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"This photo was takèn just after Mr. Stanley Baldwin made his first speach as Premier at the hard of the National government. Recently succeeding Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, he paid tribute to the work of his predecessor. The speech was made at Himley Hall near Birmingham, and the Prime Minister (right) is shown with Mrs. Baldwin, the Earl of Dudley and Earl de la Warr in that order.
VIENNESE TREASURE
COUNTRY'S CLAIM
TO CROWN
DETERMINED FIGHT
Vienna, June 29, Vienna is waging a determined fight to keep her treasures from falling into foreign hands.
After the war, various European States laid claim to historical trea- surea, Italy taking away many paintings from Vienna's famous Historical Art Museum-
The latest claim to raise great wrath among the Viennese comes from Yugoslavia.. It is for a cele brated king's crown in the Vienna Treasure Chamber, the so-called "Bocskay Crown."
{ war, bat Austria was able to defend exile with other Hapsburg 'trea-
her rightful ownership,
Burea.
JULY
1835
that economics rather than politice
TRI-PARTY and strict observance of the
ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
[OCCIDENTAL, NATIONS NOT INCLUDED
NORTH CHINA TEMPTED
Tokyo.
Tangku truce of 1988, was the loaven back of the recent Japanese demanda.
With docllaing sales of Japanose manufactured goods In'a number of areas and Manchukuo consuming about all she can digast at the time, North China, rich in agri- culture but poor in industry, offers opportunities.
Briefly mentioned in the scheme is the possibility that North China |might grow cotton for the Chinese factories and thus Japan would be- come an important consumer to help the whole scheme along.
On the heels of the latest Sino-in the grounds of the old aummer With cotton growing and bearing Japanese controversy, has come
palace West of Peiping, few doubt propokal from Hainking that all that the area can produce cotton hands concerned make some money if scientific methods are employed.
LOOKING AHEAD
Hainking takes it for granted that Occidental countries aro not concerned and consequently aug- The plan 'looks far ahead. It is gests a tri-partite economic bloc. the idea of Japan and Manchukuo
Under the proposal Japan, Man-that Chinese be pleased at the ar- chukue and North China would in-rangement. Chinese farmers would have a market for their produce, vest in joint enterprises on a large for their mining products and scale, divide the profits and thus make prace something desirable on all sides,
Since this bloe is not to include Occidentals, their role at present is one of watching to see how the Chinese react to the proposal,
In some circles the proposal has been described as "profit on platter" and the name circles say that such a dish is seldom spurned by the Chinese, .
ment
steel works would have an outlet Japanese manufactures including
for their wares.
Japancae textiles made of Chinese cotton would replace tho homespun now worn by North China. Japanese steel made from Chinese ore would be sold where bridges and buildings are needod, Eventually, however, steel and cot- ton mills might dot the landscape.
clear
So confident la the Hainking government of the ultimate accept- Just where Manchukuo would ance of the proposal, that it has benefit has not been made sent some of its economic experts except for the profits to be made to Tientein, to survey the posal-by the Investora. Manchukuo is bilities of profit by a great develop-independent agriculturally and has
company. Manchukuean, an abundance of iron. The Crown, of Turkish workman.
Japanese, and Chinese capitalists The matter has not come to the An announcement has now been would invest in such company. ship, is of gold, pearls and precious
point of arranging detalls and the stones; not lesa in importance is published by the Director of the The experience of the South Man- letting of contracts for more rail- tho Persian Hining which was i Vienna Treasure Chamber, Pro- churla Railway in communications, roads, telegraphs and cotton mills. exhibition (essar L. Planincig, stating that the mining, manufacturing and organ!-Those things will come when and Serbian crown was never in Vienna,sation might be used if the plan is if the sinking proposal which is "Bocskay Crown" has accepted. The South Manchuria favoured by the Japanese army in that the nothing to do with Serbia and the might, under amendments to its Manchukuo, is accepted by year 1870 is well known as a bad corporate rules, become the prin- North China province year for art experts
elpal Investor and the general leader in the enterprise,
recently placed in an apart from the Crown.
According to the Yugoslavian art expert, Professor Ivic, the Crown was last worn by the Serbian King Lazar who fell in battle in 1389 after which it was handed over by the Turks to the Prince of
to the
Siebenburgen, Stephen Bocskay; that the latter was forced to give it
Hapsburg Emperor Matthias II at the Peace of Vienna in 1600, since when it was kept among
the treasures at
Viennese Court.
SEARCH FAILED
the
Ho further admitted that page 73 of the 1870 catalogue stated that the Slavs believe the Crown dates from 1389, but that modern art experts regard the crown is dis- tinctly baroque in style, putting its
[date at about 1000, and it therefore could never have been worn by the Serbian King in 1880.
Professor Planisclg - belloves the Professor Ivic further states Crown WA given to Stephen that on page 78 of the Viennese Bocskay, Prince of Siebenburgon, a Royal Catalogue of 1870, the Crown | Bufellite of the Turks in 1605. la described in detall but that in After the Hungarian revolt against his search throughout the Vienna Rudolph II, It was handed over to Treasure Chamber, it was nowhere Vienna in 1610, and all he can say Yugoslavia is now the third to be found. He therefore sup- | is "that the 'Bosckoy Crown' is the country to claim this crown; poses that the Austrian authorities property of the Vienna Treasure Rumania and Hungary both de have hidden the Crown or that Chamber and romains in Vierina." manded it immediately after the Emperor Charles took it away into United Press.
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The provinces envisioned being principally affected by the plan are Hopel, Shansi, Sulyuan, Hsinking's proposal has caused Charhar, Shantung and possibly some foreign observers to believe Honan-United Press.
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