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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER 15,

1037.

SCENES BEHIND

Mr. Churchill as King's Champion

-Mr. Clynes' Story

(By IAN MACKAY)

Fascinating glimpses of great events behind the scenes are contained in the second volume of Mr. J. R. Clynes's "Memoirs," which was published recently (Hut-

· chinson and Co., 12s. 6d.)..

Dealing with the Abdication, Mr. Clynes says it was the gravest constitutional crisis since Charles I. was be- headed for defying Parliament.

"Mr. Churchill," he writes, "tok upon himself the ancient office of King's Champion, and though he did not ride into Westminster Hall eind in mail and fling down on iron! gauntlet on behalf of his Sovereign, he would obviously have liked to do

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our!

PERIL OF A SPLIT

peri! that Krose #1 poliileal divisions would be split and

"There

that a King's Party might emerge.

"To his everlasting credit, King Edward rejected all idea of defy ing Parliament or appealing per- sonally to the sentiment of his people.

andi SRI "I turned home late quietly reading with no other person in the home. Abalute sitence pre- valled.

midnight-the very witching time of night when churchyards yawn-there came a kuock on my door, hollow sound- ing, as if made by a slick or a bony hand.

"I opened the door und there. standing a few yards away, was a dim figure, coarsely beared, looking us like an apparition from the grave as anyone would care to imagine.

have come to speak to you about the hammer used in the Pod- "Dimeult as the situation was, here case," said a gentle voice.

"I, as gently, replied that it would faced it like a true son of that fine be improper for me to discuss such gentleman, his father. A friend visited him just before the end, matter in private; but would do so It's pretty hard, isn't it?' said the at the Home Ofee next morning.

I-cannot-come-then," "

WOS! King quietly.

the curlous reply.

" Bever saiv him again and Pud- more was hanged."

"Now he has settled into private life and married the woman for whom he gave up the world's greatest throne.

"it is not likely that we shall see him again in Eiland, but the good wishes of the British people will be with him always, wherever he may

Ko."

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A GHOST STORY

Mr. Clynes makes same scathing the 1011 crisis, riticisms of Mr. MacDonald's part in

"He repraled again and again that there would be no new Party formed and that there would be no election. i ¡ He refused to face his obvious duty: of meeting his Parliamentary col

Mr. Clyntes describes an verie) lengus. eplode which occurred at midnight) "it had never occurred to me that!

of a at his Pulnes home Jut before any living man at the head Podmore, the Saarthampton mur- British Labour Government could derer, was hanged.

-pasts from his own prople to: "Something to a trum, host tory tend the oppm ite forres.

He remained the Leader, comes into this record at the time

no

I war considering Podmore's appeal, matter that the army which he led : for merry." M. Clyne writes.

Was another ormy,”

ABDICATION

In the presence of Prince Patti two monuments of the first two kings of Yougoslavin were recently unveiled in Yougoslavia. Our picture shows the statue of King Peter I, after the unveiling.

Long & Short

Story

Two women Bled Into Hatti- more Divorce Court recently, One was short, the other was tall. They gave their names as Mrs. farold Long (the tall one), and Mrs. Harold Short (the small ong).

The judge glowered (writes the Daily Express New York correspondegt), and asked: "s this some sort of joke?"

Clerk of the court: "It's all perfectly above board-jusi a coincidence."

Both waren described them- selves as typists: boil were granted divorces,

Just another 5 minutes wish I didn't always wake so tired. Those wretched directors are meeting this morning too!

All their

happiness

depended on him.

Oh, Mr. Martin! I had to

THINKS

send that report into the efficient-

directors meeting without

you seeing it. Sorry couldn't wait.

But I checked,

THAT NIGHT

THINKS:

it carefully

Their happiness depends on my job..! The directors ore right, I am half asleep. I'll simply have to see a doctor about this wretched

tiredness

but not-

Your job,

young man

MEANWHILE IN THE DIRECTORS MEETING: I

But, my dear sir, Martin, looks half asleep all day. If the younger man can do the job better, Martin must take the consequences. I'll talk to Martin

THE DOCTOR SAYS:

It's this waking tired that's holding you back! Even during sleep, heartbeats and other automatic actions go on using up energy. Unless energy's replaced during sleep, of course you wake tired-Night Starved! I advise

Horlicks.

Darling! Remember I'm ) 3 MONTHS LATER

getting a rise thie

month. I hate to

see you saving and doing all the housework yourself.

Let's get a daily help in

Does your husband

wake tired?

I'

so every

GRAND

[F_he docs, son to it that he gets Horlicks regularly, a cupful every night. He'll get the He'll right kind of sleep, and wake cefreshed.

be able to concentrate better, he won't be handi- capped any longer at his work by that deadening tiredness.

HORLICKS

guards against Night Starvation

WHY MRS. “G.B.S.”

WAS SHOCKED

"G.B.S." Makes A Confession

London, Nov. 14. Mr. Bernard Shaw, play-doctor at the age of eighty-one, shocked his wife with his revision of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline." Ho told the story yesterday when directing dress rehearsals of the play, which opens at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, on Tues- day,

"When my wife first read my ver- net," he son of Shakespeare's last explained, "she was shocked. You con't put these in, she insisted- pointing to the original Shakespeare lines."

Mr. Shaw insisted that the bed- roon scene which Ellen Terry and Irving cut should be left intact. "Those people used to cut some of the taveliest In the language," he com- plained.

BOOMED

Show

During the rehearsals Mr. displayed remarkable agility, climbing on the stage from the stalls time after time to show. the artists how a line should be spoker or to demonstrate the grouping.

a pair of "Try to buy yourself diver's boots so that you can keep your feet on the ground," he boomed at one nervous young actor.

And to another, "Don't say that line as if you expect a laugh, As soon as the audience knows It's by Dernard Shaw they laugh. You keep it straight."

Between scenes Mr. Shaw talked of forms.

"Why don't those fellows in Hollywood take a lesson from a story like this such a clearly developed story. Cymbeline" of all Shake-

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in Rumania. How many days did it run?" Harked Mr. Shaw,

“Slonths." Alma. Adams repiled.

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GROWTH OF THE GERMAN NAVY

TWO NEW 35,000-TON BATTLESHIPS

Details of German warships now under construction are given in the "Year Book of the German Navy" for 1938, which hum Just been published in Berlin. These are:

Two 35.000-ton battleships, arm- ed with eight 14.0in and 12 5.0in Kuns;

Two-19,250-tun-aircraft-warriors; One 10,000-ton heavy cruiser. armed with eight din guns and 12 1.2in anti-craft guns;

Two

10,000-ton light cruisera, armed with Gin guns;

Six 1,811-ton destroyers; Twelve 600-ton torpedo boats; and Twelve G00-ton mine- sweepers; armed with two 4.2in and one 1.5in guns.

1 is expected that n Bird battle- ship will be added to this list shortly.. | The heavy cruiser now building is a sister ship to the Admiral Illpper and the Bluecher lunched recently, and, as a result of Germany's adherence to the Naval Treaty, will be the last

of its type to be bullt.

Two 7,000-ton light cruisers, arm- ed with Bin guns, have also been planned.

KEEPING WITHIN TREATY LIMITS

Large Submarine Fleet

The new German shipbuilding pro- gramme keeps strictly within the | limits of the London Naval Treaty of

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