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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1934.
LONDON AIR MAIL LETTER
(From Our Own Correspondênt)
London, July 20.
A week next Wednesday the notice to quit given to tenants of the Hofburg-Vienna's Bucking- ham Palace--expires, and another obstacle to the restoration of their property to the Habsburgs which Dr. Dolifuss has announced will be removed.
NEWS FROM CHINA
KWANGTUNG
BUDGET
Figures For June Issued
The Canton treasury has issued Incidentally, it furnishes another the detals of the budget for June. example of that peaceful penetra- Receipts for the government were tion of Austria by the Monarchists 85,635,366.05 and expenditure was to which I have previously defer- $5,02054,3.49. red. The most recent minor inst-provincial government were $6.- The receipts for the ance has been the replacement of 405,802.34 and expenditure was the emblem of the Republic by the $4,323,454.74. -- old Imperial eagle,
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CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY
As from the 15th August trains No. 1 and 2 will be altered to ex-. press. These trains will only stop at Sankal, Yuentam, Yibgtak and Chiukwan The train now goes as far as Lokcheung.
300-YEAR OLD TORTOISE
In the district of San Wool near
a tortoise with a silver plate on Ngai Pung Hills a small boy found 2's back. He took it back to his father who deciphered a text, "Re- Receipts included Salt Tax $390,- | leased by Chan Kwan. in the 14th 138, Customs surplus $193,750 Or-year of Wenit? This would be to- dinary stamp taxes $150,827. Towards the end of the 17th century. bacco taxes' drew. #715,915, Optum The tortose was replaced where it $310.285, Wine tax $480,211. Loan had been found. from Merchants $927,000.
Dr. Dollfuss' proposal to in-. demnity the family will, however, be a colossal task. The Republic confiscated not only the dozens of Habsburg palaces and castles, but. over 250,000 acres of valuable agricultural, mineral, and forest
Among the items of government land.
expenditure are Military Head- Moreover, some personal passes-quarters $4,406,061, Chung Shan sions can never be recovered. The University $128,000, Supreme Court Imperial libraries and collections $4,092, Headquarters incidental of china, jewellery and plate were expenses $7,000. pilliged. The royal trains were sold secretly to Jugoslavia by the former Master of Ceremonies. The homes in the Imperial stables were killed and eaten by the mob. Even the Empress Zita's plang "was found in the private apartments of the 'Socialist Chancellor Renner. An Unique Collection. Since the Rennaissance. the The extensive Habsburg posses Habsbudgs had kept examples of sions in Tuscany were bought by the uniforms of their armies, do- the Italian Government at much mestic servants" liveriek, and the more than their real value. The ceremonial dress of their court Duce himself generously compen functionaries. This priceless col-sated the Empress Zita for the lection of period costumes was sold famous Villa D'Este and the Castle to a Hollywood dealer for a song. of Cattaro.
In neighbouring countries the Habsburg possessions suffered the following various fates.
Among the items of expenditure of the provincial government are Law Courts, $1,909, Education De- partment $42,048, Revenue Depart- |ment $38,968, "
Jugoslavia and Roumania.- for the ways of the sea and ships. 75,000 acres confiscated.
Mr. James Bacon is the Rear- Hungary-Fossessions preservCommodore of the Club. He owns
the str-metre yacht Finetta.
ed intact.
Poland-Large areas of agri- cultural land confiscated but afterwards returned.
"British Bridge Pair for V.S. Two well-known `bridge plagers. Mrs. Goron Evers and Capt. Czechoslovakia-Property cov-Ewart Kempson, are sailing in the ering 370,000 acres, and several palaces, including the Hradchine at Prague, confiscated without compensation.
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Aquitania next week for the United States to compete in the Master Pairs Championship Tournament. They are to be the guests in Am- erica of Mr. Hal P. Sims, the wall known authority on the game.,
It is, I believe, the first time à British pair have gone from this country to take part in what is one of the senior bridge events of the American year.
Mrs. Evers captained the team of women which recently won the Lady Milne Cup in brilliant fashion. With Lady Peacock as her partner, she won the Pairs Championship at the St. Leonarda Bridge Congress this year, and she has a number of other cups and trophies in her possession.
Capt. Kempson, who has done much to develop the game in the North of England, has played in many Arst-class matches and tournaments. He and Mrs. Evers are partners of long standing.
FLYING TERRIERS
Part of the proposals which Mr. Baldwin is to eutline for the ex- pansion of the RAF will con- cern the provision of more Territ orial squadrons.
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These are the cheapest form of home defence and ought to appeal to adventurous young men.
They can get there the finest flying training in the world at no cost to themselves,
As we subsidise light airplane clubs to secure a supply of pilots for home defence among other purposes, would it not be possible to make willingness to serve in the Territorial Air Force a condi- tion of the grant?
Young men who join, would pro bably be willing to agree to serve
Mr. J. F. R. Mitchell Is the eld- est son of the Commodore. He is a first-class all-boat sailor and amateur hand.
M C. A. Boardman and Mr. M. A. Bellville were formerly partners in a six-metre boat, Nada, and during the early part of this sea guard of the Shamrock son they formed part of the after-
Mr. David Kemesley shares a **ata-ton cutter, Vals, with ni oro-
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Mr. Nigel Warrington Smyth, Mr. R. Droop, Mr. Jake Martin, Dr. W. F. Richards and Mr. A Bacon They learnt their siling on the are all members of the Corinthians,
East Coast and in the Burnham river.
Mr. W. de Quincy, the Cambridge undergraduate, has been racing this summer aboard Mr. C. R. Fai- res's Shamrock.
Mr. Colin Patser is a member of the famous sall-making family. He is one of the finest amateur hel- msmen and deck hands in this country.
None of these young men has had much experience of racing aboard a large vessel such as E deavour.
But with their knowledge of sailing they will soon adapt them-" selves to their work
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NEW SHAKESPEARE CHIEF Mr. Bridges-Adams, who retires at the end of the year, is to be succeeded as director of the Shake" speare Memorial Theatre at Strat-
Payne. ford-upon-Avon, by Mr. B. Iden
For the last 20 years and more Shakespeare in America. Mr. Iden Payne has been producing
tion, which opened yesterday, of He has just supervised a produc- "Cymbeline" for the World Exhibi- tion at Chicago..
I remember Mr. Payne, who is now 33, when he was one of Miss
Manchester. Horniman's clever young men at
He played parts in the earlier Shaw plays and made himself ge- nerally useful.
He is, an Old Bensonian.
- LONE CLIMBER
While one cannot but admire the pluck of Captain Maurice Wilson
in the auxiliary squadrons for an attempting to climb Mount Ev- given period as pilots holding Commisions, in return, for the fin ancial assistance the Government give them through their ahplane club.
erest alone, his training methods seem to have been partictdarly. -judged. It is said that he has been fasting for five months and Kad accustoming himself to a diet of ALL ABOUT PARLIAMENT
dates and cereals. The Government have decided to undertake the publication of the History of Parliament.
An announcement to this effect is expected from Mr. Chamberlain tomorrow.
• There will be a condition that the research and preparation work is undertaken and paid for with out State aid. This work is at ready well advanced under the dir ection of Colonel Josiah Wedgwood. An appeal for subscriptions will be issued shortly,
There is a feeling among ent- husiasts for the history that the recent purchase of the Cottex (for which the Government are provid Ing 241,440) has robbed them of more generous Government sup- port
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