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SATURDAY, JANUARY-20, 1934,

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Next to King George and Queen which the practical womanly train. Dr. Feuchtwanger is cautious Mary of England, with their sons ing she had received in her about visitors and bellicose about and daughter, no Royal Family country, easily gained the tympathy Herr Hitler. "Germany," he de- to-day works more devotedly in the of the people of her adopted land clares, will be at war in two interests of the nation it represents and enhanced the popularity of her years' time."

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"Fooling The Foreigner" Dr. Feuchtwanger, who claims to tures, the King and Queen of the man, and often may be seen in Bel- know many Nazi leaders and to un-Belgians are even more hard-work- gian byways at the wheel of a two- derstand their paychology, is con-ing out of the limelight than they eater motor-car with his princess vinced that Germany has every-jare ao constantly shown to be with-by his side. He handles a sporting thing to gain and nothing to lose by in its glare. This is a fact that gun with precision, and the Prince Ivery few of their subjects, far less at Wales has admitted that Prince She will not require a large outsiders, adequately realise. Being Leopold had given him a "good" army, he says. In two years' time royal these days is as exacting and drubbing" at golf. she will have 200,000 specially as onerous a task, as ever."

The Soldier King would have a trained

chemical men. Her

In fourteen years in this country Soldier Son, and so, before going factories will be ready and her or-I have mixed with all classes, and to Eton in 1915, the Prince. then ganisation complete.

have never heard a word uttered by only 14, served for six months with He is sceptical about Herr a responsible person against his Belgian line regiment, performing Hitler's pence proposals. He King or any member of the Belgian all

the regular states that every time Hitler makes Royal Family.

drills, digging The most uneon-trenches ("I want him to know

Familiar figures in the new pic Prince Leopold is a keen aporta-

a pacifist speech his followers re-ventional remark I have heard came what it is to have blisters on hia ceive it with nods and winks. They from an American who said, simply, handa," said King Albert), bayonet think it is meant only for the con-that King Albert was a "regular fighting, and going up to the front sumption of the stupid foreigner. fellow,"

line "to know what war in

At the close of hostilities, when

Your Daily Smile.

All O. K

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In Dr. Feuchtwanger's opinion Quietly spoken but with a firm the world is treating the Nazis too determination in the eyes behind his the Prince rejoined his family in gently. Stern and sharp action is pince-nez, he can charm a beggar Brussels, it was to buckle down to the only language they understand. with a smile at wither a courtier study, based on a programme drawe

jby a glance.

up by his father. Politicians in Brisbane in 1895.

Under specially know they are, an-appointed professors, he gave his This was

swerable to him for the state of the mind to all the usual, and many none other than Louis De Rouge-

country. and that, no doubt, mont, who claimed to have spent An English dramatist was asked, counts for the relatively stable post-the President of the Court of Cas acunusual, subjects; learned law from Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 20, 1934. twenty years with the aborigines at an enormous fee, to check and, tion, of Belgium in the present sation; politics from politicians;

of North Australia, and whose correct some dialogue in a Holly-world-upset. stories created such a sensation wood film dealing with Queen Ell-

finance from financiers. He has gained another strong: Travellers' Tales. when they appeared in the "Wide zabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, hold on his people by proving him-Militaire, where his day began at He also had to attend the Ecole World Magazine" three years He pointed out that to make Queen self a remarkable all-round sports-alx in the morning, and from which

Mr. Freeman had Elizabeth say: "Well, Mary, I guessman. When we speak of "travellers" afterwards.

he was gazetted in 1923 as sub- He has scaled every accessible lieutenant in the Regiment of Grens- tales" we usually have in mind opened an office in Brisbane and I've got one up on you,” was hard-

had advertised for a goldminingly in the language of the period, peak in Europe, and during his re-diers; now he has risen to the rank tales of a type which bear wit-

The producer altered it, and cord flying visit to the Congo. In of colonel, ness to a highy imaginative mind Rougemont offered his services. sion (with the comment that "It's fourney in thirty days, eighteen of Chent, University, and then the

expert and assayer, and De proudly displayed the amended ver-1982, when he made the return His education was completed at... in the narrator; but occasionally can take you to the richest a hundred per cent. Elizabethan which were spent in the Belgian Prince, also like his father, took to we meet with people who, in the country in the world, where the now") as follows: "Well, Marr, I Colony, he got within S75ft. of the world travel. course of their, travels, have had mountain are solid go

gold," he said, guess I've got one up on your for-, summit of the volcann Mikeno, Senate and, later, at the Second Before the Belgian such remarkable adventures that "You can see the gold shine for sooth."

which is 14,855ft, above sea level: Belgian Colonial Congress, the weather was so bad that the last Prince laid down his 650ft. took 24 hours to accomplish gramme of Colonial development. pro. Even so, the King was not satis He deeply impressed his hearers by

It requires no little stretch of the miles!" The result wES that Imagination to belleve them. these two remarkable. adventur-

HEARTLESS.

own

the-

One such was "Freeman of Stam-ers went prospecting in North She was young and pretty, and boul." That is the title of the Australia; and, although they did her confusion when she had no fled, and complained that had he not the methodical and succinct man- autobiography of Mr. Bernard not find the mountains of solid small change to pay for her two- listened to advice to leave his Euro-ner in which he had marshalled his Freeman, and among its conclud-old, Mr. Freeman was convinced Penny ticket was quite charming. pean climbing kit behind, he would facts and the way in which he pro- that many of the things his com- "You couldn't change à pound, have been able to reach the peak. duced them to prove his argument. ing words are these: "And now. panion told him were true, for he note for more she asked. after eighty-one years of peril, seemed to be known by all the don't worry" he said. "You can The conductor couldn't. "But

Man Of Many Parts

that only by adopting a constructive- policy based on humanitarian prin hardship, sudden ruin and 'aus aborigines, he spoke to them in

King Albert, also, is a splendid ciples could Belgium prove Itself cess, here I am unscathed, my their own language, and he was

pay me the twopence another time." swimmer. And engineering has no worthy of a great possession like the

"But you may never see me secrets from him. Not only does he Congo, zest for life undiminished. About an unerring thrower of the again."

¡drive, a motor-car and ride a motor- to start on a quite new adich-boomerang. It is interesting] "Well, what odila!" the conductor cycle, but he can take down an en-

Lessons From Travels Recently, in the coume of a speech

ture, of which, perhaps, Id to learn from Mr. Freeman replied, Intending to be galiant, gine as well as, any skilled mechanic in excellent English, delivered be..

say more anon!"

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and wear blus overalls justfore the African Society in London, readily and convincingly, and in which he made a great point: driyah a locomotive and his interest

of the economic advantages to: Be

His book is he supplied De Bougemont "I sha'nt break my heart if an amazing record. of adventure. With some of the stories which don't.” Probably the "long bow" is pull- carhed for the latter, on their ed occasionally, but, even allow publication, a reputaton that had

In cycling is so great that he sum- ing for that, few men have had days of Baron Munchausen. One pounds, and a pair of shoes for later, decorated him,

never been equalled, since the

Teacher: "Your mother buys a moned the Belgian champion to the Sained by the protection of naturaľ [hat for two guineas, a coat for five palace to congratulate him

life in the Congo, the Prince made- and, a life so full of colour and ro- can imagine how these two

statement which revealed how matico. Mr. Freeman was born must have revelled in each the requli"

man thirty-five shillings.

The King has the reputation, deeply he has the subject at heart. again, of being the best-read manbalarda

(Continued on Page 8) in Belgium; and a few days ago he

dead

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in Constantinople, and he paints other's stories. Yet many of some thrilling pictures of life in their tales were true! That is the glamorous East Just after the amazing thing. As for North So-it Flames Up Afresh, the Crimean War. He ran away Australia and its wonders, we A cleatist bays that for all we from home. He lived in rough have only to read Ion Idriess's know the maternal instinct of the the King from sharing with his con- tents with Bedouin fanatics and "Men of the Jungle" to realise shrimp, may be highly developed sort, Queen Elizabeth, the cares of in, caravans with gipales. He how little we know of that coune would just as I thought this a family. Neither the roguish slept with monks in the Garden try, and recently another remark

controversy "End" been - "Anally of his only daughter, Princess Marie- of Gethsemane, He salled be-able book has come from the pen settled.

Joe, now Crown Princess of Italy, fore the mast in the palmly days of this graphic Australian: au-

for the turbulence of his younger of the chippera; fought with thor-Drums of Mer, which A couple were married after havders enabled them to escape the Bon, Prince Charles, Count of Flan man-eating sharks in the deals with the Torres Strait ing known each other for fifty-duty laid down for them by their tropics for the

body islands, "where, often," to quote three years. Let's hope they won't father, who insisted that they of a comrade; went plönbering in from the foreword by Rev. WH repent at leisure

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for them to know.

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With even more severity, temper to and from their work, can show led with understanding and cars, the soma huge figures, in "cost, track: with Gordon; met Burton, Stan-smile of incredulity. There al foy, Mark Twain, Sarah Berb-ways have been, and there always that their experiments in

Brittafi experts have announced struction and education of their

royal parents have watched the in-length and employment.

There are three systems. In New hardt, Hobert Louis Stevenson. will be, the wandering adventur- aft

elder sons Prince: Leppold, Duke of die, the Brooklyn-Transit, and the York, the Interborough Rapid Tran- Melba, Caruso and other cele-jera of the world; and "travelli

Brabant, hoft to the throne. Gentie, brities in the course of hisjín an armchair," with their books where

and of rather any hitare the Blath Avenue Subway. The latter travels, Stevenson, we read, in our hands, we can in such ly feas!

Prince is now trending successively has been completed only a few lived in a bungalow belonging to vicarious fashion share in their

fo every one of his father's foot months, and after the few remain- Mr. Freeman fakt some" months thrills,

steps. Take Sir Richard Bur-

ing finishing touches are given to during the Samoan revolution. ton for instance the No doubt this is the little cotton that: Freem tage up the lang of which men-ton of the At Hon is made in I. J. Moors's story of his

book, "With Stevenson in Samoatures is

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