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September 1, 1939.

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JUST A GOOD

PLAIN QUEEN

by One of Her Subjects

UEEN WILHELMINA of Holland yesterday celebrated her birthday. Her subjects, both in Holland and also scattered across the third- largest colonial empire in the world,

"10"have already been joining in the celebra-

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BIRTH

PRICE.-On August 31, 1039, at the War Memorial Nursing Home, to Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Price, a daughter.

DEATH

WALLER-At Shanghal, on Septem- 1, 1030, Arthur Joseph Waller, aged 63 years.

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tions with luste 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 cannot help thinking of Queen Victoria. Yat detect in both enreers the same morat carnest - ness, the same taste for plain living surrounded by su Court etiquette, the same disapproving eye turned on everything unconventional or not utterly respectable.

Wilhelmina is a more intelligent woman than Victoria was But, like Victoria, she was brought, up conscious every minute that she was to be Queen. It was a grim process.

Her father, old King William III, died when she was ten. in 1890. The quiet little girl with long flaxen hair had her mother, Queen Emma, for Regent, during the eight years of her legal minority.

Wilhelmina at the age of ton, and below, throa generations of the Dutch Royal Family- Juliano, Queen Wilhelmina and

Juliana's baby Beatrix..

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 sho magnificently succeeded, Her chief assistant in the process was Miss E. Baxton-Winter, an English governess of the most accomplished and tremendous sort. While the

professors gravest

governess and mother formed her mind and character.

Wyndham St., Hongkong taught the little girl her lessons,

'Phone 26615 September 1, 1939

War Propheteering

THE sands of August, the month

in which the world

was plunged into disaster a quarter of P century ago, have run out. Forecasters announced that the eighth month of the year would Ace the start of another world war. The third of August was one of several days which fore- casters choss 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,

About three years ago somu Spiritualists who claimed to have contact with "the other aide" declared that war would come and that it would be short and sharp but there was no mention of tho date or the result of the conflict.

Within recent months others who believe they have received authoritative and definite informa Hon from the spirit world said that somo time this year world condi tions would be such that war would seem certain. Everything would be rondy for the onslaught, and at the last moment war would be called off. That, however, might have been sald of any month during the past year.

Yet another forecast mado by reputed recipients of nows from the other world is that what will look as 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,

H was never allowed

Sto

to be alone. Sho only met children of ber own nge for a few hours each week. The rest of her playtime was spent with her dolls, her chickens (which she fed herself each day) and with Grisette, her little grey donkey to which she was devoted.

So she grew up grave beyond her years. She was deep in high-

politics when other girls are 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-Nassau. from which our own King William III sprang, would become extinct.

They chose Princo Henry of Mecklenburg - Schwerin as her bridegroom.

He was a dashing young Heuten- ant from the Prussian Guards. very gay and debonair. She fell in love with him at once, just as her daughter Jullana did with Prince Bernhard. They married in Febru- ary, 1001.

Conservative. When sho Was crowned Liberalisma was at ita height in Holland, rather an old- fashioned Liberalism, with which she got along well enough. Lately. as in other innds, Liberalism has Tet, in many ways, ` waned, and Socialiam is growing.

The present Administration is Conservative, but Wilhelmina faces the possibility of a Labour Government, representing the antithesis of the principles in which she was reared.

She continued to love him unill he died in 1934. After his funeral she was prostrated by a nervous breakdown.

they were an ill-matched couple.

P

RINCE HENRY

was convivial and unconven- tional. He loved to mix Incognito with sea captains, with artists, with men and women who did the things he could never do because he was Prince Consort.

He could not share Wilhelmina's

were not

high seriousness. Her intense religious convictioris echoed by his easy-going nature. He was never quita at home at the formal court at which he found himself playing second fiddle for

thirty years.

Sometimes he escaped for a few daya, attended only by a gentle- man-in-walling, Whenever he returned from one of those little Jaunts he was not received very

cordially.

And so, Wilhelmina has been a somewhat lonely figure at the head of the Dutch State. Once she be came Queen, again like Victoria. she did not share her official work with her mother. Unlike Victoria, she did not and a perfect col-

laborator in her husband,

Though she be a model constitu- In thla medley of guesses tho tional queen, Wilhelmina is no only certain thing is that we shall rubber stamp. She pores over State she reads everything which papers, continue to be subjected during she must sign; she takes her part the early days of the month that in the government of her country commences to-day to alternating as seriously and steadily as she

rides her bicycle. waves of optimism and pessimism. She makes all her decisions- The people have become Inured to alone. Dr. Hendrik Colijn, her these norve 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 may bring her the document. But segretary, Van Tota van Goudriaan. Kitchener sent out a brief message the Queen will sit in her study and to the effect that he was neither optimist nor pessimist; he looked only to facts. It may fairly be said that that is the attitude of people to-day. Already the situa- tion in Europe, critical as it undoubtedly is, begins to 1000 inférest.

make up her mind by herself, with- out discussion or consultation.

The national bent of her mind is

-To-day's Thought-

I WOULD not þe a queen for

all the world,

Nevertheless 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 accept a Labour Government as graciously as sho accepts Dr. Colijn, if it was the will of her people expressed at an election.

Wilhelmina has watched her country grow richer, and she has seen its prosperity grow evenly distributed. ~At the same time she has seen her own personal fortune wax fat.

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Now she is a very rich woman, probably the richest woman in the world—despite gifts to charitable causes of all kinds almost an the Rockefeller scale.

She spends under half of her in- come, much of which comes from the Dutch East Indies.

THE Royal Family - has khared for hundreds of years in the wealth which Holland draws thence. Through nominees she has höld- ings in a doven great and success- ful undertakings. In a VOLT JOAI and personal way the... Queen's fortuné la bound up with the pros- perity of her people.

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A Look Through The "Telegraph”

In the stress of emotions caused by tho international crisis, an anniversary rich in significance for Hongkong pasted unnoticed. ... last wook,

One hundred years ago, on August 26, 1839, the first land- ing on Hongkong laland over made by British people was. effected by rofugees who fled from Canton. Less than two years. lator, tho island became British territory and its first city was named Queenstown-later Vic- toria.

Here, T. Paul Gregory tolls the story of

Refugees 1839, 1939

NE HUNDRED years

ONE

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ago inst Saturday Hongkong was acting as host to refugees just as now, but at that time they were British men, women, and children seeking safetý under the Union Jack

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 Beck sanctuary in Macao.

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- exites far away from Home," in the era of wooden sailing ships, and in the perilous typhoon season,

And the main reason for the exodus of 1830 was the action being taken by the Chinese authorities on the Opium Question.

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DEOPLE then were not very parli- cular as to methods or articles of trade.

lost Fortunes

and were through channels which, according to our present standard of commercial morality, would be termed dublous Indeed.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 1, 188O.

Sumce it to say that an energetic Mr. Ng Sul-Shang bogs to announce step was being taken by the Chinese that in complianen with n suggestion officials to stamp out the oplum made to him by Mr. Mitchell-Innes, he traffic, which since 1700 had attained has now opened an agency for the up-such proportions that it was capping ply of chair coulles at 4, Gough Street, the strength of the Chinese nation int Flour, and is prepared to supply and depleting the silver reserves of them on the conditions and at the rates the Empire. mentioned In Mr. Mitcboll-Innes' elreu-

be had can

lar, copies of which

on

It was probably the latter reason that led the Imperial Government for

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application to the agenty. He trusts take a stand against the trame; for the financial aspects of the problem that the ageney may be the means of putting an end to the present unsatisfar. obscured what might be called the tory state of affairs by supplying moral point of view. minsters with good cosiles, and at the

Chinese objection to the im- no time affording the latter regular portation of the drug was

not so. much that it was hideous vice employment.

gnawing at the very vitals of the nation, but that it had turned the balance of trade against Chino, fore- ing her to pay out her silver, and If that were permitted to continue,. It would eventually lend to the im- poverishment of the Empire.

N. B. The agency will also be pre- pared to supply jinzickaba and house svolles if desired.

25 YEARS AGO

Heut. 1, 1914. longkong is not the only place in the Far Enst where fantasily rumours TYISTORY proves that opium has...... are circulated regarding the war. Wild H storien have been bruited about lo

been known to the Chinese for

Peking, and in view of China's neutra~inany centuries.

Ilty the Government there barO REEN It is related that there was a con- it to lenus a, painted warning to the siderable traffic in the drug by Arab public. It is observed that while the

people may rest assured that no harm merchants at Canton in the eighth can come to them in consequence of the century of the Christian era, who grost war, it is not unlikely that there supplied it to the Chinese for use in may be certain "bad characters, who, medicine. taking advantage of this critical time, When the practice of smoking and are circulating rumours with a view to inhaling it into the lungs began no ereating panic and thereby plotting

knows, but it is clear that the disturbances. Holdiers and police bare, annual import for the hundred years therefore, been ordered to exercise th prior to 1796 did not exceed 200

utmost survelliance over these indivi. duals

10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 1, 1920. An attempt to nasassinate Marshal

renond Chiang Kai-shek, the

within

a week, was made in Shanghai yester- day.

chests.

In the latter year, the rate of im-- portation had to increased that it reached over 4,000 chests searly, an increase which finally attained the figure of over 20,000 chests annually by 1830.

"No wonder that the Imperial Gov. › ornment was alarmed and determined.. Shots were fired at the Marshal to net, but it must be said that the he stepped off the running: board of bla motor car to enter his private residence in the French Concasilan. missed him by inches only.

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traffic could not have flourished as

A bollett did were it not for the direct can- nivance of corrupt Chinese officials,

Ille bodyguards nelzod a man in the one of whom Lei Hung-pan, the vicinity, and it is baltered that he in Vicuntung and Kwanga) received of the two Kwang Provinces detained on suspicion of baving fired) the shots.

|30,000 facis a months as his “cut” for allowing the opium to pass freely Info Whampoa and Macão.

5 YEARS AGO

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Indication that THE foreign merchants who were There are increasing indications that relations between „Germany and Italy engaged in the business · have · are becoming very strained.

been described by no less a DETSOU

It is reliably stated that Germany is dge than Captain Charles. Elliot the planning a three or four daya period of man who secured Hongkong as a probation, to see whether the Italian Colony for England, “as nothing les newspapers are propared to cease their than the riftraff of all nationalities,” altacks on Germany.

who co-operated with Chinese smig- If the tone of Italian press comments glers and corrupt Imperial oficial. does not improve, the Government can in fostering shameless trame. Lemplate the Expulsion of Italian Things reached such a state that by 1838, the number of foreign ships carrying oplum from

correspondenta,

The Germin. Press in the past.

(an Lintin days bar revealed Iberassing annoyanes faland at the mouth of the Canton at the Italian attacks and it is undor Pear! river) to Whampos were

stood that, they have been instructed to or reply sharply and in similar vein. multiplied, and their crews frequently came into open conflet with Chinese For the third sucursies day, the High Government vessels, though in many- Council of the Salvation Army cases the latter were also engaged. throughout a complete session without in the conveying of the plum to reaching the main object of ther rather Carton. ing the nomination of a sucessor to General Higgins.

Sightseers Get Peepholes

Toledo, O

The Imperial Government, irritat- ed.

beyond measure, ordered its- officials at Canton to take action. There were several unpleasant in cidents between the Canton poculace and the European merchants in. "Factory" siteet Shap-san-bong as ue forcin concessione

Was Called and the general avtoranen- of

Bidewalk ruperintendents are well Chinese towards foreigners culminaa the world is burned matchas but provided for In this, ally. Commo-ed in the strangulation of a case Burt Lurlock, Walkins Glen medious, glared-in peepholes for all oplum dealer before the windows ar chanfe, knows what to do with them, alzes of superintendents have been the Concession.

He constructs ship models and jewel-cut into the construction: barriond

ry boxes, s greater part of which are where crew its excavating for new Emperor Tack Guaranid appuntos constructed with used matches. main building for the publle Übers