The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-08
KING GEORGE CUTS
CHURCHILL OFF HIS
.ACQUA|N TANCEL|S
Administers Sharp Rebuke To Home
Secretary After Tilt Over Signing
of State Papers. and Tells Him
To Stay Away.
Churchill Is Not Only Cne of King
Edwards Favorites To Be Ban
lshed From Court.

LONDON. Dec. king George is
reported on the highest court author
ity 10 have cut Home Secretary Win
ston Churchill of the list of his &C
quaintances-offlcially as we'll as so
cially. Ii there is business TO pass
between them, il must be through an
intermediary. The king is understood
10 have told Premier Asquith he would
never see Secretary Churchill again
As matter OF legal right. Asquith
might have forced George TO revoke
this order. but that would have Great
ed "a mighty scandal and the kins
would certainly have had the sym
pathy Of his subjects in demanding
that he pick his own acquaintance.
The quarrel between his majesty
and Churchill is said to have arisen
from the formers habit OF reading
over personally every state paper sub.
mitted to him TO sign. Inasmuch as
the home secretary must have vast
number OF papers signed by the king.
this entailed "A great loss OF time. So
when he laid IA big batch of papers on
the kings desk. Churchill remarked.
Significantly that they were merely
routine-which was true-and need
not be- read George replied with a
solemn rebuke for such careless bus
mess methods. Upon this. Churchill
whose worst enemy has never accused
him of lack of confidence in the in
fallibility Of his own Judgment. is
said 10 have responded tartly tn I the
kings business was To sign what pa
pers mis- ministers laid before him.
and that ii really made no particular
difference whether he ever read any
of them.
Instantly. so the gossips say, his
majesty bounded out of his chair with
ID flow of language he learned in his
early days in the ROYAL navy. and or
dered Churchill out OF the place
ordered MIN 10 stay out too, as long as
George V was on the throne
Churchill is not the only one OF
hing Edwards iavorites who has prac-
tically been banished from court
Most Of them. though saw what was
coming and went of their own accord.
Sir Ernest Cassel. Edwards intimate
and business MANAGER is utterly dis
credited. Those who used TO go 10
him OH Blended knee for social ad-
Row Sir Thomas Upton will not come
near the court again; he is too shrewd
to expose himself 10 certain snuh.
Lord Marcus Beresford maintains IA
Discreet retirement among his horses
at Newmarket. Mrs. George Keppel
has gone for voyage around the
world that will occupy two years. Mrs.
Hall Walker, wife of the multi-mil-
lionaire brewer and racing king, is
staying quietly at her country home.
The old, staid nobility has come
back into it's own. The court is ex-
actly as il was under Victoria, fifty
years ago. At Balmoral all the lights
go out at 1890 AT night. In the even
ings. about the time Edward was get
ting ready for his game OF bridge,
George and Mary are putting the chill
dren to bed. There will be no scan
dial in this reign.
Germany's Secret Service 5ill.
Germany spends S3,9v0,000 annually
on the secret service staff ii main
tains in France. according to book
called The German Spy System in
Europe" by Paul Lanoir which has
just been translated into English.
Lanoir says the spies are recruited
from all classes and generally serve a
probationary period in Germany be-
fore they are sent abroad. Herr Site
Der founded the system. Lanoir as
serts, before the Franco-Prussian war,
travelling all over the country getting
reports from his 800 agents without
being suspected, and with his two
chief lieutenants accompanied Gen.
Won Moltlle when the first tr,.inload
of German invaders occupied France
in 1870.
One of the most important duties
OF the German spy the author declares