Who’s Who and Why

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 213, 23 August 1927, Page 7

Who’s Who and Why

PRINCE NICHOLAS, of the Rumanian Royal House, one of . the three Regents who, on the death of King Ferdinand, are to rule for 13 years till Prince Mihail, now five, is of ageNicholas is the King’s second son. He ts only 24 years of age.

MR SUN FO, son of the great Chinese revolutionary leader, Dr Sun Yat Sen, who founded the Kuomintang, or Cantonese, Party, and was the fir si president o f the Chinese Republic. Mr Sun Fo is himself a very prominent member of the Cantonese Government.

FATHER RONALD KNOX, the novelist, is the fourth son of the Rt. Rev. E. A. Knox, late Bishop of Manchester, and is 39 years of age. He was educated at Eton ana Oxford, and was a Fellow and Lecturei at Trinity College in 1910. He was appointed a chaplain in 1912, and resignea in 1917, in which year he entered the Church of Rome.

M. RAYMOND POINCARE, French Premier ana Minister of Finance, is now 67 years of age. He was President of the Republic from 1913 to 1920, and has been three times Premier. He is a Doctor of Law and first became prominent in Frcncl politics in 1886 when he was Chiej of the Cabinet. H< was an advocate o] the Ruhr occupation policy.