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BRITAIN AND EGYPT

Negotiations For A Treaty

Cairo, Today.

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The Empire's Loss

Many Deaths Reported From All Parts

THE KING AS A MAN

RAISED THE LEVEL OF

PUBLIC LIFE

That staunch Imperialist, Sir INFLUENCE OF CHARACTER FELT

his interest in world affairs is as i keen as ever.

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the Editor, and be accompanied by on the subject of an Anglo-Abe Bailey, was seventy-one re- the Writer's Name and Address Egyptian Treaty. The reply cently

readiness immediate Ht can look back on a life fally

Doctrinaires have at times assert-the throne, but from a new and |not necessarily for insertion; but expresseR

ed that under constitutions" somewhat different viewpoint. ly to enter into negotiations for lived (as a guarantee of good faith-

He can be satisfied with the pre monarchy the personality of the "The more I see of King George. treaty with Eppt-Reuter

sent, for the recent boun in gold monarch matters little or nothing said Colonel House, the more I -The-American observer INTENSE COLD IN has made him as rich as he ever As a theory, this may appear to be like him.

has been at any time in his career. a tenshie proposition. But in there pays honour to human, not AMERICA

Els can look forward to the practice things are far otherwise.dynastic, values. future with confidence for his No unworthy figure could have sus General Smuts, another commen egy is scarcely impaired and tained with success the kingly role tator well capable of the detached Britain today. No mere view, who has often found the fit- nonenity could win, through his ting phrase for ennobbing themes. position alone, such individual re- said last year in London: "I some gard as was felt for King George by times wonder whether Britons suf- New York. Today, A PARLIAMENTARY RECORD

millions of his subjects, such ac-ficiently appreciate the priceless Over 100 deaths have been caus

clamations as invariably attended blessing they possess in the Royal Sir Abe, is a man who enjoys life his public occasions..

House. The King is an example to King George V had made ed by the Arctic weather all over OF DISTINCTION. {himself so familiar to his people the country, 58 of which have oc-because he has never had time to A striking combination of charac, every man and woman in the Em

teristics brought this about. In pire. He has raised the level of not only by his conduct of the cured in motor accidents owing be bored

He sits on the board of 31 diflustrating the many ways some public life and has set a standard high position to which he was to the appalling road conditions. called, but by the personal con- The intense cold, snowstorms, and ferent companies, and is chairman of them open and obvious, some of in a manner for which Britons can-

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them subtle, but none the less real, not be sufficiently grateful. It is tact of his annual wireless tornadoes continue-Beater.

Ho races. He watches cricket in which His Majesty's personal a Steat thing at a time of such. messages which brought his

At the moment he is shagrbed by qualities, instinctive or acquing heart-searching unsettlement that very voice to every part of the

the Abyssinian question and by influenced for, the better the come we have at our bead a truly wise, Empire, that there is very little

the danger of arming African na-of national events, any ter has humble, and modest man who pours out his soul day and night for to be said about our common

tives, a subject on which he holds an easy task..

the people. loss except to say that just as

Mr. Bryce Lockhart tells, m his strong views. he himself alluded to "my great

Only recently a distinguished He lives in great style in his adventurous autobiography Es Australian prelate, the that

Horan family" an expression

house in Bryanston-square, has one cape from Glory," how the KX Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane. in would have sounded forced in

of the best cooks in London, and received him on his return from

answer to certain unworthy detrac the mouth of any earlier

Russia King George," he says, ons, stated: "I believe the British loves to entertain his friends. Soverign so the loss resembles the sense of a void in a family The Senate has passed the ex-. In a full career he is proudest had read every telegram and every long worth to its own peo circle when the head of the servicemen's Bonus Bill, provid-of the fact that he is the only man despatch on the Russian situation ples and to the world canot be household has been taken awaying full payment of the bonus in living who has been a member of and showed a remarkable underestimated in money.

Born in the middle sixties heaby Bonds" which may be con-all three South African Parlia-tanding both of the causes belonged to the central genera-verted into cash. Senator Neely's ments the old Cape. Parliament the possible exception of Reign That Began Amid tion of Victorians that grew up amendment calling for payment the Transvaal Parliament and the Milner, he was better informed, and in an atmosphere of stability new currency was rejected: present Union Parliament. and assured prosperity that The B now retaris to the

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Your Daily Smile!"

effects of the revolution.

Gathering Clouds

lof trade, a reduction of ta-original Bill passed on January The young man had just proposed a man, an expert on Russian st`imonarch. In addition to the grow

tion, and a balance carried for-10.

"No!" she replied. Speedy acceptance by the times no

"Well, don't rub it in." he ward to the purchase and can-House is expected, though it is

* * cellation of the national debt, not known whether Presidented. "I asked you only once."

satte Regular which was one fifteenth of its Roosevelt will sign the bill present amount, and consisted Reuter. chiefly of the sweet simplicity:

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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

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better documented about Beskis than any of his Ministers..

King George ascended the Throne His Many-sided Knowledge - at a season of great difficulty, and There we have the testimony was from the first a much-harassed

"A thousand ters, who found that the King couldling anxiety caused by the trend of meet him on his own ground. foreign affairs, the United Kingdom retortOthers made the same discovery in was rent by dissensions unusually relation to other subjects widely fierce. First, the dispute between differing in character. In all such the two Houses of Parliament, and atten cases we discern the most contin-then the menace of civil war m-Ire- cing proof. given not for public of land-these were formidable pro-

confront.

untried of the three per cents.” and ajold landmarks have been swepti #Yes, she hasn't missed the Easter (fect, but in a private-and informablemos, to

manner, of an intimate acquain-sovereign, who, it was well known. section of terminable annuities. way. The old-fashioned fan-service for twenty years!

tance with international affairs, not had approached his high position, as A Double Mistake LADIES WRIST WATCH IS EXCLUSIVE Money is not everything in any ly life, of which the King's own

A passenger on an American train, merely on the surface, but far be a duty rather than as a pleasure.

low.

Never was duty better perform- APPEARANCE society, but a regular growth household has been such a good

upen looking under his berth in the IN DESIGN, DAINTY IN

Tributes That Ring True ed. In those troublous times the AND UNIQUE IN ITS DEPENDABILITY of prosperity does create a feel example, has been made the butt

The finest of the many tributes King played an earnest and concil ing of complacency which is of of endless criticiser in a mood morning found are black shoe and (all characteristics the least of rebellion that may only be a one tan shoe. He called the porter's AND PRECISION.

tolerable to the generation that passing phase but certainly attention to the eror. The porter offered to King George are those liatory part, revealing to the leaders shows as yet no signs of abate scratched his woolly head in bewhich have been paid, not to the of all parties an unsuspected grasp

wilderment.

official head of the nation, but to of realities. Then came the cats- is called "Georgian":

ment. The simple rules of re-!

Well, if dat, don't beat ebbers the man. Of these, again, the final clysm of the war, and probably no Fortunately for the young ligion and morality that could thing!" he said. "Dat's de second

of the King's countless Prince there was then but a be taken for granted in the time dis mornin' dat dat mistake's emphasis belongs to opinions utter-memory"

(Continued on Page 7) slight probability of his coming mid-Victorian. period have one happened." to the throne, or at any rate his by one had to stand questioning education was designed as it

and denial It is useless to re that was so. He was put intoret what has passed away. the Britannia at Dartmouth,When a challenge is received it and grew up with the experts must be answered The King tion of a career in the Navy-was not a student, and the at- There was none of that hot titude he acquired in the days house forcing which is suppos-of the Old Queen always seem- ed to be appropriate to one who ed good enough for him- will have great responsibilities; wherein he is much to be envi but what he missed in the way ed. But he never tried to of languages he never really oppose the free discussion, and acquired fluency in any foreign his sons were allowed to go out language was more than made into the world as he had done, up for by the understanding of and to form their opinions for with the ordinary Englishman which themselves. "We move has always enabled him to the times", he once said.

King George V was the first speak as man to man to the whole nation. One of the most King of a new dynasty, the effective speeches of our day House of Windsor" Queen was the "Wake up England Victoria belonged to the House speech at the Guildhall in of Hanover, and according to the rules of the "Almanach de December, 1901 He had been

Gotha", which had unbounded impressed by the tendency to authority in matters of genea use old machinery to compete flogy in Victorian days and with the newest inventions of which ordained that even a other countries, and old methods reigning sovereign should take that had been good enough the name of her husband, class- years ago, and the speech reed King Edward as of the sulted in a quickening up all House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a round. This practical interest name which never established in industry and the determine itself as of popular use in Eng- tion to keep England in the foreland. In 1915 it became in- front has been inherited by his tolerable that any German na

eldest son, whose speech on re should be acepted for the turning from his tour of South House, and the new America, and perhaps even more Windsor became ab on his speech at Buenos Ayres in ed. Only pedants declaring open the Exhibition to retain such of English products, had -Wettin' gillar result

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