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THE
HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY; :-DECEMBER 9, 1936.-
THE KING
WITH THE FLEET
Dear Santa,
"--and please don't forget to bring me a pair of nice comfy slippers I like red."
-
GORDON'S, of course,
have them
(in three colours).
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THE KING LEAVING THE BUDMARINE NARWHAL..
Mr. H. G. Wells À "Permanent
Reactionary"
G.B.S. 'GENERALLY WRONG'
Interesting passages in the late G. K. Chesterton's "Autoblography," are those in. which he suing up some of the notable men with whom he came in contact. Here are some of his Impressions;- KING GEORGE V
"I only met him once myself, at the house of the late Lord Burnltam, where he was shooting.... İle certainly did strike me as about ns genuine a person as I ever met. Hut he was genume in rather un- expected way.
"He was not only honest, but frank, and so free and easy in his Bikes and dislikes that bo might have been called indiscreet. 'G. B. S.' said truly of his public talks that they were indeed the King's English, but the private were also decidedly plain English.
------"He-was-anything but-the-supreme permanent uficial mony eulogies im- plied; he was not like some reliable solleitor in whom family secrets are locked up, or some doctor congested with the silence of professional con- ndences; he was much more like little sea captain who keeps a cer- tain silence "and etiquette on his
quarter deck, but plenty of anec- dotes, not to say anathemas, in his cabin,"
MR. H. G, WELLS
"What I have always liked about. Wells is his vigorous and unaffected readiness for aʻlark.. but I have always thought that he reacted too! swiftly to everything, possibly as a part of the swiftness of his natural genius,
"I have never ceased to admire and sympathise, but I think he has al- ways been too much in a state vi reaction. To use the name which would probably annoy him most, I think be is a permanent reactionary.”
MR. G. B. SHAW
"My principal experience from first to last has been in argument with him. ... I have learned to have
warmer admiration and affection out of all that argument than most people get out of agree. ment,
"Bernard Show
is seen at his best when he is antagonistic. T might say that he is seen at his best when he is wrong. I might also add that he is generally wrong. Or rather, everything is wrong about him except himself.".
MR:"RAMSAY MACDONALD
"When I knew him slightly in my youth, in the days when we were all Socialists, he had the name of being rather a cold and scientific exponent of Socialism; the more expansive and emotional sort of cloquence seems to have developed lote in Kifo,...
"When he was still, counted a re- volutionary Labour leader with a red tle I heard Balfour refer to him in Parliament with respectful regret.
ontcastelt an admirer of the
style of the hon. gentleman, and somehow when heard those words I think I knew that the man with the red the was destined for a National Ministry. Even then, at least, he looked much more like an aristocrat than meat aristocrats do,"
SIR J. M. BARRIE
"There is something in his own humorous self-effacement that seems to create round him a silence like his own."
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KING GEORGE V
MEMORIAL FUND.
A FINAL APPEAL'
Christmas is approaching with its numerou calls for generosity, and it seems desirable to close the King George V. Memorial Fund before it. becomes one of too many claims on our charity. therefore propiše to close the subscription lists on Saturday, December 19th, and I ask every citizen of Victoria and Kowloon to put to himself the following questions:
(1) Have I fully appreciated the nature of the Memorial, which is that the thank-ufferings of those who prospered under the late reign will be devoted to the recreation of poor people in crowded areas; so that Hongkong's monument to King George will not be a lifeless statue of him but a living and permanent realisation of his desire for the health and happiness of his poorest subjects?
(2) Are the ninety thousand dollars that have already been raised the most that Hongkong.can do?
(3) If not, can I add to the amount,
even though my contribution be small?
(4) Or, having already given"can I
give more?
CALDECOTT,
GOVERNOR.