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THE DUKE OF

proportion of the inhabitants,, thus making Americans cousins' in a left-handed sort of way.

leade

This mains thoroughfare straight through the Capital city, It is captivating, at least to those who liko tinted engravings of a village) street "way down East,” for example,

TIS Majesty the King has afforded him shelter in his hour

From the sea, the low island been pleased to appoint His of need. In time, this became Royal Highness, the Duke of the harbour of Nassau, the pre of Nassau, whose surface never

rises much over a hundred feet, There are rambling stores Windsor, to be Governor and scat capital of the archipelago looks like a green strip of sea with antiquated show-windows Commander in Chief of the and the seat of the Royal weed floating in a deep blue sea, piled with curious assortments

outlined by a lacy collar of foam Bahama Islands," reads the of Governor.

The name of the island was where an angry surf is always of all they carry, with antique ficial announcement.

clerks when they are.

not later changed to New Pro. breaking.

coloured-wearing choker col- This appointment to one of vidence, to distinguish it from

The undergrowth along shore lars, showing their Adam's the lesser governorships under the New England Colony city other tropical seascapes, prob whiskers.

trifle scrubby after apple, some with mutton chop patronage of the Crown involves Spain resented this invasion of ably owing to the thin coat of no loss of prestige for the territory that she had not soil covering the windswept former King of England, for thought worth, occupying. She backbone of the faland. this seemingly insignificant post has become one of the most im- portant in the Empire, in the shadow of present-day British events and eventualities.

seems d

WINDSOR'S

descended on New Providence and slew every inhabitant.

*

There will be nothing to re mind the new Governor of the hills rising high above the Riviera and the stony coasts of

Boney nags hitched to carryalls, buggies and buckboards with an 'na- nortment of Fords of various vintages stand along the sidelines. Negroes lounge at every corner. And there are many shops that are strictly the outgrowth of tourist traffle. True, at either end of this somnoleat colonial setting, they might have seen from of days, the other the last word in the sea two great hotels, one ancient

wank

Spain and Portugual where they George Street-named after one of The procession moves on up have sojourned so long. Wild Edward's lilustrious ancestors-t5. pecans, century plants, dusty the top of Mount Filzwilliam, where Sur- flame trees with brown pods standa Government House. handing almost within reach, rounded by its 10-acre park, it is and dwarf green bay trees bor striking edifice. der the roadway on the drive into the town.

Gimcrack villas of black na- tives with tanks on the roofs to

Here again, is the ubiquitous touch of America, in the form of a statue modelled according to instructions. from Washington Irving. A bucen- neer wearing slouch hat at rakishi

This is specifically true in the case of the Dako of Windsor who, for a generation at least, has been Britain's Number One During the following 50 years, liaison figure. As the Prince of the Bahamas served only as a Wales during the First World hideout for pirates and bucca- War and after, Edward won neers. They began by assault the popular affection of many ing the Spanish galleons loaded Americans. The Duke of Wind with gold and silver filched gor is a "good mixer," perhaps from the American aborigines. the best that England ever had

The treasure ships came and the friendliness of the United States must be kept in directly from the Spanish Main and Panama, and, like modern a fluid and flacnt condition.

shipping, had to pass somewhere Furthermore, the appointment among the hundreds of Bahama catch the precious rainwater, angle und M toga. It is labolled, of the Duke of Windsor as 4. Islands.

will be decorated with bunting "Christopher Columbus,”

welcome Colonial Governor, marks begin-

the Duke and Duchess. ning British

The old forts just outside the city

While the Bahamas have not to

Hongkong Telegraph of a $200,000.008 well known actual warfare, they have

Friday, September 20, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE preda "Apecial to the Telegraph" la used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecom SENİ – cations Ordinance, 1936. Such naWI * bears the indication “UP** la received in

present war.

than more

NEW POST

hours

of

Doubtless the presence of a once benefited by of Nassau will feebly remind him of fare programme, decided upon

Government Just before the outbreak of the the incidents of strife. Ameri- the outworks of the Empire. They royal couple at

the enter Nassau via a meandering street, House in Nassau will add to the can Loyalists fled from

quaint four-square pust Southern Colonies when the white all with elaborate green shut- attractions of that winter re- Declaration of Independence was ters and copses of Bougainvilla and sort. It will certainly be a boon

At Bay Street, made. They brought with them hedges of hibiscus. their retinues of slaves and to. they d the majority of the 70,000 to tourist traffic.

population of their entire domain

them. There Kether may be said to represent waiting for

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The arrival of the Duke and Hongkong on the date of publication by Duchess in Nassau will be the serva all rights and forbid republication, first visit in the Western Hemia the ancestry of a considerable black people to one white person,

the United Press Associations, who re-

either wholly or la part without previous arrangement.

Mr. Winston Churchill

Mr Churchill has lived an adven- Tuous life as

cortespandeni. soldier, student of mliitaży

wer

phere since the King abdicated,

The reciprocal feeling between America and England is further- ed by the near proximity of the Bahamas. It is just a ferry experienced parliamentarian, Cabinet trip overnight. Twice a day a minister, and mail of letters. ic belongs to a fairly old family.

plane flics between Miami and His great ancestor, John Churchill, was Nassau, making the trip in a one of England's most famou

oldiers

history,

The Duke of Windsor will

in the time of the late Stewarts, and couple of hours. he himself is now undoubtedly the man of the hour, with a mighty re- sponsibility resting on his shoulders. A few years ago he wrote a book under the title of "Great Contem poraries.

and

govern an enormous area, for the Bahamas comprise 3,000

in which he sketched the islands, islets and cays, stretch- characters of súme ing out for some 700 miles along twenty-one outstanding men who have been familiar figures in

Florida shore. Spanish the the public life of Europe, and #11 this

owners by discovery made no appraisal of his contemporaries, Illuminating as it is, brings to light use of the islands. with even Greater brillance the chirueter of Mr Churchill himself. Ponce de

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the Leon began natural romantic tradition of the Ba- hammas that the Windsors are continuing, by twice traversing them in search of the Fountain than of Youth, just after his dis-

That Mr Churchill genus for friendship and a spontane our readiness to acknowledge what he owes to his friends is clearly seen in these sketches, and there is per haps no better way of bringing out

this fenture of his character

by quoting a few extracts from his į vienments upon the personis portraits he has druwo

whose

covery of Florida. Some 170 years elapsed before a settle-

In his view, Bernard Shaw is ment was made by Europeana. "saint, sage, and clown," and "the

greatest living master of letters in:

Another Englishman, Captain

the English-speaking world." He is Sayles, in 1667, sought shelter

of opinion that Joseph Chamberlain

"revived in the Tory parly the lu- in a beautiful harbour of one of spiration of Disrnell, and made the world-sprend peoples of the British

the larger islands. He called

Empire realize that they were one, the island, Providence, for it

and that the future lay in acting on this knowledge." Or Sir John French he says that "the advance of the British Army across the Murne under French's orders decided the immense battle which saved Paris." He pronounces this to "one of the greatest military events in all history," und says that Sir John is entitled to his share of the glory. Julu Morley was one of his older

FUNNY SIDE UP

Sage, 1904 by Damné Fiches žymėklas done on

YKAS

"That's the boss' son

WHERE JAPAN

ELSE GET

By Abner Dean

||REPOGST

starting at the bottom!"

CAN OIL?

TAPAN is in desperate need such as she has never before other then those controlled by the

cantemporaries, "the representative JAPAN At in when experienced in her

of great doctrines, an actor in his- torle controversies,

man

of action, on

master

He quotes a few say- amount.

some

More than ever now Japan will

It may bring many noted visitors and bind new ties that may add to the prestige of Britain. It may turn. an unfavourable trade balance Into an asset for the first time in decades, But what will all this mean to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor?

In point of honour, it is a very minor

job in the British Empire, usually offered to an older public figure who has won rotirement to bask his remaining days as a figure- head in the tropical min.

Naming the Duke of Windsor as "Commander In Chief" as well as Governor- signifies that he will be Commander In Chief of local defence.

As Governor, the Duke will con- trol less than 50 Inhabited and some 2,956 uninhabited islands. The cus tomary governor's yearly salary is $10,000. He will be assisted by an Executive Council of nine and a Re-- presentative Assembly of 29. The real job seems to be that in which all countries are now engaged-try- ing to balance the budget, and only piling up a deficit,

In 1938, imports exceeded $4,000,- 000, and exports were around $700,- 000, Government revenues

were 523,278 pounds sterling: expenditures 540,274 pounda, In this War Year of 1940, the figures are not expected to be anything like so mildly un- favourable,

When he isn't working on the Budget, how will the Duke and Duchess fare for entertainment and amusement to which they have been for so long accus- tomed? During the winter, there 'no doubt will be given some. Isplendid routs at Government

House.

And during the season, Paradisc Beach on Hog Island is no less gay than the Lido used to be. There is shooting and fishing all over the Islands and inlets. The Colonial Hotel was never a slouch at doing the right thing up brown

It was.

as "a'sincere patriot, a wise, grave, pratis is a singularly. ¡}}~/piril. There is no ban, as yet, on Acids in the Dutch East Indies.Market, whence comes the island'a

These

are

or immediately re-

Occasionally, perhaps, one may dustry to step up production.

And the Duke and Duchess strolling ot to quote her Foreign Minister, sident Roosevelt slams down his organising Japan's own refining in-

Russia, world's second largest oil about quaint Nassau, pausing to rest English prose, a statesman-author, a Japan is "confronted with a trial ban on the export of aviation repository of vast knowledge in al-

spirit to countries outside the producer, could help Japan. But the beneath the broad shade of the where the Western Hemisphere.

Sphinx in the most every subject of practical in-

Kremlin is hardly great silk-cotton tree terest," Of Asquith's opinion he

duct as soldier and subject will long To carry on her war with China, likely to smile on Russia's old enemy. buccaneers are said to have baztered, Which leaves the Dutch East In- and a hundred Negroes will rise and. says that, in the prime of his life serve as an example to all." Of the and without embarking upon further "they were cut in bronze, and vast second he promises that "when I go adventures, Japan. requires

dles, fifth among the all-producing bow to them. countries of the world. knowledge, faithful industry, deep

to Heaven I shall try to arrange a 5,600,000 tons of oil a year.

They too may climb Queen's Stair- thought were embedded in his na- chat between him and Socrates on Up till now the United States has ture." Lawrence of Arabia had "a full measure of versatility

of the

af to follow."

some subject not too recondite for me been supplying four-fifths of that look with longing eyes at those case of a hundred steps and visit About 1,900,000 tans a year wealthy Islands beyond the China Fort Fincastle carved out of solid. genius. He was a savant as well as ings from his private sheaf of, Bal-ihas come from the Dutch East Indies, Seas, strung fike.. beads along the rock. They may linger at the Tele~, a soldier, on archaeologist as well as fourlana. "Asquith's lucidity of style

But it is unlikely that Japan's Equator, which supply, nearly three phone Exchange locating the exact accomplished is a positive disadvantage when he

Again, Mr. present war effort will be appreciably per cent of the world's oll produce spot where the old Slave Auction scholar as well as an Arab partisan has nothing to any."

more than the Block used to stand; when idn-2,000,000 barrels the retarded

consequence

called Vendue House... a mechanic as well as a philosopher.

Churchill remarks that he has found United States' ban, because the Pre- total oil output of Rumania.

Refineries serve all the producing He greatly admired Earl Birkenhead

They will surely visit the Sponge pessimists are sident's deeree concerns only aviation it helpful, "when

to remember that Balfour sober-minded

capable of supplying principal income and the sisal mar statesman, a truly

crude oil exports. great jurist, a scholar of high attain-

sald: contrived world. but not so Il-con- n's imports of high-grade avia-Japan with the obtained sport the ket where the coloured mamamles are

Japan's

obtained ments, and a guy, brilliant, loyal,conu

trived as that.” When

offering a hundred articles of dyed he visited tion spirit, refined and ready for use, has up till now lovable being."

walk for an Abre. Just a short Balfour during the last months of have never been considerable. In Japon, who stands twentiell in other look into the Sea Gardens He has something to say about the latter's life he "saw with grief fact, those imports have been less Celementare mors, includ och the approaching departure of a being then, one per cent. of her total all has for some time past been making perhaps and then finally they may

the old prison that is Alphonso Trotsky high Of the first mentioned he says this: I observed him regarding with In the first nine months of the desperate efforts to provide for the the Public Library,

long-foreseen oll shortage. Back In The velour of his spirit and the calm, firm and cheerful gaze the ap- prenent war Japan imported 230,000 1034 law was passed requiring all It all seems trivial somehow from an Bome peoples' point of view. But shrewd sagacity of his judgment proach of Death, I felt how foolish barrels of aviation spirit from the importers to keep in storage were of the highest order. Fortune the Stoics were to make such a fuss United States (Brillain's imports were amount of petroleum equal to one- not if the Duke of Walder buttwil lighted his crest." Of the last-men- about an event so natural and so 443,000 barrels).

to play the part of Britain's Goodwill tioned he remarks that he was "am- Indispensable to mankind,” bitious, and ́ambitious in quite a There is space for a comment upon embarked upon a new adventure,

"The Times” of London" remarks, common worldly way. All the col-

8 great personage. lectivism in the world could not

V. M. Churchill had this sumption V.

of aviation, spirit, she But Japan's immediate problem well receive the news of the rid him of an egoism which amount to say in harness to the last he would need a much greater quantity now would seem to be to extend and merit of the Duke of Windsor, as full ed to a disease

left behind him an example and an of high-grade oll.

accelerate her refining plants, so that of welcome significance at a time Coming, back to his own people, inspiration to all concerned in the She Mr. Churchill' trents of Earl Halg, government of men." This series of AND so the men in power in Japan imported crude ell can be converted when events in Europe, and the

Into the highly refined, "knock-free friendly interest of their great neigh Arthur Balfour, Curzon, and Snow-portraits certainly furnishes an in-in her hour of destiny

bour in the north, have demonstrated their high importance in the inter- den in a sympathetic and plentant alght into the character and qualities with the alternative of attempting to aviation spirit,

Froom Tyler mander. Haig's "character and con- of the artist himself,

obtain aviation spirit from sources

national reckoning."

pi

above the common run. requirements.

United States.

from the

But there is no doubt that if Japan half of their annual importa,

Intensive and expensive efforts Envoy to the Western Hemisphere! of the late King accessitating a vastly increased cor-have been made to produce oil from The Weat Indies as a whole may

tire faced

coal.

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