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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1985,
WOMAN CLAIMANT TO £3,000,000
An anti-nazi meeting was recently arranged in Hyde Park, London, as
* protest against the Jadish laws in Germany. Over 100,000 people were
ESTATE OF CZAR
"I AM THE NEXT-OF-KIN OF NICHOLAS II"
SAYS SHE WAS LEFT FOR DEAD WHEN OTHERS WERE KILLED
New York, Nov. 10.
A temperamental woman, who claims to be the only
member of the Russian Royal family who escaped from the slaughter of the Czar, his wife, and children on the night of July 16, 1918, and is, therefore, the sole heir to his American estates, worth nearly £3,000,000, will try this week to get the law to sanction her claims.
Mme. Anastasia Tschaikowsky, who was last
present and many well-known per reported to be in a sanatorium in Germany, may
Don addressed the meeting. The picture shows a 91 years old woman speaking.
PEIPING'S GARDEN
OF REFUGE
YOU PICK YOUR WIVES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
Tientsin, Nov. - 15.
or may not attend in person to establish her claims, which are supported by some, laughed at by others.
Her New York lawyers do not yet know whether she will be able to reach here when her case opens, but, here or not, this statement will appear before the court:-
"I am the daughter and sole surviving heir-at-law and next of kin of the lato Nicholas II. My father and mother, Empress Alexendra, my brother Alexis, and my three sisters Olga, Tatiana and Marie, were killed in my presence at Ekaterinburg, in Siberia.
(Signed)
"Anastasia Tachaikowaky."
Photographs of young women Super Timepiece
47 of them have just been posted in front of one of Peiping's most ́unusual institutions, the "Garden
of Refuge and Protection.”
Should you want a wife and be unable or unwilling to pay the usual go-between's fee, the thing to do is to go to this board, choose one from among the pictures of the Garden's "graduating class." then approach the authorities, and If you can prove that you are suitable matrimonial material yourself, the wedding can be ar- ranged and everything set for the "happy ever after" fadeout.
The Garden of Refuge and Pro- tection was established by the Piping Bureau of Social Welfare several years ago as a sanctuary to which oppressed and mistreated women could flee and claim pro- tection, Slave girls, brutally
Of World Never
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London, Nov. 14.
A clock that will not lose or Rain more than a fraction of a second in a year is to be installed
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the Rayn! Observatory. It will be recognized as the world's super timepiece.
'Controlled by electricity, its pendulum will swing to a par- ilal vacuum at a constant tem- perature, and a series of electric impulses will be given out each time the pendulum swings.
The electric impulses will con- trol the dials and mechanism.
treated wives, girl servants whose 700 M.P.H.
mistresses abuse them cruelly, girls sold to brothels by callous- lovers or fathers-all these can find a haven in the Garden.
On The Market
At the end of six months the Hames of prospective graduates are submitted to the Bureau of Social Welfare for approval. This secured, the photographs are post- ed and the women are "on the mar- ket."
are not
insure that the women
Great care is taken, however, to plunged again into the same sort of life. from which they escaped. A prospective bride-groom la re- quired to provide strong shop- guarantee, Chinese equivalent of posting a bond, stating that he will not mistreat his wife, sell her to a brothel or desert her. For a year or more after the woman has loft the institution, she is visited from time to time by an investiga- tor who secs that she is being well treated.
Tragic Storics
Dramatic and tragic stories are told by the girls who apply for re- fuge. The best known is that of one of the 47 gaduates this month, Miss Liu Ho-ying. Although quite young, Miss Liu. is famous. A year ago she had a large follow- ing in Poiping on account of her writings humorous and romantic sketches which appeared daily in one of the vernacular papers. hor fame spread, her suitors in- -creased until at last one won her favour. Once within his power, she was taught to amoko heroin, all her earnings were taken, and finally after a gambling bout, ho sold her to a brothel-keeper.
Knight-errant reporter friends of hers, finding her in the ill-fa- youred house one night, conspired to abduct her and take her to the Garden of Rofuge and Protection, which abo now leaves hoping to make a fresh start.
ROCKET INVENTED
LINDBERGH. BACKS U.S. PROFESSOR
Rosswell, New Mexico, Oct. 12.
Experiments with a rocket designed to carry scientific in-
Whether she is here or not, those who oppose her claims will present this statement before the court:
"We hereby declare ourselves firmly convinced that the woman bearing the name of Mme. Tschaikowsky is certaío- ly not the Grand Duchess Ånas- tasia Nicolaievna.
(Signed)
The Grand Duchess Xenia. The Grand Duchess Olga. The Grand Duke Dimitri. The Grand Duke Alexander." [The Grand Duchess Xenia, aged sixty, is a sister of the Czar and a cousin of King George. Lives at Windsor. The Grand Duke Alex- ander, her husband and cousin of the Czar, died in France in 1933.
The Grand Duchess Olga is the youngest sister of the Czar.
The Grand Duke Dimitri, aged forty-three, is first cousin of the Audrey Czar. In 1926 married Emery, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who was granted the title of Princess Ilyenkka.]
The property Mme. Tschaikowsky claims has been in the keeping of the State of New York since 1925,
MYSTERY PLANE CRASH
The Standard Oil Co. transport plane shown above was sought by planes and ground crews In Utah, after it failed to reach the Salt Lake City Airport after radioing for information. It. is still missing Meantime, 12 persons, including crew, were killed when a transcon- tinental airliner crashed near Cheyenne, Wyo. Among the victims were Vincent K. Butler J., left, San Francisco attorney and wartime
flyer, H. A. Callison, pilot of the airliner.
Hauptmann Counsel Sues His Wife
New York, Nov. 10.
EDWARD J. REILLY, former chief counsel for Hauptmann, the Lindbergh baby kidnapper,
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guage," tearing his clothes, breaking his eyeglasses.
It was necessary to call the police to quiet her, he added, and many times when they met in the street. her actions caused n crowd to gather.
Voyage Of A.
Famous Ship
Mrs. Rellly counterclaimed for separation. She accused her husband of associating, with a 20 MONTHS IN THE woman named Mary Corona, and said he took other
enness.
women to
ANTARCTIC
Atlantic City hotels. She added The Royal Research ship Dis- on her fourth voyage to the An- an accusation of habitual drunk-covery II. left London last week tarctic. She will be away about She said he threw her on a 20 months.
After calling at Cape Town she when Prince Serge Romanovsky, a dance room floor, assaulted her cousin of Russia's royal family, in two ocean liners and in hotels will circumnavigate the Antarctic requested that the Public Adminis- In New York and Paris, and once continent, making observations on distribution of whales. and struments 50 miles or more trator be appointed as supervisor attempted to throw her out of
conditions along the ice edge and above the earth's surface have of the estate.
a window.
at the junction of the Antarctic water water with the warmer further north..
won the approval-of-Col. Charles |— Many prominent society people Lindbergh. On his recommen- here support the claimant's story dation, it was announced to-day, that she alone escaped the butchery the inventor, Professor Robert in the Siberian cellar. Goddard, will continue to receive the financial support of the Gug- genheim Foundation.
"Left For Dead"
Princess Xenia of Greco, the former wife of Willian Leeds, was so sure that Mme. Tschaikowsky was one of the children she played with in Russia's royal palace that she had her as guest in 1928.
Four years ago Dr. Goddard, who had been experimenting with rockets for 20 years, established hiu labaratory in this lonely desert region, where he knew he could work undisturbed and without dis- Mr. Gleb Botkin, son of the per- turbing other people. His early sonal physician of the Russian successes with flying machines of royal family, also supports her this kind had aroused the interest claim. of Col. Lindbergh.
Bolshevista and relatives.
Drive To Stamp Out Lynchings
the
She will make calls at Australia and New Zealand and the Falkland Islanda, returning to Cape Town a short rest next June. After
she will return to the south for n further season's work, returning home early in 1937.
Bases Of An Industry
New York, Nov. 18. In the 1935-36 survey the sclenti- will continue their Lynching is on the increase.fle officers
into the stocks of Fourteen negroes have been observations dragged from prisons and whales which form the basis of the whaling industry, their hanged in the first nine months southern of this year. This is only one abundance, distribution, life his- fewer than for the whole of tory and migrations.
Details of the programine of of the Czar dispute. it. Russian
1934.
for 1986-37 have not yot Now Americans in all walks of work royalists and Communists will rub Since then Dr. Goddard has not shoulders during the trial, which life are urging a campaign for the been finally decided. The work is only perfected a device for auto-will bring many refugees and not-enforcement of the penalties for controlled by the Discovery Com matically stabilising the rocket in abilities into the witness-box. flight, but has succeeded on several occasions in sending into the air a 12ft. metal projectile which leaves the ground at 700 m.p.h.
This rocket is driven by a high- ly explosive mixture of liquefied oxygen and petrol. Its vertical direction is maintained by a gyro- scope, but the details of its con- struction still remain a closely guarded secret.
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bohalf of the mitteo, acting, on this offence.
Islands Government, In 4,950 lynchings that have Falkland Mme. Tachaikowsky's story taken place in America since 1882 under instructions from the Secro- will be that she was wounded there have been only a handful of tary of State for the Colonies.
Mr. G. R. Deacon, M.Sc., will be and left for dead after the exo-convictions. A Bill was intro- cution of the others. Through duced in Congress early this year in charge of the scientific work, and tho ship will be under the the loyalty of the man who be to give the Federal Government executive command of Lt. L. C. came a Bolshevist, she was the power to act where' State HII, R.N.R. amuggled from the death cham-authorities failed to prosecute, but The departure of Discovery II, ber, and eventually made her, Southern senators defeated it. will be witnessed by the officers escape with him to Bucharest, Attempts to lighten the burden and crow of the Royal Research of the negro are now being made.ship William Scoresby, now in She married him, and after she The chlof crusader is Walter active preparation for her fifth had a son by him, he was killed in whito, negro secretary of the commission in the Antarctic. She the Rumanian capital.
Association for the Advancement will leave in a few days to resume Reaf Test Planned
During . hor three years in of the Coloured Peoples.
experiments in marking whales to obtain information as to .their During the week-end Col. Lind- Amerten the woman who says she
migration. borgh accompanied by Mr. Harry was born the Grand Duchess Anas- E. Guggenheim, acting as reprotasin Nicolaievna, was tempera-James Weldon Johnson, poet, have Those in charge of the Garden Bentative of the foundation, were mental and quarrelsome, even with upent time and money in a con- say that most of the 200 girls and the guests of Dr. Goddard, who those who befriended her. Her de-corted effort to stop lynching, and women now there can look for demonstrated the latest results of parture in 1931 was matte in great Clarence. Darrow, America's great ward to marriage, or at least to his research work. They were so secrecy. · economic Independence following impressed that they decided he a trade learned thero. And final-should be given the opportunity Washington, predicted to-day that ly, making the man who has one, to proceed beyond the experimen- Dr. Goddard was on the ove of has convinced authorities that tal stage.
making Important discoveries. In these re-conditioned brides make Dr. G. G. Abbott, eccretary of regions above the stratosphere modol wives.United Pres*. the Smithsonian Institution in which are Innccessible to balloons.
Model Wives
"Collective Murder" Paul Robeson, the singer, and
has thrown his influence into the fight. Nourly 90,000 crusaders are con- Liberal lawyer, Senators Wagner atantly touring the country,' but and Costigan, and Governor the white man's fear of the negro Lehman, of New York, have also continues to be expressed by taking the law into his own hands. In joined the fight.
President Roosevelt, who has some parts of the country negroes described lynching as "a vile are lynched for speaking dia- form of collective murder,"respectfully to a white man,-
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