THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939.
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September 1, 1959
War Propheteering
THE sands of August, the month
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world AVA plunged into disaster a quarter of
run century ago, have out. Forcensters announced that the eighth month of the year would world www see the start of another
The third of August was war. one of several days which fore- casters chose as the fateful day. Some star-gazers fixed the six- teenth day of the month and other dealers in the occult put it down for the nineteenth,
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About three yenra ago Aome Spiritualists who claimed to have contact with "the other side" declared that war would come and that it would be short and sharp, but there was no mention of the date or the result of the confilet. Within recent months. others who believe they have received authoritative and definite informa- tion from the spirit world said that some time this year world condi-
auch tions would be
that war would seem certain. Everything would be ready for the onslaught, and at the last moment war would w be called off. That, however,
might have been said of any month *** { during the past year.
Yet another forecast made by reputed recipients of news from the other world is that what will look an the climax of the
pro- longed crisis will come next year, Again no date is specified, but the Assurance is given that there will
not be war.
by One of Her Subjects
UEEN WILHELMINA of Holland yesterday celebrated her birthday. iler subjects, both in Holland and also scattered across the third- largest colonial empire in the world, have already been joining in the celebra- tions with lusty 'vigour.
From this you can judge that Wilhel- mina is well grounded in the hearts of her peoples; for the Dutch would neither afford nor enjoy festivities unless they held the object of them good and worthy.
Of course, when you think of Wilhelmina you You cannot help thinking of Queen Victoria. detect in both careers the same momi earnest. ness, the same taste for plain living surrounded by stint Court etiquette, the same disapproving: eye turned on everything unconventional or not. utterly respectable.
Wilhelmina is a more intelligent woman than Victoria was. But, ko Victoria, she was brought up conscious overy minute that she was to be Queen. It was a grim process.
Her father, old King Willam III, died when ale was ten, in 1800. The quiet little girl with long flaxen hair had her mother, Queen Emma. for Regent, during the right years of her legal minority.
Queen Emma, a German princess, was always smiling. Not a gay smile, perhaps, but one which reflected her serenity of mind and fixity of purpose. She was going to school Wilhelmina to be a good and wise queen. According to her lights she magnificently succeeded.
Her chief assistant in the process Was Miss E. Saxton-Winter, an English governess of the most Accomplished and tremendous sort.
While the gravest professors
taught the little girl her lessons, governess and mother formed her mind and character.
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HE was never allowed to be alone. Bho only children of her met own age for a few hours each week. The rest of her playtime was spent with her dolls, her chickens (which she fed hersell ench day) and with Grisette, her little grey donkey to which she was devoted.
Bo she grew up grave beyond her усата. She was deep in high-
when politica
cther girls arc thinking of their first grown-up
dance frock.
Of course she had to marry. She must provide an heir, or the illus trious house of Orange-Nass4 11. from which our own King William III aprane, would become extinct.
They chose Prince Henry of As her Mecklenburg - Schwerin bridegroom.
He was a dashing young lieuten- ant from the Prussian Guards. very gay and debonair. She fell in love with him at once, just as her daughter Juliana did with Prince Bernhard. They married in Febru-
ary, 1001.
She continued to love him until ho died in 1934. After his funeral she was prostrated by a nervous breakdown. Yet, in many ways, they were an Ill-matched couple.
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Wilhelmina of the age of ten, and below, three generations of the Dutch Royal Family- Juliano, Queen Wilhelmina and Juliana's baby Beatrix.
Conservative.
When sho crowned Liberalism was at its height in Holland, rather an old- fashioned Liberalism, with which she got along well enough. Lately, as in other lands, Liberalism has waned, and Socialism is growing,
The present Administration is Conservative,
but Wilhelmina faces the possiblilty of a Labour
representing Government, WAS
antithesis of the principles in which she was reared.
RINCE HENRY convivial and unconven- tlonal. He loved to mix incognito with sea captains, with artists, with men and women who did the things he could never de because he was Prince Consort.
He could not share Wilhelmina's high seriousness. Her intense convictions were not religious echoed by his easy-going nature. He was never quite at home at the formal court at which he found himself playing second Addle fo
thirty years.
Sometimes he escaped for a few days, attended only by a gentle man-in-walting. Whenever he
returned from one of those little jaunts he was not received very cordially,
And so, Wilhelmina has been a somewhat lonely Agure at the head of the Dutch Bjate. Once she be came Queen, again like Victoria. she did not share her official work with her mother. Unlike Victoria, she did not find a perfect col- laborator in her husband.
Though she be a model constitu- tional queen, Wilhelmina is no rubber stamp. She pores over State papers, she reads everything which
the
Novertheless she maintains the Crown with absolute impartiality towards all parties. None could say that she has smiled on the Left at any time. ・・
But Holland knows she would necept a Labour Government as graciously as she accepts Dr. Collin, if it was the will of her people expressed at an election.
Wilhelmina has watched her country grow richer, and she has acen Ita prosperity grow more At the same evenly distributed. time she has seen her own personal fortune wax fat.
Now she is a very rich woman, probably the richest woman in the world-despite gifts to charitable causes of all kinds almost on the Rockefeller, scale. :
She spends under half of her in- come, much of which comes from the Dutch East Indies.
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**HK., Royal Family has shared for hundreds of years in the wealth which ·Holland · draws thence.
she must sign: she takes her part Through nominees she has hold- in the government of her country as seriously and steadily as she rides her bicycle,
In this medley of guesses the only certain thing is that we shall continue to be subjected during the early days of the month that commonces to-day to alternating waves of optimism and pessimism. The people have become Inured to
the makes all her decisions-- alone. Dr. Hendrik Colijn, her these nerve tests. In the last war,
Prime Minister, may submit his when there was much talk of advice in writing. Her confidential optimism and pessimism, Lord secretary, Van Tots van Goudriaan. may bring her the document. But Kitchener sent out a brief message the Queen will sit in her study and to the effect that he was neither | make up her mind by herself, with- optimist ner pessimist; he looked out discussion or consultation. only to facts. It may fairly bo said that that is the attitude of people to-day. Already the situa tion in Europe, critical as t undoubtedly is, begins to lose interest.
The national bent of her mind is
To-day's Thought- WOULD not be a queen for
all the world.
SHAKESPEARE.
ings in a dozen great`and success- ful undertakings. In a very real and personal way the Queen's fortune is bound up with the pros- perity of her people.
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A ́ Look Through The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
In the stress of emotions: caused by the international crisia,. an anniversary rich in significance. for Hongkong passed unnoticed fast wook.
One hundred years ago, on August 26, 1839, the first land- ing on Hongkong Island over made by British people wat offected by refugees who fled from Canton. Less than two years. later, the island became British torritory and its first city was named Queenstown-lator Vic- torin.
Here, T. Paul Gregory tells the. story of
Refugees 1839, 1939
ago last Saturday Hongkong was acting as host. to refugees just ns now, but at that time they were British men,. women, and children seeking safety under the Union Jack.
ONE HUNDRED vents
They were those who fled to the shelter of ships in Victoria Harbour after being expelled by the Chinese from Canton, and forbidden by the Portuguese to seek sanctuary Macao.
in
Their position was in every way Infinitely more serious than that of their
Chinese counterparts who have flocked to the Colony in their tens of thousands during the present Sino- Japanese
hostilities; for they were
exiles far away froin Home, in the era of wooden sailing ships, and in the perilous typhoon season.
And the main reason for the exodus of 1839 was the action being taken
the- by the Chinese authorities on
Oplum Question, PEOPLE
EOPLE then were not very parti- cular as to methods or articles
won
of trade,
Fortunes were lost and through channels which, according to our present standard of commercial morality, would be termed dublous indeed.
Sept. 1, 1889. Mr. Ng Sul-Shang begs to announce Suffice it to say that an energetic that in compliance with a suggestion step was being taken by the Chinese oplum made to him by Mr. Mitchell-fanes, be officials to stamp out the
has now opened an agency for the sup traffic, which since 1798 had attained nation ply of chair coolien at 4, Gough Street, such proportions that it was sapping 1st Floor, and is prepared to supply the strength of the Chinese then on the conditions and at the rates and depleting the silver reserves of
the Empire. mentioned in Mr. Mitchell-Innes' cireu-
It was probably the latter reason lar, copies of which can
he had that led the Imperial Government to application to the agency. He trusts
take
n stand against the traffic; for that the agency may be the means of the Anancial aspects of the problem putting an end to the present unsatisfac obscured what might be called the
stato of affairs by supplying
moral point of view. masters with gand coolles, and at the same time affording the latter regular employment.
tary
N. The agency wit also be pre- pared to supply jinsieksha and house coulles if desired.
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1914.
Wild
starles have been bruited about in
The Chinese objection to the ime
not portation of the drug was much that it was B hideous vice of the
gnawing at the very vitals nation, but that it had turned the balance of trade against China, fore- ing her to pay out her silver, and if that were permitted to continue, I would eventually lead to the im-
*
TISTORY proves that oplum has
HIS
Hongkong is not the only place in poverishment of the Empire. the Far East where fantastle rumours are circulated regarding the war. Peking, and in view of China's neutra- lity the Government there have seen
It is reluled that there was a con- At to itsue a pointed warning to the public. It is observed that while the siderable trafe in the drug by Arab people may rest assured that no harm merchants at Canton in the eighth
been known to the Chinese for many centuries.
of the Christian era, who
can come to them in consequence of the cent it to the Chinese for use in
great war, it is hot unlikely that there i may be certain "had clinractors," who, taking advantage of this critical time, medicine. are circulating rumours with a view to When the practice of smoking and creating a panic and thereby plotting inhaling it into the lungs began no disturbances. Boldiers and police have one knows, but it is clear that the therefore, been ordered to exercise annual import for the hundred years utmast surveillance over these Indivi.·
not exceed 200 prior to 1700 did Jual
chests.
10 YEARS AGO
Sapt. i, 1920. An attempt to ABUR Sinate Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the second within a week, was made in Shanghai yester
day.
In the latter year, the rate of im- portation had so Increased that it reached over 4,000 chests yearly, an Increase which finally, attained the Agure of ever 20,000 chests annually by 1830.
No wonder that the Imperial Gov- Shots were fired at the Marshal as ernment was alarmed and determined he stepped off the running: board of his to act, but it must be said that the motor-cns to enter his private residence trame could not have flourished as
A bullet in the French Conensilen.
It
It not for the direct con- did were anlamed him by inches only.
nivance of corrupt Chinese oficials,
Hung-pan,
the ffis bodyguards seized a man in the vicinity, and it is bollered that he is one of whom Lel detained on suspicion of having fired Viceroy of the two Kwang Provinces (Kwangtung and Kwangs!) received the shots.
36,000 tnels a months as his "cut" for allowing the oplum" to pass freely Into Whampoa and Macao.
•
5 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1034, There are increasing indications that relations between Germany and Italy are becoming very strained.
THE
foreign merchants who were engaged in the business have It is rellably stated that Germany Is been described by no less a person- planning a three or four days period of age than Captain Charles Ellot the probation, to see whether the Italian man who secured Hongkong as a newspapers are prepared to cease their Colony for England, "as nothing less
than the riffraft of all nationalities,
attacks on Germany.
If the tons of Italian press comments who co-operated with Chinese smug- does not improve, the Government con- glers and corrupt Imperial official template the expulsion of Italian in fostering the shameless traffic. correspondents.
The German Press in the past few days has revealed increasing annoyance at the Italian attacks and it is under alood that they have been instructed to reply sharply and in eltallar vein.
Things reached such a state that by 1838, the number of foreign ships carrying oplum from Lintin (arr island at the mouth of the Canton
Pearl river) to Whampoa were
or Pe
multiplied, and their crews frequently For the third sucessive day, the Iligh came into open confilet with Chinese at Government vessels, though in many Counci
of the Salvation Army throughout a complete acsalon without cases the latter were also engaged to reaching the main object of ther gather-in the conveying of the oplum ing, the nomination of a sucessor to Carton.
·General Higgins.
Sightseers Get Peepholes
r
The Imperial Government, irritat
ordered ed beyond meastire, omcials at Canton to take action. in- There were several unpleasant cidents between the Canton populace and the European merchants in the "Factory" site at Shap-sam-hong ar
foreign concession
called
LAS
WILS
Toledo, O and the general arrogance. of the Sidewalk superintendents are well Chinese towards foreigners culminat-- provided for in this city. Commo ed in the strangulation of a Chinese dious glassed-in peepholes for all oplum dealer before the windows of sizes of superintendents have been the Concession,
When it became known that the where crews are excavating for a new Emperor Tao Kwang had appointed:
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