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A FAMILY OF MILLIONAIRES

Major "Archie" Morrison, who died in London recently, was at one time, like his brother, the late Mr. Hugh Morrison, an M.P., and had many other activities besides politics.

QUEEN MARIE'S LIFE STORY

INTIMATE SKETCHES OF MONARCHS

FAVOURED AND UNFORTUNATE

(By Dr. Betty Morgan)

Yet it is fair to say that there can have been few families in Eng- land which were so little known to ried to the Crown Prince of a Balkanjlittle of the Great War, and nothing the general public in comparison State during the twenty years that at all about the troubled post-war with their enormous wealth.

preceded the Great War was any-history of Roumania. But we see the clouds ominously blowing up,

TOWEVER it might appear to nation of King Ferdinand and

Major Morrison's uncle, Mr.

Charles Morrison, was only known thing but an easy life.

In the older established Courts of In Russin the Tear and his Consert as "well of" when he died in 1909 Europe it was different. The Eng-were cutting themselves adrift from at the age of 91. The sensation sh Court had a beauty "rendered the rest of the Imperial family. when death duties of £1,000,000 possible only by generations of England never showed any particu- were paid on hie estate of £11,000,- civilisation and wealth." Russia lar interest in Roumania. At Ber- 1000 can be imagined.

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DEATH DUTIES CONTRASTS

under the Tsars "was gorgequs. be-lin, William II.'s Foreign Minister yond description.. ...one felt there was short-sightedly discourteous was prodigality in all things, an un-towards King Carol, who then oe- It is interesting to speculate what calculating largeness, a certain un-cupied the Roumanian throne, and to any who was by birth and temperament figure Major Morrison's estate will derlying negligence, not rench.

waste."

an ardent supporter of the Triple

Besides the £13,000,000 of Char- But in Roumania, where a youth-Alliance... les Morrison, there were the ful English princess was married to

When the murder at Serajevo ahead, the

£3,000,000 of Miss Ellen Morrison, the Crown Prince Ferdinand, the brought things to £2,000,000,of Col. Walter Morrison, Court was new, struggling for pres- Roumanian Royal House was divid- and the £1,750,000 of Mr. Hugh tige, short of money and hedged in er against itself. King Carol and

Morrison.

It is significant of the increase

with restrictions and prohibitions.

Early Despair

in death duties that whereas the From the moment she set eyes

the Crown Prince Ferdinand were for Germany, but the Crown Prin- ceas realised that she and the

£11,000,000 estate paid £1,000,000 upon her new home Princess Marienation were one in their sympathy

with the Allies.

to the Treasury in 1909, in 1981 jover £500,000 was paid on Mr. Hugh

Morrison's estate of £1,750,000.

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"What is Philip doing these days?"

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had premonitions of trouble ahead.

Prince Carol (to-day the King),

"A feeling of utter despair came over me at the sight of the the eldest of the six children whom rooms prepared for us, and that, Queen Marie dutifully presented to into the bargain, had, I believe, her adopted country, was being been newly done up in our honour ....Let it simply be said that it antagonistic to his parents and wag German mauvais gout at its were installed against their wishes worst when it sets out to be heavy brought with it endless misery.”

an unforgivable mistake which

educated by tutors who were

and cruel; Altdeutsch und bar)

King Carol's Boyhood rococo!. My disappointment and disillusionment actually Carol, says his mother, "grew up amounted to physical pain. I felt steady. rather' stolid, easy to man- my already heavy heart sink uge, and had from all times an He lower and lower, till I wondered urge towards information.

Hearnt to read with astonishing if it would ever end sinking." Sorrows certainly came, but so, rapidity. In his early years he was good-humour. after many long years, did a moment all sunshine and Running a branch business' of complete exaltation, when the Later he became just a little "But who on earth buys bran-newly crowned queen heard her pedantic.

"At the age of three or four he ** people cry "Regina Maria! ches?

and knew that she had won." "that would march with a tipy sword.

at the head of the soldiers when... Straightened Out the stranger, the girl who had come Stranger: "When does the 5:15 from over the seas, was a stranger

the guard was changing, solomn-.. ly certain that he was in com leave?"

Trainman: "At a quarter past five."no more. I was theirs with every

mand, or he would stand in the Stranger: "Thanks! I get all mix-drop of my blood."

middle of the band, beside the ed up over this changing of time." The tale of this slow development

of a personality, told against the bandmaster, a little stick in hand, with the utmost The Wrong Slant

background of-a Europe "stendily imitating

carnestness that important gen- "My husband had a job designing striding. towards the precipice, modernistie furniture, but he has been makes

of tleman's every gesture, the Becond volume let out."

Queen Marie of Roumania's "Story alant on of My Life," published to-day by Cassell (185), a book of outstanding ¡interest.

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"What happened?" "Oh he had the wrong things.".

of the country that must be As the ship was about to leave' improved, but in the decline of the harbour an old lady was knit- foreign markets the Empire has ting on deck. "Cast off there." shout- loping closer commercial rela-

"Thank you, officer," said the old tions.

lady tartly, but I am quite cap-| One satisfactory tendency in able of doing my own knitting." the September trade is that while jexports expanded by well over a million and a half, as compared September touched the highest with September of last year, the point of the year in the export importa were almost precisely of British goods. The Board of the same for the two months. Trade returns for that month add To that extent the balance of to, the many indleations from trade, which has tended to grow, nther quarters that Great Britain is reduced. Some improvement is surely emerging from the most of her exchange as against the acute depression ever experi-countries that are still on gold enced. There are also measures should follow. The gain in ex- of increasing confidence in the ports affects almost every section countries that are her customers. of her industries, while most con- Trade agreements have done spicuous in iron and steel, in mpeh to improve the situation, vehicles, machinery, wool manu- but helpful as these are they factures, chemicals and coal, could not have bettered markets,Over the eight months of the even within the Empire, had year the improvement Teaches a Such there not been greater prosperity total of over £20,500,000. among those to whom they sell.figures are the best justification that could be afforded of the The benefits of agreements are; illustrated in the figures of the policy that the National Govern- growth of the exports to Den-ment has followed in stimulating

trade. Fortunately they mark during the first six months!

Weekly dinner dances at the Re-Probably no other member of a of this year.

To that country, accompanied by even greater im- British exports increased by provement in that internal mar pulse Bay Hotel, the rendez-vous of European Royal family has written ket,which, inasmuch as it is vast-the smarter set; will be commenced about his or her experiences with £700,000 in the first six months of the present year.

The in- larger, must always be the this coming Saturday, following the so much gusto, detail, and humour. first consideration of those who successful appeal made by patrons. The Queen is there, but the woman creases to the countries within

are responsible for national com

keeps breaking through. And as the British Empire are still more

mercial policy.

Miss D. Yeung, of No. 102,Queen Marle is an exceptionally notable. Over the same six-

Waterloo Road,, was fined $10 for attractive woman her autobiography| month period Africa bought more!

allowing her dog to wander un-makes excellent reading. from Britain by three and a

The astonishing menage found at muzzled in Cumberland Road at 1.30- quarter milllons sterling, Canada]

the Bucharest Court is painted with ip.m. on November 1...

Not for nothing was she a grand-much dexterity. Carmen Sylva was by two millions, Australia by a million and three-quarters, New

daughter of Queen Victoria and a an original All the anecdotes-told- For stealing a spanner from 4 descendant of the Tsars. A hard of hersome of them very amusing Zealand by £700,000, and India

Sanitary Inspector, Mr. J. C. Pons-core of stubbornness lay behind her have the authentic stamp of by half a million. From all these

ford, and a cottan quilt from his high spirits, apparent frivolity, and eccentricity. Her husband, King countries within the Empire Britain .ncreased her imports. Į

amah, Wong Leung, a 24-year-old incurable romanticism. Old Peter Carol, was the model of an efficient. made unemployed, was sentenced to 12 Carp was one of the first to realise passionless, politica-ridden German The beneft was in no case one-

An expulsion order was against Nawab Singh, an unem weeks hard labour by Mr. E. W-this. sided.

"I have no anxiety about ruler. He had his nephew Ferdin played India watchman, who ap- Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy your future," he told her at a time and completely under his thumb, Through these figures can be peared before Mr. W. Schofield at this morning,

when few others in Roumania took but his niece was made of sterner traced a marked change in the the Central Magistracy this morn-

that view.

stuff.

ROAMING INDIAN EXPELLED

aro

Possessed No Passport For Colony

| relative importance of her maring, charged with entering the

keta.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Thi

Queen Marie puts herself into every word that she writes.

'Her book is bursting with vitality.

Divided Royal House

This volume ends with the Coro

"But this over-military little fellow was a trial to his sisters"; the tyrant slumbered within him, and as his games were modelled. upon State institutions and mili- tary restrictions, he naturally hampered their fun."

"He would, for instance, set up a Customs House in the middle of the corridor "where" his sisters- were tearing about with their horses and toy carts; he would insist upon taxes being paid, thereby curtailing their liberty und causing endless scenes of revolt and indignation."

Pleading guilty to a charge of The foreign customer is Colony without a valid passport. tearing off and stealing a brass sign

There are sketches of Roumanian Ministers and visiting. Monarchs: becoming a factor of less impor Sergeant Russell stated that deplate from the wall of No. 438, tance; exchanges of goods within fendant came to the Colony in Nathan Road, ground floor, Wong

Ion Bratians, rising to power as the the circle of the Empire are September, and made an applies Ping, a 36-year-old unemployed was The 8.8. Carthage is due here old King was. losing his grip on

affairs. Jean Duca "the world.. rapidly increasing. In the firstition to the Police for registration sentenced to two months hard from Shanghai at 9 p.m. to-night eight months of the present year which was refused. Defendant labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at and will berth at the Kowloon wharf. as a stage to him, and he prefer the Empire absorbed British then went to Canton for a few the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-

red the great actors." Franz goods to the value of £116,000 days, and from there to Macaying.

The LB, Nankin left Manila to-day Joseph of Austria, coming as an old 1000, while a value of £138,000,000 where he was employed as a

and is due here on Saturday at man to Bucharest, greatly to the went to other markets. The gap watchman for a while.

joy of King: Carol, whose one re Sentence of three months hard 6 a.m. between the two sets of figures

gret was that he could not get the On Sunday he came back to the labour was imposed on Li Fong, a is lessening with every year, and Colony and told the Police that a 25-year-old unemployed, who was Wong Yu-tal, a Chinese woman, Kaiser William II. to follow suit. by present Indications it will not friend in the Colony promised to charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton was sent to the Kowloon Hospital Ferdinand of Bulgaria, a witty old be long before more than hallsend him money to buy a ticket at the Kowloon Magistracy this yesterday, suffering from effects of cynie, whose meetings..with King- the British exports are destined for Shanghala

for countries under the British fing. The same change of ten- dency is shown in the countries

from which Britain draws her raw materials. Imports from

Empire countries recorded a

SCENE AT CENTRAL MAGISTRACY

residing at No. 147 Kwel Lin Street, top floor.

morning with stealing a number of immersion caured from an acciden Carol must have, been high comedy in the French style. Then the tools from a motor-cycle, belonging tal fall from the Yaumati Ferry.

Duke of Edinburgh, a curiously de- to Chan Wing-hong, a Chinese clerk

For preparing opium, at No. 128, tached, figure, inclined to snort Portland Street, second floor, Cheung good-humouredly at the peculiari Heung was fined $250, in default ties of his daughter's adopted - Nine Chinese surrendered their three months' imprisonment, by Mr. country.

Tsar And Tsaritza bail when they failed to appear be-E W Hamilton, at the Kowloon will not pay the fine, I have fore Mr. B. W. Hamilton at the Magistracy this morning. of her overseas trade is under no food to eat." shouted Wong Kowloon Magistracy this morning. going change, and industry In Cheung in the Central Police All were charged with gambling at adapting Itself to new customers: Court where he was charged with No. 84, Halphong Road last night woollen jersey, and

growth over the first six months of this year of more than £13.- 000,000. The whole orientation|

Hawker's Protest

The figures Indicate that the day hawking without a license in

la far distant when they can tinger Street's yester

Ignore the market outside the He was fired: 50 cen Empire. For the full prosperity Q. A. Macfadyen.

Charged with the theft

The first defendant, Chan Shul, who bags, Leung Shum was sen

also charged with keeping the one month's hardl

is on ball of $30, while the A: A. Macfadyen ght wore on 38 bail each.

agistracy, this morn

The Coronation of the Tear" Nicholas II and his wife,” whic

of one Queen Marie attended, is vividly gunny contrasted with the Coronations of King George V. and King Edward VII. Queen Marie, always regarded the Tearitza as a femme fata

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