1937-04-17 — Page 13

RUSH FOR

THE HONGKONG

EDWARD

FEARED LOSS FAMED 'PAINTER ̈·

TURNED INTO PROFIT

Less than three months ago British manufacturers who had been caught by the Abdication with great stocks of King Edward VIII. Coronation souvenirs were talking dejectedly of the crippling lossca. they would have to bear.

Now the majority of them are smiling happily. The demand for King Edward souvenirs from all 'parts of the world has | been greater than anybody dared to forecast.

Though inquiries on the point are generally received with discreet coughs and with the suggestion that it would be better not to mention it, the truth is that thousands of souvenirs bear- ing the ex-King's head and with such wording as "Crowned May 12, 1937" have been turned out since the Abdication.

The readiness of the public here, in many parts of the Empire and in the United States to buy Edward VIII. souvenirs has, in fact, already conferred a scarcity-value on some of them.

£2 105, TO 27...

Doulton's, for example, made A limited edition of 1,000 china loving- cups stamped with the King Edward head and the "Crowned May 12" legend. They were sold at £2 10. wach. All were gone a few days after the Abdication. Since then the firm has been offered as much pa

for

one,

Doulton's have the cheaper mugs and beakers-left; Wedgwood's have soid all their mugs (75.00 to Rs. 8d. each), teapots, sugar bowls and cream jugs and embossed cigarette

TO DIE

TO DIE-Ignazio Zuloaga, fam- ous Spanish painter, who has been sentenced to death by Loy-- alista in Bilbao, „ccording to broadcast from Seville by Gen- eral Gonzalo Quicpo de Llano, Insurgent leader. Reason for the death sentence was not given. Four of the painter's works, usu- ally studies of Spanish life, Bold in America for $100,000.

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17. 1937.

SOUVENIRS SAGA OF A MODERN COLUMBUS

DOWN IN THE CABIN OF A TINY FISHING VESSEL,

PITCHING DRUNKENLY TO THE SWELL OF LONG, GREY-GREEN CHANNEL ROLLERS, A MAN SAT STUDYING AN ATLAS. «

Beneath the light of a swinging oil lamp a double- pare map of the world was spread before him, covered with the strange, romantic names of foreign porta.

And, while the wind sang a wild song in the rigging, and huge seas thunderously pounded the deck above

ls head, he dreamed of far-off sun-soaked lands.

Outside Grimsby, the name of Skipper Dod Orsborne was then unknown. Soon it and the name of the little ishing vessel were to ring around the world,

For it was during a raging storm In the Channel that the idea of mailing the Girl Pat on her amazing voyage became something more than a heavy dream in the brain of her daring captain,

For days on end, in the early summer of Inst year, he and his crew kept the whole world guessing, while the Girl Pat fought her way slowly across the wide Atlantic, sometimes becalmed under a torrid sun, sancilmes batter- ed by flerce storms,

From Gimsby to Georgetown she sailed, and now in "The Voynge of the Girl Pat" (Hutchinson, Bs. Bd.), Captain Orsborne tells the whole story of that thrilling gamble with death that must go down for all time as one of the great sagas of the sea.

King Edward Bustled

And Failed

-Says Biographer

the

From a light-hearted devil-may- care adventure it became a terrible gamble with death, when running from possible trouble at Dakar, on the African coast, the skipper and his men found themselves lost in a waste of sea.

NO SIGN OF LAND Dramatically he describes that moment when he realised that they hand missed the Cape Verde Islands KING Edward would not. realise one, traveled with half

usual and were hopelessly lost.

"I did not go below again when Jim that the unconventional ways retinue, stopped Highland servants relieved me, he says. "I stayed on of a popular Prince of Wales, the from lining the avenue on his arrival, the bridge with him until the sky to hurry and spontaneity, did not suit "became a plteous digure 25

he the East grew rosy and it was dawn. They have had urgent orders a monarch's stride-he bustied and estranged himself from those who from both London and America. failed."

served him and who had respected

"And as the sun came up I shielded eyes and turned slowly on the In New York a 9-inch plate with

him."

bridge scanning the horizon in every direction with a sinking heart.

boxes.

the King Edward head and Crown In these words Hector Bolitho

RED TAPE FRUSTRATION up the brief reign of King has been fetchlug 18: for teapot, suns bowl and Jug New Yorkers were Edward VIII. in his biography delighted to pay £3 10s: attractive "Edward VIII. His Life and Reign" Edward VIII, mugs are still being | --published by Eyre and Spottiswoode. sold on Fifth Avenue at £i each. (105.,68.).

"HARASSED AND. VAIN"

Mr. Bolitho draws the picture of a

How would Edward have shaped as King had he come to the throne in different times?

"He. ialierited his crown when the

there was no

country was sleepy. putride stimulus to King Edward's

and character

my

There was no sign of land, and was then that I knew we were lost! "That was a black moment. My

blood seemed to run to water, and I felt as though there was no plt to as realisation of our my stomach writes his plight, and what it meant, come to I was while they wandered the skipper and his men endured the most terrible ordeal of their voyage.

me.'

RADIO BROADCAST

London: The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P. VICTORIAN MELODIES

Broadcast by Z. B. W. on wave- lengths of 358 metres (845 k.c's.), 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c's.).

H.K.T.

12.30-2.15, p.m. European Pro- gramme.

cert.

12.80 pni. Light Orchestral Con-· 1 pm Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 p.m. Moments Musicaux (Schubert) played by Ethel Lecinske (Pianoforte).

1.18 p.m. Recital by Stuart Robert- son (Bass-Baritone).

1.30 p.m.

Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.

1.40 $.0 Variety and Danco Music.

2.15 p.m. Close Down. 4.7 D.FIL

Chinese Programme.

7 p.m.-12.15 am. European Pro- grammo.

7 p.m. Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards.

Ruy Islas Overture (Mendelssohn); Tom Jones-Selection (German); Old Folks at Home and in Foreign Lands (C. J. Roberts); Marching, with Sousa,

7.30 p.m. Hongkong Stock Ex-

Summary change

And Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m. Recital by Richard Crooks (Tenor) and Fritz Kreisler- (Violin).

Tenor Solos-If I should send a rose (Shayon, Shilkret); Open your window to the morn (Royden, Phil- lips);

Violin

Solos-Marguerite lachmaninoff, arr. Kreisler); Sere nade (Lucht me (Dvorak); Mother char): Tenor Solos Songs by Mother of mine (Tours); Violin Solos Tam- Viennois (Kreisler). bourin Chinois (Kreisler); Caprico

8

p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wes- ther Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.

Charlie Kunz at the Plano,

Charlle Kunz Piano Medley No. B. 22; Charlie Kunz Plano. Medley No. R. 23.

King "harassed, unreasonablender, sympathetically, vain, but he continued to play the role Ils passion for helping the uncm- Silversmiths Association, spokesman of popular monarch," in the early days ployed frastated by red tape and con- Allantic, lost and starving, that the winer Layton; Organ

In the Potteries, in Birmingham and in London there are factories that have yet to complete their latest orders for Edward Vill souvenirs.

The Birmingham Jewellers and for most of the firms which will have turned out millions of medals. spoons, cigarette cases and ashtrays by Coronation Day, now announces that all Edward VIII. stocks have gone.

(IN A WIG) HOAXES OXFORD

Oxford, Apr. L

SENORITA SALNERON, "from

Spain."

wanted to address the Oxford undergraduates on "Spanish civil warapan

The secretary of St. Peter's Hall Debating Society, Oxford-mombers are known as the Taverners" ceived a letter from London, wrote back accepting the senorita's offer.

fooled the "Taverners."

of his reign.

"He had never been

a liberal spender and with the acquisition of great lands and houses and fortune he became curiously parsimonious,

vention, discouraged by authorities who felt extreme discomfort at his methods. the King was deprived of he one other literest which might have diverted him from his selfish way Americans still imagine that themselves

pared both the Government

and vested

"Old servants were dismissed from Sandringham, expenses were and new, hard economies were intro-interests pressed King Edward into rather abdication, and this crazy view is still duced, revealing eccentricity than ordinary meanness.

expressed. In the United States. The view is still held by many people that "There seemed to be a hint of Franz the Government looked upon King Joseph's iron, bed or the Duke of Edward as a young eagle, beyond Wellington's habit of sleeping in his their control and likely to act with service bed, when the story of King originality which would be embarrass- Edward's occupation of Balmoral wasing to them." told in the summer,“

The King, who occupied a room ordinarily used by a major servant, reduced-the-canteens-from-three-to

70,000 WAR GRAVES INSPECTED

YEAR'S WORK OF COMMISSION

For nine days they starved, "wolfing" a few mouldy peas In a cup of water and calling that a meal; chewing scraps of paper to keep

alive;

crawling like babica on the sun-scorched deck and praying to God to send them the mer- ciful release of death.

"I mean really hungry-not just wait for your dinner or miss a meal or two.

How, when all hope seemed dead, they came upon Devil's Island, and there found salvation, is one of the most absorbing chapters of the tale.

Radio-Links Mother-With-

Soldier Son's Fate of

20 Years Ago

LONDON, APR. 5.

8.15 pm. A Variety Programme. Vocal-Someone to care for me, 11 Bacio (The Kiss)....Deanna Dur- bin: Blhart's Lament; Orchestra— Cockchafer, yellow cockchater.. Magyarl and His Hungarian Gypsy- Orchestra; Vocal-I'm still in love

you; I'm just beginning to care. With Eric Coates thro Quentin MacLean; Humorous Tennis.....Clapham and Dwyer: Vocal-Eilaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks--Medley; Band-Dark Eyes

Air)... (Russian Gips

Rode and Gipsy Hla. Tziganes; Vocal

had a once heart Marguerita....Turner Layton; Accordeon Mimlle's Valse;

The happy whistler.....Bijou Accordeon Orchestra; Vocal Duet A Fine Ro- manco... Dixie Lee Crosby and Bing Crosby.

0.10 p.m. London-News and An- 110 nouncements.

ties of Empire'A talk by the Rt. 0.30 p.m. London-"Responsiblil-

Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P. (Elce- trical Recording).

9.15Pilahi,Melodies.

Papalina with Dick Hawaiians;

Ray Kinney, McIntire's Harmony Samoan Love Song: Nohen I Muolau Lani....Andy Tona and His Islanders; On the beach of Waikiki: Hilo Hanaitahi....W Stone-Wall Boys,

10 p.m.

.Waikiki

London-Big Ben Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Grill-Room.

11.25 p.m. London-Victorian Melodies A Musical sequence pro duced and conducted by Mark H.

Forly "Taverners" turned up to hear the senorita falk about Spain last night. She spoke for an hour. Her talk was full

of revelation's. discussion followed.

end Senorita Salmeron Near the

"The task of the Imperial War Jeft

A few minutes later TOOM. an undergraduate come in, wig in Graves Commission has not been hand, and announced that he had to bury a phase of Empire; it has been to give perpetual com- Then the hoaxer, left, quickly. The "Taverners" suspect an under-memoration to ideals of indivi- graduate from another college. dual freedom woven by the

struggles of centuries into the SURES. · fibre of the races who have to-

Until this the only news Mrs. Fox had had about her son's gether built up the British Com-death was the bald official statement that he was killed in action. monwealth of Nations, ideals in April, 1917. which are shared by them in common, and in defence of which

TWENTY YEARS AFTER HER SON, PRIVATE D. C. FOX, R.A.M.C., WAS KILLED IN FRANCE, A CHANCE WIRE- LESS MESSAGE HAS LINKED A WIDOWED MOTHER, MRS. 1. FOX, OF COMPTON ABBAS, NEAR SHAFTESBURY, WITH THE ONLY PERSON WHO WAS WITH HER SON IN HIS DYING MOMENTS, AND TO WHOM HE HANDED HIS WALLET AND FEW PERSONAL BELONGINGS AND TREA-quency of 640 Kllocycles and from

.

NO 'NEW,

TERRIBLE' GÁS

NO new gases are expected, and no new gasca arc known."

Dr. Iladen Guest, one of the Home Office' medical instructors for poison gas attack precautions, told this to the Property Owners' Protection Association at 80 Connaught Rooms, W.C., to dispel

gas has been invented."

n million of their men laid down END IS WRITTEN

their lives."

These striking words occur in the TO EPIC OF AIR

introduction, written by Major-

General Sir Faban Ware, the Vice- Chairman, to the 17th annual report of the Commission.

Winnipeg, Apr. 10. The finale of a great air story,

This week friends told her and her daughter of a wireless message in

broadcast from Cologne English which listeners in this country had picked up.

This message stated a German liv- ing in Cologne wanted to find the re- Jutives .of

Englishi saldier who handed his wallet to him as he

memorials in Egypt and the adjoin-less more than 16 years ago, tents of the wallet, a message from The message described the con- "an idea that new and terribleng countries forms the substance of has been written at last.

Sir Fabian's message.

a friend, Mr. F. A. Toogood, of the "In Egypt our War cemeteries have A weather-beaten old balloon has East Yories Regt., a postcard from the soldier's mother, sent. Krom been designed with great simplicity; been reported as found, hidden a few Compton Abbas, and thre photo- a modest and unarresting gate-house, yards from an Indian trali, not for graphs, one of n girl and a dog with

A visit to the Wor cemeteries and which held the continent breath-was dying on the battlefield.

He added: "Thousands of sam- ples of gas have been investigat- ed. You can get rld of the bogey,"

Lubbock (Electrical Recording).

12.15 a.m. Close Down.

4.30-0.15 p.m. Additional Pro- gramme from ZE.K. on a Fre-

Z.B.W. on 31.49 Metres (9.562 Megacycles).

A Running Commentary by Frank v. Read on the first division Foot- ball Match between South China “A” and Kowloon Football Club, on the Kowloon Football Club Ground.

TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME

H.K.T.

9.10m Relay of the Military Parade Service from St. John's

10 am. Close Down, Cathedral,

11am. Relay of the Morning Ser- vice from St. John's Cathedral.

12.16-2.30 p.m. European Pro- gramme.

12.16 p.m. The London Philhar monic Orchestra.

the Cross of Sacrifice, and the Stone from James Bay, 20 miles north of the words. Sister Bessie and Bob." Dream); "A Midsummer Night's

of Remembrance being the only

Moqsonce. "KING BY THE GRACEstructural embellishments," he writes.

When the U.. S. Navy sent it away EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE OF GOD"

from Rockaway Point, Long Island, "The headstones are thus given the The Commission of the Free Church prominence which was intended when N. Y., on an 'experimental flight, the of Scotland, sitting in Edinburgh has the Commission first decided that the balloon was valued at $8,000. Now objected to any change in the de- commemoration of the dead indivi- it is valuable as a memente of signation of King George at the dually, on the basis of equality of dramatic Incident in lighter-than-air Coronation.

sacrifice, was the object and fusti-travel history. fication of their task..

Licut. L A. Kloor, Lieut. Walter Theso headstones, for whose Hinton and Lieut. Stephen A. Farrell

"La Boutique Fantasque (Rossini

Nocturne, (Mendelssohn). 12.45 pm.

p.m. Recital by Peter The German wished, to give these things to the relatives if they could Dawson (Bass-Baritone). be traced.

j

that of

Mrs. Fox, and daughter, "Sister the wallet described was Bessie" now Mrs. Verram, realised Private "Charlie" Fox, and wrote to Cologne asking to be put into touch with the German.

Now they are waiting for the reply.

A rebolution was passed declaring that the General Assembly, "Note with deep regret the liberties which permanent upkeep provision has been came down in the northern Manitoba are proposed to be taken with the mode, are thus themselves, without Wilderness, about 1,200 miles from north at that time. The nearest style and

and dignity of His Majesty in distinction of rank or wordly status, their starting point 10 years ago. besides territorial

the monuments to our dead, in sur- orial limitation of

the oath for maintenance of the Pro-roundings where Pyramids and rock

monolitha tombs, unrivalled"

All the waiting world knew was

In

that they were somewhere and med faith, it is in the colossal statues survive as memorials Canada."

testant reformed contemplation of persons making

railroad was 175 miles.

Υπ

weather Indiana sub-zero carried out word of the balloonista' safely and · newspaper reporters scrambled to the scene. They met. Perry rangements to forge de-of the royal and mighty dead of an- The big bag had been drifting the navy alrmen, tired and balf-

His Majesty as King by the

the other elvilisation."

northward. Four days later the frozen after the overland trip from Grace of God. The Free Church,

The report states that the Com deeply pained at this proposal, pleads mission inspectors visited between men reached a Hudson Bay company Moose Factory, in Codrane

post at Moose Factory, a settlement

pre-

with all earnestness that the threaten- 6,000 and 7,000 burial places during on James Bay. ed action be abandoned and that now the year, and inspected nearly 70,000

But fate of the balloon itself was not learned then. The tattered bag The waiting world, however, knew was found caught in the branches and always His Majesty be acknow graves. From April 1, 1935, to March ledged to be as, in fact, he is King 31, 1936, the Commission's cash pay-nothing of this for communication of a tree. The basket was on the by the Grace of God"

ments amounted to £250,180.

Unes hadn't penetrated the far ground. United Preat.

The Bandolero (Stuart): Bedouin Love Song (Pinsuti); Our River Thames (Hennessy); Young Briton's Heritage (Hennessy).

1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.93 p.m. The Musts of Johann Strausa.

The Gipsy Baron" Overture.......... Bruno Walter and the Symphony Orchestra: "Die Fledermaus"Vocal Opera Company; Gems....Grand. When the Lemons Bloom-Woltz.... Johann Strauss and Symphony Or

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