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| PRINCE'S SECRETARY MINISTER

Mr. Hugh Lloyd Thomas. former private secretary of the Prince of Wales, is one of For tune's favourites.

A daring amateur steeplechase rider, he has narrowly escaped; breaking his neck on more than {one occasion.:

QUEEN WILHELMINA OF HOLLAND CHARACTER STUDY OF

GREAT PERSONALITY

WOULD HAVE BEEN DESPOT IN FORMER DAYS-

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(By Herbert Antcliffe)

DEEN WILHELMINA rules farther in the allowances and "

an Empire Nearly reductions she has made than After six years with the Prince 60,000,000 subjects know her as they themselves would have of Wales, he now returns to di- a remarkable woman and, above asked. She has also given

much to the various crisis....... plomacy with the rank of British all, & remarkable” Queen..

Behind her she has the tradi- funds, and has returned to the Minister in Paris. “V

His promotion has been auto-tion of centuries and the train-Government a proportion of the matic. He was a First Secretary ing from her early youth by her allowance fixed by the Constitu when he joined the Prince. He mother, the late Queen Emma, tion as the stipend of the rein-

Yet these would be small ing Sovereign. - was promoted Counsellor soon.

A Gesture afterwards. Latterly he was matters were it not that she is

Realising that her family, at the head of the Counsellors loved and respected by all

classes and parties for herself now reduced only to herself List.

Queen Wilhelmina's one and her daughter, are well pro-- He should do well in Paris. He is a good "mixer with a wide object in life is to be a mother vided for in other ways, she is experience of men and affairs to her people, and, as every con- now going a step farther, and He knows some Turkish and Ara-scientious mother must she has proposed to the Govern bic, and has served in Constan- demands respect as well as ment that among the changes love, while sometimes she has which are to be made in the tinople, Rome and Madrid.

to do things that her people- Constitution one should be the- her children-do not at the formal and permanent reduc- moment relish. It goes with thon of this allowance.

Unlike most autocrats. she

LORD MOYNE'S EXPEDITION

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Lord Moyne has made all pre-out saying that, in spite of the parations for a novel expedition. limitations of her authority by prefers to have round her This month he will set cut in the Constitution, which, so far strong men who have their own his luxury yacht Rosaurs, which as the Sovereign is concerned, views, with whom she was converted out of a Channel is much the same as the Con- argue and whom she can come steamer, and which, incidentally, stitution of the United King- vince or by whom she can be

an convinced costs him approximately £75,000 dom, she is more or less

Fer favourite statesman was a year, for New Guines.

Her Answer

for many years the late Mon- The expedition is

signor Nolens, a Catholic pre- pleasure cruise. He is going in Had she been born at any late of democratic views and

mere

autocrat.

The China Mail rejoined "I cannot bring myself search of a mysterious, if not my other period of the world's his with a character as unbending to be afraid of a man who has thical, white race in the interior. tory, or had she ruled over as her own. That in religious modelled bis life on the life of He has already collected a num-Russia or Persia, Queen Wilhelmatters they were entirely remarkber of flat-bottomed boats for mins would almost certainly opposed was to her, a deeply John Wesley.”

have been a despot, but she religious Calvinist, no objec Hong Kong. Tuesday, October 22, 1935 could more clearly illustrate the river travel.

The expedition will include as would have been a beneficent tion whatever to his appo dovetailing of the social classes of England, which alone makes zoologist Mr. Anthony Chaplin, despot.

ment as her chief political As a young woman she was adviser. It much, if not all, of the Con- the son of Lord Chaplin. He has

was a real dis- sental theorising about capital- already made a reputation as a even something of a martinet, appointment to her that he Honourable Arthur Henderson to English conditions. Without bring back specimens of the rare story gives an instance. She of Prime Minister.

The death of the Right ists and proletariat inapplicable painter of birds. He hopes to of which a well-authenticated would not accept the position.

Arthur Henderson

The

Jesse Owens, the world's human, was married last You see, men, it's no use.

see the big man..

Like most royal personages she is an excellent linguist and

and her entourage were attend- removes from the British Par-being a rich man himself, Mr.New Guinea gibbon ape.

ing a review of the troops. liamentary scene not only a Henderson had the control of

Your Daily Smile! which started at four o'clock in familiar figure but a very repre- large Trade Union and Benent

the morning. Society Funds, and was not at sentative politician of a type

Prompt to the minute the can meet not only most Euro much less common now than a all likely to look at schemes of

fastest Court arrived at the place where Peans but also her East Indian generation ago. the working confiscation with favour.

month the review should take place subjects on their own ground man who found entry into pub In another aspect his career

Two minutes later the General by talking to them in their own language. In this matter she lic life through office in the was thoroughly English

The important-looking young man Officer Commanding arrived: Trades Unions, who looked at attitude of his party generally

With a cold unrecognising observes the etiquette of Court public questions entirely from was ope of suspicion of the just down from Cambridge con- the point of view of the skilled country's foreign policy, and descended to carry on a conversation stare the young Queen remark life very strictly.

the general's Not long ago the wives of the workman, and believed honestly discouragement of all defensive the office boy while waiting to ed, in reply to

"Do you think there is likely to be excnses. that she had no use British and French Ministers that the greatest boon he could measures either by refusing THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION confer upon his country was to essential supply, or by opposing an opening here for University for an officer who arrived two were received, after the pre-

The paradoxical man?" he asked.

minutes after the time, and sentation of their husbands protect and if possible raise the recruitment.

plan was adopted of making him

There soon will be if they don't without more ado the man was credentials, by her Majesty in wages of his own class.

dismissed from his post and private audience. Both, of Born in Glasgow, his educa- Foreign Secretary, so that he ise my screw," was the reply.

another appointed.

course, were familiar with each Obviously Fallacious tion was that of the hardy and could examine the files for him-

Her interest in the Army and other's language, so that the practical curriculum which has sex, and meet the men whose

"Have you

good biography?" Navy has always been of a conversation might have been in either. The Queen, however, given so many thousands of his difficult job aroused so much

practical nature. class the opportunity to raise Criticism. Not only that: he said the minister at the bookstore.

Yes, indeed, sir,” replied the clerk. There is something splendid would have nothing of this, themselves in the industrial and was appointed, while he held the ve

in this lonely woman's cour-and whenever she spoke to the commercial world, without in-office, as Chairman of the Dis- Preacher

armament Commission at

"Perhaps you misunderstood me ageous attitude to life. Her Frenchwoman it was in French spiring them with any of those

"I never read husband, Prince Hendrick, died and to the Englishwong in hankerings after art or litera-Geneva, and when he has not insisted the minister

last year. Their only child, English.

- With all this, while Queen ture which might hamper the only lost his official position, fetion.

Princess Juliana; is now her ambition to rise in the world but even failed to get elected to

mother's inseparable

com-Wilhelmina, never ceases to be Such wider interests as he im-Parliament, he was enabled to

panion bibed came to him later when retain his Chairmanship on the the railroad What sort of position he was a moulder at Newcastle theory that the appointment is and began to make a name for might be considered to be per- himself as a Wesleyan local sonal The long discussions, lasting eight years, produced no preacher:

result whatever. Only the

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WORLD CHESS:

TITLE

Dutch Champion. Now Two Games Behind

***CHINA MIU # SPECIAL

Amsterdam, To-day Dutch chess champion:

The

Hague rode out in an open. carriage, practically unattend- ed through the crowded streets) ved" a large grass plain which, to the equally crowded "Malio-

when not in use as a military Enbr scored his second victory in exercise ground, serves as an his world championship matc excellent playground for chil=|agaidat Dr. Alekine when the lat-- dren and adults.

Fear if she feels it, she con- ceals with the spirit of a heroine When, in 1918, inci-, His type is almost unknown Washington Conference had any

pient rioting had already taken Well, is this hut enough for you?"place, her Majesty, to test the on the Continent of Europe, effect in limiting armaments, asked the Ethiopian, as he ushered loyalty of the people at The where leaders of the wage and he had nothing to do with his bride into their new house" earning class are almost in-that. But the political effect in variably secularist or actively England was very great anti-Christian, and may be said The Labour Party were edu- to make a religion of ideals of cated up to two discoveries that equality and communal use of they would never have accepted wealth that are almost necesat the hands of any other party: sarily revolutionary, and in-The first was that the foreign volve a great deal of abstract problems were genuine pro- argument in which the old blems and not invented by fashioned Trades Union Leader Jingo diplomatists. The second was apt to lose his head and was proclaimed at the recent show himself at a disadvantage. Hastings Conference, that for Hence the bitter contempt ex-eign statesmen will only listen pressed by such a letter as the to arguments that are backed famous dispatch by Zinovieff by a reserve of physical force that did more than anything and therefore the Navy, Army else to lose a general election and Air Force mast which might quite well have strong, even in the interests gone in favour of the Labour peace. Parry

The good-natured, rotund. Secretary of the English Labour Party, who was universally known as Uncle Arthur would have been quite incapable! of writing such a letter Quite probably he never

thought sọ scidly, of,

the Bolshevist

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