THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
18, 1937.
£25,000 A Year For The Duke Of Windsor To Be Fixed By Act Of Parliament, Not Privately By The King
PRINCESS TO HAVE
£25,000
A YEAR
THE KING'S TAX GIFT
TO THE NATION
By A Political Correspondent
A SELECT committee of M.P.s of all parties is preparing the details of the new Civil List.
The committee will receive private communication from the King about a number of financial questions, including the provision to be made for the Duke of Windsor.
The King, I understand, will nodą Normally the King is exempt from make provision privately for the income and super tax, but it is Duke's income, as has been a-likely that, while he is drawing the sumed, but the question will be revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall. dealt with formally by Parliament King George will authorise the in a special Act, in the same way Treasury to lake from his income an as the incomes of other members amount equal to the taxes chargeable on that amount-a gift of at least of the Royal Family.
£45,000 a year to the nation.
Ministers are understood to take the view that an informal, private arrangement would be unsatisfac- tory to the King, the State, and the Duke.
SECRECY
It is likely, therefore, that the select committee-which will sit in the strictest secrecy-will recommend that a payment should be made every year to the Duke.
The amount will be at least £25,000. It may be double this
sum.
The Civil List fixed for. King
Edward last year was for £410,000 a year, against the £470,000 given to King George V, and Queen Mary in 1910. An additional £124,000 was allowed for members King George V.'s family.
I understand that, as there is
now
again a Queen to share the Throne,
the higher figure may be restored, with provision for a reduction so
long as there is no Prince of Wales.
When a Prince of Wales is born, the revenue from the Duchy of Cornwall goes to him. Unili then it goes to the King.
THE NEW LIST
It is the possible birth of a Prince of Wales that is the chief argument against "private" provision for the Duke of Windsor out of the Duchy of Cornwall revenues. This would automatically reduce the sum avail- able for a Prince of Wales.
These yearly payments, I learn, are likely in the new List:
"Privy Purse" of the King and Queen, of which about £33,000
allowed Is
to the
Royal Household salaries,
Queen
etc.
£
110,000
134,000 153,000 Household expenses
13,000 Royal Bounty Personal allowances to members of the King's family will be:-
Queen Elizabeth (if left
a widow)
Queen Mary
The Duke of Connaught
£
-70,000 70,000 25,000
Other Royal Dukes
(married)
25,000
Princess Elizabeth (as
heir presumplive)
25,000
Princess Margaret Rose
(from twenty
one
years of age) Princess Royal
WILL SEARCH
0,000 0,000
TRION RADI That Britain Should
Mr. Attlee. Proposes
Listeners who are able to hear will Seville on their wireless sets have heard the voice of the young lady shown above. She is the an nouncer at the Nationalists' Brond- casting Station.
Jekyll-and-Hyde Murderer
FRENCH doctors and detectives are to combine in the study of the Jekyll and Hyde dual personality that drives many otherwise normal men to commit murders.
Close examination of the facts of the express train murder,
in which an attractive widow was found murdered in a sleeping compartment, leads the Surete General-The French Scotland Yard-to think that the crime was committed by someone with a dual personality.
BRITAIN STRESS
HOME DEFENCE
OF DOMINIONS
Not Relying on Over- Seas Aid in Future
London, Feb. 10. Canadian and Australian soldiers may not be called upon to sall over- seas for the next war.
That is the answer given in well Informed quarters of London to the statement of the Rt. Hon. Willlarg Hughes at a Legacy Club luncheon in Melbourne that air development-had- so destroyed naval supremacy that it would be difficult to ship Australian iroops to Europe in event of war.
Only if the mother country were directly attacked would Great Britain expect the Dominions to send troops, it is said. In event of a war in which Britain became Involved by European commitments, it would not seek man- power from the Dominions.
TWO REASONS CITED This line of argument is based on two basic reasons:
1-It would be too dimcult a task to convey large bodies of troops ncross the world in these days of planes and high speed, tying up too many war- ships compared with the value of the men In modern warfare.
2--The air arm has radically altered war, increasing its tempo so between the beginning of a war and the arrival of troops from overseas would be
the last world. Ight.
that the time lag
comparatively much higher than in
FOR REMAINS Chief Surveyor Of First Byrd Expedition Curious
Furthermore, the geographical line up for war in which Britain might be About Franklin's Fate
involved probably
show would Japan on the opposite side, which New York, Jan. 30,
would
that mean
Australia and The mystery of Sir John Franklin's Canada could do more by keeping 1ll-fated Arelic Expedition of nearly their troops at home as a holding a century ago may be solved this force to prevent any diversion came Spring by Jack O'Brien, chief sur-paign by the Japanese. veyor of the first Byrd Antarctic
Expedition in 1929,
At thirty-seven, O'Brien has pack
HOME DEFENCE VITAL
A glance of the map of the Pacifie
ed about all the thrills there are in-shows how essential it would be for to his life as a war aviator, explorer, Australia and Canada to look to their sand bog, big game hunter and defences and conserve their powers If member of the New York Adven- Japan were fighting on the opposite turers' Club. But he's not out for a side to the British Empire. thrill this time. He's just curious.
and
'All was well in the last war, when "The case has always puzzled me" the Anglo-Japanese Treaty existed ha. to-day.
and Japan fought with the Allies. Nobody knows what happened to Now there is no such treaty and a fair Oui of Franklin's entire amount of friction between the former 'them.
That makes party of 129 officers and men, who alles, it is pointed out. not out in 1845 to find Northwest It Imperative that the Dominion troops "Passage across the top of Canada, should remain on the home front, only a few akeletons were found. unless the United Kingdom were directly attacked. Even then the. time element would make it diMcult for Australia to send troops.
a cairn
MANY EXPEDITIONS "Rescue-expeditions hunted for fourteen years. They finally dis-
It is understood that the British covered a rudely-scrawled diary in government will request Dominion
at Point Victory, King William Island, telling how the ex- authorities to discourage any flow of plorers had deserted their two small volunteers to Britain in event of war, pointing out that all overseas man- ships on April 22, 1840, after they power should be conserved for home had been lee-bound for eighteen defence. months and chronicling the death of Franklin.
What Britain will need from the "But they never found Franklin's Dominions, it is emphasized, are sup- body, nor did they ever account for plies, food and war materials, and 100 other members of the expedithese must be carefully convoyed at tion. There's been only the skimp all costs. That will take enough war fest modern investigation," O'Brich ships but of the fighting line without said, "but I've got a hunch I can and considering the conveying of troop
transporta, observers argue, Ben out what happened to thom
STRANCE MANIA
"In consequence of this case," a Surete General official said, "we that we should investigate together
proposed to the Academy of Medleine
this kind of half-madness.
ap-
"People who commit such crimes under cover of an parently decent existenco are certainly afflicted with a strange mania.
"A special commission, including
.
Share Out The Empire!
"WE MUST SACRIFICE
OUR TOYS"
MR. ATTLEE, leader of the Parliamentary
Labour Party, wants Britain to share the Empire with other nations.
He made this extraordinary proposal-"as an individual," he emphasised-in a speech in Paris recently,
"I do not suggest for a moment," he said, "that there should be a new carving up of the world, but what I do urge is that we should lay aside altogether our conceptions of Imperialism and invite the world to enter with us into the inheritance of the world and use its products for the good of all."
The whole conception of democracy was being re- jected over a very wide area.
This revulsion against democracy was due, in his view, to the failure to make peace after the war. Men With
Out-of-Date Minds
"The peace was made by men with out-of-date minds. They were unable to envisage the problems of the modern world."
He could not, he continued, ignore the importance of influences such as nationality or prestige, but "we in the Labour movement are convinced that there can be no safety for our country in isolation. We are also firmly resolved against being led into alliances in furtherance of policies of power, prestige or profit."
He did not think it possible to obtain closer unity in the League of Nations while the component units were nations which, while allied politically, competed economically.
"We have in western Europe," he said, "a group of de-
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has
on the
"In France we have undoubtedly a number of these dual personalities, and society must be protected from their savage and sudden outbursts."
"Officer in Tower" to
Compose
Mr. Norman Baillie-Stewart, the "officer in the Tower," who has been released from Maid- stone Prison intends to write novels and songs.
BA 7
Offers have been made to him to
to Hollywood Ko scenario writer, but he has re- Jected them.
"During his time at Maidstone he has written a number of songs, and it seems that they are good," mother said.
"There was no fuss about his homecoming. He just arrived back as if he was an ordinary member of the family who had been abroad.
"But there is no doubt as to the welcome our family circle had in our hearts for him."
AMERICA SEEN
FROM 2 ANGLES
BY AUSTRALIANS
Melbourne, Feb, 10. The United States received terrifle flaying, also some bouquets at the Melbourne University debate on the question: "We regret the influence of America.""
The affirmative debaters scored the following points.
America has given the world luxuries but nothing to Improve spiritual or cultural life.
Has established price as a criteron and get-rich-quick as a dogms.
Has debased the potential art of The tim to explait for profit man's baser Instincts.
The negatives, however, balanced up the situation with the following highlights:
America has led the world; in. mechanical Invention and applied science.
Has demonstrated a vitality and enthusiasm worthy of Imitation,
justined its "blustering" by Its sincerity and vitality, wi
Other countries have produced worse.alms,
By popular vote the negative won... -United Press. A
democracy by economic democracy-
"We have in eastern Europe the U.S.S.R., which is, I hope and believe, feeling its way towards adding political democracy and individual freedom to its economic freedom.
"United these form a force which would make any would- be aggressor. think long before attacking, provided they were brought into some real organic unity.
"Is it then my desire that the democracies should unite in order to make war on dictatorships? Does British labour ask for a new
new encirclement of Germany? I answer^ "No." "
Fascism And
Human Nature
Fascism, he thought, was inherently repugnant to human nature, and would inevitably fail, but there was a danger that before it failed it would run amok among the nations.
If the common social heritage of France and Britain were to be saved-
"We can only do so by agreeing to sacrifice some of the toys which we have held dear for many years, such as complete Sovereignty, prestige, Empire, and the rest.
"Secondly, by preaching tolerance, and thirdly, by realising that in the stages to which the world has come there can be no half measures."--Reuter.
Talking
"Baby-Eater"
Makes Women Arrested
Live Longer
In Peiping
IT EXERCISES THE TOO POOR TO BUY FOOD
LUNGS, SAYS A SPECIALIST.
Nice, Feb. 10. TALKING is one of the most hoth-giving pastimes,
Peiping, Jan. 30.
A sensation was created here by the arrest of a man on charge of dissecting a baby corpse with the intention of cooking it for food.
A leading, lung specialist here Questioned at the pollee head-1 points out that many human ille
quarters, the "baby-cater" named result from weakness, or deteriora-Wang Tch-hsiang said that he was tion of
of the lungs.
too poor to afford to buy food and Intensive talking, he declares, had been living upon dead cats, dogs strengthens the
Junge.
and other things which he could find. As women are supposed to love He confessed he had cut up the corpso gossiping, he suggests that this may of a new-born babe so that he might explain why there are many more cook it for food. widows in the world than widowers -talking makes the longer. Reuter.
women
ilve
He was remanded pending a further trial-Central News.
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Kishinew (Rumania), Feb. 10. Theodore Filimonesco, Rumanian soldier, who broke the bank at Monte Carlo in 1911, has been sent to fall for six-months for deserting from the ray in the same year. After deserting he was cook in a Black Sta steamier, then worked in an hotel, became a diplomat's buller; finally a white kavo dealer,
Ha gambled his wealth awayi killed a man in a brawl in Madrid; foined the Foreign Legion to escape arrest: was decorated for bravery; deserted and wont back to Rumania, where he was arrested.
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