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ROYAL BEREAVEMENT.
QUEEN
XD V-TA-+ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925. BÀØA+
MOTHER PASSES
AWAY.
PEACEFUL END AT SANDRINGHAM.
London, November 20.
OFFICIAL CHANGES.
LATEST APPOINTMENTS.
The following official appoint- ments are Gazetted :---
Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, C.M.G., E.B.E., to act as Colonial Secretary.
Mr. S. B. B. McElderry to net asj Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Caineila,
THE STRIKERS. SUBMARINE ABOLITION,
NUMBERS REDUCED IN CANTON.
LATEST FIGURES. Some interesting Information
Dr. G. W. Pope to be an Assis. to hand from Canton showing the tant Medical Officer of Health. present position so far as the
Mr. R. A. D. Forrest to be Assis-strikers are concerned. tant Head of Sanitary Department
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It is gratifying to learn from It is significant that in the in Interviewed by Anglo-American the Daily Prees that at a recent tornational galf match at Fanling pressmen, M. Barel, Minister o forowall gathering at Queen's on Sunday, the English team did Marine, declared that the French Government, members of the fin, at which haggis was served.. Pier, attended by heads of the not score a single point after tif- Government agreed with Mr. Baid- Consular Body, senior naval and win that the submarine question military officers and prominent
They used to say that drink should be considered jointly by all whom there were nearly 200 on about a boycott?
local residents, "the police, of mado a man talkative but what interested countries in connection duty, kept admirable order." with the whole problem of naval
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Mr. B. R. Forster to be Private
disarmament. France, however, ed to give Canton as the soured Observatory officials have fail- Secretary to His Excellency the Governor.
gathered there, but that later the as not unmindful that the spirit of origin of some of the shocks Capt. CH. Steele, M.C., to be number was
of Locarno intended to reduce the recently felt in Hongkong. {A.D.C.
to His Excellency the 10,000, many having gone to their valent of one-third by 'spreading the tung just now, it seems to have a The only way to get anything
aubmarine programme by an equi
When money talks in Kwang- Governor.
for slight Russian accent.
done in Hongkong is to howl about it hurting business.
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and Secretary to the Sanitary It is stated that at the commence.
ment of the strike some 70,000 to ị 30,000 strikers from Hongkong
Her Majesty, Queen Alexandra, passed away peace-Board. fully in the presence of Their Majesties the King and Queen and members of the Royal Family at Sandringham.
The Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York, who left London for Sandringham, did not arrive in time to see their grandmother; owing to the fog delay- ing the train.
A number of functions in London were cancelled on receipt of the news.--Reuter,
An earlier message from London stated" that Their Majesties spent most of the morning at Sandringham, whither Queen Maud of Norway hurried at one o'clock in the afternoon in response to a summons.
The late Queen Alexandra had a further heart attack and it is understood that the oxygen treatment was freely resort- ed to to mitigate the sufferings. The Prince of Wales left for Sandringham in the afternoon. The anxiety of the public was evidenced by the constant stream of callers at Marlborough House asking for news of the Queen Mother.-Reuter.
A BELOVED QUEEN.
reduced to about
village homes, others obtaining employment and a numbèr sucçrod-}
A writer in the Times of Decem-ing in returning to Hongkong to ber 4th, last year, wrote:
take their former positions.
up
Of the strikers that remained, it
"Queen Alexandra, who was 80
in
construction. programmes 1925-26 over eighteen months each.
He concluded that France did not desire to fall behind other countries in the cause of peace disarmament.
CREW SAVED.
RESCUE FROM JUNK.
While on a voyage from Hong-
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The cost of living in Hongkong certainly doesn't affect its popu larity.
It's a wise share that knows its own par.,
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If harsh criticism can improve anything, the Aims would bo nearly perfectly now.
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Our Chinose cook has always boen an onomy of the British. constitution.
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According to the China Mail, the South African nativos are According to local newspapers, protesting against "the proposal "on Monday evening a Ford car to incorporate Bechuanaland, came in collision with a motor Basutoland, and Switzerland in car." Why those meticulous dia- the Union." So far however, the tinptions?.
Swiss have shown no signs of taking naval action.
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on Monday lives in gracious deeds. thoughts, and feelings nat to be sald that some 8,000 were select--Reuter. measured by any tale of years. ed for picket service at different The annals of the British Monarchy
how many Queens Consort and points of communication with Hong- many Queens Dowager, but not one kong and Macao, whilst after among them ever filled a place to making allowance for be compared with that which she
the sick, alls in the affection of all the, those imprisoned for various March day in 1863 when she made some 23,000 able-bodied men. Of British peoples. From that snowy offences, etc., there remain now
her bridal progress through Lon- doa, her empire has remained these, about 12,000 are employed kong to Namtso, the attention of ing of renumbering Nathan Road They're talking of having wood- Naturally and with no the construction of roads from the crew of the steam launch Sanhouses, there'll be no excuse for en pavements in Shanghai. kind of effort she came into her Canton to Whampoa, from Canton Save life" to the plight of the find their way home.
Hang On was drawn by cries of married men not being able to Anyhow, the city fathers are put- kingdom, and the years that fol
ting their leads together. to Pao-on and from the latter place prow of a trading junk who were sunshine, served but to confirm and to Ping Wu, as well as on road in clinging on to their waterlogged lowed, bringing shadow as well as
口口 A local auctioneer advertises a
These reports about. Soviet, Pesach which was drifiting near porambulator and # roulette goldfields leave us cold. What
Ku lighthouse."
wheel, Evidently a chance to try we want to know is when we're Yak people were taken on your luck.
likely to get some real money for o launch, and landed at
those rouble notes. The steal launch then. and towel the junk to Cheungoliau; where it was
At this morning's Cathedral service in memory of the victims of the M.1 disaster, his Lordship the Bishopceure. made reference to the Queen Mother's death, saying that it would not be fitting if he did not try to give some expression of the feeling in their hearts which united in proud thankfulness for her life and in respectful sym- pathy for the members of the Royal Family.
The news became generally known in the Colony during the morning, and all Government offices, the naval boats in harbour, and many business houses on shore had flags flying at half-mast.
increase the public veneration..... the vicinity of Waichow. Some "Though no Royal lady of our 5,000 others have been put into, time has known better how to ful
fif her duty of 'representation, how military transport work. Thus ap to give her own unige distlection present, it is computed that they to the pageantry of State cere are only from 6,000 to 7,000 strie monial, ber empire over the hearts of the people owes little to the actually in Canton.
It is with profound sorrow that appointed a Dame Grand Cross of Britishers throughout the world the Order of the British Empire, fact of her high station.
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The Services are complaining about the fluctuating dollar. But Seven-and-Sixpenny Hill still in clines upwards.
It is estimated that there is
ing demonstrated on many suits. The power of the press is be-.
just now.
will have learned of the death of and in 1923 was present at the wedhild she declared that her great strikers are said to total about RECREATION GROUNDS enough oual in China to keep it visit of the Bobbios has been
Her Majesty, Queen Alexandra, onding of Princess Mary and attend.desire and ambition was to be
of all. It
same character of
the eve of her 31st birthday, fored very mang social functions loved, and no ambition was more $2,000, which includes payments she has, throughout her 62 years' For the past two years, however, amply realized. All her life she to some of the needy families re- residence in England, earned with Her Majesty had not been seen has remained unspoiled by flattery, quiring support. It is stated that her grace and sympathy, the love much in public, though she has always the
was not generally always continued to evince the natural goodness strengthened by winter clothing is now being pro- known that Her Majesty had been liveliest interest in current affairs good sense. It is at the same time vided for the strikers. suffering from failing health for and has never once lessened her decided character, free from great concern for the welfare of the sick and suffering.
some time past, and the news of her death, will have come as painful surprise,
EARLY DAYS.
weakness and full of determination The Government is reported to and grit,' and, perhaps most con-have issued an order to the Police spicuous of all, an unwavering Department to take back all arms fidelity.
from the strike pickets, the reason "Minding my own business' İS ten of Queen Alexandra's life in Much has previously been writ-
said to have been Queen Alexan- given being that there is no longer England since she first landed on dra's answer to the question what any necessity for them to be armen. was her favourite occupation.
COMMITTEE'S REVISED
PERSONNEL.
The Gazette publishes the fol- lowing revised constitution of the Recreation Grounds Committe; Public Works.
The Chairman, The Director of
Local robbers are glad that the in hot water for the next 500 postponed a little longer.
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years.
A critic is a person who always finds a meaning in literature that the author never intended.
Πο According to the "Easma" ro- port, the Association organised a popular "swoop steak" That's more than sonie hotels can do, anyhow.
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al spirit might be said to lie in The essens of the internation- the offer of Mr. Lloyd George to add a look to Mr. Auston Cham- berlain's nosegays.
Wireless onthusiasts in Nor- way have heard the bagpipas
broadcasted from Aberdeen. The Colonial Secretary,
Many of these hardy Norsemen, The Director of Education, Naval Recreation Club.
Representative of the Royal "Peace Moves", says a local however, are continuing to listen-
headline. It seems to have mov-
in, Representative of the Garrisoned a good deal lately. Recreation Club.
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The Now Year will soon be upon us. Now is the time for advertised. Presumably it in- of volumes on will-power.
Representative of the Hongkong A highland (full) dress" is the booksellers to lay in a stock
Polo Club..
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CANTON DELEGATES. Football Association.
The Hon. Secretary, Hongkongcludes the flask."
In the event of your coat boing Businos in Hongkong may too loud this winter, put on & be deadlocked, but it is still a long muffler. way from being lockjawed.
ball Club,
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These frequent motor accidents Reading about that Yaumati remind us that some people go brand of alcohol confirms our looking for trouble and then don't theory as to the cause of some of know what to do with it when those early morning headaches. they find it.
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The late Queen was the eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, and married the late King Edward VII of England, in St. George's Chapel. Windsor, on its abores or March 7th, 1863. Fortunately for the sick and needs, March 10th, 1863, when he was It was then that Queen Alexandra, she has always regarded them as Prince of Wales.. For nearly 40 the Princess who in her own coun- years she reigned at Marlborough try was called "the gem of Denvery much her own business. Her House as the Princess of Wales and mark, irrevocably adopted a new
private charities have long been then, for the comparatively brief nationality. As a bride the Prinn a scale which filled with des- interval of barely ten years, from cess Alexandra left her native land pair the careful guardians of her 1901 to 1910, she adorned the posi--the first Danish Princess to do
Inurse. But the poor woman is in CONFERENCE OPENS TO-DAY Hongkong Hockey Club.
Lieut-Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O.. tion of Queen Consort at Bucking-so for such a purpose for quite a trouble, I must help her,' she would ham Palace. On the death of King century on the afternoon of Febny, holding up a pathetic appeal. Twenty delegates from Canton,
Lieut.-Col. E. D. Matthews, Royal Edward, the lved in comparative ruary 28, 1863. The crossing of the An old friend has described her representing all branches of the Hongkong Golf Club, retirement for two years, when, to North Sen was accomplished in the
power of sympathy as unsquash-trading and mercantile interests, Clab.
Mr. H. Birkett, Hongkong Jockey some extent sae resumed her public old yacht Victoria and Albert under
able, and over and over again arrived in Hongkong by the .s. appearances amid general gratifi-the British flag, and with a Fleet with her gay courage she has rid Fatshan yesterday afternoon for
Mr. W. Logan, Victoria Recrea- cation. Of late years she has lived escort, every vessel in gala dress,den through all manner of opposi- the purpose of discussing with
tion Club, mainly at Sandringham and, by it was about eight o'clock on the ion and obstacles, official and local merchants the possibility of
Mr. J. McCubbin, Hongkong Foot reason of her advanced years, has morning of March 7 that the yacht her. The story of Queen Alexan ending the present boycott.
An American observatory has As we understand the Locarno been more or less out of the public entered British
dra's. Imperial Nursing Service is
Mr. J. L. McPherson, 'Hongkong inst located a life. At the time of her death she booming of
now star. Local Pact talk, some countries aro the a case in point. Some indication The Cantonese delegation was Amateur Athletic Association. boxers are expected to discover quite willing to approve, provided was the President of the London Roads, and a few hours later is furnished by the Alexandra the local Chinese General Cham- Cricket Club.
guns in Margate of what she has done for hospitals met on arrival by a committee of Mr. T. E. Poarce, Hongkong quite a number to-night.
it isn't intended to moan Hospital and had, for many years, the representatives of the civic wings and wards to be found al ber of Commerce, Twenty-four
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anything. given innumerable proofs of her life of Margite presented the over the country, but perhaps the Commercial Guilds, pity for all sufferers. In 1914, she first address of welcome, going installed the Finsen light, is Hospital, including several pro- District reviewed 10,000 Boy Scouts in Lon-out to the Victoria and Albers by nearest to her heart.
London Hospital, where she first Trades. Unions and Tung Wah don, and throughout the war took boat in their eagerness to be the keenest personal interest in the absolutely first. work of the Red Cross Society and Danish indies presented an adher musical accomplishments, and gings were secured for some of "Much has been aiready written minent merchants. Later, an ad- A deputation of
of her physical courage in danger kong Boarding House, where lod- journment was made to the Hong- other organisations having for dress at Gravesend, on behalf of her love of animals and hatred of the members of the delegation, their obpect the alleviation of their people in London, which pro-ruelty, and indeed everything co-others taking up residence in the suffering. She personally, visite foundly touched the Princess. many hospitals and similar institu- The Earl of Caithness drove tha/nected with her is of absorbing in-] tiona in 1915 and onwards.engine of the train which bore thef
terest to the British people. An
King Edward Hotel. "Queen Alexandra's Day," (other-1] Royal party to London. The wed-this was afforded in one of heelal reception last night at Westche text of a despatch by Mr. Fool A Kowloon reader wants to
The visitors were given an oil Jammusing und also touching proof of wise known as Rose Day) las ferding in St. George's Chapel, Wind- many years past been celebrated in sor Castle, was a joyous scene,ands of prescriptions were sent
rare illnesses, when so many thou-Paint, at a banquet arranged by Ping-shoung, Commissioner of know why the Opera Company
The trouble is that the brakes Hongkong Chinese merchante, Foreign Affairs, to the British omitted that beautiful air, "O for are not always as tight as the sympathizers that an official an-lightly the points at issue. The him to request the Governor of Bohema."
waters to
CHINESE "REBELS.”
CANTON WANTS THEM DEPORTED FROM
'HONGKONG.
The Cunton Gazette publishes
Evidently William Heughan.
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One circumstance proving the
stirred the ardour of local Scots need of larger Poak trams is the men to some effect on Saturday night, for on the following day number of uniformed officials they made mincemeat of the always on duty, Englishmon at golf.
duto.
Truth is strangar than fiction. D
More than 78,000,000 corsets were From the fact that a man stole made last your an electric fan this weak, we muy assume that there are still some pessimists loft in the Colony,
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These Treaties will not have had a fair trial until their vio- lators have had one.
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June, as a day of special effort stately, brilliant, and marvellously to Marlborough House by anxious but the speeches merely touched Consul Genural in Canton asking a night in Bohemia", from "La driver.
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An American scientist is build-
for hospitals, and the celebration spectacular. The incomparable aas now become of nation-wide Jenny Lind sang the bridal hymn.nouncement had to be made inor. first formal discussion is to take Hongkong ta. break up rabel" character, This year no fewer than 100 provincial cities and Following the brief honeymoon der to stem the flood. Perhaps Place te-day, and a conclusion of organisations in Hongkong and to What we don't understand is ing a giant rocket to be fired at. towns, as well as all the London at Osborne n reception was given she was most touched when, after the conferences is expected in deport from the Colony the "re-who pays for the paper and ink the moon. It is hoped that the Boroughs, took part in the celebra- at St. James's Painco.at which the the death of King Edward, a about four daya.. tion, and well over £2,000,000 has Prince and Princess received the runour gained currency that she stood that the delegates have no isations are taking use of the
It is under.bol" icadors,
that goes to make a franc.
currant The despatch says these organ-
man who introduced UD
fritters to the Hongkong Club' been raised for philanthropy since elite of the aristocracy and the intended to leave England and take andate from Canton, but have
The trouble with China these will be induced to take the first the first happy association of the political chiefs. On Easter Sunday up her residence in Denmarie fine as mediators and in order Colony as a base in which to days is that there are too many trip. name and personality of Queen the Royal pair attended Sandring Again a food of correspondence sound the local mercantile com carry out their evil schemes, and Alexandra with the day. The cele ham church, and "at the conclu from people of all classes, bumunity on the subject of favour is desirable "sons to maintain the a
authorities and not enough
D that the deportation of the leadors authority.
It is said that there is an in- bration in 1928, after Her Majesty's sion of the service the Prince and calefly the obscure and humble, be able terms for a definite suttle penca of Hongkong and Kwang- A Shanghai paper advertisena tain clanges of London artists, drease in drunkences among cor-" 60 years' residence in England, had Princess partook of the Communion gan to pour in, and again it had ment, and the likelled of rope sun and to cement the friend a police pup for anle, due to methylated spirit. Certain
special algnificance. In fg acuany with their will to be stayed by a rearing a dentatives being honated to an FM OR OPENS BATH
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