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¡Prince Sixtus And The Habsburgs|
The death of Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma may seriously affect the chances of an ultimate restoration of monarchy.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934.
CANADA CELEBRATES ITS 400TH BIRTHDAY
ELABORATE PAGEANTS THIS SUMMER
the Habsbury JACQUES CARTIER'S ADVENTUROUS
Another Pence Effort
Prince Sixtus's was not the only
attempt to conclude a premature
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VOYAGES
(By Sholto Watt.)
Prince Sixtus, whom history. will chiefly remember for his at- tempt to obtain a separate peace for Austria in 1917, was the uncle of Prince Otto the heir to the
Canada is to be numbered among not take possession of the land with- Habsburg throne. He was also
the new countries, yet it enters this put a protest. The harangue ad- the young prince's guardian, and
rear upon the 400th year of ita hie-dressed him by an aged native chief chief political adviser to history. On July 24, 1534, Jacques at Gaspe was, it is believed, a claim mother, the ex-Empress Zita.
Cartier, mariner, of St. Malo in that the land around belonged to the Until now the policy of Brittany, set up a cross on the main- tribe. Cartier writes that he told prudence and patience counselled land of Canada at Gaspe, and took him by signs that the cross was a by Prince Sixtus has prevailed. (possession of the land in the namejlandmark, and that he would come
Now the hotheads among the of the King of France.
back soon, bringing more ironware. legitimists may persuade Prince This quarter-centenary and the After what must have been a very Otto and his mother to lend them centenary of the incorporation of animated conversation, Cartier bore selves to an adventure which Toronto which falls this month-off two of the chief's-sons to France. |would, aerlously prejudice the are to be celebrated this summer in They served him on his second voy-
chances of a restoration.
Canada in elaborate pageantry, with age as interpreters. the co-operation of Great Britain) On this second, voyage, 8 year and France, the two parent nations. later, Cartier followed the St. Law
Toronto, which wan 100 years|rence River to Stadncona and Hoe- ago a small town of 10,000 people, helago-Quebec and, Montreal--and peace Germany made at least one known as "Muddy York and is now found a smiling land flowering in a la great commercial and tourist cen-radiant sun. He then wintered at hitherto unrevealed effort.
tre.of 850,000 population, has set Quebec, and discovered that the In August 1917 Herr von Kuchlraann was appointed Foreign aside three three-day periods for rigours.of the climate were not too great for the endurance of Euro- Secretary. He had long been con- prolonged festivities.
The Cartier commemorations are penna. From this expedition dates vinced that for Germany peace by negotiation would be the best solust be very costly and impressive. A the name Canada in reality it is cathedral is already in the making the Huron-Iroquois word for village tior of the war. Soon after, as-i suming office he began, to explore on the spot where Cartier set up his and the news of the mysterious the possibilities of sounding thirty-fect cross, and he and his kingdom of Saguenay, "rich in gold,
men knelt and made signy to the rubies and precious stones.", - Allied opinion.
Land Of One-Legged He was prepared to concede the Red Indians, looking and pointing
Donnaconna, the chieftain of them should be examined. Thereful restoration of Belgium, but towards heaven, that by means of the Cross they had redemption-to The China Mail
is no difference of view as to the did not wish to raise the question the "admyradtion" of the natives.
Quebec whom he took back to imperative necessity of, bringing until he was sure that such a con-
France, told.tales of the wonders of France Taking Part-
the New World which
in- Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 18, 1934, the whole organisation for de- cession would lead to negotiations.
fence under constant review, A Regarding (England as the key on the Initiative of Senator flamed the cupidity of the valuable debate leaves the im- to the situation, he decided to eri-Rodolphe Lemieux, brother of Mr. L. Court and excited the laughter of pression that all desired unity ploy a neitral agent. His choice. Lemieux, the Agent-General for Rebelais. There were lande, he can be attained without creating was the late Marquis de Villalo: Quebec in London, the Canadian said, where men wore woollen clothes a Department that might bring bar. the Spanish Minister in Government is giving $300,000 to- and had an abundance of gold and in its train fresh differences and Brussels. Both by the part hewards the celebration, Quebec Pro- copper, lands of plamies and "men heartburnings.
and played in arranging the marvince $100,000, and other provinces who fly," lands whose inhabitants riage between. Princess Ena and and cities large amounts.
never ate nor digested, and others Introducing Neutrino. King Alfonso and by his relief
France will send a deputation by where men had only one leg.' work in, Belgium, the Marquis was a special ship, possibly with a naval Poor Donnaconna did not long sur- No one has ever caught a neu-popular in England."
escort, and a painting of the land-vive the telling of these tales. Al- costly. Such a Ministry would tron, much less seen one. By the
ing of Cartier, ordered by President though he had been baptised and require an altogether exception-havoc that it wreaks when it col-
Doumer shortly before his assassina- excellent care was taken of his soul. al man in control, and his staff lides with an atom is it known..
Lion, is to be presented to the new his physique was unequal to the would be selected from the ablest Now it is to have a little brother,
cathedral.
strain of European civilisation, and Gold and the Falth- were the he died within a year or two, to the guiding stars of Cartier's expedi- great detriment of the next expedi tions. He was 43 or 44 when his tion--in 1541. Most Christian Majesty Francis I. Cartier, under the Impression that authorised him to go in search of he had at last found treasure, slip. secondary consideration, but mere prediction as yet, neutrino Beerbohm Tree liked to make a some of the precious metal and gem ped away to France with a cargo of whether it is necessary, Major is not even singing behind the dramatic entrance in his playe, and of, the New World, which were so Iron pyrites and worthless crystals, Attlee and Mr. Winston Chur-atomic scene. But the callboy has in one he had to enter by finginig enriching the king's Most Catholic which he took to be gold and jewels. chill made between them in the been shouting his name for years. open a pair of double doors and enemy, Charles of Spain.
This exploit enriched only the recent House of Commons de Presently neutrine will step. be standing a moment on the thres; 'In two vessels of about sixty tons French language, which gained bate as complete a statement of fore the footlights and burst into hold in an impressive attitude. On each Jacques Cartier set out on new expression for the meretricious the case for such a Ministry as Gertrude Stein aria out of which the opening night he had got, thus April 20, 1534, with sixty com-"Voila un diamant de Canada." there could be. A valid reason the physicists will try to make far when a voice shouted from the panions. He is portrayed for us ze With this contemptuous phrase for constituting a Ministry of
sense. It looked for a time as if gallery: Defence would be that the exist-the neutron had made it a little ing system does not provide the easier to understand an atom. The co-ordination and the survey of nucleus of heavy hydrogen, for the whole problem that is admit-example, might be simply a proton A traveller states that the humour, he was not the ideal Evan-a few fur traders alone braved, the tedly desirable. That is Mr and a neutron. Certainly the re- Chinese, like the English, settle gelist. While he never failed to set North Atlantic crossing. Churchill's case. To this consults of atom-smashing lent colour many arguments by tossing a cofa. up crosses, even on the barren coast But Cartier had shown the way. tention Mr.. Ramsay MacDonald to the view. Then came the posi-Hence "taels upl”
Co-Ordinating The
Services.
The creation in Britain of a Ministry of Defence, co-ordinat- ing all the activities of Navy. Army, and, Air Force, is super- ficially attractive. It would be
Your Daily Smile.
"WHOOPEE!
men in the various services. Yet already. christened "neutrino."* A doctor says that too much) the true test is not whether such if the name suggests a tenor giv-alchol depresses. Especially motor- ia Ministry would be expensive,jing his full-throated best in Alcar accelerators.
since in matters of Empire 'de-Verdi opera, it is because Fermi, fence money must always be the Italian physicist, coined it. A
He
tron or positive electron to inject
restore
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When Personality. Counts.
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"Next station Marble Arch!"'
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a lean, dark man, with strong fea-closes the prelude to the story of tures, a harsh, beaked hose, and French Canada, For more than: black, dominant eyes. With his per-half a century the wars of religion. sonal ambition and his dry sense of occupied France, and fishermen and
islands of Labrador--which he con-He was the discoverer, the first ex- sidered must be the land given by plarer, the first pioneer, the first God to Cain--the researches of Mr.historian of Canada. It is not re-
bilities.
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Might Use a Strainer "You're lowdown, spineless |
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As in "YgrindstoneTM
TURK BESERK IN ISTANBUL
Wounds Seven After Killing Wife
gave a denial in advance. claimed that under the presenta discordant note and arouse new Like a Cricket in a Cabbage. system, by which a committee
doubts. Perhaps meutrino will "When a man is asleep he's a H. P. Biggar, the Canadian Archi-corded that he willingly caused harm constituted from the Chiefs of
temporary harmony mere vegetable," saya
a scientific vist in Europe, indicate that he to anyone. His courage and ability Staff is constantly at work pre within the atom. Accepting the writer. He is, however, not edible never lost sight of economie possi-were harnessed to tremendous aims, paring recommendations for the
measurements made in Cambridge-only audible.
and bis is the first of the great.. Imperial Defence Committée,
[names of New Franco-Champlain, there is a complete review of the but improving on them, Langer of
Canada's Great Auks Pasadena, tells 118 that the
La Salle Frontenac, Montcalm-- whole defence position. More-
These at first sight seemed slight. which are the imperishable echoes over, the estimates for the var. neutron's mass is 1.0062 and there- ious services are not compiled in-fore a little, less than hydrogen's. jellyfish, and do you know what The Newfoundland fisheries were of high adventure.
already known, and had been known
(Continued on Page 11), dependently, but in close co-oper-While this means nothing to the I'm going to do to you?"
of humanity. It is sweet] "What?"
since Cabot in 1497 caught cod mere- ation with the finance depart-rest ments of all the services and music to him. It means that a
"I'm going to break every bonely by lowering baskets into the sen -possibly even before. The natives with the Treasury. In the pre-deuton (heavy hydrogen) can be in your body.
appeared to be the poorest people in paration, of plans of defence easily split up into a proton and a there is co-ordination between neutron, that a proton (an ordin-The Old School "Tie"
the world, and would literally strip Fifty-six old boys" married themselves naked for the metal tools the Chiefs of Staff, who are supary hydrogen heart) is nothing plied with political data without but a neutron and a positron, and afty-six. "oki girls" of a co-ed and ornaments the French were pre- which they would be working in that two neutrons can combine to school in Milwaukee last year.
pared to barter.
In the grey and forbidding Gulf the dark. In every direction the form, a new kind of molecule. It
of St. Lawrence, where, icebergs old idea of the Navy, Army and also means the coming of neutrino arithmetical reasons. Air Force as self-controlled units for mere
Before marriage a man yearns{drift from the north, there were working out their problems in In two years we have witnessed for a woman., After marriage the also, fishermen said, supernatural
terrors. Grimas inhabited Labra After a violent quarrel with his water-tight compartments has the addition of neutrons, deutons is silent. been abandoned. Mr. MacDonald and positrons to the atomic
dor, alarming bears, "white as an based his defence of the present chorus, with others waiting to be
Art Nota
egg." swam in the sea, and two is wife a Turk named Ahmed, living. arrangements not on any claim heard. In fact, the others may be
Visitor to butler who is show lands were infested with demons, all at Bruss, near Istanbul, picked up that they are final or complete, singing now, their voices having ing him through the picture gal-erring together. These imps were revolver and shot her dead. Then but that they are continually im-still to be altered out of the
lery)That's a fine portrait! agreeable to look at, but extremely proving and have, the elasticity cacophony that we call the atom. Is it an old master?"
malicious. M that enables the organisation to If the electron has its counterpart Butler "No, that's the old mis- Food was scarce, except for Great deal with each new problem ad it in the positron, the proton ought
Auke, which Cartier's men pickled $06." also, Bo the arises. Ee doubts whether to have one
In large quantities, thereby contri- Ministry of Defence could give physicists are looking about 'for å completer unison of thought negative proton. They are troubled, least eight particles Kibwn and huting their share to the extinction than has been attained. He does too, about the role of alpha parti- surmised. Where is the master of those hapless, penguin-like erea- not rule out the possibility of cles. Already they suspect an conductor who will bring order tures?file
Carlier's first voyage was a dis- the existing arrangements devo- "siphina" something which will out of this chaos? Once a sort of loping eventually into something be, to helium, what the deuton is to solkr system in malatare casy to appointment. He found no gold, no very like a Ministry of Defence, hydrogen. And photons or light understand, the atom has become passage to Cathay, and he convert Mr. Churchill's, brillant Intern particles what of them?. They morass of hypotheses. Can it be ed no natives, for they could not un-Finally, he was cornered by the
{ing 'to surrender, was shot der vention suggested, various direccome out of radium. Why not out that astare needs" eight particles derstand when he read the Gospel police, under a bridge, and, refus tions in which closer co-ordina of other atoms? All told, the phy in constructing the cosmos? Dr to them, tion could be attained. All of nicista, have to worry about at is it the physicist who needs them? It seems probable, too, that he did Reuter.
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SKOP, DEAD "BY: PULICE
Istanbul.
Rushed to the house of a rei lative nearby and fatally wound- ed the latter's wife and a guest; Visited the police station and wounded two of the officers,
Pelted "a passer-by with Ftones, Inflicting savera fu juries; and
Stabbed two policemen with a knife.
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