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HERR HITLER'S BROTHER
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A traveller who has been in MATTER FOR DEEP SATISFACTION
~FOR FRIENDS OF EMPIRE
(By Andre Maurois)
the course of the last hundred to encourage, the right to wam; years, in France, in Spain, infand no wise King will ever desire Greece monarchies have turned more
All communications intended for It was, officially learned this |publication" should be addressed to morning from Monsieur Jules the Editer, and be accompanied by Learquin, the French Consul-Berlin lately says that one of the the Writer's Name and Address General for Hong Kong, that Sir most interesting people he met not necessarily for insertion, but Robert Ho Tang will be decorat was Herr Alvis Hitler, Herr Aðalf as a guarantee of good faith. 2 ed with the Order of the Com-Hitler's half-brother.
mander of the Dragon of Annam. Herr Alois Hitler, who keepa, The instructions were receivedjan inn in the Berlin West End, is from the Annam Government, and a child of his father's second mar Admiral “Esteva, Chief the friage Her Adolf, who is sevea French Naval Forces in the Far Fears younger, of his third
de-The traveller related the con into republics in Germany and Nothing must be done in the East, has been ordered to
versation he had with Herr Alois Austria emperors. have lost their reald unbeknown to the King, and The French Admiral is expect Hitler, who speaks good English
British monarchs are right in their Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1536ed to arrive here on his fagship learnt while studying hotel. But in Great Britain the mon-insistence on this prerogative re- Lamotte-Picquet Thursday keeping in England and Ireland archy is far more secure in 1936 maining inviolate. Thanks to the
than it was in 1836. The affec-information provided by his Min morning, but the ceremony of de before the war.
"When he was
tion in which the Royal Family is listers, the King is always enabled coration will take place at Consul's residence
on Saturday used to call Adolf Young Head-held is no longer a matter of class to judge as an impartial observer
strong" he said. "He always jor party. Recent Royal marriages He cannot prevent a line of ac- evening.
A reception, dinner and dance knew what he wanted, and usual-strations of loyalty which astound- Prime Minister, saving "Be care
have been the signal for demon-tion. But he can address his
White Ant Danger
corate Siz Robert Ho Tung.
on
the
a small boy we
The termite, more generally, but erroneously, called the white ant, is one of the means pry will be given in honour of they got it in the end." vided by nature for the quick Admiral at the Consul's residence disposal of dead vegetable mat on Thursday evening.
ter and its return to the sail
It is found in all tropical and Įsemi-tropical countries the world lover and fulfils its mission with avidity and enthusiasm. Its appetite is as voracious as "that of the shark. “
FAREWELL TO DR. H. D. MATTHEWS
St. Andrew's Church Hall Function
*
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thrones.
ed Europe, and the Jubilee showed ful: this is a dangerous path you "I SHALL BE A GREAT MAN”
the whole of the Empire rallying are taking. I remember this, or round King George as it did round that, unfortunate precedent. It is The whole family was artistic. Queen Victoria in 1897.
your responsibility, of course, and Both Adolf and Alois could paint The secret of the success of the if you insist I shall give my sign- and draw with unusual skill, and British monarchy is twofold. Alois plays the piano and the vio-lies partly in the nature of the making a mistake.”
institution and partly in the So-
It lature.
But I warn you, you are
These opinions are received with deep respect, because the prestige of the Sovereign is very great and also because the King, as the chief
official of his OW
At the age of 15, according to vereigns themselves. Her Alois, Adolf's ambitions
The Constitution were to become a poet. He wrote There are certain varieties.
Like most perfect works of art, permanent notably the. termes gestro, A large gathering of friends a verse play on Schilleresque the British Constitution is not the Crown, soon acquires a much wi which are even more voracious met at St Andrew's Church Hallimes, which he used to declaim
result of reasoned deliberation der range of experience than that than their cousins and are last night to bid farewell to Dr.fall day.” equally
The inimitable virtue of this Con- of most of his ministers. distinctive to living and Mrs. H. D. Matthews, who are
"I remember that he said to me stitution is that it does not exist. vegetable tissues, as can bear leaving Hong Kong on the steam-sery seriously, Alois, one day Unlike the Constitution of the witness the hundreds of thou-er Taiping on March 13. Though shall be a great man.””
United States, it is not a sacred. sands of well-grown rubber Dr. Matthews will return from *It was in 1922". continued an almost inviolable document; this function of the Sovereign,
Analogy Of Company
Sir Maurice Amos, explaining
compares the country to a limited
trees that have perished on es-New Zealand in June to become Herr Alois, "a year before the is an accumulation of custome tates in Malaya, Ceylon and Superintendent of the Matilda unsuccessful putsch in Munich, rooted in particular circumstan company administered by Parlia elsewhere.
Hospital for three months he will that I first became convinced that ces, and one which only a new set ment as its board of directors. probably leave the Colony for brother would do great things- of circumstances can alter. There are comparatively few the last time at the end of that And I was right."
The Ning might then be compared timbers that can withstand the
The essential feature of that ad- period
(to the former owner of the busi- powerful jaws of the white ant;
mirable invention, constitutional Presentations were made to both softwoods are consumed with Dr. and Mrs. Matthews on behalf
Your Daily Smile!
iness, who has retained his sest as monarchy, is that the King, if he chairman of the board. Having amazing rapidity. The creature!
is to remain the unchallenged ar-surrendered nearly all his holding works in the dark, constructing of the St. Andrew's Club by the They stood at the garden gate, and biter, must never be held respon-of shares he can no longer vote; mud tunnels where it has to Rex J. R. Higgst, who spoke Herbert coughed nervously. "Myra."sible for a Government Act.
that his advice still commands most Ministers cross an open space to reach its warmly of the social work per- he whispered huskily, we're been
will always listen formed by both
walking out for years now, you and with the deepest respect to
respect, and everything is done în objective, but when access to
By his name. the coveted piece of timber can!
Dr. Matthews was presented
“We have, Herbert.” -->
criticism er objection proffered by
But what advantage is there in with a pair of binoculars, while And continued the youth nex- the Sovereign, and will examine thus keeping on the former owner be gained underground, a post or beam will be completely hol-Mrs. Matthews received a black-rously, "we've kind of got to know than withs the closest - attention.j lowed out, only a mere skin of wood tray inlaid with silver. one another to trust each other." But the final decision lies with the of the concert? The advantages
"Of course we have.”
are numerous, and we may distin- wood being left, and the first
"Well," he gulped, will you in Cabinet, for it is the Cabinet, guish four reasons why constitu you lead me my bus fare home? Then the Crown, which is responsible to tional monarchy, as it exists in
Parliament
Britain and in Belgium is s0 - Only by scrupulous adherence to Landlord (to a would be tenant): this doctrine is it possible to keep
mistakably successful "But are you really quiet people?”
"Yes, I can'
indication of the presence of PUBLIC HEALTH white ants is the collapse of the! post or beam.
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You won't be aware of our coming
assure you of thatthe Crown outside the arena of Potgoverning. it is intelligible
and going at all."
litical faction.
Sphere Of Action Where, then lies the Sovereign's Girl: "Do you like blondes or bra-sphere of action? In Bagehot's
zettes ?*
* *
The mass of mankind has a na- tural and irresistible tendency to place its hopes in one man. As W. Nevinson has remarked, a
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Boy friend: "Oh, don't bother to view, he retains three rights phrase like "Liberty. Equality,
the right to be consulted, the right
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT? by Robert L. Ripley
But, beneficent as the work of the white ant may be in gen- eral, the creature infortunately! possesses no discrimination; nor is it a respecter of persons. Like the shark, it eats because it must, being created for the specific purpose of scavenging, The office for Public Health dye it on my scconut? and it will devour the timbers of the National-Socialist Party! of a house as cheerfully and plans, it is announced by the readily as a fallen tree in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, to forest.
Institute a "health pedigree” for every German citizen. Hong Kong, despite its win- Every citizen is to be ter, is a happy home for the examined and the Tesult marauding termite, which gen- stated in a booklet, which erally spends the cold weather is to accompany him through in its air-conditioned and well his whole life, and the results warmed underground townships of periodical examinations are But, when it has established to be noted therein, so that the itself in a house, where the state of health of the bearer outer cold cannot penetrate with tan at any time be looked up.-1 fall effect, it can carry on its Trans-Ocean Service. work unhampered during the winter.
The disastrous collapse of four tenement houses in Yan- mati last week is probably due to the work of these secret marauders. Anyone who has
EXPLANATION OF
TO-DAYS CARTOON
watched the demolition of some Monument To Nobody of the old buildings here, such
as the Beaconsfield Arcade,
probably noticed that the ROUGE Afghanistan took no bricks, in many instances, had
part whatever in the great
been laid, not in mortar, but in World War, and there was never sandy mud. Such construction an Afghan soldier on my £zent, offers no obstacle to the white there stands in Kabul a monument lant, which will even take ad-to the Unknown Soldier. When
vantage of air-holes in badly-the nations that had been at war cast concrete when it smells aerected their Unknown Soldier's succulent piece of timber above, memorials, King Amanullah liked It is only too likely that most of the idea, and before he was depor the older houses of the Colmy, he built this unique memorial built before the advent of rein-uch to the amoyance of varions forced concrete, have been con-countries that fought the war. structed in this manner; and equally likely that, owing to the practice of subletting and re- subletting contracts which is all
Armistice Day Boy
Young Arthur Myers, whose two common, beams and rafters name has 11 letters, has the uni of soft timbers, instead of hard-cue distinction of having been woods that would resist the born at exactly 11 am on the attacks of white ants, have 11th day of the 11th month of been built into a large number 1924, and weighed exactly 11 of these houses. Given these pounds at birth. Os November two defects in combination, the 16th Armistice Day, he celebrat collapse of stich a building be-ed his 11th birthday st 11 o'clock comes only question of time. Arthur was born in Mexico City, Doubtless the authorities are and now lives with his parenta în alive to this danger and will see Calédico, California, where his that there is no recurrence of father, Willys A. Myers, is Ameri- the Taumati traged
can Vice-Consul”
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