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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 22,

THE PRINCE AMONG THE MINERS.

SEEING THINGS AT FIRST HAND,

SINCERE SYMPATHY WITH SUFFERING. poor.

LONDON (U.P.)-Miners" became whose smile has made him a popu- Watsons to royal Sherlock Jar idol all over the world, had also Holmes when the Prince of Wales an air of sadness such as those Earned his attention to the distress familiar withedral suffering would in the coalfields during his recent recognize immediately. personal investigation of conditions there.

What," the Prince inquired searchingly on several occasions,

are conditions down there "" The royal question was invariably directed at one of the numerous miners who eagerly followed the party during its march through the dreary little villages of the coal mines districts. And upon a reas suring answer being received de- pended whether or not the Prince Ewas willing to go where he was N. S.11 No. 4. No.15 17 No.10 No. No. 11 being led or to some group of cot

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tages in an opposite direction and to which he pointed with his hand when questioning his grimy Watson.

Through Icy Slush,

And as the trudge continued through icy slush rendered filthier than ordinary mud by coal dust, the Prince would beckon to men here and there:

How long have you been out of work? Is your pit closed down?

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The replies to the royal que tions were unhesitating. They came nervousness sometimes even made them tremble. Yet, a few moments after the first inquiries had been answered, the miner seemed to for- get that he was talking to the son of a king who rules, one-fourth of the total population of the world Then for several minates at a time, crowds of humble folk would gaze admiringly at an extraordi- nary sight: Prince and Miner walk ing side by side, rchhing shoulders so to speak.

from voices that were hunky;

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Sarely remarked an observer, thes justifies the saying truth is

stranger than fiction." So saying he quoted from Kipling's immortal poem "It."

Among the Humblest, «' If you can talk with crowd

and keep your virtue. And walk with kings nor lose

.to

the common touch." The Prince's ability to make the humblent of those whom he speaks feel at home is one of his outstanding traits of character. It was brought out more than ever dering his errand of mercy in the North of England.

There, those who had the occa sion to observe the royal investiga tor at alese range noted above all one thing about him, his obviously interest in every single conversation he held:

sincere

Instantaneous Understanding When he comes into contact with buman sufering, Britain's smiling ambassador has a way of twitching an eyebrow which conveys instan taneous sympathy and understand ing. Simultaneously the entire ex- pression on his face seems to change. His well-known smile literally fades away. It is replaced by look which appears to come straight from his heart,

But it is not only his ability to sympathise silently, and become in. terested in the conversation of ethers which seems to have endear ed him to the hearts of his ad- mirers. The Prince converses him. self in a manner which attracts the interest of bis listeners. Above all, he can always see a joke. Often he makes witty remarks. Further more he makes them at just the

right time.

An instance of this is when, during his recent tour, he was the guest of some British, Legion men. He was being shown around the premises. Suddenly he caught sight

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SHEFFIELD (U.P.)-A minimum collisions in profusion after thou tralia speed of fifty miles a second, sands of narrow shaves and side alipe, and the confusion caused by such activity was described before students of Sheffield University by

Professor A. S. Eddington, of Cam bridge University, who lectured upon what goes on in the interior of a star.

Professor Eddington said. that shattered atoms and electrons dash about tumultuously in the interior of the stars. Atoms going at fifty miles a second lose their volumin- aus clothing in the scrimmage, and the free electrons torn from them rush away one' hundred times fuster. To complete the picture, vast quantities of X-rays rush in all directions between the atoms and electrons. There is no time. for rest.

"An electron is caught and be gins to circulate around its captor." said the Professor, but basely bas it settled down than an X-ray bears down on the atom and blasts the electron away again." The earth and other planets are warm- ed, he added, by a slow leakage of energy from the sun.

The sun is just an ordinary star. be said. If all the atoms and electrons of the sun were fiuished of a photograph on the wall and suddenly the X-rays would be liber stopped in front of it, gazing in ated and two million years' supply

His Emazement.

surprise was of radiant energy wasted in a Maay stars, containing caused by the fact that the boys" second.

a "sergeant-little more material than the had so honoured major."

are so enormously swollen that they fill a thousand or a million times the volume

He must have been a jelly good sergeant major," said the Prince with a broad smile, much to the joy of his ex-soldier hosts.

As Good as the Pictures.

limousine containing two womer. And the Prince is also said to drove through mud reminiscent of have smiled when he beard what the trenches during the war, At Inspector Burke-the Scotland Yard the wheel was a handsome "indy. man who is assigned to the Prince stunningly gowned and wearing an reported to at Newcastle-on-expensive looking light brown mink

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fur coat.

A crowd of several hundred As soon as her car came to a people including a large number of step, and despite her delicate look- young working girls lined the ing shoes and silk stockings, the streets opposite the hotel at which woman jumped into the road and the Prince made his headquarters trudging through ankle-deep mud during his inspection of the mining asked the United Press correspon- districta, Despite the sleet and deat how she could get a glimpse bitterly cold wind they remained of the Prides really close-up, outside the hotel until late at night after the Prince had return ed from his daily automobile trip, hoping that they would be able to catch a glimpse of him leaving the building for some function in towp

After they had been there for about three hours, the Prince heard of it and he dispatched Inspector Burke to them with a message:

"The Prince." Burke was told to tell them, says you will all catch cold waiting out here like

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The correspondent, led her and her commion to the royal car out of which the Prince had stepped a few moments previously to visit some miners' cottages. And there, surrounded by a crowd of miners' wives holding babies in their arms, nader the eyes of a hundred men with coil-soiled faces and hands; the woman stood, patiently await

the return of the Prince. Shortly afterward the was re- warded. The Prince unknowingly Not ly did the Prince ask a

brushed her fur coat as he stepped man how long he had been out of this."

A aw roite." replied a fair into his car and she, beaming with work. But when the man answer-

this

her joy, forgetting

mud-soiled ed, his, royal questioner invariably spokeswoman for the crowd,"

or is as good as the pictures." And at clothes and soaking wet feet ex remarked Oh, I am sorry," some other sentence conveying sym-midnight the crowd was still wait-claimed: pathy. And in fact, the expres- ing 1 sion on the Prince's face changed no very visibly while he made bis remark that even if he bad said nothing, his sincere regret would have been conveyed just the same. Perhaps for the first time his admirers noticed during the trip to the coalfields, that the Prince,

"Isn't that too delightful for words 1"

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A Woman's Devotion

She had driven her car Another instance of the Prince's popularity occurred during his pas- almost impassable roada for several age in one of the muddiest and hours throughout the entire region poorest of the villages he visited visited by the Prince that day near the mines. Here, a beautiful chancing a lucky encounter with and carefully polished light blue the party. "just to get a good look

(Oontinued on nezi Column). at the Prince."

Diary of Coming Events.

Today.

(March 22nd.)..

*Saturday. (March 23rd). Christian Fellowship meeting, University Sporta, half mile Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m. open, 4.30 p.m.

Hong Kong Electric Co., 40th Queen's College Athletic Sports, ordinary meeting, P. and O. Buil-Causeway Bay, Prize distribution, ding, 11 a.m.

Queen's College Old Boys' Asso- ciation, 9th annual meeting, College Hall, 5.30 p.m

Queen's Theatre: Laugh."

Laugh Clown

5.30 p.m.

Cricket:-Division L Craigen gower v. Chinese (F), Indians v. Kowloon (F), Kavy v. Hong Kong C.C. (F). Division II: University . Civil Service (L). Kowloop . Indians (F), Hong Kong 0.0. v. Police (F).

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Lane Crawford's Restaurant,

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Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Hokozaki Maru), 8.30 am; Europe vid Marseilles (Khyber), 10.30 am.

Sunday,

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(March 24th.) Palm Sunday. Fanling Hunt: Grand National Meeting, Kwanti.

Queen's Theatre:

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World Theatre: "The Merry Widow."

Star Theatre: "West Point,

Monday, (March 25th.).

Kowloon Bowling Green Clab, annual general meeting, 5.45 pm,

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders dinner, 8 p...

Football:-First Division: Re Dinner in honour of Li Yau ; ereio v. 0.8.B., Police u. Chinese Chuen O.B.E., Kam Ling Restaur- Ath., Kowloon v. Queen's, Club v ant, 8 p...

Royal Artillery, Small Units T Navy. Second Division: Queen's r. R.A.F., Royal Artillery v. Uni-

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Queen's Theatre: “Laugh Clown Laugh."

World Theatre: Hour."

Star Theatre: Miss Brewster's Millions also. "Nina and Jacques" dancers.

World Theatre: The Hour."

Star Theatre: Miss Brewster's Millions" also Nina and Jacques" dancers.

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Dinner Dance Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails-award: Europe vid Siberia (Khyber),

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Queen's Theatre:. "The Air Circus" at 9.15 pa, Madame Galli Curci.

World Theatre: “The Merry Widow."

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