: THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
NOVEMBER ..... 25,
1935.
HYDE
PARK
PROTEST
WOMAN CLAIMANT TO £3,000,000
An anti-naxi mesting was recently arranged in Hyde Park, London, as
a protest against the Judith lewa 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 por reported to be in a sanatorium in Germany, may or may not attend in person to establish her claims, which are supported by some, laughed at by others.
sons addressed the meeting. The picture shows a 91 years old woman peaking.
PEIPING'S
GARDEN
OF REFUGE
YOU PICK YOUR WIVES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
Tientain, Nov. 15. Photographs of young women--- 17 of them have just been posted in front of one of Pelping's most unusual institutions, the "Garden of Refuge and Protection."
Should you want a wife and he 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 suitablo 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 win established by the Peiping Bureau of Social Welfare several years ago as a sanctuary to which oppressed and mistreated women could flee and claim pro toction. Slavo girls, brutally
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 late 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 Siberin.
(Signed)
"Anastasia Tschaikowsky.”
Super Timepiece
Of World Never
Varies A Second
London, Nov. 1-1.
A clock that will not lose or gain more than a fraction of n second in a year is to be installed at the Royal Observatory. It will be recognized as the world's super timepiece.
Controlled by electrielty, its pendulum will swing in a par Lini vacuum at constant, tens perature, and a series of electric impulses will be given aut 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-brothola-by-callous. lovers or father-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-
ROCKET INVENTED
LINDBERGH BACKS U.S. PROFESSOR
Whether she is here or not, those who oppose her claims will present this statement before the court:—
"We hereby declare ourselves Girmly convinced that the woman bearing the name of Mme. Tschaikowsky is certain-
ly not the Grand Duchess Anas-
tasia Nicolaievna.
(Signed)
The Grand Duchess Xenia,
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, ware killed when a transcon- tinental airliner crashed near Choyenne, Wyo. Among the victims were Vincent K. Butler J., left, San Francisco attorney and wartime flyer, II. 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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sued his wife Fleurette at White Plains, New OF ALL GOOD STORES & CHEMISTS: The Grand Duchess Olga. York, to-day, for separation.
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-
He alleged that she assaulted him at a country club and in his office, using "vile, insulting lan-! guage," tearing his clothes, breaking his eyeglasses;
It was necessary to call the
Fourth Voyage
under, her husband and 1st of police to quiet her, he added, and Of A
the Czar, died in France in 1933,
The Grand Duchess Olga is the youngest ainter-of-the-Caur.
The Grand Duke Dimitri, aged forty-three, is first cousin of the Audrey Czar. In 1926 married Emery, of Cincinnat!, Ohic, who was granted the title of Princess Ilyanskn.]
The property Mme. Tschaikowsky claims has been, in the keeping, of the State of New York since 1926,
many times when they met in the street her actions caused a crowd to gather..
enness.
Famous Ship
ANTARCTIC
Mrs. Reilly counterclaimed for separation. She accused her husband of associating with a 20 MONTHS IN THE woman named Mary Corona, and said he took other women to
The Royal Research ship Dis Atlantic City hotels. She added)
on her fourth voyage to the An- an accusation of habitual drunk-covery 11. 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 Experiments with a rocket 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 plunged again into the same sort struments 50 miles or more trator be appointed na supervisor attempted to throw her out of the
a window. of life from which they escaped.above the earth's surface have of the estate.
won the approval of Col. Charles Many prominent society people Lindbergh. On his recommen-here support the claimant's story.
od and the women are "on the mar-Rosswell, New Mexico, Oct. 12.
ket."
Great care in taken, however, to designed to carry scientific in-requested that the Public Adminis- in New York and Paris, and once continent, making observations on
insure that the women
are not
shop-
A prospective bride-groom Is re- quired to provide strong guarantee, Chinese equivalent of
posting a bond, stating that he dation, it was announced to-day, that she alone escaped the butchery Drive To
will not mistreat his wife, sell her to a brothel or desert her. For a year or more after the woman has left the institution, she is visited from time to time by an investiga- tor who sees that she
is being well treated.
Tragic Stories 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.
the inventor, Professor Robert Goddard, will continue to receive the financial support of the Gug genheim Foundation.
in the Siberian cellar.
"Left For Dead"
Princess Xenia of Greece, the former wife of William Leeds, was Four years ago
Dr. Goddard,
so sure that Mme. Tschaikowsky who had been experimenting with was one of the children she played rockets for 20 years, established with in Russin's royal palace that his laboratory in this lonely desert she had her as guest in 1928. region, where he knew he could
Mr. Gleb Botkin, son of the per- work undisturbed and without dis- 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,
Stamp Out Lynchings
distribution of whales and conditions along the ice edge and nt the junction of the Antarctic water water with the warmer further north.
She will make calls at Australia and New Zealand and the Falkland Islands, returning to Cape Town a short rest next June. After she will return to the south for a further senson's work, returning home early in 1937.
Bates Of An Industry In the 1985-36 survey the scienti New York, Nov. 15. Lynching is on the increase. fic officers will continue their into the stocks of Fourteen negroes have been observations dragged from prisons and whales which form the basis of the hanged in the first nine months southern, whaling industry, their of this year. This is only one abundance, distribution, Ille his- Bolshevists and relatives fewer than for the whole of tory and migrations.
Details of the programme of 1934. of the Czar dispute it. Russlan
for 1930-37 have not yet 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 ing in Pelping on account of hor 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 fight, .but has succeeded on several occasions in sending into the air a 12ft. metal projectile which leaves the ground at 700
writings humorous and romantle sketches which appeared daily in
As
one of the vernacular papers. her fame spread, her suitors in creased until at laat one won her favour. Once within his power, she was taught to smoke heroin, m.p.h. all her earnings were taken, and This rocket is driven by a high- finally after a gambling bout, hely explosive mixture of liquefied, sold her to a brothel-keeper.
oxygen and petrol. Its vertical Knight-errant reporter friends direction is maintained by a gyro- of hers, Anding her in the I-fa-scopo, but the details of its con- voured house one night, conspired struction still remain a closely to abduct her and take her to the guarded secret. Garden of Refuge and Protection, which she now leaves hoping to make a fresh start:
Modal Wives
Those in charge of the Garden say that most of the 200 girls and women now there can look for ward to marriage, or at least to Economic Independence following a trade learned thore. And final ly, naking the man who has one, has convinced authorities that theso re-conditioned brides make
model wives,United-Prena.-
behalf of the Government,
mittee, acting on this offence.
In 4,950 lynchinge that have Falkland Islands Mme. Tschaikowsky's story taken place in America since 1882 under instructions from the Secre will be that she was wounded there have been only a handful of tary of State for the Colonies.
Mr. G. R. Deacon, MSc., will be and left for dead after the exe convictions. A Bill was intro- in charge of the scientific work, cution of the others. Through duced in Congress early this year and the ship will be under tho the loyalty of the man who be to give the Federal Government executive command of Lt. L. 0. came a Bolshevist, she was the power to act where State HII, R.N.R. smuggled 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 Attempts to lighten the burden and crew of the Royal Research escape with him to Bucharest.
of the negro are now being made. ship William Scoresby, now In had a son by him, he was killed in White, negro secretary of the commission in the Antarctic. She She married him, and after she The chief crusader in Walter active preparation for her ifth
the Rumanian capital.
Association for the Advancement will leave in a few days to resume Real Test Planned
During her three years in of the Coloured Peoples.
experiments in marking whales to their obtain information as to During the week-end Col. Lind-America the woman who says sho
migration. bergh accompanied by Mr. Harry was born the Grand Duchess Anas- E. Guggenheim, acting as repretasin Nicolalevnu, was tempera sentative of the foundation, were mental and quarrelsome, even with the guests of Dr. Goddard, who those who befriended her. Her de demonstrated the Intest results of parture in 1931 was made in great his research work. They were so secrecy. impressed that they decided he
should be given, the opportunity Washington, predicted to-day that to, proceed beyond the experimen- Dr. Goddard was on the ove of making Important discoveries in tal stage.
Dr. C. G. Abbott, secretary of regions above the stratosphere the Smithsonian.. Institution in which are inaccessible to balloons.
bas thrown his influence into the fight.
"Collective Murder" Paul Robeson, the singer, and James Weldon Johnson, poet, have spent time and money in a con- certed effort to stop lynching, and
Nearly 90,000 crusaders are con- Clarence Darrow, America's great- Liberal lawyer, Senators Wagner stantly touring the country, but Governor the, white man's fear of the negro and Costigan, and Lohman, 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 dis-
form of collective murder," respectfully to a white man.
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