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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ·APRIL ' 2; · 1949. - -
THE ROYAL MEMOIRS
By
H.R.H.
THE DUKE
Father
Though we missed my father, his absence proclaimed some thing of a let-up in the discipline which he at all times enforced,
Abergeleie was a light's train Journey from Frogmore.
Was
was made, while very young,, to memorise them, and they have ofion Influenced my actions in my variod. caroor.
If, through my family's position,
childhood was
-spured the my Reassembling there, the family mundane struggle that is the com. would remain in Scotland until man lot, It was not devoid of con- iny father finished with the deertet.
For the concept of duty was stalking early in October.
drilled into me, and I never had the sense that the days belonged
me alone.
Migrations
Then en masse we would re-to
to turn to London. my father
Combined with this stern conse get on with Stole business, and of duty was on almost fanatical we children to resume our sense of punctuality. Only through studies, and by solemnly inspected race accidents was my father ever by doctors and, dentists and mea-known to be late. assured by tailors.
A great seaport Hong Kong cannot fail to be affected sooner or later by the rising title of conflict in the international shipping world today. Not so long ago the British mercantile marine, like its Navy, was far and away the greatest in the world, in size, efficiency, reliability and ubiquity.
After shattering losses in two prolonged wars, the tiny nation that rose to promin- ence through its adventur- nus seafaring men
Yet
of my
up
His days were organised with Тиеле
migrations railway precision-even to the a busy
chedule for small Jhabit of a pest-luncheon map, a made a children, yet, by and large, we carry-over from his watchkeeping
the swift ehanges. In the Nayy. enjoyed
Such was the I always
power House, with father's will that he could fall'
itx restricted playground, for asteep instantly, and wake in to Mariborough ded return- malised drawing-room
neol,exnetly 15 minutes later, just an protocol,
of if its interminable list pad
an alarm clock hai gone off M Don'ts--Don't
out alone; Inside, his head. Ko Dong
Don't Don't talk
In my father's rigorous schedule 10 strangera; bring mud into the house: Don't we children occupied small, fixed
outalde ride
the niches. bicycle your
We were suramoned to his we were free study at breakfast time to Any In the country ku go more or less where we good-morning, then we would go willed; to
in the evening after tea, works. again the roam
He and my, mother always climb trees, and create our own
popped into the nursery, to say adventures.
their way good-night while on to dinner.
courtyard.
has re- built its fleet again to one of
But at Marlborough House the finest afloat, and its ship.
felt always
shut in and was building yards, world famous
restless until, just-bufore Christ- for their honest, magnificent workmanship. are construct-mas, we moved back to Sand-
ringham. ing more than half the ton- nage now being produced throughout the world. But the war is on again.
On the most remunerative and spotlit route of all the oceans the North Atlantic-
This preference for the count and dislike of towns, except for the transaction of business, has remained with me throughout my life, and it has been my good fortune to be able to choose be- tween them.
My boyhood was a strict one British liners have the pic-because my father was strict in ture almost to themselves his own life and habits. (although competition is on
the way) with the peerless Queens, Mauretania, Caronia' and the rest. How long they can continue reaping their precious harvest of dollars is another matter.
menace
Britain' to meet
will shortly have opposition from Europe, but in any case London's hard currency is pogled in the sterling area. More danger-
the
from ous is America. Not content, na- turally, to let Britain have its own way on the herring pond, big business over there with new is forging ahead super liners, which will re- tain dollars in the good old the world U.S.A.- until shortage of hard currency Louches off the gunpowder of slump which will relegate them to a rusty anchorage.. As we were told at school! at least a few decades ago, -competition is the lifeblood of trade.
Now comes a new menace -from Holland, for many months gravely perturbed about her rapidly dwindling dividends from the rich East
to
I
My father, never demonstra- would peer dowo nt,115 gravely in the dim light, per- tive,
then step quietly out haps touch the covers gently, and of the room.
To Behave
OF
WINDSOR
Strict
From Walter Jones, village schoolmaster, 1 fearned about naturo.
No matter where he was-at York Cottage, in London, at Frogmore or Abergeldle, on his way to breakfast or to beu-he would make a bee-line for these instruments.
Good Morning
propof those anidentified sub- marines of the Luzon coast,
that they correspondent writes were probably saucer-shaped,
་
"New gadget can describe con- In Friary Court: of St, James's Palace, we could watch theditions in pper regions." - changing of the King's Guard,
as they To salute the Colours passed by became for us a verit- able religion.
this
Our 'Drill
Mystic's grandfather, getting on now, wonder, when they will pro- duce a gadget that can describe conditions hi the nether rogluns.
·Zaibatsu'sfucks in Japan have been sealtered fur and whe through sales to four groupe."
...? Zn, 1, Bat and Su
A desire on, our, part to emulate stirring Kirill Inspired Cameron to organise my sister, myself, and my next two brothers, Bertie and Harry; Into a squad- a bit of make-believe which my father approved, thinking it would keep from becoming round- |. April 1 shouldered. wooden
Armed with
seemed singularly Gitting date to start the Nationalist Runs, We Comisanlst pence talks. would paraile nearly every day barking orders with Cameron
from the drill book, and Forsyth playing marches on the pipes.
It was great fun, especially at Sandringham; for my grandfather, the King, would sometimes walk down from the Big House to-tu- spect us...
With. Mama life reverted to a less martial tempo, We treated her with devoted respect.
than
iny
Of course, even breaking the hank at Monte Carlo wouldn't se inuch of a thrill to a Chinese Ox- Prentier.
"Charlie Chaplin is the daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill,"
Ans, these Modern Times;
Although she backed up my father in
in all matters of discipline,
We are reminded that what the she never failed to take our side
wild wis when in her judgment he was Commissioner really
that Hong Kong's being harsh with us,
women police Her own family being in more force will be small but choler. modest circumstances
Who says a polleeman's fe is father's, she had been brought up not a happy one.... He wouki
the glass, in a simple English way. peer al top. the case, sharply to make Long stays abroad on the Con- had mellowed tinent of Europ sure that the neelle was not
If the postul negotiations in stuck and set it again.
her outlook and from study and Pelping are a succent, Chiang and observation she had acquired an amazing sense of the historical,Mao will at least be able to write and an almost professional know- and tell each other what they think ledge of antique
furniture and about things. objects (l'art. None of
her relatives could her precise and encyclo
The Veterans My father had a great fonduess for Scotland and Scottish way Ilked to wear a kilt, and, with a vlew to Injecting a Highland favour to the househokl, .cn - Raged two Scottish veterans of Bertie and J. and
mostly the Boer War, who swiftly be came in for a
good deal of came herole figures of my youth. scolding for being. Iate or dirty.. One, Henry Forsyth, had been for making a
some a pipe major in the Scots Guards.
I have often thought that my father liked children only in the abstract.
occasion,
entered the room.
of
noise on
match her
to
מנוי,
*Machinig
fire prevented pedic memory, whether applied the British steamer from reaching
the tangled goreslogies of the Tanku." ruling dynasties of Europe, or the heirlooms and souvenirs of the family.
With the birth of each Bow child, Mama started, an album in which she painstakingly recorded
Shouldn't have been necessary. so far as assiduous searches tun reveal, the place doesn't exist.
The silence of the oyster shrouds
each of the progressive stages of the misdeeds on the Pearl. our childhood-the dates Upon which "Baby cut his
(or her)
first tooth," or took his for her)
Arst step,"
with a lock of hair
The Reds will only need to wid
insorted on the day of the first a capital to Anking. bair-out.
The thing that we. children looked forward to most in the day was to gather around Mama in her room after our tea of mulling, fam, and milk, the last meal of the day.
She would be in a negligee,
on her sofa and resting
she would talk and read to us.
Her soft voice, the cultivatel ntind, the dry room overflowing with.. personal treasures; were alt inseparable ingredients of the happiness associated with this last hour of child's day.
But being also - practical by nature, my mother taught us 10 employ this time, making woollen comforters for one of her many charities,
2
She showed us how to work these garments on round wooden rings, with brass pegs.
White she read, we busily wove wool around each peg, and at the completion of a a circle, slipped the The other, Findlay Cameron, of, yarn over each to form a crochet
the Highland Regiment of that
hod name,
of the reputation possessing more, medals than any Other British, soldier.
Every morning, in the Scottish manner, Forsyth would rouse the household with the skirt of his bagpipes.
Cameron, ostensibly a footman,
В
stitch, and eventually a comfor- ler five feet in lengthi
As a small boy I enjoyed mak- ing these things more than did my sister or my brothers,
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(To Be Continued)
*, ̈ ̈; armed with wooden guns, we would parade val with Cameron barking" orders w., and Fortyth playing marches on the pipes." His Henry now Duke of Gloucester, M my shter Mary, B, Bertle the present King, and D myself.,
He had the Victorian's sense of solemn
for rigging Indies, and undergoing ausprobity, moral responsibility, and and scratching in church, fex, not terity at home only second love of domesticity. He believed getting up when an older person
The in God, in the invincibility of the that of Britain:
and the vasted My father literally pounded- Dutch shipping lines, waging British Navy, a determined freight-slashingilege of the Royal Family.
'the same time, he had the good mariners, into us and we never became proficient in the by "China Mail."
boys were taught to bow, and my art of serving at the dinner-table one of his offensive against British and British flair for clothes and fond sister to curtsy, to all our older and I well recall
entrica into the dining room Indian companies on the news for sport, from grouse to relations.
early Eastern route, this week ger shooting, deer stalking and
my father's highly when, as a result of inattention. Mastic; habits and traits |
and catapulted tripped fishing. carried 'the "war" into Enge was a one shot, one of the car be
large ham scross the room which lish waters with an anbest of his day; and there were upbringing in a bard reafaring missed my father by inches. nouncement that they willow in England who could teach age, wh
when, the sail was still re-
an imperfect servanti his handlebar major and fully Cameron, with Yet through everything cleaved low those of the International
moustache, was none the less an reliable form the sharp
concept of
duly,
Long after his Shipping Conference, from
summod
Up for
in the precept land, the Navy's tradition and time my mother was to suspect which they have withdrawn which copied in bis round hand, outlook permeated his thoughts..that he carried the Scot's tradi They will, of course, be, he kept on his writing desk:- developed in him a gruff, blue- tional preference for whisky, to operating at 2 loss, but
shat pass through this
to water approach all humana point that made him a dubious world but once, Any good doubtless the big lines win;
situations, and a loud voice. example for impressionable young thing, therefore, that I can do.
It gave him a fund of stories Princes. be subsidised by the Hague.
or any kinders 'that I can
reminiscences in which he We loved to hear
Cameron tell government in the hope that
ciclighted to indulge when we of his hand-to-hand battles, with sufficient new trade will be
had as a quest a contemporary the Fuzzy Wuzzles and shooting obtained to revivify the mer
who had shared his son experi-it out with the Boers. chant fleet.
ences.
And when in London nothing And finally, he never lost the else that Bertie and I ever did nautical habit of consulting the could match the thrill of having borometer and thermometer, the Forsyth and Cameron fake first thing every morning and atop the wall of Mariborough the last thing.at night..
House, whence; across the street
wa
accept rates, 60 per cent be him anything about'salling a boat. garded as of retirement to exciting companion, though
Another, but different, as pect of the changing scone is the reported resolution the International Train Workers Federation world wide organisation of seaman, dockers, longshore" meh, elc-to' boye alt ahip sailing under the fùps
show any human being. let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for 1 shall not pass this way again.” These lines are attributed to ah American Quaker by the early 10th century, Stephen Grellet.
credible, but according to re ports this tiny republic has the third largest navy In existence-If you count the vessels flying her flag. It metins, of course, that un
bf Panami and Honduras, scrupulous shipowners whose herafwill not be accepted in
If till were agreed vessels would,” or
date, he pick
pert in the
tekt": "aghindf" thi
hn: board.
might be and of
strikes that
compartes, (not
concerned) woul
"approve.
Panama in' particular to a
and
DO YOU KNOW
YOUR
London" or elsewhere, cah fill legally operate through the half-shut eyes of this ad- commodating state. This is HONG
bhe strike which wo, at any rato, hope will be successful.
The world is still very KONG? short of shipping space, as wo in Hong Kong know only "too well, but the day is near when Britain, like the other; this
sogni
blot on thithJUHTKOEPARARE: Warsinek nktiong,” will start taki
as hor maritime regulations“
are concerned. What
earfully thinking of the leản ww↑
condemna af floating comme khe hot war breaks out in
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Yes, it is curleons that Hong Kong's looted radium has turned up in Japan.
**Well, what ach we waiting for
the Budget?!!"
Vermouth
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