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not necessarily for insertion, but are inch of the sun's surface the fact that, unlike most

Radiation has weight. It is est-commanders of comparable rank, as a guarantee of good faith.

mated that the total radiation he believed in seeing for himself which pours out from the san what was happening in the front every second weighs more than 4ine. million tons. Thus the arm is los

Before the Arras offensive in TF Prince Makonnen, second progress at Harrow, and he left ing weight at the rate of about 250 1917 he flew over the German

son of the Abyssinian when quite young. But he can million tons, every minute, or lines to get a first-hand impression Emperor, is sent to labout. 360 billion tons evers

school in speak English fluently, which of the front his army was to at-England, he will be following in his father. King Feisal, was Įtack.

the footsteps of another Prince never able to do.. His desire for personal know-from Abyssinia ledge of what was going on ledį That was Prince Alamayahu...

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Hong Kong. Friday, June 19, 1936 hours.

Breakers Ahead

Mr. Teehee

OUSTON E. Teehee,

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Lucky King

hirin, when he commanded the His father, the Emperor Theo-, Ghazi is not so pro-British at full Third Army, to a very hot corner dore, was found dead by Lord his father was, although he Now that something of the Ha

blood Cherokee Indian of in the front line at Monchy-le- Napier when he captured went to school in England. But shouting and the tumult has Tahlequah, Oklahoma: was Regis-Preux.

Magdala in 1867.

so far he has been a lucky King. died. it may be profitable toter of the Treasury in President There he found a very young, Lord Napier took change of In the first fifteen months of consider the situation in local Wilson's administration. His very exquisite and completely un-the Royal orphan, and sent him his reign he dealt successfully Chinese politics and attempt to signature appears on 3 record perturbed young officer. assess all the conflicting factors jquantity of American currency]. “Well, young man,” said Allenby- with him described the Prince Death robbed the young King at their true perspective. Let

and what's your name?"

him was removed.

Your Daily Smile!

Astonished

Not

to Rugby. Those at school with five Ministerial crises.

as slim and handsome, and of a neighbouring country of quite good at games. A victim his real education there

Ex-King Of Siam

The

us admit in the beginning that and on all the Liberty Bonds. The

"Russel," was the reply. we have the utmost sympathyme Teebee was a nickname given

“Well, Rassel, hustle! bustle!” of the English climate, he died new King of Egypt had only for the galling sense of fruse by the Union troops in the Civil

(the "No, sir. Not Hustle. War to his father Di-hi-hi

|soon after leaving Bugby, and been in England six months," Itration under which the South-

Killer), who fought on the Union Bustle. Russel, sir-with two 's's is buried in St. George's Chapel which he spent preparing for west is labouring. National

side. The younger Mr. Teehee and one 1**

Windsor.

Woolwich, when he had to take consciousness is a tender plant,: was a ward of the United States

But it is not only Abyssinian his place on a vacant throne. very sensitive to the wafts and

Government until 1910, when the PREDESTINED

royalty who favour education Another. King who made only winds of insult and repression-Government Guardianship over

England. Five reigning a short stay there is the young When they come, as they do in

| ́ When Allenby, was transferred this case, from a powerful

from the Western Front to Egypt kings, and members of almost Peter of Jugo-Slavia. As with neighbour who, by a truly sear

in 1917 he was not at all anxious every royal family have been King Farouk, the hand of death either partly, or cut short his English educa- ing policy of insult and humilia-

to go. Gen. Sir Beauvoir de Lisle educated,

tion, and beckoned to him to tion, has sought in every way

saw him at the Grosvenor Hotel wholly, there

mount a throne before he was King Leopold in recent years to pile indigni-

A little fellow was on a visit to his before he started. Allenby told

jready. ty upon indignity in her treat-undle and grandfather.

him that be was not at all pleased King Leopold.of the Belgians ment of China, those to whom "Uncle, he said, after his grand-at the prospect

is an Old Etodian, and in the "The last man 'failed, and I do ante-room of his Palace at Various members of royal national consciousness is some father had left the room, "how old thing more than a name are is grandpa **

Brussels are photographs of families on the retired list went "I couldn't tell you.""answered his not see why I should succeed." bound to feel resentment and

Sir Beauvoir reminded him that Eton taken by him in his to school in England. Ex-King anger. Looking back over thedance, without looking it up in the

he had always got his big guns. schooldays.

Pradjadhipok of Siam is an Old Family Bible." recent relations between China "My word!" gasped the child. "is Allenby replied gloomily that they The Belgian Crown Prince, as Etonian, and has retired to a and Japan one is conscious of a he old enough to be mentioned in the had all been bunk in the Mediter-he was then; was unwilling to house not far from his former continual and relentless policy Bible""

stay at Eton while his country school. of persecution Whole terri-

Sir Beauvoir, who later was to was being invaded. He sent The present Prince of the been detached;| tories have

King Asturias, Don Juan, was at every political artifice has beening

The manager of a cinema was in- preach a sermon at St. Martin-in-continual messages

the Fields, consoled him with the Albert, asking permission to Dartmouth, and later joined the used to pile further humilia-position of attendant. After asking Biblical predictions contained in return. Eventually his father Navy for a time. Two grand- tions on the Chinese Republic: the man several questions as to his a book published in the 'eighties, gave in, and at the age of 13 children of the ex-Kaiser, Prin- and latterly, worst of all, a con- suitability for the job, he finally de-The Light of the Last Days King Leopold Was enrolled cess Cecilie Victoria, youngest sistent campaign so to weakenmanded: "What would you do in case These all pointed to 1917 as the as a private in the Belgian daughter her financial resources as to

Prince, and a daughter of the "Oh," said the man. "don't worry year of the delivery of Jerusalem Army. make the country helpless has about me, I'd soon get out."

from Turkish rule.

Filling sandbags was his first Duchess of Brunswick, who is Allenby was much impressed by task on active service, and the the Kaiser's only daughter, a prophecy which was to prove so bags were so heavy that he have attended English schools. remarkably accurate.

But could scarcely lift them.

Another member of the he insisted on doing the work. Brunswick family, Prince Ernst VEHICLE BUILDERS PAY Later, he returned to Eton, Augustus of Hanover, was at where he was a contemporary Oxford. and later fell foul of Two months' notice to terminate of the Duke of Gloucester, and the authorities for a motoring The heir to one of existing national wage agreements remained there until the Armis-offence.

the will be given by the Amalgamated tice.

smallest countries Society of Vehicle Exilders and An old Harrovian monarch Europe, Prince John of Luxem- Repairers, which has applied for rules Iraq in the person of burg, is now at school at Ample. restoration of the 10 per cent. cut the twenty-three-year-old King forth. in piece work prices, made in 1930. Ghazi. He did not make rapid

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The Cause

been pursued, openly and with- out the slightest attempt

Mother: Why are you making justification, by the smuggling campaign in the North. No faces at that bulldog?" wonder, then, that the agitation Small Child (wailing): “He started:

it'

for some sort of stand against this policy of aggression has

"Jones doesn't know much about been sponsored by the political art" factions in the South-west. "No, one radiator cap is just like

But in saying that one is also another to him.” reluctantly compelled to state

DREDGE

Re-Conditioned In Local Yard

in unequivocal terms that the WORLD'S LARGEST campaign is ill-advised, pre- mature and likely to do ime mense harm to the very pre- cepts which the South-west is seeking to uphold. Only an absolutely united country-in both the political and material

The largest dredge in the senses can possibly hope to world ever designed to operate effect any concrete resistance. A house divided against itself a gold deposit left Hong Kong yesterday afternoon for cannot stand; and that Mamila, after being thoroughly aphorism is as true to-day as reconditioned by the Taikoo

it ever wasin the case of Dockyard and being converted; China more so. Every indica-from oil burning to coal burn- tion that the South-west gives Jing.

that it does not supportin Mr. G. W. Kerr, engineer of fact and in principle the the mine consultation staff of policies of the Central Govern- Marsman and Company, leaves ment is a further indication of this evening after a short visit that lack of unity which the here during which he inspected enemies of the country are so the work done on the dredge eager to exploit. It is obvious and supervised its departure. that depredations will be far

more easily accomplished tainly not enthusiastic about against a country weakened by the political demarcher of their dissension than against one leaders. And while it is true. politically strong. Where that it is sometimes

a good there are several factors work-thing to rouse the people from ing against each other there is their apathy, it is also true to bound also to be political in-siy that there is a time for stability: when the leader of doing this, just as much as the country talks with one voice there is a time when it should and the individual factions put certainly not be done. There up a babel of conflicting sounds, would appear to be goori then the way of the encroach-grounds for the advice to the ing foe is easy. A little snip South-west to draw in their here and a little snip there, and horns. The country is about to the thing is done. Combined enter upon a new epoch in its and effective resistance is com-history. Some sort of unifica- pletely absent; depredations, tion is to be attempted by the open and covert, are rendered new constitution: which it is only too easy to accomplish,proposed to introduce. At because there is no homogenous worst the political status political force which can supple- the country, under the new ment verbal and written pro-constitution, should not be jeo-1 tests by action."

pardised; at best, there is a real

of

It appears to us, therefore, chance that compact cohesion that there is little to win and may be attained. In the cir everything to lose by the fore-cumstances all political embar ing of internal differences to a rassments forced upon the Cen- head. It has yet to be known,tral Government from within. also, exactly how much the jare ill-advised and untimely at people as opposed to the poli-the moment. The South-west | ticlans of the territory are will best serve its own purpose behind the machinations. It is as well as the purpose of China probably true to say that they at large by holding its hand at are completely apatheticcer-the present juncture.

ranean.

to

of

the ex-Crown

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