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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY. SIIT, 1999,

MR. LLOYD GEORGE. THE STORY OF HIS RISE "TO "FAME.

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organised a revolt among his school- fellows, and, by his obstinacy and courage, managed to win a victory over the omni- patent and red Vicar, to free his follow Dissenters from further attempts to wean There are few careers in the political them from the communion of their fathers. Here, as in the section story, one has is Slaterman, more remarkable or more pics germ what. Mr. Lloyd George has been turesque than that of the man whose une all his life-a bora, fearless, an instinc is on the lips of everyone to-day. Not tire 6ghter. The surface of the nature much more than thirty years or is good-humour, friendliness, simplicity, a solicitor, without readiness to obligy, the desire of every Lloyd George was

Celt to please; but, in the depths, the many, and with bat a tiny practice in a village; and today, politically, he is the fear. He once dechred to a friep-l that he Welsh town-it might even be said a Welsh character is strong, eten stern, and without first beure in the greatest Empire in the was miserable and irresolute and nervous work.

till he made up his mind; but, once he He is the son of a man whose career had come to a determination, he ceased to was, I may respects, a strange contrast have any further misgiving or trouble; to his own. For Mr. Llyod George's then he went right through, wintever the father was one of these meu, half scholar, cost-a hint for Sir Gerge Younger, and

And his professional career and repata SHANGHAI spiritual to be successful as farnier, and too much of the farmer to attain quite to the tion began in a fight. He might now be af passant, who have too much of the others to-day highest position in the world of religion or a disappointed old gentleman, still eating thought A Unitarian, a Welshman, out is heart with all briefs beford sanguine and gentle dreamer, Mr. Lloyd local magistrates who hated his principles

approximately wrock Le passengers and barre George's father led a somewhat wandering and embarrassel his career, if it had not

calling at Solbow when inducement offers life: now in Liverpool, now in Hau- been for one of those fights in the burial HAIPHONG LINE sccommodation, sailings from both parts every Friday

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A poor collier, dying, wished to be buried once more near his native plage in Wales, as farmer on his native soil; and ending by the side of a daughter whom he had in poverty, perchance in broken hopes, and tenderly loved and who had died before

But the collier was a Dissenter, and"] with affrighting and heart-breaking appre-him. hensions us to the future of the wife and the ashes of the daughter lay in the bosom two children, little more than babes, whom of the Church graveyard. And there came he left to the cold and cruel mercy of the a collision between a stupid Vicar and the relatives and friends of the dead collier aa world.

to the realisation of the poor collier's pathetic testament. And Lloyd George, as solicitor and advisor of the collier's people, became a national name in Wales in w months' time as the leader of a fierce revoit auch bigotry as the Vicar represented.

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His apprehensions, according to Mr. T. P: O'Connor, were not without justice; and yet turned out to be groundless. For the wife belonged to that best of stock

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woman who are ready, willing, and able to face even the whole world in the fight for the little ones whom they have borne.

His mother, invited by her brother to come hack to her native place, sold up the furniture of the little home where she and her dead husband bad lived, and her little boy, not long out of the cradle, with that spirit of hot and fearless resistance which he has since revealed on the great stage of the world's conflicts, suggested to his sister that they should put some gravel under the gates so that those sinister enemies, the men who came to the sale of the humble household goods of the family, should not be able to invade and plunder

the home.

ALWAYS LUCKT..

Mr. Lloyd George he also been all his life a lucky man. When a verey occurred, in the Curaarron Boroughs-always rather aahaky constituendy, with a very even balance between the two parties-the Liberals did not go to the young and not wealthy solicitor as their first choice; they tried to get another, an older and a Wealthier man. But this gentleman was much, too wise to complicate his life by going to the House of Commons, and Mr. Lloyd George had to be chosen.

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"I remember," says a chronicler, young he was when he first appeared on the scene in the nineties. Very elight, From this time forward one must find very boyish-faced, very alert, with twinkl. the secret and guidance of the life of Daviding good humour as the chief expression Tloyd George in his uncle, Richard Lloyd It is the religion and the communion of his dacle to which Mr. Lloyd Georgy belongs, and not. the communion of his dend father. And this small fact alone accounts for much in the Premier's life.

And he il for

of his face, be gave little indication of the greatness he was afterwards to attain. And, nobody had a poorer opinion of his prospects than Lloyd George himself. Then accustomed only to Welsh ideas and, Welsh struggles, ferrid Celt and orator of The repark has been made before, but the platform, be found the atmosphere of it will hear rejeating tint it is striking the House of Commons unfavourable, un- proof of how far our destinies are made sympathetic, almost repulsive to bim. Its for us before we are born, that a little superficial cynicism, its tepidity, its long dispute in a tiny dissenting communion in intervals of mere dulness, all appeared to Scotland at the close of the eighteenth him to be an environment to which he century-in the year 1799 to be quite could never be suitable.

many years great self-distrust, and, now accurate should have shaped a life so re- markable and important as that of Mr. and then even the temptation to throw up the whole irksome, unsympathetic work Lloyd George. For, with his gifts 'as speaker, his fervid temperament, and his and go back to bis own town and his own interest in political controversy, and, added people. But, thongh he did not know it, to all this, his priverty, Lloyd George would he was already making his mark. And he probably have become a minister of a dis-made his mark partly by taking up de senting communion, and be to-day preach-tached and unpopular positions on the ques ing in an obscure Welsh town or village tion in which was specially interested, if it had not been for the fact that the tenets of the creed of his uncle forbade the paid ministery, and, therefore, compelled the young buy to seek his livelihood else

where.

And this was why a terrible struggle like that of the Great War brought out these gifts of intellect, and still more of temperament, which we great destinies inevitable to him.

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It is a sight not easily forgotten tá see. FRENCH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Richard Lloyd earned his living as the the Premier roused in the Commons. Re- village bootmaker when his illustrious riep-calling scene of years ago, a critic hew was a child. But in Wales there is that wrote: "It was hard to say which was singular combination of poverty, lowly the more to be admired the cold cour station, and a great thirst for knowledge, age of this sight. solitary figure braying of there multitudinona which makes the Welsh unique among the the vengeance nationalities of even the British islands. opponents, or the overwhelming majority Richard Lloyd was a scholar and a thinker flouted, defied. humiliated, and yet sus by instine. What he did rot know, he respectful of liberty of speech, of Parlia tried to learü in order that he might teach mentary decorum, of the mighty traditions his nephew. Few pages in the bistory of of the Parliament of Edigland, and also the pursuit of lettera are more touching so full of that self mastery, especially in than the story of the village shoemaker bours of peril, which is the Englishman's sitting down to spell out of grammars highest virtue, it listened in silence to

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Mr. Lloyd Georgs is 58 years of age and order that be might teach his nephew enough French to pass his examination he has been Prime Minister sincs, 1916. for entering on his studies as a solicitor. When Lord Kitchener del he became Sec For thus it was Lloyd George got such retary for War and in December, 1916, he learning ad was necessary to start his became Prime Minister. He formed a new career as a student in the law. The money Ministry after the General Election in required to become a solicitor was not large December; 1918. At the Peace Conference in those days-some two hundred pound it was generally conceded that Mr, Lloyd or so-but it was a gigantic sum for a George was the dominating figure. He was certainly the supreme figure at the family in circumstances so strained that half an egg every Sunday morning was many Irish Conferences and the manner in considered a luxury and a feast by the which be disposed of Mr. de Valera is hold by many to be the cause of that gentle- three little children of the household.

The records of Mr. Lloyd George's boy-man's antagonism to the recently signed hood all reveal the same sipirt as that Anglo-Irish Treaty. Now he is proving little episode when he asked his sister to himself to be easily the dominating figare join in the passive resistance to the auction at Genc.

fends that came to break up their child-

hood's home. As a boy he was daring and THE METHOD OF MOUNTING defiant, and with all the high animal spectacle gissses is of the greatest spirits that mark health of body and

importance," writes Dr. C. Hartridge, mind-a detastator of the orchard, now

Ophthalmic Surgeon and and then truant in the woods rather F.B.C.R., than a seeker of the stuffy and laborious school, and already a born and instinctive rebel against authorities and things he disliked.

A BORN FIGHTER.

Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery to the Westminster Hospital, "they must be accurately centred in frames that are light, strong and fit well, otherwise the In Wales, there was an intensity of good effect of the most carefully chosen feeling between Churchman and Dissenter correction may be entirely frustrated by which was known in a very much mitigated & laulty position of the glasses, or even shape in England; and Lloyd George, being a pupil in a Church school, soon fresh source of eye-strain may be intro. found himself in collision with the as-duced The Hongkong Optical Co. cendancy of that Church which he had been successors to Clark & Co., Eefracting and brought up to dislike. The Vicar was Manufacturing Opticians, located in 51, unwise enough to press on the children

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