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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929.
MEMORIES OF A GREAT PRINCE
BY HERR EMIL LUDWIG
(Continued from Yesterday.)
may
Princess Bulow
One evening at Lucerne, in the har because his inclinations and the autumn of 1918, I was telling Prince | circumstances dictated that step. Bulow of a packet of manuscripts | But the quick and ardent nature of which a German soldier had saved, his wife must have strengthened with other documents and bobles, hite In what է
call his from a burning chateau in Alsace, "Antiboche-Natur." and while in Serbia had taken them out of his kaupsack and shown them to me, asking me to publish them. I told the Prince that the manu→ scripts comprised many unpublished and closely-written letters from a French diplomatist at Constan- tinople, addressed to his wife, with interesting private details about the Sublime Porte at the beginning of the sixties. "Has his name," 1 asked, "ever come before you? It is
Not paying duty on 5 2/3 lb. of Chinese prepared tobacco and one gallon Chinese wine, found on his trading junk, led to the master of the craft being dined $70 at the Kowloon Magistracy to day, with the option of seven weeks' hard Gustave Rothan?" labour.
FINE WEATHER
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:
The anti-cyclone now covers the whole of China and Man- churia and has attained con- siderable intensity.
A Statesman's Skin
For ahe was handsome. dis- tinguished and bright, easy, tender, and receptive, like no German Prin- cess or any lady of the Wilhelm. straszo whom I have ever seen.
Once when we were with the Bulaws
at the Hotel Bristol in Berlin, I Haw the Princess in the glass through the open door, as she was quickly fastening her pretty shoe
with one hand, while the other lean- ed over so lightly on the back of a fragile gilded chair. Another time she glided through the rooms of her Villa Malta in Rome, stood for a moment at the window of her bed, room, pointing to a group outside, and said. "So every morning when
wake I see the monks walking in their garden." One thought one was hearing a woman in her prime saying these words with a touch of never reproduce their sound; something between that of a flute and a 'cello; and yet she was then getting on for alxty
Bulow face lightened. Without a moment's hesitation he answered: "Rothan, yes, certainly. This man was in 1850 the Second Secretary in the French Embassy in Berlin; then he came out to the East, I think to Constantinople; he become French Consul at Hamburg, where he was overtaken by the war; he wrote two books, not
soquetry. I can one only, about the Franco-German war, and later, through Prince Hohenlohe, he applied for the restoration of his property, but Bismarck did not agree to that. Ho must have died about the same time as Bismarck, and-wait a moment-I think it was at Lago Maggiore, quite near Mr. Lawrence Francis Town-
the place where you now are living." declaration that the new list of end, late of the Union Insurance
All these details, which I verified
ton on October 3, last year, left not a question of a personal ac- restricted one." For this state Hong Kong estate worth $300 whilequaintance of Prince Bulow's, or
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this proof of his
of affairs surely the authorities estate In Shanghai amounts to even of an historical figure. The have only themselves to blame. Tla. 67,806, which has been sworn Prince was delighted for the whole at £8,846 11s. 6d. Re-sealing of evening, and while at table re- They have taken a precious long probate has been granted time to discover that the list of P. M. Hodgson, of Messra. Ts'o
to Mr.peatedly returned to the subject of the excellent Rothan, apparently to exempted persons requires con- and Hodgson, who is attorney for
allow me the opportunity of giving siderable trimming.
the executor, Mr. Arthur Charles the other guests Hay, of Shanghai Testator's wife memory. They have also miraculously and the exccutor are to benefit under He knew that the technique of the discovered that "the control of the will.
statesman rests in his finger-tips, firearms is very strict in Eng-
and he said to me once: "A poli- land (sic!)-and so "it seems The Superioress and Sisters of ticlan must have a wonderful skin. as thick as that of an elephant, desirable that we should follow the St. Francis Convent, Wanchai,
How the St. Francia Street, desire to thank which does not feel the sting of a that example here."
their many patrons and friends who fairly large insect, and therefore he "conditions at Home should affect spent so generously at the Fair on
does not worry about it, and yet an His Lord-tender as the leaf of a mimosa. the conditions here in this re-Sunday ahd especially: spect is not very clear. There ship Bishop H. Valtorta, the Rev. which closes up at the lightest
breath." are many things done at Home Fathers, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. Choa Po-slen, Mr. Ho Kom-tong, the which are not required to be done Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Lady Chater, here. There are numerous laws Messrs. A. Vannini, II. Dixon, Fun Keong, and Ho Wing, also to the at Home that should be super-Editors of the "China Mail" and the fluous in this Colony, and vice"Sunday Herald," Mr. Li Po-chung, Why pick on the matter Mias M. Gomes, and others. of control of firearms and say
versa.
and nearly deaf.
The couple never lived in luxury, but always in good style. And yet they, too, were affected by the gen. eral scarelly in the second half of The Princess said to me the war. one day, with sad eyes: "My hus- band has been accustomed for fifty years to dal two eggs in the morn- * ing. I am afraid that he will now have to content himself with one." This naive remark, at the time when most Germans in the course of a week saw at most one egg. showed me again that degrees of former Chanedior it was a priva comfort are relative. For the
tion to have only one egg, whereas have been a luxury. for every ordinary man It would
[To Be Continued.]
TEN YEARS AGO
AAAAA
[From the "China Mail" December 3, 1919.1
To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 1%d.
Whether he was born with this type of skin I do not know, but it
The Crown Agent system is a rotten seems to me that his wife trained him in his finesse, or strengthened one.
Some day, perhaps, we will get him in It. That an
rid of it. It has wasted much of our Italian lady ved and reigned for ten years in
money in the past. Wo do not know how to apportion the blame between the Wilhelmstrasse was, if you
the Crown Agents and the local Gay- weigh the advantages and dis-ernment for this Police mess; but some advantages, of distinct value. How one should get a 'wigging for it. "Whe cana Minister of Foreign Affairs ther the men are sent Home or ge be bettor schooled, and made more
Home, we have imported them at con- tolerant in his business in daily siderable expense, we have fitted 'them dealing with foreign nations-than
with uniforms at mere expense, and at Home is so eminently desirable The Peninsular and Oriental through marrlage, or at least rela-
we shall have, to import others to re- to be followed in everything, there Company's report for the year end- tionship, with a foreigner? Prince squandered repney In that
place them. A. private firm which way for credit Bulow, indeed, did not become half is a dreadfully long list of re-ed September 30 shows
want of a titte ordinary foresight ward £120,000 sterling-Reuter. lady for his wife, but he married office.
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec, 3, 1929. that "we should follow the exam-
CONTROL, OF
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If the example of the good folks
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MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
It seems not before time that forms that ought to be initiat balance of 943,000; carried for-Roman because he took a Sicilian would hear about it from the Head the authorities are tightening up ed in this Colony right away. the regulations with regard to Once the Police get the control the possession of arms. On their of firearms tightened up in the own confession in the "objecte direction they desire, let us trust and reasons" for the new Bill to that they, shall not be weary in be introduced in the Legislative well doing, but shall turn their Council, "there are a great many éngle eye on those other things firearms in the Colony of which crying out for improvement! the Police know nothing." What a marvellous discovery in this year of grace nineteen hundred and twenty-nine! The wonder
:
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Britain's Youngest Ambassador: Merchants' Guilds: Princess Elizabeth: The Little Season: Soldier and
Str Oswald Mosley
to
Sir
A Chinese, charged with the theft of soine clothing from the servants Sir Oswald Mosley goes
Washington to succeed quarters of 335, Nathan Road, was is that armed robberies do not remanded for 48 hours, at the Esme Howard as British Ambas- figure in the Police reports not Kowloon Magistracy to-day. sador—it is said that he may—he merely almost daily but several
will surely be the youngest times daily. The community ap matting in crates for Ave pigs and is only 23.
Charged with failing to provide licupy that important poat, for he
oc pears to have wonderfully good two pigs, respectively, a Chinese Diplomatic circles on that side "joss." May that "joss" con- than and a woman, were at the of the Atlantic would not be like tinue until there is not a single Kowloon Magistracy to day fined $5ly to be piensed at the appoint firearm in the Colony unknown
each.
Jment, aloce one of the biggest to the Police. In other direcMr. Ed. C. Louie, Beenses of age to a man who is not only com- "plums" of the service would thus tions affecting law and order and private motor car was 'need 35 by paratively youthful, but without the prevention of crime they do Mr. E. W. Hamilton, today for any sort of diplomatic apprentice- excellent work. Why should it fited on his car, which has a left
failing to have a direction indicatorship. be said at this late day, on their hand drive. own confession, that "there aro a great many firearms, in the Colony of which the Police know | nothing?" :
There will ben. Public Lecture at the Helena May 'Institute on Ties day, December 10, at 5.30 p.in. Dr. J. L. Shellshaar will speak on "The Pre-History of Hong Kong and the New Territories. Adut
Sir Eame, for instance, entered the Diplomatic service by com- petitive examination as long ago as 1885, and has been" at "It ever since.
Sir. Oswald will, however, prob ably prefer to remain. where the Suclalistic principles he has seen fit to adoptaince he was Conser Ten Chinese boat people, charged more prominently displayed.
vative member for Harrow can be with gambling on hulk in the
Bohemian: Evening Fashions
health of the person upon this im. medinta left, whilst his right-hand
neighbour also rises to protect kis exposed back from the " 'assassin's dugger.
#Adniission 'mat a Frientan, and the subsequent prospect of elevation to the Livery dro dignilles still highly prized, and most City merchants in troduce their' sons as soon as they are eligible.
in the person of Lady. Katharino Howard, the Duke of Norfolk's second alpter.
Miss DlanG Chamberlain, Str Austen's charming and very attrac five daughter, is also to go to Court zext season, and, in all probability, Miss Angela Sykes, the youngest daughter of the fate Sir Mark Sykes, of Sledmere.
Peer and Poet TORD Dunsany, who has just had
The King's Grand-daughter PRINCESS Elisabeth is having her, published a new volume of poems, promised holiday at Sandringham. is the most poetical peer since Byron is partly in compensation for the (It has been said that he is the only failure of a second visit to Bognor one). He is tremendously prolife, ly to make up for her having have been written with quill pena. to materialise last spring, and part for he has over forty plays and I books to his credit all of which dalightful stay with her Royal, grandparents at Balmoral this year.
When Sandringham was rearrang ed by the Queen after the death of Queen Alexandro, a special suite of rooms was allotted to the Duke and Duchess of York and their amall daughter, and it is this sulte-which, should have been used last Christ-
mas hat for the King's illness that is being occupied just now.
He is probable the only writer" who, so to speak, grows his own pens, for those quills come from his own estato in co. Meath.
This is not the only original thing about Lord "Dansany. He wears the loose garments and broad-brimmed hats of the Bohemian, yet
was a smart and most efficient officer in the Coldstreaza Guarda, with 's re- cord of active sorvice in South Africa as well as in the Great War. And if he shoots big game; has, literally, gone on a wild goose chase, and has been M.F.H, F
The little Princess is spending a great deal of her time with the Kingho
Next Year's 'Débutantes
In mitigation of this disgrace- ful disclosure it is said also in the "objects and reasons" of the new Bill-that the list of exempt
LITTLE season parties and dancesite for Evening Wear ed persons.
at present is very Yaumati Typhoon Shelter, were not The City Livery Companies
frequently bring out many of the large
many keep with the present when their cure was called THIS is the Brazon it, which enter Society girls who will make their FASHION experta have been de- at the Kowloon Megistracy, to-dayt, talning by the City Companies, curtseys to the King and Quben; at: claring that white: in to be the greatest care, any firearms which and accordingly indd their balls of the lines descendants of the mer Buckingham Palace next year. dernier cri for woman's evening wear, they
chants guide of the Middle Ages,
They are taken about to the small-and it seems that they are right. possess, but others may be $2 each estreated.
re:bes
its peak, and their invely older and more informal of the autumn "At one of the, smallest - but most- moro careless, and their firearms
halla, kostly dating from Litiédiate social functions with the idea of "give sight-after of dining-places Lady may be stolen and may get into Mr. John Keith Bousfield, son of hy althgulshed the coming.ont proper, which often, theas were wearing, white, and Lady ~ The engagement is announced of 1 fier The Great Fire, its housing ing them a certain amount of assur Portarlington, Lady Cunard, Lady Chiehtly gatheringkisance and self-confidence before their banke, and Mrs. Richard Norton the hands of
robbers and Mr. W. R. Boualeld, KC, FRS, other criminala.
these dinners. queta, not Sa of Northwood, Middlesex, England fast survival of what almost the days, I made at the hunt or county Inverclyde'4" Chime"" pink dress serted that the hat of
Each Com-terested. compted daughter of Li-Col. W. E. Castans, pany cherishes its engeld2raditional it really, yet to suggest names of Marlboroor momong the dancers persons, is inordinately large, but g of Victoria, Vancouver Island, observanced but nearly 11 sinds the 1000 debutantes, but there will Lady Brecknock atas bear meceful
Has can be presumed from the B,C
the "gâiging "round of a loving" cup,, he, at least one representative of a which the recipient drinks to the ducal famlly in the list of presentees
to Misa Edith Gwendolyn Castena, 2bribed.; as Fritáni din tid ht+ba des={{}ball in which they are pedíapy. fz-7/Pakkiölkswal 5th
Lord Brecknock
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