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"Jim" and "Bob." Informality is the order of the day in the House of Commons.
Recently, Mr. J. H. Thomas, in ad- dressing the House, referred to "the Hon. Member for Plymouth,"
"Sheffield, Jim." said Mr. Baldwin, sitting by his side, and speaking in n voice that could be heard all over the Chamber. And nobody seemed at all surprised.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933.
THE METEORIC RISE
OF MONTE CARLO
TWINS WHO SWINDLED
PARIS BOURSE
FORTUNES WON AND LOST
(By BRUCE LOCKHART)
Money is now being apont on en-He educated her, they got married A similar Incident occurred in hancing the traditional attractions in 1864. She was his faithful help-
Half a million mate to his death. Lady Astor's early days in the of Monte Carlo.
House. She was searching, in the pounds' worth of improvements Francois remained in Homburg course of a speech, for a passage will be made in the Sporting Club. until 1870. It was a period of un- in Hansard, but could not find it. If, like myself, you find gambling precedented prosperity. Yet he had In desperation she pushed the dull, that will be half a million his anxietics--trouble with the volume into the hands of Lord wasted as far as you are concern- shareholders, trouble with the Robert Cecil (as he then was) and ed.
Landgrave, threats from black- in a penetrating whisper pleaded, į "Do find it for me, Bob."
Your Daily Smile.
Tet, whether you are lured or mailors and desperate losers, and, repelled by the Amusements of most dangerous of all, loases to Monte Carlo to-day, you cannot fail successful gamblers. to be interested in the history of
On September 26, 1852; · Prince that unique town's rise from Charles Lucien Bonaparte came to
three days and then returned to
A bashful youth had been pré-cluster of miserable fishing huts to Hemburg. In three days he won sented to a. vicacious flapper, and a place of glittering palaces, luxury 180,000 francs. He stood aloof for for ten minutes he sat speechless, hotels and expensive villas. growing redder and redder and more embarrassed.. At length the girl said sweetly, "And now let us talk of something else."
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That history, which is In essence the tables for a last sitting.. tale of two brothers, has just first he lost. Then the luck turn- been told in fully documented formed, and within a few hours he won in a remarkable book published by 560,000 francs, with which he had She was not nearly so young as the firm of Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, the good sense to be content. and called "Die Zauberer von Hom oho pretended to bo. He was 1
Eight years later Thomas Garcia, well-known comedian and was beburg und Monte Carlo." The
ļa Spaniard, terrified' the share- ginning to be rather bored by her author is Egon Conte Corti, who' gush and affection. "Do you know," wrote "The Rise of the House of holders by winning 800,000 francs. Bhe gurgled, "one of my greatest Rothschild,"
friends used to be a comedian?" "Was it Dan Leno?" he asked-and there was an appalling silence.
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The Prusso-Austrian War of 1866 was the first real spoke in
wrincess
Garela, however, could not' koep jaway from the tables, and in the end the bank recouped its losses.. On December 12, 1806, twin sons, Among the famous players who were born posthumously to Marie visited Homburg were Lasalle, the Therese Blanc, the widow of Claude aristocratic-looking German the burden of a depleted She dispatched the following te Blanc, a poor tax-collector, in a clalist, who appeared at the tables The carrying Robespierre's cane; Federal Indian treasury? These legram to five of her husband's best village close to Avignon.
friends; "Jack hasn't come home. twins, like
tho as pens both in ap-Paganini,
groat violinist; questions are reasonable.
The Am worried. Is he spending the pearance and in character, were Garibaldi and Dostoyevsky. Native States as distinct from night with you?" Soon after this christened Louis and Francois. four were losers. the British provinces have clung her husband arrived home and ex- Their godfathers were a hosier! to their institutions and indi-plained the cause of his delay, and a shoemaker.
While he was talking a boy brough viduality, a desire always sup-in five answers to her telegrams al! | Louis and Francois received a ported by Britain. They are an worded: "Yes, Jack is spending sound education, grew to manhood, Blanc's roulette wheel. Bismarck and tried their luck at various had made up his mind to put down important element in conglomer- the night with me." *
forms of business, mostly of a gambling, and Blanc, determined The final plenary session of ate Indía, comprising, as they
The superintendent of a lunatic speculative nature. Card-playing, not to risk another centime in the Indian Round Table Confer- do, more than a third of her area asylum directed one of the inmates to which they were early addicted, Germany, turned his eyes else Princess Caroline of Monaco had fence dissolved in an atmosphere and nearly a quarter of her popu-to whitewash the walls. The pat-supplemented their income, and in of hope. A distinguished dele-lation: The tyranny of their ient did as directed and performed 1884, at the age of 28, they open-
the Gerruan gambling centres. Sho gate of the Hindus said that the rulers has been tempered by Bri- reason he neglected to whitewash Bordeaux.
a very creditable job, but for some ed a small banking business in accome inspired by the success of decided that a ensino was the best British Government had been in
Their business was mainly in means of relieving her own im- not releasing h. advice, and they prefer. the the space over the clock. That's |
Very soon British supervision to anything very well done," said the official French rentes.
thepoverished subjects.
Here was the opportunity for Gandhi from prison. His capti- which national congresses and when he returned to inspect. "But twins realised the importance of
why did you leave that space over early information. In those days Francois Blanc, and he seized It vity is self-sought. His release round table conferences may the clock?" "Oh, I don't believe in the Morse code was not. in with both hands. He took himself would have in no way affected the offer. A writer in a recent num-working over-time," was the ready existence. Between Tours and and his vast Homburg fortune to progress of discussion. Probably ber of the "English Review" says response.
Bordeaux, however, the French Monte Carlo In 1866 afone he Government maintained for its own spent more than two milion francs many of his compatriots felt that that they are alarmed at seeing
messages a system of aerial on laying out, streets, gardens and his absence was a blessing in dis- administration falling more and
harbours. signals. guise. Mr. Gandhi's obstinacy more into the hands of native
The profits speedily, justified bls. By bribing the various telegraph expenditure. Monte Carlo was to and fanaticism are not helpful to Indians, whose equipment is no
Enforcement of a strict ban on signallers between Tours and Borbe a bigger success for him than negotiations, the aim of which is stock of traditions, much theory,
and little practical knowledge. smoking on the miles of Port of deaux to insert a single false let Homburg. Within two years the a reasonable compromise. Lord Eloquent rhetoricians deride the London Authority docks has led to ter in the Government code mes-
of 2,886,000 francs on a capital of Sankey, optimistic by nature, notion of a "United States of a rapid increase in sales of chewing sages the Blancs were able to ob-annual profits had reached the sum
tain information regarding the rise
8,000,000 franes, SAN voiced the wish that when the Europe." They overlook the in- gum from vending machines.
convenient fact that in India for
After the Franco-Prussian War Select Committee meets in April, greater diversities of race, reli An airplane built by a Kansas Bourse many hours before their Binne never looked back. The aris- Mr. man has two wlags on each side on competitors. At the same time, tocracy of all Europe, headed by delegates will be able to give a gion, and culture exist. definite assurance of entry into Gandhi, who in some respects re- the same level, the pilot being seat- simple system was devised to keep the Prince of Wales, came to Monta
If French rentes tell by 25 centimes Carlo Hotels sprang up like mush the proposed Federation of India. sembles Mr De Valera in out-ed in front of the motor, which the Tours telegraphist well posted.
look, has advanced a claim, on drives a propeller in the rear. He may be over-sanguine. There behalf of India, for a fantastic
the Blancs employee in Paris sentoms. In 1874 the profits rose to
|8,000,000 francs. are only two months to go, and sum alleged to be due on account Eggs laid by hens on a Berlin him a small packet of ties. If the there is much to be settled. The of British spoliation. The de poultry farm drop through nests to "rentes" rose, the packet contain *
Nothing, perhaps, illustrates 80 well Blanc's acumen as his loan to. report of the Simon Commission mand is fantastical. Neverthe a travelling band, which carries fed gloves.
less, Britain owes India a bigger them to a place where they are an- For three years the system work the French Government in 1874 to recommended Federation as the thing than can be reckoned in tomatically stamped with the date.ed without a hitch. The Blancs enable it to complete the Paris only expedient capable of weld-money. It is responsibility for
reaped richly. Then came ex Opera House. For him it was a ing India, "a geographical expres- the future. Britain rescued India German scientists are experi-
posure.
good-Investment in two senses. His sion," into a political entity, of from a turmoil of civil war, reli- menting with a device to protect
On his deathbed one of the brib money was safe, and he could count gious vendettas, and invasion. growing vegetation from frost with which the substance only has Britain cannot, in justice to the fogs produced by dripping dissolved officials confessed, and the twins on the goodwill of the French been maintained by the British inarticulate multitude she has beed sulphur trioxide into drums of were brought to trial at Bordeaux Government, whose co-operation Raj. General principles for a friended, and upon whom she unslaked lime. Federation may be easy to frame, has bestowed relative prosperity but details are apt to prove stim and security, withdraw safe-
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and fall of rentes on the Paris
They quoted in self-defence the was essential to the comfortable precedent, of the Rothschilds, who transport of visitors to Monte Car had their own system of signals. 10.
And, although declared guilty of In 1876 he married his elder
hurdles. The Australian colonies guarantees. The many millions Three cases of mail-pox were bribing 36 Government officials, daughter Louise to Prince Constan- were hoinogeneous in population of increased population which notified to the Health Authorities they suffered no further punish tine Radziwill. The next year he ment than the payment of the costs died at the age of 71 from the neth- and traditions, but Federation British administration has on Monday
of the action. They left Bordeauxma from which he had long, auf- brought into being and nurtured, was not brought about by the cannot be deserted. "Mother In observance of the Chinese New but kept their gaine. fered. His wife survived him by four years, after marrying her se- stroke of a magician's wand. One India," left to herself, can be a Year, no publication of the China
cond daughter, Marle, to Prince of the impediments to the Feder- very hard mother, and it is Mail will be made to-morrow. To- For a time the brothers stayed in Roland Bonaparte, a nephew of the ation of India is the attitude of doubtful whether Brahmin day and Friday only one edition will Paris, where they frequented the Charlos Lucien Bonaparte who had
bureaucrats, supersessors of Bri- be published,
numerous gambling clubs then in broken the bank at Homburg near- the Native Princes, who, so far tish, would make her dispensa-
existence. When, in 1887 Louis ly thirty years before. A day from having any quarrel with tions kinder. Thoughtful Indiana Kowloon is now to have a foreign Philippe suppressed public gam Francois Blanc left close on four the existing regime, are reluctant recognise this. The government dentist of her own. Dr. John Lan-bling, the Paris gambling-house million sterling an immense for
tune for those days. The Press of to depart from it. Lord Sankey of India is one of the biggest pro-chester, who comes from South keepers flocked to Germany
blems that has ever confronted Africa, has commenced practica at CRA said that their interests would be man. It will not be solved by con-82: Nathan Road; first flood Dr The Blancs then took their big the time gave huge lines to his preserved. Subsequently the ferences or recriminations of Lanchester is well qualified. He is decision. They, too, would obtain will, which provided generously Maharajah of Nawanagar, better spectacular fasts by a Mahatma, a licentiata in Dental Surgery of the gambling concession. They went both for the poor and for his Cathi- which become tedious by repeti- English, R. C. S. 2nd has also the to Homburg, then a small town ad-lic priest, who received a million
ministered by Landgrave and france. known in cricket circles as tion, but by a spirit of co-opera-American degree of Doctor of Den-heavily indebted to the bank of "Ranji,"
i," and possessing the con- tion: Who has refused to co-tal Surgery (N. U. Chicago,)
Rothschild. In 1888 they obtained The return of tofifiable diseases January 21, fidence of his own people and of operate? Not the British their concession, and, because of for the week end
who may be accused of having A fancy dress dance is to be held their energy, and their skill in buys gives the follo the British, asked for enlighten- exceeded the liraits of generosity at the Kowloon Dock Recreation
diphtheria cases ment on several points. Will the Not, the illiterate ryote, pea- Club to-night, commencing at 9.16 lug phbicity, the venture was 22 canen
enteric fever -zycases; paramountcy of these Princes in sants, who constitute about two o'clock, The Blue Rhythm
but paratyphoid thirds of the population, and only Orchestra will be their own realms and their treaty want to be left alone. The chi charges are
Vin (meningitia rights with Britain be maintain merical aspirations. Swara $1 for ladlease Evening dress is op-his second
Will they be required have been the stumbling block: tional.
Dance
endance. The. and
success from the start
Louis Blanc died in 1849,
anew pas
daughter of
ases 8 deaths erperal fever I case, death; tuberculosis 47 deaths