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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934.

"A MAN SENT BY: GOD"

Sobieski Saved Christendom

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On-September 12 celebrations

DIAMOND WEALTH OF WORLD

JILLIONS IN VAULTS AND ON FINGERS

REVIVING TRADE

OBSERVED

Amsterdam, Sept. 21.

took place In Vienna to commem- On women's necks and fingers; orate the herole resistance made in the treasure stores of Indian by the elly as the bulwark of princes; and in bank vaults and Christendom two hundred and family anfes, there are to-day more fifty-one years ago. The danger than 60 tons of cut diamonds. came from the Ottoman Turks.

Even when the eighteenth century This Immense quantity of pra was close at hand the Turks were clous stones owned by the general well entronched in the heart of public throughout the world, weighs Europe. Most of Hungary was approximately 250 million carats, part of the Turkish Empire, and is valued at nearly £14,000,-" Budapest wag ♫ Turkish city. | 000,000. The Turkish frontier was but four- score miles from Vienna,

"These figures may sound enor mous." Mr. Johan J. Smit, well- known Amsterdam diamond dentor told the United Press, "but they are not out of proportion. The in- dustry employs more than 500,000 men in the mining districts: 25,- 000 cutters throughout the world: 10,000 dealers in unset atones, and probably another 100,000 in jewel- era shops,"

Ou June 30, 1883, a gigantle Turkish army under the Grand Vizler, Kara Mustapha, began ita march from Belgrade with the capture of Vienna as its object The Emperor fed on July 7, nc- companied in his fight by 60.000 Vigunesc. Some troops were thrown into the place. But the hearts of the citizens sank within them when they saw a second town

"And people are buying dia- rising before them, more populous monds again," continued Mr. Smit. than their awa. There were over "Although the market for bise 100.000 tents. There were troops stones is still omewhat Hmited, of camels and herds of elephants. since the depression, the sale of There was a vast citadel of silk smail diamonds is increasing. For for the Grand Vizier's harem. one thing they are cheap now, and

One of the many expeditions into the Himalayas, headed by Professor Dyrenfurth, pictured above, in the high

SHAKESPEARE'S GENIUS

INTIMACY WITH FRENCH POLITICS

The remarkable suggestion that Shakespeare's play, "Love's Labour Lost," was the sequel to long visit paid by Shakespeare to the town of Nerae in Lot-et-Garonne, where Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry of Navarre, held a bril liant Court, was made by the savant, Mr. Mathias Marhardt, in a paper read before the Society 5 Authors of Acquitaine in Paris, In this paper, which is publisheJ in the Temps, M: Marhardt claims that the play could only have been writen by a man Intimately familiar with French pólities and| with the Court of the famous Henry V., "King of France and) of Navarre," who was murdered) in 1610, alx years before Shake- speare's death.

Previous scholars have main- tained that Shakespeare found the sources of his play in the Chroni- cles of Monstrelet, but Mr. Mar- hardt claims that the Chronicles are not half so full or so accurate in detail as Shakespeare, and also that the principal characters of play are merely thinly-dis- gulsed personages of Henry IV's Court. He affirms that these life- like historical, portraits in the play could only be the result of person-

lobservation."

The

In regard to M. Harhardt's cinim,

It is worth, while recalling that

country.

now in prison was questioned at Under Scottish law there must be Bow Street Police Court when the two witnesses at the ceremony. girl, described as Suzanne Lejeune, and he understood that where a was charged with offences under marriage took place at a house in the Aliens Act,

Scotland the witnessos must at- Constable Palmer, of the Allena tend before a sheriff within 21 Department, said that the girl bad days. The witnesses could not be falled

to notify her change of traced. address and a change of occupu- tion from Indy's companion to motor-car driver.

The girl told the magistrate that he was at college until a year ago and had no definite occupation. She had been in England since

English Shakespearean students generally agree that Shakespeare bang derived his knowledge of French

The demolition of London's famed Watarico Bridge la in progress. Here and of the French from a refugee

In view of the historic structure,

There were gardens and fountains and baths. All told, the escamp- mont must have held over 300,000 combatants, apart from an enorm ous number of camp followers and

servanta.

FRANTIC APPEAL. The Emperor Leopold sent out

form a good investment."

Auto-

Another boon to the diamond trade is its Increasing use by in- dustry. Electrical works, mobile factories, and various other industrial concerns employ dia- monds for grinding and drilling. For these purposen the best type of stone is required.

frantic appeals to the sovereigna The general public, however, is

of Europe. Then was one power-)

ful sword thrown into the scale still the largest buyer, and its

Huguenot family with whom he lodged for some time in London. There is no evidence that he ever travelled abroad.

SCOTTISH LAWS ON MARRIAGE

FRENCH GIRL'S CLAIM OF CITIZENSHIP

Defendant said that she was do- ing her best to trace the witnesses her to the marriage. She and husband had lived together since the marringe. They properly domiciled in Scotland be

were both

Burma, the country of the rabies, whore natives work in dried-up river

‚courses to find precious 'stones.

she was four and claimed to before the ceremony. in British subject by marriage. The Magistrate (Mr. Fry) said She was married last May to a that there were several ways of Scotsman at a flat in Princes getting married in Scotland and Street, Edinburgh.

he would not determine the ease Palmer said that the man was without some evidence about the on the side of Christendom. That taste in diamonds varies according

The validity of a Scottish marinow serving a sentence at Wands Scottish law. He adjourned tho. was the sword of King John III, of Poland, who but a few years be-a, before the war, bought hugege between a French girl just worth Prison. The police had no case for the police to be legally fore, had been plain John Sabicski. numbers of big yellow sparklers leaving college and a young man proof of the alleged marriage.represented.

A Polish general with a brilliant Following the revolution, says Mr.

to countries. The Russian aristo-

record, he had from childhood Smit, a yellow river of these so-

called "capo" diamonds flooded the

bren Imbued with a hatred against European markets-United Press. the Turks as fierce as that felt

for the Romans by Hannibal. Hig brilliant military successes against

the Turks at one time it seemed a light upon a hilltop, and likely that they would reach the shortly afterwards, to the in- gates of Warsaw-had led to his expressible joy of the starving in- election to the throne, shortly habitants, a column of Polish after the extinction of the royal hussars was seen debouching into

the plain, line. On August 9 Sobieski-ag he is still known to history-saw the Emperor's ambassador and the Papal nunelo.

A week later ho led his army from Cracow.

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The

Such was the arrogance of the Turkish commander that he un- dertook three objectives at once. He sent one detachment to attack the Polen. A second detachment} was to assault the city. A third wan to march towards Hungary with loot.

THIRTY SORTIES Meanwhile the Imperial city was almost at its last gasp. For sixty- two days the cannonude never!

But the terrible Polish cavalry. consed. From July 28 to Septem ber 10 over thirty mines and coun-saw to it that much tactics could tor-mines had been fired.

not be tried with impunity. With garrison had been stormed fifty- 70,000 men Sobleak! began, the

batlla threo, times, had driven the enemy Turks were simply swept off their on September 12. The back on every occasion, and had feet. Kara Mustapha took to made over thirty sorties.

By the beginning of September, flight. Enormous booty was loft owing to the collection of so many able to write to his wife that "for upon the fold, and Sobieski was people in so small a place, the two nights and a day everybody atench and filth had become has been taking what he likes." bearable. Pestilence had broken out. Rockets were now fired from vionin. A servica of thanksgiv The next day Sobloski entere the ramparts every night to an nounce to the rolleving arm then was held in the cathedral, and, extromitica of the bealoged gar-after the Te Deum, & sermon was rison. Still there was no sign of delivered on the text, "There was relief, until one evening a sentinel man sent by God whose name

was Jolin.'

This is Youth's Day in Moscow, Rusela attaches importants to the training of young girls, as well as boys.

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