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THEIR MAJESTIES' SILVER it is their service even more than their

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WEDDING..

TRIBUTES IN PARLIAMENT.

Deep and beartfelt expressions of the nation's loyalty and affection towards, the King and Queen were offered in both Hopies of Parliament upon the celebra tion of their Majesties' Silver Wedding In the Upper Chamber and in the. Com mons & résolution was passed, in identi- eal terms, to present a congratulatory Address to the King and Queen warmly appreciating their unfailing dereción to duy in this time of stress, Earl Curzon and the Marquis of Crewe, in glowing ternis, moved and seconded the resolution in the, House of Lords, and the Prime Minister and Mr.Asquith kave eloquent utterance in the Commen

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Royal station that has won for them the devotion of the Empire. (Hear, hear.)

nents.

HIGH STANDARD OF SERVICE."

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1918.

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All this has strengthened the Monarchy in times, when systems of Government and most certain trial that the world have been put to the severest. xternest;

has ever known.

When thrones were tattering--soms ancient thrones-when monarchs were being deprived of their sceptres in other lands, Britain's Throne. became more firmly established than ever on the only foundation which is lasting- the ffection and goodwill of the people. No King and Queen ever won a more süre place in the regard and loyalty of all classes of their subjects, and the var which has severed so many ties has only strengthened the bonds which unite the Sovereign and his people.

made more like home from the intimate knowledge which the Sovereign possesses of his whole Empire. Thus those Royal those countless visits to the wards of boa. expeditions to the front and the Fleet,

pitals, the conferment of decorations won at sea and in the Beld, those visits to munition factories and to other indus- trial centres scarcely less important for the conduct of the war, all these guin added value and added meaning from the recollection which we all have of the twenty-five years of work which their Majesties have performed side by side, work for the country and the Empire, and work done in the full light of public opinion. Therefore, in adding a word to with enthusiasm, I would only express grity of the Empire means more to civili ask your lordships to vote this Address At a crisis in our fate, when the inte- the humble hope that their Majestiessation than it has ever done in our past may be granted many more happy years history, the position won by the occup- together, that they may 5nd, new and

Rate of the Throne in the minds of the added happiness in seeing the, Prince of people of the Empire is a matter of Wales (cheers)-who has already earned Imperial moment. The stability of the so much regard by his conduct in the Throne is essential to the strength of the war, and the rest of the Royal family, Empire, for it is not merely a symbol develop those useful energies, following of unity, it is in itself a bond of unity. so win an increasing measure of national of loyalty but a heartfelt and spontaneous in the steps of their Royal parents, and It is therefore no mere traditional tributo respect and affection: And, lastly, that, expression of the people's affection, when the clouds of war are dispersed,steem, and goodwill which greets this in a time of unchallengeable peace and of ever-increasing national development, We rejoice they have been given a wedded anniversary of their Majesties' wedding. both material and moral, their Majesties life of such unbroken prosperity. We may bind yet closer the links which unite rejoice they have been able to see their them to their subjects all over the world. children grow up all their children grow (Cheers.)

up to bear their share in the national life. We pray that they may long co- tinue to guide the destinies of this Empire. Above all do we devoutly pray that newer lustre will be added to their felicity by the crowning at no distant date of the dark affiction and the great sacrifice of their people by a complete triumph that will banish war and all its herrors from their horizon for ever and for

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misunderstandings threatened to weaken A home the popularity which their the larm of Britain, when all her might

was needed, the King's and Queen's. Majesties enjoyed from the days when they were so well-known as the Duke and presence invariably helped, to smooth, What an impetus has been given to this Duches of York has become established i difficulties. They went there not merely happy intercourse between the monarchs an the years have gone on into a relation to persuade and to encourage but also to and their people: what an opportunity of intimacy, one might say of actual inquire and to help to remove the danges for the vibration of the subtler chords of friendliness and affection, which has only Queen has been the support and partner of Fritation. In all these tasks thes

human sympathy and fellow-feeling has increased as time has passed. In the been found in the circumstances of the second place, tens of thousands of his

of our Sovereign. The truest and wisest present war.

of mothers in her own home, she has The demands made by Majesty's subjects who have 'came from modern wars upon the services of the India and from the Dominions to serve

displayed the saine mutherly care for the head of the State are less perilous, busin, the war have felt that home has been peoples over whom the King reigns. perhaps not less exacting. than in the struggles of old. The King is 'ho longer called upon to lead his host to battle, or to win or lose a crown on the field of combat. But he is a very visible factor in the business and organisation of war. There are few accessible places on the war fronts either by land or sea, which EARL CURZON'S EULOGY.

his Majesty has not visited in person, stimulating the soldiers and sailors by In the House of Lords Ear] Curzon

bis presence, applauding and rewarding moved:-

their valour, condoling with their suffer. That a bumble address le present-ings and commiserating in their bereave ed to their Majesties to congratulate

Simultaneously the wounded in the them on the twenty-fifth anniversary of hospitals. the nurses in the wards, the their wedding; and to assure their workers of mary classes and degrees be Magesties that this House, deeply inter

hind the lines, have been cheered and consoled by the gracious presence and ested in the personal well-being of the kindly words of her Majesty the Queer. Sovereign, and warmly appreciating home that the King and Queen have been But I think it is principally here and at 'their Majesties' unfailing devotion to enabled to set new, and higher stand- duty in this time of stress, profoundly and of netive servia during the war. shares the sentiments of loyal affection Themselves the leading war workers of the nation, they have taken no boliday with which their peoples throughout and allowed themselves no respite in the world welcome the anniversary of shipyards, in the munition works, in the so felicitous a union; and joins with

roaring factories, amid the training camps, they have beered and encouraged them in praying earnestly for the con- the exertions of their people. With their tinuance during many years of their

own eyes they have witnessed, and by Majesties' health and happiness.'

their example they have fed, the furnace of national energy, still burning so fierce- There is no precedent in our Parlia-ly at the opening of the fifth year of mentary history (the noble Earl said) for war. And then think of the many heroes the action which both branches of the upon whose breast the King has pinned Legislature are being invited to take this the award of valour, und of the sorrow- afternoon. When King Edward VII ing widows and mothers to whom he has celebrated his silver wedding with the so after handed the records of the glory gracious lady who is "still amongst us, that survive the grave. In this way their beloved by all, he had not yet ascended Majesties have added both to the strength the Throne The gifted Consort of Queen and purpose of the nation, and the Victoria did not live, long enough to see

In moving the address I feel that I anx nation has felt in these four years of expressing the unanimous sentiment of the twenty-Efth anniversary of his toil and agony almost without pre-

the Honse and the whole of the people wedding day. Neither did King William redent that the King and Queen, follow-whom we represent. (Cheers.) Even in IV. The parried life of his predecessor, ing the same path as themselves, have King George IV., was already overcloud. incurred the same "risks, have their eyes ed before that epoch had been reached. fxed on the same goal, and await the When King George III, more than 130

same ultimate deliverance. These are the years ago, had been married for twenty- sentiments which explain the close union. five years to Queen Charlotte, the idea of between the Sovereigns and their people gerating "the silver wedding, so dear. which has grown up in recent years, and to the present generation, had not yet a nich accounts for the peculiar interest suggested itself, to that prosale age. This, that the celebration of this anniver- then, is the first occasion on which the ary in their lives has aroused in the nation and Pärliament have joined to hearts of the nation. May health and sther in the public commemoration of strength be vouchsafed to them to con- interesting and memorable an vent. But time this beneficent work. May their the precedent. I think, is not merely the hoa life be as free from scrrow 15 result of accident. It has a deeper and their public life has been free from wider significance, for if the question be reproach May bey, under the blessing ard why it is that the nation and of the Almighty, live to see the day Parliament, as the representative of the twenty-five years hence, when other nation, are taking this willing and joyous speakers will rise from these benches to part in the celebration of an event the congratulate them and the nation on yet ignificance of which is primarily domes another anniversary not less splendid in tie, the answer lies in this that in the example and even more rich in accom later history of the British Monarchy the plishment. (Cheers.} hoine of the Sovereign has been dear to the hearts of the people, who have seen in a mirror of those qualities and "execilences which they fondly believed to be one of the main sources of the national trength. There has never been an occa sien in the long and illustrious history of the British Throne in which the iifo of the Monarch' has been in closer bar- mony with these conceptions of simplicity, self-discipline, and devotion to duty, which are among the most deeply cherish ed ideals of our race. (Cheers.)

This

THE MARQUIS OF CREWE The Marquis of Crewe said: motion needs, in fact, no further com mendation than. that it has received in the felicitous phrases of the noble Earl, but it is right that commendation should also be expressed from this side of the House, it with lees eloquence, with equal sincerity and conviction. (Cheers.) It is upwards of 130 years since a King and Queen of England could have cele brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of

Erst occasion on which such a celebration

nemine contradicente.

The motion Was declared carried

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PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.

In the House of Commons Mr. Lloyd George moved the same resolution. Ho said:

R. ASQUITH

Mr. Asquick. I believe I am addres- presenting the people of this, country these grave times we should not be re-

sing few, if any, of those who were pre- sent twenty-five years ago at the marriage were we not to lay aside for a few minutes our preoccupation with grimmer had the honour to attend in the capacity of the Duke and Duchess of York, which events in order to offer a loyal tribute of felicitation to their Majesties on their of Home Secretary to her Majesty Queert silver wedding. We use in this motionctoria. It does not seem to me to be a the time-honoured phraseology that the in the personal well-being of the Sever House of Commons is deeply interested eign. But that is no mere phrase. I

bernate date as dates are counted in

recall the names of some of these who bisters, but it would be impossible to were there without giving striking illas a country possessing monarchical in-trations of the changes which in only a stitutions the success or failure of a

few years have been brought about by the march of time and by the mutability of that, I feel, the most important aspect human fortunes. Happily, in one-and

Royal marriage constitutes a matter not national concern, because it is a fact that merely of antional interest but of deep it exercises a subtle and permeating in- fluence beyond peasure on the life of the nation as a whole.

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We can look back to that memorable cere- mony with unmeasured and unchequered satisfaction. The hopes that were "felt, the prayers that were breathed, that a union so momentous to so many millions cf people might be crowned with both personal and national blessings--pose hopes have been more than realised, those" prayers have been fully and abundantly answered. One may say with confidence and without a tinge of over statement, that, in the annals of our own, or, indeed, of any. Royal House, there has been nu

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MONEY WASTED ON FOOD.

Sovereigns govern the lives of their subjects less by edict than by example, and the King and Queen of the realm. by the beauty, simplicity, and purity of their home life, by the kindliness and 53mpathy which they have invariably dis played towards all their subjects, by their unwearying devotion to all that duty exacts, have wielded an influence that cannot be assessed on the character of the hundreds of millions of the Em-instance of an apter and completer blend. pire, who instinctively lock up to the ing of all the qualities and conditions domestic tappiness.. Throne as their patron. For that reason, which make up were it for no other, the success of the Theirs has beer, as my right hon. friend marriage whose twenty-fifth anniversary justly said, from the first, as it is to-day, we have been celebrating, the happiness an ideal English home, and their child- ren, united in affection to their parents THE EMPIRE'S INTERESTS.

consecrated, are gladdening facts, con- Mary of us recall the summer day, now has taken place. It is allowable to-day that stituting a matter of congratulation and showing one after another a determina twenty-five years ago, when the young our thoughts should dwell for a moment rejoicing throughout the whole of the tion to follow in the path of public duty couple, already destined in anticipation

on this historical grandeur of the Eng-ing's Dominions. (Cheers.) No King the high example which has been set by to a life of such high responsibility, drove fish Monarchy, through the long visits of

was ever called upon to face greater their eldest brother, his Royal Highness issues or more shattering events. For the Prince of Wales (Hear, hear.) through the streets of London to and history, from the succession of the pre-

Their Majesties' married life was just from the wedding ceremony. We also

Beat Royal House, through the long roll generations the Empire had enjoyed a recall the Sgures of the Royal grand Stuart, Tudor, and Plantagenet Kings, peace and a tranquillity unbroken except entoring, I think, upon its seventeenth mother, Queen Victoria, already owed up to the Norman conquest, and, further by incidents which barely disturbed the rear when by the lamented death of King with age and pain, and the Royal mother, still. in the same line of succession of surface of the national character. Soon Edward VII. they were suddenly called Princess Mary-not the least beloved of blood, through the dim annals of the after the King ascended the Throne there to the highest place in the units Th

The was a long apprenticeship, but its years referred were already gathering on the bodies. were signs of a coming storm. Neither of those Saxon line, up to the Sovereign who was Royal ladies could have wished for the the pattern of all his successors-the Agadir episode was the first cloud that had tot been wasted in frivolity or idle wedded pair a happier future than that great Alfred himself..

It happened that when King beraided the approaching break in theness. which lay before them. No one in that

weather, and for four years the world George succeeded to the Throne I was at As Mr: Gladstone once observed on a crowd, as we invoked the blessings of Pro- notable occasion, the people bave desired

has been devastated by the greatest hur the lead of the Governinent; and "I con vidence on them, could have desired-o that their Sovereign hould be the centre ricane that ever swept over the surface tinued to hold that position for nearly fuller response to the nation's prayer.of a splendid Court; and during the last of the globe. And there are no signs for the whole of the first seven years of his The nation in regard to this union of three reigns the people have shared and the moment of it abating. The King has eventful reign. No one therefore has had better opportunities for seeing at first now & quarter of a century has seen a

appreciated on all appropriate occasions faced it all with the calmness of one

quarters, and knowing at first hand, the picture of domestic happiness all but the stately pageants of processions and trained in youth to counter stormy seas.

part which the King and his Consort antinged by dickness or suffering. It parades, but they would not have enjoyed (Cheers.)

bave played during the series of the has seen the Palace a model of a British these as they did but for the fact that

various and testing phases of the unfold- home; it has seen the family growing they knew that behind all the magni Those of all parties who have beeing of our national issue. If there aza up around their parents, each of whom. Ecence and the glitter there existed the privileged to serve as his Minsters during any people who are disposed to think as he has approached the age of mata-

everyday life of the Royal House framed these four years can best testify to his that, apart from social and ceremonial rity, has been dedicated to the same form on the same scheme as that of other plea- unhaunted courage under the most duties, the function of a constitutional of public service; while the eldest son is

sant and prosperous homes, given to a dismaying conditions, and how in hours Sovereign is that of a benevolent cypher only absent from the side of his parents great deal of serious hard work and not of anxiety be has watched all the or detached locker on. I can assue them en this memorable occasion because he is

a little tiresome drudgery, and varied vicissitudes of the terrible conflict and they know very little of the truth. This serving at the front-(cheers)—“ a verray

British Princesses.

UNDAUNTED COURAGE,

and when he had accepted the final com

Everyone knows that without food wa sels of his constitutional advisers adopt- ed and acted on them with whole-hearted cannot live! But fond is of many kinds,

It is four years ago this and "One man's food is another man's' sympathy. month since the King, with the object, poison." Yet how ignorant mest of us are if possible, of surmounting the most for concerning the elementary facts of food We eat what we like, midable of all our domestic difficulties, and nutrition. brought together, unhappily without re-what appeals to our palate, instead of sult, the Buckingham Palace Conference: selecting our food intelligently and with The clouds to which my right hon. friend proper regard to the various needs of our The first prece- By so doing we not only waste money, international horizon. cupation of the King, as of his Ministers, but lessen our physical and mental was, if and so long as it could be done efficiency, even if we do not bring upon without breach of our national boncur, ourselves the pains and penalties which to avert the unimaginable" calamities of are the unhappy lot of the victims of indigestion, biliousness, and kindred dis- European war,

orders of the stomach, liver and bowels.

Remember, it is not what you eat, but what you diye, that nourishes your body and keeps you strong and healthy

parfit gentil knight," the standard-bearers the same opinion and the invents fulfilled in every sphere of council and is not on occasion

from time to time relieve the labours action all the functions of a constitutional among the armies of our Allies of British other English men and English women:" monarch in the hour of his country be appropriate to" defins or defend the and of such a war as this, that tests the intestines. Impurities are given off which chivalry and British attachment to the Such has been the life of their Majesties peril His constant thought for thong office of the monarchy in a democratic age cornmon cause. (Hear, hear.)

who on land and on sea are undergoing endless dangers for their country his solicitude and that of the Queen for those who are suffering pain for their native land, their tenderness for those who bearing the more poignant and enduring, pangs of grief-all these bave sunk deep into the hearts of the people, who will never forget them. I feel, as one who has bad a good deal to do with the munitions,

during the twenty-fivo years of their But their Majesties in their very life happy unica, with this conspicuous have done much more than exhibit a pat- addition that they have enjoyed oppor- tern of domestic happiness or of the tunities such as have fallen to none of domestic virtues. Both before and after their illustrious predecessors of not their Accession their manifold energies merely visiting but of studying with the have taken them to remote parts of the greatest possible advantage the larger Empire, where they have been seen and part of the wide dominions over which acclaimed by more millions of their they now hold sway. It is literally true subjects than have ever before set ever. that since his Majesty became a naval upon a British King and Queen. There cadet forty-one years ago he has got a of this country, that I should also dwell are few parts of their Dominions which closer first-hand knowledge of the for a moment on the help which the they have not themselves visited, identify ing themselves everywhere with the in- terests, the lives, the tastes, and the accupations of grind races speaking many and diverse tongues. In this way the Sovereigns of the State have become the State's greatest public servants, and

Dominions and India than any one of his subjects could possibly have, and thus, when the time of trouble and test for the Sovereigns of the nation came, they enjoyed a double advantage which they had earned by all those previous years of

work.

King gaye by his visits to the yards and factories and workshops of the country, where men and women have been tiling hard to equip the nation's armies and navies for this grent struggle. Wherever they went they encouraged and inspired those who toil, and when perplexities and"

When the full history of the closing days of July, 1914. is unveiled it will be known-till then, it cannot be known with what unwearying tact and assiduity bis Majesty strove for peace. But it was Unless food is converted by the diges- not to be, and even with the incomplete tive processes into a condition in which evidence that has yet been given to the it can br. absorbed into the system world, there is no longer any question at muscles, bones nerves and brain-are whose door lies the guilt and responsibi. slowly but surely starved. Food in such it for this war. There was a saying in a case is indeed sometimes positively the ancient world that it is rule which harmful. It hinders instead of helps, weakens instead of strengthens. How? tests the real quality of a man. Let me which it would add to that, it is the experience of war, Because it ferments in the stomach or

real quality of a democratic King. Few

find their way into the blood and affect, who have not seen him at first hand can disastrously the whole body. realise the gravity of the burden which,

If you would get full value from the from the first day of the war has lain cafood you eat, you must see to it that your the shoulders of the King and Queen, or digestive organs are always equal to the to the extent to which they have volun- work you give them to do. Now and then, tarily added to its weight by countless from one cause or another, they may lose Felf-imposed tasks and duties. They have tone. At such times you will find it. won for themselves by the worthiest of better to save a shilling or two, on food titles an impregnable place in the hearts and spend it on Mother's Biegel's Syrup of the people and an undying memory than to pile up misery for yourself by in the country's annals. It is fitting continuing to eat more than your weaken- that. this House should offer, as it does ed organs can digest, to-day, a tribute of its gratitude and affection to the Crown, and its expression of the heartfelt prayer that their reign may be prolonged to witness the garner ing of the fruits of an honourable peace. (Cheers.)..

and country. But what concerns 'us tray is not the abstract merits or practical utility of the institution, but the manner in which it has worked in times of almost unexampled difficulty by our present King and Queen.

SELF-IMPOSED TASKS.

The earlier years of their reign' bad more than their share of trouble and anxious times. But through them all, an I can testify, the King, with the ever ready sympathy and co-operation of her Majesty, Dever lost hoad, or brart, or rerve, always leant towardy policies of reconciliation and appeasement, diligent ly thought out day by day the problems. whether of his own duty or of the nation'a need, showed unfailing consideration for, (Continued at foot of next Column.)

The motion was agreed to nemine con- tradicente.

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