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KING EDWARD VII. AND GERMANY.
ATTEMPTS TO SECURE AMITY BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS.
KAISER "AND KING ON THE FAR EASTERN PROBLEM.
[BY 818 SIDNEY LEE]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24th, 1927.
It was to loreign affairs and to members of the tro alliances to milltary affairs that the King from gother in a combined challenge to world. the first mainly directed his atten- Britain's place in the tion. The foreign policy of the Britain was thus isolated, friend- country had been his eager, study less and engaged in a rone too when for some forty years. Long before successful or popular war bis accession he had talked over King Edward ascended the throne its details or corresponded about! them with British Ministers and Foreign Ambassadors in England or with foreign statesmen and their rulers abroad, with an ever-grow ing zest. His protracted struggle with his mother over his desire that
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It was the constitutional fine tion of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary especially to ad-
Tentative Steps.
Even before King Edward came to the throne several prominent British statesmen had begun to urge the abandonment of our splendid isolation." and in the more acute minds our natural
For two years Mr. Chamberlain worked steadily towards this end, in spite of the apathy of Lord Salisbury, and in face of the ob-
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aimed at them. I have, by the way, in an answer to King Edward which I sent to him this morning hinted superficially at the news A a thing known for a long time. I
CONSTABLE.
THE DARK ANGEL" AT CHARGE AGAINST CHINESE CONFESSION OF FAILURE.”“”
THE QUEEN'S.
BRIBERY AND MISCONDUCT ALLEGED.
am anxious for a sight of the King WAR TIME PICTURE TAKEN and Lascelles who are to dine with me on Friday."
The King, for his part, was no
IN ENGLAND,
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TRIAD SOCIETY.
less well primed. Lord Lansdowne HINDU RUINS IN INDO-CHINA. | COMPLAINANT A MEMBER OF had drawn up on August 10th for the particular ass of the King a memorandum on questions which might be referred to in the inter view. Lansdowns thought the main points to be dealt with were the negotiations respecting affairs in China, South Africa, Koweit, and Morocco.
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It was then he remarked that the Russians probably would take back from France with them some money. But what will they do with the money asked the King. I rejoin ed that, as I had reason to believe, the Russians needed money for the
One is left in no doubt why Hong Kong, audiences voted for a revival of "The Dark Angel," for it is an
In a case heard before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon a Chinese con stable was alleged to have assaulted
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THE RED CAMPAIGN IN OHINA
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.
According to the Riga corrapon-
adherents to Communism, stirring
THE SILVER EMBARGO,
BRITISH NAVY-EARNS A
LITTLE MONEY."
QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.
the Hankow Government and cease authorities issued instructions that They no movement of treasure was to be all forms of co-operation. are to ranzia members of the Kuo- effected without a permit issued by mintang as long as possible, criti-their Ministry of Finance. Two aising the leaders and recruiting British banks at Shanghai were, on up the poraantry, supplying them July 11th and 12th respectively, res with arms, and forming secret fight fused permits to ship silver bullion its detachments. They are to put to Tientsin on the ground of the lish a declaration against the Han embargo. kaw Government demanding that it shall be punished severely for its unrevolutionary attitude, and to redouble the agitation among the town, workers.
The free importation and expor-- tation of silver bullion is provided far in the treaties; the illegal pro- hibition of exportation to Tientsin involved the danger of a serious The statement reviews the whole financial crisis at that port, with recent policy of the Communist la disastrous resulta to British in- ternational in China, drawing the terests. conclusion that the policy was cor His Majesty's Minister accord- feet in all essential details, but the ingly consulted with the Comman capable and timid and the generals for the transport of the silver by local Chinese leaders proved in-der-in-Chief, who issued instruction and other military officers (whose His Majesty's ships ultimate treachery was regard- His Majesty's Minister reporta
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an inconveniently early moment. shipped from Shanghai for Weikai Nevertheless, it says, the situation wei in the destroyer Botilla for the has shown signs of increased class two banks on July 27th, and that hatred, and fiant victory is certain. at the same time, at the request of Above all, it is urged, attention the Japanese Minister, Tls. 500,000 must be concentrated on mobilising was shipped for the Yokohama China's hundreds of millions of Specis Bank. peasants and on accomplishing the Col. HEADLAM, Financial Secre agrarian revolution as the next tary to the Admiralty, replying to step towards, the Communist revo Commander Kenworthy (Soc., Cen- tral Bull), aid payment would be Soviet newspapers announced on made to the British Navy for the
wise him as to his attitude towards vious difficulty on the part of Gar building of the trans-Siberian rail- so often seen when an Englishman secure a sum of two dollars, which July 90th that the Communist Party service rendered in shipping silver
every foreign question as is arose.
his
way,
Mr. VIANT having asked the First dent of The Times, the Ikki, or Lord of the Admiralty whether Executive Committee, of the Com-foreign banks in Shanghai had re- munist International has come to cently shipped bullion to Tientsin the conclusion that this year's Comia British destroyers, and whether munist efforts in China have met this action was taken with the ap A tug master, residing at Kowloon, with total defeat, and has address-proval of His Majesty's Govern The Kaiser's Own Account.
unusually interesting film. A to have demanded money from himed instruction to all members of ment. The next day the two monarchs
Mr. LOCKER LAMPSON, replied: In met, Sir Frank Lascelles also being war time story of great pathos, it by unlawful means and to have been the Chinese Communist Party present. By way of easing matters yet manages to steer clear (almost) guilty of misconduct in the course directing them immediately to leays the early part of July the Nanking at luncheon, the Kaiser presented of film sentimentality: It is appar- of his duty. to the Eing a beautiful epargne of
Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, represent his own design which graced the ently even more difficult on the table. The Kaiser was in great screen" than on the stage, or in the complainant, prosecuted, and spirits and quite affectionate in his literature, to convey a tragic theme Mr. A. E. Hall defended. manner to the King. After lu
Opening the case Mr. Hugh Jones cheon the two monarchs and Las with first the right degree of re celles retired to the garden, where straint, more especially when it is said that on the 13th inst. the con the Kaiser, in merry mood, chaffed a tragedy of love. The English plainant was in the doorway of his the Foreign Office should transmit alles were thought to be Germany Lascelles about his lack of know dislike for showing emotion often house, No. 2, Lai Chi Kok Road,
ledge of current events. their despatches to him had ended and America. In November, 1809, user's own account of the inter- calls forth dippancy to hide it, and ground floor, when the constable in his favour, and of late he had Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech at view runs:
stage tragedy has to be very care who was in uniform came up to "exchanged letters on foreign ques- Leicester, had initiated the idea: The political interview which was fully presented. Americans, who him, accused him of being a returned
tions with the Kaiser, the Tsan,
No far-seeing statesman." he held here to-day at my residence and the King of Greece. Ample sail, could be content with Eng-with the King of England and his are more simple minded than we departee, took him into custody and Ambassador, Sir Frank Lascelles, art, can stand bigger doses of led him to the Police Station. Ori material for estimating the charac- land's permanent isolation on the was opened by King Edward's romantic sorrow; and, perhaps, it the way the master of the shop where ter and aims of foreign Powers Continent of Europe. The query as to what was the real object would have been better if earlier he was employed stopped them and of Tsar Nicholas's visit to France. was at his disposal, and his natural alliance is between our That the Tsar wished to visit me scenes of this play had been shorter. enquired what the matter was. They cumulations of knowledge enabled selves and the German Empire..
at Danzig he had known for a
At this time when we are interest then went into the shop and were him to offer invaluable suggestions Both interest and racial sentiment long time,
ed in the new British alm industry brought into the kitchen. The di- the course of foreign policy-unite the two peoples, and a new
uro to France was quite a
to The Dark Angel" bas a particu- tendant demanded $20 for the red as inevitable) openly seceded at that Ts. 3,000,000 was accordingly His habit of correspondence and of Triple Alliance between Germany, seriously displeased with
lax appeal. Three of the actors. Icase of the complainant and in the personal discussion
on foreign England, and the United States Nicholas's proveeding. If he had
are presence of several people he struck affairs continued through his reign, would correspond with the senti- the desire to visit anyone besides including, onald Coleman,
that already bound myself he ought to have come to British, and the greater part of the the complainant several times. and he was prolife in independent mental tie
him, his nearest relation.
film was photographed in England. Complainant gave corroborativa his Teutons and Anglo-Saxons ロー comment and warming to
Happily Coleman still looks like an evidence and added that he agreed. Blinisters whenever foreign policy gether."
pos defendant Englishman and acts like one, so under compulsion, as in question.
that in his role of British officer the 820 demanded. He and be there are none of those small but found great difficulty in obtaining
money and on that day managed to lution. aggravating inaccuracies which are
That this railway in its pre- is screened in California. Vilms
be arranged to hand defendant but of South China has decided to 80 from Shanghai in warships. The many of securing the new alliance sent position would not be used for but King Edward's lifelong study without losing the older one with commerce, but would serve only for Banky who plays the heroine i did not see the money pass into his underground," as its open and law payment to be made was laid down
She does not look hands.
ful existence since the betrayal of in the King's Regulations military purposes, was quite clear. Hungarian.
the cause by the Hankor Gavern- Replying to a further question oa of foreign affairs, and his ripened Austria
Germany's The Russians will send and Italy."
troops from
Cross-examed for the defence,ment has become immpossible. A the subject by Mr. GABBO-JONES intimacy with the chief, persona?
& whether against Manchuria, or she American por exotic. She and complainant admitted that be. 530 Central Committee of the Com-LAK said he could" assure the hon. special illegal Bureau of the Lib, South Hackney), Col. HL- factors in Continental politics, did plan was to add Britain to the West to East, I interjected; but typically English but neither is
restrict his Triple Alliance, thus forming not allow him to
has already beea gentleman that they hoped to make Boarets of foreign information to Suadruple Alliance that would Corea or Japan, that is yet to be Coleman have a strong bond of once been charged with being a munist Party
organised, and the Communists a little money on the transaction. his Ministerial counsellors, or to prove more than a counterpoise to shown. Apropos "Japan! If I
with success. echo with automatic docility their the Dund Alliance of France and rightly remember, in the winter of sympathy and they frequently act member of a trind society."
Several witness were called and have all left the Bankow Govern, In any case, the commander-in- ment. The Secretary of the Chchief on the spot was quite capable opinions. Not seldom he changed Russia. In spite of set-backs and this year the Japanese Ambassador together always
constitutional annoyances the idea of an Anglo- put & question to my Government There is a sense of England run the case was adjourned.
Lese Communist Party, Cheng Tuaf dealing with the matter. places with
Sbun, and a fermer Minister of advisers and offered advice, in German understanding, appeared as to what would be the attitude of
He was to prosper, and was aided not a England in the event of a Russo- ning right through the play, the
Agriculture, stead of receiving it.
Tan Ping Hsiang, We answered hunt scene, the stretches of fold and position little by cne of those illusory sex Japanese conflict.
have decided to go to Moscow. constitutionally to ensure its acceptance by, his sons of outward harmony between him on that occasion that we be hedges, and the shaded river, are Ministers, but there was nothing King Edward and the Kaiser. The lieved that England would probably the real thing; even the mazor is to prevent his so-called servants death of Queen Victoria-appealed maintain a benevolent neutrality.
to the Kaiser's human impulses, On this question I saw Lord Lans not aggressively Americanised. It from adopting his counsel wher they saw fit and of tendering it and reinforced domestic senti- downe, who told me personally: may be insular to rejoice in this,
"What! Neutrality! No, the Bri- but one can't help it. back to him as a Ministerial pro- ment stirred in him, for the mo- nouncement. In such a way did ment at any rate, a fresh hope that tish warships will fight together with Japan, and we must absolute. King Edward advise his advisers. the British Government might ac
His invariable aim was to pro- cept his idea of a Quadruple Ally go with them! The summer came. mote peace and good will, presid-liance in which Britain would and went, the Japanese war scare ed that British interests were duly serve Germany as an auxiliary disappeared, and nothing happened, respected.
He always recognised In spite of the continued efforts Later on the solution of this riddle that in certain eventualities war the fair promise of an Anglo-Ger came to me from a Russian source
With nothing but a knapsack, sense of wanderlust, and an in-provisionally sworn at the net value an old thatched cottage, neatling i might be inevitable, and foreseeing an understanding soon proved The Russians told us Japan wished the horrors of a European conflict delusive. The King's conciliatory to start a war; she saked money Interesting Curtain Raiser.
Prizma pictures are generally clination to rescue one of his more of £100,000," so far as at present
can be ascertained." to be carried on with the latest tones could not stem the oncoming from England, and this money was
liked ; some are really beautiful and unfortunate nationals, and friends. His father, the first Baron machinery of destruction, be pur- tide of international rancour. The refused to them.
"I Call It Treachery." Bued with energy every means of Kaiser's personal attitude to his
othere rather crude, but we have Mr. A. G. Macallister, of Sydney, Swaything, who died in 1911, left uncle acquired features even more establishing peace shors of any sur-
King Edward made here are yet to see one which can compare Australia, has made preparations property then valued at £1,150,000.
The late Lord Swaythling left to Fender to in historic impor endeavour on King Edward's part mark of impetuous displeasure for interest or for colouring with to start to-day for the wilds of his wife the income from £125,000
bumiliating counsels of sinister than of old, and a belated
to alleviate the personal tension the politics of the English Cabinet, tance of King Edward's reign is the abandonment of the time-worn had merely temperary effect. The and protested that he positively The Ruins of Angkor." This Ronan in an effort to rescue Mr. (or half the residuary estate, which
In the Okehampton district with- policy of isolation in foreign Kaiser's extravagant vanity, and knew nothing of it. Also Sir Frank amazing temple city was built by Basil Riley, who has now been ever be the greater), and his London
house at Kensington-court, W.
is a distance of one mile on a main He left various sums to his sons road are nine corrugated iron roofs. affairs, and the substitution for it the growing strain of German protested energetically and said, the Hindu's in Indo-China, and of a system of ententes and al rivalry with Britain in all the he was indeed very indiscreet, but even to-day, ruined, and overgrown reported missing for about thres
felds of Empire, tended to n he had to assert that on the con- by the jungle, it is an amazing weeks, says the North China Daily and daught in certain cases on
srusts to protect them from the In the side roads ugly bungalows
are springing up. mutual alienation which no indivi- trary the Japanese rejected English sight. The has reliefs and the style News.
dangers incurred by people who To my expressed doubt of mach of the achitecture remind
The occupant of a 300-years-old A Clouded Horizon.
dual conciliatory effort could as money.
the Ambassador came out with a one more of Greek than Indian All unaware, Mr. Macallister, are not sagaged in any betive Lux thatched cottage near Crediton, Clouds hung orar Britain's for- unge.
There was not a Great Power in speech, in which he said that of work, and the aim has given a hero of the World War, came to ness life, and expressed his eiga borizon when King Edward
earnest wish and aleman injure who thinks of moving-after having ascended the throne. The South Europe that really had a definite course England had offered the wonderful picture of it. We wish
tion" that no child of his should been there for 40 years owing to African War was still in progress, policy. It was a period of tenta- money, but had proposed such con- that we could have more Prizma China about & fortnight ago.
Shortly after arriving here he abandon the Jewish religion or in the threat of a new road, said: and the cherished hopes of an early, tive suggesticas, of feelers, of dip-ditions that it was difficult for the pictures like this, and more films
pourparlers.
on a level with "The Dark Angel" picked up a newspaper and saw tarmarry with a person not of that England Japanese to accept it. and prosperous conclusion were, lomatie
I replied that it came to the same,
that Mr. Riley, the correspondent religion.
Among the bequests is one of fading The sympathy of foreign particularly was rudderless and peoples with the cause of the Boer drifting, but was resolved to make thing whether a thing was refused
for the Times had been missing in £12,000 on trust for his third son, enemy continued to manifest itself one last effort to secure an Anglo- outright or whether such conditions
Honan and, thinking back over his the Hon, Ivor Montagu, who, it put that the other side in rancorous denunciation of the German alliance; and the occasion were
The Eng".
days in Sydney, he remembered will be remembered, married last British name in all the market favourable to the effort was deemed could not accept it
January Miss Eileen Hellstern, of Government after such places of Europe Foreiga Gov- to be a personal meeting between lish eramente in their intercourse with King Edward and the Kaiser. If an action could not wonder if DELIGHTFUL SPECTACLE OF that it was that youth's father and Brixton, S.W., a shorthand-typist. mother whom he had known a few The wedding was kept secret for perfidious Albion ** the British Government diplomati. these two were in agreement then the phrase
were still accepted as before. I
years before. Here was a chance six weeks, and it was stated that cally qualified the notes of popy- ministers would follow.
during that time Lord and Lady On August 23rd, 1901, after the
The spirit of the country of for him possibly to do a good turn, Swarthling were unaware that it lar hostility, hut doubts were justi-
of Trenchery.' At this fied whether the correct tone of the funeral of the Empress Frederick, uld all such politics only by the
bygone days came to Town on June, Chancellories of Europe implied the King, accompanied by Sir
came lively protests from the King 12th, and settled itself in Hyde for an old acquaintance and, at the had taken place. any genuine good will. One thing Frank Lascelles, went from Hom and Sit Frank
Park, spreading in a glorious mass some time, provide himself with I came forth with the remark of colour, over the afore am- an added amount of excitement alone was certain, that England burg, where he had been taking the was isolated and friendless. Lord eure, to visit the Kaiser at. Wil-
This was to be the that since the Chinese expedition, phitheatre near the Serpentine, Salisbury, King Edward's arst helmshöhe.
the Continental States have linked The English Folk Dance Society So, for the past two weeks Mr. Prime Minister, had long been great occasion for the preliminary themselves closer together. Who was holding one of its country Macallister has been inquiring into Frided to that polky of splendid discussion of Anglo-German differ- could have imagined it possible ten dance parties, under the auspices every possible source in order to isolation" which had been the ences and for the creation of na
years ago, for example, that the of the League of Arts, and close and out the topography and gen stant British tradition through the Angio German understanding.
Extraordinary diplomatic pre- French and German troops should upon a thousand dancers demon- last forty-five years of Queen Vic- toria's long reign.
paraticna had been made for the be fighting alongside of one another strated to a delighted crowd of cral Le of the country in which the
ander & Frussian against a third many thousands the art beloved young journalist could be found. On August 2nd von The disposition of the Powers of meeting.
Mr. Macallister's Plans. Europe at the beginning of King Muhlbarg had reported to the Chan- party? This blood spilt in com- of our forefathers three or four
Thanks to the efforts of the late Mr. Macallister, who is both Edward's reign was mainly condi- celler, Count von Bülow: For mon has worked wonders, and we hundred years ago.
are now on right good understand- -tioned by the sets with our neighbours across the Mr. Cecil Sharp, it seems as though wanderer, journalist, and capital
Vosges.
He in the midst of it will be seen again in all its ist, will start off for Nanking, Austria, and Italy, and the Dual that his the Triple Alliance of Germany, man Pajesty the Kaiser i Alliance of Russia and France. A during the Homburg meeting, at Europe I stand with my strong old-time popularity. Havourable Interpretation viewed no morant deviate from the con- army, and together with my allies
liances.
no in
it will be necessary
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"The Dark Angel" is a genuine war time. tragedy, romantic and yet not incredible. It is a picture of exceptional merit and originality, and very well worth seeing.
OLD ENGLAND IN HYDE PARK.
FOLK DANCES.
THE MISSING "TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.
BANKER'S FORTUNE.
SEARCH EXPEDITION OF ONE. LORD SWAYTHLING'S ESTATE
AN AUSTRALIAN'S DARING
PLAN.
In the afternoon the dancing where he will spend a few days in
the two alliances as counterpoises viction that we ruin our relations of where I am sure I shall en space was uncomfortably crowded, trying to get direct information as
and, as usual, there were many one to the other, making for a with England whenever it is known deavour to maintain pence
I have gained from my conversa-hundreds more women than inen, to what course to pursue in locat stable Europeaz equilibrium. These in England that we have quarrelled
tion with the King of England and but, thanks to the instruction that ing Mr. Riley. From that place opposing armed camps were kept with Russia and France
The Chancellor now wrote Bir Franke Lascelles the general women dancers must bring male he will go to Bankos, where more apart in chronic antagonism by two nge-long quarrels which were (August 13th) to the Kaizer stress impression that the visit of the partner in the evening, there was investigation will take place.
At Hankow Mr. Macallister pro- the seeds-of-past and future wars.ing the official German point of Tear to France together with his ample space for all, and the dances, France could never forgiva Cerview The Kniser in reply expressed wish to see the German could be seen to better advantage.
caused an extraor It was an extraordinarily beauti poses to board a train on the Peking-Hankow Railway and go to and Lorraine, while Russia and ing more of giving England an dinary impression on
in Chengchow, in the north-eastern Austria were striving bitterly for unwelcome surprise than of reach England. Whether this will be scene glowing with colour. Beds, hegemony in the Near East Buting an amicable understanding sufficient to draw the English, and amber, green, ping, blue,
especially Lord Salisbury, from shades and combinations of shades, part of Hoan and there pick up there, was always a chance, though with her w
Furthermore," he wrote, "the their hitherto passive policy, and moved in one vast rhythmic whole, the necessary equipment for a two- e remote one, that jealousy of
"Anda great building of our flest must be ex- to open their eyes to the slow but lor ever changing, forming and re-months' trip into the heart of Britain, from which no European Power could be reckoned pedited as quickly as possible, continuous fall of her (England's) forming, as it wove new patterns China-where he will quite free, might be so stimulated Who will get a nice surprise are prestige and of her world-position, to the old English tunes played by trace of the journalist or know the
the Band of the Welsh Guards. reason why. by circumstance as to bring the the English and perhaps it is also will remain uncertain.
any for the anaexation of Alance (August 20th), seemed to be think Chancellor, has cause the part of ful scene at both performances, a
SWORN AT £100,000.
The unsettled personal estate of the late Lord Swaythling, of Town hill Park, Bitterne, Hampshire, head of Samuel Montagu & Co., bankers, who died on June 11th, has been
IRON FOR THATCH,
CHANGING THE DEVONSHIRE- COUNTRYSIDE.
Devonshire, famed for its narrow, winding, and beautiful lanes, is fast being tratsformed into a county of corrugated iron
Visitors complain that the joy of discovering, on rounding a corner,
a corner of a field, is becoming a thing of the past. Gone is the thatch, its place being taken by cor patch the old red-etone" walla. rugated iron, which is also used to
Chicken houses and garages of
queer shapes erected on every and fail to harmonise with the surround
ing country.
In the last few years Devon- Tho hire hus changed fast. growth of motoring and the
are the.. failure of agriculture causes. Motorists must have their roads and their garages.
re-
The farmers cannot afford to patch walls with stone or thatch a zoof. Many of them add to their incomes by selling petro to the motorist who wanders off the main road, hence these agly garages:
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