THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936.
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THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936.
A
Front Page
CHILDREN
MAN in Callander, Ontario, telephoned his local newspaper and said: "Does it cost any more to advertise the birth of five babies in your paper?"
That was how the Quins made- the front page. And Hint, was two years ago to-day. They are still front page news...
British quadruplets are still on the front page.
Three sons and a daughter horn to a Huntingdonshire housewife, thirty-three-year-old Mrs. Miles, made news.
The British quadruplets have already in their brief-life-boan... finsh-light photographed, Inter- viewed, marvelled at, the subject of admiring gatherings.
The Quins are different. Dr. Dafoe won't allow strangers near them.
They are old enough now to make a film, and they have done
80.
But none of the actors were allowed to touch them. Dr. Dafoe did the scenes himself, showing close-ups of his hands.
What will the Quins-think-of- the film when they grow up?
What will the Miles quadru- plets think of the front page news they made?
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Children are news because the The child is the child is life. future.
Sometimes
make
THE QUINS
different
declared when teld that he way king that children
he would rather stay in Lausanne and play A SOLDIER'S PLEA tragic news.
You cannot forget the rigid trains.
"When you get to In one of the last public utter-figure, the drawn, bewildered ances he was ever to make, the face of little King Peter of the throne you will be he walked able to have a lot of late Lord Allenby made a power-Jago-Slavia. As ful plea for a better understand-through the streets of Belgrade trains," they told him. Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra ing among the nations, so that in October 1931 after the coffin The Town Talks-Piano Medley..Vivian Ellis (Pianist) the world might be made a better of his murdered father. Reminiscences of Frimi-Paramount Theatre Organ place for all in which to live.
And nine-year-old Foort
Some people have become settled
BD-337 BD-338
BD-336 Songs of Songs (Moya) (Piano Accordeon)
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (Herbert)
Gershwin Medley
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She sat hugging her knees on a little stool at the feet of the Duchess of York until boredom got the batter of her. Sho pulled up her socks, she wanted to whisper to her mother, she her wriggled and stretched arms, and tried to attract the attention of stater Elizabeth. But sister Elizabeth, secure in the dignity of eight years old; frowned and shook her head.
but what Younger sister was quelled by
will think
they
when
they grow up?
elder sister, in Westminster Abbey as anywhere else.
The murder of the Lindbergh baby roused the horror of the world as few crimes have done. Had Colonel Lindbergh, hero of America, himself been killed, the outery would not have, been so loud, nor the grief so great, as at the death of his
But the little boy, with his wide- curly-headed baby. cheeked golden face on its slender golden Even now, four years after neck, shook his head and answered the child disappeared from his
me"
sadly: No, I won't. They won't let cot in Hopewell, New Jersey, the case is still front-page news for There are the three royal children of we learn this week that, despite „Belgium, puzzled and a little frightened Hauptmann's execution, `ran- by the withdrawn grief of their young som money is still appearing-in: father, the absence of their mother. America. Only Princess Josephine attended the
So, too, ly Gloria Vanderbilt, funeral of Queen Astrid, her fair head the long-legged little girl who and little white face shining like a candle has made American legal his- amid the mourning.
tory. She is beginning to think We must smile a little to remember that the world revolves round. Prince Baudouin when his father, King Clorin Vanderbilt," said her Leopold, newly ascended to the throne. mother sadly.
took the oath to the Constitution. How
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t
And that is tragedy too.
he sat in a huge velvet chair, and
Another child, whose name is fidgeted so much that his mother had to take him on her knee and whisper front page all over the world is warnings, perhaps, or promises in his Shirley Temple. With her small car.
dimples, her throaty little voice,. "Bo good now; darling, and you shall her absurd flopping curls, she
has filled the hearts of millions. have chocolate cake for ten."
Why not? Though his father is a of people, and the pockets of king, Prince Baudouin is still a restless quite a few more. little boy, like yours or mine.
What sort of star will she And though a prince of Britain and a grow up into?
As we open the newspaper the princess of Greece were married in Westminster Abbey, watched by the royalty and nobility of the world, small picture of a child will catch our Princess Margaret Rose found the busi- eyes first and keep them longest. -
Celia Dale ness as tedious as Prince Baudouin found the accession of his father..
THE CROWN JEWELS
NUTES OF THE DAYI A' date of the Coronaion is expeel- later, but a new Crown and Regalia ship began to be associated with the
on
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to
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in the belief that soldiers are of Ananda Mahidol of Siam, who George Scott-Wood
necessity more interested in war
N announcement regarding the Same of the jewels were recovered sport, Gradually the idea of king- Crown of gold. The early kings of George Scott-Woodthan in peace; yel we had a
England wore crowns, but they were
Orton simple,
kinga ed to be made this week. In the mean- had to be, made. The recovered
extremely ..Renara (Pianist) striking example of the fallacy
the jewels were used in the making of of that viewpoint when this dis- "CREEN BELT" FOR LONDON
time, His Majesty's Crown,
possessed many more than one crown. tinguished Field Marshal de-
During the present century Lon-
indispensable sign of sovereignty, is these.
The fact that the Royal Regalia The unlucky King Edward II., who clared that he would like to see don has grown enormously. What in the Tower of London, ceaselessly
watched over by His Majesty's were smashed up at the time of the was murdered in Berkeley Castle, had at least ten, but they did not enable lis throne. the application in the inter-were once separate small towns and
Guards. This and the other Royal Commonwealth means that most of
WO to-day are him to keep
It modern That brief national sphere of the golden villages have now been absorbed
Blood was after, and- maces, sceptres, and priceless salt comparatively rule which is one of the safest into the Metropolitan Area-The--Regalia, the Queen's Crowns, glorious thoro jewels
consequent congestion has been a
celiars,
used at the Coronation heresy of Cromwell's was an act that which the now. St. Edward's Crown guides for the individual through source of anxiety to the authorl-
banquet, are hidden behind steel bars, has been deplored over since, and this incident is so extraordinary, that If necessary, the whole glass strong- which made a definito break in the it is worth a little fuller tolling. the perplexing maze of existence ties, and efforts have recently been
room can be made to disappear be- history of Britain's Grown Jewels. There is no other like it in the history
-Jewels. view
of Britain's Crown We are fortunate in being able
of Thus an area of
low, and the place can be flooded.
a soklier Colonel Blood was
tho -the rule that we must not deny made to preserve a "green belt"
round London.
fortune Crown Jewels in the world that are
who had espoused How different is the value placed these so easily, for they are the only
at the to others what we claim for our-land would be preserved, wherein
these Crown Jewels today
Parliamentary cause, and ali.. former with selves. It was impossible, he Londoners could seek rest and re-
times! on view to Compared open spaces-in parka
Restoration he was down on his luck. From the very earliest times in the Incredible as it may sound, during
Ho wandered from country to coun- declared, to keep any member of creation
and in the countryside. At the be-
the period of the Commonwealth the world's history men have worn crowna, the community of nations per-ginning of last year a definite
Crown of England and all the Regalia They have been given for heroiam try, and eventually established him. self under the guise of a physician junk, and for victories in the sphere
in London. In
In 1071 ho formed the manently in the position of the scheme was developed, and the
were shattered and sold for
anıazing design of suizing the Crown under-dog. That principle is London County Council promised
Jewels. Disguised as a parson, and having a woman with him, whom he generally accepted by the British to contribute £2,000,000, over a period of three years, towards its
passed off as his wife, he visited the people; they and the British realisation. This is only in the
Royal Regalia. During the visit the old Government were first among form of a grant-in-aid; the Council
woman pretended to be in, and Edward's wife tended her. Three the peoples of Europe in support will not own any portion of the land
days later the "parson returned with six pairs of gloves as a present ing Germany's reasonable claims the belt,
A year's work and the expendi-
for the old people's kindness. Thus to equality. Patriotism, after
ture of more than £700,000 in pur-
an intimacy sprang up between Blood all, if it is to possess any real chase grants, have brought the
and Edwards. value, must be given an inter- first appearance of the belt, and national as well as a national ap-Ita completion is assured. During plication. But it would seem as the year 18,300 acres have been provisionally preserved or acquir if the vastly improved means of ed. In a report issued by the communication and the profuse Parks Committee of the London gifts of science to humanity have County Council It is stated that a most encouraging measure of co- actually made the process more operation has been given by other difficult rather than easier. The local authorities. Particular atten- fact is that nations are passing tion, is paid to the preservation of through a painful phase of evolu-the many places and stretches of London's countryside that are of tion. But sooner or later there historic importance. The "green must come out of it some sane belt" scheme runs parallel with the agreement whereby all cun live work of the National Trust, which has already done much valuable together in peace and concord.work towards the preservation of The wars of earlier generations the beauty of the English country- were comparatively small affairs. side. The belt will not be a fenced- Wars of the future may throw off strip; it will include farm lands, woodlands, and commons, which the whole world out of gear and will remain as they are at present.. menace millions of civilians as well as milllons of combatants.
where the masses, as distinct War is such a terrible thing that from the politicians and war- it. must by common consent be mongers-to make their voice proscribed for ever. If states-known, and to insist on policies men do not appreciate that point which involve no threat of a new
war. Un and strive to achieve a now and devastating order, they will assuredly, in the happily, the war spirit is still end, be swept away by the out very much, alive in some coun tries, even to-day, but it is for raged conscience of mankind, the leaders among the peace- who only wish to live in peace loving peoples to see that every. duty on the part of people every.to avert another Armageddon.
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"It's nothing to worry about. Spot was hardly sick at all when we had him inoculated."
All the time the rogue was further. ing his design, and he gained the com. plete trust of the keoper and his wife. Next Blood suggested a match between Edwards's daughter and a- anid fletitious nephow of Blood's, to have £300 a year in land. It was arranged that the fatroduction be- tween the two young people should take place early in the morning of May 9. Blood said the hour must be in the afternoon. The day came, and when Edwards opened the door in rushed
Blood
and
thirgo other scoundrels armed with rapiers. They knocked the old man senseless, and Roixed the orb, the sceptre,, and the
crown.
Unluckily for them, while filing the
sceptre in two, a son and brother-in- Edwards came on the scene,
of
1234 the villains had to decump at once. The old man, having recovered Homewhat, shouted at the top of his voice, the daughter. rushed outside and gave
the alarm bhore, and Captain Beckman Edward's brother- in-law, chased after Blood, who was glad to drop the crown and escape.
Most amazing of all, when Blood captured and taken before the Insolent King he behaved with effrontery, stating that he had done
inal service in the past
his life from plotters en at Icart one occasion. The story was perhaps false, but the King believed it-and not only pardoned him, but favourite allowed him to become at Court:
James L. Hawkins
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