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The usual weekly tiffa of the PUGNACIOUS HUNGARIANS All communications intended for Hong Kong Rotary Club

Dr. Tibor publication should be addressed to graced yesterday by the presence

von Eckhardt, who the Editor, and be accompanied by of a large number of the fair sex, has fought a duel with Gen. Goer- the Writer's Name and Address it being a Ladies' Day. Professor boes, the Hungarian Premier, is, not necessarily for insertion, but I Forster, the President, was in surely one of the most pugnacious

of Central European politicians. as a guarantee of good faith.

the Chair.

This duel is the culmination of Among visiting Rotarians pre- sent yesterday were, Mr. S. A. a year of challenges and explar-

JUST six years have elapsed that Balfour would have been a lations Wing who received an oration as

Kuala Lumpur Last May, Dr. Eckhardt began since the, death of the Earl far more effective party leader if he had been less of a philo- a member of the HK$9.00 Postage Abroad Extra

Club of which His Excellency the by challenging Count Bethlen, then Balfour.

That is not to say. His "Life" has been written sopher. Governor. Sir Andrew Caldecott, Former Premier, for remarks he

On joyous band of nieces and been a better statesman. Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 13, 1536 was the first President; Mr. Y. G. made in the course of an election by Mrs. Dugdale, one of a however, that he would have

de Jong of Java, and Mr. N. J. speech. Carson of Melbourne. Commodore. On May 31 the two were reea-nephews who for many years the contrary, this habit of mind Count Bethlen explained filled the statesman's Scottish specially qualified him for the and Mrs. C. G. Sedgwick, Ert. cled. radier H. G. Seth Smith and En- that his information came from home at Whittinghame with enviable role which he played gaiety and, as Balfour once said during the later part of his gineer Captain and Mrs. Dibley Gen. Goemboes.

Dr. Eckhardt thereupon sent a to a friend, reconciled him to political career-that of the were among the guests. Turkey's application to the The President said he was challenge to Gen. Goemboes, who having no children of his own sagacious and universally trust- Mrs. Dugdale was one of his ed Elder Statesman who had all personal Council of the League to have happy to see so many ladies and accepted it.

On June 3, however, Gen. Goem-most constant companions dur-long outgrown the Treaty of Lausanne revised if it were possible to get some and to lift the ban on the forti-lady speakers, the Club would be boes issued a "declaration of honing his closing years, and when ambition and who only asked to fication of the Dardanelles and only too glad to have more such our." This satisfied Dr. Eckhardt. the task of composing his Auto-be allowed to place in any the Bosphorus can come as no occasions.

the absence of The General explained that he had biography--which he had start-capacity-the unrivalled board ed too late overtaxed his of his experience at the service surprise after the events of the such a speaker to-day he was ad- been misinformed.

flagging energies, he willingly of the State. past two years. Germany has dressing the Club himself, but

fell in with her design of sup‐} Single Premiershipp seen fit to tear up in succes-had made it a Ladies' Day be- WITH PISTOL AND SABRE

plementing the fragment which" His short and single Premier- sion the disarmament clauses cause it was getting near the end At this point Dr. Eckhardt was was all he had managed to ship was perhaps the least suc- of the Treaty of Versailles and of his term of office.

cessful episode of his career, those relating to the demili The President gave a most in-diverted by a side issue. A De complete.

though be it remembered that tarised

The Brilliant Talker Austria hasteresting account of his recent (puty, M. Ladislaus Szalny, inter-

it was Balfour's Government rupted him while speaking in Par

She delved assiduously among which settled the squalid educa- followed suit by repudiating trip overland to Hankow.

Dr. Eckhardt challeng part of the Treaty of St. Ger- The trip was made at Easter by liament.

Tested him. They fought with caval-masses of papers which had tion controversy and the scarce- main. It is to the credit of the 28 European and Chinese

an hour, both been casually thrown together ly less embittered licensing pro- Turkish Government that they dents of Hong Kong in the charge y sabres for half

in old despatch boxes, for Bal-blem. exhausted and slightly

four had never been touched by have procceded on constitu- of Professor Forster. The speak-being

But a serious party setback Mr. Gladstone's spirit of order-|was inevitable over the Tarif tional lines by making their er yesterday emphasised the great wounded.

The latest duel arose from application to the League, and help and hospitalty given by

If she Reform issue, since Unionists Goem found an interesting document were split into two angry and STANDARD. we may expect to see the whole Chinese officials all along the entirely new quarrel - Dr. Eck-liness and method.

or something which piqued her quarrelling sections. If Bal- It is perhaps fortunate for curiosity she would deftly steer four had accepted the Chamber- Eckhardt that, as the recipient the conversation into the desir lain lead nothing could the challenge this time, he could ed channel, and, if fortune averted a rupture as disastrous Goemboes is favoured, was rewarded by a as that which had wrecked the choose pistols. Gen. one of the most expert swordsmen ready flow of reminiscence. I Liberal party over Home Rule.

His rarely tired Balfour-always a

OWN conviction and brilliant conversationalist-to events proved him right—was that the British electorate Thus the missing chapters would never return to Protec- of the Autobiography have tion until the economic situa- come into being after all, tion made it absolutely impers- Nor did he believe in though doubtless in quite an- tive other form from that which 1905 that the position of the Balfour would have given them country required him to play On the whole, I think the pub the part of a second Sir Robert lic has been the gainer. For Peel and "betray his party.” Balfour, who had always care-His conversations on this point "I've heard of the boring lang-fully shielded himself from con-with Mrs. Dugdale will deeply

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