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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 31, 1940.

WILHELMINA

She has reigned for 41 years THE

HE Dutch in Hongkong to-day will celebrate the 41st Anniversary of their Queen's corona. tion. Wilhelmina has reigned fonger than any other sovereign now alive in the world. Wilhelmina technically became Queen 48 years ago but her mother, Emma, served as Regent until Wilhelmina turned 18 on Aug. 31, 1898. Since then The Netherlands have had 40 years of conscientious, sane, well-balanced rule.

People used to call Wilhelmina the only "real King in Europe." She was also the richest, being the second biggest stockholder in Royal Dutch Shell Oil Her family of Orange-Nassau has prob- ably been the brainiest in the history of royalties. Strictly, she is the last of the Orange-Nassaus, her daughter, Juliana, ranking as a Mecklenburg after her father It was Queen Wilhelmina's destiny to find her greatest moments when she had al- ready been a monarch for 40 years. She refused to surrender to the Nazis and is working from England for the ruin of the Germans who smashed and tore her peaceful inoffensive Holland.

Wilhelmina had been Queen of The Netherlands since her father's death when she was 10 but she was crowned at 18,

on Sept. 6, Just 40 years ago. She was a bright, unworldly, stubborn, young girl.

Father was The Netherlands' King Mother was 20 when she married Wilhelmina was father's only AT 12, dolls and an English William III, who saved his line old William, bore Wilhelmina hope. Two sons had died; a governess were Wilhelmina's

by a second marriage at 62.

third died soon after.

promptly,

chief company. She was lonely and bored.

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"You have most certainly

earned it, BUT-you've pinched

our mug!"

Skating lesson for Wilhelmina on canal near Huis ten Bosch. Royal job is to dress up, like sub- Sign says "RESERVED FOR H.M. THE QUEEN." Adults are her jects. "Here Wilhelmina is in

entourage. She was 12 but not yet crowned.

Friesian costume.

Sept. 6, 1898, Wilhelmina marches out of New Church with sceptre and crown to take over full power from her mother, who had been Regent for eight years.

Juliana, Wilhelmina's daughter, marries German Prince Bernhard,

Jan. 7, 1937.

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AT 16, she visits long-reigning Queen Victoria.

Both women were technically last of their lines.

Wilhelmina's granddaughter, Beatrix Wilhelmina, is judici- ously bounced by Juliana, AND THEN-

The Germans struck into the peaceful Lowlands, Belgium collapsed,... But Queen Wilhel- mina wont to England, there works for the day when the land she has ruled 10 long so well, will again be free.

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Singapore. Aug. 30. The eleven United States news- popermen who are making an air tour of the Pacific, arrived to-day from Java. They will visit the Naval Base, air bases and Indian troops on Saturday, being given a more com- prehensive survey of Singapornists de- fences than any other previously.

Mr. Roy Howard, chief editor of the New York World Telegram and head of the Scripps-Howard news- papers, sold "There is a general realisation that the Singapore base would probably; be a base for the United States Fleet should anything happen out here making American

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