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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

MARCH 17, 1984.

MONARCHIST HOPES IN FRANCE: CLAIMS OF

"AUSTRIA'S STRONG MAN" "Major Fey's Role in Threatening

Situation in Europe

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Major Emil Fey (on white horas) orders bis Heimwehr to shoot to kill" in their drive against Naxi

Jarrorists.

(Church of St. Oswaldo in the Val, Sugan, which opened the way for a victorious Austrian offensive in the spring of 1916.

By MILTON BRONNER. Looming as a bulwark against the rising tide of pro-Hitlerism in Austria is Major Emil Foy, who That made him a candidate for would like to eat the highest decoration of the a Sociallet for Knights of Maria Theresa, the breakfast, a Nazlmost coveted of all the honours old for. lunch, and Imperial Austria could bestow.. again a Socialist It la usually given only when an for dinner! officer has planned, on his own in

He is the Aus- Itiative, some brilliant and suc- trian strong man

cessful action. There must bu whom the gallantry as well as planning. All upon

is carefully sifted, bo- the evidence spot-light now

fore the honour is given. It has plays as a crisis nears in the future no resemblance to the cheap Iron of his politically Cross which the former Kaiser of torn country.

Germany showered upon all and His was a sud-sundry, Foy duly get the medals den and dazzling and they are his proudest posses-

aion. Major Fey. rise to power.

Austrian Nazis, supported and f naneed by the Hitlerites, started a wave of terrorism all over Aus- tria. It was found that they had cells in the very government it. self. Men who were supposed, to be supporting the government, were, busy trying to undermine and destroy it.

Dollfuss, thereupon, made Foy commander of all the troops and all the police in Austria. It did not take Fey ten minutes to swing into full and rapid action. He had Nazis arrested all over the place. He fired them bodily from all the posts into which they had crept. He made his name an- athema in Germany.

The only fly in the ointment, sa far as he and Dollfuss are con- corned, is the question of "Red In the early and stormy, days Vienna". Ever since the armistice Only a few weeks ago everybody of the Austrian republic, when the capital city has been in the Socialists. The in Europe was talking about Chan nearly every political party had a control of the cellor Dollfuss, the four feet and private army of some aort, ho join-working' masses and even some of something bundle of human dyna-ed the Helmwehr, because he was the lower middle class have sup- mite, who, David-like, was defying both-a-monarchist and a fascist, ported them steadily and every With him there was no middle Burgomaster has been a Socfallet the Goiinth of a litterized Ger- many. Dollfuss is still the faende, ground. Anybody who was not a They have done great things for Vienna in the way of keeping rents but behind the Chancellor stands member of the Heimwehr

either a

"Red Bolshevik"

down and building now apartment Fey,

"Brown Terrorist". In short or houses for the working classes. der, Major Fey became the com- mander of the Vienna divisions of the Helmwehr.

COVETED DECORATION. He is a soldier, and 48. Sodier- ing has been his career. When

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the world war broke out, he went

ACTS AGAINST NAZIS. to the front as an officer in the crack Viennese regiment Some months ago, to strengthen "Deutsche Meister". All of his his hand, Dollfuss made him Vice activities were on the Italian | Chancellor of the republle. A few front. He planned and carried weeks ago he had, perforce, to out the successful storming of the give him even more power. The

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

DUC DE

GUISE

RESTORATION A CALAMITY FOR VAST MAJORITY

OF FRANCE'S "NOBLES"

STRENGTH OF MOVEMENT DOUBTFUL: M. LEO N DAUDET'S BRILLIANT FIGHT IN L'ACTION FRANCAISE

By MORRIS GILBERT,-

Paris, Feb. 20.-There are thirteen familles in this country which, according to common repute, would stand to profit by the return to the throne of France of the Bourbon Duc de Guise as King

John III.

Leon Daudet.

These families consist of those holding the noble title of Duke and Peer of the Realm. Their titles ara inviolato. No monarchiat can dispute them, for they constitute, the old peerage, the real McCoy of French nobility..

To be punctilious, these Dukes-and-Peera_(again, according to general understanding) are as follows: d'Uzes, de Grammont, de Luynes, de La Rochefou. cauld, de Richelieu, de Roban, de Noailles, de Bris- '如心, de Mortemont, de Fitz James, d'Harcourt, de

Preslin, and do Clermont-Tonnerre,

Until the death of the last surviving male heir a few months ago in a British country house fire, there was a fourteenth family, actually a first family, since the title was premier in France; the family of de Tre- moille. With the loss of the young, duke, the line was wiped out.

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Bonidos these thirteen pristine familles, there are quantities of other titles. Dukes, Viscounts, Counts, Barons, Marquises. But the return of the Bourbons would cast, one hears, a decided shade on many of these. At present, with no noble protocol to follow, they are all eminent in the circles which they choose to frequent. A rone wal of courtly etiquette might diminish greatly the splendor in which some of these titled folk now move among the great democratic population of France. There are many titles which no Bourbon would. recognize-Napoleonie titles, for instance, sprinkled with lavish Corsican generosity among the First Emperor's own relatives; dis- tributed furthermore by the little emperor, Loula-Napoleon sixty-odd years ago.

How deep popular enthusiasm for the restoration goes is a ques- tion. For years the whole burden of royalist propaganda in France has been carried on the sturdy and very competent shoulders of two decided commoners-Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras, whose royalist daily, 'Action Francalac is perhaps the most brilliantly written, certainly the most diverting of any Paris newspaper.

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The claim of the Duc de Guise to the crown of France is based on the fact that he is a lineal de-

scendant of Leuls IX (Saint- Leula) and of Henri IV, not to mention Louis XIII and the grand- daddy of all the French kings. Hugh Capet.

Less mention is made of the fact that he is also a lineal de- scendant of that other Bourbon, Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, who took the name of Philippe Egalite dur- ing the Revolution, voted for the death of his relative Louis XVI on the guillotine, and has since been known to history as the Regicide.

Equality was never a strong point with the House of France and, no doubt, the little slip of the older Philippe has long since been passed over as an unfortunate 1amily complication best forgot ten. Certainly in recent years nIO aspirant Bourbon has taken any chances of mingling any unequal blood with his and thus diminish- ing the pure strain of the royal- FOE OF BOTH WINGS,

line. But the direct line from the Now Dollfuss does not love the great Louis XIV has got more or Socialists any more than docs Foy.less tangled and recent pretend- But there is this difference: Doll- ers have been no more than great- fuse recognizes that it is a man's great-grand-nephews of the Sun- size Job to tackle the Austrian King. His predecessor in the job Nazis, financed as they are by the was the Duc d'Orleans, whose title Hitlerites. Germany is their hap-if he had reigned would have been

(Continued on Next Columns.) Philippe VIII.

Above scenes taken at the Race Couris la Shanghal when the 2nd Bn. The Worcesters, marched from their Camp for a rehearsal of movements for the trooplag of the colours on St. George's Day. Above, preceded by the files, are shown the officers in command, centre is the drum corps and below.

troops are shown marching in

The career of the Due d'Or leans, who was born in England, was a succession of mishaps from time when he was accused

the

of displaying untoward agitation because a spent buckshot hit him in the nose at a British shooting party.

After a pseude-heroic effort to enlist as a common soldier in the Fronch army which landed him in jail (where he entertained lavish ly) he was mixed up in a divorce suit, fell in love with an opera singer which cost him the hand of

py refuge when they flee their homeland. In Germany they or ganize Austrian Nazi battalions, which hope some day to march across the border from Bavaria and turn things upside down.

RIGHT: From his Belgian reirent, the Duc de Goise (in. set) dreams of another corona- tion in a royal court of France, such as that depicted in the old skatch which you are here. BE. LOW: The Count and Countess of Parle, cos and daughter-in- law of the Duc de Guise, and their two children, Princess Jan- bella and Frlace Heart, who may some day become a king.

jou.”

one bride-to-be, married another point he took up his quarters near titled lady, and promptly went off Brussels in Belgium on an estate on a big-game hunt. Many years which he calls the "Manoir d'An- later he tried to annul the mar riage on the score that the Arch- ducheas Dorothea of Austria had never born him a son.. Falling, he cut her off in his will, and died in 1920.

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of a pretender, the Duchess of

Guise is frequently seen in Par-

is. A gracious and charming lady,

ale visits the old nobility and learns from them the progress of the cause. A few years ago a lit It was in 1931 that Duc de tle coup d'etat of her own was ar Guise's son, Henri, Count of Paris, ranged for her. It was the ocea married a Bourbon cousin, Prin- sion of the unveiling of the Joan cess Isabel d'Orleans de Bragance of Arc statue bealde, the Tullertes. in lavish pomp in Naples. A you At a certain point in the proces later they had a girl, which does slon, when a group of royallats

With this example of how not In the view of Dollfuss, to tackle to act, the present pretender, the the. Socialists would be to compel Duc de Guise, is a very different not count in succession to the was marching past the Duchess the government to fight on two fronts, making the victory doubt type. His mother and father both French throne according to the wae suddenly seen upon a balcony ful. He would rather let the were Bourbons, cousins descend rules of the Bourbons Five of a nearby hotel, Thereupon, Socialiste alone. He is convinced ing from King Louls-Philippe. months ago, however, an heir was royalist cheers rose in the heart that, as between his government since he was not in direct line to bom, Fringe Henrl, which Insures of Paris. and a Nazi, government, the Reds the throne, he was able to live in the Duc de Guise of at least two The Duke, according to his will support him.

Fey has no such qualms. If France, and, though rofused a given a free hand, he would just commission in the French army, as gindly attack the Socialiste 58 devoted himself to hospital and the Nazis. He believes he could service of supply work just back make a clean mweep of both “one-.

more geberations of Bourbon as piration for a return of the French monarchy,

friends, has two pastimes, apart from his interest in his estate. One is the study of military uni- The Duc de Guise, when his forms. He is, It is reported, cap. grandson was a fortnight old, took able of describing In detail, the wine to his lips, and then rubbed regiment that has served ing them with a bit of garlic, accord- France within the memory of man. ing to an old Bourbon customis second pastimo is the tam

mica" of the Austrian state. But of the line In very exposed sectors up to now he has been playing ball during the World War. him in his arms, put a little white dress uniform of virtually every

with Dollfuss, However, there Married to his cousin, Princess are those who believe In his own time he expects to be full boss, isabelle. Also a Bourbon, he main buria ball ained a huge estate in northern

know it has a master, for this manFranco until the death of the Duc

bourine, which it is said he playa şi with the piercing.

gray blue

Jupe d'Orleans and his own succession and iron, Jaw knows no fear, and

him an exile from France. At that the visits to France of the wife himself, in solitude, Ponce heal

Joys fightin And A Brogue star as protender to the throne made Thore being no rule againet with great effect and pleasure to

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