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CABINET SECRETS.

It is understood that the question of publishing Cabinet papers, which has led to the demand that ex- Ministers should return any in their possession to Downing-street, first arose in 1919, when Lord Yprea's book "1914" appeared.

It contained bitter attacks on the politicians, notably Mr. Asquith and Mr. Winston Churchill,

KING ALEXANDER THE HAUNTED MONARCH KNEW HE WOULD DIE ASSASSINATED

"MORBID APPREHENSION"

(By G. Ward Price)

a public scandal. When " ALL his life King Alexander been

knew that be would die asans, young Alexander reached the, ngo sinated. His Intimates were well of 24 he in turn aroused the bit-

Mr. Churchill, who was at that aware of his conviction that death ter hostility of his country by a woman older than time Secretary of State for War, would meet him in the form that marrying told the Cabinet that it was imponit took on October 9. Over his himself, the wilow of a Czech en- Bible for him to answer these at daily existence hung a constant gineer, with whom he had for tacke adequately without quoting sense of impending doom. some time been carrying on illicit

Dossession.

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THEY HAD TO ASK FIRST

from secret documents in his It was in Salonica, during the relations.

arrogance of the new war, that 1 first heard from the The King's close friends of what then 'Queen especially irritated the of

At seemed this morbid apprehension.ficers of the Serbian Army. The Cabinet discussed the ques-As Prince Regent of Serbia he dawn on June 10, 1908, a band of bis headquarters, officers broke into the royal pa- tion and decided that the events of made Salonica the war were of such vivid and frequently visiting sectors of the lace and hunted the King and immediate interest that the old rule Allied front held by his Serb Queen Into a small dressing-room off their bedroom, where for a might be relaxed and secret papers troop.

I ac-time they lay hid while the in some of those visita bearing on them published, provided the Cabinet's permission companied him, and under the in-spirators searched furiously for

chance bullet roadalde them. A was firat obtained.

Mr. Churchill was given leave to luncheons eaten under the lée of through the hidden door of the a ruined Balkan hut came to know room wounded the Queen, and publish what he wished.

revealed their hiding- something of the personality of her cry This decision still stande.

formal conditions

of

an

Ghastly Event

con-

fired

Mr. Lloyd George, who has made this vivacious, easygoing young place. freer use in his memoirs of such Balkan Prince, then in his middle

Both were dragged out and documents than any other states-twenties, with the face of a stu-

butchered with grim ferocity, man, obtained the fullest permis-dent and the shoulders of

each officer in turn firing his, re- sion before the first volume of his athlete.

From the officers of his staff volver into their corpses, so that book appeared in print.

learnt, on these journeys. how the guilt of the murder might be constant were the precautions shared by all alike.

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even then deemed necessary to The Queen's two brothers, for

The average Minister's collection keep him safe. It was not from whom she had been suspected of of secret documents on quitting Croatian separatists that his life coveting royal rank, were mur effect. The President is not office is bulky. Those with small at that time was in danger. The dered. that same night, together afraid of inflation so long as it houses often find it difficult to find section of the Jugoslav race to with the Prime Minister and the is "moderate inflation." It frees room for them.

which his murderers belonged War Miniéter. and the mutilated One statesman said that he had was then associated with our en-corpses, dung from upper win Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 10, 1934. the dollar from being the alave

of the free gold market, and how-ordered his secretary to destroy the emies.

dows. lay sprawling in the gar ever many countries may have whole lot directly the Government But the Serbian Army itselfdens below, until Teharykoff, the was divided into mysterious clubs Russian Minister, peeping, as The Right To Combine aimed at that as an ideal, the of which he was a member fell.

popularity of William Jennings

This involved no loss to posterity, and societies, the loyalty of some years afterwards he told Bryan's famous protest against since a copy of every document is of which was gravely suspected. through the Blinds of his Lega- It is natural that the first crucifying humanity on a cross of filed at 10, Downing-street.

Colonel Dimitrievitch, com-tion opposite, at last ventured to

Un

me

aspect of the American elections gold showed that the Western The Cabinet minute is sent in manding a Serbian infantry brig-send out some of his servants to be commented upon in Hong farmer had no such prejudice.turn to each Minister for his ap-ade, once entertained me to lunch with sheets to cover them. Kong should be the possible effect If there is to be "moderate in-proval and, if necessary, correction, when I passed by his headquar After thia ghastly, event, which on foreign policy, and

more flation" than the limitation of but only one copy is preserved, teraa man of herculean build staggered and horrified the entire. particularly the foreign economic the inflationary notes by refer

Only two people in the world with stiff, cropped black hair, and world, the old Karageorgevitch.. policy, of the Government.

ence to the stock of silver bullion know the contents of all the secret the general air of robust good-fel dynasty was recalled in the per

lowship that marked so many Ser son of King Peter the great- that subject we had something in a brake which is as good as

grandson of its founder, who had They are the King and Bir bian officers. to say yesterday. The one any other. It is something papers of the post-war period. obvious result is that the Presi-visible and easily understood. Maurice Hankey, the secretary to "What was that odd ring he been living in comparative pover dent will have a freer field to with the crossrate back to five

the Cabinet.

was wearing?" I asked the staff ty and obscurity In Paris. It work in, and a stronger backing dollars to the pound it may per-

officer, who was with me after-was his son, Alexander, who fell Henceforth it may be taken for haps be inferred that the motive granted that whatever the policy for further inflation by the pur-

wards. "It is part of his insignis at Marseilles, having succeeded us Chief of the Black Hand," was his father on the throne in 1921. may be it is more likely to be chase of silver will cease to act.

King Alexander had had `an his own; there is no indication

the reply. "Colonel Dimitrievitch was one of the party of officers elder brother, George, who suf that he is the sort of man who

who shot King Alexander and fered. however, from such an un- Queen Drage in 1908."

controllable tendency towards acts of violence that he was call-

The

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"Profound. Obsession” Three months later that same ed on to renounce his rights of Colonel Dimitrievitch, and sever. auccession.

Hardly had Prince Alexander dollar al other Serbian officers of senior

Second Salesman: "I'm from New

Your Daily Smile! "Anthony Adverse" is to be filmed But there is one question that will a sessos ticket be required? will hide behind political exi-has probably done more than any gencies to avoid responsibility, other to mark this election as a But as to the colour of his own turning point in American social: Eva: "My father is to tall he can views on the encouragement of life, the fight for "collective bar-look over the garden fence."

In every industrial his hat on."

Mabel: "So can mine, when he's got foreign trade there is singularly gaining " little in his published speeches to country, England, Germany, Bel-

Industrial What America needs The gium, Japan, the guide our expectations. Secretary of State has not been Revolution has followed, though which will be not so much. eiantle au rank, were shot by sentence of a found himself destined to his court-martial for plotting against country's crown than the gravest quite so reticent; and if he was with different intervals, much it will be adhesice.

the life of their Prince-Regent on responsibilities began to accumu In the first

Truth In Advertising speaking with authority there is the same course.

First Salesman: I'm from New one of his visits to the Front. late on ble still young shoulders.

The War Years' reason to hope for a return to rush of development every em-

"He (the Prince-Regent) known One ployee starts with the hope that York and I manufacture Persian rugs. more liberal principles. difficulty is that, whatever may he will some day himself employ Where do you come from and what he will be murdered some day," 1 His father, King Peter, was old was told by one of his staff who jand feeble. In 1912 and 1919 the be the case in an agricultural others. There is more room for in your specialty ?". country ambitious to foster all factories and businesses; York, too. I 'make genuine antiques had his confidence. "It is a pro- First and Second Balkan "Wazs found obsession with him, quite started: Serbia upon that career secondary industries, in a deve-demand is daily growing and

independently of the prophecies of gradual expansion which, at is inadequate.. loped country such as the United supply

to the same effect made by read the cost of terrible suffering and sacrifice, has raised her from an States the old-fashioned Adam wage-earner looks at his pay with

jers of the future." Smith laws work automatically the divided thought of how he without respect of

would like to pay more as well as persons,

death has indced haunted not tion of one of the most important though their statement has an whether he would like to receive

King Alexander alone but his countries of Central Europe. (Continued on Page 11.) unfortunate appearance to the more. As businesses expand and

whole lineage. Assassination and unréflective person of being in plant becomes more costly the some way less patriotic than chance of individual competition

conspiracy have accompanied its fortunes from the first their denial. Only an exception-lessens, and men begin

The first of the Karageorgevitch ally strong President could brave recognise that they will probably.

dynasty was a national leader the hullabaloo that would be sure be wage-receivers all their life.

against the Turkish tyranny, to be raised by the interested The wage is then only looked at

which then held the whole of pre- parties who identify prosperity from the one point of view of

getting as much as possible. That the local junior school cur- sent-day Jugoslavia ander ita with high prices.

English employers who have riculum needed considerable over-yoke. From 1806 to 1818 he set The domestic controversies that become used to negotiating with hauling, was the opinion expressed up a precarious independence of have influenced votes are mucha Union, and have actually grown by Mr. W. L. Handyside, MA, the Turks, and he and his des more difficult to discover, with an to prefer that method as saving Headmaster of the Ellis Kadoorie cendents were recognised as the electorate of thirty millions and the bother of individual bargain School, in his report at the annual rightful rulers of Serbia by the the complications introduced by ing, have been amazed at the prize-giving held in the school hall National Council in 1808. the division into States; the bitterness with which members yesterday,US

But the Turks came back and divergence between East, Middle of any general Trade Union have "The junior school curriulum rival Serb. leader, Milos Ohreno-Causeway Bay, is to receive the title

to

ELLIS KADOORIE SCHOOL

Annual. Prize Giving Held Yesterday

MR. GR. SAYER, PRESENTS. PRIZES

The grim proximity of violent obscure Balkan State to the post-

HONOUR FOR FRENCH MOTHER SUPERIOR

Chev. Legion d'Honneur For Rev. Mother Paul

CEREMONY ON TUESDAY

The Rev. Mother Paul, Mother. Superior of St Paul's Hospital,

of Chevaller Ce la Legion d'Honneur," West, and West; the farmere been regarded by their friends should not be determined by the vitch, to obtain the tolerance of rebellion against the urban capi- in the States.

which is being bestowed by the The "Company curriculum requirements of the the Sultan for his claim to admin French Government for her very de- talist the sectional divisions Union" is merely trifling with the senior school, but by the provision ister. the country, had the Brat voted service in hospital work for between immigrants of different question. The ratlier timid it makes to satisfy the urge for Karageorge killed in his sleep and over 86 years. race; it would be too much to ex: compromises of the past twelve

pect that even the best informed months have only shown how growth. The inclusion or exclusion his head sent to Constantinople.

of certain branches of knowledge

The ceremony will take place on

be

spectator could do more than deep is the fissure. If the Demo- and certain forms of skill will be Destiny Reaches Chimar Tuesday at St. Paul's Convent, make an intelligent guess. Only erats become identified with the determined by this criterion, by the This political murder had its Causeway Bay, which adjoins the this is fairly obvious that the principle of free combination, contribution they make to effective counter-part Afty years later, Hospital, at 9.45 a.m., and President's own personality has and the Republicans oppose it living in the present, not by refer when Karageorge partisans assas performed by His Excellency Rear done more than any other man old party tics will be burst

ence to future needs whether acade-sinated the son of Milos Obreno Admiral Richard Commander of

vitch, who had succeeded his the French Naval forces" in recent years to unite sections asimder. In a fight of men mic or utilitarian, he said. that have usually been at logger-versus money in a land that has

The Rev. Mother Paul served for The prizes were distributed by father on the berbian throne, East lekkane beads. In the "Solid South, the manhood suffrage, numbers com- GR., Sayer, Director of Educa- But it is only within Living repeal of Prohibition did some-petently led are bound to win. Mr. Go bere by Dice on the plate memory that the bloody destiny eight years in the hom

thing to break up the old clear lines of party, but the election of negro Democrat to the House of Representatives is indeed ā

Chung hai, China's Judge portent In the farming States

the International Court of Justice, of the Weat no doubt the mone The Hugue, returned to Shanghai tisation of silver has had a big from Poining yesterday.

form with the Headmaster were Mr, of the monarchs who rule at Bel and was then tran AR. Satherland (Inspector of Eng-grade has reached its climax An where, she passed

exander, hadpital work, helping Obronovitch Hish Schools F. Jde Rome

Fron endmaster of Queen's College) succeeded

W. Kay(Headmaster of of 18 on the father, whose

King's College)

rope as a boy unfortunate

on of his came to Hong Kong vate life had been for 10 years.y