THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Friday, JANUARY 27, 1989.
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early Nel Chong Road, morning, Irvin Whiteley Kew, at the age of 59 years, the Cortege will pass the Monument at 5.13 p.m. to-day. (Shanghal and Australian papers please copy).
The
The BIRDS HAVE NESTS But the Foxes Have Holes
66
by
"" VICTORIA
T WAS but a tiny and solitary, albeit green and pleasant, plateau.
tion, indeed the facts are evident and speech superfluous.
"Well, you can't stay here- people complaining. Must get
He gazed up speculatively out chop-chop, savvy?" and longingly at the inacces
lay.
The derelict expostulates,
sible height upon which it though half-heartedly, and dis- mally. Where can he go? He does not want a camp. He Tattered and forlorn he wants to find work. was, old in aspect but not "None of my business, John, in years, bent and lean, you've got to quit, and quick, too. I'll be back to-morrow and ghastly-complexioned.
Might he do it? There at if you're still here... !" least was peace and safety-if he could attain it!
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RESINE DOESN'T much relish
On three consecutive days he his job; has more than u deciding sneaking sympathy with the reconnoitred, finally
that he would risk whatever underdog, and something about
Hongkong Telegraph. unperturbed tenacity of his race, instincts camouflaged in official sipping coffee upon the sunny
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 January 27, 1939
No reason except he must not wrath the Gods might pour upon this particular specimen jobs MRS. MOREBRIDGE resigns a defenceless head. With steady; him rather uncomfortably in his herself to her well-served, glimmers through his weary patient labour, with the calm and interior. He stamps off, humane tempting lunch, after which, brain.
"Why?" and again "Why?" he cut in that crumbling granite bluster; he slides and slithers flowered verandah, she glances is the refrain roaming through cliff a comely little stairway, down the descent, and calls upon towards the scene of her victory. his tired and questing mind. deep between the cool, dim gully, Mrs. Morebridge nearby.
Squatting upon the freshly- His ways are not the ways of reaching to the cyric for above. "Yes, Madam, I've cleared him cleared little plot, knees to chin, Mrs. Morebridge, and she, whilst A delightful approach, fifter out .. Yes, only one, Madam, face buried in gnarled and toil- the dispossessed is sadly, slowly, perhaps to Corydon's abode than I don't think you'll be troubled scarred hands, he seeks of the uncomplainingly but doubtfully, demolishing his. half-completed for this battered taterdemalion. again. Yes, they're a d....er... future.
her "last- No, It would have been, a tiny work, rushes in Ascent assured, he proceeded to a terrible nuisance, EN THOUSAND PEOPLE clear the brush from the tiny thank you, Madam. Good-day, home for him, and why can't moment" way into the car to her
he do it?
bi-weekly golf. die in Chile and a great level sprice-all that the gruff, Madara! country lies in ruins.
unfriendly rock afforded. Bum-
The Earth Moves
TEN
have
For all his skill and brain-boo poles he brought, and flimay! power, man is a puny thing matting and cord up the rural, when Nature lets loose her climbing pathway. forcea. Ile builds his cities on
A refuge he would the thin crust of the earth, he, flings his railways and roads against the night. across the plains and hills, he sets his harbours most cunning- ly on the coastline, where they may chest the winds and cur- rents and shelter his ships.
MRS. MOREBRIDGE, from her cosy apartment, stepped to the verandah and looked upon the busy street,
THE EXILE OF
TO-DAY the ex-Kaiser In-80. The
spectacle of the Highest" spending the evening of his.
once
"All
life a veritable prisoner at Doorn while Europe-including the country he once ruled-grows more and more obsessed with war Tears--has un- deniably its dramatic side. The once great war lord is living in undisturb-
who onc ed peace, and the pian dreamed of conquering Europe now contents himself with cutting down trees and planting flowers.
80th Birthday of
the "All-Highest
War Lord"
DOORN
usually consists of a sandwich and glass of port, In the afternoon he attends to his correspondence and sets visitors, white in the evening after dinner he enjoys talking and listening to the wireless. His second
rringe has been a very happy one, and the calm, tranquil temperament of his consort, the former Princess Hermine of Reuss, has undoubtedly been a very soothing influence over the once turbulent Kalser. She is the only person who, smilingly, darcs
Then the crust of the earth moves like a sheet of ice over
Would Amold never return which a skater is passing. Citics with the car and let her get out? crash in ruin. Gigantic waves
She idly scanned her sur heave out of the sea to spread
It has to be admitted that the ex-(his wish to pay a visit to England, to contradict or criticise him, and death and destruction in the roundings....What!? A squat
Ler? Here! What impudence! Kaiser has shown more dignity, and and about three years ago soundings the Kaiser is sill as dogmatic as ports.
Pity the lords of creation! We won't stand for that! Boy!! tact in retirement than he ever did were laken in London regarding the ever in his views. All their knowledge does not Diai what? Dial 58071! Police when he was reigning Emperor. To- advisability of such a visit. The in-
his hair and beard are snow termediary entrusted with the de- Attitude of Nazis suffice to warn them of the hour Station? Hallo! Yes; Inspector, days air an alert and virile na licute negotiations returned to Doorn
He is discretion itself, however, ever. His conversation is always with an unfavourable reply, but the when an earthquake will come. three's a gang of beggars putting
discussing the present-day Nature keeps these secrets too up their dirty matsheds right
less, that he is no fervent admirer of dark for the human mind to against my flat. Will you please he keeps in closest touch with world of seeing once again his
send someone to clear them affairs. Seldom a day passes but he native land. read. The workshop where anaway?".
The fact that his wreath in re the Nazi regime, and it is known that recelves distinguished guests from] "...."Beg pardon? No, all parts of the world, but rarely are membrance of Lord Jellicoe was ache strongly disapproves of members earthquake is made may be they're not contractor's coolles. their names made public. A number cepted by the British authorities of his family publicly associating
No, there's no room for building. of well-known British people have grently cheered the former Emperor themselves with it.
childishly pleased, on the other hand, They must be sent away....All] made the trip to Doorn during thai in November 1934. His life at Doorn that his pre-war warnings about the right, thank you, Inspector. At
has altered very little this last ten
ucing at last yea He years.
stli takes his stroll be- "Yellow Peril" are fore breakfast, and conducts a re- Justified by Japan's present militant. once, please."
ligious service every morning in the polley. main hall of his home. AD the staff
At Doorn, the ex-Kalser receives family, and guests have to attend all the respect in the world is a negro who
Ho a very fond of talking about this service,
After breakfast the cx-Kaiser Rovereign. He is addressed as "Your started life as a cotton picker. has a moment to spare from Queen Victorin, and there is a large
local residents, and his notepaper, He used to earn a few cents an over-burdened day, philoso-signed portrait of her in his private works on his estate rawing wood, Imperial Majesty" by all visitors and
Yesterday he phically marches off to the in-study. He has frequently expressed watering plants, &c., and his lunch linen, and silver have all the a day then. earned, for a brief 149 seconds dicated scene
animated, and despite his seclusion ex-Kaiser has not yet given up hope when
mother's Germany. It is obvious, neverthe-
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INSPECTOR RESINE, when he
of the encroach-
in the ring, approximately $10,-ment, fearing from Mrs. More- insistence, bridge's underlined second much more during each to find a semi-residential neigh-i
bourhood turned into a thorough- tick of the clock than the aver-
but going
unofficial refugee! age Hongkong resident, Euro- comp. pean or Chinese, earns in a year.
Resine, one of the chubby, Einstein's brain, Edison's in- ruddy-faced tribe, despite the ventive genius, or Shakespeare's inevitable disillusionment creative gift never earned for gendered by his calling, remains them the sort of. money Joe at least three parts human; Louis gets for crashing his rubs his chin (all of them, in tawny lists into an opponent's fact) and peers up the gully
face.
stops.
en-
Louis has now fought 202 "Neat job! Got some spunk, rounds. He has worked in the these chapa!" Up he climbs un- ring for a total of 605 minutes, willingly and gruntingly-he is or just fraction over ten not too well adapted bodily to
ten caprine gymnastics. And for those
hours.
moment,
hours the iron-jawed pugilist! Arriving considerably nearer has been paid, including yester heaven he stands a day's winnings, the amazing puffs, and surveys the landscape; sum of $1.444,034 in American then bellows: "What's all this currency. In ten hours he has mean, eh?" to the lean little man, mouth full of bast, lashing to. earned more than the Hongkong gether the stout bamboos.. Government's total revenue for two months. In other words, Louis has earned money at the toneso that he is making a homo; rate of forty-seven thousand Hongkong dollars an hour. Each of his 86,829 seconds in the ring has meant a thousand dollars. There's money in boxing!
Removing his deplorable.head- gear he explains in bastard Can-
that he is a refugee from Canton more far; that he has no home or people and is looking for work. Inspector Rosine understands
at least the gist of the perora-1
past few years--and all agree that the ex-Kaiser is more pro-British than ever before.
Pro-British
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Now that I'm aéquiited, can I have my gun-back?“
He is almost
due to a reigning
perlol
inscribed
on them. arms
American few years ago, a famous "medium"
the visited the Kalɛer at latter's requeat, and it is said that the medium declared that the ex- Kaizer would return in triumph Germany in 1937 That he would return it given an official invitation there is no reason to doubt, and it is no sceret that the Powers would not how be so averse to a restoration of the German monarchy as they were before Hitler's advent.
Like his grandmother, the Kaiser keeps a regular diary, and he makes his entries just before retiring to bed.. His personal and domestic staff ore all German, and they are genuinely devoted to their master. Most of them are housed on the estate, and the ex-Emperor is fond of paying them surprise visits. He usually brings presents for the children, and Invariably sends fruit and Bowers to the sick and the aged.
Ii is believed in Doarn that the
a millionaire two Royal exile is a mil
or
three times over, but he is noted for his love of economy. He haz a horror of waste, and when sawing wood he collects the saw-dust. The ex-Kaiser is now a frat-class wood craftsman, and not so Tung ago he made an ornamental door for one of his tenant's houses.
Film Enthusiast
Although quiet, the exile's Doorn: life is far from dull, There is a fine. film theatre in the ex-Kaiser's home, and all the leading pictures of Europe. and Amerlen pre privately showm there from time to time. He is part-
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