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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950,
HE LEARNS TO BE A KING
In a greystone mansion on the shore of Góneva's Lake Leman 19-year-old Crown Prince Baudouin, whose shy smile reflects a life filled with books and heartbreak, rises daily at 7 a.m. to train for an important job."
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A lith Requiem Mass will be offered, for the repose of the Koul of the late Mr. JOSE MARIA NORONILA, by the Rev. Fr. I. de Angelis, at the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on at 7.30 Friday, May 19th,
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A HAUNTING
REFRAIN
soldiers
Last month King Leopold him- | self indicated tho' next step in the future of the scholarly Prince who lost his mother before he was five and bhla fatfierland when he was not yet 10.
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By Daniel Schorr
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In 1946 Baudouin joined N father ne prisoner in Germany. Liberated the American Army
Achateau near Laeken Tho German Invasion broke in 1945, they went to Switzerland, Palace was turned into a school over Belgium when he was nine. where the Prince completed his where Baudouin and, his young Prince Baudouin and, the other formal studies in a Genova pubile brother Albert lived with their children were taken first to school, To his classmates. he masters and schoolmates.”
France, then to Portugal, and seemed imple, od-natured, and Demo ormayi
Secretary Half the classes were in French finally back to Belgium.
quiet nad half in-Flemish, as beflis the In the custle of Ciergnon, In. Today, in the mansion on the Colonies says", future head, of 'n blingual king- the Ardennes, surrounded by hill; the student Prince pores over going to impo dom. Then he was sont to Holi- German guards, he lost, himself his books, and walls while his- and for several months to im- In his studies, working from tory-in-the-making again dictates before they
Bai, top.. prove his Fitmish,
1
Fireside Echoes--No. 10:
1
the course of his life.,
THE FOOCHOW CLUB
government
It would be inte just who heymiare.
Despatch wa. Thay few, thantha?"-Lifle! -
Arriving in - Ban Generalissima raid the Nationalists If Parliament invites him to
Taiwan was >2«brilian
weaken return, said the King in a broad-
to cast, he is prepared, temporarily
Right up to the late Pacific employed them which is sadly Members with the higher sub- Communists line of to hand over his royal preroga War the social life of the foreign lacking among the servants of scription, or as Resident Members
to his son until such time community of Foochow has today. For instance, the Club with entrance-fea. Visitors who 10. 08, with the consent of the radiated from the Foochow Club, butler of 1918, by name of Ching, are Members of the Hong Kong from my villa in Mi Government," he resumes his Within its old walle many id was proud of the fact his father club, or of the Shanshul that. At ang momen
brillant and histeric function and his father's father had served and who pra Introduced by a reign.
held. been."
This year it in, like position since the Club Resident Member, shall for three will-iqunch,u plant,
Lives
continue
and I dare the
Under the guldkrice of Belgian "ences. Its - 95th. anniversary,) was founded, and that him-con) months the privileges of Resident will drive, Liese! Boy!
.612
Missed "Eton
1
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7.9
By Wm. M.S. Brand
ed in American Army, clothing.
·com-
on royal princes at 18. Nor hasch Water Vichy} game of whist. Many such parties!
"Resident Members
must be proposed and secondled as above, must be elected by Ballo and must pay entrance-fee."
Eggs were thrown Dean
Ontari
indicated that the
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Hule B: The entronich-fee for fried but bolled WITH S Resident Members shall be $30. scrambled for the exits and the monthly subscription $4. police patrol Nairobi payable monthly in advance, ax-
"Union ofcible nappadır".. cept for those residing at Pagoda Let's keep crime Anchorage, who shall pay $2 per
month, đưa quarterly in advance, racing tips separate, and an entrance-fee of $15...!!
Some members.
tombstone,
Things, he said, bad gone Vault. against him, but (e
"Girl has babý hypotised."
There, Myrtl dangers of these occu
Korid
professors Prince Baudouin `atu- dies eight hours daily-English, or on its present sile on the was learning the business too. Members, without ballot or en traiters, clear up to Maj Flemish, advanced mathematles, Hill.
Ching retired some 10 years trance-ico." and history, law,
In its heighday it boasted a ago and his son succeeded him; tule literature,
total membership of about 130 but this youngster did absolutely physics.
of whom 80 were classified an nothing to prevent local hooligans Teachers 5 aim
Resident and Fugoda Anchorage Library Members and 50
only, the latter mostly Between study sessions he
Members only,
mission- reads a bundle of Belgian and wives of members and foreign newspapers also part of aries. In those days women were his training and sometimes he not tolerated within its sacred ot by invitation, takes a long walk oh the estate. predicts except.
members did no Less and less these days does Event library ho have time for his favourite alles were handled
up in person. Their in-
Rule 11: by the from looting the premises on the the Club shall cease after an abohe notes that the
That Membership in a spite of al gets sports-football, swimming, golf, A roving eye and a roving and ski-ing. But he still reads Librarian who returned a selec-second Japanese evacuation of sence of two years, but any former are Bahrein up well.
tion of books by the messenger. the port five years ago. This mind in search of a subject voraciously.
As best as they can, his tea- Printed lists of new Library ar youth was last seen at Swatow by Member, on his return to the Port
may resume, the privilegen of the Fado cream talvest encounter strange inspira- chers are trying la. make up for quisitions wore circulated month- a prominent club member array Club, without ballot, on payment, according to delocal report. "Zadr tions sometimes. It was easy
to all two gapa in his training --_his] lyg Members. enough to pass by the poetic growing up away from the Bel- The Club. collars were plent- and with his pockets bulging with of subscription of $8 per annups Milford Haven's Lovely place. toreador's lament over Ava glan people and his lack of an fully stocked with an Imposing U.S. banknotes. He not only had for the time of absence, such sub perfectly in tunely her deserted his Club post, but had acriptions in no case to exceed the inner composure, het aquisite, Gardner, the decision to add- English schooling, considered tra- array of Huge vate of claret ar
alling amount of the then entrance-fee* taste her intense foly ditional in his family...
other light red wines, with hog's deserted his aged and
Rule 23: "That the Club shal father.
Sounds like a lystick advert ress Nationalist
Prince Baudouin has not lived heads of rum, brandy, and carr
After a very successful innings soon after midnight as there and
be open from 8 am to 2 am, but tog, hereafter as "friendly war- In a free Belgium" since he was upon cases in addition to racks!
Japanese is riors," and the assurance of nine years old. And King Leop-upon racks of champagnes, hocks of dome. 20 years up to about 1663 shall be do Member in the bulld
gin-
Foochow The old has refused to let him return and movelles, rare liqueurs,
Club's fortunes
uncing it shall be closed for the tealing money the Nationalist air force chief until the royal question in settled. ger und dampon wines, and casks started to dwinde.
In the very night." of Reynell's Formosan Aorated early days It is doubtful if the "Rule 24: that in leaving the mainland
"No gambling per Waters(ie, - faròque, Tansan entrance doors were ever they had recovered the hearts
ommitted in the Club." Walers) though I am Inclined to pletely closed, for it was” quité of the people there. A disser-
allowed on Sunday.” tation under the caption As a result the Prince has not bellove these waters were intro- the fashion then for dinner pare Rule 26: "No play of any kind
duced during the early eightien ties to break up round 2's.m. and
Rule 30: "No dogs allowed with- "Absence makes the heart yet taken bis satte incontried and that prior, to that period then to repair to the Club for. 2 in the doors of the Club.
Senate, automatically Continental.
itke grow fonder" would make no
did not finally disperse till noos used. contribution whatever to the he begun his military service.
excellent billard-tables or after, The Prince Is a stranger to
It cannot be said that this was cold war, which some say we
Britain, where both his father were maintained. The Bar-room
Here are the names of some Re- are losing. But one tarried and uncle, Prince Regent Charles, though never vieing with any the practice among residents.
thatat aldent Members of that time with awhile. over the
China-coast Club in the must be remembered headline audied, and where his step- of its ebjinier 'did, how times there were a dozen or more the year they joined the Club: { penciled on his,"kne
Playfair, G.M.H. "Unknown Frontier Feeling mother, Princem de fethy, was over, batat the absence of a foot- Tea Clippers riding at anchor at Played Rev. L Cold war," the unfamiliar had been planned before the call or a single chair right Pagoda Anchorage. Their com
Renale, Dr. T******* dateline: Luang Prabang, war to send him to Eton, where through the years to 1910. It also manders and owners
Gibb, A.W.V Laos; and the graphic alliter- Leopold had studied, But after boasted as the best appointed bar tives while waiting for cargoes Grant, L.M.EN
the war the idea was dropped on the coast (excepting Shang- always visited Toochow a Baker, H. (Betsy"). ation of the overture.
variably were made a great fuse he was too old, it was said.
of by the foreign community at Sitting, Thos, Belgians remember Baudouinho and Canton), up to 1914.
large. They were men of amblemer as a precocious, grave-visaged lad
Slemssen, means and so, were: their hosta
Rogers, C. of nine in while costume, who
Let me delve into some old occasionally made public appear- ances with his fall," soldierly. Free food, by way of cheest archives and capture a few ex-oseph Phillips was the secre- the metal, dad iger father.
and crackers, sandwiches, fruit tracts from the Club Rules of tary for a great number of years continue the fewel His tendency to lose himself in cake, sardines and sprouts, potato 1885 to illustrate what Club life drawing a monthly salary of $50. books seems to reflect the series chips and peanuts, were always meant in those days, which could of tragedies and crises that has available under- handsome glass not have differed very greatly in
customary in the Foochow Club marked his life.
17:
covers freanred, peatly
to appoint a Resident Member 1930, the Pringe became heir to tap
with full voting powers as Secre- Born in Brussels, September, counter and it is on the the decade previous:
Rule No. 1 tary and for the person who ne- this fo when jungle trails of Burma and the throne at the age of three years, Wouly an accent!
Rule No. 1 of 1885 states: "The mingle treely with no members, his grandfather, King for RANA Albert, climber, plunged to his death
bearink which caue Mi consist of an inurnitost avas an udwritten law. In the from a cliff near Namur, et was nos poured-put in theit pre- number of Members, classified, in old days for my member to ac
Less than a month before his sauce. Honorary Visiting and Re-cost the Excretary within the Clube
with any complaint.. A special loved Queen Astrid, was
biaints and Suggestions, whilet Switzerland.
addressed in writing under sealed cover to the Secretary Marty entries in the book were frivol;| our and extremely amusing t St. Visiting sker Library. Huggestion Book Invari-] times.G: the other hand", "the
This told us that the time- less tranquillity of the Un- known Frontier-the remote mountain maze where China meets Burma and the King dom of Lacs-is, being stirred by the first chill eddies of the cold war. Chinese Communist infiltration across the tangled
Indo-China, coupled with the Westward movement of Viet minh Communist bands, said the despatch, is threatening today to destroy the ancient
It
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mountain
Free food
arink
Club which serving
representa
It
Skerrett
1872
The Prime from brief noter
108 debate,” ESN MA 1878 Atrlek ha remem 1870 his Boy Scout days:
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Nationalist dod
1875
24
1880 agents and said forlana
and silven to each other indie,
1800 Both factions are apparent
while the Treasurership Honorary. It has always been
thethday his mothers killed ed to great purl W. the absenca
I think this practice is explain sident Honorary Members book was provided for Com peace of the Shangri-La land) while motoring with the King in of such'spirits to nineties:mination who are introduced by:a" more rievious complaints: Were{
of Laos. From the unknown frontiers they know so well officers come in to bring re- ports of infiltration of Chinese Burmese sector of the fron- tier, innocent. of either Bur- mese troops or officials.
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ihtil well after the
and gin shall be Clergymen of any dene At seven he thrkan preparing also the fact that all the glass- Resident Member, and such other for kingship From that time, ware was specially imported from parsons as may be introduced, by one of the King's friends recalls, England and of reputed uniform the Committee or specified in
ure Adulteration by Club any of Rule he was brought up in a demo- measure. -
through the Rule age, chosen from different parts of the country, and various social levels.
irregular bands from the cratic way with other boys of his volded
אם ן. די
the.
of framing the Butler (not being permanent residents) ably confined entries revealing *a half ** per squart- shall pay a monthly subscription very high order of reading pres bottle by way of spillage with a of $6; but no entrance-fee.
They Priment of all emply bettles Resident Members; but for itimately, war to become entr must be proposed and seconded valling amongst the community and this definitely shaped what It is a wide open frontier,
Casks, and cases:
Apart from that the wages the first month no ballot. Is re the best libraries on the Chinh- but not, we gather, to ar peaceful, primitive life, and were Iberiand" in addition to quired. Afterwards, if desirous of Const. moured columns moving in as the evangelical padre plutree clothing: also there was a remaining in the club, they must from China. Cavalry and in-it, "If trouble comes they will loyalty toward the house that be ballotted for, either as Visiting fantry could get through the just fade into the mountains jungle and mountains in until it is över.”- And, he small groups; and somehow added with a wry smile, they one thinks, of Hannibal and may yet be the survivors of an his elephants crossing the atomic war. The new philo- Alps-long, long ago, Memories sophy of Paris Existentialism, e
is a trifle difficult for any-
of Marco Polo are conjured up by the odyssey of the body who has little leisure
Thought reading
on the air
sets
Afghan trader, sparse-beard for the delights of Doubtless Who would imagine that sure that no transmitting ed and, of course,named nesa, but surely the French some of the most successfull were concealed about the ber Abdul Khan, who had made Commissioner who magically, BBC broadcasts for years sons. Every possible precaution the pilgrimage from Akyab appears on this delectable would be concerned with was taken and stül the Pidding
tona soomed able to comments. right across Burma to scene did not belong to the thought reading Something go with each other without dim- Shangri-La on foot, had seen magic circle. "Even in Laos, allent and intangible, appens culty. their latest broadcast no Burmese soldiers within he said, “lotus-eating is unlikely to make an effective 200 miles of the border but threatened by a mad world trollane, SyEney Pladington judges were in a BBC studio-h roadcast but two young. Aus Sydney Fiddington 1.14 and '; four plenty of. Chinese stragglera It is a sentiment that will and his wife Lesley have been London. Lealey was 130 m and deserters haunting the find many an echo in Wash front page news: In the British ington, in spite of the actress whenever theis "thought that Point 4 funds have been transference programme) has the Laotian army to remind cut by $10,000,000 by uh, been on the altavy v c one of the proud prowess of romantic Congressmen. The OPREMA PAG the warriors of comic-opera story of Laos was one that the listening public but whether commentator Gilbert 1 Harding, though the French officer, needed telling: To us it came a la genuine or very clever wearing arendon studio, al with Gallie wit, spoke of like a breath of spring in the trick is a philm which the tact, with the
frontler province. There is,
too, the sanguine estimate of
large
tutor.
In Bristol. She 'took off in
OAC Stratocraiser accom
about 40 Hardened and a BBC commen
plane climbed through
to 1,500 feet and ther
int Alore programme be
made:
"WEEKLY CHINA MAIL" their sufferings from the eternal cold war of the polit Plidingtons thirmhelves do not though Lesley could hear nothing
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FRISKIM Pof the audience -placed; persona" starent Matti possessions into envelopes, thesis parent ability to were carried to the, fudges,"
broadcasts passed the content, to sydney
laun selected ave, opened them and Mia, the same, studio and He, without speaking, transmit kimäfolded "bai, wan'able ted"-lhe ariícies to Lesley, in
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