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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

WEATHER REPORT.

On August Kith usɔ12.10-No returns from Japan and Wolkaimet Pressure as ingressod alghtly to moderkinly at El Cátioni; it i probably highest own Japan and flowest over E. W. China. Gradients are very sight.

Bongkung rainfall for as soure, eding at 10% mas today, 000 tché Toul sinos IA January, 71.80 luchen, ngaiunt au avecogenet.

The foxirast for (35 24-hours anding at noon today is a foll

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to light; fins.

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HONGKONG'S STORM SIGNALS

A NEW CODE

OF

KINGSHIP AND

DEMOCRACY.

AND BRITISH BRIDES FOR BRITISH PRINCES.,

{BY VALEMILNE LEYWOOD.]

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

NICKNAMED TONY" BY THE

TOMMIES.!!

There are matters which are being THE PORTUGUESE SOLDIER publicly discussed, and it is because of this public discussion that so much in- portance attacles up a suggestion ro

of garding the marriage of the Prince Wales made recently, in an article in in morning paper by the Bight Hon. G. W E. Russell, himself an ex-Minister of the Crown

and

THE: HIGHLY CULTIVATED- GERMAN INFANT.-

[BY EDGAR JEPHON.]

[BY H. PERRY ROBINSON:]

Never before in history has a union worked out the theory and practice of The cordiality of the relationship be- was as had Germany when, in 1914, the tween the British soldiers and the Portu- embarked upon the first stage of her con It is the unenviable lot of the

The Royal Marriage Act," says Mr.gutso may be taken ne finally cemented he quest of the world; and one of the matters. | sovereigns and potential sovereigns of

this realm that their marriages are mat Russell, limiting the free choice of the fact that the latter now have a nick which had been threshed out by her ters of public interest and importance. English princes and princesses by arti name. They are Antonio," which is experts was the matter of man-waste in

already being shortened to Tony, & war. It is part of the price of royalty, the ficial restrictions, was one of the most counter-part to Tommy," showing She was prepared to take messures to privileges astuching to which, at any infefensible statutes which Parliament that the approchement is consecrated repair that mob waste bat,✨ under- rate in regard to our own constitutional ever passed. It put difficulties, often in and completo. monarchy, are in no way commensurate superable, in the way of such alliancey.de

Perhaps the Germans thought these new estimating the determination of the world not to enjoy the blessings of Prussian with the obligations and responsibilities. had linked the Plantagenets, the Tudos troops in the line would be easy. It is not possible for a King of England and the Stuarts to the English people; They have bombarded them heavily will domination, she did not put them into or a Prince of Wales to bestow his hand and it helped to impress a foreign stamp both big guns and trench mortars. They effect till it became clear that the war was and affections in whatever direction he on two generations of the House of have made vicious raids on them. They going to last longer and bring about sn pleases, having no regard to the wishes Hanover. There is to-day a well-beloved have attacked them with gas shells. Batinfinitely greater man-waste than in her of others and cold shouldering the many young prince, as English in character as they have, got very little satisfaction, least optimistic moments she had ever who would fain have a voice in the in face, who is serving England in though they have officially bragged of dreamed. Then in the summer of 1915 she maiter. His marriage is an affair of soil of France. Let Providence grant him taking a small number of prisoners. On set about repairing that waste and took

for her.. State, and must be considered in regard an English wife, and the last murmur the contrary, the Portuguese have paid the measures her experts had worked out

They also have to the policy of the State and the good or disaffection will be drowned in the them back in good coin.

She began at the very source of man- of the realm. A

thundering chorus of national rejoicing." raided the German trenches, broken into

Mr. Russell has stated what most people them and held them they came back power and set about saving the lives of It is not nice position, and it is one

They have been thinking privately. The war when it suited them, and on that ocension her babies. Their lives were no longer at which particularly during the last two

has brought to the forefront again, but notioaly those in the actual assault, but the merey of the milk-profiteer. hundred years, has resulted in many

the troops in support, who have even a became the special care of the State. In marriages which have been parely anions in a saner, sweeter form, the void cry more trying time, bellaved with conspicu- the matter of milk the babies came first, and the rest of the nation, even the for State reasons, and into which the of Britain for the British,"

CONSCIENTIOUS WORKERS,

wounded and invalida, had to make shift question of affection has not entered in fublic sentiment and polley alike demands coolness for men new to the game.

On another occasion the Portuguese with what milk there was left when the mor the slightes!. On the whole, it is not its extension to British wives for British

even defensible, and that, which has most kings and princes. The marriage of the captured a whole German patrol at night babies had had theirs.

It was very rom-

few people outside Germany Very concern to three hundred millions of pletely done, two of the

patrol" being aggravated the evil is the old shibboleth Prince of Wales is a matter of deep in No Mai's Land, of the effectiveness of dynastic ties."

people, inhabiting a fifth of the carth's killed and the rest taken prisoner, and raise the difficulties against which she Recent British rulers have held that surfaer, people and lands which he will among those captured was a non-commihus had to contend even in the matter of

milk.

She has had a hitter struggle one day probably rule, and which in all sioned officer wearing the Iron Cross against the big profiteering milk

this act the officer commanding re panis, who were entirely regardless of

mander of the British army to which they they put into their pockets meant the For, wintever may happen to the are attached. With each incident, almost of a child: she has back a bitter struggle whoress the old signals showed the poi pe case for holding that the public good] Hohenzollerus, the British monarchy will with every day, the men gain confidence against the farmer, who killed off his milch in better served by the feelings of the enduris despite the recrudescence of that in themselves. They are naturally fight-cows when there was more money in meat tion of the typhoon. The latter will be individual being subordinated to the ob unthinking disaffection to which Mr.ors, very eager to learn these new-fangled than in milk, fed his milk to his pige!

in milk, and churned all his milk into “ASAHI BEER."" indicated, as heretofore, by the non-local ligations of the public servant, Admit Bonarchia, as we know it here, which faktong ways, and are unusually hard-when there was more marry in bacon than During the bitter winter the men, com- butter when there was more money in bak failed in the events of the last few signals. The new Local Code is given fedly it is a violation of the made-in as we working.

view of marriage, but in heaven"

In no sense is this a war of the ing from a sunny country, had a trying butter than in milk. She has had to make world of human failings it is not always years.

Hohenzollernism alone could time, and there was in the early days it a penal offence to kill a milch enw possible to attain the ideals. But admis dynasts,

The much sickness both among the troops and to ferd milk to a nig, or to sell a churo sion of such possibilities does not mean not have brought about the war.

to farmers from whom she wanted milks adherence to the belief in the political fault lies with the paychology of an entire among the horses. Cere and better wea benefits of dynastie ties. Within Funits it easte certainly, may be of an catire her, however, have rectified that, and ashe has actually had to seal up the churns should be possible for a British king or nation. To a certain extent the Kaiser story is told which symbolizes both the in Hamburg But she has come cat prince to offer his hand where his heart has been as much a tool as was his grand. Portuguese love of the sun and their victorious from there struggles: and the

bravery.

German baby and the German nursing father in the bands of Bismarck and Yoo Moltke.

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oodes Bignals

will bo introduces at Hongkong on July 1st, in place of

the old Local Code and the China Cost Coda

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The principal change in the Local Co them by divine right lords of all they likelihood will be ruled by the offspringved the congratulations of the com- the fact that every ton pounds of profit

in that the new signsin will show the direction from which the gale is expected,

below:

DAY SIGNALO.

Meaning.

Signal, Symbol. 1-ad cone-A typhoon exists which may possibly cause a gale at Hongkong with in 24 hours. 1-Black 0008.-Gale expected from the

North (N.W. to N.E).

·1.—Black coDA

their royal state, so far from tanking survey, merely installs them as first ser vants of the State. It is quite conceivable that there ning be strong ground in any

dictatre.

&

As such, the belief in the effectiveness of dynastic ties is absolutely groundless; more often than not marriages with this end in vids have been wholly had in their results.

inverted-Gale expected from the

South (S. E. to B.W.).'

In the course of the bitter comment 4.—Black drum.---Gale expected from the made in the Press recently, en the

East (N.E. to B..).

Kaiser's birthday, on the comparison be -Black ball-Gale expected from the tween the detestation in which he is beld West (N.W. to B.W.). in this country to-day and the popular 6.---Double cone.-Gale expected to In-feeling of onthusiasm which the announce ment of his birth aroused fifty-eight years сталке

ago, domectic recalled a couplet which followed every verse of a song heard in the streets of Londos during the cele braliens occasioned by the arrival of the Queen's first grandchild:

7-Black erois-Wind of typhoon force expected (any direo-

tion). Signal No. 7 will be accompanied by three explosive bombs, fired at intervals of 10 seconds at the Water Police Station and repeated at the Harbour Office.

Queen Victoria's lovely daughter Hus a bouncing little boy. The lines were recalled to give point to a somewhat obvious satire, hut in their

utter refutation of that touching beliel

of his marriage.

Hatred of, and fierce opposition to Hohenzollernism and its conception of kingship is not merely compatible with our British ideas; it is the very essence af British monarchism, Freedom, demo racy, and monarchy are in no sense con. The eting tarms in this country. vracteristic of the English: monerely," ite Bagehot in his monumental essays on our Constitution, "is that it retains the feelings by which the heroic kings governed their rude age, and has added the feelings by which the constitutions of inter Greece ruled in more refined ages, A republic bas insinuated itself beneath the folds of a monarchy."'

This is the strongest prop of vur monarchy, that it combines that which is best in both systems. Neither France nor America, with all their greatness, can

SEEKING THE SUN.

CARE OF THE MOTHER.

It was an icy day, when the trenches were cold and tomblike, when & British

Even to-day, when every week there are officer discovered a Portuguese who had.

sat in the local papers of all the big German elimbed out of the trench and conspicuously on the parados, a lovely towns three columns of instructions to one mark for any German sniper. The Brigroup of a thousand householders at a tish officer shouted remonstrances at him, time, compulsorily rationed householders, but had a difficulty in making him come how to get their food-tickets, you will down. There was a ray of sun up there, always and the line. Infants Milk. he said, which reminded him of Portugal Row 26, 5" And though the milk-ticket and for the sake of the sun, he was will which promises you a litre of preferen ing to take the chance of being shot.

tial skim milk or half a litre of deferred Besides the infantry, the Portuguese skim-milk my give you no milk at all field artillery is particularly good. Thehough the ticket which promises you sil gunners are methodical, conscientious, af potatoes may only give you 6os. of and brava, and their shooting is admir-rice, that ticket for infants' milk will be- able. In all ways, indeed, there is every honoured in full. prospect of the Portuguese continuing to prove themselves an increasingly valimble element in the armies on this front.

It is late to begin the process of pre- serving a baby's life when it has already been born sickly of an ill-nourished mother, and the Germans begin with the For three months before her

The signala will be lowered when it origin and meaning they epitomise the show anything in its governmental records fined to the narrowed eircle of Allied child is born she receives a litre, a pint

is considered that all danger is over.

The Day Signals will be displayed at the masthead of the storm signal musi on Blackhead Hill, the Harbour Offies, H.M.B. Tamar, Green Island signal mast, the fagstaff on the premises of the Hong

mother, brides for British, princes will be con- houses. But since dynastic ties base proved so signal a failure in affecting international relationships, has not the old rule of our royal house that its time arrived when we can revert to the members may choose British wives and husbands? Edward IV., Richard 11,

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improve o Or even equal our

and three-quarters. of milk a day. She in the ethency of dynastie ties in regard | own sane, intelligent, democratic met to international relationships which was archism. There was a time, udmittedly,

receives that amount during the time the that she is recovering from that nursing is nursing her haby and during the time so widely held.

when even under the limited monarchy With the birth of the then Prince

healthy mother again. When the child in order that she may be kept it to become William of Prussia in 1800 it was felt that

reaches Une fedding bottle stage it receives the friendly feelings engendered by the

litre of milk a day sill it is two years marriage of Britain's Princess Royal with the Prussian Crown Prince were made

Henry VIII., and James II. all married old. From two to four years it receives more or less permantly enduring. know, but when history is written our There are more modern instances which to six it receives half a litre a day, All Company at Kowloon, the flagstall on the Never, said optimistic idealists joyfully, children may know, what we owe to the form happy precedents: Princess Louis this is fall milk. After its sixth birth- of the Constitution, which used to be married the Duke of Argyll Princess day it comes on to the preferential and

kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

premises of the Standard Oil Company st Laichikok, and the flagsta near the Field Officer's Quarters at Lyemun.

NIGHT SIGNALS. ''(Lampi) 1.-White-white-white.

-White-green-green.

3-Green-white-white.

6.-Green-green-white.

5.-White-white-green. 8.--Green-green-KTBEN. 7-Red-green-red.

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royal influence here was distrusted; but the evolution of the Constitution has pro- corded space since those times, and now; to quote Ragehot again, ** the bost Liberal politicians spy, We shall never

would there be danger now of the two Queen and Prince Albert. The mystery countries guing to war; with the reign ing houses so closely united it was yo thinkable. Even before the war it was patent to most people how little reliance was to be placed upon such hunds so far as the Prussians were concerned. Ther war has rudely dispelled any illusids which survived.

individual

British wives.

Arthur of

three-quarters of a litre a day: from four

ULSTER'S SACRIFICES.

MAN WHO LOST THREE SONS WITHIN AN HOUR

Connaught, great-grand-deferred skim milk which serves the rest hated by our calinest. most thoughtful

But it has received a really good start | that Queen's grandson, and having a son and instructed statesmen, is now loved ghter of Queen Victoria, married to of the community. and reverenced by them." Succeeding sovereigns have not departed from that who, un default of other heir, could in its physical fife; and that start, how- succeed to the throne, claims an Aberdeen ever bad the conditions in which it may high ideal.

merchant as ancestor on her father's side. have to live later, will never quite be lost: There is a wider an Imperial, aspect. Abroad, King Alphonso's queen, sharing to those children who live in good con- in which, if possible, the Crown looms us prond & throne as any, is the grandditions it will prove of incalculable-ad- Liter-related as are most of the royal

vantage, Already, by going to the source houses of Europe, there has not been the higher even than in home affairs, Its daughter of a morganatic marriage.

There should be no lack of choice for babies Germany has secured the result man-power and saving the lives of her instance during this war of dynastic ties sentimental value in the evolution of the affecting the policy of a country one and Empire is undoubted. Would the British aristoreracy, titled and untitled, old children to Germany thar if there

present status of Dominions, Colonies, British princes and princesses,

The that in 1921 there will be more six-year- or the other. King Albert is married to The Night Signals will be displayed, a Bavarian princess, but that fact in bonds have held equally well with a squal to any in Europe, embracing had been no war at all. She has secured Our Imperial families with pedigrees as long as that that result in spite of the fact that there st sunset, on the tower of the Railway fluence not an iota the Belgian outlook public? One wonders. Station, on H.M.8. Tamar, and on the when Germany so criminally violated her relations were not always so happy of the royal house itself, and in many has been a very heavy fall as much as pledge; nor did it mitigate in the slightest now. There was a time when even forecasts claiming direct descent from 50 per cent. in some parts of the country Harbour Office flagstad. They will have the horrors of the vengeance which Prus Joost British statesmen saw no more satis Plantagenet and Stuart kings. The direct-in the birth rate. That is to say that the same signifcation as the day signals. sinn and Bavarian soldiers inflicted upon factory prospect than separation when the line of descent in the male from the royal in 1910, should the Hohenzollerns still

that heroic little country. The Dukes of

Dominions felt themselves Stuarts, both Scottish and British. is to be in power, Germany will be able to en Bignal No. 7 will be accompanied by Cumberland, Brunswick. and

strong enough. That phase has passed, be found not in any royal house, but bark on another endeavour to conquer the never to return; but can one doubt that among the British aristocracy.

world with a larger army of young men explosive bombs so above, in the svens of Coburg-Gotha are by descent British as

Events in Russia; which have occurred of a better enality than she had in 1914. the information conveyed by this signal well as German princes, holding British large measure it is due to the unify tifles; all are fighting in the enemy ranks.ing influence of the Crown, claiming a

since this article was written have only Pily Mail. being frst published at night.

King Constantine's pro-German pre-common loyalty, a common allegiance, ne moral to point in regard to Briti elivities are popularly assumed to be due from all, in times when conflicting inaonarchism-that of its complete effecti BUPPLEMENTARY WARNING.

Romanoff autocracy has gone; When local signals are displayed that the can be set those of his blood re

to his Hohenzollern marriage, but against terests and blundering statesmanship ness.

were alienating influences! In the new Hohenzollerna and Hapsburge must so it the Harbour Cone will be exhibited atlationship with both King George and Imperial bonds which have been forged in as the writing on the wall, Tear Ferdin- the Tsar. The Crown Prince Danilo of the furnace of war, the Crown should play Montenegro has a German wife Tear a still large part. Ferdinand of Bulgaria is related to the

There is India. To vast multitudes British royal house. Nor can it be sap there the King-Emperor's name is every. posed that the marriage to a British thing, Would the proud princes and princess of King Ferdinand of Roumania chiefs there bear cheerful allegiance to a has influenced that country in joining republic? Got can hardly imagine it. the Entente, for King Ferdinand is Dizzy's peace with honour" part

Hohenzollern, Gonokn and. The object of the code is to give så loai | o

not in the Berlin Congress has brought us much tribulation, but his Indian policy, 34 hours warning of a gala (Forca 3 by Roumanian born and trained. Beaufort Basle, or 40-45 m.p.h., masn The evidence is too strong to resist the in this aspect of it should stone for much. velocity by Dines Ansiometer) and eles ennelusion that dynastie ties count for as Anything which strengthens the hold of warnings of expected changes in the little as the claims to national gratitude the Crown upon the affection and in direction and force of the wind. Uwing, which were generally assumed would preferests of the people makes for national however, to the uncertain movements of vent Bulgaria or Greece entering the well-being, because it makes for national typhoons and to insufficient telegraphic field against the Allies.

unity, holding up before all a common observations, it will occasionally happen

Heaven alone knows why such a belief bond which rises superior to all con that signals to may be displayed should have been so generally entertained,flicting creeds, interests, and politics without gale occurring at Hongkong. It finds little or no suppert in history. Fortunate circumstances have eliminated or even Gap Book, but the reverse is not The marriage of Charles I, with a French all whose claims of descent from the likely to happen, except in the case of princess did not prevent his making war British Stuarts are superior to those of typhoons forming in the vicinity, and on his wife's country almost immediately the present myal house, and thus, despite travelling rapidly towards Hongkong, or after his accession, nor did Napoleon the foreign origin of the Hanoverian it has fallen because of its failure to performed than were performed by the of a located typhoon increasing its rade

union with the Austrian emperor's dynasty, purely political and partly ac recognise the march of progress and its Ulster Division on July

own responsibilities, In a utilitarian The division obtained four V.Cs. in one of progression abnormally.

daughter save him from the active enmity cidental, we are happily back to condi. of the Hapsburg monarchy when chang-tions in which, divorced from the evil age, that which refuses to evolve day. The heroism of Private McFadzean, Gignal No. 1 is intended as a warning ing circumstances again made it possible theory of kingship by divine right, it is naturally, and so outgrows its usefulness, V.C., who gave his life for his comrades, to Stand By" and watch for the next for Austria to take the field against him. possible for the occupant of the throne cannot be allowed to remain to clog the has never been excelled in the history of signal.

There are other instances innumerable, to fill it by hereditary right, subject to wheels. Of all the lesions which the warfare.

none is not the least illuminating being the the free choice of a free people. Russian revolution teaches,

Last year I had to write to que man marital alliances between the English

clearer than that a well-intrationed but who lost three sons within an hour, and It is because of these things that the weak and vacillating man has needlessly several others who had lost two, and the and the Scottish royal houses. As Mr.

the following stations:-Gap Rock, Waglan, Stanley, Aberdeen, Ban Ki Wan, Bad Kang, Sha Tau Kok and Tai Po to notify the fact to native erafin passing ocean vessela.

Further details can always be given to cosan vessels, on demand, by signal from lighthouses,

In the new non-Local Code the approzi mate velocity of the storm cantre will be shown, in addition to its direction of

and no the beginning of the end of the Teutonic edifice he has imposed upon what is naturally a democratic people, Here, but for its effects upon the Alliance

The part which the Ulster Division and the course of the war, the revolution, would be of academic interest only played in the battle of the Somma list July was recalled recently by Sir Edward tinged by the warm sympathy which une Carson, in opening a féle in aid of Lady free people must feel for another strugCarson's Ulster Division Fund. gling towards the same goal.

a

King George's throne remains unshaken, "I took from the first," he added, unaffected in its democratic strength by fatherly interest in the Ulster Division. the cataclysm which is gounding the krell The non composing it were of my own of other dynasties Like the Italian and hoys. They had been with me for many the throo Scandinavian munchies, long day, training for a purpose which British monarchy can have no fear of I need hot now go into. When war broke Lout went over to them, and I said to revolution, because it is the form of them. England's difficulty is our diffi government which a free people has calty England's sorrow is our sorrowi evolved as being the best suited for ite and England's triumph must be our The same day I led 800 men own particular needs and because it triumph. rests solely on the broad basis of the as the pioneers of the Ulster Division into.

the recruiting office, w people's will

The Russian throne as we have known

I

No more heroic deeds have ever been,

last year

mation, and the position, of the centre James Douglas recently remarked, no questions of the marriage of the Prince thrown away a gent possession and an 'courage of the Ulstermen was such that

longitude. The time at which the warn

ing was ined will also be shown,

Scripture says,

Love your enemies,

It does not say, Love your relatives.""

Wales becomes For gene

now

the choles of royal rations

but once in many centuries, Chambers' better that it should be so than that the (Continued at foot of rest column.) Jourant.

cause of liberty should be lost."