Colossal Damage Wrought

Northern Advocate, 27 October 1938, Page 7

Colossal Damage Wrought

(Received 3.0 p.m.) LONDON, October 27.

The Hongkong correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” estimated that the damage to Canton is at least £100,000,000. Damage to steel works, the arsenal at Hanyang, cotton spinning and other factories at Wuchang is estimated to exceed £30,000,000.

sentative on inter-departmental conferences convened to consider various, and sometimes acute, international

questions. But duties of a more popular, or anyhow more general charcter awaited him, and for many opportunities to enable a Prince to work with heart as well as brain which soon presented themselves, none was grasped more eagerly than the invitation to become President of St. George’s Hospital, for which he has worked consistently and successfully, and where he is known not only as a constant and informal visitor, but as one who is remarkably successful in inspiring charity in others’ Visits Overseas. After retiring from the Navy, Prince George still lived in Buckingham Palace, but London often called to him when the Court was not in residence that the King and Queen consented to his joining the Prince of Wales at St. James’s Palace. As time went on, the Prince’s name became associated with schemes of varying colour but uniform practical utility in various parts of the country. He undertook a mission overseas, and through South and East Africa inspired affection and commanded respect. When Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, visited Indian in 1875, controversy was long, and rather loud, as to the status in which he should stand towards the Viceroy. The Sovereign was outspoken that the dignity of her official deputy must in no way be prejudiced by her son’s presence; the Secretary of State for India, Lord Salisbury, on the other hand, warmly supported the proposal that the mission of the Prince should not be hampered by disparaging official limitations.

| Meeting With Princess. j With Prince George the question I never arose, or was quickly solved. | The King was content to leave any incidental difficulties to be smoothed I away on the spot, in sure knowledge j that the dignity of the Sovereign j would be the first consideration with i the representative who was alike his subject and his son. j Later there was general regret in ‘ Australia when his projected visit was ( cancelled. But Australia’s loss proved ’ the Duke of Kent’s gain, for in a country which ranks herself as England s friend he found a Princess whom i England, with unmistakable gesture, I has taken to her heart.