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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1936.
KING GEORGE VAIR ROUTES OVER BRITAIN OUT OF
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THE PROSPECTS FOR 1936
Expansion On All Sides
THE PICTURE
Botha's Work Destroyed
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Sir Henry Page Craft, M.P.. speaking at a luncheon of the British EngirpersTM Association in London yesterday, suggested the
tion close to the front line hisa quring any other Ministry. It The fateful year 1914 opened in horse suddenly reared startled by was trying time for all concern- an atmosphere of general anxiety the explosion of a shell and ined, but it is admitted that whatever The miliani sufragettes were taliing the King sustained a some obstacles and difficulties
At what serious injury to his leg.. T Labour Cabinet encountered, none growing more "turbulent." special matinee of the "Silver was a full month before he was of thera were in any way attributable King, attended by the King and able to take his accustomed out to the King's attitude. His Majesty Queen, aboman stood up in the door exercise. 1b18 Kmt George strictly observed that nedtrality audience and addressed His Majesty again went to France, and, accomproper to constitutional Govern- as a Russian Trà "An attempt was canted by RR.H. the Prince of ment as ft. b khown and practised also made to force a way into Wales, visited the British Head in Great Britain." At the time of
London, Dec. 16 Buckingham Palace to present quarters and a number of areas the General Strike in 1926 the King
taking The year that will see expe-calling of an early Imperial Con petition to the King The labour along the front then held by British similarly refrained from unrest in England grew more acute,troops. In 1917 the King, this time sides in a dispute with which he mental North Atlantic fights for ference to ascertain the views of concern-al the regular services to which the all the other Dominions as to the and the controversy over the Home accompanied by Queen Maty, agair had, officially, Rule Bil! was becoming dangerously crossed the Channel for ten days though it is known that his Majesty Governments of Great Britain, "the South African Government's inter
charitable funds United States, Canada, Newfound pretation of the Statute of West- bitter and heated. There were and while his Majesty was visiting contributed to angry scenes both in and out of various points of the front une organised for relieving acute auffer-land, and the Irish Free State are minster."
Sir Henry declared that things Parliament, and finally was which were held by British troops Ing among women and chlidren.
definitely committed, will inevit- King George was very fond of ably be the greatest in the history had been happening in South agreed on all hands that the the Queen was visiting a number
NAMBAHKAfrica, which might be fraught leaders of political parties should military hospitals near the firshaqting, and in his younger days of aviation.
was recognised to be one of the Regular Atlantic, air services will with grave consequence to the make an approach to each other.ng-line. King George clearly Interpreted the VISITS TO MILITARY CENTRES best shota in the country. Yacht-probably not begin until 1938 at whole fabric of the British Empire.
ing, too, he was fond of, and ua series of important and intensely Between his visits to the Western uke many owners he knew how to interesting operational exercises moving about curs country, inspect handle a bont. A win by the King's will be in progress in the comlag
the yacht "Britannia" was always ng training operations and indus- popular event at Cowes Regatta Palace. A naval review was to berial activities. Scarcely a week is Majesty was also a very keen held at Spithead on July 17 and passed without a Royal visit to tamp collector, and his collection 18, and the King was to have gone Sailsbury, Aldershot, or some others believed to be one of the best down in the early morning, but
cusy military centre, where mer the world. Rading did not a walted in London to make arrange-
tere being trained for active serocal to him very much, but the ments for the Conference and left
tee. His Majesty inspected the King attended the Derby and other in the afternoon. In formally
ager contingents of volunteer meetings regularly-not be (pening the proceedings. King from overseas Australia, Canada.
cause he was persorfully greatly in- Ceorge said the cry of civil war
New Zealand, South Africa, and terested in the racing, but because was on the lips of the most res-other parts of the Empire. He
ho knew that Royal patronage of ponsible and sober-minded of my
such events was expected." people."
wish of the nation in a summons)
vative, Liberal and Irish parties to
meet in Conference in Buckinghams
visited the hospitals in which were nen who of their own free will hadi AUGUST 1914
travelled thousands of miles cross The Speaker of the House of e ocean to take their places in 'Commons presided over the actual the firing-line to defend the Em-King's
Buckingham pire. The King went to Southamp riscussions at the Palace Conference, and as after-ton to see what arrangements had been made for embarking troops to Wards became known, the two riva sections of Irishmen were unable France, and for entraining the to agree. Mr. Asquith bnnounced wounded men brought back across In the House of Commons that the the Channel. He visited the Grand Fleet and he presented the sum of Conference Formoned by Fils
£100,000 from his private purse i Majesty had met for four consecu- tive days but had been unable to be used at the discretion of the Prime Minister. It will be remem. agree either in number or in detall
bered, too, that King George-early upon the possiblilty of defining ar area for exclusion from the opera-in 1915-ordered that no wines tlon of the Government of Irelanc splitte, or beer were to be corișnin Bill. There was a decidely mutin- in any of the Royal Households cus spirit growing in the Army & thus setting an example to thi in regard to temporar! a result of prominent officers open-allon
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HIS
DANKNESS Mention has been made of the frankness and abhorrence of anything but direct plain speaking. may be appropriate to conclude this inadequate sketch of a busy and eminently useful life by re- terring to an outstanding Instance of his bold disregard of convention in a desire to put himself right when wrongfully attacked. For years there had been a rumour whispered that he had contracted morganatic marriage at Malta while in the Navy: At first the lady was described as a daughter of admiral Tryon, and when it was discovered that Admiral Tryon had zo daughter she became the daugh-
Ir declaring their intention to re-abstention from alcoholic liquorster of Admiral Seymour. The story
fuse to carry out certain orders in- HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT
the event of their issuance by the Government. On top of this seri ous domestic crisis came the Sara
Time and again, during the four years of the Great War. King
jevo tragedy, and then came Auguseofge by word and deed gave help
and encouragement to those ea gaged directly or indirectly in the
1914. The King, as a last persona ffort, sent a direct telegram, t the Tsar offering mediation, but be-truggle. Hardly had the battered fore his message reached St. Peters- burg, Germany had declared wa on Russia.
was a wicked invention, but that!
die not prevent its being widely be- leved. The backwoods and the bush knew all about it, and the merican papers could even show he marriage lines." The slander vas denied, but what of that?
virtue can be soiled with a breath: armies fallen back from Bapaume but scandal is a tougher growth: 1918 when he was on the fields Falstaff said of the camomile cheering the weary troops with the more it is trodden on the bet
have taken it "all in the day's work Scandal ran off him like water off
homely words of encouragéner.t ter it grows. King Edward would On Sunday August 2, the Britial He visited hospitals in which were people were calmly but serious victims of submarine and air raids; watching the swift progress of he entertained partles of wounded events. In the evening a crowd of men in the grounds of Buckingham acveral thousands spontaneously Palace: he visited
munition- marched to Buckingham Palace factories and talked to the men singing the aitonal anthem. The and women working there; he went King and Queen came on the bal- up to the Clyde and to Wales ai cony and were greeted with en-mes when things were not work- thusiastic cheers, the crowd thus
ng quite so smoothly as the Gov- demonstrating their loyal feelings rnment wished; he went to the toward the Sovereign in this hour East End of London to see what of national crisis. Immediately
arrangements had been made te -amer & state of war between provide shelter for people in the
Britain' and Germany had been de-
event of air-raids; he went-with -clared. his Majesty's first act was
duck's, back. They, say! What не ay they? Let them say!" would have lit another cigar, cock- ed his hat at a sporting angle, and passed on his way beaming. He Cook the comedy view of life. King George was a man of different Tettle-serious in mind and com- bative in spirit, one who does not take things lying down. He leap at the throat of the slander. De lant of advice and of the head shakings of the public, he dragged the Queen-to the hospital in the thing into Court, and, like al
to proceed to the Admiralty, where ed in the disastrous Silverton exes, it fell dead in the light. There
the
he inspected the plans which had plosion. In short, he did every- been prepared, indicating
thing a King could do in such cir- Jorbable field of naval operations cumstances, and the loyalty dis- As a Navy man of wide experience played when he appeared among his Majesty was naturally greatly the troops or among civilians clear Interested in the tentative pláns
by showed how warmly his people drawn up by the Admiralty appreciated his kindly interest and thorities in anticipation of the encouragement during the darkest British Navy being called upon todays of those sad and gloomy years take active part in the war which was then just beginning
WENT TO FRANCE
..THE LABOUR CABINET
make
year.
New British and American aero-
planes and dying boats will be on trial and, ere long, in steady rapid production. Some of them are to carry more than sixty persons.
by
"It is a painful yet unanswerable face," he said, "that" as yet man- sity where racial divisions extat,
"When the Unton of South Africa was formed two great British Colonies were united with the two Dutch Colonies of the Transvaal and the Free State. our statesmen, almost before the blood of our people was dry in the veldt, but this Union and said— “Thus we heal all the old wounds,
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Mayo composite" aircraft,"
Firat trials will be made of the
which a highspeed lorig-range sea plane, so heavily loaded that it would not be able to take off un-and the two races will blend
unison for all time in a loyal der its own power, will be launch Dominion of the British Empire." ed from a big flying boat already traveling at more than 110 miles per hour.
rules so decisively that the British
ACT OF UNION TORN UP "Well, let us face facts. While The accelerated and multipled there were then two great British Empire air services promised in Colonies to-day there is now one 1937 will begin to take form. The Dominion and It is Boer-controlled. four-times-a-week service to India, Although there are 40 Britons to and the scheduled four days' four-every 80 Afrikanders the majority rey to South Africa will be at hand, the extension of the Im-community are almost out of the perial Airways system from Pe-picture.": nang to Hong Kong will be in operation; New Zealand will be connected by regular air service with Australia, and with the whole Empire system, and on the other side will be linked, through Pan- american Airways, with the United
States.
THE NEW ZEPPELIN Very early in the year the new Leppelin airship, the biggest ever built, will be launched, and a lit- tle later on will travel to New York. This may prove an impor- tant event, and taken in conjunc- tion with the successful career of the Graf Zeppelin may foreshadow regular airship services on a bet ter commercial basis than the aeroplano can, yet offer. ****
London is almost immediately to be connected by regular daily at services with Scandinavia,' and also with Portugal. The Irish Free State, through Olley Air Ber- Vices, will have daily air conuer tion with Liverpool, and probably alax between Dublin and Bristol! Great "preparations are being made to improve the air services in Great Britain, and to remove the handicap due to the present Incomplete. wireless organisation and provision for night-flying.
The expansion of the Empire services and the advent of the more frequent and faster services was never a more complete ex are already having the effect of posure, and the incident gave the stimulating the organisation of public its first real glimpse of the branch and reeder Tires nan. It ked the "glimpse, and Africa, India, and the Far East, those who had believed or half. The United States wil conso
elleved the tale felt ashamed oldate the results of the expert- their credulity.
ence gained in recent experimen- tal nights across the Pacific, and will soon have regular services, Mr. and Mrs, R. W, Paulden of To the North progress will be Peiping are shortly sailing for made in the direction of the trans-Canada al service, linking Sagland, where they will heir home. During their many up on the Atlantic side with the rears in Peiping they have made service to England, and on the countless friends who regret that Pacific alde, Via Vancouver,
hey do not plan to return, reports New Zealand and Australia. he "Chronicle." Mr. Paulden is
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE tiring from business, planning o devote much of his time in
The complete circling of the painting, which he feels he has neglected during his active busi world by air router, and that by ress life. Mr Paulden has been more than one line, will be in manager of the Peiping office of sight, and in all this “amazing Janton, Ltd Mr. Paulden" distin- fain will play wreat park, yet suished Herself in numerous imaoula u fall through stupidity our theatrical performances and neglect. Germany, and France will be greatly mided because af her undoubted talent et mit
not inactive ra Cast of it all. En anne
On the military side the-Air Force will be expanding at the rate of the formation of one squadron per week throughout the
· AND EN
Perhaps the most interestina All through the subsequent four post-war event during the reign of years of strain and sorrow King King George was the formation of George took the keenest personal Labour Cabinet. Here, again, interest, not only in the progress of the King displayed a remarkably military and naval events, but in sympathetic understanding of the the welfare of the gallant men who act, and the men who formed the were taking their various parts in Ministry led by Mr. Ramsay Mac- the struggle. In November, 1914 donald have time and again paid his Majesty went across to France tribute to the friendly attitude and visited the British Headquar-shown by his Majesty toward them. ters in the field. Subsequently he The explanation, of course, is that visited a number of base hospitals, the King recognised that these mene Union Insurance Company of movement and progress Great Br
enemy wounded.
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Germany's oldest and most cele thankrupt Before the rated pipe factory has declared
are
in which were British, Indian, and were just as earnest and sincere as those who had held (he seals of office before them. The cause of The kindly interest shown by the the worker had been always a tople King in the welfare of the men in interest to the King, and when the firing-line, and in those who the time came for him to meer a Fad been temporarily put out of number of working-men nominated Ection, was keenly appreciated and by the Prince Minister for offices his Majesty's appearance either in the Cabinet, the King received the concern exported the heather year, and afterwarda ya k the field or in the hospitais was - them with the friendliest cordiality wood pipes, which were ite speciaNew types of
of afferaft, faster variably the occasion for a spon- Men whose opinions about Royalty ly, to all parts of the world, parti- taneous display of sincere 'loyalty in general were not very com-eularly to the United States. that say except record-breakers, Time and time again during the limentary to put it mildly-found After the post-war inflation era. are already undergoing trials, and four years of the Great War King that King George had a most however, it was obliged to turn its will soon be in production. All over George demonstrated his keen con- thorough understanding of their cern for the men who were fight point of view and most anxious to ing somewhere to France. In make them feel at ease in sur December, 1814, his Majesty motorroundings and circumstances which ed to the British front in company must have been decidedly embar with President Poincare. In the russing. Segni duena qual va October of Le following year he again went to France, with the ob Ject of aspecting the troops at the front. It was during his visit that the King met with a serious, eldent During a military inspec-
THE 1826 STRIKË
During the brief term of the about Cabinet, the King's official and personal relations with his Ministers were as close and cordial
attention to manufacturing
heaper sort of product, which has ince become very popular with Germany's poorer workmen,
Earl Jellicoe who recently suo ceeded to the title on the death ois father the first Eiland Rambu silor, has won an Open Exhibition
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The combined civil flying and. air expansion i already research and in this held, and
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