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THE: HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936.

TO-NIGHT WE SAY FAREWELL TO

A YEAR RICH IN HISTORY

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General Franco.

ABYSSINIA, its defeated Emperar BRITAIN mourns the loss of King: Haile Selassie in England, is claimed George V, is shocked by the abdica-mier Blam's Popular Front and de

FRANCE faces cinals between Pre the "ea of Rome, orie by Italy as her "Empire," a claim re- tion of King Edward VIII, and pre- la Rocque's Fascists.

NEW ZEALAND elects first Labour TURKEY, led by Dictator Kemel cognised by liliter as part of the pares for the Coronation of George

Government, welcomes flyer Jean Atatürk, demands right to fortify the price

GERMANY Walks Into the Rhine Batten sod applauds Lovelock, of his co-operation' with .VI.

land,

* Dardanelles. Mussolini,

Her makes pact

with championship winner at the Olympic AUSTRALIA

Kuala CANADA watches Alberia's Pre- Mussolint against cheers Hammond's

asks Games.

U.S.A. vindicates Roosevelt's New centuries, settles down for the Test maler Aberhardt try Lo Introduce Britain to Join Western Fact and

because Deal and It gives him record major- Match season,

"Social Credi" by which electors, disch Locarno.

fear that Jews will oust them, ity over Governor Lantion in Prest- GREECE AUSTRIA throws over Starhem, were promised £5 a month dividend.

goes. Fascist under RUMANIA

****dential Elections, throws over pro- Government of General Dintaxas, berg, make peace with Germany, CZECHIO-SLOVAKIA scen

Russian, pro-French Foreign Minister U.S.S.I. introduces new and Kaly agreeing,

IRAQ is under Army Dictatorship. Titulescu and King Carot approaches democratio Constitution, but fear of many's anti-Soviet drive with Fear Young King Ghari is forced to agree Germany. BELGIUM, declares through King as her new President Benes declares to anti-British Government,

Internal sabotage is shown in The Leopold for isolation, sees the sudden that pact with Franco and Russia ITALY through

SPAIN is rent by civil War In execution of Zinoviev rise of Fascist Degrelle,

Mussolini offers which Largo

and others, Caballero's Popular accused of conspiring Britain pact In the Mediterranean, Government fights for its life against Trotsky and German secret pollee.

with exiled T midnight to-night an

stands.

DECEMBER, 1935

A New Governor Arrives

Hongkong grooted its most popular and beloved Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, shortly before the New Year,

JANUARY

The King Is Dead

Guard of Honour..

at the catafalque in Westminster Hall as King George lay in state. In the five days of King George's lying- In-state, millions of people paid their last tribute at his bier.

A Nation Mourns

King George's body was taken from Sandringham to London on

January 23

"God Save The King"

The Lord Mayor of London proclaims the New King with tradi-

tional, ceremony.

Ger-

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old year dies, and a new

year is born.

No one knows what 1937 holds for us. No one knew, exactly twelve months ago to-day, that before a year had ended, the British Empire would have two new Kings, that civil war would rend Spain from end to end, or that all the remarkable events that have made 1936 one of the most newsworthy years since the Great War would occur.

We think of history as something which happened long ago. It is not. His- tory is all around us. His- tory is in our morning and evening newspapers. His- tory-in its most vivid and} dramatic form-is in news photographs.

It is only when the history of the past 365 days is tabulated that you can feel amazed that so much of im- portance could happen in a single year. The year from December, 1935 to December, 1936, will be memorable in| history not, like 1914, for a single overwhelming event which cast a shadow over everything else that happen- ed in that year, but for a rich variety of happenings full of interest and significance..

The death of King George and the accession of King Edward VIII-was not simply the death of a much-loved king. The Abdication of King Edward VIII and the accession of King George VI were not merely sensational incidents. The transition: from the placidity of the Georgian Court to the tur bulence of the Edwardian, with the swing of the pen- dulum to the new Georgian, are events the significance of which are not yet fully realis- ed. They are pages in our history not yet fully written.

King George and the men who were his advisers and counsellors belonged, in the main, to the period before the War. They had always in their minds the memory of a stability and order to which they hoped the world would return, but which are, it seems, gone for good, King Edward, who reached man- hood in the War and almost in the trenches, belongs to to- day, and his experience is mainly of an England facing the troubles the War brought. He has travelled more than

FEBRUARY

War Drums Over Africa

Guorilla warfare, the only kind in which the Abyssinians had any hope against their Italien invaders, was kept up during the early part of the year. The Abyssinians achieved a number of raiding successes. Later they would be forced into attempting pitched battles with disastrous results,

MARCH

The Watch On The Rhine

Gorman soldiers march across the Rhino, one of the de-militarised areas marked out by the Treaty of Versailles and re-occupied by Hitler in March, 1935. The re-occupation in defiance of treatics caused doop feeling in France; action in opposition was strongly. urged.

White Winter In China'

Severe winter conditions cut Tientsin off from the outside warld any other British king. He and the ico-field stretches for miles out to sca.. A British ship

amusements to an extent un-

effectively "bottled."

knows more of the lives of his people at first-hand. He has taken part in their sports and shared their interests and Africa, where Italy had let the world has been talking loose the full resources of a for ten years, have now been known before. He is typical modern fighting machine undergone by one of Europe's of a new age and a new gen- trained Abyssinians. That capital cities. Addis Ababa eration.

war ended, as it was bound in 1985, Madrid in 1936; and WARS THAT BROKE to end, in the defeat and con-in Madrid there is the added

OUT

quest of Abyssinia. But the horror that destruction was When our year began and this time nearer home. their own countrymen.

year has closed in war again brought by civilised men on there was war in the world The horrors of aerial bom- Amazement at all the year war, not in Europe, but in bardment, horrors of which contains, pity for the horrors

against the half-armed, un-finest, gavest, least-protected

(Continued on Page 11.)

MARCH

Send Off From The Clyde

The giant Queen Mary makes her first voyage-down the Rivar Clyde.

Air Mail To Asia

Hongkong becomes linked with the outside world by air mail with the arrival of the Imperial Airways liner Dorado.

MAY.

Across The Atlantic

The Queen Mary loft Southampton for New York on her malden voyage, May 27. Thousands of sightseers wished her good-spacd

as she left hor moorings..

Civil War In Spain

Fascist riots break out again in Spain and police fought demonstra- tars until the crowds gat out of hand-and civil war arrivos.

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