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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1936.

OUR LONDON LETTER

Gossip Of The Week

(Special Ale Mail Service)

The fact that a new session of Parliament in giving a State Open ing will fall due before the Coro nation has raised in some minds the question of whether the King will take a personal part in the ceremony.

At one time, however. Sir John Reith's salary was given as £5,000 year. It is now almost certainly more. His No. 2, however, is not remunerated on the same scale.

SPORTS GOSSIP FROM HOME

NAVY ON HORSEBACK

London, July 10. For the Navy to reach the Anal of the inter-regimental courna- event in the pala ment is an

A Navy team has never world. before got as far as the semi-final Credit for its 'success is very

Incidentally I hear that Sir Ian Fraser, to whose speech on broad-largey due to Lord Louis Mount- Besides being a good custing in the Commons I recently batten. referred, is to be one of the B.B.C. Payer hinself-his handicap is

-he has got the team together and supplied most of the ponies.

THE CASE OF MISS WISKEMANN The other day Miss Wiskemann. who is well known as a freelance

There is, I am informed, no con- stitutional_barrier to His Majesty's } opening the first Parliament of his Governors. reign with full State ceremonial] before the Coronation. It is gener- ally expected that he will do so.

He will drive from Buckingham | journalist, was arrested in Berlin. Palace to Westminster in the State She has as a writer distinguished coach. and for the first time make herself by a considerable mastery the King's speech to both House over her subjects, by her modera- from the throne th the House of tion, and by her objectivity. She was arrested, it seems, without a Lords.

warrant though, in Germany to- day there is nothing unusual in that) and detained for several

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ANXIOUS HOTELIERS While the hearts of the great London hotelters are beating more quickly in anticipation of the Coro-hours. nation, their satisfaction is not un- clouded by care.

She was cross-examined as to the authorship of an article writ→

Was made to

Both the Navy and the 12th Lancers have reached the final in the face of difficulties. Most of the former team have been scat- tered up and down the Mediter- ranean during the winter.

CircumstanceS have prevented them "getting even the normal amount "of practice at Malta or Gibraltar. They did not play to- gether as a team till May.

The 12th Lancers are at present in Egypt. Two of the team have not been with their regiment.

The other two haye come home

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THE KING: “HUMANITY CRIES FOR PEACE"

"I Pray That Never Again Will We Face ... The Horrors Of War"

London, July 16.

To-day's attempt on the life of the King followed the core- mony in Hyde Park in which he presented new colours to six battalions of the Brigade of Guards.

In his speech to the Guards he, or Connaught on the dias, and the said:

Royal Standard replaced the fag Grenadiers. Coldstreamers and or the Brigade of Guards which Scots Guardamen:

had been dying over it hitherto. AT THE SALUTING POINT A few minutes later the King's Standard fluttered up to the mast His Majesty came on parade. He rode in between two

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It is wet mingled feelings that I address you on this solemn occa- slon. I am glad so soon after be- coming Colonel-in-Chief of your head respective regiments to entrust new Colours to your charge. But troops of the Blues, and as he when I know that it was his tate took his place at the saluting Majesty my father's wish in the point the National Anthem rang closing months of his reign to give out and 5000 rifles clashed into them to you himself, my heart is the Present. full of reverent remembrance of

line. Then he rode down the the great example which he set us The Duke of York followed him:

stant Interest in the Brigade of Lieutenant-colonels. the brigade Guards during the eventful quar-stan, and a trumpet and guidon ter of a century in which he held of the Blues. The party returned the position that I do to-day. to the saluting point, and then GREAT ACTIONS OF THE PAST came the ceremony of bidding

These Colours recall great ac-farewell to the old colours. tions of the past, and splendid The leading company feats of arms recorded for ever in battalion marched out, the en- British history.

signs took over the twelve Caga Almost everything changes as

officers from the warrant

and the centuries pass. but the oldest brought them back to the front of

guards and line alike, embody, a The strains of "Auld Lang tradition of discipline and devo 'Syne' walled out as the colour- tion unbroken by the shocks of bearers moved to the front of the 250 years, unequalled in duration band, and, then turning, marched and not surpassed in fame by any past the stand where the new other military units How serving colours lay"and past the saluting- in the world.

point and the dals. The colours dipped in a last salute and were lost to sight.

One of them was telling me yes- ten about a year ago and alleged on leave in order to play in the all and of gratitude for his con- i behind came the three regimental terday that he has already received to have appeared in a London more demands for accommodation weekly. Fragments of the article than he can satisfy. But at pre-in German translation were pro- sent he cannot promise even his duced, but Miss Wiskemann could oldest clients that he will be able pot identify it as hers with any to give them the suites they ask sertainty. So she

sign a statement that it might bave been hers. She was then leased without an explariation or an apology. She was, it In about a fortnight the Lord Chamberlain and the various Gov told that the only the desire of

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tions with Great Britain saved her from severer treatment. "The case deserves more attention than it is receiving.

GRATEFUL LAWN TENNIS As President of the British Lawn My informant, who said that this

Sir Samuel season demand for rooms had out- Tennis Association.

times Hoare is to present Mr. Dwight F supply. saw ahead. When I asked him whet-Davis, donor of the Davis Cup. with her "Coronation prices" would rule a gold repeater watch.

anxious

in the London hotels, he replied, with increased gravity. that this was another anxious problem which remained to be settled.

BAILWAY CAKE FROM CANADA

He will do this on behalf of the Lawn Tennis Associations of the world, whose delegates are to meet in London on July 27,

The gratitude which players all

A Fortnight ago I read Eir Per-over the world feel to Mr. Davis eival Phillips's description of the is reflected in the inscription on gigantic birthday cake at Windsor the watch. It runs: Presented in Station, in Montreal

the year 1938 by the Lawn Tennis Associations of the world to Dwight F. Davis, founder of the Interna- Tennis Champion- tonal Lawn ship."

Six feet in diameter and 9ft high. it stood surrounded by 50 candles to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the C.P.R.'s transcontinental ser- vice.

I have just received through the post a small package... It was of the size and shape which one still sometimes receives when a friend has been married.

But the removal of the wrapping showed the box was of gilt, noti silver. paper. It contained, in fact, a plece of the cake, from Montreal. In colour, consistency, bouquet and the other qualities which, I be- Heve, connoisseurs of wedding cake look for, this is by no means in- ferior to its romantle counterpart.

SCULPTOR'S TASK

I Hear that Sir William Reid

Dick has been entrusted with the task of sculpturing the recumbent egy of King George V. which is 3) ets, to lle over his tomb in St. George's

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GERMANS STUDY PUBLIC GOLF

The German enthusiasm for aport for the working classes has extended to goit. Herr K. Ken- ckell, the president of the German Golf Union, has an emissary in

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CHINA FEARS FOOD SHORTAGE'

Nanking. Aug. 1.

In 1933 King George commission- ed Mr. Reid Dick-as he then was to do his bust. When exhibited at the Royal Academy in the foll-

owing year this, enhanced the sculptor's already great reputation King George made him a K.O.V.U last year.

King Edward VII which now Hea

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ARTISTIC COTTON MAGNATES

How Lancashire's captains of in- dustry spend their leisure mo ments may be seen at the one- man exhibition of paintings by Mr. Forrest Hewit at the New Burling ton Galleries, which opened yes- terday.

Mr. Hewit's name is more fami-

an authority on the cotton trade. As chairman of the Joint Commit tee of Cotton Trade Organisations he is the mouthpiece" through which the trade expresses its views on all manner of subjects,

He is besides a vice-president of the F.B.I., a director of the Calico Association, and Mag Printers" various other trade interests. 16

Mr. Hewit is by no means the only leading figure in Lancashire cotton who Anda relaxation in art Mr. J. P. Chettle, another Man- chester merchant, exhibited along ide Mr. Hewit at the Spring Ex- hibition ol the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, in which works by several other leading men in the cotton industry were hung.

The easel is not the only distrac- Mr. tion of their leisure hours. Hedley Lucas, Master of the Man- A design of the trophy is reprochester Royal Exchange, has pub- duced in platinum on another part lished several volumes of verse. of the case with the further in- scription: "D.F.D. Dedit ad. MOM." This commemorates the fact that cup in Mr. Davis presented the 1900.

NOISE AND THE ROAD TELL"

Your Colours not only represent scroll of the past, with all its

of each

the

Then in front of the dais two glories, but to-day and for the.. future they are emblems of little processions assembled, the that stands for the honour of a Chaplain-general of the Army. soldier and the honour of your re- the Rev. E. B. Thorald. with his giments, as much in years of deputy and assistant and

chaplains of the Brigade or black and Guards, a group "in THE HORRORS OF WAR peace as on the fields of war.

Only a few of us on parade this white and crimson, advanced from morning have known the awful the dais to the stand. Behind on weight of war, with all its hor-foot came the King, with the Duke rors, and yet its comradeships, of York. the Duke of Connatight. during the world struggle of 20 and Sir A. Codrington.

THE CONSECRATION SERVICE years ago.

The

Was

With all my heart I hope, and

service consecration indeed I pray, that never again read, short, simple and moving-- will our age and generation be just a dedication prayer, the Our called upon to face such stern and Father, and the Grace. Then the ACADEMY MODERNISM

terrible days..

in person King

his spoke to Humanity cries out for peace Guards. While coming along the King-

The colour parties of all mix stan by-pass yesterday I stopped and the assurance of peace, and for a reason sufficiently unusual to you will find in peace opportuni-battalions, the lieutenant-colonel,

Mr. Hare-Belisha is rot alvue be worth recording. It was to look ties of duty and service as noble'; two senior majors, and two ileute- at an exhibition of contemporary as any that bygone battlefelds nants knelt to receive the new

among Ministers of Transport in being worried by the rising toll of the roads.

His opposite number in Berlin.

Baron

von

Eltz-Ruebenach. is seriously perturbed for the same reason. The German casualty list rose last week to 152 killed and

British art-

can, show.

Keep. then, the message of This included an early Bickert, an Augustus John etching and these Colours ever before you, and paintings by Duncan Grant, Roger the honour of your regiment and of your country will rest safe and Fry and Vanessa Bell.

"Abstract" art was also repre- sure in your hands... cented, though I did not see any- thing dennitely Surrealist.

The exhibition is being held at

4.459 injured. Our own was 137 killed and 5,092 injured, the death the recently opened Raynes Park roll being the highest recorded in County School for Boys. Mr. John

Garrett, the headmaster, i any week this year,

young Oxford man whom I may call an academic modernist.

Commenting on the German figures the Baron declares that there is a definite' connection be- tween "tramic noises and street accidents.

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BIDDING FAREWELL TO THE COLOURS

The ceremony of presenting the colours is described below by a special correspondent,

colours from the hands of the King. As they marched away the King, officers and alergy returned from the stand to the dals, and moved out to a as the parade flank in preparation of the march past the King and his officers re- returned to the mounted and saluting point

In column of companies, each to the strains of their own regimen- tal quick march, the battalions swung bravely past the King. sky Once more the mass was formed, Under a perfect, summer His friend and Oxford contem-

and before an immense throng of swords and fags dipped, rifles porary. Mr. W... Acden, whom

the King presented clashed to the present, and "God some say is the major poet of the spectators.

round the great the Brigade of Guards. "Trame noises," he says, "make century others deny that he is a new colours to alx battallons of Save the King" rolled its notes

This majestically people hard of hearing and jumpy. poet at all--has written the school ceremony takes place only at af- arena... Noises must be dealt with by every song.

The It is for tra straightfor-

battalions turned and teen year intervals, so that only a

columns of ̈fours, possible means, such as the inward. But

small proportion of those who be wheeled into spection of vehicles and the with-

Tractors grunt where oceans held or took part in it to-day can and the King took the head of the drawal of driving licences."

have done so before or perhaps are likely to do again.

The precedent of the previous

wandered, reign-which is, indeed, the cus-

Such horrors as "clattering and Factories stand, where green tomary practice will be followed.

rattling motor bicycles" and

grass grew: When Bir Bertram Mackennai ramshackle and noisy lorries" are

Voices break and features alter, made the recumbent figure of not to be allowed on the streets..

We shall soon be different too. The Baron notes with regret has the Audenesque. flavour. tri St. George's Chapel, he also pre- that the sounding of hors-for- pared the figure of Queen Alexan-bidden in Berlin--is greatly on the dra which now reposes next her increase in some German towns. His fat 18: "Don't hoot-drive I understand that similarly Sir carefully." William Reid Dick will make an effigy of Queen Mary,

husband.

scarlet column to ride through the Istreets to Buckingham Palace and The six scarlet battalions were a farewell salute there. drawn up in masa on the West side of the green sward, facing a

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Grenadier

low stand on which rested two Owing to the prevailing uncer- drums covered with the TOO SHORT GOLF COURSES?

new tainty of the weather, the ball colours to be presented, and bearing due to have taken place from Two more golf records have yond it a dals with hangings of Stonecutters Island on July 30, will been broken by professions during blue, purple, red and white for now take place on Thursday, the last few days. 8. L King was the Queen and the Royal ladies. August 6. "HEIL ENGLAND"

round Sevenoaks in 81, and Perry To the right and left front of the Béventeen convinced · German | did a 66 ab. Yelverton

mass, warrant officers held the

A marriage licence was issued SIR JOHN REITH'S NEXT NO. 2

propagandists have just arrived in This will add to the arguments old colours on this, their last London whose general commission The Ministry of Finance is

on July 31 to Rodney Oswald Met- This week Vice-Admi. Bir Char- England. They are members of of those who are favour of rede parade. is to study artisan and publie golf | studying the question of wheat

calfe, 26, a missionary at Kweitung, On the right of the masa were and golf courses in Britain. export from China, fearing a foodles Carpendale returns to duty at the Swansea branch of the Britian signing golt courses.

They will also be used to support two battalions

welchow, China and Miss Kath- He is Baron-Schertel von Bur-1ahortage. The proposal to ban Broadcasting House after a period Legion, and include the Socialist tenbach. He has played golf at the export of wheat is not likely of sick leave. The Deputy Direc- Mayor of Swansea and Major- the contention that the golf ball Guards (1st and 3rd), and next leen Margaret Christie, 26, mission- to be adopted, but a suggestion in tor-General is two years over 60 general Vaughan, president of the should be changed to check, big them the 2nd Battalion Scots ary of Anshun. Kweichow,' China. Bunningdale, Berkshire, Swinley

the normal retiring age for mem-] Legion in Wales. ....

hitting The R and A have ap- | Guarda Then in the centre came Forest and Woking, all of which connection with an export duty on

bers of the B.B.C. staff.

The delegation returned yester-parently found a ball that knocks the massed bands of the brigade. wheat has been favourably re- have artisan sections who, for a

H contract is understood today from a triumphant tour of 20 or even 30 yards off a long tee #pageant of scarlet, black, silver. ceived.- small subscription, can use the

have been renewed on a temporary Germany as the guests of the shot.

brass and gold. To their left course at certain prescribed times Reuter.

That such a change will be un-stood the three battaliods of the basis, and his retirement: is prob-leading German ex-Servicemen's of day.

The three able in the not-distant future. organisation. At Kassel they mar-popular with most golfers goes Coldstream Guards.

Either Mr. B. E. Nicolls or Birched at the head of a great parade without saying. Inability to clear colonels and adjutants of the re- and organise matches against the Stephen Tallents is considered his of 150,000 German ex-Service men, hazards discourages the ordinary giments the only officers except ports for July 25 is as follow:- Caddies of neighbouring clubs. most likely successor.

and were deafened with the shouts player. On the other hand, the the brigade commander and his Plague: Rangoon 2 cases: Cholers: satisfaction everyone derives from staff mounted on the parade Calcutta 26 cases, Negapatam There is also a caddies' champion- As Controllers respectively of of "Hell England.".

Administration and Public Rela At Warburg they were mobbed "a long drive is one of the secrets were in front of their respective 4; Tuticorin 3; Chittagong 1 death; regiments, with Major-general Bangkok 3 cases: Small-Pox: Bom- by enthusiastic crowds of soldiers of the game's fascination

Possibly the simplest solution Sergison-Brocke and his brigade- bay 5 cases; Calcutta 6, Moulmein and young people. Wherever they

major and aide-de-camp at the 3; Hong Kong 1; Shanghai 2 head of the parade.

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MASS TRAINING

He aisu visited the Richmondship. courses on a crowded day arid was!

The nearest German approach tions they hold equal rank in the much impressed by a number of to publie -golf is a nine-holes B.3.0. hierarchy after Sir Charles apparently well-to-do people who course outside Berlin, which has Carpendale, frequented them rather than Join been thrown open to the public Salaries of the permanent, off-]

club of their own."

for lessons. Six hundred people cials at Broadcasting House are There is as yet no public golf in "turned up. With true German not published a rule

many, though in most clubs precision they were lined up in not apply to the chairman and the the caddies are permitted to play rows and instructed en masse.

governors.

There was a clean bill of health

in the Colony for the 24 hours ended on "Friday,

The health bulletin of eastern

went they were cheered and feted. would be to accept a new standard They return to England immer for championship play an average sely impressed by Germany's new of 71 or 72 instead of 75 or 76 that does might and equally assured in their regarded as championship, form] with the little princesses and the construction of a reinforced con-

own minds of her pacific inten before the war?

·tions.

PETERBOROUGH,

The Queen and the Royal Jadles,

Tenders are being invited for the

Joined Earl of Harewood,

the crete and brickwork Alter house Earl of Harewood, joined the Duke and contingent works at Stanley.