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THE CHINA MAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street. Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022

London Office:

EXPLANATION OF Here

TO-DAY'S CARTOON

Home Sweet Home

7. Garrick Street, London, WC2TS proportion to its population,

Subscription Rates.

Bulgaria claims more centen-

There and Everywhere.

THE KING WITHOUT A PRINCE OF WALES GALAHAD GIVES WAY

TO SOVEREIGN

"THREE LAWS” PREDICTED BY NEW - KING AS A BOY.

(By Hector Bolitho)

Notice To Contributors.

arians than any other country in ADMIRAL “RAGS" COLVIN, All communications intended for the world, having 158 citizens who publication should be addressed to

from 100 to 114: Those who enjoyed the dances range in age the Editor, and be accompanied by years, about evenly divided be for which the Royal Naval College Maria at Greenwich is famous will learn the Writer's Name and Address

and women. tween men not necessarily for insertion, but Dyankova, 109, and Ilyia Dyan with regret that a recent fire as a guarantee of good faith.

kova, 114, of Pleven, claim to be there has seriously damaged the the oldest and happiest married ball-roomi.

This regret will be the keener TT will not be easy, especially The estate was gathered to- couple in the world. For $1

for the children of the Em-gether once more after the years they have lived in devoted because the last dance was post- companionship, living in the same poned at the shortest notice owing pire, to become used to the fact Restoration and Sovereigns and that we now have a monarch heirs continued to use the in- house for 61 years and never going to Lord Jellicoe's death.

own village. They Vice Adml. Colvin, the President but no Prince of Wales. come of the duchy. beyond their

The Galahad of 20 years ago. The most reckless holder of was George IV. Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 3, 1936. ve sine children, eighteen grand-of the College, whose own quar

is who ran up the staircase of the the estates children and twelve great-grand-ters children, and have never had a lucky in one respect. The College War Office and pleaded with Having no heir, he used the in- quarrel in their long married life. possesses the most comfortable Kitchener to allow him to go come from the duchy, in addi-

One Year

6 Months

3 Months,

H.K.$36.00 HK$18.00

FL.K.$ 9.00

Postage Abroad Extra

And Now What?

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES

uninhabitable. are now

shore quarters in the Navy for a with his regiment to France, tion to his own, and so ruth- Commander. The Admiral is has become a Sovereign. heavy lessly did he squeeze the golden moving into these for the present-with responsibilities. We may goose that it almost succumb- On the eve of the 40th anni-

He is known in the Service as no longer think of "Edward P"led. versary of the Italian defeat at]

"Rags" Colvin. This is an abbre-as a leader of the young, and At one period the estates of Adowa came the news that the

It is announced that the local viated form of his unusual Chris- we have to accustom ourselves the duchy were so controlled battle in the Tembien region re- sulted in the complete annihila- Mohammedan community will cele-tian name of Ragnar, and in no to the new title of His Majesty that a banker became Duke of tion of Ras Kassa's army. The brate the festival of Iduz-zuha on way reflects his personality, which King Edward VIII

the jis susterely intellectual. reports, emanating as they did Thursday. The service at from Rome and Asmara, which Mosque will commence at 9 am. is the Italian headquarters in

NEW AIR PORTS IN THE EAST

it

Cornwall in all but name. This unusual state continued until

An Heir's Privileges It is not the first time that the Accession of Queen Vic- Great Britain has been without toria.

Set Right Again

a Prince of Wales, and the gapi leaves us with a number of in- The Prince Consort, astute teresting questions.

and economical

soon set the There are many public illu-affairs of the duchy right again. sions about the privileges of

As early as March 1847 he being Heir to the Throne, and had re-organised them so few books of reference tell us cleverly that the estate was that the Sovereign is not obliged producing £70,000 a year It to make his eldest son Prince was the accumulation of this

income of Wales.

which made. King The title of Duke of Corn Edward 3 rich man when he wall is entirely different.

The came of age

the East African campaign, Mr. George Vanderbilt, 21-year-

It is learned that immediate must be taken with a certain old American millionaire. and his)

So many bride. arrived in Hong Kong yes-jaction is to be taken to create amount of reserve.

landing grounds extravagant claims have al-terday from Singapore aboard the aeroplane

Sarawak and in Borneo. ready been made and so many Dutch steater Roggeveen.

The decision is the result of equally undependable reports of

The s.s. Talma is due here from recent tour of inspection by Air minimum casualties suffered on

Commodore S. W. Smith, Officer the Italian side, that one must Singapore at 4 p.m. to-day.

Commanding. R.A.F. Far East. discount everything that is said

For the Sarawak base the con- by about 50

who has sent of Rajah Brooke. just returned to his State, will have to be obtained. His co-opera- moment the heir is born. he is It will come as a surprise to Duke of Cornwall and the great many to learn that the three tion can be taken for granted.

The landing grounds will have estates of the duchy, which feathers erroneously called a commercial value, but they may were gathered together

by "The Prince of Wales's also be regarded as part of the Edward III. for his son, become Feathers" come to the heir as.

of the Singapore de the basis of the young Prince's part of his insignia when he is

fortune.

born.

per cent.

But A dinner dance will be held at even allowing for this, it is evid-the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow ent that the Italians have, in at 8.30 p.m. fact, gained a decisive victory

over

The new aerodrome which the

The heir must wait, however,

the

The Abyssinian forces

5.S. Nankin is due. here which, while it may not neces-from Manila on Thursday morn- sarily connote that "Abyssinia ing. has already lost the war," is sufficiently real to allow the as- The official annual inspection of perfection sumption that the winning of The St. John Ambulance Brigade fence scheme.

H.E. the Governor will take the war will not be long delayed. by

They are not essentially the on the Naval Recreation Dutch are building in the Celebes upon his father's indulgence be prerogative of the Prince of It might be advantageous to place

be considered in the same fore he may assume the title of Wales. recount what is known and Ground, Causeway Bay, on March can

light It is 20 miles away from Prince of Wales.

The great mass of the public what can be conjectured as to 19 at 5 pm

Macassar, the nearest town.

While there is no heir to the know the new King as Prince the origins and progress of this

throne, the estates of the of Wales, which last month he Duchy of Cornwall continue to ceased to be, but they do not belong to the Sovereign.

know how deeply he has reveal- ed himself in his management Long History The history of the duchy of affairs as Duke of Cornwall.. estates has not always run

He had a great example - smoothly, and there are several The Prince Consort installed time of Edward IIL

Kennington estate when there dramatic chapters since the bathrooms in the houses of the

campaign. We are unable to Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 find anything in it that will be-hours ending at 10 am. to-day was The total since Jan- lie our original belief that it 0.07 inch: was a dirty business from the uary 1 has been 3.99 inches,! start. The "incident" at Ual against an average of 3.19 inches. Ual was the primary excuse:

Your Daily Smile!

Smile Awhile The rich uncle wrote to his nep

two."

[hew: "I am sending you the 10 and the actual declaration of The death occurred yesterday of you requested, but must draw your hostilities by General de Bono Miss Adelaide A Baptista, at her attention to an error in your letter: was announced as a "safeguard" residence No. 5, St. Joseph's Ter- ten' is written with one nought, not against the Abyssinian "aggres- race. Miss Baptista, who had sion" which consisted, so reached the great age of 53, was far as we can gather, of aa sister of Mr. J. Baptista of the withdrawal of the Abyssinian Insurance Department of Messrs. forces to a distance of 30 kilo-Jardine, Matheson and Co. metres from the frontier. The!

* * Observant Salesman

"I want some collars for my bus band," said the woman, but I

afraid I have forgotten the size."-

物

The Black Prince himself was none even in. Windsor gave away some of the estates Castle. This little note of pro- which his father had amassed | gress - grew into a great force for him, as rewards to his when the present King assum- These wereled the powers of Duke of Corn- "Thirteen and a half, ma'am?" sug-friends in arms.

thel wall. He has been a generous gested the shop assistant.

bought back again and That's it. How did you know?" duchy remained more or less as and thoughtful landlord, and "Men who let their wives buy their a whole until the days of Crom-his tenants have prospered with In-collars for them. are always about

sold again. that size, ma'am" explained the ob Well, when some of the land was him.

is

various other reasons, either Professor L Forster, M.A. implied or openly admitted by to deliver his presidential address the Fascist chief, have included on "English and American the desire, primarily, to wipe fluences on Chinese Education" on out the memory of the Adowa Wednesday, March 4, at 8.30 pm. Assembly defeat, and the provision for lin the H.KU. Union Italy of a region which will al-Room, when the first general meet- low expansion and an access to ing of the Education Society is to the raw materials which she be held. The lecture is open to lacks. In pursuit of these aims the public and all interested are Italy has deliberately broken cordially welcome. the Covenants she solemnly en-

2

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tered into at Geneva and hashments as Mussolini used are be-!

and driven a coach and four right ing put forward at any through the whole system of every opportunity. The latest pacts and treaties by demon-was the speech of Dr. Goebbels strating in no mean fashion at the opening of the Leipzig that "scraps of paper" are not trade fair two days ago. yet out of fashion.

British Government, even the A point of enormous inter-Reddest and most Socialist, is est for the world at large and in the remotest degree likely to for the smaller nations in parti-acquiesce in such a policy. cular is this: What will be the What then? Does Germany. reaction if and when Italy pre- with the successful example of sents the fait accompli of a vic Italy fresh to mind, take the torious Italy and an Abyssinia bit between her teeth and use What, denuded of territory, sovereign-the forceful method? ty and independence? Will the finally, of those Powers, inher- League of Nations (or what is ently weak but in possession of left of it by that time) as an desirable colonies, such as Por- entity, or the various European tugal and Holland? Neither of nations with interests in the them would stand dog's country, individually, simply sit chance against a re-armed Ger- back with folded hands and ac-many, a militaristic Japan or cord de facto if not de jure recog any other Great Power out for nition to the new situation? what it could get. Indeed, the Shall we have another Manchu- whole reason for the policy of kuo? Will all the other nations support of the League by the follow America in "benevolent smaller Powers is based on the neutrality" or "splendid. isola-theory that they would be en- tion" or anything else one likes abled to resist such aggression to call it, shake an admonitory by the system. of collective se finger at the big; bad wolf and curity which the League is sup- leave it at that? These and posed to represent. And as it other questions of a like nature has failed so dismally in the will have to be answered some case of Italy and Ethiopia, time; they might as well be ex- there would seem to be some an amined now."

ous times ahead for the small- And, of course, they lead to er nations. In short, the world others of far greater import is fast moving back again to tance for world relations as a barbarity: everyone out for whole. After the rape of China, what he can get, and the devil the sack of Abyssinia, and take the hindmost. "If ye have after that, what? Germany's tears, prepare to shed them Or would it not almost insidious propaganda for the re-now." turn of her colonies has been be better polities to follow the obvious to the veriest babe in Great Duke and put your trust | arms for months years, inlin God, but keep your powder fact Exactly the same argu- dry?

servant salesman.

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