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EX-KING'S PRIVATE FORTUNE;-

ExKing Prajadhipok is not likely

WHERE EAST AND

WEST DO MEET

SIAM'S FRIENDLY AND CHARMING PEOPLE

to And himself in financial strafts MUTUAL RACE EQUALITY WORKS

owing to his abdication.

He sacrifices a Civil List of about |6900,000 a year, but his personal fortune, I hear, is unaffected.Y It is estimated at £1,000,000,00 Until 1926, the year following King Prajshippk's accession, rulers of Siam had no Civil List..

PERFECTLY

(By Patrick Balfour)

IAM is somehow whimsical la effected on a basis of mutual country whimsical by repute racial equality, Siam was never an

As absolute monarche, they because of its association with underdog nation, and to-day she dipped into the Treasury according twins, cats, limericks and white preserves a sturdy independence be to their requirements. These might elephants, but whimsical also in fact tween the imperial possessions of be anything up to 2500,000 a year because the traveller here, as in Great Britain on the one hand and

The fixing of the Royal Civil Wonderland, encounters nothing that of France on the other. List at the equivalent of £300,000 is altogether expected. It is impossible not to be struck was part of the general scheme of For instance, he finds no roads; by this atmosphere of independence economy under which the number but at one end of the scale canals the moment you set foot in the coun- of Court officials was drastically and water ways providing the sole try and very refreshing it is. For reduced.

means of communication, and at the once you are neither a sahib nor a The ex-King and Queen of Stam other, entirely skipping an era of tuan, nor a big white chief of any are hoping to make their new home transport, the most luxurious ser-denomination, but simply a jolly at Nyon, on the Lake of Geneva.

vice of wagon:lit expresses in the sort of human being with a different East, drawn by the latest Diesel en-complexion from the normal. gines.

No "Complexes"

ISSUING HIS OWN PASSPORT

He finds an aerodrome with three ~

Lord Curzon, as Foreign Secret Weekly services to Europe, but no The Siamese are a bright, friend- ary, issued a passport to himself, road to it. He finds one section of ly little race, quick-witted, full of Mr. Herold Nicolson, who was then the population living in floating life and invariably good company.

Norah's Arks, and the other... in Nowhere else in the East could his Private Secretary, on their journey to the Lausanne Confer palaces composed, to all intents and such an institution as the Bangkok ence took charge of the party's purposes, only of innumerable and Sports Club exist. A magnificently

appointed place, with tennis brilliantly-coloured roofs.. passports,

desiring to solve a problem which He finds names which are spelt in squash courts, a swimming pool, a had often assailed me, namely thing quite else. (I met, for instance to Europeans and Siamese allke

one way and pronounced as some golf course and even a racecourse of its own, it throws open its door whether Lord Curzon made out

a Prince Gadadharabhod who as a passport for himself.

George Nathaniel," and then his

space.

and

"It was there all right-Wenounced Katatawn). He finds a it ever occur to elther that such sured me that his name was pro-and even to half-castes. Nor would discovery by the general public name written again in the blak business community of such polyglot eclecticism was at all extraordinary. of the fact that the variations in

nationality and religion as to ob- Colour-consciousness is virtually, the value of their money are not Mr. Nicolson was amused at this serve no fewer than 20 Bank Hell- unknown in Stam. The Siamese Hong Kong, Saturday, April 6, 1995. caused by any law of Nature, but evidence of what he calls "oficial days in the year, excluding Sundays, suffers neither from racial in

by certain definite persons. and Narcissism".

He finds that the white elephant feriority nor from its obverse ail- by voluntary actions which could

is pink, my son.

ment, that truculent, self-conscious easily be restrained. While the

But above all, he finds a country "I'm as good as you are superiority cost of an ounce of gold in New

where East is West and West is so common In the East. York is fixed by law; the Presi

East and the two (or perhapë he

Here one sighs at the thought of": should say "the twain) meet all the Anglo-Indian clubs of Bombay and Calcutta, and is tempted to the conclusion that East and West are

The Sterling Fund Vote

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To-day's Worst,

Sturdy Independence

A vote of 418,119 dollars in dent has the option of raising it. Our sympathy goes out to the connection with the depreciation by another ten per cent, and this burglar who thought he was twirl-the time. of sterling, which was approved. by the Finance Committee after leaves an uncertainty which ing the knobs of a safe and found by the Finance Com Legislative neutralises the advantage that that he had tuned in a dance band. It is indubitably this latter temperamentally incompatible only Counell last Thursday, may well might be conferred on trade by

phenomenon which has contributed on a basis of social inequality." cause a certain amount of be- fixed value; also if an alterna-

In some measure to Slam's present Free from the compulsion to sb.. "Arab" hats are the latest fash-little political difficulties. On the sorb European culture, the Siamese wilderment to others than the live payment in gold be bargain- Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall who such a contract, could be enforc-sidered very shiek...

ed for, there is no assurance that fon for women. They are con other hand, it is as indubitably the Proceed to absorb it with avidity. asked for further informationed in a Court of Law. The con-

case that of all Oriental countrica population of Bangkok the Danes Among the cosmopolitan-commercial. It is, of course, only a bookkeep sequence is that the price of an It'a all. bunk to say K man congruous compromise between the war. /predominate over other Europeans. ing entry, and does not imply any ounce of gold in Paris is three get along by just letting things ring elements of the two. But it is to Great Britain that the expenditure or loss of money, and shillings higher, as represented slide. Consider

country turns for educational In- spheres.

spiration: Its schools, are run "on" Easterner meets Westerner in English lines and English is its Slam in the happiest manner. Pos-

second language. Siamese princes sibly this is because the introduction at Eton are a commonplace. They

are no strangers, either, to the Bri SHEKLUNG LEPERS'

tish Navy

East And West

Ebe trombone

it is made according to Treasury in the franc exchange. It might player. regulations under which the be thought that this would lead value of sterling balances has

people to refrain from buying Loud Noises. been written up during prefranes; but that tendency was

Well, maybe America did invent vious years. Nonetheless it 18 a quaint reminder of the insub-neutralised by a rush panicky the, saxophone. But Britain in stantial nature of the financial people who had funds in London vented plus fours. fabric as far as our surplus funds to transfer money to Paris In-

Just That

she has achieved the least: Incon-

FUND

With the English language and education, the Siamese acquire Eng

Further Bridge & Whist sh tastes, notably a love of sport.

Drives To Be Held

There are several golf courses in the country, besides that at Bangkok;

are concerned. The plain mahcidentally this short-lived panic DOMESTIC TRAGEDY naturally wonders why in a fin-15 interesting as an example of He meant to have one drink and the use for such purposes of the get Kome at ten. He had ten ancial year, in which the rise in

new opportunities afforded by drinks and got home at one, the dollar made a nominal addi- Wireless. All the Continental tion to the Colonial revenue of) two million dollars, a half million centres drew money from London

The Sheklung lepers benefited to tennis and boxing ere popular, and should have to be written off for after a very exaggerated ver An American crooner was struck

sion on the National Wireless on the head with one of his own the extent of $236, as the result of some of the Siamese are first-rate depreciation. The fact, of which corresponds to the Eng- gramophone records. The song the successfulbridge, mahjongg and light-weight jockeys. Here is course, is that the rise in ourlish B.B.C. of, what is know as hit of the season. dollar is not entirely due to the the pepper scandal," a compara-

whist party held at St. Patrick's race very different from the lethar- Club Hall on Wednesday.

gic Malay across the border, American purchases and the con- tively small affair that was said Suburban Silhouette

It is proposed to hold a similar The quaintest instance of English sequent dearness of silver, but partly to the less obvious cause the analogy of the Stavisky dis me five minutes, sir, I can show Hall on Wednesday, May 1 com- at Bang-Pa-In, the Royal Summer to involve Cabinet Ministers on The Canvasser: If you can spare function at St. Andrew's Church induence which I saw in Slam was of the fall in the international closures; it was emphasised that you how to earn twice the money mencing at 3.30 p.m., while another Palace. Here King Chulalonkorn, purchasing power of the pound the Chancellor of the Exche you're getting sterling. The former condition

sssisted us in making payments, quer had said that "there was no the latter detracted from the immediate prospect of a return to value of the passive. funds held the gold standard,” which was {mere truism; and it was further

Personal Pars

in London. What then, so far stated that a General Election Mr. T. J. Draper, of the Standard sa Hong Kong is concernéd is meant by the depreciation of disastrous effects: The unscruby Mrs. Draper left the Colony by was pending which would have Vacuum all Company, accompanied sterling? The only answer populous inventors of these the R.M.S. Empress of Asia yes- sible is that it means that one rumours: caused fluctuations terday. pound sterling will buy leas gold which prompted the refusal of a

whist drive for the same cause will father of the abdicated Prajzdhipok,: be held on Monday April 15, at St. who visited England in Queen Vic- Patrick's Hall, Garden Road, com-toria's reign, was pleased to build mencing at 9 p.m.

himself a Buddhist, wat, or temple, but in Victorian Gothie style.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

The Buddha reposed uncomfort jably In the midst of -an, scutely." Gothic veredas of varnished maho- gany, surrounded by windows Mrs. Borrett, the wife of His crude stained glass, while the bullion. The old statutory ratio loan to Belgium that had been Mr. L S. Greenhill, former score-0. C. Borrett will make a presents-London suburban church of the

Excellency the G.O.C. Major General terior of the building was like was seventy-six shillings and arranged, and the consequent de tary of the Hong Kong Land Invest-tion of Colours to the Garrison Boy worst possible architectural epoch cightpence to the ounce, and it is valuation of Belgian currency, ment and Agency Company Limit Scouts at the Flagstaff House to-day The good suburbanite would have now one hundred and forty-five and a spreading wave of loss to ed, accompanied by Mrs. Greenhill at 8 p.m. shillings and ten pence, which is Switzerland and Italy. Never in and their two daughters were

been horrified by the adaptation of equivalent to the price in Ameri: the history of the world has it among the passengers who left the In view of the second floor being heathen usage, in a landscape where

his pet ecclesiastical style to suc can dollars and cents which been possible for a group of spe Colony by the R.M.S. Empress of engaged for the St. John Ambulance water buffaloes wallowed in ric would be given by the United culators to do so much damage Asla yesterday. ----- States Treasury, Two reflections to people that have no concern

Ball the Management of the Hong felds and sampana bore half-naked suggest themselves if we allow in their operations. It is de Mr. J. Hunter, of Messrs. Dodwell, room service will be transferred to As a rule, however, the fusion of

- Kong Hotel, advise that the grill Siamese up and down the river. ourselves to consider these plorable enough that they should and Company, Limited, left the Co-the Roof Garden to-night, East and West in Slam strikes me facts. The first is that our con- be able to inflict loss on other long by the B.IS. Empress of Asia nection with sterling is so close "gold countries, but it is absurd yesterd Y.. that we cannot get away from it that they should be able to affect and the second is that we are daily transactions in Hong Kong. only deceiving ourselves if we Vague optimism is merely ir director of imagine that we are in possession ritating. Every month transfers of an independent standard, or more power from responsible on a silver basis. We are really Governments

at one remove, just as much on dealer

gold basis as the rest of the

principle world. The nett result of all, the

quick prof unsettling experiments of the

|menta last ten years has been to put

gethe gold bullion instead of a go

held:

to

such incongruous note ad in other →A Tea Dance will be held at the Oriental countries. Bangkok is half- Mr., F. Macgregor, governing 4.30 pm half-hourly bus ser buildings in the modern German Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow at Chinese-hovels and half commercial

and

hanghai), wa

R.M.S. Empress

essrs. Caldback · Mac-vice will operate on Saturday and style. Yet it has a brisk integrity

Limited Sunday afternoona.

-passen-

by the

erday.

ACCOMES The Grand Palace

LOCAL BROADCASTING:

“In the night clubs Siamese princes

tunica and - gay coloure

dance to the

During the

tems? vester-gramTREILE

studio children