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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9TH,

OUR LONDON LETTER. THE KING AS A CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGN.

The fact is that the F hours List is very good one, and at the more. so because the authors have not provided: gossip for the sensation-mongers and the Two cynical. There are no new peerages. baronetcies are awarded, for, in each instanc, public services A Privy Coun- eil orship is conferred upon Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the famous journalist, who has LORD DERBY'S POPULAR VICTORY AT for me time now beer Father of the

STRIKING TRIBUTE FROM THE LABOUR PARTY,

EPSOM.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, June 7th.

THE KING AND HIS MINISTERS.

An article appeared in the fast issue of the Spectator from the pen of Mrs. Philip Showlon; wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on "The King and Labour." Mrs. Snowdon is herself a keen political worker, and it is generally presumed that what site-writes is based on inside knowledge of the sphject.

House of Commons."

For the most part the List is made up of decorations to Civil servants, and in this lirection the Labour Government have simply followed a practier which hns obtained of late years with both Libe rals and Conservatives. A leader writer, in the Times puts it concisely by saying Labour Ministers accepted in principle the comparatively modern tradition that Civil servants are entitled, almost naga right, to certain titular Distinctions after regular periods of service, so that promotion in the orders of chivalry may Almost he said to depend rather upon rises in salary than upon any specia! achievement," So that's that. OUR CERIOUS CLIMATE

The point is emphasised that in all nctions by His Majesty during the lust few months since the Labour Government cume in there has been apparent the

It is unfortunate this year when we strictest constitutional propriety in his dealings with Ministers. It has been have more visitors from abroad in this impossible to find either social or poli- country than usual the weather has been All through the Spring tical" bias; on the contrary, there has so freakish. been

a punctilious care not to give the there were wintry conditions na people beast ground for suspicion that the coming here from warm countries rue- Charles Lamb once Labour Government was regarded by the fully discovered.

in the King and his Court as being, from the said May is a pious fraud

matter of weather, and this year there is point of view of the Constitution, in any ample proof of it, for the month has way

different from Liberal or a Consbeen cold and wet. vative. Government,"

I believe it is of prime importance that this fact should he widely known. expr. cintly on the authority of the wife of one of the principal Cabinet Ministers in the present Labour Government. Mrs. Snowdon adds without any reservation or qualification the handsome acknow ledgement that from the King down. wards, throughout the Civil Service, the Labour Government have had nothing but Hair play."

THE STRENGTH OF THE MONARCHY.

This is praise indeed and for such a happy and satisfactory state of things the country has reason to be grateful to King George. He has been able to co- operate in the business of Government so as to enable the work of administra tion to be accomplished smoothly and efficiently often, as those who know are prepared to admit, in the face of extreme partisanship King George very full understands his great position as a Con stitutional ruler, and in his dealings with Labour, now holding the reins of power: he proves how perfectly the Monarchy suit the British political system."

June is here, but it is still wet, with the temperature low. There have been heavy foods in various parts of the country, with houses and buildings ander water. What visitors to Wembly from overseas most complain of is the absence of sunshine, The sun bas been shy and inconstant, revealing himself only by fita and starts and never for long at a time. Naturally sport has suffered, especially cricket. However, being a philosophical ence, where the weather is concerned we shall all welcome, real" Simmer when it arrives. Perhaps it will be here on or about the date marked on the calendar as

Mid-summer's Day.”

A NOTE ON FREEMASONRY.

Freemasons are noting with particular interest, the fact that the appointments made by His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught as Grand Master of Eng- land have created a position without parallel in the lastory of Freemasonry in this country. At the moment there are four members of the reigning Royal House holding high rank in Masonry.

The Duko has appointed the Prince of Of the other hand I am quite convine Wales to be Provincial Cirand Master of Surrey, the Duke of York to be Gründ that the attitude of the Labour Govern-Master of Middlesex, and Prince Arthur, ment towards the King and his illustrious of Connaught to be Provincial Grand position is not merely the result of clever Master of Berkshire. Never before bas calentation, but is based on real PP there been such a constellation of Royalty: ciation of the King's personal character and broad human sympathies

WHEN BOYALTY GOES WAMBLING?? "King George and Queen Mary bave set the fashion about going to Wembley, They have been to the Exhibition five times and the King knows his way about and where the most interesting things are to be seen better than any expert guide..

There is an informality in the visits that is very pleasing to everybody-to the officials at Wembley as well as to the general public The King and Queen arrive without any previous announce ment, and are sometimes in the grounds roaming about like any other sightseera before their presence is discovered. One of the exhibits, which is the chief joke of the place, amuses thera as it does every body else the Canadian ranch of the Prince of Wales sculptured in butter, with a life-like carving of the Prince in the same material. The question every- one is asking is when is it going to melt

It plused King Grorge, to be able to take the King and Queen of Italy and their children round when the Italian Roynlilies were here last week. There are vast excitement among the natives in the Gold Coast village, and a bevy of black women walked before King George and chanted what was described as a ealutation to "the Lord of the Empire. It was in this village that the native chief wanted to know who the Queen was and was told by an attendant, this is the King's missus.' "Queeen Mary, was greatly aroused.

associated in office with the Craft in the whale of its wonderful history. L. be lieve that according to the records, Royalty in England first began the con- nection with Freemasonry in 1737 when the eldest son of George the Second was. faitiated, and he was the first Prince of Wales to become a member. Since that far-off day, however, the connection has never been broken. King George is, of course, a Mason but naturally holds no office. It is more than probable that the position mentioned above sets up a pre- cedent not likely to be repeated).

THE DERBY,

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The victory of Lord Derby's coll Baaso. vino in the Derby was extremely gratify ing. The owner is one of the most po pilar men in the country; and apart. from that there is a special reason for pleasure in bis success. Although the classic race was initiated by one of Lord Derby's ancestors in the Eighteenth Century, na member of the House of Stanley has over before carried off the blue riband of the Turf. Year after year they have tried. Sometimes it has been almost within their grasp, but Fortune. denied to let then win, banding the coveted prize to someone else.

At the Press Club in Fleet Street where he was entertained a couple of days before the race, Lord Derby in res ponse to a delicate suggestion that a tip would be acceptable, smilingly ang- geated that a good plan would be to pat the names of all the horses entered into a hat and pick one name out. Certainly, it was an open raze this year. The racing experts were confounded when they at- I hear that the Government's plans for tempted to tell the public what was the right thing to do in backing their fancy. conducting an inquiry into the export A bunch of horses seemed to have about trade of Great Britain are to be speeded equal chances, and any one of them might up. Actually a proposal is being con-bring it off." This, of course, made sidered at the moment to set up a co the Derby an event of more than ordi- mittee of leading business man, who

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would get a roving commission to visitary interest and imparted a spice of the big Dominions, especially Canada, excitement that was exceptional and

piquant. Australia and New Zealand, and try to find ways and means of stimulating trade with the Mother Country.

WONDERFUL ORGANISATION

There is nothing but unqualified praise This, of course, sounds all right, but for the manner in ca the vast road some are sceptical whether any practical traffic. to Epsom Downs was anarsballed good can come of expedient of this kind. and managed on Derby Day. The police In some quarters the view is that in an responsible for arrangemen's ezzelled investigation such as that proposed the themselves. It was-marvellous bow they Government are handicapped by an uncontrolled the scores of thousands of compromising adherence to Free Trade vehicles that converged from every point even to the extent of looking coldly upon of the compass on the classic course Imperial Preference. However, it is There was no hitch, scarely any delays," understood that, acting on the instruc and no serious recidents. tions of the Prime Minister, the Pre A sausage" balloon, similar to those sident of the Board of Trade intends to which were used on the Western frant subunit the scheme for an inquiry to a during the war for the purpose of “' spot. free vote of the House of Commons. If ting for enemy movements, was employ. he does there is sure to be a good deal of plain speaking, in which the Protec tionists are not likely to mince matters DIRTHDAY HONOURS.

The King's Birthday Honours List the first to be issued since Labour came into office has, on the whole, met with

ed by the police. It was sent up and an chored aloft over the coarse. Col. Laurie,

of the Deputy Chief Commissioner Scotland Yard, an experienced, airman and a wireless telephonist, were in the basket of the balloon. The officer sur eyed the traffic as it came along the

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Old and experienced observers of the years past the Derby has been an inter the Prime Minister is an unimaginative person, devoid of originality; but I think Derby are quite certain in their minds national event beyond all rise in this is only because they announced be that this year the great event the great the world of sport; but on the present eat sporting fixture in the world-wax at occasion with so many extra thousands forchand there was sure to be several ended by more people from abroad than here, for the Wembley Exhibition it was startling innovations, and they are an- noyed, as may prophets might be, that ever before-in its history. I can well be only to be expected that the Derby was lieve that this was the case. For many more international in character than" their predictions have failed to come

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