THE ·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 18, 1987.
£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 proparing the details of the now 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 riot Normally the King is exempt from make provision privately for the income and super tax, but it is Duke's Income, as has been as 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 authorlac. the in a special Act, in the same wayTreasury to lake from his income an as the incomes of other members amount equal to the taxes chargeable of the Royal Family.
on that amount-a gift of at least £45,000 a year to the naiion.
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
• BUIL
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 1810. An additional £124,000 was allowed for members of King
George V's family.
I understand that, as there is now
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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.
again a Queen to share the Throne, BRITAIN STRESS
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. Until 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 isallowed to the Queen
£
Royal Household salaries,
etc.
Household expenses
Royal Bounty
110,000
134,000 153,000 13,000
HOME DEFENCE
OF DOMINIONS
Not Relying on Over- Seas Aid in Future
London, Feb. 10. Canadian and Australian soldiers may not be cniled upon to sail over- seas for the next war,
That is the answer given in well informed quarters of London to the statement of the Rt. Hon. William Hughes at a Legacy Club luncheon in Melbourne that alr. development had so destroyed naval supremacy that it would be difficult to ship Australian troops to Europe in event of war.
Only if the melher country were
Personal allowances to members of directly attacked would Great Britain
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
helr presumptive) Princess Margaret Rose (from twenty - one years of age) Princess Royal
L
25,000
WILL SEARCH
0,000 0.000
expect the Dominions to send troops,.
It is sald. 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 Ine of argument is based on two basic reasons:
I-It would be too difficult a task to convey large bodies of troops across 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 alr arm has radically altered war, increasing its tempo 50
that the time lag between the
beginning of a war and the arrival of troops from overseas would be
comparatively much higher than in
the last world fight,
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 would show Japan on the opposite side, which New York, Jan. 30. would mean that Australia and The mystery of Sir John Franklin's Canada could do more by keeping 11l-fated Arctle Expedition of nearly their troops at home as a holding century ago may be solved this force to prevent any diversion cam- Spring by Jack O'Brien, chief sur-paign by the Japanese. veyor
of the first Byrd · Antarctic Expedition in 1920.
-ed
*he
.
HOME DEFENCE VITAL
At thirty-seven, O'Brien has pack- A glance of the map of the Pacific about all the thrills there are in-shows how essential it would be for a war aviator, explorer, Australia and Canada to look to their
to his life as "sand hog." big game hunter and defences and conserve their powers le member the New York Adven-Japan were fighting on the opposite timers' Club. But he's not out for a side to the British Empire. thrill this time. Ho's just curious.
All was well in the last war, when "The case has always puzzled me,”
the Anglo-Japanese Treaty existed e said to-day.
"Nobody knows what happened to Now there is no
and Japan fought with the Allies.
auch Out of Franklin's entire amount of friction between the
treaty
And
a fair former Party of 128 oméers and racn, who allies, it is pointed out. That makes set out in 1845 to find a Northwest it imperative that the Dominion troops Fassage naross the top of Canada, should remain on the home front, -only a few skeletons were found. unless the United Kingdom were directly attacked. Even then the time element would make it difficult for Australia to send troops.
them.
It is understood that the Britlah government will request · Dominion
MANY EXPEDITIONS "Rescue expeditions hunted for Tourteen years. They finally dis- -covered a rudely-scrawled diary in
a calm
at Point Victory, King authorities to discourage any Bow of William Island, telling how the exc plorers had deserted their two small volunteers to Britain in event of war, ships on April 22, 1948, after they polling out that all overseas man- been lee-bound for eighteen dower should be conserved for home months and chronicling the death of
defence.. Franklin.
What Britain will need from the But they never found Franklin's Dominions, it is emphasized, are sup- body, nor did they over account for piles, food and war materials, and 100 other members of the expedithese must be carefully convoyed at Lion. "There's been only the skimp-all costs.. That will take enough war. lest modern Investigation, O'Brien ships out of the fighting line without wald, "but I've got a hunch I can find considering the conveying of troop out what happened 13 Shamanports, observers argue, and
STRANGE MANIA
"In consequence of this case," a
Surete
General official said, "we that we should investigate together
proposed to the Academy of Medicine
this kind of half-madness.
"People who commit Buch crimes under cover of an up- parently decent existence are certainly afflicted with a strange manis.
"A special commission, including the famous Professors Balthazrd, Bonardel, and Dumas will now study. the problem. Professor Henri Claude, a, famous French specialist, hus. already prepared a report on the subject,
"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.
Offers have been made to him to 60 to Hollywood 12# B scenario writer, but he has re-. jected them. "During his time at Maldstone he has written a number of songs, and it seems, that they are Food," his 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."
itio
The affirmative debaters scored tho following points.
America has given
world luxurles but nothing to improve spiritual or cultural life.
Has established price as a critéron and get-rich-quick as a dogma..
Has dobased the potential art of Ure nim to exploit for profit man'a baser instincts.
up the situation with the following The negatives, however, balanced highlights!
America has led the world is mechanical invention and applied science.
Has demonstrated a vitality and enthusiasm worthy of imitation.
Hus Juslifted its "blustering" by fis sincerity and vitality at
Other countries have produced. worse flink.a
By popular vote the negative won. Bastad 'Freza:"
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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democracy by economic democracy.
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"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 encirclement of Germany? I answer 'No.'"
Fascism And
Human Nature.
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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 na 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, Fob. 10. TALKING is one of the most
health-giving pastimes,"
Pelping, 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 police head-! points out that many human. illa result from weakness or deteriora-Wang Teh-hsiang said that he was
quarters, the "baby-cater" named I tion of the lungs.
Intensive talking, he declares, too poor to afford to buy food and had been living upon dend cats, dogs strengthens the lungs.
and other things which he could find. As women are supposed to love He confessed he had cut up the corpse 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' widowera ---talking makes the longer-Reuter,
women live He was remanded pending a further
| trial--Central News.
Man Who Broke The
Bank At Monte Carlo
** Fühlnew (Rumania), Feb. 10. Theodoro Filimonesco, Rumanian soldier, who broke the bank at Monte Carle in 1811, has been sent to fail for six months for desorting from the army in the same year. After destriing he was dook In Black Sea steamer, then worked in an hotel, became a diplomat's butler; finally while, slavo dealer.
*** Ho gambled his wealth away; killed a man in a brawl in Madrid; Joined the Foreign Legion to escape arrest, was siecorated for bravery; deserted and went back to Rumanis, where he was arrested.
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