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Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 18. 1936.

The Colony In Time Of War

•

“Spy" of Vanity Fair.

* SOUTH SEA CHANGE *

(By Marjorie Bowen)

not carriage took place when he had

Nunusual interest centres | Richard IL's romantic mar-

SRA

{the son-in-law, Mr. A. 'Tavares | Ward: failed to become an Acade-

Amongst those who attended the mician. The next FRA Benchelor: King to the throne of been five years on the throne.

England.

Henry V. was perhaps the funeral were Messes. 1. Barnet, jamin West, helped Ward.

There have been few unmar(most brilliant of our bachelor 7. A. Bendall, C. W. E. Bishop, After four years' bitter fighting ried kings in our history, though kings: a great soldier, an able A. F. Castilho, P. Castilho, A. F.(Hoppner leading the opposition) some of our greatest monarchs diplomat, just, chivalrous, very Delgado, F. X. Delgado, H. Dixon, he was elected.

have not married until they handsome and religious. Henry „A.. Ehns, 2. Elins, C. France, L. A grandson of Ward, who in-were on the throne.

was in everything the nation's Gardner, L. Lopes, A. B. Purves, cidentally was much greater as a L. Rocha, L. Santos, A W. Jengraver than

In some instances the unmar-ideal, and his popularity was as a painter, ried state of the ruler has be increased by his refusal to en- Simmonds, CE Tavares, Gachieved fame in another branch come of interest not only to the ter into any merely political Tavares. J. Tavares, and W of art. He was Sir Leslie Ward country but to the whole world marriage. He

crowned We hope we shall not be woodward. Jacensed of scare-mongering if As requested, no-fowers were

In the case of Queen Eliza-alone with great magnificence we attempt to examine dispassent

beth, for instance, her refusal and soon after undertook the sionately the effects which any The late Mr. Julyan was a

to a partner was undoubtedly war with France, where he outbreak of war in Europe or member of the Senior Clerical and

of gained much glory. A Swedish ethnographer and his One of the cornerstones

Without A Queen elsewhere would have on this Accounting Staff. P.WD. (Class wife who went out to Tahiti and England's greatness. She play- rival claimants one Colony. There is a type of per-). He joined the Government ther islands of the South Seas as ed of

For seven years England was other with such without a Queen (the King's son who deprecates any refer-in 1895, prior to which he was a plain Herr and Fru have returned against the

skill that almost to the day of mother had died long before his ence to these matters on the writer in HM Naval Tard from as Prince and Princess. theory that discussion of them 1888 to 1891, and during the years Herr Rolf Anderson Bamboith her death all Europe was an- Accession), and when the King leads to the fostering of the 1891-94 was

married the lovely Catherine de chief clerk in HM took his bride to Tahiti for the sling for the prize mind, which in its turn Ordnance Department

- Wiliam I. (Rufus) was one Valois not only did this end the honeymoon. They settled in 1

of the few bachelors and the long war with France but it His first post with the Govern-house which they built themselves fiery warrior who subdued the was the result of a strong at- provides soil ready tilled and hoed for the planting of what ment Was

of 2nd clerk on the pattern of the native dwell-Scots and colonised the north-traction the Japanese have picturesquely PW.D. and subsequently he acted ings, and spent two years amongern marches. He was killed ac- monarch was in love with his The splendid young called "dangerous thoughts."

as first clerk and as clerk to the the natives of Tahiti and other cidentally in middle age before wife, whom he took home to be There is also the evidence of Clerk of Councils, Colonial Secre-islands. history throughout the ages tariat. In 1901, he was appoint- They

he had made the matrimonial crowned by herself in West- were presently made alliance that would have streng-minster as a symbol and gage that nothing leads so successed frst clerk to the P.WD, and princes of the Royal house, and thened his position. fully to war as

of the peace. talk of war- However much truth there is in 1913 became senior clerk. In carried away a document in French

His successor and younger Henry VIL, one of our great- all this. it is also a fact that 1927 he was promoted to. Class Hand Tahitian setting out their pa-brother, Henry La bachelor est kings, was a bachelor when nothing can be accomplished Staff, which grace he held when

war

that

Senior Clerical and Accounting text of nobility.

without preliminary discussion he retired on pension a few years and preparation. This Colony,

in company with every other 450.-

In recognition of Mr. Jalyan's British territory, would be most intimately concerned in an out-long and faithful services he was the Imperial Service break of hostilities in which awarded Great Britain was involved, and Order on the birthday of his late it is therefore necessary

that Majesty King George in 1929.

all eventualities in this direc- His son, the late Mr. P.. T. F. the formerly on Tas tion, however much any such Julyan thing may be personally deplor- editorial staff of the China Meil ed by all right-thinking people. should be thoroughly examined

Your Daily Smile!

"Poets are always in advance their times."

"Yes, and behind in their rents."

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The Absent Brother

when he came to the throne at he ascended the throne after the age of 32, made a most im-the victory of Bosworth. He portant alliance with the Prin-was crowned alone when nearly. cess Matilda, granddaughter of 30 years of age. Had he been Edmund Ironside and therefore married our history might have of

heiress of the old English line. been different, for it was his Norman And Saxon alliance with Elizabeth of York

"Don't waste your time loafing" admonished the professor, noting that 10 boys were congregated in

corner of the room, talking,

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This royal alliance made mar-that united the House of Flan- riages between Norman and tagenet with that of Tudor- English popular and caused so that, again, the blood of the Henry I to be termed "the re-old line was continued in that. founder of the English line of the new, itself a branch from Through this marriage the the same stem.

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"We're not loading, sir, spake one of the group. “Thüre are only

Henry VIL was contracted 10 of us here; and it takes leaven blood of the ancient British to make a loan”

kings blended with that of the to Catherine of Aragon on his Normans

Accession, but not married un- With Ad

Henry III came to the thrine til a few months later. First Boy: "My dad is so tall he as a child and married Eleanor

The Courted King look over our fence."

of Provence after he had at- The bachelor state of King Second Boy: "Mine can, too, with tained his majority; the Court Edward VI was of the greatest hat on”

a

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of this bachelor king was very value to the nation, his hand splendid and his nuptials to the being competed for by all the “I believe business is picking up French Princess extremely diplomats of Europe. It was magnificent, attracting crowds his father's wish that he should "You must have landed some orlof foreigners. For weeks Lon-marry the little Queen of Scots, but I had several civil an- don was the scene of feasting herself s great-great-grand-

and pageantry-

(Continued on Pays 10)

before the event and not when vided for by last Saturday's it is already upon us. That is Gazette. our only excuse for broaching Bound up with all these ques- the subject at all, and it is tions are the more concrete something to find that we err, if matters of the effective defence we err at all, in good company-of the Colony. There are, of For it is obvious from the course, naval, army and air Government Gazette published force detachments here whose last Saturday, that the matter first business it is to ensure the is engaging the attention of the defence of the civilian popula- authorities here also.

tion in time of war. What is ders to-day." In all conscience there has not so generally understood is been enough scope in the past the fact that the civilian popu-s*e***. for the common gibe that lation also has a duty to per- Colonial Governments are all form in this direction. That too prone to let sleeping dogs duty is to take its appointed lie and to take the easier course part in strengthening the off- in anything requiring initiativelcial and professional defence and firm action. But some of forces in a time of particular that criticism has undoubtedly need. The fringe of the problem lost its sting in recent months is touched by the Volunteers: so far as Hong Kong is concern-the main question remains of ed, especially since Sir Andrew devising ways and means of Caldecott has shown, already in bringing this volunteer force to his short spell as Governor its most effective " maximum. here, a firm grasp of affairs and The problem is as old as the a no less firm intention to get his and is not by any means things done. The economy mes- peculiar to local conditions. sures provide an example easily Here, as elsewhere, there is to hand. We suggest that the apathy if not definite hostility steps announced in Saturday's to the idea of military training Gazette concerning the food for civilians Rightly or wrong- supplies of the Colony are an- ly the average civilian assumes other indication that the au- that the military defence of the thorities are doing nothing if place in which he lives is not they are not taking precautions, his business. In ordinary times This would be a dificult place it is not; in times of wer it to blockade, but it might be most definitely is. Most people done successfully nevertheless will agree with the logic of War in Europe and the con- that. But it is very difficult to comitant blocking of the Suez get them to see that in order Canal and the Red Sea would to provide adequate defence in be a most effective check on exceptional times the dull, the import of food supplies routine business of training is from Europe; a blockade by sea necessary in ordinary times. from the Pacific would close the We must confess that the pro- trans-American and trans-blem is difficult of solution. In Canadian routes. And there ise time of war no doubt con- (no other outlet which could be scription would be resorted to, effectively, used in the event of as has been done in recent such blockades proving success- British history. But short of ful. In that case the question coutiming to make the idea of of local food supplies would at-volunteering as attractive as tain to something more than possible by all the means that purely academic interest These cm possibly be devised, there possibilities, however, remote, is little else the authorities cen are not being overlooked by the do. Lacking greater support local authorities, and it is only from the public, they must right that they should take make the best of the material whatever precautions they con- available. But it will be hypo- sider necessary in ensuring, as critical for the general public to far as possible, a continous throw up its hands in horror supply of food or the CATE if conscriptive measures should ever become necessary in a time of extraordinary. "need unless it is fully prepar

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