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THE HONGKONG
THE NEW
STUDEBAKER. “DICTATOR”
SALOON
"Expression by a Noted Authority in all matters pertaining to motor ing"
Sir Malcolm Campbell's opinion of the 1935. MIRACLE RIDE STUDEBAKER givon in his articio | which appeared recently in "The Fiold" concludos with
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER
7, 1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY THE KING WHO LOST
SPEEDY REACTION
more
Commodity prices in Shanghai have shown a sharp reaction to the decree of the Government nation- alising silver and so radically re- during the value of the yuan. Commodity pricen lenped upwards yesterday: and so great was the rise that Mayor Wu Toh-chen has had to take steps to prevent pro- Ateering! Such a situation was to be oxpected. The value of a de- valued currency to Chin is that it will allow an expansion of overseas trade and increasing profits from the sale of Chinese goods in foreign
It will bring markets, foreign money into Chinn, or Its equivalent in credit, and there will "Altogether, I consider the New be a general speeding up of the commercial machinery of the na- Studebaker a very good car Intion. Money will be freer, circulat deed. Quiet at all speeds, very ing. In increasing volume. That smooth and easy to handle, quite means prosperity. And, if it is fast on the level-70 m.p.h. Is necessary, that is the time when well within its compass-good commodity prices should be raised. on hills and with excollent acce- In Hongkong we are in much the
It im- same position. leration on all gears.. presses me as being excellent dollar i really more of a blessing value in the £300-350 class than a mishap, for it will allow us to retain a grip on our share of It is a car that I think will appeal the markets in which China is our to a very wide section of British main competitor and should even- motorists.
tually stimulate the business and Colony. When Tuntry of the that stimulation has been felt and Limes hive improved we shall not complain of a reasonable increase In the cost of lying. But at this
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MARRIAGE.
اده
The declining
A WIFE BUT
FOUND A THRONE
For more than 11 years King George of Greece has wandered in exile through the capitals of Europe in search of the throne he held for only a year and a half and never officially ro- Inquished.
UNHAPPY GREECE A
Since the Creat War the Grock poople have pudiated their King three tintas and have had 17 governments, four dictator- ships, nearly 300 cabinot ministers and six rovolu- tions.
AT various times during the the three months past names of several people have. been mentioned as probable. Rumour monarchs of Grecce. even mentioned recently the name of the Duke of Kent,. youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, as a candidate for the Greek throne, through his marriage last year to the Marina of Grecce. He enjoys great popu- · larity among the Greeks,
During those eleven years royalist intrigues and plots and threatened coups d'états en- gineered in Greece and abroad his pro-German sympathies and former Princess have kept Greece and the Bal-. subsequent exile. kans in a state of recurring
nervous
Ex-King tension..
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The marrige was ended when
Another rumoured candidate George never has taken an ex-Queen Elisabeth obtained n active part in any of these at- divorce in the Bucharest courts was Prince Nicholas of Greece, former King Constantine. The tempts to restore him forcibly in July; 1935. The couple had father of Marina and brother of Lo his throne. Throughout, lived apari for several yours.
66-year-old prince is, however, however, he has remained in
in poor health, and it is doubt- constant touch with Greek royalist circles in Paris, London TING George's brief reign ful whether he would have been was brought to an end by willing to return to Athens and still another revolution in the rule which cost his father's and other European capitals.
resulted in his This month the ex-King is at March; 1934. A republic was life, which
Constantine, being stage marked prico Increases are inst returning to: recover his proclaimed and the king, for the brother
from the throne twice, not justified. We hope that the consumer will not feel the pinch throne. When he returns to his second time in his life, went into thrust until he in actually buying goods palace in Athens on November exile. Like Alfonso of Spain in and which ended in a similar tiroenred with n low-rate dollar.16, he will be the first to be later years, however, George II expulsion for his nephew, King For if prices run on ahead of us restored of the post-war Europe- of Greece never formally ab- George II. we shall experience un aggravated an monarchs who lost their dicnted his throne. In his own period of depression An thethrones consuming public whleh, in the in- terests of trade and industry as much as the man-in-the-street, we carnestly desire to avold.
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AX-KING George II of the
Elleffes was born on July
of Greek eyes and in those royalists he has always been. lawful King of the Hellenes.
Since
the bleak, he left
The Very Idea!
MOTT-STENHOUSE: On th Novom. ber, 186, St, John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Reverend H. W.
7, 1890, at the Royal villa of draughty palace in Athens King Halues, M.A.. Egerton G. T. Mott, elder son of the late S. P. T.
Tatol. He was the eldest of the George has been a familar figure Mott, Esq, and Men, Mott
He lived in a White Lodge, Hunstanton, lu
One fact which the reent an-three sons of Constantine I, who in most of the capitals and spas Jennifer Malthand Stenhouse, nunt congress of the British Tade as the luckless "Tino" of Grent of Europe.
Congress brought to the War days lost his own throne modest villa near Bucharest house, R.A., and Mrs Steubatistfore was that the Labourites at twice and died in exile in 1923, but he made frequently lengthy Jokes and Humour From
Prince visits to Paris and London and Home are at present in no mood for George's grandfather,
Hongkong Telegraph.
No. DB-1538.
daughter of Major 3. 1. Sten-
ISABETH SCHUMANN-Batti, Batti (Don Giovanni)
of Lexhum Gardens, Landon.
No. DB-946
The
CHARD CROOKS-1 Love Theo (Grieg) No. DA.1394
Partod (Tosti)
ICHEL FLETA—Ay, Ay, Ay, (In Spanish) No. DB-1483
Doloros-Madrigale (Braton)
ALMONTE TOTI-Splendori Lo Sacro Faci-Lucia di Lammermoor
No. DB-1015.
Spargi d'amore pianto-Lucia di Lammermoor
SEPH HISLOP-For Love Alone No. C-2729
The English Roso
ILIZA KORJUS—Invitation to the Waltz (Weber), No. C-2721
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THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 1935,
THE ELECTION
Union
extreme
MORE SCRAPS
Other Papers
"Daddy, did the Cruanders have
"No."
ad they any neroplanes?"
"No."
"Or machine-guna?”
"No."
that why they didn't bent the Saracens ?"
aggressive warfare possibly in William of Denmark, who us to Scotland. Although he has volving strikes. In this respect. George I became second King to keep up some show of state the Trade Union leaders are obvi-
died at the even in exile, King George has bombs" ously conscious of the strength of of the Hellenes, pabile feeling against
hand of an assassin in Salonica never maintained the romantic of ex-Kainer meurs in industrin disputes. on March 18, 1913. Ex-King shadow-court
narrowly himself During the past year, Trade Union George mumbership showed an increase escaped an assassin'a bullet in for the first time since 1930; but Roumania in 1927. His brother it la only half what it was in 1920 King Alexander died from the ANDen, fifteen years ago, industrial effects of a monkey's bite in the
labour Was in R very different
Such has belleved Itself noor. It
to be palace at Athens. aweeping on swiftly to a Socialist been the il-luck of the royal millennium. There were no Fas house of Greece. cats then no Nationalists. The leaders looked sympathetically to- ward, Russia. They preached the doctrine of direct action and the triumph of Socialism through its
power
to withhold labour.
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KING GEORGE
Ile likes to go to London to buy
Doorn or Otto
Auppose so."
"Can't you bent natives unless you' have noroplanes and things, daddy?" "Run niong, now, dear. I'm busy."
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Eclipso
Japan is inviting European and American scientists to watch the total eclipse of the sun next year. Of course it won't be the Rising Sun..
Jew joke No. 1
A Jew went into a chemist's shop and asked for threepence worth of laudanum
"What do you want it for?" asked the chemist.
"Tuppence," was the answer.
Scots Ditto
An English commercial traveller, making his first journey to Scotland, narrowly escaped assasination the other day when he said he thought
"tossing the caber" was a Gaelic method of drinking a health.
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One of the questions. put to a class
ly was the following:- own tastes
"The scientific name for flower- partly responsible for growing is h
90 Even more
is the One paper bore the following noté fact that King George has instead of an answer:-
"My mother told me never to use had only limited means, since
swear words," most of his property was con- fiscated by the Republicans in
Greece.
Howlors
The Master of the Rolls is a fore- man baker.
THE CRISIS.. The Baldwin Government, in deciding 电影 2321 immediate
George was sent to a prepara-, | General Election, has doubtless
tory school in England, where | been influenced by the fact that,
his great-aunt, the late Queen in the main,, the Labour Party,
Alexandra, then was Princess of But Wales. He received his first Its chief opponent · In other she then, as an American journal military training in the Prussian spheres,—stands_for_the same points out, they_have_Buffered_two- Guards-and-took-part as a young. principles on the major issue of disasters in Britain, and watched
man in the two Balkan Wars in revolutions abroad. There wha the day-the situation arising the discreditable general strike of 1912 and 1913. out of the Italo-Ethiopian dis- 1926, and the labour collapse of pute. Such difference as there 1981, and abroad the smashing of-
the fighting force of trade union-T is between the Government and the ghting force of trade union-E death of his grandfather. George 1 and the ascent of | Labour.. standpoints is one of where. Now the problem is one of King Constantine marked the degree, the Opposition holding Aurvival. British, labour Is con- beginning of the disastrous that the Government has been elous of the necessity of main-split in Greek politics which eventually sent the reigning dilatory in taking measures to taining its strength In Britain and encouraging the movement restrain Italian aggression and throughout the world. To-day it house into exile. Constantine that the sanctions do not go far congratulates itself on the fact and George were pro-German in
that there have been no consider sympathy. When the pro-Allies his clothes, enough. The Government reply able strikes during the last year. Venizelist government was re- is that it has sought every pos- and it is determined to try and turned to power in 1917 King Wilhelm at sible means to effect a settlement avert strikes in the future. It Constantine fled into exile and of Hapsburg at Steenocker- of young children to complete recent-
realises that its real enemy is along with him his eldest son, zeel. Probably his by peaceful means, and that if
Fascism, but in resisting Fascism there has been delay in the ap-it fntends to preserve consistency George. In their place George's are plication of sanctions this is not by resisting all "disruptive" cle- youngest brother Alexander was this. surprising when the difficulty of ments, including Communism; and set up as nominal King.
therefore the General Council has
King Alexander's tragic death securing unanimity amongst so secured the support of the Con- many members of the League is greas for its decision to exclude in 1920 led to a general election bornic in mind. Some attempt in all the trades unions,
Communists from executive offices which overthrew the Venizelists and brought back King Constan- tine and his son from exile. The Even in exile abroad the has been made to show that the
unfortunate "Tino's" second exiled King has had a share of Labour Party is divided on the question of sanctions, and it can frame of mind. The Labour reign was short-lived, however, the bad luck which has made his The Greeks suffered an over- family proverbially one of the not be denied that in the present retort to this criticism is that whelming military debacle at the most ill-starred of European controversy the former leader of sanctions do not necessarily in-hands of the Turks in Anatolia royal houses. On August 10, the party and a number of the volve war, although the use of in 1922. Prince George him- 1927, as he was leaning from writing. rank and file are at variance force would be justified as a just self was charged with treating the window of a train at Kikin- with the party generally on the resort in order to bring an ág-the troops under his command dra in Roumania, a-youth step- issue. But this does not imply ugressor to book. Actually, of as mere cannon fodder. Another ped up to the train and took REVENUE PROTECTION
shots at him with a serious split, since the party has course, there is little difference military revolution followed and several
RESTRICTION ON HONGKONG - overwhelmingly expressed itself of viewpoint between the Gov- Constantine was driven into his pistol. King George was only
ber 28, 1922.
DELIVERIES in favour of effective League ernment and Labour, since both second and final exile on Septem, saved by ducking rapidly.
Since the abortive Venizelist action. Those who have con- realise that the measures now
Despite the wave of unpopu- revolt in Greece in March, 1935,
Government Gazette A scientious scruples against the being taken, and others which larity he had incurred as a re- events have shaped themselves traordinary issued yesterday states use of force as a last resort take are urged, might well lead to suit of the Anatolian disaster steadily toward a monarchical that I, E. the Officer Administer- warfare against the George was made King of the restoration and the plebiscite ing the Government, under the the same stand as Mr. Lansbury, actual
when his father ab- last Sunday has demonstrated powers conferred upon him by who has declared himself in en Italians by States determined to Hellenes
the mind of the people.
Section 3A of the Public Revenue 1927, na tire agreement with the party on uphold the League. The Britishdicated.
Protection Ordinance, While he was still Duke of
King George," a pleasant-amended by the Public Revenue all other issues and has notified | election will not; in any event,
rather short but Protection Amendment Ordinance, his intention of still serving in be wholly decided on this ques- Sparta and heir to the throne, faced man, its ranks. The general view of tion. There are many domestic Prince George married Princess broad-shouldered, clean-shaven, 1931, has authorised the Superin- Elisabeth, daughter of King invariably was smartly dressed. tendent of Imports and Exports Labour on the present crisis is matters of high importance Ferdinand and Queen Marie of He likes to go to London to buy during the period from noon on one of unswerving support to the before the
Roumania. The marriage in his clothes. Attended by only the 6th. November, 1936, to mid- night on the 81at. December, 1935, League of Nations in its efforts indications do not suggest that Bucharest in February 1921 was one equerry and a valet he gene to refuse to allow the delivery of Dutinble to utilise its resources to restrain the Government will be defeat one of the most brilliant events erally stayed at a quiet, rather Dutiablo Liquors and a law-breaker. The strong standed, but it is generally expected of the Balkan courts in the years old-fashioned family hotel in the Tobacco for local use from ship side or warehouse on payment of which the party is taking on this that its majority will be reduced. immediatley following the Great West End.
duty in any cases where deliveries His tastes 11 distinctly
are demanded of amounts exceed- point has been described by its For national and international War. According to court goa- sip the wedding had been critics as a war policy, giving reasons it would be little short
drinks any-the Superintendent to bo reason~ point to the contention that the of a disaster if the Government planned prior to the war but democratic and according to ing the deliveries which appear to
had been called off at a time reports he never professed lovers of peace are were thrown out of office at this when George seemed less desira-thing but ginger beer with his able deliveries in the circum
ble as a son-in-law by reason of meals. actually in a most pugnacious 'juncture.
electors. Present
An open championship is so called because it is played in the open air. Jean of Ark was Noah's daughter. The floating population of a coun- try consists of those who are at sen. Penury is earning living by
stances.
Ex-