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it. "CD" was a sturdy Liberal committed to policies which he distrusted and disliked; but, whon, early in 1908, wit was rumoured that "G.-B.'s health was not so good as it might be, the King told Lord Knollys that Hit would be a bad day for the. country if anything happened, to Campbell Bannerman.",
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The feeling between them had Bybcribed Capital become almost affection. There are Food was no such bond with "C.-B.'" successor, Mr. Asquith, though the King "appreciated
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Gladstonians." Temper-FORT-BAYARD mental differences, no doubt, qx plain why, as this biographer says, ather, but who turned out to be
their relations were never cordial is exact double. was describe
Caviare, Yorks, Macao Beauty,
The unintentional offence is now a representative of the Press Loongwn, Warrington, Bill Brewer,
Asquith always appeared to the NAM DINH ssociation by Mrs. Annie Brown. Alhambra, Loch Rannoch, Chung-ka- explained by Sir Erederick Mac-King to be reticent, secretive, re Park Crescent. Clapham, Lon.kau, Blotting Paper, Scooter, Hum-millan, the head of the publishing served. He was always assuring
dinger, Titmouse, Drake, Red Leaves, firm. San Diego, Targe.
My father, who is 55, she said, red with me until 1 had to move cently into smaller rooms. Ile. en disappeared, and I did not ow what had become of him Informed the police, and after had been missing for six beka, they told me there was a an lying unconscious in Felham ospital with injuries received in
motor accident.
The paragraphs taken without About 7 furlonga--For China ponies. Raymond's
United Services Heavyweight Race. acknowledgment from Mr. B. T. book, "Mr. Lloyd each weights at 108 lbs, to be ridden
George, a Biography" would have by Officers of H. M. Forces or mem-been acknowledged by Sir Sidney bers of the Hongkong Volunteer De Lee had he lived to complete his fence Corps. 1st prize $50, 2nd saves his entrance foc. Entrance fee work. 35.
3.
More Retter, Bill Brewer, Al- hambra, Vincent, Smart, Guy, James Pigg. Foxtrot, Two Step. Drake, Shot Autumn Plate. About 2 miles For China ponies weight for inches as por sento. Por Cup. 2nd prize $30. 3rd prize $15. Entrance fee $5.
I arrived at the hospital with a end just us the man died, and both identified him as my ther. He was like hini in ap-
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the King that he did not want to trouble him about difficult matrets in LUNDUNT Radios Provincial and and the King thought he was de liberately withholding information. Many others, not excluding C.-B." came under the same suspicion. But It
was members of the Salisbury and Balfour Administrations from 1961 if the The quoted
were fond of 1905 who suffered most in actually in the original manuscript this way, for the King was then left by Sir Sidney, and were in-more robust and netive, and gave tended either as a basis or to be fuller attention to affairs, than he Minister's account of the inter- Current Accounts opened in Local Currency used in detail with acknowledgment, was able to do later.
view, nothing more can be done and Fixed Deposit received for one yoT OF shorter period in Local Currency and Starling. "The manuscript," says
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Hongkang, 7th Apr, 1917. Frederick, "passed through several hids, and no one guessed that the Of the Liberal Miniators from military career at an end, and, if
Sir Sidney's 1006 onward. Mr. Lloyd George
he does not intend returning to passages were not
resign his op In that way, they have gone and Mr. Churchill ofteneat Malta, he should into the biography without acknow-curred the King's blanie This pointment at once, and not wait ledgment. It was an unfortunate was not because of any adminstra until October, as he suggests. mistake which will be put right. tive neglect. Mr Lloyd George his brother's persistent obstinacy." "The King is much annoyed at The story of the reign is told the chief spokesman of the In addition, he had in 'a' pocket
in sufficient detail, and is document Radicals, and for several years
In Service matters the King, re- green needle case with thimble November Handicap. About 1ed throughout from the Royal Mr. Churchill worked in close agreeceived much informal advice from tached, like one fmy daughter miles.--For Chien ponies. 1st prize archives and other sources,
fee.
ment with him. The Kirig fre friends and was never entirely de- ve him. The enses are ver$0.2nd saves
Edward's personality stands out quently complained to "C.-B." or pendent on official information. pular, and can be bought at a Entrance fee $5.
as it will live to Mr. Asquith about the younger Knowledge of this was not likely Il-known store, but they are Deer Hound. Caviare, Yerka, Maeno clear and strong,
men's platform in history.
speeches. This to lessen the stubbornness, with a variety of colours, and it was Beauty, Mowgli, Loongwa, Warring
was nothing new, of course. The which Ministers held to their own markable this man should havetom, Enster Day, Loch Rannoch,.
letters recall Victoria's protests views. Seondag Humdinger, Timous
against the utterances of earlier green one.
Praiavad, Race Horse, Three, Shut 3.
agressive Liberals-John Bright, 7 fur-
Gladstone, and (for a time) Joseph Consolation Race. About longsFor China ponies that have started at this meeting »and not won. Weight for inches, as per scale. 1st prize $50, 2nd prize 320, 3rd $10. Forced entry $5.
father hus.
Sure of Identity,
his entrance
My sister and his brother after rds Saw the man at the rtuary and they were sure it father. borrowed money, ich I hoped to re-pay from the
Deer Hourd, Caviare. More Better, urance money. and bought Yorks, Mowgli, Macao Beauty, Loong urning clothes for myself and, Warrington, Easter Day, Bill children. My brother and Brewery Alhambra, Loch Rannoch, ter and I, and my daughter Chung-ka-kau, Vincent, Blatting ended the funeral at North Paper, Humdinger, Scouter. Cheriton Vale, Titmouse, Drake, Red Leaves, en Cemetery last Monday.
Race Horse, Craiguvad, San Diego, You can imagine the shock 1 Taree, Smart Guy, James Pigg. Fox-
when, coming home again. trot. Two Step, Show, 3. "Een Herbert, who is 14, told he had seen his grandad as was leaving work."
4
y father was always very 4 of this boy, and met him as was coming from his place of
he
k in Clapham, and gave him money, "Why, Grandlad. thought you were dead," Her- taald." "They have gone to
funeral
IT
this morning.") in't talk nonsense," my father 1, and told the boy, to meet outside Brixton Library ry Wednesday morning and he uld give him a present.
MURDER CHARGE.
SCHOOLBOY ACQUITTED.
Announcing the death of Queen Victoria to the Privy Council, on January 23, 1901, he said his endeavour would be "always to walk in her footsteps. This vow he kept to the end." Though their lives were so different, the likeness of of character and outlook loyalties and prejudices, - even sometimes of verbal expression. is remarkable.
1
Chamberlain.
The closing sentence of a letter from the King to Mr. Churchill in 1906 might have been written by Victoria, to a young Whig half a century before
His Majesty is glad to see that So much had been said about you are becoming a reliable Victoria's long refusal to admit Minister and, above all a serious Edward to full confidence in high politician, which can only be at affairs of State that his trainingtained by putting country before for sovereignty was in some party. quarters undervalued.
The Lloyd George speeches which For nearly 15 years before he the King found most fault with came to the Throne all important were those in which he spoke his foreign dispatches wore com- mind about the Peers and their municated to him; for nine years rejection of Liberal Bills. Decisive he regularly received the reports clash on that issue Edward was of Cabinet Councils.
most anxious to prevent. He Honours lists, whatever their sought to restrain both sides, but origin, the King jealously watch-hut with little effect, and in the Alleged to have stabbed a 16-cd. He often made suggestions, last months of his reign the year-old schoolboy in the back often also pressed objections with limitation of the Peers' Veto was with a pucket knife and therchy a stubbornness embarrassing to imminent. It was King George
Some- cause his death, a 14-year-old the Ministers concerned. schoolboy appeared before Mr. times mines were withdrawn in Justice Wood and a jury at the Criminal Sessious yesterday on a charge of murder.
The jurors, were:-Mr. T. A Martin (foreman). Mr G. JI. Stewart, Usuf Mnhamed Omar: Mr. S. C. Salter, Mr. C. A. de Jesus V. Ribeiro. Tan King-hoop, and ME. W. R. Wilkinson.
On Wednesday morning I went h Herbert and there saw my her right enough. I coul
tell him about all that had pened, I was so anxious about and how he was living. He Ved away "when he saw me, At the close of the morning's Lquestioned him, and he tohi proceedings his Lordsitip intimat he was getting money from theed that if the ingy found the pri- waz soner "gality they would do so nberwell. Guardians, and
right. He said he was living on a charge of manslaughter! Camberwell, but he would not
me the address.
deforence to the Royal objection; but he knew that responsibility rusted with his advisers, and when they, too, were obstinate they could have their way,
Censor of Honours List.
who
gave Mr.
the
Asquith "guarantees" that is, the under taking to appoint if necessary) nongh new Peers to carry the re- form through but there is no rea- son to doubt that, however, reluc- tantly. Edward would have done
the same.
:
But he had his own scheme for Though they do not vouch for the House of Lords. As explain- it, and, indeed, point out that ited to Lord Crewe, this was that the differs from a record by, the King, House should remain as it is for quote the story all purposes, except voting. Only the biographers told in Ar. Edward Legge's "King 100 Peers should be able to vote, George and the Royal Family" these nominated in equal numbers that the Marquess of Salisbury's by the two party leaders-then sudden resignation of the Pre-Lord Lansdowne and Lord Crewe miership in July 1902 was due to Some of the obvious objections to sharp difference about honours. the plan were pointed out to him, but he thought they could be ever The King desired the inclusion come. Nothing came of it. of a certain name in the Corona- tion Honours List. Lord Salis- bury replied, simply and calmly, Mr. Brewer reviewed, the faels "That, sir, is impossible."
On resuming, after an adjourn ment for tilin, Mr. Brewer opened the defence. The prisoner did not give evidence and no witncases were called. have in-
Lord Esher's influence was con- tinuous, and he wrote to the King
"Cr
had control of the archives at great variety of subjects.
Windsor and if the Royal preroga- tive were in question he was ready with, precedents against encroach- mnt. But it was on Army affairs, that most attention was paid to him, especially after the Boer War. At one time the King, was con- temptuous of the War Otice. He used to tell this story of an officer WRE trepanned by who
Sir Frederick Treves
Traves did not conceal his fears that the patient would have dif- gulties in his profession, since the greater part of his brain had been removed.
417
%
It is very kind of you, Sir Frederick," replied the officer, "to take so much interest in my wel fare, but, thank God, my brain is no longer wanted-I have just been transferred to the War Office."
The Guild of Kings.
The detailed accounts
..
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the King's. European journeyings and of the intercourse with other European Courts contain much of permanent historic value. "Special attention is given, of course, to our relations with Germany and France, and to the King's troubles with his nephew; the Kaiser. Their tiffs were innumerable and mischief-mongers
always rearly to magnify differences. Edward, who suffered much from the trickery and trencherous Wilhelm, did his best, under con tinual provocation, to turn him
He had little pleasure in his from his reckless follies. few visits to Berlin and was much happier in Paris.
were
JI
Any gross breach of honour by Who was the Man?
Royal personages, he keenly resent- has been a very disturbing
Several pages are filled with the ed. For long he refused to meet erience" for me.
story of a Royal indiscretion which the late King of the Belgians be med the police and the in
caused much talk at the time. cause of the Congo infamies and The King visited Russia in 1908. other transgressions. They were auce company about the mis
as presented by the Grown. He wish him to be given a peer- This was disapproved by many an affront to kingship. A danger en Identification. I had not wn any insurance morey, hut referred to the prisoner's state-age, and he must have it, came the Liberal and Labour members, who also; and whether he was showing
rrowed several pounds for ments, in which Ee stated that he Royal reply. The Premier was in-felt strongly about Russian mis- to comply rule. Debate was forced in the rning and wreaths, and the stabbed the boy by mistake and flexible. He refused
am going to admitted that the whole thing was with his Sovereign's command .... House of Commons; and 59 of them of It How I that back I hardly know. an accident. The only manner in Lord Salisbury thereupon made up voted for a reduction in the husband is at sea, I wish he. which a charge of manslaughter is mind to quit the post, and he Foreign Office Vote."
could be sustained was to prove quitted it, here to help me.
that the original intention was to stab.
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In summing up his Lordship said on the understanding that no more the ban on Mr. Ponsonby, "whose cannot he Indifferent to the assaș- Vith regard to his registration, that the case, as put forward by political peers should be created offence was greater in the King's sination of a member of my pro- to
eyes because he had been born and fession. or, if you like, a member egistrar told a Press Associa-the defending counsel, was purely that year..
of my with his bred in the purple."
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Edward's relations
obliged to shut up our business if will be to inform the Coroner, dence of the prisoner having fal Ministers were little affected by len. He thought the only possible considerations of party. It hap
we, the kinga, were to consider after an inquiry, will issue ther certificate by which the conclusion the jury could come to pened that some of his oldest and Through all the changes of his the assassination of kings as of
intimate friends were time the King was a strict con- no consequence at all. at the cemetery will be was that the prisoner deliberately most
frankly Edward knew that kings are fed. It is not likely that the dealt the blow. The prisoner was Liberals. He did not share their stitutionalist. However y will have to be exhumed un-a young person in law, and they political views, but that rarely he might withstand, his Ministers dependent on public confidence for the purposes of identi-must ask themselves as to whether made any difference to friendship; in private, he supported them when and support, and he endeavoured tion.
the prisoner knew whether he was and they were often very useful in decisions had been taken. That so to reign as to win and hold both. was very human and made smoothing over difficulties that was the dominant loyalty; private He Later information showap that doing wrong or not.
If he (his Lordship) was re- arose with others. One of these friendships and even family con- mistakes, but he was a great king, the monarchy more inquest was held on the body an unknown man, and Mrs. cording a verdict of his own, which intimates, the Marquis of Lincoln-nexions wore subordinated to it. and left
was always "My dear In 1909 the Dake of Connaught strongly entrenched in the favour
refused to retain for a third year of the people. wn's dramatic appearance at he was not, it would be to the shire, mortuary, when she identified effect of manslaughter. If how Charlic."
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A BOLLIN -Boogkong, 11th March, 1936.
*Manager.
THE BANK OF CHINA.
SPECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN. TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIO OP CHINA ON THE 2ND OF NOVEMBER, 1917.
Authorized Capital Faid-op Capital Berre Foodse
-,640,003,090.03
... $18,278,040.0# ....3 1,623,428.34
"HEAD OFFICE PEKING
RONGKUNO DRANCHES:
4. Queen's Boad Central. Branches and Sub-branches all over Chinn and correspondents in Europe,' America and other parts'of worau
LONDON BANKERS
The National Provincial and Union Banh of England Limited.
The Guaranty Trust Company of Neir Zorks NEW YORK BRANCHES :—
The ring National Banks, Thế Equis- abla. Trust Company of new York
Interwallowed on Current "Aces and Fixed Deposita. Terms on: application
Every moription of Banking bigban kennameiad., A
Loans granted as approved securities. Special facilities for Home Exchange
SKOU J. CHEM
Manager
THE HO HONG (BANK, LTD.
(Established 1817.)
CAPITAL
Authorised, Capital, patient
Ingred
Pald-Up aardekkén
Raserta : Elahiljem,of,,, shazu
kor
Surplu
.$25,000,000
1,400,000
4,000,000
4,000,000
....0.1,540.000
HEAD OFFICES—SINGAPORE. Bygdeber, agenclaw and Cortékpéndezte. En áit the principal, sitios of the world.
Every description of Banking and ExelingS busine transacted.
JO LEUNG BOK",