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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939.

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Edward, Duke

Of Windsor

TO-DAY is the forty-fifth birthday of the man who

was King for 326'days.

Never had a monarch enjoyed such universal popu- larity, as King Edward VIII.

He combined the qualities of his father with a modern and democratic outlook. His royal birth alone. could never have won for him the genuine affection with which he was rewarded throughout the Empire.

The Duke of Windsor was too great and he at times forced. born at White Lodge, Richmond his way into areas where shells *** | HONGKONG HOTEL Park, on June 23, 1894, on the and bullets were flying fast and

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eve of a new era, while his furious, much to the dismay of grand-mother, Queen Victoria, the officers detailed to attend was still reigning.

him.

Until March 1916 Edward

HIS

IS early life was exactly that served with the Expeditionary Forces in Flanders and France, of the average well-born in various parts of the line, and

un- everywhere became remarkably

popular.

British child, and this |doubtedly contributed grently to

his unqualified popularity.

During that year he was ap- In 1902, when eight years old, pointed Staff Captain on the he was placed in the hands of a staff of the General Officer tutor, Mr. H. P. Hansell, who Commander-in-Chief of the had been tutor to Prince Arthur Mediterranean Expeditionary

of Connaught. At an carly age Force, proceeded at once to Edward learned to fish, swim Egypt and while there went as and to handle a boat. He played far as Khartoum to visit the football at Sandringham with wounded and returned down the village boys and with teams Nike. from neighbouring private schools.

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR

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THE REPLY of the British B-8895 and American Governments to

the almost insolent Japanese de .All Star Band B-8896

mand that they withdraw their

the principal purpose of which with a continuous display of loyal warships from Swatow is firm

was to return the visit of the enthusivsm. "Fats" Waller BD-5476

and unmistakable.

Crown Prince of Japan to the His next trip was to Canada with ΟΝ

》N August 5, 1919, his Empire British capital. Sailing on the Prince George and Mr. Stanley I can give you the Starlight-Waltz..Mayfair Orchestra BD-5479 Japanese demand by withdraw umination for the Navy in 1907 Portsmouth for a four months on the 29th and at Malta on and Port Erie, erected to commemor

Far from complying with the

On passing the qualifying ex- tours commenced. He left Renown he arrived at Gibraltar Baldwin. On that occasion he open- ed the Peace Bridge joining Buffalo Waltz in my Heart-Waltz.

ing H.M.S. Thanet and U.S.S. Pillsbury, another two warships where he remained for two the battlecruiser, Renown, the arrived at Bombay on the 17th.

College, visit to Canada. He sailed on the new Parliament House. He Canada and the United States.

November 1, where he opened ate the 100 years of peace between

of Swatow one of them the mouth.

foundland. He was welcomed faction existed at that time in WITH the Duke of Gloucester he flagship of the Commodore of

Y lett England in September 1928, In June 1911 Edward was in- with a crescendo of enthusiasm many parts, of India and the for a tour of Africa from end to end the U.S. South China Patrol.

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and was

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this

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This attempt by Japan to /vested with the Most Noble which followed his progress for non-co-operation leaders and de--Calro to the Cape; but it was cut Order of the Garter. On July 3,000 miles across Canada, from clared a hartal na a demonstra short by the King's grave illness. cocrce Britain and the United States in Swatow is but the 13 the same year he was formal- the Atlantic to the Pacific and ton of their political feelings. 6,000 hastened home, covering the The attempt to boycott him days. In January, 1930, he resumed culmination of a series of pin-y created Prince of Wales and back again.

failed, however, at Bombay, the tour, this time without his Earl of Chester, pricking incidents which com-

On his return the people of where vast crowds gathered and brother, and shot big game.

to

lined the road through which From 1028 onwards he did much menced with the occupation of A few days after his investi- London did their utmost Kulangsu. With the exception ture the newly created Prince make his home-coming real. In Edward drove in state through of his travelling by air and in 1930

the city.

often made solo nights. On one of the Tientsin crisis, the was appointed midshipman to the evening a banquet was given

necarion he flew in the glont Do. 'X, incidents themselves are not of the Hindustan, in which battle. in his honour at Buckingham In India he travelled far and piloting it for a time. He has ex- ressed the wish to fly a plane in the first importance interna-ship he served in the North Sea Palace in which the King made wide-and-was everywhere-re--attack on distance records

ceived with tionally, but they are sufficiently for three months. The months a touching speech of welcome to Allahabad being the only city paration for his tour in South great rejoicing, Edward learnt Spanish, in pre- characteristic to merit reitera- which followed his cruise were his son.

where the hartal really took America with Prince George in tion. They include the holding spent quietly at Sandringham

In less than four months after effect. He also visited Burma. January 1831. Relying largely on air travel, they visited Bermuda, Cuba, Leaving India Edward next. Jamaica, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argen- up of the P. & O. liner Ranpura preparing for Oxford.

he returned home Edward again and M. M. liner Aramis, the

set out on a lengthy tour, this stopped at Colombo, next place tins und Brazil. At Buenos Aires. shelling

of call being Singapore, where Edward opened the British trade ex- Just disclosed inIN October 1912 he became a time to the Antipodes. another enthusiastic reception hibition, which was a great success. British waters on Sunday, the freshman at Magdalen Col- March 16, 1920, he sailed on awaited him. Then came his

Appointed by the King to the new post, "Master of the Merchant Navy anti-British campaign through lege, Oxford, matriculating as board the Renown, first calling visit to Hongkong.

and Fishing Fleets," in February fout the occupied area of North an ordinary

He at Barbados and from there commoner.

1928, he received three promotions In September 1030-from Captain to [China, the seizure of the British wrote essays for the President, continuing to Panama, reaching

INCE he began touring the Empire Vice-Admiral, from Colonel to Lieut.. steamer Sagres, and the man- Sir H. Warren, and was coached the Canal at sunrise of March he had received many royal General and from Group-Captain to handling of British subjects. in civics and political and par- 30. A cordial reception awaited welcomers, but that which Hongkong Air Marshal.

Japan frequently complains liamentary history by Sir W. him at the city of Panama.

In September 1932, Edward flew to that the rest of the world, and Angon, also studying modern Through the tropical seas he ducted to a special pavilion, on the Copenhagen, where he opened Britain in particular, does not languages. Unlike his father, enjoyed a variety of receptions site where the Cenotaph now stands, British trade exhibition, On the

presented with four ad- way he landed at Hamburg, understand her. There arehe had no special position and and experiences. At Honolulu dresses, one from the British Com- being the first time he had set foot

the British Army Inspected times when it is not altogether this innovation proved very suc- he received both modern and munity, read by the late Sir Paul on German soll since 1010, when ho of Occupation ot Cologne. He then easy to blame the British people cessful. He lived in college ancient welcomes, the American munity presented by the Hon. Mr. went to Stoeltholm, where he was for their failure in this respect. rooms, dined in hall and mixed officials and the natives all en- the roshe foreign community joined by Prince George, later re-

and Sir Shouson Chow, Chu-pak Great Britain, like Japan, is a with the other undergraduates, tertaining him after their own read by the American Consul turning to London, great naval power with a strong playing polo and other games, fashion. naval tradition. In 'the light of serving in the O.T.C. as that tradition the reactions of private and joining in "rags." the British public to a Japanese His vacations were spent in demand that a British warship Germany, Norway and Den- should leave a port in which it mark. has every right to be present→→ His university career was cur- honour,, dancing and singing brilliantly illuminated

In the evenings the Colony was Late in July Edward vislied Vimy in which, indeed, its presence is tailed, however, by the outbreak their ancient greetings, were gorgeous lantern processions. demanded by threats to British of the War in 1914 on the eve Throughout New Zealand his lives and property-are bound to of his third year. On August welcome was full of warmth. be unfavourable. Even if good 7 he was gazetted 2nd Lieuten- In Australia, Melbourne' turn- manners and a respect for ant of the Grenadier Guards and ed out in its thousands to greet international usage are virtues on the 11th joined his battalion him. Tremendous as had been to which the Imperial Japanese (the 1st) then stationed at War the previous ovations, he had Barracks, Essex. Five met nothing before to equal that Navy does not aspire, its com-ley mandera ought, surely, to be weeks after he had joined, the hearty, frank tumultuous, real

Australian greeting. restrained from displays of aim battalion was detailed for ser- less self-assertion.

vice in France (but as he had On August 19, 1920, the Aus to him to take part in a game of polo, cedents as Edward did during his It is not inconceivable that Japan may before long have not completed his military train tralian tour concluded and the which he coperted. cause to reconsider her policy ing it was considered undesir- Renown sailed from Sydney game he was struck over the right months: Always a keen aviator, he

inch and a half long.

Cabinet and inslated on using nero- towards the Powers in China.able that he should accompany harbour homeward bound. On eye with a ball, which cul a gash an even over-ruled the objections of the October 10. the Prince arrived at

The Renown Balled then for planes as a means of travel whenever The events of the past two years it

Spithead, escorted by the third

possible.. Labuan, calling Lator at Jesselton. have proved that her attempt

On November 17 he was ap- flotilla of the Atlantle fleet, and Brunei and Penang, from where the to smash China by a series of pointed Aide-de-camp to General landed at Portsmouth on the trip home was made. Edward arciv hammer blows was not well- advised; and her efforts to dis-Sir John French and two days following morning, entraining at ed once more at Plymouth on June lodge from China such Powers later passed through Boulogne once for London,

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General, Mr. W. H. Gale, and one from the Treaty Ports presented by

During his visit Auckland Mr. E. C. Pearce of Shanghai, ON the death of King George V. on January 20, 1936, Edward was had the appearance of an im- The city and ships in the harbour proclaimed King-the first bachelor were smothered in bunting, while the monarch since George III (1760), menso flower garden. At Rotorua thundering of guns and the crash of mon a great gathering of Maori fireworks provided a deafening and throughout the Empire with en- tribesmen assembled to do him stirring welcome.

and

his succession Was hailed.

thusiasm.

there Ridge to unvell the Canadian:

A Yokohama, where he arrived on April 12, Edward was received with a tremendous ovation.

Memorial to her dend, killed in the Great War.

During November Edward visited. the depressed areas in South Wales, spending two full days moving from district to district to get first hand. Nothing surprised the Japanese no information of the conditions under

living.. much as his extreme simplicity and which the unemployed were democratic manner and his entire "Something must be done, for them" freedom from ostentation.

was his comment on his return to London, His mission fulfilled, he left for Manila, where he was warmly re- Naver in recent years has ceived. An invitation was extended monarch broken so many Court pre-

During the brief reign of less than • twelve

Na final shattering of tradition, he obeyed the dictates of his

**** 20, 1922. Two days later he was heart und abandoned the throne.

made a Knight of the Thistle.

For centuries there had been no After a few months at home he left previous abdication. When King as Great Britain; France and the on his way to headquarters. It United States may turn out, in was intended to keep him out THE following year, on October Portsmouth on a South African tour, James If filed to France in 1080 the again travelling on the Renown, throne was declared forfeited-Bo- 10, Edward left London on His visit there like those to other fore that, Richard II abdicated in time, to have been equally ill-of the danger zone as much as considered.

possible; but his irisistence was his Indian and Far Eastern tour, Dominions and Colonies was marked 1300.

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