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By

H.R.H.

THE

MEMOIRS barring

DUKE OF

WINDSOR

The Family Homes

was

Finally, Abergeldle.

You

did not

on

old

Good Mornings

Manila's "unidentified sobmat- Inòs" seem to ba'launching dan- gerously personal attacks, Accord- ing to a report the governor urged additional policing ngainat what he called a potential, threat to national secretary.",

Aamall police force planned for Hong Kong."

Calling alt pigmics.

Chinese want to get into Pacifie Past"

But what was all that I heard

The Edwardian era had àrriv-variety of the more beautiful and to which we were summoned ed; and the effect upon the Vic- English countrysile.

But my father's commitments for punishment and reproof.

of houses in the way torian was about the same s But he had built the big house It was memorable for the fact end here. When my parents fol- would be produced by the sud- there for his wife and children, that the walls were covered with lowed the den Intrusion of a Viennese hus the the estate contained wonder-n dark red cloth--the same cloth they occupied Frogmore, a Geor- Court to Windsor, Benin

In an English vicarage. sar Han bo

full covert for game, which was used for the trousers

of the glan house In the grounda of The

of parliamen- what mattered most to him. exigencies

French

Windsor Castle. lary government required the

The big house where my grand- Myy of the period.

mother never knew where residence of the sovereign Advertisements and Buainoas com

lived in parents

a rambling, he got the idea that this material cas. munications should be addressed London at prescribed intervals, a reti brick structure,

utt-would make an original kind of

covered with white, stucco,, of n

which

could to the Company CHINA MAIL ¦ condition much 10

pick off with about a pact with Mao? my grandfathomable style of which the wallpaper. father's

your finger

nolls, three miles taste.

secret happily dled with the But m

my father loved this red down the River Dee from Bal-

It was revealed yesterday that Buckingham Palace where Victorian architects. Queen Victorin had spent only a

A quarter of a mile away, moths got into it he was heart-disposal for the grouse shooting lady who had been operated on cloth, and when one summer the moral, was placed at my father's surgeon's missing forceps hud boen found in the tummy of · few nights a year since her hus within the estate grounds, stood broken over having to remove the and deer-stalking season. band's death, needed renovating, York Cottage originally built as Inst shreds.

two and a half years previously. and Windsor Castle, also Crown the Bachelor's Cottage to hold the

Its most ornamental fenture

The authorities point out that If my family could be said to was a big stone tower, inhabited owing to the vigilance of the staff, property, was in sore need of overflow of guests from the big have had home in the conven- by bats and, we always imagin- there was never any doubt as to modern conveniences.

house.

tional sense it was this "Cottage."ed, by the ghost of Kittle Rankle, the whereabouts of the anaesthetis

wing machine and the stretcher.

LTD.

ENGAGEMENT

onouneed

KEMP-HUME-The engagement between Margaret Jessic, only daughter of Mr. & Mrs. D. W. Hume of "Woodside". Quarry Bay, Hongkong, and George Alberl, younger son of Mrs. Mirfeld, of S. E. Kemp Yorkshire, and the late Mr. Kemp, formerly of Shanghai.

'PRESS RELATIONS

The Hong Kong public, perhaps because of its lack of a vote, is more interest- ed in local affairs, in all as- pects, than the titizens of a mature democracy such as Britain. The Press, for in- stance, is much more taken for granted at Home, where many other outlets of self- expression are available, and matters concerning the wel- fare of newspapers are less interesting to the ordinary reader than the internal pro- blems of chain stores.

iste.

by Victorin fundy для grund-

Balmoral, bullt

family's with the first deeded by her to my

Haram

Choir, Triat, llen

a

legendary

burned

witch who

ted on the mountain oppor

While York Cottage and borough House

contained

modern conveniences and

electricity,

4

An establishment In Happy some Valley advertises itacit 具物

had BAR BER shop, Reminds me of houses Goldilocks and the three bar flies,

the last two each had but one bath, situated,

of

course, in my father's rooms. Then there's the lellor who The other inmates had to per sports the following sign: "Ladies form their ablutions as best they have its upstairs. (Well, why could with water carried by the didn't you stop me?) servants in huge bowls from the kitchen and poured into shallow We scientists who pin our hopes tin tubs, and when it was dusic,

On aharing out the isotopes, the gaslight was turned on.

Think they are

very different Between these four different from establishments, My family!

That dreadful thing-the stom bomb.

migrated with the seasons like flock of birds.

The Calendar

We'd fain do anything we can To help along our fellow man. And in these our frustrated urge Fears no committee, and na the purgo....

Our moves were governed by

the slitings of Parliament,

Court calendar and the London And common folk who learn of

season.

It

February and March would find my father and mother at Marl-split. borough House.

For Easter they would go either to York Cottage or Frogmore for the first days of the lovely English spring.

May and June would find them

Will not spurn those who stoms The Solentisle,

Old rhymes remodelled.

Where are you going, my pretty

Maid?

▼

bock at Marlborough House for: Report from Home says that

BOOM

National Health to have

the ANNUAL SUMMER OUTING for the cadets who sang in

the London season with its round under

private dinner Scheme dentists and of public the choir at Osborne was a big event to me and all the other boys.

at Court, struck oll parties, presentations

Drilling continues. bails, interrupted by a ten days' We lived there 33 years; it sup-visit to Frogmore for the Ascot

race

My grandparents had

given

Д

meeting.

nised to some extent.

this house to my father as aplied in cosiness what it lacked

"School menus. He always enjoyed brief visits wedding present.

Meat loaf, in architectural merit. - to this retreat in the Highlands

Then My alster and my four brothers

the . 05

social

season mashed potatoes, string beans, Close by was 经理 after his armual visits to the cure were all born there; the last ad- flake, with tame ornamental waned, my parents would utilise semi-colons or vegetable soup,

ducks whoso resorts on the Continent.

ditions to the family being quacking supplied

the lull to tour different parts of hum sandwich." pleasant Britain, inspecting housing de- love for Os-George later Duke of Kent, in pastoral note at dusk and in the velopments, dedicating

Carrying school a bit far, don't But he had no

high- you think? and lost to time borne House, another inheritance, 1902 and John, the youngest, in early morning.

in handing i 1905, both now dead.

And in front of the house was opening fairs.

ways, visiting over to the State as a convales-

Our Rooms

park stocked with web-aniler- cent hospital for sleer casualties of the Boer War.

ย

hospitals and

•

Prace course motto:

Abandon

Especially since the war, there has been in Britain a mushroom growth of what are known as Press Relations Officers, employed at mainly by government de-father, had already been moder- partments, but subsequently by almost every large or- ganisation in existence. These functionaries are in tended as the only employee whom a newspaper can ap proach for information about the concern, thus obviating

ed deer whose nightly roamings yonish from our childhood ken,

Late in July my father would dope all ye who enter here, unwise statements by direc-

In the process of making room were a constant detriment to the not to be seen, except perhaps

Myrtle's grandfather says that tors or managers in a mo-

them the house suffered alt greens of the golf course.

respect to the world at for n fleeting glimpse, until the with ment of expansiveness.

Indignities

improved When

any father became heir family all came together again large, the American Sandringham was the place he enlargement.

taxpayer is the PRO's deal liked best.

and the main,

apparent

created Prince in August at Abergeldie.

brother's becoming his Even so, when the whole family of Wales, York Cottage ren

remained almost solely with the Press, Sandingham consisted

of keeper-upper. of an was assembled under the roof, his spiritual

We would presently hear home

but his him yacht racing at Cowes. theoretically answering estate of some 7,000 acres. Much together with a lady-in-waiting London residence been

became Mari- queries, writing subtle pro- of it was flat featureless, agri- for Mama and an equerry

Then the opening of the grouse for borough House, which stands at shooting season the Papa, a governess for Mary, and the foot of St. James's-street to would and hin

on August 12 paganda pieces and the like. cultural

one or two tutors for my brothers the left of the archway of the Scottish moors of his friends.

tramping the One would have imagined

and myself, the "Cottage" was clock tower, where you see the that the persons chosen

full to bursting so much so that, two guardsmen on

"sentry `89," fulfil this post would invari-

asked a stately edifice designed ably have been journalists, men and women who knew exactly what editors wanted, and could provide it.

In

to

Sandringham

OF

land, lacking in

for the

of

a' puzzled, visitór

Lack

During this summer period my mother would take us all to by Frogmore for a quiet and restful

month

obliged to go to the central | when office to be given copies of the government gazette, and

two one

unimpressive typewritten accounts of local One would have been very doings, Mr. Cassidy might wrong. In about 90 per cent well refer to "Chinese edi- of all cases, before his aptors who printed muck be pointment the PRO has cause no one provided them never seen the inside of a with reliable information." newspaper office except on English journalists have also the films, but is a person who been accused of making can be relied upon to pre-erroneous assumptions-after vent any unfavourable in-failing to obtain official an- formation about his own firm swers to their questions. or department from reaching It would further be true to the public, while flooding | say that only a small minor- news editors' trays with en-ity of newspapermen in the thusiastic items saying how Colony - including senior wonderful his employers are. ones-know the personnel of An explosion may wreck a the PRO's office even by factory, the cashier may dis-sight. This is hardly con-

16: In our schoolroom at York Cottage, appear with the payroll, ducive to cordial relations where the servants slept, my Christopher Wren mutiny may break out on a and understanding. Prob-father answered that he didn't Duchess of Marlborough.

It stands in a spacious garden warship, but the PRO will ably without real justifica-know, but supposed it was in the

zurrounded by a high wall. blandly deny all knowledge | tion, the reaction of the Press My parents rooms were notable; The halls and the staircase of such an occurrence, add-has been that this depart during my childhood as posscas are decorated with vivid paint- ing, however, that there is a ment acts more on the lines Ing the only two baths in the ings

depleting Marlborough's cocktail party next Wednes- } of branches such as Income house, reserved for thom alone. great victories..

Tx, Public Works, etc.- Our weekly tub was given in These fascinated me, for around The situation has become "You must come to us to ask Bertie and I grow up, in our tiny Ogures

the nursery and, later after the heroic and commanding so offensive that a number favours, which may or may bedroom on, the second floor.

of the duko and his generals loy the debris of battle. of newspapers at Home for- not be granted."

The excitement when now dead and dying soldiers and bid their reporters to up- One must In all fairness bathrooms were added and elec-horses, and shattered cannon. proach or receive any in-point to the remarks made tricity and a telephone installed

THE agonIsed expression of formation whatsoever from yesterday by the Colonial was intenso. the. Press Relations Office of Secretary, Mr. D. M. Mactant room in the "Cottage" was haunted my

To us chlidren the most imporme of the wounded redcoats,

impor-painted with any organisation.

Dougall, that in three years my father's study, a small and and the pathetic glint in the eye In Hong Kong we have there have been no less than cheerless room where he would of a maimed animal is only one such permanent | four Public Relations Officers, work and relax

shooting Imprinted In my memory.

day.

trees.

-

office, that of the govern- The present offlcer, he said, ment, and during the budget has been chosen with care. debate Mr. P. S. Cassidy in- He has very particular timated that in this respect qualifications of knowledge DO YOU "we were 50 years behind the and experience, and his task times," and that considerably in the months to come will KNOW more funds should be pro- be to develop his contacts vided to enable it "to foster and help the Press.... He an interest in the democratic tells me that the going thus way of life." Just in what far has been hard.?! ‚·

YOUR

HONG

Can » You ́re? cognise whore

way the extra money would The implications of this be spent, Mr. Cassidy did not speech are indeed heartening say. For our part, we can to Journalists in Hong Kong. KONG? not imagine, unless it was toOn the English aide espacial- be used to Import skilled ly they are only too willing extra staff from England. to, co-operate, and they will Money is not required for a look forward to a better and this plature wa good Haison with the Press. closer acquaintance with the taken? The ani Journalists required reliable, staff of that office which can swordle" in" Page full information, and they do more than any other to even require it quickly? Paper improve relations between

At the moment they are government and public.

after

We always had H wonderful time there, cruising up and downi the Thames in our tiny electric | launch with a .white tasselled

Windsor, with its cool, walls, and countles turrets, lay. on beyond the green meadows; its miles of roofs were wonderful for climbing.

And the formal white colon- nades of Frogmore contemplated a charming lake, bordered by willows and elms and daffodil beds, which, to my mother, waE the essence to tranquillity, but which to Bertie, Mary, and me was the fertile scene of endless pirate battles and nautical ad- ventures fought in our fleet of rowboats.

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