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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
EMPIRE POLICY DECISIONS.
Premier's Speech in
Parliament.
Mr. Lloyd George, making his promised statement on the de [cisions of the recent Imperial Conference in the House of Com- mons, bigan by remarking on the
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involved in the dispute sreept as
members of the British Empire.
But they never hesitated for one hour. Without a single ex- ception they rallied to the flag. (Cheers.) They sent a million trained men to our aid, and there were no finer troops on the battle-
helds of Europe or Asia. (Cheers)
EMPIRE & FACT-NOT A FICTION. million and a India sent
All were sent volun-
quarter.
tarily. We could not have com- pelled a single Canadian, New Zealander, Australian, or South
African to come to our sid. They
came of their own free will, and with alacrity, and the fact that
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That altered the constitutional character of the Empire.
The recent meeting was a con- tinuation of what happened in Paris and at the War Cabinet. They came to discuse our foreign policy. In 1914 they came in to support us in a policy they bad no voice in determining.
They naturally say:
"We came in with nearly 2,500,000 picked men, and incur- rad enormous debis in suppor: of your policy. We feel now that we may be committed in future by the Crown which holds us together it is oura as well as yours (cheers)-on &
Riven policy. Before we send our sons to fight for that polies we ought to have a voice in fashioning it." We say That is right, scd we are glad to have your advice and counsel."
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1821.
A VANISHED PRINCESS.
Tale of Two Husbands.
She served six months as a Red Cross nurse at the siege of Verdun.
Princess Troubetzkoy. Boston, Mass. has been dis cussing Princess Nadejda Trout erkoy. The reasons are these: Lawyers are seeking ber in con- techon with divorce proceedings and the Princess has vanished, Further, there is a question as to the lady's rank. and even as to her identity.
Meanwhile two husbands are seeking their freedom.
Une is an Eboch Arden a man whom the princess thought killed in France
She was wounded on the battle- field by Zeppelin bomb and received from the Czar the Cross of St. George.
She was arrested in Petrograd by the revolutionists, but escaped to America by way of Siberia.
Marries Captain.
Shortly afterward the princess became the wife of Captain Wal- lace Schutz of the American arms.
We had a full and frank dis cussion on the foreign policy off
Thus another chapter of bad the British Empire. It was luck mars the career of the prin The captain's suit for divorce passed in review, and the Foreign cess in the United States. The was pending when Victor A Secretary made an exceeding frat chapter was written last Turin, a Russian, appeared in illuminating statement on the year when the legality of her title Boston to institute divorce pro- world position.We came to was attacked. commmon understanding. W
ceedings.
Turin stated that he had met discussed questions like Silesia, the United States, went to Waan- [the princess previous to her Asia Minor, reparations, dis-
marriage to Captain Schutz, had armament of Germany-
wooed and won ber, and then had left her and gone to France. Says Turin:
The princess. on her arrival in
ington. There she lived in a An Hon. Member-nd Ireland!egal suite in the Hotel Willard, surrounded by a royal rennue, Mr. Lloyd George No. We and attended pursing classes at
Garfield Memorial Hospital.
should not bave objected to dis cussing Ireland. They have their difficulties with regard to Ireland just as much as we have. But they were not particulary anxious to discuss Ireland. Its not the sort of question that you go into
I am a Russian gentlemo. The princess is, of course, the Identity Discovered.
princess-member of the bighest Although she was registered Russian nobility. She had been incognito at the hospital, rumors & nurse in the war. I bad besa as to her relationship to the old sent to Boston to buy munitions Russian nobility sooo spread. for the Russiao government, and of your own free will-flaughter) For a time she refused to be in-there I met ber.
and there was no burning terviewed, stating that she was desire shown in that direction. devoting her entire career to the We discussed the whole foreign Russian Red Cross, and WAT "The princess loved me, and I
policy of the Empire, and it was
Then They Parted.
merely studying to fit herself for her. Then came separation. We
an additional source of strength. her life's work.
both agreed it was better to part. "Then consider my amazement But She is not a princess," JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the going into the Allied Conference ost digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during last week, to know tha: the declared W. W. Bouimistro, when I found that the princess the bad manied Captain Schutz, Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods Foreign Secretary and myself
There are while she was married to me. ct Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID represented not merely the views special commissioner of
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"I have come to learn that you Moreover, she has them. JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA
It was not merely a source of) strength to oursives, but it made right to wear the uniform of the cannot get happiness in marriage. Russian Red Cross, as this may It is impossible. Love is a rope an impression on all who were
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there, that we represented this be worn only on duty." great powerful Empire that had contributed so substantially to victors,
MISTAKE TO LAY DOWN RULES
no
This brought a heated retort from the princess. She said:
She is a cousin af Prince Pir tre Troubetikoy, husband of Amelie Rives.
Some time during the war it had been decided that we should have a discussion on the con- She was born in Moscow and stitutional aspect of the Empire, educated at the Imperial Univer- and I was bound to put that down.sity in Petrograd. Bat the general teeling was that She served at the front in it would be a mistake to lay Russia with her own hospi al down any rules or to embark on train from 1914 to 1916. definition of what the British
Empire meant. To do so would
be to weaken its unity.
Our conclusion, therefore, was The thing that makes the that we would have no constitu- The thing British Empire united and potenttional conference.
is indefinable. You are defining that matters is conference as life itself when you are defining frequently as time and distance the unity of the Empire. You will permit.
cannot do it. Therefore we came ing communications. There was
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**You see, in this wideawake, money.mad America of yours, the outward symbol" meang a The little wedding great deal. ring means the world and all to most women. Therefore, it is well for a man to love, to humor a woman in this way. So, I am divorcing the princess, But. mind you, I still have the highest regard for her and wish her the best of happiness.”
Mr. Lloyd George: You can telephone a message, but not a missioner. (Laughter.) I should like these experiments in airshipe to proceed a little farther before I cared to go to Australia in one of these airships through a typhoon.
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AN EMPIRE NAVY. When we came to the question to each dominion of India to con-to any other conclusion than that There was an understanding municate direct with the Prime
it was loyally-and-faithfully in- that on questions of foreign Minister of this country, but com- of Daval' defence we were all sider in their own Parliaments.
On the Pacific, our opinion terpreted and carried out by our policy they should be informed,munications by cable are not agreed that the Empire most
and and, so far sa distance would means by which you can have bave a naval force at any rate was that the Japanese Alliance Japanese Allies.
Just see what happened. There permit, consulted. That is what real consultation. The difficulty equal to that of any other country. is an existing Alliance,
until 12 months' notice is given you had the Pacific raked by fast matters. We do not want to is to arrange any method by (Cheers.) interfere with their internall which we could meet a little As to its constitution, there the Alliance continues. When you German cruisers, and our ships. affairs; they do not want to more frequently. All sorts of was a general feeling that it was come to the question of whether sunk. New Zealand and Australia interfere with ours, But they suggestions were made as to unfair to leave the whole burden you will give notice you must con-sent between them 500,000 all want to feel that they are part speedy crasers, which I am told of the naval defence of the Empire sider how the Alliance has work-600,000 first-class troops, and India
The ed
Bent over million, over. sERE of this amazing organisation are not very comfortable-laugh to tbs Mother Country. which is the first thing of its ter)and even as to airships. extent to which each dominion There was a real test in the late which it would have been dimenit kind the world has ever seen. An Hon. Member: Telephone. should contribute, and its method, war,, and no man who watched for us to guard,