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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, October 6, 1986.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 6, 1936.

CROWN COLONY

GOVERNMENT

In the otherwise admirable broadcast address which Profes-

A QUEEN is fighting to ROUND

Who is this dominant figure who, after settling Cabinet crisis, spent her holidays in the Highlands of Scotland preparing for the greater challenge' sho is · now facing?

In this vivid pen picture

Herbert Antcliffe,

a London Correspondent at The Hague, reveals her remarkable personality.

Q

UEEN

WILHELMINA. rules`an Empire. Nearly 60,000,000 subjects know her as a remarkable woman and, above all, a remarkable Queen.

Behind her she has the tradi- tion of centuries and the train ing from her early youth by her mother, the late Queen Emma.

Yet these would be small mat ters were it not that she is loved and respected by all classes and

parties for herself.

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Queen Wilhelmina,

save the Guilder

The eyes of the world are focused to-day upon Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands.

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She is engaged upon strenuous fight to save the abandonment of the gold guilder.

Neither devaluation nor

· ́the abandonment of the gold

landed property, probably amount to standard could benefit the

not less than £4,000,000,

The income from each of these has community as a whole, she in recent years fallen considerably, declared recently in a speech

so that she cannot do many of the

In

Kindliness

things, either for herself or others, from the throne. she has met her own tenants that she would wish. Nevertheless, dimculties, and even tenants in their opposed was to her, deeply relt- glous Calvinist, no objection what- the allowances and reductions she ever to his appointment as her chief has made than they themselves would political adviser. It was a real dis- given appointment to her that he would not have asked. She has also much to the various crisis funds, and accept the position of Prime Minis- has returned to the Government a ter proportion of the allowance fixed by Queen Wilhelmina's one object in the Constitution as the stipend of the. life is to be a mother to her people, reigning Sovereign.

IKE most royal, personages she is and, as every conscientious mother

an excellent linguist, and A Gesture must, she demands respect as well

meel not only most Europeans but as love, while sometimes she has to

also her East Indian subjects on their do things

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Her Answer

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so far as the Sovereign is concerned. Government that among the changes Not long ngo the wives of the is much the same as the Constitution which are to be made in the Con- British and French Ministers were of of the United Kingdom, she is more stitution one should be the formal received, after the presentation

permanent and

reduction of this their husbands credentials, by her or less un tutocrat,

• allowance.

Majesty in private audience. Both, familiar with each Unlike most autocrats she preters of course, were to have round her strong men who

other's language, so that the

-conver- sation might have been in eller. she can orgue and whom

she can convince or by whom she ean be nothing of this, and whenever she convinced.

apoke to the Frenchwoman it was in Her favourite statesman was for French and to the Englishwoman in many years the late Monsignor

English. Nolens, a Catholic prelate of demo- With all this, whille Queen Wilhel- unbending no cratic views and with a character as mina never ccoses to be "every inch

her own. Thot religious matters they were entirely stons a model of kindliness.

In a Queen", she is outside formal occa-

period of the world's history, or had she ruled over Russia or Persia, Queen Wilhelmina would almost certainly have been a despot, but she

would have been a beneficent despot. something of a martinet, of which a As a young woman she was even well-authenticated story gives an in- stance. She and her, entourage were attending a review of the morning..

troops,

which started at four o'clock in the

Courageous Ride

Wull Faa: King of the Gipsies

a tent or caravan

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When Wull clattered up to the pit,

EAR, If she feels it, she conceals test his skill in a fight. His fame with the spirit of heroine. rose after a combat with another when, in 1918, incipient rioting had daring gipsy on Ford Loanin', which and, as usual, pushed his way past a whole summer, the walting row of carts, the farmer tready taken place, her Majesty, to lasted throughout

stepped forward and said, "challeng test the loyalty of the people at The day. Hague, rode out in an open carriage, practically unattended, through the crowded streets to the equally crowd- ed "Malicveld," a large grass plain which, when not in use as a military exercise ground, serves as an excel- lent playground adults.

for children

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SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

ABOUT by

The Showman

again.

ASMINE... 18” puzzled Everything-lito and the world

and, you know, the way people say they'll do something, and then don't everything seems so queer

and unsettled, if you see what she

means.

Sho incans that she says l'a on

with her, and you say it's on with you.

shell be at the bus stop and so will

then it's on with you and her, and

you, like you said you would.

But all things aren't like that, sro they, not by a long chalk? Why? 'All Those Things

SIE means there was that athlete.

One day an interview sald ho was going to retire, and the next day he asked a paper to say lie wasn't' going ta. There was that broadcast which

a paper said that Stalin and the Russian generals had made to the

Russian Army. Then the Russians lacs well not in so many words, but

denied it. Then the paper called them

you know..

And as for worthless treaties, and official.rumours, and denials of film-

stars engagements fand they've been

married and divorced all the time)-- well, she means to say..

The Happy Mean

Y advice to Jasmine is based on, thousands of years' experience of this weary world. Indeed, I was with Noah when he said: "I think it will only be a shower"; and I said: "It looks to me as if it had come to stay.” Well, of course, wo were both wrong. It cleared up after a bit, so you know. So I would advise Jasmine not to rely too much on anything. For example, when a young man says “I will love you for ever and ever," she Ahould murmur 10 herself-white wondering if he 'anorca-- "Or there- abouts!"

Thus preparing for anything like a sensible Iltile public.

ALL this talk about should girls wear shorts! Well, anyhow, I happened to be in a crowd that was photo- graphed. and I was wearing shorts, and the picture got in the papers, and when I got back from.my holiday his sister the criticising one-had seen it.

"Well," she said, “some people would. take care not to be photographed like Uhat I would, for one!'

"And you'd be quite right, dear," 1. said very sweetly.

How's that for a soft answer?

Film Producer's Problem

Now, in this giri on actrem, we call Î make her info a star?

Ways' Corner -

A LIFE

INSURANCE AGENT, making his usual weekly round) enlled at a holiso in one of the poorer districts of London.

"Hi, mai" the husband called up- stairs to his wife, “hero's the under- ground landlord called for 'ia rent!"

Ingly. "Hey, mia man: it's turn un' turn boot here."

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ever

involved

Another "ploy" in which Wull was Was the smuggling at whisky and

Borders gin into the from the small ports on the Nor thumberland coast. This pursuit delighted

The

King's wild and reck- less spirit, and the profits he gather- ed from it far outweighed the risks In his estimation. He did not always get off "haillscart," however, for on one occasion when returning from Boulmer on horseback with two kegs of Holland gin he was held up by a party of armed excisemen.

are in the majority on all the Legislative Councils. This is so, he stated, because by that means

Parliament at his back-retains Prompt to the minute the Court the ultimate control of legislation arrived at the place where the review should take place. Two minutes Actually, however, there are later the General Omeer Command-'

the days when Kirk Yetholm t IN

Although of royni blood, Wull Fan several Crown Colonies in which ing arrived.

the foot of the Cheviots was the was by no means endowed with the Unofficials outnumber the With a cold unrecognising stare centre of the gipsy tribe, Wull Fra riches. His castle was n humble

the young Queen remarked, in reply reigned as monarch over the dark, cottage-often Officials, and in at least one in to the general's excuses, that she skinned, wild-hearted colony. He when he was "on the road"-and his stance the Unofficials can veto had no use for an officer who arrived had a struggle to obtain his "throne," only means of locomotion was by a

The king gave him an ugly glower. two minutes after the time; and for when "Glee'd Neckit Wull his sernggy while donkey that was ken whi yere speakin' to?"

"Oot n' ma roud," he grunted." "D'ye financial measures. To take without more ado the man was dia- father, left It vacant on his death, a housed in the "entry" of his palace. few instances offhand, Ceylon, missed from his post and another usurper arose and threatened to oust

Such an astonishing thing happen. him from his rightful position. oppointed.

ed then that an amazed gasp prose under its new Constitution, has a

Her interest in the Army and Navy |

In the winter when funds were at from the breathless spectators. The This bold pretender was the leader predominantly Unofficial Council;

has always been of a practical nature, of an inferior tribe, known to the their lowest, Wull made a living by farmer, with one spring, caught the in British Guiana, there are nine- Last week she outlined new provi- gipsies as the Earl of Hell, who had driving coals from the pit head to gipsy up in his arms, and, holding once "rubbed southers wi the the neighbouring towns. But the him over the yawning mouth of the teen Unofficials and ten Officials; sions for national defence.

galleys." A battle-royal took place king was an Impatient man and pit shaft, cried.. "Noo, then, ma. and-in-Honduras, seven-Un- There is something splendia in this on Yetholm Green, at which the when he arrived to see other carts mannie; maun I let ve garu doon, or officials and six Officials. Pro-

lonely woman's courageous attitude Earl's party were defeated, and Wull drawn up at the pithead he did not are ye gaun to walk yer turn" "like" to life. Her husband, Prince Hen-Fan rode victorious on his donkey to his way forward, and began to load

trouble to walt his turn, but pushed ther fowk?" fessor Coupland, in defending the drick, died last year. Their only the coronation.

before the others. His strength and

Wull was wise enough to realise Oficial majority system, stated child, Princess Juliana, is now her

when he was beaten, so he gave in Many tales are told of King Wull's power were so great that mother's inseparable companion, that control of finances could not

daring. He was a broad-shouldered dared challenge his right, till one day great respect for the farmer

no one with good enough grace, and held a giant, distinguished for his strength a bold farmer thought it was time after. be assured if the Unofficial mem-

und bravery, and always ready to to teach him a lesson. bers were in a majority and, by reason of disagreement with the policy of the Governor and the Secretary of State, threw out the Budget. He seems to be unaware of a special feature of the Jamaica Constitution, which has nineteen elected members, by which nine of these Unofficials can veto any financial measure, whilst the unanimous vote of the whole nineteen Unofficials on other mat- ters cannot be over-ridden unless the Governor declares that such a decision is of paramount-import- ance in the public interest. An analysis of the Crown Colony system of government shows that it has been greatly modified from time to time, with the result that there is no uniformity of Con stitution. Some of the Crown Colonies have Legislative Councils, elective element is a relatively others none; in some, there is an recent development. According to Unofficial majority, in most the Professor Coupland, it has been Officials predominate; many have adopted where there has grown adopted the elective system in the up a sufficient body of English- choice of Unofcials, in others speaking and English-educated | they may be nominated by the members of the community to Governor or by representative form constituencies. But here, bodies, as in Hongkong. There again, there seems to be no is even provision, in some uniformity of method employed, instances, for the Legislative doubtless largely due to the dif- Councils to be dissolved after ficulty of drawing the line between given period of years backward and politically advanced a new Council chosen. populations. The problem is ad- As Professor Coupland states, the mittedly a difficult one, but there | Legislative Councils, were original- seems no reason why, in the case ly composed entirely of Officials, of such a Colony as Hongkong, at but nowadays they include Un- least some of the Unofficials should officials, for the purpose of assur-] not be elected, on some such panel ring the Government of contact as the Jurors' List, as is done in with and advice from the general the case of certain seats on the public. The Introduction of the Urban Council:

and

and

Her gesture was recognised and appreciated to such an extent that the enthusiastic youth of the city unharnessed the horses and dragged the carriage for several miles among throngs whose cheering knew no Jimits.

The Queen is enormously rich, but she is also very generous.

Her capital investments in such industrial undertakings as the Royal land Steamship Company (Flushing- Dutch Petroleum Company, the Zec-

Harwich), and the Netherlands well as in Trading Company, as

"We moved out here just so they could have a yard to romp in.”

Wull's only weapon was an oaken cudgel, so he tried to make his escapo, but his horse stuck fast in a bog and he was forced to face his pursuers. He wielded the cudgel with all his power and skill till it was cut to pieces, and a thrust from the enemy's sword tore a wound in his hund.

"Ach, me," sighed Wull, "ye've gane an' spiled the best bow haund Scotland' for among his many necomplishments the King was famed as a fiddler.

The King's everyday garb was a velveteen jacket, old corduroys, and a white hat adorned with By-hooks of avery shade and shape of his own dressing. He was known throughout the Borders as the finest Ashermad of his day, and the story is told of how he once had an unusual catchi the shape of a hare. Having

Jin

escaped from a dog that was chasing it, it forded the stream in which Wuli had cast his line and was hooked by the car..

"Dell anither man bookit a fower- leggit troot aforo," was the King's boast.

When he died in his ninety-sixth year he was honoured by a right royal funeral, "the cuddles' quick- step" as the gipsies called it, for they followed him on donkeys in their hundreds to his grave, Rocking from all over the country to pay their last homage to the King.

A lament composed to his memory

rant

"The cold clod ne'er pressed down

a manlier brest

Than that of the old man now gone

to his rest.'

Lavinia Darwent. :