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May 3, 1939.
WORDS APPEAR EMPIRE
ON 193-YEARS-OLD PAPER
Written By Bonnie Prince Charlie
SECHET MESSAGE IS SLOWLY APPEARING ON THE BACK OF A ROYAL PROCLAMATION, ISSUED 193 YEARS AGO. OFFERING: £30,000 REWARD FOR THE HEAD BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE.
OF
The document is in the Elgin Museum, Scotland, and the curator, Mr. James Bule, believes that eventually the whole mes- -sage will be readable,
Already the date, 1745, and several short words together with the initials T. U. W. are legible. ·
The message may have been, shall land or attempt to land in any written by Prince Charlle himself on of his Majesty's dominions."
a notice torn down from a tree or by an escaping clansman,
The document was presented to the museum in 1861 by Captain James Stewart, of Cobrach, Banffshire. It is about 20 inches long by a foot wide.
This is followed by the signatures of 13 nobles.
The message ends with an offer of a reward and pardon to any follower of
the Pr
Prince prepared to betray his leader
forces der to the King's The antiquity of the proclamation Is establishel by the words: "Given at BETRAYAL OFFER
Whitehall on the First day of August, Surmounted by the Royal Coat of In the 19th year of his Majesty's Arms, it bears the words: "By the reign, MDCCXLV. (1745), London." Lords Justices, a proclamation offer- It was printed by Thomas Baskett, ing the reward. of £30,000 to any "printer to the King's Most Excellent person who shall seize or secure the Majesty and by the assigns of Robert eldest son of the Pretender in case he | Baskett,”
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Jew Trudged Across Europe to Rejoin Wife
LONDON.
[N Vienna, before the Nazis came there, Police-Sergeant Leon Filip Drexlern and his wife Anny lived happily. Then because Drextern is a Jew he was deprived of his post and became a road sweeper; his wife came to England to enter domestic service.
Drexlern was leaving Vienna station after seeing her off when he was seized by the German secret police and put in a concentration camp.
After six weeks he was re-(March 12, communicated with the leased on signing an agreement pollee. to leave the country in two weeks.
Colonel Vladimir S. Hurbon, Czecho-Slovak Minister, left, gives a hearty handshake ́ in. Washington to Fernando de los Rios, whose status as Spain's envoy is uneasy, because of possible re- cognition of Franco's regime. Hurban refused to yield his Iega- tion to Germany.
Rich Man Of 74 Says-
Secretary Bride Packed & Left
FIVE weeks after marrying his secretary, Mr. Arthur Peel Nash, wealthy 74-year-old retired London solicitor, is living apart from her.
at soon, and is going to live with He is leaving his West End luxury
s lovely 25-year-old adopted daughter, also an ex-secretary, at Ramsgate,
He told of his plans as he left Marylebone police court recently.
had
GOING TO UNITED STATES With the minister acting as inter- preter at Hove police court recently, More than 100 guests were received Knowing that after signing he Drexier admitted being found in when Mr. Nash married 30-year-old would be unlikely to come out alive this country without leave.
Joan Lister, at All Souls', Langham if he ever went back to the camp, he The Chiet Constable, Mr. William place. Champagne alone cost £58. began to walk. He had one idea-to! Ilier, said: "I have no reason to: ket to England to see his wife. doubt his story is true, I shall, as Nash.
"Now she has gone away," said matter of duty, have to ask you to make an order recommendlug depor- tatlon."
THROUGH SNOW
Through Germany he trudged, sometimes taking to fields aft. deep in show, occasionally getting lifts or having short rides in trains.
hopes that his daughter will go on
a world cruise.
"For four months we are going to cruise round the world. My wife was coming with me but now Joan and
I will go on our own," he said. trip is costing me about
In the police court Mr. Nash heard His summons alleging threats by bour in the flats, in which he lives to other residents" by Mr. Harry Mr. Alfred Alan Selbourne, a neigh himself described as a perfect pest
solicitor
Mr. in Portman-square,
dis- Myers, been
defending missed.
Selbourne.
He admitted that he had moved about the flats in his pyjamas but he denied
that
Was Improperly dressed or that he had been a pest.
His present secretary, an attractive brunette in the early twenties, sat in court during the hearing.
Mr. Nash's summons alleged that Mr. "The trouble started when I in-fat 8.30 am. on December 17
Omee to decide what action should with us to live at Ramsgate.
He added it would be for the Home I adopted more than a year ago door, put to sunsh Mr. Nash and isted on taking my daughter-whom Selbourne banged on Mr. Nash's flat his fout in the door and
"My wife just packed her things his pianola, Mr. Max Adler, defending, said and left. I don't know where she arrangements were being made for " Drexlern and his wife to go to re- latives in the United States.
He ap- pealed for an adjournment while the Miss papers were being completed. "SUCH HAPPINESS"
be taken.
threatened
Mr. Nash admitted that in a High Court action he had agreed to play Mr. Nash's adopted daughter is his pianola only during certain
Joan McGlynn-Nash, who hours, changed her name from McGlynn by deed poll,
She has a flat near Portman-square, I have known her for years,"
He reached Antwerp, where, in a cafe near the docks, he told a man of his destre reach his wife. He parted with 1,000 francs, all be had. and was taken on board a steamer.
When the vessel reached England. Drexlern wus rowed ashore by a man in a small boat, taken to a rall The hearing was adjourned and way station, and given £1 and a Drexlern was granted bail in £200. said Mr. Nash. ticket to Brighton.
A condition was that he should re-} "She has been seriously ill for After two hours in the train Drex-main in Hove and report dally to the some time and it has cost me thou- lern reached Brighton and found his police.
sands to get her well again. way to the address in Landsdowne Outside the town hall Drexlern and "Once I sent her away and allowed Place, Hove, where his wife is work- his wife were reunited. They walk-her only 10s, a week pocket money ing.
ed happily away arm in arm.
10s, a week after she had been used She took Drexler to the Rev. K.
"What a happy country England to having everything she wanted. Fousner in Brunswick Place, Hove, is," said Drexlern in German. "I "Now she has come back.” who, on hearing that Drexlern had never thought I would have such smuggled himself into the country on happiness again."
Once they have taken over their own house at Ramsgate, Mr. Nash
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NEWS
EXCHANGE CONTROL IN NEW ZEALAND
AUCKLAND.
Mr. W. Nash, the New Zealand Minister of Finance, recently denied reports from a London source that the measures of exchange control Imposed last year might shortly be abolished.
He said that it was unlikely that thero would be any change in the Echeme until there was the certainty of sterling always being available,
New Zealand manufacturers must have security, he added, if industrial expansion was to bo aclileved. Their position inust always be safeguarded. CANADA
KING AND QUEEN TO SEE HORSE RACE
OTTAWA.
The Ontario Jockey Club have announced that the King and Queen have accepted an invitation to watch the running of the King's Plate, Canada's major Turf event, which opens the horse-racing
season, at
Woodbine Park, Toronto, on May 22, The King's Plate, which was first run in 1600, is over a mile and a fur- long-Reuter.
U.S. Trade Agreement--The Cana- dlan House of Commons recently adopted a motion of the Prime Minis- Mr. Mackenzie-King, approving
ter
the United Stales-Canadian trade agreement without a recorded vote.
The vote was not conclusive, as the House's Ways and Means Committee must yet approve all the torik changes item by item. INDIA
FRONTIER R.A.F. BASE DEMANDED
CALCUTTA.
The widening of Congress interest in the problem of India's defence was exemplified by questions by Mr. Asat All in the Central Assembly.
He asked whether, in view of the fact that Japanese penetration into China had brought aquadrons of Japanese aircraft within 500 miles of the north-eastern frontier, a Royal Air Force base could be established No reply was given, there.
Ultimatum to Britain Proposed. Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose, the Leftist President of the Indian National Con stress, proposed, at the opening of the 52nd annual session at Tripur! re-
cently, that an ultimatum should, be presented to the British Government to concede without delay all'India's
come for a major ossault on British
International
"national demands." "The time has
that the
imperialism," he declared, adding favoured such a move,
situation
ton, manager of the Sholayar, Madras, Planter Murdered.-Mr. A. C. Cot-
plantations, was shot dead while sleeping in a summer house recently, His keys were taken from beneath his pillow, an iron safe opened, and 7,000 rupees taken. SOUTH AFRICA
HERTZOG. FORECASTS. PEACE IN EUROPE
Navy Board to fortify the Pacifie The proposal of the United States
CAPE TOWN. The belief that peace in Europe island of Guam is now almost certain would be maintained for a long time! in fact, already been rejected by the Gen. Hertzog, recently, He was ad- to be rejected by Congress. It has, was expressed by the Prime Minister, House of Representatives and the dressing a conference of command- Senate Naval Committee. The pro-ants of the union's burgher com-
Town. posal was not entirols a happy one. nando in Cape Congress was asked merely во authorise the expenditure of about the rural members of defence rife The burgher commando consists of £1,000,000 on making Guam a naval associations. They train under the Dying
base, a modest measure which direction of commandants. would neither have ruined the United States Treasury nor greatly altered the strategic position in the Pacific. But it was well known that this was only the first instalment of a plán, dear to the hearts of American naval men, to make
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be a very That, however,
MAURITIUS
APPEAL OF WELFARE SOCIETY PRESIDENT
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius. The appeal of Dr. Cure, President matter. Not only of the "Societe de Bienfaisance des would it be enormously expensive, Travailleurs de l'Ile Maurice," oguinst but it would have important effects
11s two orders of the Governor, Sir Clif- on the country's foreign policy. The fortification of Guam, which is 3,318 ford Bede, ordering the society's name miles west of Honolulu and over cause of alleged ill-use of funds, will
to be erased, from the register, be 5,000 miles from any naval base or be heard by the Supreme Court here the American continent, s could hardly
be justified as a purely defensive on March 20.
Dr. Cure is President of the Labour measure. Indeed, it could hardly be Justified at all unless
party of Mauritius, which is connect- the
United States were determined to keep and ed with the "Soclete de Bienfaisance." defend the Philippines, which they
are at present pledged to abandon.
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