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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936,

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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 Quina made the front page. And that was >wo years ago to-day. They are atill front page news.

British quadruplets are still on the front page.

Three sons and a daughter born to a Huntingdonshire housewife, thirty-three-year-old Mrs. Miles,mado-news

The British quadruplets have already in their brief life been flash-light photographed, inter- viewed, marvelled at, the subject of admiring gatherings.

The Quins are different. Dafoe won't allow strangers near them.

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Dr.

They are old enough now to

make a film, and they have done But none of the actors were Dr. allowed to touch them. Dafoe did the scenes himself, showing close-ups of his hands.

What will the Quins think of the film when they grow up?

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THE QUINS

. diferent

children-

make

declared when

told that he was king that he would rather stay in Lausanne and play trains.

"When you get ta

Sometimes tragic news.

You cannot forget the rigid ឆ figure, the drawn, bewildered

What will the Miles quadru- In one of the last public utter- Jack Hulbert

ances he was ever to make, the plets think of the front page late Lord Allenby made a power-news they made? Jack Hulbert

ful plea for a better understand- ..Evie Hayes

Children are news because the ...Evie Hayes ing among the nations, so that ..Sam Browne the world might be made a better child is life. The child is the

Sam Browne place for all in which to live. future.

Some people have become settled | Marck Weber's Orchestra In the belief that soldiers are of Standchen (Hoykens) ..Marek Weber's Orchestra necessity more interested in war

Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra than in peace; yet we had BD-331 Obstination

Tango Habanera

of that viewpoint when this dis-

Jugo-Slavia C-2833. "Follow the Sun"-Selection-Parts 1 & 2 (With Vocal Refrain) ·

de-through the streets of Belgrade · tinguished Field Marshal Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra clared that he would like to see in October 1934 after the coffin BD-337 The Town Talks-Piano Medley.. Vivian Ellis (Pianist) the application in the inter-of his murdered father,

King And national sphere of the golden

nine-year-old BD-338 Reminiscences of Friml-Paramount Theatre Organ

rule which is one of the safest,

Ananda Mahidol of Siam, who BD-336 Songs of Songs (Moyal (Piano Accordeon)

George Scott-Wood guides for the individual through the perplexing maze of existence Ah, Sweat Mystory of Life. (Herbert)

BD-339 Corshwin Medley

ut

will

She sat hugging her knees.on a little stool at the feet of the Duchess of York until boredom got the belter of her. She pulled up her socks, she wanted

to whisper to her mother, she wriggled and stretched her arins, and tried to attract the attention of sistor Elizabeth. But sister Elizabeth, nceuro in the dignity. of eight years old, frowned and shook her head.

elder sister, in Westminster Abbey as anywhere else.

what Younger sister was quelled by they think when they grow up

•

up?

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 outcry 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 endly: No, I won't. They won't let cot in Hopewell, Now 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, by the withdrawn grief of their young som money is still appearing in father, the absence of their mother. Amerien, Only Princess Josephine attended the

So, too, is 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.

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ran-

tory. "She is beginning to think We must smile a little to remember that the world revolves round Prince Baudouin when his father, King Gloria Vanderbilt," said her Leopold, nowly ascended to the throne, mother sadly.

took the oath to the Constitution. How

And that is tragedy too.

Another child whose nume is

he. sat in a huge volvet chair, and fidgeted so much that his mother had to take him on her knee and whisper front page all over the world is With her Temple. warnings, perhaps, or promises in his Shirley small ear..

limples, her throaty little voice,

"Be good now, darling, and you shall her absurd flopping curls, sho has led the hearts of millions have chocolate cake for tea."

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

"

As we open the newspaper the

And though a prince of Britain and a grow up into? 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 Celia Dale ness as tedious as Prince Baudouin found the accession of his father.

..Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra striking example of the fallacy face of little King Petor of the throne you will be Princess Margaret Rose found the bugi. eyes first and keep them longest.

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George Scott-Wood-the rule that we must not deny NOTES OF THE DAY

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manently in the position of the were once separate small towns and under-dog. That principle is villages have now been absorbed generally accepted by the British into the Metropolitan Area. The people; they and, the British consequent congestion has been a Government were first among source of anxiety to the authorl- the peoples of Europe in support tics, and efforts have recently been ing Germany's reasonable claims made to preserve u "green belt" to equality. Patriotism, after round London. Thus an area of all, if it is to possess any real land would be preserved, wherein value, must be given an inter: Londoners could seek rest and re- creation in open spaces-in parks: national as well as a national ap-and in the countryside. At the be- plication. But it would seem as if the vastly improved means of ginning of last year a definite scheme was developed, and the communication and the profuse London County Council promised gifts of science to humanity have to contribute £2,000,000, over actually made the process more period of three years, towards ita difficult rather than easier. The realisation. This is only in the fact is that nations are passing form of a grant-in-nid; the Council through a painful phase of evolu-will not own any portion of the land! tion.

But sooner or later there in the belt.

must come out of it some sane A year's work and the expendi- agreement whereby all can live ture of more than £700,000 in pür- together in peace and concord, chase grants, have brought the The wary of earlier generations Arst appearance of the belt, and were comparatively small affairs, its completion is assured. During Wars of the future may throw the year 18,300 acres have been the whole world out of gear and provisionally preserved or acquir menace millions of civilians as ed. In a report issued by the well as millions of combatants. Parks Committee of the London War is such a terrible thing that County Council it is stated that a It must by common consent be most encouraging measure of co- If states operation has been given by other proscribed for ever.

local authorities. Particular atten- men do not appreciate that pointtion is paid to the preservation of und strive to achieve a new the many places and stretches of order, they will assuredly, in the London's countryside that are of end, be swept away by the out-historie importance. The "green raged conscience of mankind, belt" scheme runs parallel with the who only wish to live in pence work of the National Trust, which and harmony. It is, therefore, a has already done much valuable duty on the part of people every-work, towards the preservation of where the masses, as distinct the beauty of the English country- side. The belt will not be a fenced- from the politicians and war-off strip; it will include farm lands, mongers to make their voice woodlands, and commons, which known and to insist on policies will remain as they are at present. which involve no threat of a new

war. Un-the leaders among the peace- and devastating happily, the war spirit is still loving peoples to see that every- tries, even to-day, but it is for to avert another Armageddon.

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THE CROWN JEWELS

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indispensable sign of sovereignty, is these.

the at

We REC

recovered sport. Gradually the ides of king- announcement regarding the Same of the jewels were date of the Coronalon is expect later, but a new Crown and Regalia ship began to be associated with the bo made. The recovered Crown of gold. The early kings of simple. Often kings ed to be made this week. In the mean, had to

extremely possessed many more than one crown, time, is Majesty's Crown, the jewels were used in the making of England were crowns, but they were The fact that the Royal Regalia The unlucky King Edward II., whe was murdered in Berkeley Castic, had in the Tower of London, ceaselessly

but they did not ennisle watched over by His Majesty's were smashed up at the time of the

-his-throsc.. Guarda. This and the other toyal Commonwealth means that most of at least

to-day are him to modern. That briof Regalia, the Queen's Crowns, glorious these jewels maces, sceptres, and priceless salt comparatively

Coronation cellars, unod

heresy of Cromwell's was an act that banquet, are hidden behind steal bars. has been deplored ever since, and If nec

necessary,

ary, the whole glass strong which made a definite break in the room can be made to disappear be- history of Britain's Crown Jewels. We are fortunate in being able to view low, and the place can be flooded.

How different la the value placed these so easily, for they are the only on these Crown Jewels to-day us Crown Jewels in the world that are

with former times! on view to all, compared

From the very earliest times in the Incredible as it may sound, during the period of the Commonwealth the world's history men have worn crown. Crown of England and all the Regalia They have been given for heroism were shattered and sold for junk, and for victories in the sphere of

SIDE

GLANCES

By George Clark

"It's nothing to worry about, Spot was hardly sick at all when we had him Inoculated."

the

It was the new St. Edward's Crown which Colonel Blood was after, and little fuller tolling. this incident is so extraordinary that it is worth There is no other like it in the history of Britain's Crown Jewels.

Colonel Blood was a soldier of the fortune who had espoused

nt Parliamentary cause, and Resteration he was down on his luck. to coun- from country

Physician self under the gulse of a try, and eventually established him. in London. In 1671 he formed the amazing design of suizing the Crown Jewels. Disguised as a parson, and having a woman with hint, whom he passed off as his wife, ho visited the

Lewandered.

Roman pretended to be III, and old Regalla. During the visit the Edward's wife tended her. Three days later the "parson" returned with six pairs of gloves as a present for the old people's kindness. Thus an intimacy sprang up between Blood and Edwards.

All the time the rogue was further- ing his design, and he gained the com

this plete trust of the keeper and wife. Next Blood suggested a match

and between Edwards's daughter fictitious nephew of Blood's, said to have £300 a year in land. It was. arranged that the introduction be tween the two young people should take place early in the morning of bo May .. Blood said the hour must In the afternoon. The day came, and when Edwards opened the door in and three other Blood rushed scoundrels armed with rapiers. They knocked the old man senseless, and, seized the orb, the acepire, and the

crown.

Unluckily for them, while filing the sceptre in two, a son and brother-in- law of Edwards came on the scene, decamp at and the villains had to once. The old man, having recovered. somewhat, shouted at the top of his voice, the daughter rushed outsid and gave the alarm there, 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: Was captured and taken before King ho behaved with effrontery, stating that he had done Charles signal servico in the past, Maving his life from plotters on at least ono occasion. The story was perhaps false, but the King believed it-and not only pardoned him, but. allowed him to become a favourite at Court

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