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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938.

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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938.

OUR WONDERFUL

ON this day, 71 years ago, as A Model Queen

the chimes of midnight were

about to sound through the TO-DAY, Queen Mary still,

hushed

Palace,

halls

Kensington of

QUEEN MARY

By-

F. G. Prince - White

Nation's Devotion

eyes have shed we shall never know certain it is she has had

THE sufferings Queen Mary grievous cause for tears.

has endured

within these

We see only her triumph over last two portentous years must calamity, and note with almost a

have shattered a character less

noble than hera-must have personal pride and joy the un- diminished measure of her state- ly grace HOwn bitterness in any heart that

and all pervading had not the strength of majesty

charm, her maternal kindness, itself. But hers are epic quali and the essential and enduring

tics, sprung from greatness of soul.

In that dark moment when, in.

goodness of her royal nature.

We see her bowing to her

upon

the grip of grief, the people Sovereign son, and smiling with.

The King's motherly encouragement heard the words:

the new Queen; we see her with her grandchildren, patting the little Princesscs' curls, and full of grandmotherly happiness.

"Grandmotherly"? That

life is moving peacefully towards its close... they turned their thoughts to Queen Mary, yearn- ing to give her comfort; women wept for her as for their own

though her crown has passed head, she holds A Princess was born to a younger there in a room that had been such away in the heart of this mother, and all men prayed in looks a strange word, written of hearts: "God be with Queen Mary. We cannot think of her as one who has reached Queen Victoria's nursery.

that milestone--she is cast so

and her

nation as no other royal woman their

queenship.

We

WHISPERS OF JOINT ACTION

In all its history has been able her." There is talk in Hongkong of

The devotion to her that was Her purents, the laughter-lov- to claim. a possible three-power patrol

Her mother once wrote of her, universally revealed so clearly permanently in the mould of scheme in the Yangtse River to ing Duchess of Teck

say: "Queen Mary is The handsome husband, named her

in a letter to a friend, that she at the death of King George seemed, then, to be the supreme protect foreign trade.

Our stories appear to have emanated Victoria Mary Augusta Louisn was "a model of a baby." Had expression of the nation's feel- seventy-one to-day"-but what

does that convey to us? from semi-official quarters in Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes- the fond parent, the gift of pro- ings towards Queen Mary.

image of her is proof against. A foreign observer able to the years. Crowned with our Washington and London, almost but from the first hour of her phecy she could truly have add- simultaneously. In any event, life she was called after this ed that the model baby would judge of such matters might affection she remains glorious in

grow up to be a model woman, a have been pardoned for saying: our sight. there is interest in the sugges-happy month of May.

But

medel wife, a model mother- "The heart of the British nation tion in both those centres.

Princess May she was to the

is full; not more completely, in Sought Wisdom and model Queen. there have been whispers in

time to come, can it show its of 26,

WHAT spiritual alchemy made Hongkong for some time in this world until, at the age

"May wins all hearts" run a love for Queen Mary."

Queen Mary so verily frs! was she became Duchess of York; connection.

line in another letter. Thus

And yet he would have been queen, and armed her so effcc- hint, and only when, 17 years later, than 21 nothing more

was her future already fore-

quite wrong; there were still tually before time and muta- The shadowed.

most human dropped with a wise nod, that her sailor husband acceded to

deeper depths in the people's bility? In her youth she did be might

done" the Throne as George the Fifth attribute of queenliness had "something

the Juld she use that Christian name been born in her, and Heaven affection-and these were sound- what the sages would have us about British trade in Yangtse following Vice-Admiral of Mary, as Queen, she was to ruled that time and circumstance ed, as we all do know, when her all do--she sought after wisdom. brought her to that exalted state eldest son, King Edward, bade She read far more deeply than her and all of us-farewell. most girls cared to do half a Sir Percy Noble's departure for make beloved over all.

in which she was to exercise it.

If at any time since the century ago, and she grew in in- Shanghai some time ago. Then

Through all the quarter of a Abdication you have stood tellect as she grew in beauty. the whisper became A trife

a lingering suspicion that these

century she shared King among crowds gathered to cheer There is no doubt that in those bolder, for British diplomatic,

rumours have some foundation George's throne the world could Queen Mary you will have heard early years the qualities of mind naval and army representatives

"Here, fall from many a lip this brief were developed which from the of high rank had held conference still remains. Recent discussions look at her and

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it

Bay:

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In Shanghai, it seemed, and it in the House of Commons have indeed, is a Queen." It can say but all-meaning praise: "Won- day of her marriage to this have

was: “Something will be done." indicated the concern felt by it now, and with a more admir- derful Queen Mary"

Britain for her interests in the ing emphasis, for not the pro-

foundest sorrows nature and Triumph Fate could heap upon her have

There is

borne a very real influence on the life and destiny of the Em- pire.

Frantic newspaper correspon- dents had exhausted just about Far East, and the Yangtse trade

particularly.

Statesmen who were about every availed to lessen her regal spirit; QUEEN MARY is wonderful- every possible approach to the

because she transcends the the Throne when King George subject and had everywhere met reason to believe that the same rather have they magnified it,

concern exists in other coun-so that it shines forth now highest conception of queenli the Fifth ascended it had early What tears her woman's knowledge of Queen Mary's men- tries with large investments in clearer than ever before.

with blank official stares or blunt denials, and had com- menced to think the whole thing was baseless, like so many of than that they should col-

the area. What more naturall

ness.

the other rumours that periodi-laborate in a scheme to guard GRIN AND BEAR IT cally cause flurries of excite their shipping against possible ment. And then London and interference from either Chinese New York found that the same or Japanese. It would serve the whispers were in circulation and purpose of a rival very well to hastened to flash them across make it appear either dangerous the world-probably to the place or impossible for British ships.

of their origin. In Hongkong to continue trading up this great yesterday newspapermen made commercial artery of China. Vice-Admiral Noble recently another effort; and again it was denied that Britain, France and made a tour of inspection of the the United States were discuss-Yangtse. It is understood he ing plans for convoying mer-has reported its results to Lon- chantmen up the Yangtse. So don; and he may have made re- it may be that there is nothing commendations. It seems likely that the purpose of his trip was of truth in all this chatter.

to determine whether the river

On the other hand, the closc-is unsafe for ordinary traffic. mouthed quality of officials who It may be he was asked whether deal with such delicate matters the Navy could guarantee the is well known; and the reticent security of British merchant- nature of the services which men. It is fairly certain that it

But might be expected to carry out could.

an international

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tal vigour and clarity which have benefited a thousand dif- ferent causes for the lasting good of the people. Like Vic- toria, a crown was, on her head, a natural-if solemnly symboli- cal ornament.

The Empire's Wish

IN the last two years sorrow and joy have come to Queen She Mary in great measure. has seen one son so from her side, and another crowned.

a

"I need not speak to you of

which the distress

filis mother's heart," she said to the nation when her eldest son sail- ed from these shores ""The sympathy and affection which sustained me in my gent sorrow less than a year ago have not failed me now, and are once? again my strengtḥ and stay."

Nothing in this changing world is more certain than that sym- pathy and that affection will be hers alway.

The whole Empire will most. devoutly wish for Queen Mary, Many Happy Returns of this day.

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