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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1934.

WATERLOO ECHOES STILL HEARD

THOMAS CREEVEY'S LIFE AND TIMES

MAN WHO KNEW EVERYBODY

(By Sir Max Pemberton.)

Toom

The capital 25 miles away, has So here is old Thomas Creevey The Duke himself told the per- one fine square. The principal (again!*

Bistent news-gatherer as much. source of building material is, Pepys himself could hardly win a Wellington was at his window, early however, American petrol tins. warmer welcome from a gossip-as it was, and he called up Creevey

The army wears dark blue uni-loving age.

from the street below. Yes, they forms. Except in the case of very Creevey knew everybody and did had won, but it had been a near raw recruits these have been everything. He was a very prince thinga d-d near thing. They bleached grey by the sun.

|of chattering travellers. Pitt and pounded, and we pounded, but ours On one occasion, a man wan Fox, Sefton and Grey, Brougham was the better dose and se, at long denied admission to Government and Lambton, even the "First Gen-last, we counted them out, those very building on the ground that he tleman in Europe," were the coun-gallant gentlemen. was improperly dressed. He wore tera in his game.

Wonderful Wellington riding breeches,

He had no money and he lived like, The men who barred his way ja duke. There was no great Whig Miss Ord,, was all she had expected Wellington, says the delighted were barefooted and collarless. He house in England that did not open him to be, “grave, awed, astonished was baffled in more sehses than its doors to him.'

-walking up and down the And to crown.it, he told us what making exclamations about the won- the Duke of Wellington said the derful conduct of the Army, and yet "Balkan War Pact" morning after the battle of Water-what a cold despatch he wrote, but,

loo and he decided, for all time, the tho' he can't write, he is The Balkan Peace Pact, recently signed

issue of the Duchess of Richmond's tonishing man. between Turkey, Greece,

His personal con- Ball. Rumania and Jugoslavia, has been

duet on this occasion was our great. Twenty years ago, the All Wise means of gaining the battle." rechristened "The Balkan War Pact" in diplomatic circles.

who knew nothing, were telling us Creevey's own account of the ter Italy alleges that it contains a that there never was a Duchess of rible hours is but the confirmation secret preamble pledging the signa. Richmond's Ball. Bunk, they said, of all his step-daughter wrote. An- tories to unite against any non-No duchess gave any ball on the eve xious days, with the Namur road as Balkan power which may be at of that great battle and Byron's can- a rough-and-ready barometer. When war with any of them.

inon neither opened nor roared upon troops and guns went up the road, Soviet Russia is reported to have that famous occasion.

good; when they came down, dis- protested vigorously to her ally,! The lie was knocked on the head appointment. Turkey, against the Pact.

at the time.

Just as Thackeray imagined it all Some of us had been to Brussels for us, so does this dear old gentle- the islands in order to convert The British minister in Alliens the natives. who had been has intervened officially to deny a land visited the laundry in which the man record it. We recall the fuller thoroughly Christianised by statement that Great Britain ap-function took place. We discover-story and hear of Wellington going Hong Kong. Tuesday, April 24, 1934, Spanish friars for three cen- proved of it in its present form. jed no "high hall" and granted that back to Waterloo village at nine- * │turies! The Filipinos then Búlgaria and Albania, both out to the poet's imagination, but that o'clock and there nearly having his

fought for two years against side the Pact, have indicated that Brunswick's "Tated chieftain"

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Philippine Independence America, and General Aguinaldo they will rely on Italian support have his fling on that historic night had ridden ou doy.

reigned as President of a brief to defeat any combination of the and that Wellington did turn pale We watch him supping alone and Filipino Republic, Peace rester-other Balkan powers against them, during the dancing when the Prince then trying to snatch a few hours The latest act of President ed. America carried out literally

of Orange, who should have been at sleep, while in the next room the Roosevelt is one of the most in-her explicit policy of "benevolent teresting in his colourful execu-altruism," and splendid work

the front, came in to tell him that splendid Gordon lay groaning and Bonaparte had crossed the Sambre dying. tive career. For last Saturday was done, especially in education Marshal Petain, the veteran there is no doubt whatever.

We see him getting up at four he signed the McDuffe-Tydings and health. Partial autonomy French War Minister, receives, in

Guns these dancers could not have next morning, threading his way Bill, which grants the Philippine was granted, and in 1916 the addition to his Ministerial salary heard, for no guns were fired until through the wreck and wrack of Islands their long-sought in Jones Act declared that indepen-and his army pension, a pension of next day when the battle of Ligny dying men and broken wagons into dependence. The bill has yet to dence would be recognised "as 200 francs a month from his col-was fought and old Blucher tem-that city his gallantry had saved, be ratified by the Philippinesoon as a stable government can leagues in the French Academy. porarily thrown back. :

there to tell them that all was well Legislature, but there is little be established." As a result of 'For 'some years past it has been What they might have mistaken and that never again would Bona- doubt that by October the neces- the Filipinos quick assimilation the custom of the 40. Academicians for guns was the thunder of wagons pare menace them. sary ratification will have been of Anglo-Saxon ideas and the fine to put aside a small proportion of rolling over the paved streets of What a message and what a man. given. The military base at Fort work of such administrators as their attendance allowance for the Brussels, the bugles blaring as. the McKinley will be withdrawn Dean Worcester and Governors benefit of the oldest member of the regiments fell in pell-mell, the wild our fiction, Rebecca Sharp was sell- 'And, yesterday, we remember in when independence has been Forbes and Wood, the above pro-Academy.

galloping of horsemen, riot and con-fing her korses at a fabulous price to fully achieved at the end of a vision has been long fulfilled..

In the absence of the historian, fusion, and ultimately pante, even Jon Sedley, who had previously Len-year interim period. Of Independence will make little Georges Lenotre, who never atas Thackeray described them, and bestowed his frogged coat upon his, specific interest to the British practical difference to the Fill-tends sessions of the assembly. Creevey and his step-daughter bear valet.. Laidor. "Les moustaches," Empire is the clause providing pinos, for to-day they enjoy al-present doyen is Marshal Petain. that the United States shall re-most complete self-government

The Wellerism.

witness to the truth of that great gasped Jos, "les moustaches, coupy, [novelist's imagining.

¿rary vite.”

tain the Corregidor naval base at and political freedom. The Your Daily Smile. From A Woman's Viewpoint

Happy, young Oxford does not Manila for a fuelling station. Legislature. Civil Service, and For experts concerned with inter-judiciary are all Filipino.

Listen to Miss Ord, giving her favour moustaches, and frogged account of it all to her brother in coats are now quite out of fashion. national grand strategy in the only important American officials East have long recognised that are the Insular Auditor, the the golf novice said when he hit

"That was a stroke of luck" as Florence just three weeks inter:

"Creevey's Life and Times, A

further selection from the Cor "the guard the United States Vice-Governor, and the Governor the ball the first time. mounts at the Philippines is General, who has the power of

respondence of Thomas Creevey. Edited by John Gore. (John essential to the security of Aus- veto over Philippine legislation.

Murray, 188), tralasia."

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"Lord Wellington 'had delightful balls every week, and, of course, military of all nations abounded at them......At last, on the 15th of

"POISON

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Woman Doctor Faces

Murder Charge.

The Philippines are a curious paradox replete with Fighting Stuff. not only the neighbour of British irony has thus developed in re- (It is stated that Len Harvey, June, we were all invited to a ball possessions in the Pacific, but gard to Philippine independence. the boxer, is a great reader, and at the Duchess of Richmond's and also the pickets of the East, com-The Americans, teaching the trains on Maugham and Wells.) in the middle of that day Lord Wel- manding an important strategic Filipinos in their schools the When Harvey prepare for a gruellington received the account of the position. And it is interesting to glory of the Fourth of July, could ling fight,

Prussians having been attacked and speculate what would have been hardly continue logically to re. He studies all day and he reads beat by Bonaparte, who was ad- the outcome to-day if England, fuse them their own Independence half the night;

vancing toward one end of the Eng- after conquering the islands in Day. But when in 1932. the At breakfast he scoras eggs andish line as fast as possible, To 1762, had not handed them back Hawes-Cutting Bill proposed in. bacon or teast-

give an idea of this leave-taking bali U.'S. PHYSICIAN VICTIM to Spain at the Treaty of Paris dependence, the Filipinos who hade laps up the classics and awal- is impossible, it was too dismal.... the following year. The inter- been loudly, if amicably, clam: lows his Proust.

"On the 10th for several hours we

Greenwood, Mississippi, national significance of the Phi- ouring for their freedom, aud-He has Wells for his dinner and had a canonade the concussion of

In stolid silence, Dr. Sarah Dean lippines is also shown by the denly, found that they did not Maugham for lunch-

which on the Air we felt as if it attractive Greenwood' child' specia announcement that the American want independence. They at Digesting, with ease, any book was close at hand..... You never list, is to stand trial on a charge- Secretary of State hopes to per-tacked the bill as only a tariff with a punch.

saw anything like the state of this of murder in connection with the suade Congress to lessen the dis-one. And though many Ameri-

Lown night and day. The streets alleged "polson-whisky highball" crimination against Japanese im-cans have favoured independence And. How!

Jammed full of horses, waggons, death of her medical associats, Dr.. migration to the group by a from idealistic motives and i de- "How are critics made?" asks a artillery, soldiers and people of all John Preston Kennedy, Greenwood quota increase. At present Chin-jsire to honour the pledge con- reader. Frightfully cross, some-sorts-bivouacs even in our little surgeon. ese immigration is disallowed bystained in the Jones Act, there is tires.

quiet street......

Dr. Kennedy charged in a re- Jan Exclusion Bill, although the little doubt that the bill just

"On Sunday the 18th of June, we puted death-bed statement lust resident Chinese are numerous signed by President Roosevelt is Unbelievable.

amongst others shall never forget it, August that he was dying from and control three-quarters of the essentially a farm relief measure, "Can the hand really deceive and it is impossible to describe-it the effects of poison administered retail trade. The Japanese, how prompted by the American beet the eye?" wonders an essayist, was passed in a sort of stupid state to him in a whisky highball ata ever, have a small quota, which sugar-growers and Cuban sugar thought it had the other night, of despair, now and the enlivened midnight meeting

between Dr.

the local Legislature will be un-interests in order to put a tariff but I honestly had been dealt four by reports spread to create confu- Dean and himself at the residence willing to increase, since Japan-on Philippine Sugar, whieli by aces.:

ese settlers are already strongly the Payne-Aldrich Act was .ad-}'s

entrenched in Davao, in the mitted free of duty, Philippine More Natural Anyway, south, have a monopoly of the prosperity was built up on the "It is quite unusual to see

slon, that French Dragoons were of the woman physician, actually in the town. Waggons, The statement said that Dr.. Baggage, etc., were overturned in Kennedy tried to treat himself athe fright, the road was blocked up after detecting a metallic taste in

rich Philippine fisheries, and free access of its exports to the girl with a good pair of ears," and the infamous villains who had the drink, but falling, he had to present a problem of unassimil-United States. Independence will says a writer. I'agree. But it is raised the cry (composed of the call in other medical assistance able aliens. The story of the mean a tariff, which in turn will quite usual to see her with a good stragglers of all nations) plundered and was taken to Jackson, Missis-- movement for Philippine in mean, as even the Philippine pair of eyes. dependence goes back to the last Secretary of Finance has adm[1- century; for the Spanish rule ted, "the inevitable ruin" of the

from 1564 to 1898 was so oppres- sugar, coconut oil, desiccated co-

everything at their leisure and above aippi; for treatment,

half the officers of the Army have Dr. Dean, indicted on a murder: lost everything they had,Mr. charge after the body of. Dr.

sive that the Filipinos broke into conut, hat, and embroidery in chance to adjust their economy Creevey, every time he went out ro- Kennedy had been secretly ex revolt, and the "insurrectos" co-dustrica, The tobacco industry to the new regime of indepen-urned with more dismal face, till humed and examined, has been operated with the Americans in will suffer, heavily. Hemp and dence and bankruptcy. The at last we sat looking at each other freed under, bond awaiting trial. the capture of Manila, expecting copra will be the only two im Philippines will pay a heavy without venturing to ask any ques-She has never mentioned the case their freedom from the liberator portant exporta not seriously price for their freedom, and in-tions,"

publicly, except to express ́aur:

of Cuba But the plous ignor-affected. The ten-year interim telligent Filipinos are greeting Happily, Creevey went exploring prise. ance of an American President period for independence has been the news of their nationhood again at dawn and, was able to quell At the time of his death, it was dictated otherwise, for it was re-established by the McDuite with the feeling aptly described the anxieties of those trouble ladies, reported, Dr. Kennedy was plan vealed to McKinley that Pro-Tydings Bill for the express pur by W. S. Gilbert as modified There had been a most glorious ning to re-marry his former wife.. vidence meant America to keep rose of giving the Philippines a rapture."

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