THE CHINA MAILS THESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935
A view of Sandringham House, the late King's Norfolk home, where be passed away last night.
PEN PORTRAIT OF THE
LATE KING
THE KING HIS INSPIRING LEADERSHIP
Unifying Figure Of Nation
RARE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING
King George stood resplendent as a unifying figure in the British Empire amid themomertous changes that marked his long and beneficent reign, with their im pacts on the economic and social structures of civilisation.
His nobility of character; his example to the British people in their war and economic crises, and in national movements to which he had given the impulse of inspiring leadership: his wide range of sym- pathy with all classes, and his devotion to the cause of world! pesce. made his reign memorable.
His Majesty became the first of the British line of the oldest of the Royal Houses now reigning in Europe when, in 1917. he pro- claimed that the Royal House an Family should henceforth known as the House and Family of Windsor.
be
Before The War Between his accession in 1910:
HE WAS "FULL OF CONSCIENCE" and the outbreak of war, in 1914
Vigorous Mind
His Majesty the late King George broadcasted a Christmas memage to the whole Empisen
25, in which he referred to the peoples of his far-flung dominions as "members of one great family.
LIFE OF KING GEORGE V.
Eventful 26 Years In English History
MEMORABLE TOUR OF INDIA
King George took a less prominent There has been no more apt thorough in all be undertook. As part in European affairs than King characterisation of King George in youth be set himself to master Edward VII. had done during the He was well than that applied to him once by seamanship. as in manhood he ser-flatter's reign. Lord Morley after a visit to Windved a faithful apprenticeship to acquainted, however, with the true Kingeraft, so when destiny called situation and was prepared, when sor Castle.
"Conscientious !** said. Lord him to the highest position in the the great crisis developed. to play Commonwealth be devoted himsell his part wisely and well, with an Morley-He is full of conscience.
His Most Excellent Majesty unreservedly to the due performan-answerving patriotism that was not
surpassed by any of his subjects. The second and only surviving George the Fifth, by the grace of fee of his allotted task.
It was during one of several visits, son of the late King Edward VIL God of Great Britain. Ireland and
He had a vigorous and well-stor to the front. in 1915, that King and of the late Queen Alexandrs, the British Dominions. King. De-
somewhat King George V. was born on June feader of the Faith Emperor offed mind and a tenacious memory. George India-always bowed before in in His personal knowledge of his king serious weident through his horse 3 1865, and, as Prince of Wales, ner Sovereign. His consciente was dom and Empire was more exten-rearing, and falling backwards on he succeeded his father, on the sive than that of any other man in him when it became startled by latter's death, on May 6, 1910, his King.
Observation of the sadden cheering of a regiment being formally proclaimed King dominions. From his youth up. the call of his
was inspecting. The three days later. The Coronation duty never failed to command àscenes, events, and men, was sup-which he
some took place on June 22, 1911. prompt, steady and cheerful res-plemented by close study of the accident laid him up for
In all weeks.. The King visited France It was on the death of his elder! ponse. Submission is never aproblems of government. martyrdom: by obedience he quali-these matters George F was quali-again in 1917, and after the armis brother, the Duke of Clarence, in Palace during the late King's serious Tiness in December 1928.
tie? to advise his advisers. fied himself to rule.
He was naturally and by training
THE KING AT WORK
Narrative Of His Daily Life
MONARCH NEVER OFF DUTY
met
with
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rationing
The crowd waiting for the posting of the balletin outside Bockingkar
The Prince won promotion in the Navy, because of sheer merit. Promoted to commander in 1891, he
THE KING A MAN
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THE PRINCE
HEIR TO HALF THE WORLD
Most Popular Figure In History
ONE OF MOST ENIGMATIC
Edward Prince of Wales, the most eligible man in the world- and the loneliest is forty-one rears old
The Prince is the centre of attraction everywhere he goes. Cheerful, smiling, charming, whe ther surrounded by officialdom or in a circle of friends..
But always, in reality alone with his burden of responsibility which there is none to share. ~.
That is the secret of the Prince to-day. Be echoes in the present the cry of the widowed Queen Victoria in the past I am
alone.
He has more cause than abe had.
Heir to half the world, in Dean Stanley's phrase, he is less free to do as he likes than the hum- blest of the millions, who may one day-be-his subjects:
Still Struggling
This is the bond against which the Prince has struggled for forty. tears and is still struggling to day.
Fee Determined and inflexible af purpose once his mind is made up, the Prince has striven from his earliest years for personal freedom in his leisure hours, for, freedom to choose his own friends and his own. "ments. -
amuse-
To agrest extent he has schieved his end.
One subject only rouses the Prince to siger and he can be as roval his wrath as he is charming in his smile
No one must talk to him warriage
Likely Bachelor
Those who are in the inner circles of his friendship say it is unlikely, now that be wil
ever marry.
Golf and gardening, the pur suits of a man who has settled his way of life, are the two hobbies which appeal to him.
Had he been born a labourer, the Prince. would still have con- strived to have "a full life. His mind too active to allow him ever to waste time.
He has a healthy contempt for bores and long-winded, folk, and natural melination towards people with keen brains, who help to keep
Plain
tice he made another visit to Paris 1992 that he was unexpectedly He had but one object in life. It and to the battlefields
placed in the direct line of succes-the West Indies, Fiji, Yokobams, War Time Economies sion. and as Heir-Apparent, he Hong Kong and Singapore, with was to promote the welfare of his people. He held fast to the prin
The King and the other mem-married, in 1893, the Princess tour of the Holy Land on the return ciple that peace and goodwill Sers of the Royal Family exercised Victoria Mary, only daughter of journey
common Her Royal Highness the Duchess of among all classes are of supreme war-time economies in importance to national well-being;
with the rest of the people. Volun-Teck. Of that union five sons and and he clung no less tenaciously to the ideal of closer and ever closer tary food economy was practised one daughter were born. One of union between all parts of the widen the Royal household from the the sons, Prince John, who was assumed command of the cruiser activities, seen or unseen, during fung Empire, as the surast hope day when the need for it was first born in 1995, died in his fourteenth Melampus during the naval man those terrible years will last longer of prosperity for his own people urged by the Food Controller and rear. Those living, in the order of oeuvres of that year. In the than the fine example of abstinence of their birth, are Prince Edward, following year his brother died, and and restraint set by the Royal and the surest guarantee of the when, compulsory
meat, sugar, and fats was intro-Prince of Wales and the King's he returned home to assume respon household. It was far otherwise it peace of the world.
The characteristic which perhaps duced. the King, and his family, beir; the Duke of York; Princess sibilities that, at one time of his Germany. The Berliner Tageblatt
His tastes are simple. more than any other endeared King in common with other citizens. Mary, Princess Royal and Countess life, did not appear to be more than for November 20, 1916, stated, rehim young
he was created Duke of York AL-Kaiser's palace after the revolu food, and very little of it, is the George to his people was his broad had their ration cards and lived of Harewood; the Duke of Glouces remotely possible. In May, 1892 arding the stores found in the ex-
strictly within the allowance ofiter; and the Duke of Kent.
though now applying himself dili-tion: One could not imagine that Prince's rule of diet for himself, Years At Sea The accompanying article, writ-humun sympathy.
was the most democratic food permitted.
The death of the Duke of gently to the responsibilities of his after four years of war such colossal and his own rooms are furnished
in the plainest of styles. ten by Corinne Irwin, and publish-
In 1913 the King suspended the sat upon a
There is no note of luxury in the ed in the London "Daily Depress" monarch that ever. of February se, affords a striking throne. No good cause appealed to serving of alcoholic liquor in the Clarence at once transformed the new station in life, he was still piles of food could still be found in
for increased thez Prince George, for the latter's occasional command, and n due amounted to several hundred thou-Prince's private spartments at
course he reached the ranks of sand marks. We were told on good Fork House or at the Fort? insight into the late King Georges hinn vain for help or counten-Royal household in order to assist significance of life for his brother,, afforded the oppertunity to take store. The value of the provisions crowded and extraordinarily busy ance Misfortune, hardship or dis in the movement
laster never failed to move him to temperance and economy in war-early he had in it only a remote
time. There was also his spon- possibility of succession to the Rear-Admiral (1901). Vice-Admiral anthority that these piles of stores. They are in almost Spartan
were for the Kaiser's private house taste. (1903), and Admiral (1907). daily Efe.
hold, and not for the court. This week is an exceptionally quick and gencine sympathy.
He is fond, too, of simple clothes Hours Of Leisure
aneous gift of £100,000 in March Throne.
With the Navy practically as his
Empire Travels
Did the post-war period bring busy one for the King, states the
He shared his people's love for 1916, to the British Exchequer out
The King's Empire travels were relation and repose? No more an old sports cost, and a pair of writer of the article. He is leaving!
to the King that to his people.grey-flannels are his favourite garb for Compton Place: Eastbourne, atal healthy sport, and his happiest of the Privy Pane, to be used as public school-it was in his thir-
hours of leisure; were spent in his the Government, might decide inteenth year that he joined the tram undertaken Chiefly Curing the
ing ship Britannia at Dartmouth- the week-end. This has meant
his. fondness for the ses has been period that preceded his accession. Even in the time of his last severe for working in the garden at Sen- that he has had to hold two Investiyecht. He was not so regular a relief of war expenditure.
Personal Sacrifices
Icharacteristic of him ever since, as since when his only long tour has illness, it may safely be conjecturedningdale, and in his wardrobe there been that to India, shortly after the that he still thought of the nation, are several lounge suits that he bas
bad for many years. tures of the honours in the Nemcegoer as his father, but he had! Year's list one on Tuesday, the the Englishman's love of a good
the critical days off has been exemplified by his close horse and was a keen judge of a Again, in other on Wednesday,
Then, yesterday between elever ice. He often attended Rugby 1931, when there was a stirring association with the Navy, and by Coronation, in 1911. His most as the nation did of him. and twelve, he held a Privy Coun-internationals and the Football Cup call throughout Great Britain for his devotion, in his leisure hours, Empire in 1901, when, as the hike A Kingly Worker tests common sacrifice. the 5mg to vachting and to yacht racing final. as well 35 cricket voluntarily reduced by £50,000 his famous craft, the Britannia i Melbourne, the first Common his reward, not only in popular re First the King approved the pro- He was regarded as one of the civil list already much depleted by Even at the early age of nine years wealth Parliament, and thus made card and recognition, but in his own picture not only of a great dynastic His Majesty's visit in 1901 as the Person. He did not look his age chief, but even more of an English lee Day. a public holiday in Endeadliest shots in Europe and, at the economic circumstances of the he was aboard the Efildegarde his second visit to Australia (2 land, Wales, and Northern Ireland.shooting parties, he was generally times. Apart from these sacrifices. King Edward's yacht, when it won
It was only a year or two after Duke of Cornwal and York, amid latterly, as many thought he more parent and grandparent, moving in have little liking for rich idlers, and palace and cottage can both share (It was already a Bank Holiday in the chief contributor to the bag and substantial monetary gifts for the Queen's Cup.
Happily for King George, for his the relief of the unemployed, oné
and manifestations of loyalty, gave Scotland.)
ed where the better part lay. He
The King in his home, seated at Throne, and for the Nation, he had recalls, among others of his bene-joining the training ship Britain memorable scenes of enthusiasm than did in 1910. He is known to that home atmosphere of which
tact with an heir to the Throne found true profit in service. Hap us wife one whom he regarded as factions, his gift of £5,000 to the that the King, as Prince George, Australians their first intimate con 20 wonder. His own career show the secreta This inspiration and helpmate. He British Red Cross in 1915; and of Fisited Australia, in 1881, with his was once asked by an old ziend $20,000 to the British Disabled midshipman brother, the Duke of Far from being desirous of preser-Bays many foreigner is the simple English breakfast-table, or Clarence, in the course of a tour moving an ancephere of formality who of his many advisers had been Soldiers Fund in 1917.
(Continued on Page 11)the Bacchante that also embraced the fatire King impressed everyone Sourth v. vehich has sich's head enjoying the wireless, or looking of the greatest service to him.
cal.
clamation appointing May 6, Jubi-
He pricked the roll of sheriffs for England and Wales, marking each Then he appointed the sherifi for
name with a steel bodkin.
his own Duchy of Lancaster."
To-day he holds a Levee at St James Palace between eleren and twelve.
matches.
My wife," he replied without a Imoment's hesitation.
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No rulers throughout the range of Royal Time Table These are extra duties, Additional British history have been so closel to his regular busy day:
associated in public life as George Many people who imagine ples-and. Mary. Strong and secure in sure is the chief prerogative of mutual love and confidence, the kingship will be staggered at the royal pair shared equally all the amount of work the King does in a cares, responsibilities, labours and joys incidental to their position. day, although he is now 69.png
Yesterday, for instance, he wae One in aim, one in their love for called at 7 a. Fifteen minutes their people, one in the desire to Later his page brought a cup of be of service, they merit the love black coffee to him in his dressing, and loyalty which has been their
neward.
room.
It was not until the War came
After dressing he strolled around that the people were afforded a the garden with his Aberdeen ter- rier. (Sometimes, especially in glimpse of the woman of dauntless spring and summer, the King rides courage, warm-hearted, feeling in- in the Eow at this time. A horse tensely for all suffering, pain or be- is always saddled ready at the reavement, and seeking daily op Boyal Mews in case be wants it.) portumities to comfest and sym
Then, between eight thirty and pathise. mine, he looked over some urgent The feeling evoked smong all classes at the time of the King's private correspondence.
At nine o'clock he took light last severe illness was marked by deep sympathy with the Queen and breakfast with the Queen.
For this hour the King and Queen unbounded admiration for the cour have & private conversation to-age she displayed throughout, they gether. This rule is never broken,
Between ten-and-ten-thérés
King glanced ove
newpape
the
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period of severe trial
nating, rejoiced with her at the lift
ling of the ck
whole nation wit equ
ith her in bec-
portant mission was his tour of the
Above all things, then, King
of Cornwall and York, he opened. George was a worker. And he had
bons found delight in the mental
with his extreme modesty and his In no small degree, this capacity over his renowned collection of The British Nary touches) the stamps of the Empire obvious enjoyment of the many in-for devotion owes something to a stamps, in which (most happy of formal private functions for which naval training
is no school for slackers, and in it form the most important section provision had been made on his a-sailor prince must find his place these are the intimate scenes,
tour.
Shakespeare's well-known words concerning Henry V.-
Hear him debate of cour
afkirs,
precisely as other men do. To the pleasant, in themselves, and fur- It was upon his return from his end the King remained in many ther, for all they imply, stabilising historic Empire tour that the Duke respects a typical sailor and reassuring, in which the loyal of York was created Prince of heart," it has been said, "has never leges chiefly take pleasure. Wales. Then, in 1910, came the left the Navy. He retired to greatest change in his life, wrought land, but not, as so many sailors by the fatal. Tiness, of his illustristurally do, to rest rather to ap Fous father, and his own accession plyde new, and wider conditions to the Throne as King-Emperor the lessons learned at sea, and in
Although King George se
many ports. It is impossible to to the Throne on May 6, 1910 t meet a more satisfying type of was not wal June 22, 193, tant character than is often found in
Familiar as his garter, those for whord" a naval grounding- be was crowned in Westm Abbey suid imposing and histori has been followed by a still larger may be regarded as presenting ar
experience of life Such men can ideal perfection perhaps never ful the with a double fitness be called the realised. But George Vás ma The year which
morable one in salt of the earth, and to their fel arch, came wonderfully
itself is a proof for the King,
lowship King George by every right for the gre
his coronasti:
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