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KING EDWARD VII. AND GERMANY.

ATTEMPTS TO SECURE AMITY BETWEEN THE

"TWO NATIONS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24th, 1927,

Aimed at them. I have, by the Way, in an answer to King Edward which I sent to him this morning hinted superficially at the news as a thing, known for a long time.

"THE DARK← ANGEL" "AT | CHARGE AGAINST CHINESE CONFESSION OF FAILURE.

THE QUEEN'S, #

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and Lascelles who are to dine with

CONSTABLE.

BRIBERY_AND_MISCONDUCT "ALLEGED."

THE RED CAMPAIGN IN CHINA

am anxious for a sight of the King WAR TIME PICTURE TAKEN

IN ENGLAND,

me on Friday"

KAISER AND KING ON THE FAR EASTERN PROBLEM. Jess well primed: Lord Lansdowne HINDU RUINS IN INDO CHINA, COMPLAINANT A MEMBER OF

[BY SIR SIDNEY" LEZ ]

It was to foreign affairs and to members of the two alliances to military affairs that the King from gether in a combined challenge to the first mainly directed his atten- Britain's place in the world. tion The foreign policy of the Britain was thus isolated, friend- country had been his eager study less and engaged in a none too Lor some forty years. Long before successful or popular War when his accession he had talked over King Edward ascended the throne its details or corresponded about

Tentative Bleps. them with British Ministers and

Even before King Edward came Foreign Ambassadors in England, to the throne several prominent or with foreign statesmen and their British statesmen had begun to rulers abroad, with an ever-grow-urge the abandonment of our ing zest, His protracted struggle splendid isolation," and in the

with his mother over his desire that

the Foreign Office should, transmit their despatches to him had ended

more acute minds our natural allice were thought to be Germany and America. Ia November, 1899,

The King, for his part, was no had drawn up on August 18th for the particular use of the King a memorandum on questions which might be referred ie in the inter- view. Lansdowne thought the main Points to be dealt with were the negotiations respecting affairs in China, South Africa, Koweit, and Morocco.

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[BY OUR FILM CRITIC]

TRIAD SOCIETY.

In a case heard before Mr. W, Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy stable was alleged to have assaulted yesterday afternoon a Chinese cou

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.""

According to the Rigs correspon. dent of The Times," the Ikki; or Executive Committee, of the Com- munist International has come to munist efforts in China have met the conclusion that this year's Com-

a tug master, residing at Kowloon, with total defeat, and has address to have demanded money from himed instruction to all members of by unlawful means and to have been the Chinese guilty of misconduct in the course of his duty.

One is left in no doubt why Hong. Kong audiences voted for a revival of "The Dark Angel," for it is an The "Kaiser's Own' Account/

unutually interesting fim. As ̈a The next day. the two monarchs met, Sir Frank Lascelles also being war time story of great pathos, it present. By way of easing matters yet manages to steer clear (almost) at luncheon, the Kaiser presented of film sentimentality. It is appar to the King a beautiful epergue of

more difficult on the his own design which graced the eatly even

Mr. G. S. Hugh Jonce, represent spirits and quite affectionate in his literature, to convey a tragic theme Mr. A. E. Hall defended. table. The Kaiser was in great screen than on the stage, or ined the complainant, prosecuted, and manner to the King. After lun- cheop the two monarchs and Las. with firet the right degree of re-

Opening the case Mr. Hugh Janes cells retired to the garden, where straint, more especially when it is said that on the 13th inst. the com, the Kaiser, in merry mood, chaffed Lascelles about his lack of dislike for showing emotion often house, No. 235, Lai Chi Kok Road, a tragedy of love. The English plainant was in the doorway of hit ledge of current events. The

THE SILVER EMBARGO..

BRITISH NAVY EARNS A,

LITTLE_MONEY. “

"QUESTIONS"IN"PARLIAMENT,

Mr. VIANT having asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether foreign banks in Shanghai had re- cently shipped bullion to Tientsin -

this cation was taken with the ap- in British destroyers, and whether

proval of His Majesty's Govern- ment. Communist Party, Mr. LOCKED LAMPaos, replied: In directing thera immediately to leays the early part of July the Nanking the Hunkov"Government and cease authorities issued instructions that all forms of co-operation. They no movement of treasure was to be are to remain members of the Kao mintang as long as possible, criti- cising the leaders and recruiting up the peasantry, supplying them adherents to Communism, stirring

is detachments. They are to, pub with arms, and forming secret fight lish a declaration against the Han shall be punished severely for its revolutionary attitude, and to redouble the agitation among the town workers

in his favour, and of late he had Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Kaiser's own account of the inter calls forth flippancy to hide it, and ground floor, when the constable kow Government "demanding that it

exchanged letters on foreign ques tions with the Kaiser, the Tser,

view runs!

of Tsar Nicholas's

ATE

recent policy of the Communist In

The statement, reviews the whole

conclusion that the policy was cor- ternational in China, drawing the rost in all essential details, but the

and other military officers (whose capable and timid and the generals local Chinese leaders proved in-

ultimate treachery" was regard-

effected without a permit issued by their Ministry of Finance, Two British banks at Shanghai were, on July 11th and 12th respectively, re- to Tientsin on the ground of, the fused permits to ship silver bullion embargo, tation of silver bullion is provided The free importation and expor for in the treaties; the illegal pro- hibition of exportation to Tientsin

disastrous results to British in- involved the danger of a serious faancial crisis at that port, with terests.

ingly consulted with the Comman His Majesty's Minister accord

His Majesty's ships. for the transport of the silver by der-in-Chief, who issued instruction

It was the constitutional func- worked steadily towards this end. But what will they do with the that in his role of British officer the 820 demanded. He said befagrarian, revolution as the next tary to the Admiralty, replying to

tion of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary especially to ad-

prise him & to his attitude towards vious difficulty on the part of Ger. building of the trans-Siberian rail- so often seen when an Englishman secure a sum of two dollars, which July 20th that the Communist Party service rendered in shipping silver

way.

The

Cross-examed for the defence, complainant admitted that he had once been charged with being a member of a triad society.

Several witness were called and the case was adjourned.

stage tragedy has to be very care who was in uniform came up to Leicester, had initiated the idea: The political interview which was fully presented.. Americans, who him, accused him of being a returned

"No far-seeing statesman," he held here to-day at my residence And the King of Greece. Ample said, "could be content with Eag with the King of England and his are more simple minded than we deportee, took him into custody and stand bigger doses of led him to the Police Station: On Ambassador, Sir Frank-Lascelles, are, can material for estimating the charac- laud's permanent isolation on the was opened by King Edward's romantic sorrow; and, perhaps, it the way the master of the shop where key and aims of foreign Powers Continent of Europe. The query as to this visit to France would have been better if earlier he was employed stopped them and was at his disposal, and his so-natural alliance is between our That the Tsar wished to visit me scenes of this play had been shorter, enquired what the matter was. They umulation of knowledge enabled relves and the German Empire". him to offer invaluabis suggestions Bota interest and racial sentiment long time, but that he was fed in the new British film industry brought into the kitchen. The de- at Danzig he had known for a At this time when we are interest-then went into the shop and were on the course of foreign policy unite the two peoples, and a surprise to him. The King seemed The Dark Angel has a particu- fendant demanded $20 for the re- immediately to France was quite s Mis habit of correspondence and of Triple Alliance between Germany, seriously displeased with Tear lar appeal. Three of the actors. case of the complainant and in the as inevitable) openly seceded at that Tis. 3,000,000 was accordingly His Majesty's Minister reports personal discussion on foreign England, and the United StatesNicholas's proceeding. If he had

un inconveniently early moment. shipped from Shanghai for Weihai- affairs continued through his reign, would correspond with the senti- the desire to visit anyone besides including, monald Coleman,

presence of several people he strus. Nevertheless, it says, the situation wei in the destroyer flotilla for the and he was prolific is independent mental tie that already bound myself he ought to have come to British, and the greater part of the the complainant several times. has shown sigus of increased class two banks on July 20th, and that

him, his nearest relation. comment sad warning to his Teutons and Anglo-Saxona to,

film was photographed in England.

batred, and final victory is certain. It was then be remarked that the Happily Coleman still looks like an evidence and added that he agreed, must be concentrated on mobilising was shipped for the Yokohama Complainant gave corroborative Above all, it is urged, attention the Japanese Ministar, Tis. 500,000 at the same time, at the request of Ministers whenever foreign policy gether.".

Russians probably would take back gras in question.

For two years Mr. Chamberlain from France with them some money. Englishman and acts like one, so under compulsion, to pay defendant China's hundreds of millions of Specie nic

peasants and an accomplishing the Col. HEADLAM, Financial Secre-- money asked the King. I rejoin- in spite of the apathy of Lorded that, as I had reason to believe, these are none of those small but found great difficulty in obtaining step towards the Communist rtxt

Commander Kenworthy (Soc., Cen- Salisbury, and in face of the ob the Russians needed money for the aggravating inaccuracies which are money and on that day managed to lution.

tral Hull), said payment would be Soviet newspapers announced on nade to the British Navy for the That this railway in its pre- is screened in California every foreign question as it arose, many of securing the new alliance sent position would not be used for

Vilms he arranged to hand defendant, but of South China has decided to go from Shanghai in warships. The but King Edward's lifelong study without losing the older one with commerce, but would serve only for Banky who plays the heroine is did not see the money pass into his underground, as its open and law

payment to be made was laid down of foreign affairs, and his ripened Austria, and Italy.

She does not look hands. military purposes, was quits, clear. Hungarian,

ful existence since the betrayal of in the King's Regulations. Germany's intimacy with the chief personal

Russians will send troops from

the cause by the Hankow Govern: factors in Continental politics, did plan was to add Britain to the West to East, I interjected; but typically English but neither is

meat has become immpossible. A the subject by Mr. Ganno-JONES Replying to a further question on or she American nor exotic. She and

special illegal Bureau of the Lib., South Hackney), Col. HEAD- hi Triple Alliance, thus forming whether against Manchuria, mot allow foreign information to Quadruple Alliance that would Cores or Japan, that is yet to be Coleman have a strong bond of

munist Party" has already been gentleman that they hoped to make- him to

Central Committee of the Com-LAM said he could assure the hon Ministerial counsellors, or to prove more than a counterpaise to shown. Apropos Japan! If I echo with automatic docility their the Dual Alliance of France and nightly remember, in the winter of apathy and they frequently set

organised, and the Communists a little money on the transaction. with. Success. opinions. Not seldom he changed Russia. In spite of set-backs and this year the Japanese Ambassador together always

have all left the Hankow Govern, In any case, the commander-in- places with his

constitutional annoyances the idea of an Anglo- put a question to my Government There is a scase of England run

Iment The Secretary of the Chi-chief on the spot was quite capable, advisers and offered advice in German understanding, appeared as to what would be the attitude of ning right through the play, the

nese Communist Party, Cheng Tu of dealing with the matter. stead of receiving it. Не to prosper, and was aided mot & England in the event of a Russo-

Shun, and a former Minister of constitutionally in 11:0

little by one of those illusory sea- Japanese conflict. We answered hunt scene, the stretches of field and position

Agriculture, Tan Ping Hsiang, ite acceptance by his sons of outward harmony between him on that occasion that we be hedges, and the shaded river, are

have decided to go to Moscow. Ministers, but there was nothing King Edward and the Kaiser. The lieved that England would probably the real thing; even the manor is

teremt his so-called servants death of Queen Victoria appealed maintain a benevolent neutrality. from adopting his counsel when to the Kaiser's human impulses, On this question I saw Lord Lans not aggressively Americanised. It they saw it and of tendering it and reinforced domestic senti- downs, who told me personally:ay be insular to rejoice in this, back to him as a Ministerial pro-ant stirred in him, for the mo What! Neatrality! No, the Bri- but one can't help it. nouncement. In such a way did tent at any rate, a fresh hope that tish warships will fight together

The Dark Angel" is a genuine King Edward advise his advisers, the British Government might no with Japan, and we must absolute- Es invariable aim was to pro- cept his idea of a Quadruple Ally go with them! The summer care

war time tragedy, romantic and yet mote peace and good will, providliance in which Britain would and went, the Japanese war wears

auxiliary, disappeared, and nothing happened not incredible. It is a picture of ed that British interests were duly serve Germany as an respected. He always recognised in spite of the continued efforts Later on the solution of this riddie exceptional merit and originality,. that in certain eventualities war the fair promise of an Anglo-Ger- came to me from a Russian source and very well worth seeing... might be inevitable, and foreseeing man understanding, soon proved The Russians told us Japan wished An Interesting Curtain Raiser. the horrors of a European conflict delusive. The King's conciliatory to start a war; she asked money. to be carried on with the latest tanes could not stem the oncoming from England, and this money was Prizma pictures are generally machinery of destruction, he pur- tide of international raseour. The refused to them.

liked; some are really beautiful and sued with energy every mesas of Kaiser's personal attitude to his

"I Call It Treachery." establishing peace short of any sur uncle acquired features even more

others rather trade, but we have King Edward made here are yet to see one which can compare render to humiliating counsels of sinister than of old, and a belated

endearour on King Edward's part mark of impetuous displeasure at Fear. The main historic impor the abandonment of the time-worn had merely temporary effect. The and protested that he positively The Ruins of Angkor." This tance of King Edward's reign is to alleviate the personal tension the politics of the English Cabinet, for interest or for colouring with policy of isolation in foreign Kaiser's extravagant vanity, and knew nothing of it. Also Sir Frank ainazing temple city was built by affairs, and the substitution for it the growing strain of German protested evergetically and said, the Hindu's in Indo-China, and of system of ententes and al rivalry with Britain in all the he was indeed very indiscreet, but even to-day, ruined, and overgrown fields of Empire, tended to be had to assert that on the cou by the jungle, it is an amazing mutual alienation which no indivi- trary, the Japanese rejected English right. The has reliefs and the style A Clouded Horizon."

dual conciliatory affort could a money. To my expressed doubt of much of the achitecture remind Clouds hung orer Britain's for- suage.

the Arabassador came out with a

one more of Greek than Indian All unaware, Mr. Macallister, a There was not a Great Power in speech in which he said that of work, and the film has given a hero of the World War, came to ness eigu horizon when King Edward' ascended the throne The South Europe that really had a definite course England had offered the wonderful picture of it. We wish African War was still in progress; policy. It was a period of tenta- money, but had proposed such con- that we could have more Prizma China about a fortnight ago.

pictures like this, and more films on a level with The Dark Angel."

liances.

to

WAS

last forty-five years of Queen Vic- toria's long reige.

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OLD ENGLAND IN HYDE PARK.

THE MISSING "TIMES ""

# CORRESPONDENT."

BANKER'S FORTUNE.

SEARCH EXPEDITION OF ONE LORD SWAYTHLING'S ESTATE

AN AUSTRALIAN'S DARING PLAN.

SWORN AT £400,000.

first Baron

The unsettled personal estate of the late Lord Swaythling, of Town bill Park, Bitterne, Hampshire, head of Samuel Montagu & Co., bankers, With nothing but a knapsack, who died on June 11th, has been sense of wanderlust, and an in-provisionally sworn at the net valur clination to rescue one of his more of £400,000, so far as at present unfortunate nationals, and friends, Mr. A. G. Macallister, of Sydney, Australia, has made preparations

Hoaan in an effort to rescue Mr. to start to-day for the wilds of Basil Riley, who has now been reported missing for about three weeks, says the North China Daily

News.

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can be ascertained." His father, the Swaythling, who died in 1911, left property then, valued at £1,150,000.

The late Lord Swaythling left to for half the residuary estate, which his wife the income from £125.000 ever be the greater), and his London house at Kensington-court, W.

He left various sums to his sons and daughters; in certain cases on

IRON FOR THATCH,

CHANGING THE DEVONSHIRE COUNTRYSIDE.

Devonshire, famed for its narrow winding, and beautiful lance, is fast being transformed into a county of corrugated iron.

Visitors complain that the joy of discovering, or rounding a corner, an old thatched cottage, nestling is thing of the past. Gone is the a corner of a field, ie becoming a

thatch, its place being taken by cor rugated iron, which is also used to

atch the old red-stone walls.

Chicken houses and garages of fail to harinozise with the surround. queer chapes erected on every side

th

In the Okehampten district with in a distance of one mile on a main In the side roads ugly bungalowi road are nine corrugated iron roofs,

trustato protect them from the dangers incurred by people who are springing up. are not engaged in any active busi- life," and expressed his "carnent wish and solemn injune tion" that no child of his should abandon the Jewish religion or in termarry with a person not of that

Shortly after arriving here he picked up a newspaper and saw that Mr. Riley, the correspondent religion, for the Times had been missing in £12,000 on trust for his third son. Among the bequests is one of

Honan and, thinking back over his the Hon. Ives Montaga, who, it day in Sydney, he remembered will be rem mbered, married last January Miss Eileen Hellstern, of Brixton, S.W., a shorthand-typist Tho wedding was kept secret fur six weeks, and it was stated that Swaythling were unaware that it during that time Lord and Lady. had taken place.

thing whether a thing was refused outright or whether xuch conditions were put that the other side favourable to the effort was deemed could not accept it The Eng to be a pereanal meeting between fish Government after such King Edward and the Kaiser. If an action could not wonder if DELIGHTFUL SPECTACLE OF that it was that youth's father and these two were in agreement then the phrase perfidious Albion ministers would follow.

were still accepted as before. I could call such politics only by the name of Treachery." At this Come lively proteats from the King and Sir Frank

"

FOLK DANCES.

and the cherished hopes of an early tive suggestions, of feelers, of dip,ditions that it was difficult for the and prosperous conclusion, were, lomatic Pourparlets England Japanese to accept it. fading. The sympathy of foreign particularly was rudderless and I replied that it came to the same peoples with the cause of the Boer drifting, but was resolved to take enemy continued to manifest itself one last effort to secure an Angio in rancorous denunciation of the German alliance; and the occasion British name in all the amrket places of Europe. Foreign Gov ernments in their intercourse with the British Government diplomati

mother whom he had known a few cally qualified the nos of popu-

On August 23rd, 1801, after the

years before. Here was a chance Iar hostility, but doubts wers justi-

The spirt of the country of for him possibly to do a good turn Bed whether the correct tone of the funeral of the Empress Frederick, Chancellories of Europe implied the King, recompanied by Sir

bygone days came to Town on June 12th and settled itself in Hyde for an old acquaintance and, at the any genuine good will. One thing Frank Lascelles, went from Hom alone was certain, that England burg, where he had been taking the

Park, spreading in a glorious mass same time, provide himself with was isolated and friendless. Lard curs, to visit the Raiser at Wil that since the Chinese expedition, phitheatre sear the Serpentine

1. came forth with the remark of colour over the natural am- an added anount of excitement, Salisbury,

King Edward's first halmshöhe. This was, to be

the Continental States have linked Prime Minister, had long been great occasion for the preliminary themselves closer together. Who was holding one of its country Macallister has been inquiring into The English Folk Dance Society So, for the past two weeks Mr. wedded that policy of splendid discussion of Anglo-German differ isolation which had been the son encts and for the creation of an could have imagined it possible tendance parties, under the auspices every possible sourcs in order to

understanding.

ago, for example, that the of the League of Arts, and close find out the topography and get- stant British tradition through the Anglo-nary diplomatic pre-

French and German troops should upon a thousand dancers demon parations had been made for the be fighting alongside of one another strated to a delighted crowd of eral lie of the country in which the The disposition of the Powers of nesting. On August 2nd ros under a Prussian against a third many thousands the art beloved young journalist could be found. Europe at the beginning of King Muhlberg had reported to the Chan-party This blood spilt in comet our forefathers three

jour

Mr. Macallister's Plans, -- Edward's reign was mainly condi- cellor, Count von Bülow: For man has worked wonders, and we hundred rear ago.

Thanks to the efforts of the late Mr. Macallister, who is both tioned by the two acts of alliances, the success of the conduct of Ger are now on right good understand-

Triple Alliance of Germany, man policy it will be ascessary in with our neighbours across the Mr. Cecil Sharp, it seems as though wanderer, journalist, and capital He in the midst of it will be seen again in all its ist, will start off for Nanking, Austria, and Italy, and the Dual that his Majesty the Kaiser should, Tosges Alliance of Bussia and France. A during the Homburg meeting, at Europe 1 stand with my strong old-time popularit favourable interpretation viewed no moment deviate from the can army, and together with my allies In the afternoon the dancing where he will spend a few days in the two alliances as counterpoises viction that we ruin our relations of whom I am sure I shall en space was uncomfortably crowded, trying to get direct information as and, as usual, there were many to what course to pursue in locat- one to the other, making for a with England whenever it is known deavour to maintain peace stable European equilibrium. These in England that we have quarrelled with the King of England and

hundreds more women than men,

From that place: opposing armed camps were kept with Russin and France. apart in chronic antagonism by

Chancellor now wrote Sir Frank Lascelles the general women dancers must bring a male he will go to Hankow, where more two age-long quarrels which were (August 13th) to the Kaiser streas impression that the visit of the partner in the evening, there was investigation will take place. the seeds of past and future wars ing the official German point of Tsar to France together with his ample space for all, and the dances

The Kaiser,

At Hankow Mr. Macallister pro- in reply expressed wish to see the German could be seen to better advantage.. France could never forgive Gor-, vies.

for the annexation of Alsnes (August 20th), seemed to be think Chancellor, has caused an extraor. It was an extraordinarily beauti poses to board a train on the and, Lorrains, while Russia and ing more of giving. England an dinary impression on the part of ful soens at both performances, Austria were striving bitterly for unwelcome surprise than of reach England. Whether this will be scene glowing with colour. Reds, Peking-Hankow Railway and go'to,

amicable understanding rufficient to draw the English, and amber; hegemony in the Near East. But ing an

green, ping, blue, in Chengchow, in the north-easterä there was always a chance, though with her.

especially Lord Salisbury, from shades and combinations of shades, part of Henan and there pick up remote one, that jealousy of "Furthermore," he wrote, "the their hitherto pasirs policy, and moved in one yaat rhythmic whole, the necessary equipment for a two- Britain, from which no great building of our fleet must be ex- to open their ayes to the slow but for erer changing, forming and re-months' trip into the heart of he will "find 1 European Power could be reckoned pedited as quickly as possible. continuous fall of her (England's) forming, as it move new patterns China-where quite free, might be so stimulated Who will get a nice surprise are prestige and of her world-position, to the old English tunes played by trace of the journalist or know the by circumstance sa to bring the the English and perhaps it is also will remain uncertain:

the Band of the Welth Guarda. reason why

The

but, thanks to the instruction that ing Mr. Riley I have gained from my conversa.

The occupant of a 300-years-old thatched cottage near Crediton, who thinks of moving-after having been there for 40 years owing to the threat of a new road, said:

In the last few years Devon- shire has changed fast. The growth of motoring and the failure of agriculture are the AusCE. Motorists must have their roads and their garages.

The farmers cannot afford to patch walls with stone or re- thatch a roof. Many of them aðıl to their incomes by selling petrol to the motorist who wanders off the main road, hence these ngly garaget.

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