1934-10-04 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

OCTOBER

1934.

"A MAN SENT BY GOD"

Sobieski Saved Christendom

BEAT TURKS OFFİ

AUSTRIAN

PLAINS

DIAMOND WEALTH OF WORLD

ILLIONS IN VAULTS AND ON FINGERS

REVIVING TRADE OBSERVED

Amsterdam, Sept. 21.

On women's necks and fingers: Indian n the treasure stores of rincos; and in bank vaults und amily safes, there ura to-day more han 60 tons of cut diamonds.

This immenso quantity of pre-

On September 12 colebrations took place in Vienna to commem. orate the heroic resistance mate by the city as the bulwark of thriatendon two hundred and fifty-one years ago, The danger came from the Ottoman Turks, Even when the eighteenth century | was close at hand the Turks werulous stones owned by the general well entrenched in the heurt of public throughout the world, weighs Europe. Most of Hungary was approximately 250 million carats, part of the Turkish Empire, and is vaheti at nearly £14,000,- Budapest was a Turkish city. 100,000, The Turkish frontier was bul four- score miles from Vienna.

"These figures may sound enor- mous," Mr. Johan J. Smit, well- known Amsterdam diamond denter told the United Press, "but they

dustry employs more than 600,000

On June 30, 1883, a rigantic Turkish army under the Grand Vizler, Kara Mustapha, began its march from Belgrade with the are not out of proportion. The in- capture of Vienna as its object. The Emperor fled on July 7, aemon in the mining districts; 25,- companied in his fight by 00,000,000 catters throughout the world; 10,000 dealers in unset atones, and Viennese, Some troona vero thrown into the place. But the probably another 100,000 in jewel- hearts of the citizens sank within era shops.” them when they saw a second town rlsing bofore them, more populous than their own. There were over 100,000 tenta. There were troops

f

"And people are buying dia monds again," continued Mr. Smit. "Although the market for big stones is still somewhat limited,

of camela and herds of elephante. since the depression, the sale of For There was a vast citadel, of allk | small diamonds is increasing. 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 »bove, in the high

SHAKESPEARE'S GENIUS

INTIMACY WITH FRENCH POLITICS

country.

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

Constable Palmer, of the Allens tend before sherif within 21 Department, said that the girl had days. The witnesses could not be Tailed to notify her change of traced. address and a change of occupa tion

from lady's companion to motor-car driver.

Defendant said that she was do- The remarkable suggestion that

ing her best to trace the witnesses Shakespeare's play, "Love's Labou»

The girl told the magistrate that to the marriage. She and her Lost," was the sequel to a long she was at college until a year ago and had lived together since vialt paid by Shakespeare to the and had no definite occupation. the marriage. They were both town of Nerac in Lot-et-Garonne. She had been in England since property stomielled in Scotland he- where Marguerite' do Valol, wife) ---

of Henry of Navarre, held a bril- liant Court, was made by the savant, Mr. Mathias Marhardt, in A paper rend before, the Society of Authors of Acqultaine in Paris. In this paper, which is published in the Temps, M. Marhardt claims that the play could only have been written by man Intimately familiar with French politics, and with the Court of the mous Henry IV., King of Franen went of Navarre," who was murdered: in 1610, six years before Shake- speare's death."

Previous scholars have malo- Lained that Shakespeare found the sources of his play in the Chront- 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 the play are merely thinly-dia-, guised personages of Henry IV's Court. He aflirms that these life- like historical portraits in the play cauld only be the result of-person-, al observation.

In regard to M. Harhardt's claim, It is worth while recalling that English Shakespearean students generally agree that Shakespeare' derived his knowledge of French

The demolition of London's famed Waterloo Bridge is in progress.. Hore and of the French from a refugee

is a view of the historic structura.

1.

th

There were gardens and fountains form a good investment." and baths. All told, the encamp- Another boon to the diamond

servants.

ment must have held over 300,000 trade is its increasing use by in- combatants, apart from an enorm-dustry. Electrical works. nuto- ous number of camp followers and mobile factories, and various other industrial concerns employ dia- monds for grinding and drilling. For these purposes the best type of stone is required.

FRANTIC APPEAL.

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

SCOTTISH LAWS ON MARRIAGE

Burma, the country of the rubles, where natives work la dried-up river

courses to find precious stones,

she was, four, and claimed to before the ceremony.

The Emperor Leopold seat out frantic appeals to the sovereigns | The general public, however, is FRENCH GIRL'S CLAIM Scotsman at a

of Europe. Then was one power still the largest buyer, and its

ful aword thrown into the scale taste in diamonds varies according

on the sido Christendom. That

to countries. The Russian aristo-

OF CITIZENSHIP

In British subject by marriage. The Magistrate (Mr. Fry) Bald She was married last May to that there were several ways of flat in Princes getting married in Scotland and he would not determine the case Street, Edinburgh.

Palmer said that the man was without some evidence about the The validity of a Scottish mar-now serving a sentence nt Wands. Scottish law. He adjourned the was the sword of King John Ill, of eracy, before the war, bought huge rlage between a French girl just worth Prison. The police had no case for the polico to be legally Poland, who but a few years be- fore, had been plain John Sobieski.numbers of big yellow sparklers. leaving collego and a young man'proof of the alleged marriage, represented.

A Polish general with a brilliant Following the revolution, says Mr. record, he had from childhood Smit, a yellow river of these so- called "cape" diamonds flooded the been imbued with a hatred against European markets.United Press. the Turks as fierce as that felt for the Romans by Hannibal. His- brilliant military succosses against

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

line. On August 9 Sobieski

he is still known to history-anw Such was the arrogance of the the Emperor's ambassador and the Turkish commander that he un- Papal nuncio. A week later he dertook three objectives at once. led his army from Cracow,

He sent ane detachment to attack the Polea. A second detachment was to nenult the elty. A third Meanwhile the Imperial city was was to march towards Hungary almost at its last gasp. For aixty with loot. two days the cannonade never

THIRTY SORTIES

But the terrible Polish cavalry

consed. From July 28 to Septem-saw to it that such tactics could ber 10 over thirty mines and coun- ter-mines had been fired. The not be tried with impunity. With 70,000 mon Sobleski began the garrison had been stormed fifty battlo on September 12. The three times, had driven the enemy Turks were simply swept off their back on every occasion, and hnd foot, Kara Mustapha took to made over thirty sorties,

By the beginning of September, flight. Enormous booty was left owing to the collection of so many on the field, and Sobieski was people in do small a place, the able to write to his wife that "for two nights and a day ovorybody stench and filth had become un has been taking what he likes bearable. Pestilence had broken

The next day Sobleski entorel out. Rockets were now fred from the ramparts every night to an- Vienna. A service of thanksgiv nounce to the relieving arm the ing was held in the cathedral, und, extremities of the besieged gar after the Te Deum, a sermon was delivered on the text, "There was risan, Still there was no aluna mon sent by God whose name relief, until one evening a sentinel!

was John."

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