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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
February 18, 1939.
KAISER IS HARD UP ON £8,400 A YEAR
Income Is More But He Has To Keep 49 Relatives On It
THE Kaiser, who recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, is a case of a rich man who is very short of money.
Many people do not understand whose money pays for the Court of Doorn. The authentic facts are as fol- lows:
The Kaiser was nover paid by the German State when he was Emperor, and he does not get a pension from them now.
He lives an that part of the rents from part of his former privale estates which Iller allows him to take out of Germany,
His property in Germany is worth about £3,500,000. Stories of wealth enormously greater than that are not worth believing, as the above figure was given by the administrator of the Hohenzollern
ern estates.
The Kaiser has given up Ave-sixths of his possessions by peaceful persua slon to the Prussian State, and the £3,500,000 ls the residue.
Now the income from this money at G per cent reasonable rate of interest 10 assume would b
£175,000..
CUT BY HITLER
The Koiser has to keep seventeen princely families comprising torty- nine people out of this, which would give them £3,500 n head, min. woman and child-not too bad.
THE KAISER HIMSELF DRAWS LITTLE MORE
THIS THAN AVERAGE FIGURE.
ilc used to draw £35,000 a year out of the revenue of his German estates for his own establishment at Duorn,
Titler is understood to have cut this to £8,400 a
makes year, walch £4,200 each for himself and his wife. His forelin investments are an un-
known quantity.
But as the Kaiser has a large house and staff whose water he has cut 20 per cent.-there is probably sune truth-in a relative sense--in his story that he is hard up.
The Kaiser was always rather greedy about money.
After the war there was a long long wrangle between him and the Prusslan State.
OFFERS DOUBLED
Dr.
Heinrich Welss, former
chief rabbi of Lower Austria and A former member of the Austrian Board of Education, wept as he arrived In New York with his wife and two children. He told reporters he scarcely could be- leve he was in the United States, where he could speak freely with no fear of reprisat., He planned
with live temporarily
to
cousin in New York City.
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But for every offer the republic) made the Kaiser doubled his.
And even when he had an Income from Germany for larger than it is now, he did not give anything away.
In 1922, for instance, the represen- talive of a charitable organisation in Germany who wrote to him soliciting a contribution for meals for the chil- dren of the very poorest war victims received the following reply:-
The State, for a republic, was in- "Money at his majesty's command explicably tender with the Katser.for subscriptions to charities has long They had originally let him take fly-since buon exhausted. three truck loads of possessions to "By his majesty's command a ple- Holland, and now they made generous ture posteard of his majesty is ea- affers to him,
I closed."
U.S. Preserves
Our Dances
DESCENDANTS of old Eng
lish families in parts of the United States are keeping alive a dance that is dying in Eng- land, "Sir Roger de Coverley."
They also know English tradi- tional dances that are not only forgotten in most counties of England, but are absolute "news" to the younger genera- tion.
These include "Blunt, the Squir=! rel" "Hasle to the Wedding." the "Irish Trat," "Speed the Plough," and "Soldier's Joy."
IN THE HILLS
Mr. Douglas Kennedy, director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society believes that a lot more Eng- Ish dances can be discovered in the United States.
He left England recently for a three months' tour of exploration In New England the Middie West and the eastern ant southern States.
He will roam the hills of Tennesset and Kentucky, and listen to forgot- ten tunes in the lonely sea const vil- Jages of New Hampshire and Maine. "Old forms of speech and song that have long since died out in this country are still preserved in parta of the United States, particularly in the South," Mr. Kennedy said.
HOPEFUL
"I feel hopeful that I shall and some of the old country dances that have been lost to us, or at least older; forms of the dances we know.
"Our 'Running Set, which was re- cently danced in Londen, was dis- covered by Ceell Sharp in Kentucky in 2011, and it contained more archale elements than any country dance, an distinet from ritual dancing, surviv- ing in England."
Family Shotgun Prized
Columbia, S. C.
While Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain, is in the United States to confer on the aspects of the foreign situation, Mrs. Kennedy and eight of her nine children are enjoying a holiday at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Here is Mrs. Kennedy with her daughter Jean und her son Teddy, trying out the family skates at Suvretta, near St. Moritz,
Diamond King Left
£20,000 To Woman
SIR ARTHUR LEVY, adviser to King Edward VII.
in the cutting of the Cullinan diamond-two of the largest parts are now mounted in the Sceptre and the Crown-never forgot anybody who worked for him.
Clerks, a typist, his butler, gar- To typist Ethel Brown-it still dener, chauffeur, messenger, A shotgun that has been in his,
cook, I employed at his office £2,000. family four generations is still doing hairdressers, and a chiropodist ure To his buller, his late head gardener,
heavy duty" for Harry Sloan, Southall mentioned in his will published
his chauffeur, and a messenger- Carolina highway patrolman. The recently.
£1,500 each. gun, single-barrelled, full-choked His estate totalled £56,047. ES- model with 32-inch barrel, costitate duty was. £136,643.
Sir Arthur did not forget W. C. Nives $3.50 when new,
and Arthur Berger, hair- podist. He left them £60 each. dressers, and Joseph Nock, chiro-
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Sir Arthur, who died in November
aged eighty-three, left £20,000 "10 my friend" Mrs. Fanny Pellas, The remainder, including his magnificent Mayfair house, goes to his brother Mr. Alexander Michael Levy.
Failing appointment by his brother, Sir Arthur left:-
A close friend of Sir Arthur Levy sald:"Except for the bequest to
Pellas, the remainder of the will become inoperative, since Mr. Alexander Levy is still alive to benefit.
This will was made in 1930, and To his clerks Guy Tooth and Herbert the many other bequests were made John Burridge-£12,500 each. (Mr.) in cose lils brother should not survive Burridge is dead.)
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