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ENTERTAINMENTS:

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HOW KAISER SAVED £50,000 A YEAR.

Servants Pensioned Off At 3 Marks A Month.

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and iron mines, &c. The bad. io- vested £1,250,000. As much as | £350,000 wan laid out on mort- rages on Berlin property, and he subscribed about £1,200,000 to the various War Loans.

The latter was not, considering his wealth, a very large sum, and William of Doora. one time the figure disposes of the pur German Kaiser, is still much of an enigma, an enigma and a fascios-posely uncontradicted war-time stories of how the All-Highest

tion, in spite of all that has been bad put all his wealth at the dis written about him, writes the Berposal of the country. Hin correspondent of the Doily Chronicle.

A book has just been published here entitled Hobenzollern, which. though dealing mainly with the fight between Royal prop- erty, sheds some more light on his character and his ways.

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That property included palaces, castles and residences, 15 large estates, 12 of the most valu- able sitas in Berlin, and a score of large houses in the fashionable parts of the city and at Potsdam. It reached a value, before the war, of M.1,000,000,000 (£50,000, B00).

Willism was severe business man. Every penny of his income

AFRAID OF "COLDS."

The ex-Kaiser greatly objected to people with colds being near him.

WES

In his great Berlin palace there

electric An

Connection between the weathervane and the desk at which he worked.

When be touched a button a

little electric siga would light up. telling the direction of the wind.

Often when he was in residence in other palaces & weathercock would be fixed up, generally on & tres, so that he could see it from his windows.

NO LITERARY TASTE. He had apparently no literary His library is and expenditure wont through taste at all. his books, which were kept with described by the author as "& an exactitude which would have literary obsmber of horrors." done credit to a skilfully and "Books dedicated or sent to him went, uncut and by clothes- Carefully conducted business.

Old gardeners would often bebasketfuls, into bis library,"

"Neither a gourmand for * pensioned off at M.3, M.5, M 10 er M.2 per month, or even per gourmet," as the author say. quarter! And the servants dis- William saw to it that immense missed after the revolution went care was taken regarding the food without a word of Kaiserly thanks provided for him. for their, in some cases. life-long devotion.

By being economical in many things and by careful invest- masts, William was able, for most years of his reign, to put aside no less than £50,000 per annum.

FEW BAD INVESTMENTĒ,

In the Bilio ralace there wa no scarcity of food during the

the

war.

It speaks well for behaviour of the revolutionary troops that the well-stocked wine. celler remained untouched, and that very little was stolen from the palace, through there was; 2. Of bis hundreds of investments great deal that was of value. he never had any vary large 1,000 SILVER PLATES. amounts in any one-only four Up to the end of 1920 William were what could be called bad had received from Germany the In industrial and commercial un-sum of £3,153,176. A great pars dertakings-banks, electrical and of that sum was spent in buying dye conceris, shipping, tailways, the Doorn house and grounds. In machine-building companies, coal addition to that sum, a vast

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quantity of furniture and silver plate. cutlery, and objects d'art bea been sent to Doorg,

It is raiber a puzzle, indeed, where the exile stores all that he has received. Much of it has most likely been sold.

Among his treasures at Doorn there are 1,000 silver plates! In addition, be has had broach: from Germany no. Jewer than 1,000 pieces of table cu lary and 360 gold-plated plates of all sizère.

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METEOROLOGICAL.

Frevious Day

on date.

og'date.

ITLE HILm, ni 2 p.m

1.00

TIME TABLE. WEEK DAYS.

Every it mis

30 min

PO

4.50 m.

Is min

NIGHT CARS.

8.50 1.26. 10.10 p.m. 1.25 p Lam to 11.30 p.m. ovary. Se muetan Z...

SATURDAYS,

69

75 60

E 5.3

E 1.30

4-

Barometer 30.08 30.02 30,00

62 Temperature ...

62 70 Humidity Wind Direction Wind Force "en" Weather *********, Rain -0.00 -0.00 -0.00 Highest open már

Temperature on the 11th 64 Lowest span "Faiz.

12th 62 Temperature on the

TA CLAXTON, Director. H. K. Observatory, Jan. 12,5

EXTRA CAR 12.06 midnighs.

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SUNDAYS.

NIGHT CARS.

Ai su Wont Days, c SPECIAL CARS.

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WEATHER REPORT.

Jan. 124, 126. 03m-Pressure

TIME ÉIGNALA.

The time ball on Kowloon Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10

is relatively low over China. It. end 4 p., except on Satur has increased considerably from days when it is dropped at 19 Wsibaiwei to N.E. Japan owings.m. and 1pm, and on Sundays to the approach of an anticyclone and Holidays when it is dropped from Mongolia. The, soubernat 10a.m. only. anticyclone le now central be- tween Japan and the Bonins.

Hongkong Bainfall for the 24

The ball is hoisted half mast at

cours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, the 55th minute and full mast st. 0.00 inch Total since January the 57th minute. Should the ball ist. 0.60 inches, against aD fail to drop at the correct 1verage of 0.30 inches.

will be lowered at five FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District. Forecast.

N.E. winds, fresh;

! Hongkong to Gap cloudy.

Book

some

drizzle

2-

past the hour and the culinar rontine repeated at the foldes bour, if possible. ··

Should the time bell be out of order the above routine will be carried out wi.b the flag" Z”, on the storm signal, mast,

or mist.

-*- Tine signal aze, sião: given at N.E. winder night by means of three white larap mounted vertically on the Observatory wireless ment. From [8h, 55m. On. to 9h. 0m. Os. púẩm the lamps "arn: extinguished momentarily at the even seconds, except at the Zud, 28th, 50th, Slid, and 54th of each makanta »

* Farmose, Channel } strong.

* South coast of The same Chins between No. L H.K.&Lamocks

4 South coast of] E winds,. China between > moderate. EE & Hainan..

T. 7. CLAXTON, Director.

Observatory, Jan.12, 1922.

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