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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANHAND 19, 1913.

LONDON, December 9th.

PERSONALIA.

The Chinese Minister to London, Mr. Alfred Sze, with his family and some of the staff of the Embassy, arrived a Til- bury Docks yesterday and rouched the Legation in Portland Place late in the afternon.

whom ho conferred the Order of the Garter at a wayside meeting place in Flanders, where was gathered the gallant remnant of the Belgian army on what ns of free Belgium. One who is at romans the front writes His Majesty's visit was surprise to us. Personally, I had not heard he was

till I ran across hym

na the rest of na He was dressed as but naturally more neatly, for we are getting a bit shabby, as you can imagine. He walked about attended by two or three Quite a number of Shanghai and officers, talked to anybody, and was most Hongkong men are at Home just now graciously pleasant. He cross-examined somo of them enjoying the proximity to minutely as to the feeding of the Army, the firing line, and others having a strenu- and seemed to be impressed by the French ous time explaining to British manufac-system of steadily relieving those in the Terracturers what a finn cliance they are missing trenches, whereas our reliefs are loss. in the Chinese market. I have met with- Fregular. There was no formality when in the last few days, among others Mr I saw him; he was smoking a cigar, and WOarter and Mr. Alister Duncan, for-scerned in excellent spirits. I was told merly of Shanghai. Of Hongkong Dr. that he received M. Poincaré with un- Jordan and Mr. Frederick Howell. The usual demonstrativèncès; of course, the latter sails for the East next week. Both two are old acquaintances. Tommy and these gentleman were prominent figures a Tommy's superior are alike delighted at few days ago at the annual communica- at the King's coming. As for the Prince tion of the Grand Lodge of Scotland in

man but the Freemason's Hall, Edingburgh. Lord of Wales, he is every inch

they don't let him go within shell-range, Nowlands occupied the throne as Acting Grand Master and the visitors were duly much to his disgust. Prince Arthur of announced, Dr. Jordan District Connaught has not been at all well, and is sure to repeat his recent visit to England; indeed, he ought to havo more When he

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had seen the trenches, the hospitals," the Indians, and all tho organisation and had discussed matters with the leaders of the allies, the King slipped quickly back to England and was among us in London

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If one thing more than another were needed to demonstrate the weakness of the German justification for making war on Europe, it is to be found in the voci ferous appeals that are proceeding. Lo America for sympathy. First we have had the Crown Prince, fresh from the loot ing of French chateaux, pleading to an BondAmerican interviewer that he was an injured innocent, that he was too nice a You man to do such things, that Ger- many had no war party and that the whole responsibility for war the rested on peradious England. Even the attempts of the young hopeful of the Hohenzollerns newspaper man, though some of us Mrs. Ram (34) and Miss D. Gordon (29) to curry favour by praising all things doubted the expressions used as having. Miss A Gordon (20) and Mrs. Moxon (7), Mrs. JW. Stewart (9) and Mis Slicnton American-the scenery, the cities, the come from the war chief of our Empire, (38) Mrs. Waters (36) and Mrs. Maitland LATS in Humphrey's Buikdlags and game of baseball-failed to carry that we were content enough with the sculi. (30),

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now we are told it is England. But the language rather than the matter of failure of the Kaiser's heir, has not dis interview, Assuming that it represen Apply to

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I believe that in the City they consider that Mr. Lloyd George touched the spot So persistent in their thick.de poke of the silver bullets that headed egotism are our Teuton ante would end the war, and that England gonists that they believe if they say could keep cupplying silver bullets till thing often enough it will be established Germany's coffers were empty. That is as

weakening whatever with us, while the von Tirpitz interview, mentioned above, and other evidence & plenty shows that Ger- many sees the red light in the distance and would like to patch up a peace before her wings are so effectually clipped that the Prussian eagle can never again soar

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Belgian Congo and then investigated great army-then it will be for you to those of Peru with the German Govern look out. That will be your affair, and ment, and his treasonable utterances as to we will be onlookers well, no, that w-11 the future of Ireland in the event of a depend on circumstances, for Germany German victory, is easily explained. Sir will never abandon the white race, even Arthur Conan Doyle asserts that he is though England will ally herself with any suffering from nerves, as a result of his ráce in her high treason against her hard work in the tropics. Leading "So there is the latest theme with members of the Nationalist party give his which Germany hopes to throw dust in the ailment a brief but much stronger de eyes of the cute Yankees. It seems a scription, and suggest an asylum as the

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