(Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1930)
London, Aug. 31.
Everyone commented on the photograph of the King—a close-up of head and shoulders—as he drove from Euston to the palace on his return and character which have replaced the diffident, uncertain look of the man who came to the throne nearly three years ago.
No less retiring was George V when he first became King. There is a story that when he, as Prince of Wales, was asked by his father, Edward VII, to be in attendance to see some foreign dignitaries, he replied "I don't want to see the brutes and I don't suppose they want to see me." The likeness of the present King specially in the upper part of the face, to his father is becoming very noticeable, And as the personality of the one developed, so does that of the other,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.