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Hongkong Telegraph

FOUNDED 1881

No. 13070

四拜禮辦三月二十英港香 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3,

1936.

大小二十

URGES

KING

TO DO NOTHING TO

JEOPARDISE

OUTSPOKEN

BRITISH

REALM

COMMENT IN NEWSPAPERS ON

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

London, Dec. 3.

The Daily Telegraph, in a leading article headed "The King and the Empire," states that yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet discussed a matter of the highest constitutional importance, of a nature to which nothing even remotely resembling a parallel has occurred in recent times. It concerned the Minister's relations with their .Sovereign on the personal position of the King himself. The journal remarks that the King's private affairs are his own, but there are aspects in which the private affairs of a constitutional Sovereign assume first-rate public importance and cannot be dissociated from his public position."

The Telegraph adds that the issue is being raised in a quarter which is most appropriate, namely, by the Prime Minister in private audience with His Majesty. "Mr. Baldwin is the proper person to lay before the King the considerations which he and his colleagues feel should be brought without delay to a point of crucial decision. That the King will choose aright, we cannot doubt, and, by choosing aright, we mean that he will determine upon a course which will be consonant with his own personal dignity and with the honour, safety and welfare of the Crown, the Kingdom and the Dominions.

"The King will not choose. for himself alone," says the Telegraph; "he will be choosing for the Monarchy and the British Empire. For the Crown, it must not be forgotten, is now the sole visible link with the Empire, and, as none knows better than the King what the Empire stands for, or appreciates more deeply the ever-swelling volume of affection and loyalty of its peoples, it cannot be supposed that he will hesitate to put those august and permanent interests before personal feelings, which, however deeply they may concern his own happiness, are, in that respect, strictly private and not' national or imperial."

-BREACH BETWEEN KING AND CABINET

BISHOP PRECIPITATES| PRESS COMMENT

KING MAY CHOOSE

HIS WIFE

BUT PARLIAMENT SELECTS QUEEN

London, Dec. 3.

The New Chronicle, in

JAPANESE

MARINES

LAND AT

TSINGTAO

AS 36,000 CHINESE GO ON STRIKE

Conft

BINGLE COPT 19 CENTS

$1.00 PER ANNUM

WHITEAWAY'S

BAZAAR

NOW

OPEN

SHOP

FARLY

KING REFUSES GUIDANCE OF

HIS MINISTRY

"PRECAUTIONARY Won't Accept Advice

MEASURE"

(Special To "Telegraph”)

Tsingtao, Dec. 3. Japanese bluejackets landed here

to-day and occupied strategic pojnts throughout the city. The bluejackets also took station in Japanese-owned textile milla,

Their action followed the lock-out of 38,000 striking workers.

The Marine Commandant des- cribed the move as "a precautionary measure, saying that Chinese muni- cipal authorities were responsible for the trouble, due to the fact that they had failed to suppress the strike disturbances.

It is learned from Shanghai that the Japanese cruiser Idzumo has left that port for Tsingtao-United

Press.

TURN FOR WORSE

Shanghai, Dec. 3. It is announced that Japanese bluejackets landed at Tsingtao this morning, on consequence of a turn for the worse in the textile dispute.

Following several weeks of strikes and disturbances, ninc Japanese ro-mills yesterday declared a general lock-out, rendering 22,000 workers

an

editorial, states that the Bishop

of Bradford's speech has vealed an important constitu- tional issue between the King idle.-Reuter. and his Miniators.

Referring to rumours of the

King's impending marriage to an American woman, the paper says: "The issue is whether this lady is a suitable person to be Queen, and whether this is a matter which will be decided by the King or by the Government, "The answer," says the journal, "is not difficult. It is for the King to say, like every man, who shall be his life partner. It is for Parilament to say who shall be Queen.

tho

News Chronicrriage as Duke of

PAPER SUPPRESSED

-Shanghal-Deo, 3, " accept full responsiblllly for everything published," declared the noted Chinese philosopher, Dr. Hu Shih, when interviewed regarding reports that the widely-read Peiping journal, Independent Critic, of which he is editor, has been suppressed by the Hopel-Charhar Political Coun-

cil.

The journal is reported to have criticised the thesis that Hope and Charhar should be regarded as a "special" area-a thesis on which the Japanese base their claims to a pri- vileged position in North China.

Dr. Hu Shih left for Nanking this- evening en route for Peiping, where he is due, on December 7-Reuter,

MOLLISON MISSING

Capetown, Deo. 2. Search

have Dartles

been organised to hunt for the Bri-

last

"If the King has the right to decide, it is first indispensable that he must fall in with his Ministers advice regarding the constitutional issue."

The journal says since the kingship is regarded more semi-divinity, it an hereditary presidency than a is believed that the pubile would

ilke the

King to

true love. for marry lowever, "many object to a woman ormerly married becoming Queen." In the event of the King persisting in his intention to murry, said the public would destre his

"Over Cornwall. The

could o King come many scruples" if he acquiesced in Parliament passing an Exclusion

flat airman, James Mollison, and Act preventching

any issue of the

his co-pilot, lost somewhere be- JESU marringe

the Throne, tween Beaufort West, 300 miles from his dealluation, and Cape-, London, Dec. 2.

The for the King," says the

gain for

town.

was Mollison

reported Eight of Britain's leading journal, would be strong support of opinion; and would make the provincial newspapers, headed suggestion of a constitutional crisis circling over the const, and it in Bossible he has made a forced by the Manchester Guardian, quite unnecessary," adds the paper.

landing on a lonely beach or at United Press.

some isolated point on the veldt. Birmingham Post and Yorkshire Post, to-day publish leading

A Reuter message states that the

-United Prets. News Chronicle, in a leading article articles concerning the position headed The King's Marriage," refers of His Majesty the King. The by name to an American lady among text upon which these editorials the King's personal friends

believed that it is are based is the address-by-the statesire to marry her, in record for the flight from Croydon Bishop of Bradford, Doctor due course. Blunt, to the Diocesan Confer- The journal concludes by saying:- "We belleve that the people of the The Morning Post, referring to the controversy between the two

ofence, criticising suggestions re-W Blahop Blunt's declaration that the Bishops, in which the Bishop

Half an hour earlier it was report- Empire will welcome a solution cently made by the Bishop of which will promote the King's per-ed that Mollison had over-shot his newspapers misunderstood him, says Bradford played a part. the fact remains that only one in One or two hinted it may be Birmingham for changes in the sonal happiness and welfare, not mark having missed his way and- was about 200 miles off his course. Jeopardise the dynastie succession, terpretation has been placed upon hoped without full knowledge-at Coronation Service.

He was reported at 3.30 p.m. over the Bishop's remarks by the majority grave constitutional issue to be rais-

The Bishop of Bradford em-and leave the prestige and tradition

Cape Agulhas, the most southerly of those who have read them, and ed by the conflict between the King's

point of Afrien-Reuter. the Bishop has thus unwillingly intentions and the advice of His phasised the point that to sever of the Monarchy unimpaired," rnised a ghost which will not be Ministers. But nearly all of them the crowning of the King from saw the real justification in the the Communion Service would Bishop of Bradford's remarica lay, in be a "public humiliation of the the

of words

the

Yorkshire Post, in certain statements which had Churches' chief act of worship. appeared in reputable United States journals and even in some of the Dominions' newspapers, which ran- not be treated with diffidence...

The Telegraph concludes:-"It is painful to write thus of one who, during the short time he has been King, has never failed in any of the duties of kingship or service to all classes of his people. There is none who does not wish him well. That, alone, should strengthen him to a determination to do nothing which will impair his dignity or harm the Realm."

eastly laid.

"We believe we shall be speak- Ing for millions of loyal and davated subjects of the King." says the journal, "when we say that we shrink from belleving that there is solid foundation for 'the gossip and rumour now cur- reat at home and abroad. We are convinced that the most seri ous harm must come if such open statements abroad, and such disturbing rumours at home, are able to cirealato unrefuted any longer."

Flood Of Comment

in Northern England.

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ค

Wave Of Excitement

Adding that the benefit of the Coronation depended on the self- dedication of the King himself, the Bishop said they hoped His Majesty wus aware of his need of. God's was grace,

"Some of us wish he gave more positive signs of such awareness," said the Bishop.

It is a simple fact, continues the Times, that the American campalg of publicity so long and so wisely

Says the Birmingham Post: "The ignored in this country, has now Bishop must be allowed to speak but reached a point at which it goes fu the truth itself, when he gives beyond that side of His Minjunty's warn

eyes of warning that in the

that

the

and

Spread Of

Civil War

Is Feared

LEAGUE MOVES TO REMOVE DANGER

Geneva, Dec. 3.

It is learned that a plan for coping with the Spanish crisis will be laid life which may justly be held to be people of this country, as in the eyes before the League of Nations' Coun-

remarks leading private.The Times

of subjects of the Crown overseas, the ell on December 10, and envisages: Bubject excitement private and publie life of the King Post, reterring to the

The London Times, in' article headed "The King and the trans-Atlantic journals are

1. Creation of a Committee of Monarchy," says to-day the remark- to periodical waves of

Jurists to study the problems of an able address by the Bishop of Brnd-about some particular topic, personal Thin The

international nature arising from ford let loose a flood of comment for choice, and above all such a tople rumours regarding the King, publish civil wars similar to that in Spain: yesterday in most of the newspapers as the personality of the King of ed in American and some Dominios 2. A mandate for the Non-Inter-

England. For Americans are essen-

newspapers, observes: "An increasing vention Committee to continue t Not only in Leeds and Bradford: Unlly a personal people in their habit number of persons is led to fear lest efforts to prevent foreign aid reach- but in Manchester, Nottingham. of assessing other countries by the the King may not have perceived how ing Spain: Darlington and Birmingham, were character of their outstanding figures. complete in our day must be that

3. An offer of Lengua aid in anxious questions put forward in- The late King, enys the dependentiv bv the local Those comments of the great proof England. The present King came vincial organs were not, directed, in to the throne, boing better known to the detalls of the supreme, historie, them than any of his predecessors, religious act of consecration, and with a greater opportunity for per were not in the least concerned with

(Continued on Page 5.);

press. slood to America for the soild worth' Felf-dedication of which Doctor Blunt Spain's reconstruction,

spoke,

MISSED A RECORD

Capetown, Dec. 2. Jim Mollison failed to beat the

to Capetown. He had not arrived here at 3.57 p.m. G.M.T., zero hour for a new record.

Great For

A

Plans

British

Industries

London, Dec. 2.

The Government is introducing

new Special Areas Bill in January, the Labour Minister, Dir. Ernest Brown, declared at a meeting in Cardiff to-day.

"We are 1ot only thinking about the Commissioners' propo- sals regarding new industeles;' but we are, thinking in machi

• wider terms than that,” he added. --Reuter,

TYPHOON NEAR MANILA

Respecting

Marriage

Both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express treat the issue between the King and his Ministers in their main news columns, employing the phrase, "Constitu- tional Crisis." They announce that the King has intimated that he wishes to make a marriage, and that the Cabinet has advised against this course.

In its news columns, the Daily Mail declares that the King has refused to accept the guidance of his Ministers in matters affecting his private hire, and states that it understands that Mr. Baldwin last -evening informed His Majesty that the Cabinet viewed

with profound concern his reported marriage plans.

The Daily Mail also understands that Mr. Baldwin, in his talk with the King, stressed the gravity of the situation of the Crown, as affecting national and Imperial interests at a critical moment in international affairs, and reported that the Ministers had had to pay particular attention to reports from some of the Dominions stating frankly the attitude of their Governments to the rumoured-projects-of-His-Majesty.

France Plans

-

Mighty New Battle Fleet

—Párik, Dec. 2. By 1013 France will possess five 35,000-ton battleships, en 10,000-ion cruisers.

The Minister of Marine, M. Gaspard, told the Naval Com- mission of the Chamber of Com- merce that the estimated cost of the additions to the dect was 2,600,000,000 francs, spread over a period of four and a half years. -Reuter.

ANOTHER LOCARNO PACT IN PROSPECT

EDEN EXPLAINS OBLIGATIONS

CAUSES STIR IN HOUSE

London, Dec. 2.

The Daily Mail further under- stands that Mr. Baldwin, on beholf of a united Cabinet, tendered to His Majesty an expression of their deep regret that they had reached the con clusion that unless un agreement could be reached, there musi arise ministerial situation which might well constitute a constitutional crisis, and that the Cabinet were of opinion that the wisest course for His Majesty would be to announce panely tut he does not propose to marry,

The Daily Mati, in a leading article. says "The whole Empire will look anxiously towards the King and the Government to solve this problem.. -An-vel-of-abdication at such a time- would all the hearts of millions of the King's loyal subjects with the deepest sorrow, To-day, he is the lynen-pin of the Empire, and the solo link between the Mother Country and the Dominions. When in such a. position, there is every confidence that he will answer the Imperial class in the same splendid manner na he has so often in the past."

TYPHOON NEARING: MANILA

SHIPPING RUNS FOR SAFETY

U.S. WARSHIPS CAUTIOUS

a

Manila, Dec. 3. In connection with the dis-

Weather Bureau despatches from cussion of a Western European Pact, and responding to a ques-violent typhoon to-day-and then

Naga,

Camarinessur, - reported tion to a member in the House

were suddenly interrupted. They of Commons to-day ДЕ to have not been heard again.. whether the pact would obligate Manila is apprehensively waiting. flood the Britain

France while torrential rains to support

streets, winds overturn trees and gainst possible aggression as a

damage rooftopa, Shipping...

Has result of the Franco-Russian halted, smaller boats seeking shelter, Treaty, Mr. Anthony Eden, the while huge waves lush the shore line. The U. S Asiatic Ficet has weighed anchor and moved outside the har

the better to fight the op- bour, proaching storm.

Foreign Secretary, declared:

"I cannot discuss a possible pro- vision of the proposed treaty during

negoliations: But the Government's

intention, is that its obligations shall approximate those, embodied in the Locarno Pact."

The statement coused a stir in the House of Commons-United Press.

REVOLT PLOT

IN GREECE

Athens, Dec. 2.

A number of former Ministers of the Government are reported to have been arrested and sent to the Aegean Islands. The plan is designed to divert at-

They are accused of plotting with "Deca disappointment must neces- tention from the present acute inter-

senior officers / to. overthrow the sarity result if there should develop national situation, resulting from the The Manila Observatory, reports Government:: in dispute between the King and his Spanish war, and is believed to have that the typhoon is situate in about A strict censorship has been Ministers such as must almost in-orleinated with the League Secre- Long: 121, Lat. 14, moving W.N.W. established throughout the country

(Continued on Pape 5.)

tariat's Brain Trust."-United Press. The position is to the south of Manila, Reuter Bulletin Service.

At 3 mm. the typhoon had passed over Antimonan, Tayabas province, 100 miles south-east of Manlia, and was reported to be moving slowly in the general direction of the capital. The Weather Bureau reported the centre of the storm to be of 60 miles an hour strength and with a pressure of 11 pounds per squera? Looth-- United Press.

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IMMIGRATION TALK

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