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Yesterday we read with interest Mr. James Douglas, the London Daily Express writer, In "Truth About the British Navy," published in the Telegraph. We should like to recommend this article, not to search of light reading, but to those
those of our readers who are in
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THE KING'S YACHT TELLS ITS STORY
By LIONEL HALE
thing handsome about me.
My business is the service of the be an exact copy of my mother's
on his inspection of the King's up."
Indeed.
A
of
over.
The Very Idea!
KELLY CLIPPINGS
Edited by Eddie
We have been asked to deny the rumour that Mr. Dionne is divorcing his wife on the ground that she's overbearing.
Some Latin definitions:
Par in bello: Boy with a pain in his tummy.
Tertium quid: Six and eight-
ponco.
Post equitem: Reporter quit- ting the S. C. M. Post.
Pro bono public: The public always owes money to a good pro- fession.
Ad : Hongkong Travel Bureau advertising the Colony in a Shanghai newspaper,
the biggest | Cumshaw like that
AM the Royal Yacht. My name (schoolroom. Even when electric Notes And Jottings From
Is Victoria and Albert H., and lighting was installed, the Queen
An Old Scrap-Book believe that I am fairly generally could not bear that the old silver of them who dweil, even occasional-known as the "V. and A." I wear candlesticks should be removed. ly, on the course, the progress and black and gold-gold scroll-work on But my mother was growing old: futuro of events as they affect the black hull-and they tell me it and the Queen herself saw at last British Empire. Mr. Douglas tells sulta me very well. I have three that there must be one of my family. us that after talking with officers masts and two funnels, and every-to take her place. But even then ahe Insisted that my fittings should And the handsome, distinctive and men of the British Navy he has streamlined appearance of the formed the opinion that "we havRoyal House, as it was the business she went so far as to grudge ma of my mother and my grandfother the same name, and was only with 1935 Studebaker truck lost our command of the sea."
ho adds: "We stand in grave bofore me. I have carried Kings difficulty dissuaded from having me makes it stand out from the jeopardy." We do not intend to all my life, both in the days when called the Balmoral; and alasi sho crowd. With its sleek, busi-develop or embellish Mr. Douglas they visited other Kings, and in died before she set foot on me. ness-like lines and powerful, argument in any way. It stands on these later (and to me regrettable) My mother died a very short time
its own feet. The British Navy is
men have dependable engine, it is a truck no longer the formidable thing it days when there are not many other after. I think you
(not that I approve Kings left to visit. This very day, phrage you will be proud to own, a truck was in other daya than oura, Yet as is my right. I carry the Kingslang) indicative of grief, "broken- My mother was broken-up which inspires a feeling of pres. It is no less vital to the Empire's
well-being, no less casential to the ships, tige that suggests a price much safe-keeping of our trade and
I am proud of my family. My higher than its actual cost. prestige, no less indispensable to grandmotller, the Victoria and our security, We think that is
A new King a new Royal Yacht. agreed. No matter what our Air Albert I. was inid down (or born,
was launched (or christened we as you landlubbers have it) in 1842, Force strength, it is essentially a light, supple weapon for quick the first Royal Yacht to be propelled have the same expression) in 1890, by steam. She took Queen Victorin hud a small accident before I even thrust in attack and rapid counter round the coast of England on a put to sea, for while in dock in defence. It is every bit necessary as a navy; but, in Ita tour of the seaport towns. Mylated" and nearly turner.
grandmother was a very lady-like (I am aware that the Kaiser, in development, we must net lose sight acht, and when at a quayside re- the days when he still was of the necessity of preserving
me. "Tho coption one of the mayors, in full Kaiser, called
I never sufelency of power on the 20.
robes, fell overboard with the maceturtle afloat." Aeroplanes cannot patrol the Athe did not as much as blink a man!) It was found I had been lantfe shipping lanes, to assure the
incompetently planned-some wag binnacle. safe delivery of men, munitions and
sald that my designer had added foodstuffs in time of war, with the
the figures of the date into his mame degree of offiency an can the Her daughter-my mother. Vic-calculations. This was remedied; ships of the Navy. They may do toria and Albert II,was consider-but it gave me
a reputation for In the future, but at this stage ofed very beautiful. She was a dati- not being senworthy. This is stuff development they obviously cannot ful servant to the Queen from 1856 and nonsense. 1 Am Perfectly take the place of warships,
Do you hear? Aero till the Queen's death; and when Ready to Go to Sen. planes cannot guard the coasts of the Queen died at Osborne she wan and the most seaworthy of yachts. the British possessions in the far chlef mourner of the funeral pro- Only I don't choose. I am THURSDAY, AVE, 8, 1935.
corners of the earth as can the cession that brought her mistress's King's home at sea; and it is not ships of the sea, though they can body through the lines of the Fleet my place to travel. What would assist the Navy's work in this dito Cowes.
you say if Buckingham Palace pick- BUILDING THE
rection, and improve upon I in Other more happy memories were ed up its legs and walked off Into Home respects. The fact of the hers. It wAB she who In 1863 Europe? Well, then. REIGN OF LAW
[matter is that the two services are [brought to England Alexandra, But if I have stayed at home How is a treaty to be enforced complementary.
betrothed of Edward Prince, of what thts have seen! If the by international action? That
Walen. Her cabins were filled with King la father of hla people, am I of his Fleet? Five was the question which a 'com.
roses, sent by the Prince to his not mother bride-to-be, the "Sea King's times have the King and I reviewed mittee of thirteen legal experts
daughter from over, the sen." as our children: at King Edward's recently considered at Geneva.
Mr. Douglas emphatically states some poet fellow (who I am glad Coronation Review In 1002, and The reason for the committee's that, with the terinination of the to say never knew my mother social- Kink George's in 1911; at the In- spection of the Home Floet by appointment WIS Germany's Washington and London Ravy ly) once said, violation of the Treaty of Ver- treaties, Britain's mayal position
Escorted by the warships Warrior Edward in 1907, and another by his snilles by the introduction of will be even more deplorably weak and Revenge, she anchored for the san-more ominous, though how compulsory military service than it is at present. He advocaten night at Margate, and supported were we simple servants
an immediate programme of exten- with equanimity the fuss and Royal House to know?-in 1914; at. The Council of the League of sive construction. Money is cheap, bother of addresses and presenta- that post-War review in 1924, when Nations, it will be recalled, athe anys; and in this we agree.tiona and bonfires and Royal we saw not only ships that could the instance of France, passed a There is no lack of men either for Salutes to which, though we have fight, but ships that had fought and resolution condemning Gerthe building or the manning of never heard a shot fired in anger, hat conquered.
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To-day, once again, the King and shall take our appointed place, and
that we We
A well known friend of ours entered the Hongkong Hotel with a ten cent bit, silver dollar, and, three one cents in his pocket. He asked for a Resch's beer, and after quaffing it, puid with the dollar,. adding the small change as cum- law. What did he get in retur.? ANSWER: A thick ear (the dollar was chopped).
R. 5. V. P.
Mr. Edward Kelly, regrot That owing to the shroffs Becoming to insistent This month
It is impossible for hím To get his dinner Suit out of. Pawn
In time to accept
Mr. and Mrs. Whalesteeth's
Kind invitation
To a party Saturday.
many's action. That step was ships, he declares. Unfortunately we of the family of Royst Yachte widely criticised, it being argued there may be a very serious lack are talerably well accustomed. that the Council thereby made of highly trained specialists, how- At Gravesend the Prince himself. more difficult to win back ever, both in the building and fight-met my mother and the Princess; Germany
to the League. It ing trades. But there may still be and my mother was never tired of go down the line of the Fleet. We must be remembered, however, time to train the men the Empire telling how the Prince ran up the shall see the colours dip as we take needs, he BOYR. In all this we gang-plank to welcome his bride, the salute of our ships: we shall that the League did not confine
agree. But We should like to and (as some journalist of the time hear the old cannonades itself to a mere vote of censure. mention an angle of this problem put it remarkably well) "aluted heard twenty-one years ago. It ordered a study of the prob- which too often embarrasses poli- her with a kiss in which the ardeur did not know on the morning of lem involved, with a view to ticians and statesmen. Who is of a lover was tempered with the July 19, 1914, that only a few days lingered between the parade of night and the proof. We gaped in taken to prevent the recurrence Mr. Douglas seems to be quite will.
wonder then at seaplanes flying of any such "breach of intering for Great Britain to bear the
Logically. Great Britain And so we come to myself, the overhead; they were a marvel to us, national law. A few days ago, cost.
So few days of quiet should bear the greater share. But Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert not a menace. it was reported that the com- the Empire has reached a stage of III., the "V, and and A. And here were left to us, if we had only mittee of experts entrusted with development where, if it is not to 1 must confess something that still known
That day, although I could not an examination of the question enjoy the benefits of membership hurts me, and will hurt me even had been unable to achieve any in the commonwealth without pay-to-day, when King George stands tell why, the King's face was grave, definite result. Certain prin- ing for their protection, It should on my deck, and his ships, iron I prefer to forget those days, ciples were generally approved contribute to a greater extent to castles towering above us PRAS and the four years when I lay idle. and certain measures recom-the upkeep of the Navy. We be- before our eyes, and cheers are in have, better memories, of peace- mended, but the practical result lleve that, properly approached, our ears. My confession is this: time holidays and of the cruise in the Mediterranean in 1925 when I of these was nullified by numer- there is not a colony or Dominion Queen Victoria never liked me.
health She loved my mother, and did not helped the King back to ous reservations. The commit-share of the tremendous cost of want me.
would not willingly bear a
My mother was a host, after an illness. Best of all, 1 can tee is to re-assemble in the naval defence. Australia and New of memories to her: she was her remember Cowes: I can think of Hongkong Short Story autumn, however. Yet, notwith-Zealand already have made a con- floating home. The Prince Consort that harbour peopled with alim standing the immediate fallure tribution. Canada possesses a tiny himself had designed my mother's yachts, Britannia queen to reach a decision, it should be fleet for her own needs in time of decoration, her sofa chintzes, her all: I can think of the sunshine,
her tea-houses, her (Continued on Page 7) stressed that respect for inter-peace. Directly and indirectly panelling, national law lies at the very root there are other parts of the Empire
service.
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QUESTION OF EQUALITY
of the League system. It has which assist the Imperial Govern- been the business of the League ment in meeting the cost of this to build up a mechanism which to suggest, to our mind, that this But it would be absurd will enable the relations between cost is reasonably shared. If the different countries to be govern Empire needs a Navy, it is time ed by law instead of by force. that the Empire paid for it. In the course of its fifteen years of activity, the League has built up a method of dealing with disputes which is capable, if fully used, of conferring tremen- dous benefita upon the world. Through the setting up of the ing to be confronted with the threat Permanent Court of Internation- of a naval race, the United States al Justice it has created a body and Japan starting from scratch, competent to decide legal issues; and Italy, France, and Germany, through the institution of the possibly. Joining in from a hand- Council it has made it possible capped position somewhere behind. for disputes likely to lead to war Britain would inevitably be in such
There is one other aspect of the naval question which might bear mentioning. We are presently go-
to be handled by a body whose a race. It will be the task of the
members are capable of examin- diplomats of the powers to avoid any such suicidal competition, both ing the question at issue im for the risk that it entails and the partially and on its merits. It is enormous cost which followa It. Important to realise the advant-But in spite of this threat of naval ages of this new method in inter- | rivalry Great Britain should go to national affairs. If two partici- any future naval conference pre- pants to a dispute, attempt to pared to fight for her rights. It is negotiate directly, each is afraid a waste of time to argue that the of showing moderation through needs of an Empire of such a size fear that this may be interpret should be such-and-such a size, or as ours require that the Navy ed as weakness; each is anxious
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if a number of neutral statesmen of them, for reasons of prestige, are helping to deal with the would have been anxious to dispute, then there is far more accept if it had been put forward chance of a moderate solution by the other. The Council now being acceptable. To take a has in hand a major problem in concrete example, Hungary and the Italo-Abyssinian dispute. On Jugo-Slavia accepted a solution its handling of this matter, its of their dispute after the murder future oxistence may well de- of King Alexander which neither pend.
of thom
"Frankly, we're disappointed, Jackson. We expected you to have the entire country: talking about of t can opener by
Mrs. (sternly to husband arriving at three), "What does the clock say?
Mr. (genially) "It shay 'lick-tock an' the 1' doggies shay bow-bow, and the P1. pshycat shay 'meow-meow.'"
"Three, gobs" send this along:
Hongkong, 1920. - Dere Pa-me ever so glad I cœne hear to marry Jim. I wos sik on ther boat. We have a house in Kowloon and a namer for working. We have a bathroom but Jim sen it will be all- right for his bike.-Yr loving dough. ter, Annie.
Same wonch, 1935.
Loud Conversation on Peak-tram.- "Bat, Jim, we really must desade about Patah's school; Ay know youah femilay are Eton; bat our boys have always gone to Herrow",
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This is the latest true story from the land of tall stories:
A Yankee farmer had hung his waistcoat which Included his watch-over a fence, and a young cow coming along ruthlessly gob- bled up the garment, ticker and all included.
The owner naturally gave his watch up for lost.
Seven years later the cow. WES dus for slaughter, and when her carcase was opened up, there was. the watch, still going, having been lodged in the animal's Interior in Ruch a position that the respiratory organs had kept it automatically wound up, ̧!.
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And final breath-taking touch -In All that time, the watch had lost only two minutes.
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