if they served crabs. ""Sit down' said the manager. We serve anybody","
And then the King would laugh. They heard, too, some typical working man's humour from Billy Russell, impersonating a dole-draw-
er.
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Russell complained about the quality of his ready-made suit. "You know," he explained, "Twice) out in the rain-and it's a cop!"
Then Billy Bennett reappeared and informed the audience; "My cape.
Really, there seem to be more
U.S. CAR FIGURES DECLINE,
1,696,005 Less Vehicles In 1932.
A
MOCK ACCIDENTS AS WARNINGS.
Safety First Week In
London Suburb.
London.
Monday's story will be. "Where Beauty Lies," by Margaret Irwin,
Mantegna, perfectly complete.
New York. The number of registered ¡motor
vehicles in the United States declined 1,696,005 during 1932, a drop of 6.6 per cent, as
was astonished to be told when I compared with the previous year. according to the Vice-President
Jinquired at the Post Office whether Paris. of the Automobile Club of New
there was a forestry commissioner Every year, 800 of the 6,000 con-York.
of this name living in the town that| victs of the penal colony at Devil's He said that there were
One thing which has distin- the old gentleman was really still Island, French Guiana, try to es- total of 24,186,879 motor vehicles guished the present holiday sea- slive, and I set out on my journey registered as of December 31,800 is the number of (apparent) with much heart-beating, I confess. wife is not the sort of woman who Of these, 550 are regularly re- 1932, as compared to 25,882,884 accidents which have been obsèry-before noon. asks questions about this and that captured and the other 250 mostly on the same date in 1931. Be ed in one part of the country. "It was not hard to find him} -and where have I been? Notdie of the hardships they have to added that the decline in motor Motorists passing through the house. He lived on the second floor She always comes with me.”
face-at sea or in the forests. vehicle registrations also extend-Regate area have been startled of one of those cheap provincial And the Queen laughed again. These facts are revealed by Cap-ed to motor cycles and there were to see at several points, amast houses that, abime speculative bull- Oh yes, it was a great night-tain Pean, of the French Salvation 91,29€ registered throughout the ed-up cars at the roadside and der had hasuly run up in the Army, He has worked a great country on December 31, last, as what are apparently the bodies sixties. In answer to my irreső"] deal among the convicts of Devil's compared to 101,074 a year pre- of the occupants unconscious be-lute ring a very old, white-hairedį KOWLOON COAL DUM Island.
vious. Reuter. There are two ways of escape, he Colonial Secretary Toy. Both involve terrible hard-
ships: Receive Deputation.
Reuter
The first way is to buy, build on steal a canoe.and go down the
KING AND QUEEN FOR BALMORAL
in connection with the com-River Maroni to the ocean. Across munication sont to the Government the open ses, prevailing currents
་
concerning the coal dump at Chat- carry the craft to the Venezulaa To Leave London About
ham Road, Kowloon, a reply has coast
been received from the Colonial This means about 14 days, in an Secretary stating that he will be open bost, probably with little or happy to receive the deputation of no food or water.
August 24.
London. The King and Queen will go to residents appointed, on Tuesday Some have remained at sea for Balmoral as usual in the early
jas many as 30 daya, y t
Autumn, probably about August
She
side them.
lady, wearing a neat black coit, came The apparent accidenta, how-out at once. I handed her my card ever, are only grim warnings of and asked if I could speak to the what may happen if they do not Forestry Commissioner. hot 1: observe the rules of Safety Firated first at me and then at my card. Reigate Borough Police, have surprised and with a certain mea- been spending their spare time sure of distrust. In this world- organising a Safety First week foresaken apot, in this old-fashion- the "accidents, weed house, a visit from the outside ter.
STRANGE FACTS OF
world seemed to be an event. But she asked me in a friendly tone to wait, took the card, and went Já-
side
"I heard her whispering" and then suddenly, the loud, hectoring voice of a man: 'Oh, Mr. R...
Berlin, of the big antique-dealers.
Show hiri in, show him ini... Very glad to meet him!":"\/And pre-] sently the little woman tripped back --and invited me into the parlour."
"In the middle of a modest room!
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The deputations, which was ep- The second way of escape is to 24.
Robins Sing In Sleep. pointed at a recent meeting of re-swim the 1,500 yard wide Maroni They are due to return to sidents from the area affected, will River into Dutch territory. There London about the first week in submit a protest against the spoil- the convicts live, in hiding in hopes October but may come back ear-
Nice. ing of the amentities by having of getting to Paramaribo This lier if the early Scottish fogs while sleeping
Mackerel swim to and from coal dump in that locality.
fa an even more hazardous means trouble the King's rheumatism. of escape. The wild beasts of the
Ants, on waking, zawn and Of course it was rheumatism stretch like human beings stood, very upright, an old but still forest, the heat and lack of food that prevented the King attend- Robins sing in their sleep; and vigorous man, with a buday kill off many of the refugees from ing the Trooping of the Colour Elephants jeep standing up, moustache and wearing a corded, Devil's Island
in June. However, he had an ex-leaning first on one foot, then on semi-military indoor coat, who held Charged with stowing away from
The natives track them down in ceptionally strenuous round of another.
out both hands cordially to me, Shanghai to Hong-Kong on the order to set the reward of 7/62 official engagemenas ahead of These are some of the interYet this frank gesture of unmis President Monroe, P. C. Vaughan, head offered the Dutch authohim the World Economie Con-esting facts about the sleep of takable glad and spontaneous well- an American subject, was yester ritles, by the
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