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HERE THERE
EVERYWHERE
PEACE-TIME NAVAL COLLISIONS
Until recently no collision be
Nave has tween large ships of the Navy taken place since the war, and fortunately the misadventure in which the Hood, and Renown, two of Britain's greatest fighting shipa, were involved does not appear to have been serious.
During the war, however, when large numbers of big ships had to
A THRONE ABOVE A VOLCANO
PROBLEM OF AUSTRIA
AND HUNGARY
CAN
HERE BE A HABSBURG
RESTORATION ?
(By Count Alfred Hessenstein)
Habsburg's name has appear-jemparor, ruling from Frankfort, the NINCE he came of age Otto ofà German Empire under a Habsburg
manouvre together, with all lights ed scores of times in, print. But old Imperial, residence. masked, at high speed and often in Otto himself has never made a In Hungary conditions are difer narrow waters, collisions were not statement in public. Reared in the ent, Hungary to still a monarchy, infrequent, though fortunately none spirit of the rigid etiquette of Spain the Crown of St. Stephen symbolis of our capital ships was actually and Vienna, he was taught to poning for, ten centuries the sovereign lost through this cause.
der his words. He is content to re- rights of the people. The Regent
acts on behalf of a king to be elect The Archduke bases his claim to fed and crowned by national decision"
war conditions.
The German fleet, too, had many main behind the scones, such accidents, which may, indeed, be regarded as inevitable under the throne of Austria-Hungary upon as soon as the nation may be fres lawful auccession by inheritance, to act independently of foreign his father, the late Emperor-King pressure. The movement is well, THE VICTORIA DISASTER ·
Charles, never having resigned his organised; the Hungarian aristo- sovereign rights..
cracy, patriotic, wealthy and ex- The greatest disaster to the Bri At first, the very idea of restora-perienced in political matters, are: tish Navy in peace time was the tion seemed fantastic; The Powers, leaders trusted by the people, b sinking of the battleship Victoria fearful of international conflict,
As an internal problem the mat- on June 22, 1809. De
were dead against it, the border ter has been dealt with by the Bill She was rammed in the Mediter-States of Austria and Hungary, of 1920. This stipulates for the.. ranean by the: Camperdown and successors to the dismembered separation of the Hungarian King--. sunk with a loss of $21 officers and monarchy," were unpleasantly dom from Austria as a sovereign. men, including Vice-Admiral Sir menacing, Austria had blotted out and politically independent state... George Tryon, Commander-in-Chief the Imperial title and established a The will of the nation is expressed.. of the Mediterranean Fleet.
republican government; the monar-by the two Houses of Parliament,..
whose decisions become operative
Admiral Jellicoe, who was execu-chy was apparently doomed: tive officer of the Victoria at the time, was rescued from the water.
Your Daily Smile!
Otto appreciated the position. immediately, the Regent being ene He stayed in the dark. Only a titled to proclaim laws, but not to: handful of Austrian and Hungarian sanction them.
royalista kept in touch with him and The Bill does not refer to any one- his mother. His father's tragic individual as the fature bearer of “And he sex to me, 'Alf, he ser, give fate, after an unsuccessful attempt the crown, me a sentence without a verb,"
at a restoration, had taught him)
Two Solutions "Easy," I nez; "how about thirty caution. "The pear was not yetį
ripe." He could not wait
The Sermon
A strange minister was
What He Wanted
Minor, Matter"
"Look here, wal
about to
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There are but two ways of solving the problem to the satisfaction of the majority of the population The anti-Austria and anti-Habsburg. The pear did ripen, in part The Independent national party decline
cause.
Socialist Failure.
nate.
be particu-impossible, but at any rate it apple pleater, is this peach bi come again Royalists at heart a Bill was voted cancelling his riglit
"No, I can't."
can't you tell from the taste?" "Well, then, what difference does make?"
· NULLAH MURDER
EXECUTION
it
and greater international prestige After King Charles's second un caused numbers of Austrians to be successful attempt at a restoration:
In organising resistance against to the Throne of Hungary lacki
This the menace of Nazism and Socialism however, by no means excludes at home, the late Chancellor Dall-possibility of a Habsburg King. A fuas tried to set up a new national the time of the Bill Hungary was ideal. Inspired by the former ander the pressure of the Allied Chancellor, Seipel, the new ideology Ambassadors, who, in their turn, was rooted in tradition and in the were influenced by the States bor- memories of the great days under dering on Hungary. The law is not the Emperor Francis Joseph.
regarded as being the expression of In the face of internal resistance, the free will of the nation, and no the movement spread hesitatingly, Hungarian politiclan would use it: but the anti-Hitlerites rejoiced, be as a political weapon. This BillTM lieving they had found an efficient will, therefore, In no way influence remedy perhapa a lasting bulwark, the nation's Anal decision. against the German Nationalist
somebody coming in to his days'?”. ground, and it is not reasonable for him to be surprised if he finds that the fence is effective in preach as candidate for a yacancy in "Keys To Depression keeping people outside. That is a Scottish church, and the beadle ask downfall of the Austrian Socialists to accept in advance a settlement Just what these tariffs and ed him, "Are you a paper miniater?" pillars of the republican regime, that would recognise legitimism. The candidate replied that he usually and the dispute between Germany They hold that since the death of The farewell dinner given by quotas amount to. Retaliation.
and Italy over the Anschluss were Emperor. Charles, Hungary, follow his Chinese friends to the Hon. by erecting another fence does read his discourse.
"Oh, that's a richt, then. When G. G. Blackie, who reviewed the nothing to encourage movement, man has a paper wesken that he'll end indirect causes that helped Otto's ing a very old tradition, may pros causes of Trade Depression in either of men or goods, even if where the paper ends."
ceed to a free election. Candidates: Disappointment with the Austrian to the throne may, they say, ber his last speech as Chairman of it be considered necessary in the the Chamber of Commerce, mark interests of the "balance of Pay Prof: "I want a little attention." ticularly in matters economic, and eign prince or an Hungarian mak- republic's feeble achievements, par- either a Habsburg archduke, a for- the. departure of one who has ments," which without an inter-
Voice from Rears "You're geiling an the longing for a stable government been in an exceptionally good national currency system ceases ttle as possible position to watch the eddies to be automatic. It may be of declining trade in the needful for solvency to make the last few years, and whose entry of goods difficult or even
should diagnosis larly interesting.
Mr. Mackie does not give work to those whose reminded us of the overtrading business it is to carry goods of 1931. which left large stocks either by land or water. At the not disposed of, to act as a mill-present juncture Hong Kong en- stone round the neck of cur-joys a double claim to fame; we rent trade. But presumably the are the only community that has merchants who ordered the preserved genuine free trade, goods did so from calculations and we are the only community that were justified by their ex- that is on a genuine metal basis perience. "Overtrading" is only of currency. Even what is call- the reverse side of "undersell-ed the "gold bloc" is only sup- ing."
Unless there was exces-porting itself on that basis by sive and unwarranted speculation restrictions, and even by loans, we are no nearer to an explana-that are of very doubtful utility. tion of why it was impossible all Difficult as it may be to hold A verdict of death by Judicial creed. But in the main it was the of a sudden to sell what would on for better times, there is at hanging was returned by the jury at generation that had taken part in have been considered a suitable least the consolation of nothing Magistracy yesterday into the death ernment officials, always Royalists the Middle Ages supports, the Habs
the Inquest Hold at the Central the war, officers, magistrates, govtinuity since the Turkish wars of stock even a few months before.that there are others in worse of Ng: Lol-yuen," alias Ng Yick-lam, at heart, who responded to the callburg claim to the Crown of St. And although the clearance of plight than the shipping-com- bankrupt stock does upset the panies of the Far East. What an allas Ng Yick-san, whose execution The young people who knew nothing Stephen. The majority consider the late Emperor's son the 'lawful" market while it is going on, four incredible bit of news would have took place before dawn. yesterday of Europe's once most gorgeous successor to the throne, and demand": years: seems to be a long term been to our fathers the liquida-for the murder of Michael Pine, Court, remained Indifferent. to allow for that operation.-
tion of the White Star Linet aged seven, on September 7, last movement of a more vigorous nи- With surplus stocks on hand In their day the ordinary shares year.
ture, mystic, violent, nationalistic Mr. W. Shofield eat as Coroner to excess had already stirred their will of the nation must be formally
But most of them agree that the " one might expect that any new of sach companies as the White circumstance that favoured the Star and the Royal Mail were while the jury comprised Messrs. E. hearts.
{expressed by a majority of voter buyer would be a bull point; and thought of, like the shares of the R. Price (Foreman), Ling Man-
in Parliament-not a plebiscite the rise in the value of the great Railways, as preferable to and Tong Sik-ming.
Such is the tragic conflict in the and that coronation by: the Cardinal. Shanghai dollar, and of silver Government Stock, because they Mr. Harold Barrett, Chief Warder coinage generally, might have were equally sure and paid bet at Victoria Gaol, said that deceased Austrian mind. Proud of their old Primate of Hungary is another civilisation, they yet feel that Aus- essential constitutional require- been expected to increase sales. ter dividends. Looking back was sentenced to death on Septem-tria's great mission as a civilising ment.
Inquest On Body Of Condemned
FORMAL VERDICT
Je
Conficting Ideas
A
___ Legitimist Claims Legitimiste urge that lawful con
that he be crowned as Otto II, King. of Hungary.
It is, of course, true that a rise over three generations it wouldber 7 laat year, and executed accord nowar in Eastern Europe has, since All political parties accept the in any country's currency will seem that they would have done ing to law at 6.03 am yesterday in the dismemberment of the manar view that the Crown can only be tend to make it more difficult to better to pay only equal divi- the presence of witness, the Medi- chy, come to an end.
[placed upon the head of the can-· sell that country's products. But dends and use the surplus to cal Officer of prisons and the While men of a mature age, still didate elected by a majority of the consequent loss of income write off the cost of ships or roll. Superintendent of Prisons. He faintly remembering the old Prus votes. The adherents of free elec will take some time before it ing stock; but what a bowl or later identifled the body as that of sion-Austrian conflict, are hostile to tion would compel an Archduke seriously affects the purchasing protest such a policy would have prisoner 809, Ng Lol-yuen. Germany under Prussian hege- from the Habsburg House, should power of any large economic aroused! In any case the lesson Dr. G. I Shaw, medical officer of mony, many of the young genern- the nation decide in his favour, to unit, and in the interval exist-of the recent meeting in London, Victoria Prison; sald ne believed tion, intoxicated by the ardour of swear on oath that he would make ing stores of capital can be pro-in which the shareholders were death was instantaneous. He saw the pan-German movement, plead use of his sovereign rights only 28- fitably used to pay debts or buy informed that there was no the body immediately after the for union with Germany. Only a Apostolic King of Hungary. raw materials from the outside chapce of their getting a penny, hanging and again at 5.30 a.m. and few hope vaguely for the return of (Continued on Page 11) world. If fewer dollars have to and clamoured for a forced in-¡pronounced life extinct.
He con
be given, a lower export price stead of a voluntary liquidation ducted a post-mortem on the body can be quoted, and the balance in the hope that this might pro-later in the morning."^"s" rights itself, The higher value duce sterner measures, is the
of silver is an injury to those danger of High Finance One Wolff, of Belfast; and It, seema who have to pay rent or to re-recalls the enthusiasm of the extraordinary that, the pur- ceive money from abroad, bs sale at a gigantic price to the chasers did not reflect that the cause they have no means of holding company sponsored by Interest of that firm was in build- "passing it on," but that should the late Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan: ing new ships and not in running not apply to merchants or manu- and later on the Immense cen- old ones, An industry is only facturers except for the short tralisation of the White Star, the safe when it is run by men who interval required for adapting
Royal Mail, the Union Castle, and are trained to it, and devoted to their price levels.
other companies. In these big thing I MANAGEME Of all industries the Shipping Rotations what is bought is
Trade will reviva when people business ought to be in the best goodwill" that is based
are left to buy and sell where position to indicate exactly the dent
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