1918-02-23 — Page 7

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 1918.

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

TO

THE KING

BOME IMPRESSIONS.

THE CHINA MAIL

faT & CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAILY CUMONICLE."

always been sepond nature with King George to sacrišku klu own inclinations to his poultior. No one could be with Daly' fur ten minutes without feeling that bei ie a man who will gladly wear himself da | the bane doing what he thinks right.

KING'S INTEREST IN 'LABOUR.

His carly training never gave him duch ́experience in facing sodiences and holding I think one's first impression of the the centre of the stage, on ceremonia) King, and also one's last, is that beesians; and only sheer Aligence "and genuine all through There is not will power have accustomed him to thosa

MARSEILLES AND LONDON pore bout him. One could rosorders and overcome bis diffidence enough

Taxma Passenkes and Caboo to

STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, -85.

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1917,

1917.

Colombo

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Hongkong at the time of Booking.

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RAILINGS DIRECT' TO A

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA

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INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS

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THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

All Osbius are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp.

Round-the-World Tickets and Through fickets to New York in connection with the Principal Mail Lince.

Return Tickets at fare and a half available to Europe for Two Years; or to Intermediate Ports for Six Months.

Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be

ancelled or altered without notice.

ar advice.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th, 1918.

AN UNSURFÄSSED HIGH GLASS PASSENGER SERVICE AT ENTERMHIJIATE RATES,

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INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.

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Stazers moceed wis Jose Canal or Jape of Good Hope at Owners ogdear Bubject to shenge without notice

Cantor?

wounded soldier, for instance, or in handing a widow the decoration wou by her husband, or in going the rounds of munitions factory, he has acquired, not

irgine him either wanting to strike an to find pleasure in them. He has now The made himself almost as good a speaker in attitude et succeeding in doing it. instinet for such exhibitions has been public as he is in private; and the art of mercifully omitted from his make-up saying the right thing at the bedside of The restless, mercurial. vapouring. egotistical temperament of the Kaler stands, should judge, as the precise opposite of what King Coorge either is, or could be, or would ever wish to be.

He is naturalpase itself. That is one reason why robialy was has spent even few minutes in his company falls to be drawn to him. He has the attraction that all men must have who are simply and sincerely themselves.

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by study, not by a coneziona ellort of tact,

INTIMATIONS

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but by wasting his own honest symponsult pathies, instincts and entotiers and goirs eyes scientifically and t straight ahead.

The King is proud of his kingship,glasses to individual re- pront of his country and the Empire,

The workers proud of his stock. But them is

in the munition facteries are quick to swaggor in his pride. To sets upon hims recognize this quality in him. They find simply se call to spend all be has n themselves speaking and spoken to by a ecergy and devotice in the service of his man who quite obviously means what he peoples. The ruler of the State, he is says, who manuer has the unmistakable also its first and its hardest working winray of an honest human kindlinsas, who servant. The use. he holds in little or asks questions because he wants them (mething to hits exceps as an instrument answered, and who never has to pamp for promoting British sirength and British

happiness. The King is in touch with | up an interest he doesgot feel.

every aspect of the war; he tollows its fortunes with the passion of a man whose

I have only once been honoured with an audience of his Majesty. But it lasted nearly na hour and a half; we talked whole mon is engrossed by it; bo kuone freely on many things frank himself, mare about it, I should say, than ang

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and I look back upon it as one of the Ministery; and he keeps himself inti surprises of my life. A surprise, because mately informed on all the larger pro- as the King in an easy loungo suit sat|blems, particularly problems of Labour, back in his chair and held forth in an that are being born of it. animated strain, with vivid movements There is many a Labour leader who will

and gestures and 20 occasional hearty burst of laughter, or turned upon me a Lewis-gun of questions as to the state of feeling in a belligerent country from which I had just returned, or expounded very earnestly his views of the kingly office, I realised how little I had known him and how many were the gaps in my pre-conception of his personality.

& COMPARISON,

Time and again the King reminded me

af Colonel Roosevelt. Both are men of

an eager, impetuous nature. Both hold strong opinions and unfold and main tain them with zest and emphonis. Both have a healthily developed instinct for speaking out. Both come at you directly.! plunge into mubjects without any formal preliminaries, and discuss them with downright expansiveness that is much more apt to err on the side of indiscretion than of over-caution. The King has not the "Calonel's engaging minj-sideness; the Colonel has not the King's selfless But both are men of guidek. modesty. emotions and decided views, whose heat is towards action, and who get from every bour its full sixty minutes of life.

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SOLE PROPRIEMOS Ot more sound sense expressed on Industrial questions in the King's study at Bucking-TAKASHIMA, GOHI KUYAKK ham Palace, and a greater" and understanding spirit displayed in discuss BOJO,NAMAZUTA. BAYO KATADA, G. T. M: Fakin, Esq.-Depaty ing them, than in most gathering of employers or Trade Union Congresses.

Those who are in daily contact with King George feel for him an affection that is the finest tribute to his personality and character. He is immaculately straight; he is loyalty and considerateness itself to all around him; se is on untiring worker and responsive to every call that is made upon him; to know him as he is so iacere and huren and kindly, so earnest in his single-minded devotion to duty, to dependable in all the relations of lift. is to ace in him those sterling qualities, which ma can only tease to prize and cherish when we have ceased to be British. and when the virtue which is made and kept us great has gone out of a.

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How closely the German Emperor is guarded when he travels through Belgiam is told as follows by a cor repondent, who

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The contrasts between them are no doubt even greater than the resemblances. Colonel Roosevelt's relish în publicity and his desire to be always at the centre of the stage are characteristics etterly for eign to King George's temperament. The King has travelled widely; he has seen, Whenever the passage of the Imperial perhaps, more of the Empire over which train is to take place the fact is not he rules than any of his subjects; yet his down to the chief railway: official anti a quarter of si bor before the arrival. own preferences, I should say, are for In the station, the lines are all hoptist quiet time by his own fireside and the ** All Workigjen. on this peension," wher companionship of a few close friends, ther Belgian or German, were dispatched Nothing is dearer to him outside his outside and access to the station was

forbidden. This applied to all passen family life than the regard and, the affecgora, ba well. The military guards tions of the British people. Yet ons occcpying parts of the station, and the cannot imagine him angling for popularity avirons were ordered to leave their or advertising himself in any way. The posts and pile their arm. The only persons allowed on the platform were the most English of our sovereigns le English stigmaster, his employees appointed chiel «There was was no guard of konbur, no masnifestation whatever!

in nothing so much se in his refusal to i to work the signala, and the military

blow his own trumpet.

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plan at pyery station through whis

This clearing of the station take

Perhaps we latter ourselves in calling his sense of duty English also. At any mate, it governs the King's whole life and the train passenhich it does at the conduct. I am speaking," a friend of maximum regulation speed At Brossas his once said to me, quite sincerely and Place Rogier, which is a villitary prat the detraining took place opposite the without the least exaggeration when I say since the occupation i

| there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that "The space in front of the station,

the Eing will not throw overboard at the which is always forbidden ground to call of duty." He does so as a matter of passengers was occupied by several fact every day of his life. It is a habit motor car, As soon as the Emperor entered - his rear, the small feet ran he may have owed in part to his cockpitly to the Pare Rue Royale, where education. But I suspect also that it has the Kaisse stayed severni bours.

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