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Eventful Career of Princess

Marie's Husband.

King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia, who last month wedded Princess: Maria, of. Rumania, has had an jeventul cateer. Born in exile,| the second son of Prisca Pateri | Karageorgevitch-Pretander tof the throne of Serbia-and of Princess Zorka, daughter,of] Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, Į there seemed little likelihood of his ever ascending & throne.

His infancy was spent at tho; Cours of his maternal grandfather in Cettigos. After his mother's) death he attended a French school in Genera until he was old! enough to enter the famous Corps des Papes in Petrograd, for the sons of Russino noblemen. It was; from here that the studious lad of fifteen was summoned to Bol grade. in June, 1903, by his father, who had been elected King of Serbia. He continued in Bel grade his preparation for a uni versity degree, until the relin- quishment of the rights of succes. sion by his elder brothar. Prince George, changed his entire ont- look.

As Heir to the Throne, he now. devoted hitaself to affairs of State. { and even in those early days) showed tact and discretion in) iconciliating the various politics}} factions. In 1911, owing to his; Father's ill-health be assumed the Regency, and made his first) official appearance abroad at thei Caronation of King George and Queen Mary. He was the young est foreign Royalty in the pro- cession.

A year later he won his spurs in the Balkan war, liberating the the Serbs of the South From Turkish yoke. But it was the World War that made of the

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SLEEVE STYLES

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with tucked material or clash of Another colun. Sometimes it is tucked in points to match the skirt.

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intrepid youth's veritable leader THE SEAMEN'S UNION AT een created. The have been, for

of men.

After going through the ter rible Albiniau retreat with the Serbian Army he seldom left thel Trenches on the Salonika front, awaiting the day when, with the Allied Armies, he could push northwards to regain possession of his country.

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jexample, numerous instances in

which the seaman signed their, ¡papers of service. All that they

knew was that the papers bore: their signature. They had no knowledge of either the nature of the work they were required to door the terms and conditions. When troubles have arisen, cases which, without difficulties could have been privately and amicably settled. have been referred to the

and police courts,

irritating measures have at times unneces sarily been resorted to.

The

Beneficial Possibilities. We mentioned a few weeks ago that steps were being taken to the formation of & Guilt of Union of Chinese sesmen at Sbangbai, similar in the main to He found the capital devastat the Seamen's Union of Hongkong ed by bombardments, and handed and Canton., The Unios, known over the only wing of his Palace as the Shangbai Branch of the left intact to the first assembled Chinese Sesmen's Union, is now Parliament of the Southern Slavs. in crual being. and despite He himself took up his abode in measures of organization and * modest, one-storeyed house on administration have been carried! Union does not merely content the opposite side of the street into effect. We are not aware of itself with seeking to promote the That is still his residence, and it the actual number of the 30,000 welfare of the seamen but it has 14 thence that he will drive to the estimated)sesmen sailing out of at the same time taken upon itself Cathedral on his wedding morn-Shanghai who have allied them.the arduous duties of assisting ing the Palace, now reatored and selves to the Union since its the seamen to have a good know- enlarged, being placed at the dis-formation in Shanghai, but we do ledge of their responsibilities and posal of the Rumanian Boral know that many have stready to live up to them. The l'aioa Family, the Duke of York, joined and that there is every has very many members and the other distinguished wedding prospect of the Union having a enrolment of naw members is

large menibership.

steadily progressing. The good King Alexander is connected Probably as a result of the offices of the Union have been through his mother's family with regrettable attitude adopted he found helpful in the satisfactory of disputes either many Horal houses. His aunt the Canton Sesmen's Union in settlement Milites and Anastasia are Grand regard to some of the aspects of between the shipmasters and the Duchesses of the House of Ro. the great strike at Hongkong at Seamen or between the seamen MaDoft. Another sunt is Queen; the beginning of this year, the themselves."

The Union thus appears to be a Princess Anna, by her marriage Union at Shanghai caused, we combination of a mutual benefit with brother of the late Prince believe, certain misgivings when Society and a trade union: the airs Henry of Battenberg. forms at the scheme was first made public. of the Union as stated are ob link with the Royal Houses oli but there is every reason to viously admirable and commend.

believe tha: the formating of the able: the aion appears to be not; England and of Spain.

Although the diverse elements Union at Shanghai is not fraught force seeking strife but as one in Jugo-Slavia have not yet satis with danger of any widespread seeking to avoid and eliminate it. factorily coalesced. there is demands on shipowners similar and if the objects are faithfully general approval of the King's to those made in the South in adhered to there is no reason why

The shipping

the Union should not develop marriage, because it adds lustre January 1st. 10 the dynasty and stabil companies running out of Shang into a power for good--both of the izes political conditions in the bai, or the majority of them, seaman and the shipowner. The Balkans. King Alexander, while pay their 898men strictly constitutional. has shown favourably comparable to on more than one occasion, that obtaining in the South as the employers and employed are free be has a will of his own and that result of the Hongkong strike: of friction, and provided it steers ideas and he means to rule with imparti- there is little, if any, ceneral clear of extremist

subordinates ality. Recently he refused his dissatisfaction manifest and the aspirations, signature to a Bill for repartition seamen are, on the whole, con- possible contention to amicable of the Provinces which was un-tanted with pre railing conditions discussion and a realization of popolar with the Croat and We have been privileged to see both sides of every question, there is no doubt that the bangbai: Slovene subjects. A proof of his translation of the original pro- religious tolerance is the spectus of the Union, about Branch of the Chinese, Seamen's patronage and material assi. which there is nothing to which Union will justify its formation, tance given to the fund for the anyone could take exception.both as a society for the mutual erection of a Catholic church in The general object of the Union benefit of its members, and as a Belgrade.

is stated to be "to exchange body by means of which strife be- knowledge and

develop tween shipowners and selmoo The choice by King Alexander of Castle Bled in the picturesque industry and its scope of useful may be avoided.-Shipping and beights of Slovenia, for the hones- hess" and at this policy nonenginerting. ( moon gives great pleasure to the can cavil. The entrance fee to the Union-one dollar-is purely

to

A cala Union has come into being at a

that

time when the relations between

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Slovenes. The wedding gifts nominal, and the annual subscrip- Out of doors there is nothing so which arrived daily from alltion-$1.20-almost equally so, restful and comfortable for the parts of Croatia and Dalinstia. As well as from Slovenis and and, according to the prospectus, eyes as the light reflected from Serbia,

it appears that these monies are green fields and trees-the absorp- show that political antagonisme do not affect theo be used in part for the est. tion of the ultra-violet and crangs ablishment of a night school at rays by the chlorophyll of the people's attachment to their

Shanghai. and 趱 "patients leaves; hence the introduction of Sovereign.

house," while an appreciable sum Fieuzat Glass, yellowish green in has left him little time for member becoming deceased.

King Alexander's busy life will be paid to the family of any colour, which is produced in several shades, and lenses made athletic games, but he is a good The Secretary of the Union, of this may be worn as a protec shot, a daring horgeman, and a Mr. Lam Wai-men, who also has tion by over-sensitive eyes where great lover of animals. Slight in been one of the chief figures in it is desirable to tone down statore, his short. rapid stride ita organization. has stated that excessive light and glare. Fieuzal indicates the soldier. His features one of the chief reasons for the lenses of any prescription in are typically Star, and they formation of the Union was that either regular or Toric formy are rarely relax. But his smile, there have been many cases of manufactured by The Hongkong when it comes, is winning. His misunderstanding between Chi-Optical Co successors to Clare honeymoon will be the first nese seamen and their employers, & Co., manufacturing and refract holiday he has had for many and that through soch misundering opticians, 53, Queen's Road| years.

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