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JUST A GOOD
PLAIN QUEEN
by One of Her Subjects,
UEEN WILHELMINA of Holland yesterday celebrated her birthday. Her subjects, both in Holland and
largest colonial empire in the world.
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DEATH
WALLER-At Shanghal, on Septem- ber 1, 1030, Arthur Joseph Waller, aged 63 years.
The
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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 September 1, 1939
War Propheteering THE sands of August, the month
in which le world 15219 plunged into disaster a quarter of run out. age, have century Forecasters announced that the eighth month of the year would see the start of another world.
War.
The third of August was one of several days which fore- easters chose as the fateful day Some star-gazers fixed the six- Leenth day of the month and other dealers in the occult put it down for the nineteenth,
some
About three years Spiritualists who claimed to have contact with "the other side" declared that war would come and that it would be short and sharp, but there was no mention of the date or the result, of the condict.
Within recent months others who believe they have received authoritative and definite informa- Sion from the spirit world said that nome time this year world condi tions would be such that War
tions with lusty vigour.
From this you can judge that Wilhel- mina is well grounded in the hearts of her peoples: for the Dutch would neither afford nor enjoy festivities, unless they held the object of them good and worthy.
Of course, when you think of Wilhelmina you You cannot help thinking of Queen Victorla. detect in both careers the same moral earnest. riess, the same taste for plain living surrounded by stiff Court etiquette, the same disapproving eye turned on everything unconventional or nor utterly respectable.
Wilhelmina is a more intelligent woman than Victoria wa13. But, liko Victoria, she was brought up conscious every minute that she was to be Queen. It was a grim process.
Her father, old King William III, died when she was ten, in 1890. The quiet little girl with long flaxen hair had her mother, Queen Emma, for Regent, during the eight years of her legal minority.
Queen Emma, a German princess, was always smiling. Not a guy smile, perhaps, but one which reflected her serenity of mind and fixity of purpose. She was going to school Wilhelmina to be a good and wise queen. According to her lights she magnifcently succeeded.
Her chief assistant in the process was Miss E.' Saxton-Winter, an English governess of the most accomplished and tremendous sort. While the Kravest professors taught the little girl her lessons, Governess and mother formed her mind and character.
S
HE was never allowed to be alone. She only met
children of her
own age for a few hours each week. The rest of her playtime was spent with her dolls, her chickens (which she fed herself cach day) and with arisette, her little grey donkey to which she was – devoted.
So she krew up grave beyond her years. She was deep in high- politics when other girla Bre thinking of their first grown-up dance frock.
Of course she had to marry. She must provide un heir, or the 11s- trious house of Orange-Nassau from which our own King William III spcane, would become extinct. They chose Prince Henry Mecklenburg - Schwerin as he bridegroom.
He was a dashing young lieuten ant from the Prussian Guard: very gay and debonair. She tell in* love with him at once, just as her daughter Juliana did with Prince Bernhard. They married in Febru- nry, 1001.
She continued to love him unit!! he died in 1934. After his funeral she was prostrated by a nervous breakdown. Yet, in many ways, they were an ill-matched couple.
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RINCE HENRY was convivial and unconven- tional. He loved to mix
were
incognito with sea captains, with artists, with men and women who did the things he could never do because he was Prince Consort.
He could not share Wilhelmina's high seriousness. Her Intense would seem certain. Everything religious convictions
not echoed
by his easy-going nature. would be ready for the onslaught, He was never quite at home at the and at the last moment war would formal court at which he found be called off. That, however, thirty years.
himself playing second fiddle for
might have been said of any month during the past year.
Yet another forecast made by reputed recipients of news from the other world is that what will look as the climax of
the
pro- longed crisis will come next year. Again no date is specified, but the assurance is given that there will not be war.
In this medley of guemes the only certain thing is that we shall continue to be subjected during the early days of the month that commences to-day to alternating waves of optimiam and pessimism. The people have become inured to these nerve tests. In the last war, when there was much talk of optimism and pessimism, Lord Kitchener sent out a brief message to the effect that he was neither optimist nor pessimist; he looked only to facts. It may fairly ba said that that is the attitude of people to-day. Already the' altua- tion in Europe, critical as it undoubtedly is, begins to lone interest.
Sometimes he escaped for a few days, attended only by a gentle- man-in-waiting.' Whenever he returned from one of those little Jaunts he was not received very cordially.
And so, Wilhelmina has been a somewhat lonely figure at the head of the Dutch Slate. Once she be- eame Queen, again like Victoria, she did not share her official work with her mother. Unlike Victoria, she did not find a perfect col- laborator In her husband.
Though she be a model constitu- tional queen, Wilhelmina is no rubber stamp. She pores over State papers, she reads everything which she must sign: she takes her part in the government of her country as seriously and steadily as she rides her bicycle.
She makes all her decisions- alone, Dr. Hendrik Colijn, her Prime Minister, may submit his advice in writing. Her confidential secretary, Van Tots van GoudHaan, the Queen will sit in her study and may bring her the document. But
make up her mind by herself, with- out discussion or consultation.
The national bent of her mind is
སྣ་།
-To-day's Thought
I WOULD not be a queen for
all the world.
SHAKESPEARE
Wilhelming at the age of ten, and below, throa ganarolions of the Dutch Royal Family- Juliana, Quoon Wilhelmina and Juliana's baby Beatrix.
Conservative. When sho was crowned Liberalism was at its height in Holland, rather an old- fashioned Liberalism, with which she got along well enough. Lately. as in other lands, Liberalism has waned, and Bocialism is growing.
The present Administration la Conservative, but Wilhelmina faces the possibility of a Labour representing the Government, antithesis of the principles in which she was reared.
Nevertheless she maintains the Crown with absolute impartiality None could towards all parties. say that she has smiled on the Left at any time,
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But Holland knows she would accept a Labour Government as graciously she accepts Dr. Collin, if it was the will of her people expressed at an election,
Wilhelmina has watched her country grow richer, and she has seen its prosperity grow more evenly distributed, At the same time she has seen her own personal fortune wax fat.
Now she is a very rich woman, probably the richest woman in the world-despite gifts to charitable causes of all kinds almost on the Rockefellar scale.
Sho spends under half of her in- come, much of which comes from the Dutch East Indies.
HE Royal Family bas shared for hundreds of years in the wealth which Holland draws thence. Through nominees she has hold- ings in a dozen great and success- ful undertakings. In a very real. and personal way, the Queen's fortune is bound up with the pros- perity of her people.
Used Matches in Models
WATKINS GLEN, N. Y, Probably the most useless thing in the world is burned' matches but Burt Lurlock, Walkins Glen ma- chanic, knows what to do with them. Ho constructs ship models and jewel- ry boxes, a greater part of which are constructed with used matches.
A Look Through The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1880),
in the stress of emotions caused by the international crisis, an anniversary rich in significance for Hongkong passed unnoticed last week.
One hundred years ago, on August 26, 1839, the first land- ing on Hongkong lsland over mado by British poopla WER | effected by refugees who flad from Canton, Less than two years. later, the island became British territory and its first city was named "Queenstown----lator Vic- toria.
Here, T. Paul Gregory tells the story of
Refugees 1839, 1939
NE. HUNDRED
ONE
years ago Inst Saturday Hongkong was acting os host to refugees just as now, but at that time they were British men.. jwomen, and children seeking safety
under the Union Jack.
They were those who fled to the shelter of ships in Victorin Harbour Infter being expelled by the Chinese from Canion, and forbidden by the Portuguese
10 serk sanctuary in
Mação,
Their position was in every, way unitely more serious than that of their Chinese counterparts who have flocked to the Colony in their tens of thousands during the present Sino- Japanese hostilities; for they were exiles far away from Home, in the era of wooden sailing ships, and in the perilous typhoon season,
And the main reason for the exodus of 1839 was the netion being taken by the Chinese authorities on the Opium Question.
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DEOPLE then were not very parti-
PROD
culer as to methods or articles of trade.
Fortunes were lost and won through channels which, secording to our present standard of commercial morality, would be termed dubious Indeed.
Suffice it to say that an energetic Mr. Ng Sul-Shang begs to announce step was being taken by the Chinese That in compliance with a suggestion officials to stamp out the opium made to him by Mr. Mitchell-Innes, he trame, which since 1790 had attained has now opened an agency for the sup-such proportions that it was supping ply of thair coolies at 4, Gough Street, the strength of the Chinese nation 1st Floor, and is prepared to supply and depleting the sliver reserves of them on the conditions and at the raceIt was probably the latter reason
Empire.
mentioned in Mr. Mitchell-Innes' circu
not To hideous vice
Inr. copies of which can be hud on that led the Imperial Government to application to the agency. He trusts take a stand against the traffle; for that the agency may be the means of the financial aspects of the problem putting an end to the present unsatisfacobreired what might be called the tury Mate af
by supplying moral point of view. masters with good enolies, and at the The Chinese objection to the im- same time affording the intter regular portation of the drug was
A much that it was employment.
N. B. The agency will also be pro-Enawing at the very vitals of the pared to supply jinrieksha and hause nation, but that it had turned the reulles i dekired.
balance of trade against Chinn, fore- ng her to pay out her silver, and if that were permitted to continue, It would eventually lead to the Im- poverishment of the Empire,
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25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1914. Ilangkong in not the only place in the Far East where fantastle rumour
Wild are circulated regarding the war, Aturies have been bruited about Th Peking, and in view of China's neutras lity the Government there have, neon It is related that there was o con- Gt to issue a pointed warning to the siderable traffic in the drug by Arab publie It 3 aunerved int while the
H
ISTORY proves that opium has
been known to the Chinese for- many centuries.
people way rest assured that no harm inerchants at Canton in the eighth tall come to them in consequence of the century of the Christian era, who It to the Chinese for use in
great war, it is not unlikely that there cine.
may be certain "bud characters," who,
taking advantage of this critical time, When the practice of smoking and are circuinting rumours with a view to inhaling it into the lungs began no creating a junke and thereby plotting one knows, but it is clear that the disturbancea. Soldiers and palice have.
therefore, been ordered to exercise the annual import for the hundred years nimost surveillance over these indivi- prior to 1790 did not exceed 200
chests. duals
In the latter year, the rate of im- portation had to Increased that it reached over 4,000 chests yearly, an Increase which Anally attained the figure of over 20,000 chests annually- by 1830.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1029, An attempt to assassinato Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the second within a week, was made in Shanghal yester day.
No wonder that the Imperial Gov- ernment was alarmed and determined" Shots were fired at the Marshal as to act, but it must be said that the he stepped off the running: board of al traffic could not have flourished as moter-car to enter his private residence it did were it not for the direct con- In the French Concession. A bullet miased him by inches only.
His bodyguards seized a man in the one vicinity, and it is belleved that he is detained on suspicion of having fired
the shots.
5 YEARS AGO
nivance of corrupt Chinese officials, of whom Lei Tlung-pan, the Viceroy of the two Kwang Provinces (Kwangtung and Kwangsi) received 30.000 tacts a months as his "cut" for allowing the opium to pass freely Into Whampoa and Macao,
Sept. 1, 1934. There are increasing Indications that!HE foreign merchants who were relations between Germany and Italy engaged in the business have are becoming very strained.
been described by no less a person- It is reliably stated that Germany is age than Captain Charles Elliot the planning three or four days period of man who secured Hongkong as h probation, to see whether the Italian Colony for England, "as nothing less. newspapers are prepared to cease their then the riffrait of all nationalities,” attacks on Germany,
who co-operated with Chinese smug- If the tone of Italian press comments glers and corrupt Imperial officials does not improve, the Government con- template the expulsion of Italian correspondents,
the shameless trafic.
reached such slate that The German Press in the past few by 1838, the number of foreign ships Linlin (an days has revealed increasing annoyance carrying oplum from at the Ballan attacks and it is under. island at the mouth of the Canton stood that they have been instructed to or Pearl river) to Whampoa were multiplied, and their crews frequently reply harply and in similar vein.
came into open conflict with Chinese For the third acessive day, the High Government vessels, though in many Coung of the Salvation Army at cases the latter were also engaged throughout a complete session without reaching the main objecy of ther gather
sucessor to Ing, the nomination a General Higgins.
to
the conveying of the oplum Carton.
The Imperial Government, irritat- ed beyond measure, ordered its ofcials at Canton to take action. There were several unpleasant- cidents between the Canton populace and the European merchants in the "Factory" site at Shap-sam-hong as the foreign concession was called and the general arrogance of the Sidewalk superintendents are well Chinese towards foreigners culminat- provided for in this city. Commo-ed in the strangulation of a Chinese dious glassed-in peepholes for all oplum denler before the windows of sizes of superintendents have been the Concession.
Sightseers Get Peepholes
Toledo, O.
cut into the construction barricade When. It became known that the where crews are excavating for a new Emperor Tao Kwang had appointed! main building for the public library, PLEASE Tum To. Page 5.
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