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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

FRIDAY DECEMBER 24, 1926,

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LORD KNUTSFORD'S EXPERIENCES."

When a cheque was sent to tho.

Sir Lalubhat Samaldas, a former London Hospital made out to "The The conspirator and gunman, Champion Beggar," the bank nc-Captain Ehrhardt, leader of the member of the Bombay Legislativa cepted Lord Knutsford's endorse notorious "Ehrhardt Brigade," Council and a director of the ment without protest or even in which was a kind of Black-and-Tan Scludlu Stoam Navigation Com- quiry. In these latter daya he is organization, addressed a meeting pany, when asked to express an best known for the indefatigable of the newly formed Monarchist opinion upon Sir James Connolly's work on behalf of the hospitals, League recently, IIe denied a re- 11,000,000 Imperial fast ship and his amazing success in awak-port that he was friendly to the echeme, stated: "My friend, Sir ening the charitable instinct in German Foreign Minister, Dr. John Biles, his favoured me with the most obdurato subjects. In Stresemann, but said that a con- a full statement of the new scherne, the autobiography, a

ciliatory policy towards Franco under which will be brought into vertable treasure-house of

was a necessity so that Germany existence a new fast line of steam. entertaining Anecdotes, entitled "In Black and might have breathing space before ships doing 22 knots, as against, White" (Arnold, 21s. net), by the work of national iboration the average 15 knots of the present Sydney Holland Viscount Knut could begin. To begin it now, he mail line as a result of which sford, which was published recently, added, was futile, because the rest India will be brought nearer to several chapters are devoted to his of the world, especially France, England by five days and Australia career as a successful baggar for was armed to the teeth, whereas by ten days the best of causes. He calculates "about 20 per cent, of all Germans are traitora." By traitors the that a mile of writing earns on an average £200, but every now and Captain presumably means. Com land thereby come into much clo- again some good fellow or "bric munists, Socialists, Jews, and ecr relations with one another than kette" weighs in with a donation Pacifists, in which case his figure they do at prosent, but Australia which blows the average, to is rather an under estimato. Heland India, which do not know cach smithereens. Fishing for money," emphasized his own loyalty, not other very well, will also be he observes, "is not like dry-dly work of traitors), nor even to the that as a consequence of this pro-1

of course, to the Republic (the brought nearer, and it is expected fishing-you cannot wait for your rise and then cast; you have got cx-Kaiser William, but to the

standing of each other's outlook, to get your fish to rise." A Dan- monarchy in the abstract. Gerximity there will be a better under- tonesque. Audacity is the pot many, he said, must have a popu- land further that it will give a fillip tioner's best asset, and thero are

lar monarchy supported by the

Fillip To Trade.

"Not only will India and Eng-

progress has been made in improv.

to trade and commerce between stories to prove that Lord Knut majority of the German people, these countries. So far as sford possesses it in a quite ab- the return of the ex-Kaiser being.

country is concerned, Mr. Lloyd "a matter of absolute impos- Gcorgo's declaration: No real normal degree. When he hit up-sibility." on the plan of circulating n

Nothing could reveal the attering steamship intercourse of ro. million counterfeit half-crowns in silvered cardboard, each bearing dis-repute into which the ex-Kaiser cent years despite years of diséns- the legend: "Thank you for a has fallen so clearly as this state-sion, ia as true to-day as it was real one," he got a letter from the ment by one of the most fanatical when he made it in July, 1924. Public Prosecutor, naking him to of German monarchists, à man

Better Relations. attend at the Home Office and ex-who has stopped at no intrigue or "India, as the largest buyer of plain "his illegal possession of crime to injure the Republic, who British goods, has been in need dies for coin-making." They told would, in fact, have been in prison for many years of better and fast- him that the alternative to with-long ago had not the authorities er steamship communication, but drawing the cardboard coinage been afraid to prosecute him the reason I specially welcome the was-the Old Bailey! Where- Even if the ex-Kaiser should re- proposal is that I see in it the be- upon he replied, to the huge turn to Germany his return to theginning of a genuine desire on the amusement of the officials, that anthrone has become out of the ques- part of Australia to improve her Old Bailey trial and his incarceration, for not only is the majority trade relations with India. tion in goal for a time would be of the German people, Republican the most effective of all possible advertisements of his appeal.

Solvumur risu tabulae.

Help Hints,

So many people have to help in running appeals from time to time that the following hints deserve a wide circulation:

(there being more traitors" than Captain Ehrhardt seems to be lieve), but even in the monarchist movement itself he is faced with growing hostility and scorn. His memoirs, which have been appear ing in the London "Spectator" have only now been published in Berlin. His disposal of the right of publication in England first has given his badly damaged re- putation yet another. jolt.

"For the anke of improving the relations of every kind between England. India and, Australia, I sincerely trust that sufficient co- operation will be forthcoming to ensure the operation of the new line as early as possible.

While I entirely approve of the general lines of the new proposal "Appeals must be simple, direct,

of the promoters of this company, I cannot but say that I feel they and earnest, and, if possible, a bit

would make a mistake to lay down off the beaten track. The trou-

that their steamers shall be work ble with a"begging letter is to get

ed by white men exclusively. it read at all, and many efforts

They ought to look upon the new kill themselves at sight-in fact, letters of Lord. Salisbury to his line as an Imperial one and remove are born dead. A circular in father are given. They are mark- the racial bar. If they do so, I ar print sent out by the thousand,ed by satirical touches, such as confident that the scheme will meet giving a muss of wearisome in- the suggestion that "we had bet-with the support not only of the formation about debts and diffiter hang up a tariff of prices at business raon of my country, but culties, and using all the dear old the Heralds Collego, as they do in also of the Indian Government, phrases, such as 'urgent need' and the bedrooms of an hotel." Lord which would naturally like to give its brethren, is useless except to Knutsford's resemblance to Lord the mail contract to the line that provide indifferent fire-lighting Rosebery was the cause of ruther kebps the most efficient services material for housemaids

of remarkable incidents. It would this line promises to do. course, you cannot always avoid not be fair to pick out any more "Taking all these factors into. an enclosure, but remember that plums of this plum-cake of a consideration, I am strongly of Its purpose is to amplify your book,, so let us conclude by quot-opinion that the proposed scheme letter, and, not to wither it up ing the advice of a grateful will serve the best interests of all Do not strain to be patient to his doctor: "Sir, I the three countries concerned ard original That nearly always can't pay you in money for what that I deserves the support of the shows and chills. Equally do not you have done for me, but I can British Government and peoples erib. Stunts I dislike them as give you a good tip. I am a chef and that of the Government and much as I dislike the word-are Don't you ever take thick soup at peoples of Indian and Australia. merely always cribbed to death."an hotel!"

In writing many copies of the same letter beware of an occasion-

al slip. Lord Knutsford, when sending off a mass of letters con- taining the phrase: "Even if it means an effort, will you help me?" nearly despatched one to the maidenest of maiden ladies in which the words had somehow got changed to: "Even if it means an effort, will you marry me?"

Sportsmen and Statemen, His book contain many quaint atories of life at "The London.". An old ex-convict, whose wife was an in-patient, told Lord Knutsford he was going to start a jeweller's shop."Dear me, won't that cost a lot of money?" No-only eighteen-pence for a jemmy!" A queer letter, one of many such, alluded to the presence in the hos- pital of "h young girl with an Octopus inside of her," and sug- gested that the way-to-cue. her was to "open her stomacke, and sit her in a bath of sea-water, so that the thing might swim out into But its natural surroundings." the writer has seen life from many different angles, and his "wide. range of experiences are described with the wit and humour' you would expect of one whose ances tors include Sydney Smith. One. of the best shote in England, Lord Knutsford has much to tell ua about pheasant shooting and deer- stalking, and of the famous sports- men (among them King Edward VIL.) with whom he shared theso open-air diversions, sometimes as- sisting in the making of a record bag. He was a favourite at Court, and gives us pleasant Im- pressions of our very human Royalties. Some characteristic

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