THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, JULY
1985
WINE AS WEATHER
PROPHET
BETTER THAN BAROMETER
ANCIENT CUSTOM
By Robert K, Best United Press Staff Correspondent,
Vienna, June 14, Wine
weather-prophet, allegedly more reliable than the fincat of barometers, is to-day one of the chief items
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SPANISH POLITICS
THERESIANUM ACADEMY
PREMIER · OUTLINES [HISTORY OF EUROPE'S
PROBLEMS
DESIRES TO RETIRE
By LESTER ZIFFREN
Madrid, June 10.
Lerroux, Premier Alejandro Spain's 70-year-old Republican veteran, expressed the hope to-day that it would be possible to restore complete normalcy In Spain so that he could retire and make room for younger political gladiators.
FAMOUS SCHOOL
FOUNDED FOR NOBILITY.
By Phyllis Chisholm (United Preis Special Correspondent)
the
Vienna, June 14. The presence
Archduke of of Hapsburg at Eugen Theresianum ball this year shows the trend of the times back to- warda Imperial sentiment
"This desire," he said, "le be splendour. of discussion
As I hore in the city which reputedly coming stronger each day
left for a generation now in the universities and which will con- clude the work already initiated for a new and happy Spalt."
lie added he was pleased with politlen! developments,
ball.
and
am-
Scenes of devastation ware disclosed in Shanghai in the vicinity of the godown of the Great China Celluloid Factory, off Ferry road, where a disastrous explosion and fire took place. The death roll has now mounted to 16, while 63 injured and burned people are tying in various hospitais.
It has been many years since a gave to the world one of its most reflect upon a modest and agreeable representative of the former Royal popular bohemian slogans by dis-retirement without further inter-House of Austria has attended this The Theresianum Academy was covering the most exquisite way of vention in problems which will be mixing wine, women and song in
the most famous and exclusive Just the right propertions.
of the "Go thou to the wine cellar, Mr.
school of Central and Southern Europe during the days
year Weatherman, and look well and long on the wine whether it be red,
Monarchy and its ball enca given by the old boys was attend- white or golden," Is the advice be-
"I feel certain that my enemies fed by the Emperor and his court. King Alphonso XII of Spain re- ing given in liberal doses to the official meteriological experts will be converted into my adver
Prime following their failure on several maries just as my adversaries heceived his education here, also
Count Bethlen, former occasions to predict correctly the came converted into collaborators he ex-Kho live of Egypt and week-end weather which to the in the national labour 1 have been Minister of Hungary, the Princes
1 am sure that my
of Starhemberg, the Princes of Austrians is of the highest im-carrying out.
and of yesterday portance because of their habit of adversaries leaving the city in hundreds of friends of to-day will daily become Furstenberg, and numerous other
The names of countless thousands for hikes through the more identified with the republican noble families.
princes, countryside from Saturday till regime at the same time that the
regime consolidates itself with the bassadors, archdukes, Sunday night.
The theme has even been taken national conscience. My Rightist counts and barons are to be seen cracy being represented by. The up by some newspapers, and his-allies have not placed difficulties in on its roll, the Hungarian aristo- torie examples of alcohol'e reliabl-my path."
Apparently convinced that his Prince of Festitics, the Counts
royal portraits, murol lity to forecast rain and other ele-
baro-cabinet will not have trouble re- of Czechenyi, the Counts of Ester-
On the invasion of the Turks in corridors, mentary events when the moter, was refusing to speak have maining in power, Leroux nutlined hazy: the Italian nobility with the
the problems facing the Govern- Marquis of Visconti, the Duke of 1682, Count Rudinger of Starhem- paintings, xilded doors and cell- Odescalchi, the Princes of Rus-berg (the ancestor of the presentings still botone the royal residen- been given in abundance..
All ordered Vice-Chancellor),
ce of former times, and the rid- poli; and Poland by the Princes In the former Imperial Wine ment.
Lichnowski, the Princes Gurtsyn-
buildings outside Vienna to be Cellar of the Hapsburgs, for
aki.
burnt down. Most of the Thereing school and swimming pool as they were, when instance, it la claimed that the
"Our principal problems
MARK OF DISTINCTION
left intact are much Rianum's walls were wine, three storeys under the quidation of the events of last ground, literally rumbles on the October (the Socialist revolution)
Originally conceived as an edu- and the castle was rebuilt in 1687 Queen Marie Antoinette of France eve of sudden rain. Gas-filled and re-establishment of constitu
by the to become the residential palaco once played there as a child,
It was here that Crown Prince bubbles rise and set a if they tional normality. We must con-cational establishment
Empress Maria Theresia (from) would free the wine from impri- front the unemployment question. Court of Austrin for sons of noble of several successive empresses.
its name)Rudolph's bride, Princess Bonment in the casks; the heavier We must draft a budget for next families, who would afterwards the impending rains the wilder year, if possible, without a deficit,become the country's ambassadors whom the school got the action of the wine,
We must prepare, with an electoral and political ministers of state, eventually aranged it for use as phony of Belgium stayed according old an educational establishment for to old custom before her entry the fact of having been un reform, for municipal elections. KINGS OF WINES
"I will introduce the question of Theresianist was a hall mark of the sons of the nobility who were into the city.
Among the students during the They wore a uniform designed Here, In huge casks and in hot-constitutional revision but it will distinction that formerly opened to serve her at court,
by the court, carried a sword and last few years were two American ties, tens of thousands of gallons be up to Parliament and the poll-all doors in the social and fashion-
able world.
the end of the war the buys from San Diego, Frank Lock- of the world's finest wines repose; tient parties to decide thereon."
The massive building of numer-up to
the Hapsburg hart, son of the American Consul- itoferring to Spain's foreign
its from ropose, that is, until rains threa
drawn were
General in Tientsin and Ted akies policy, the Prime Minister said:ous courtyards was originally a young pages ten to descend from the which many of the wines last saw "Spain must place herself in a post- sporting castle outside the wails Court
In the large reception rooms and Kaysen. decades ago when as grapes they tion in accordance with her trad-of Vienna built by Emperor Mat- students, left their vines for wine presses tion and her geographical situation,thias in 1615..
PRINCIPAL PROBLEMS
are
in almost all quarters of the t the period of time for realising
globe where good wines are pro- duced.
They are the kings of wines and
this must not be limited by ad- venturous prophecies.
IL meana
not only military but diplomatic and commercial action as well to
the
were originally intended for the gether with expansion of the spirit kings of the people in this part of the race which bas many im- of the world.
portant groups throughout Some day they may again be
work." reserved for the palates of Aus- Pointing to the Socialists, he' trian royalty and their guesta said: "I hope that the parties At the moment, however, they are which lived feverish hours of civil .available for anyone who has and and even social war, will have their restored." United le willing to pay the price which equilibrium ranges as high as forty "Roose velt-Morgenthau" dollars (namely two hundred Austrian Schillings) per bottle for the finest of the
Bo-called Tokay Essence.
Press.
Whereas this old Court cellar
is in position to predict only rains
The wine may be consumed on and other changes in the weather, the premises in a restaurant-cellar it is said, the wine cellars of equipped and opened to the public Naples predict even volcanic erup- after the
may be taken tinns if they inherited
terror of Vesuvius from away, as desired. All profits go eternal to the Austrian War Veterans' the days when Pompeii was dea-
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The world-wide observance of the Silver Jubiles of King Guorge's accession to the throne was typified in the memorial thanksgiving services conducted in the Washington (D.-C.) Cathedral, attended by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who la plotur ed as she grested British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay.
General P. T. Mow introducing to Signor Mussolini' twenty pilot officers of the Chinese Air Force when they arrived in Italy for a period of training in the units of the Italian Air Force. Signor Mussolini in listening to a panch by General Mow. By Signor Mussolini's side are Gen. oral Valle, Italian Air Minister and Chief of General Staff, and Capt. F, Drago, Air Attache to the Italian Embassy in China.
Miss Butterfly Wa, China's leading motion-picture actress, hae returned from a four months' tour of Europe, during which she visited the International Film Exhibition in Moscow. The pic. „ture show, Miss Wu beiny greeted by enthusiastic admiráva'in Shangbai,
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