HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-08-02, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934
THE SEAFGIRTH NEWS
PACE TH'REE:t.
'CHANCELLOR OF AUSTRIA
'SLAIN BY 'tNAZIS
The peace o'f Europe hung in dela,
Cate balance last 'week as The powers
aimed upon either side Ila ,the 'fulcrum
"-4Austria—where 'civil strife between
Nazis and .government troops follow
wd the assassinat'e'd of ,Chancellor
Dollfues. The great war alignment
vias again 'approxiwated — 'Italy
'France, 'Great !Britain and the little
entente ail reported ready •to take
Steps against union between Austria
;and 'Germany, 'Germany essayed a
+strictly neutral course, re.calting her
'minister for unauthorized intervention
•at Vienna and closing her borders to
political refugees from Austria.
'French sources, which have regard-
ed Naziism as a war menace since
Hitler came 10 pidwer, professed rev
•erthriess to see the hand. of 'Germany
and Der Ihuehrer behind the 'Austrian
Nazi putsch.
Mussolini gave assuraaice 'that Italy
will defend Austrian independence.
The Austrian government, still con-
trolled by Dollfuss men bitterly op-
posed to Anschtuss (union with 'Ger-
many),
ermany), was reported to have asked
the armed intervention of European
power., \Vhether armed assistance
will materialize, it was said, will be
decided ata conference of diplomatic
representatives in Vienna, but Italian
troops already were mobilizing, rave concern throughout c\nstria,
On July d'$th a group o'f fanatical 'Phis new Germany, horn of the Na-
Nazi-', variously e-timated at from tional Socialist revolution, was not
1144 te, 309 made a daring seizure of tite laud of .Germa'ny with which the
the chancellery in Vienna which re- majority- of Austrians had dreamed of
stilted in IDollfuss' aseaesination. The merging their country, Long reconctl-
Nazi conspirators, wearing ,Heintw•ebr ed to Vienna's playing second fiddle
t:nifornte, Swooped down on the to 'Berlin, they had, nevertheless:
chancellory and, killing'Dollfuss ahottt hoped to preserve their once imperial
5 pm., held control of the Indicting capital as at least a euper-3funirh,
for six hours. They compelled Enol Now they saw• in the .\nachhtss their
daey, vice chancellor, to go to the hal—country reduced to a geographical ex-
cony time and again to reassure :he l e-sion,
crowd ctitside, and order troops and
Chancellor 1 ngclbert Dollftus,
lee ma t, harm Nazis. When night
t
fell they arranged with Fey for safe s c e diemaycd at the turn
ugai to
cern had taken, was almost power -
['mallet t, the German birder. This ,es to combat the rising National So -
a cin led when it was lutnH1 that \ t. tr.a. Ni- coalition
ti',. 1 t -- hast been sacra, orad the c(41 -e t h`` tide in t
t,v;e'rmident, with its alre:uiy unerr-
i. ,a:,rs were arre<'ted,
world-wide depression again b'roughtl suggestions for, the restoration of the
!Austria's economic p'li'ght to .the fore. dN'etlonal .Council, the little Chancel-
,Nevet°thel'ess, the proposal of an -tor pra'ceeded to rule by decree. ale
Austro -'German Customs ..Union in placed a rigid censorship; outlawed
'\iasctlt, 11i93!l; aroused an immediate the Communist tarty; disarmed and
storm of protest' France, Italy and disbanded the S'chntz'bund, the Priv-
the Little Ententc viewed it es mere- 'ate army Of the Social 'Democrats; re-
ly a step toward the geaschlass in line stricted drastically the right of as -
with work already 'being clone to co- sernbly; expelled the Nazi members
ordinate the 'Austria') and tGermatl from the provincial diets, and pro -
'legal and ,educational systems. Austria hibited the holding di. municipal elec-
and 'Germany were ,haled 'before' the Botts which 'were giving the Hitler-
:IN:od t Cotirt, However, the day be- iter an opportunity to take advantage
fore it was •aetnounced that that au_ of their growing strength. The Ger-
gust'tri'b•unal had decided' by a vote of man ,N!ttzis had counted on setting up
8 to 7 against the custome union, Dr, overnight a National Socialist ,Govern-
Schober, on behalf of Austria, re- ment in Austria, as they later did in
nouneed the project 'be'fore the Lea- Danzig, They had also expected Aus-
gue Assembly. trio to acgnieace and t:, present the
To recoup its losses in population world with a "iait accompli" whicn
and territory inflicted by the Treaty of would be for all practical purposes the
Versailles, Germany had striven an -
both
With Nazi governments in
ceasingly to have Austria incorporated. both Berlin and Vienna, they knew
in the Reich, :Six and a half million that when the Wilhelmstrasse ordered,
additional Germans would add int- the BalIbausplatz would obey. They
measurably to Germany's prestige in were, therefore, both amazed and pro-
eoutheastern Europe, and the old yoked at the starbhorn resistance they
dream of Mitteleuropa night yet be- encountered. German radio stations
come reality, 'Despite the wide di- commenced broadcasting attacks ag
vergence of political opinion in 'Ger- ainst •Dollfuss and all his words. Air -
many since the war. there has been a1- planes were soar flying over Austrian
most unanimity in favor Of the An_ territory, dropping propaganda. leaf-
lets fulminating clouds were, however, •lets fulminating against the, Austrian
to gather over the horizon of Austro- Government.
German relations. Herr Adolf Hitler's Jul the face of these activities; Dr.
sensational rise to power had aroused •l)nllfu-s steadfastly refused to resort
to reprisals. Although these affronts
to r\uetria'e sovereignty night have
been interpreted as acts of war, the
little 'Chancellor scrupulously avoided
challenging the Reich. 'Ile 'calmly re-
iterated that Au -aria had no quarrel
with Germany, was ltd a German
state, anal: merely desired to preserve
its independence, Nevertheless, de-
spite his c, nciliatory attitude, when
the 'Austrian :iasis launched a cam-
paign of terror, Dr. Doul', c dissoly-
eel their Harty in Austria, eet tip c..n-
ecntration campe, declarer martial
law, ancd even erected a c'allou's. He
also established his "Patriotic Front"
and rallied Austrians, regardless of
party, to the de en c of their coun-
try's independence. The average Aus-
trian revolted ataiu-a the terrorism
and soon approximately 70 per cent of
the people were vi *armsely opposed to
DOLLFUSS AND AUSTRIA
Wile:: 1 hilt Vienna in 192e, after
im.,ntlts its Austria, '1 would have
estimated that over 70 per cent ,'f the
.\iIstrian people were in favor of the
:fin-c'.ttuse ar union with Germany.
The c :lapse of tile 1)ttal \.ant hy'
niter tour years ea war had last Atte-
tria pr.•trata, Cut off frtan the sea
and etrii'ped of ite coral an,l° aricttl-
111- 1 hinterland. Anetria Karl cease 1 to
be cit upporting, 1iriff Ovalis, ri-ing
Tepidly a1r'ng the iry Iters a-' the
tSitcceeeion States, had shot et c ii front ti'onal Council in the Spring ni1 i
its former market, Its factories were aver the railway strike, the seeeioit
degenerated int. a riot. The three
preeidents of the National Council,
pc•werless to restore order, resigned
one by one, and awoke the trcxt day'
ta discover that by their ill -c 'nsidered
lain main:•ity of inc . in 1110 Nati(•na}
C„until. w -as its a prccari,:'41 p,sition.
The ifit'rrites, wlib . tt: thereentatii,n
t the National Council,were elan:'r- anion with a Brown Shirt Germany,.ng for a parliamentary election. The -Their itulependence had at last be
Social Dent' crats., in the hope of be- Conte ti \u -mono a ede,.it:ih e thing
able to crush the rise of the Na- •Tn the 1,acka,rannul were also, power -
:a nn: Social' -t• in the shell, joined fu: allic 1•ra::co Italy, and the Little
1)
in cthe cry. Dr, 11inss could not be Entente had all inhcate'l quite plainly
'
.ore, in a vote 11 meatsuree directed that they woniel regard a Nazi :\u -tris
a titist hath the ..National Socialists as analogous to the \nschluee, An
,.t, l Social Democrat., that he could .\nstro4Gertuatr union would .pot Cze-
rely on the pro-'Cerman Agrarian clro,hw•tk:a. in a vise, the ultimate re -
League to hold its lines, according to salt .of
of wltielt nti lit well he t'omplete
:natty leading cr uvucntato,rs to - of independence. The anion of
-During the bitter debate in tae- Na- Germany my and Metria would a l -o
ct,, make the 1 tits larirs ea the Reich and
Yitdo-tavia conflown:-,
In view of the -e 'act., France ran
rely to the ttttnost on the Support of
these two -rites in her cardinal policy
try tt t thought
- .. .,
of preventing the Al aclause, The d
og-
' � god Manner in which leaner fought
e. a: the thought of Nat one rproposal its 1'931 re-
'Ra:ch, had prr�mptty vetoed .this pro- ?taste, they had created a parliament- the tariff utrion
tos:aI. and the Treaty of St, Gar- ry impasse for which the tt ,ritm veils clearly Frttce'- attitude, ,A
1 1 theC' tit'ti,n Mal nide nn printeinn. Fren'1, spokesman a year ago said:
The National
oral times by Chancellor D'ollfuss,'
iI-lie explained why he refused to share,
power with the Nazis and to yield to
their desire to create disorder, just as
he had refused the offers of the 'Ger-
man commissioner of the National
IS'ocfaliet nroventcatt in Austria against
all threats and all terrorism.
"It is that very independence which
is at stake today.
'"O•ur second subject, the union of
Austria and 1Huugary, is less clear.
"It is nnneeeeeary to point out at.
length. the German opposition to a
Danubian 'Federition of which she fe
not a member.
"So far as the ('France) are con-
cerned, ae have no reason to change
mir t»mds. We are ro more favorable
to a new accord embracing two or
five or seven cc•nntries than 10 Andrea
Tardicu'e plan. We do not want to
eliminate 'Germany e'r Italy from the
Danube any' mere than we want to
see them dominant."
The alacrity , ith which Paris and
her a tic cense d last September',
to permit A tt-:ria t.' waive the Treaty
Of St. Gerinair t, perms Austria to
recruit. a '}:ort vertu auxiliary arttty..
to he'p parol the :\utsro - German
frontier le further evidence. of
,Frances determination to eppo:e to
the la't ditch tate annexation of
Austria, Despite Italy's antagonism
toward France and friendly feeling to-
ward a Fascist Germany, \lueeolini
has opposed the Anscht lee. Every'
mote 'Germany ha made in that di-
1mC110n ?tax brr.t::h1 Italy quickly to
France.- side. It will be recalled that
it w'a= an Italian judge want cast the
deciding volt in tile World Conrt
against the Customs -Union, The
hoisting of the S;\ astaca at the Brea -
tier Pa -s, ratcient pathway of Teuton-
ic hordes into rhe plains of Italy,
would be the signal for a forniida'h:e
Irrcriea'st movement ite South Tyrol,
Once n C,,rit taia. Gerinany- w'owlrl
't, and its people hungry. In - des-
;,;tir, the :\ustrian National Asseiv'.,ty
It :d v,ded. in '101'9 to mer:ge the corm-
try- Th "ire alarm -
‘0,,a be '•in tar' Tre-te and
the .\ 7 a •c. 'Feel llueeoluti. is pre-
pare,; 1 re'•:,ler Atl-:ria .v}tatever as_
rt ut e may ht necessary. should a
crisis ari-r, further evidenced by
t!te rent,. vel ' .\iteltst ' 1 the c,.,ut-
manrl a; the P<.nrt't Malian \rnty
Carp. Iran Ver.,:a to 1',c,z:tato, just
h0 tit to -„tth the ii Citner Pass!
'rhe ',1_n- - _\a ria :rant u2
a.
first--:lu-:ri•t, threatcna,l by Hit-
lerrut t tt t ,n dee d ng Inde.
petu:nee en,r_etic,ilty :-r h-ttt P011 -
tical
tical t l rt 'ni reason,.
Secat i tat It Ieet o; at least an
ecam .nie ream -al -lenient betwee11
\u-1ri:t :.ttt1II'.gooey late •ttecn in-
tcrpreted far i1,. t`n:c •t: the first
re-a•!'tle result of a t'. ttr-Potver pact.
Tanta- Dae 1 ilio app, air•n of the
Little Entente the s: t't r moil mem-
',ers a.:n. plan have !tees „',lied to
alter it int , n far n..icn of fire
,ow'e'r•,
d Q'u'ilt— \ ,. .
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told ,•+rase -,rd-.
to<, , . the tics
.•',i rary, e<luiv ,c,
An Ater ni., ' m 11et•ed a -1 a•o in
,taw Tt:n later provided that m- ons 1 had been frit "'fwa pre,birnds present thenselyes at Caa-5e„t d it.••. ht an attache ,tae,
�i Austria was' inalicr.;tble T} '� t al Cornier •,moi p far you
witiam1411 r l
- ' Council r, 111 a state Of suspended animation, this time—nt�iw a:isnt m \u t-ta and- d , 1 pa cel •t n,
the Le the ci Nati of 'the
�t c -f Nations, unable to convene, leis;ate, or ad- union of Austria with Hwt,ary, to a -ked the a't.t. .
the Leaotc
Witen to Vienna in ]1130 journ ! understand then, t is c: tnaniettt t "Nit. rte." l :w.'. I il t.;k'
,.ten T re ,t use way 11 r ,l t -t :101 .lie string.
I I.•;rtrl tittle change had taken place ''Dr. D 41st- was quirk to seize -study them =e, ar,ttely.
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
DON'T GO ON HOLIDAY
'WITH YOUR 'SWEETHEART
It is dangerous, wed often 'fatal, to
goon holiday with your s'weetheart.
ii you are really serious a'b'out marry -
'ng hint, says:a Scottish paper.
There are a remarkable number of
personal revelations to be made dur-
ing the 'first few months of marriage
--aand all of them not too .agreeable,
Brat people, once married, nauaily de-
termine to make the best of it.
-Matters, however, .are • different be-
fore marriage, "I ant almost sorry,"
a pretty girl remarked to me at the
end of last stenrtner, "that my family
and Peter's agreed to join farces at
the ,sea. You see, till then 1 had al-
ways idealised !Peter, but after I lead
once seen how he bullied his little
'brother !I could not, •If I do ever
marry a man I hope I shall he able
to ideailise 'him up to the. wedding clay
at least."
Since then site itis thought things
over, and she aad Peter will never be
Man and wife—not the first wedding
that ]las ,been destroyed by a holiday
together, It snul,tl• cynical to say that
'the happiest engagement: are be-
tween Inca and girls who are. ceparat-
ed by long iistan•cea, aid yet that is
the einrple truth. The young co itple
who live next door but two its the
same suburb are apt to have a little
ton ntuclt of each other's company,
yet that is na.proof that their married.
life world be blissfully happy.
It is i epoaeible to compare the ab-
normal with the. norniat, ant) there 1'
no denying Chat an :engagement ie an
abnormal condition, The- mere -fact
that •hoth young people are ort their
best"behaviour, and wish always to all-
pear at their hest when in each other-:
society, means atilt they must live in
a state of considerable straits, Once
married both .agree that each a strain
cannot continele, and they adopt the
natural and ordinary attitude towards
each other, -
iA 'van agrees tt join a girl and
her chaperone for a Month's holiday.
Before they set out and on the rare
ncra•inu wleen they meet they -pend
blissint hours dreaming of the
nnse}'ere,1 companionship, of 1,t,.3
lonely- :ramp.. an,1 conversations that
are never curtailed because it .sa
train time, 'rile holiday come.,
first all ie perfect happiness, then
smell annoyances Neem to recur, ale
just a little eta -primal that ehe is ea
t1 tt„htless about her chapereme'-
•a11 rt. She it quite amazed to luta
Unhurt is ohlivir,us -e,i the fact that
stir gets so very tired when tramping
over the mountains-
!Both
tountains.d .th ei them are hurt that some
-
times cc,nvct ttion :;raw-
they scout to have molting left t, atty.
No one can live up to perfection for
a
fortnight, let alone a n,,,t111, and
they are toe young- to know that
three-ttitarters .1 the conversation et'sation 1:1
ail' average uprate eeetrt" round the
little everyday interests of It -e. These
Hutton] topics inteet t aro a,tumt-
latcd with time, and every year of
happy married life adds to their num-
ber. \ lover.. hn:inlay i- ;daily, r.
dangerous one. Having eame t, the
extreme of romance and love, human
nature is liable to react completely
and go t.' the other extreme of pro-i:
s and -b111111ity..Add the poetry t'
romance tri the poetry of Nature,
ititeti'ify tiienl cons,lerealy 'itis) tilt
natural re -tilt will he a react'' n tr• the
normal or even sordid side of life, The
difficulty is that no tae, human be-
ings .are balanced exactly alike, so
that in all probability 'Enid will .4.'5511
a full 'hour before Edwin, Nord that
hour may prove the fatal one to their
happiness,
:1-lolidays arc in danger of killing rn-
tnance because they make too long
and severe a strain nit •aman or a wo-
m'an's emotional nature. It is far bet-
ter to know each other too little than
-too well in the pre -matrimonial days,
since that leaves a little of the fun of
exploring each other's mental re-
e,ources ,for the days that are to conte,
and so adds interest to diose first
daangeorus months of ,married life.
"THE FORTUNE HUNTERS"
Constantly ave are hearing O'i 'huge
fortunes for which heirs are ,being
sought, usually the news emanates
from beyond the seas, creating Lively
'consternation ---`incl tfottd hopes -- in
the breasts of .evenyboi y, however re-
motely connected, who imagine they
have a claim. It is titn•e for a warning,
PT -he recent case of the Scot who.
believed himself to he 'heir to an es-
tate of £1215,000 and, on, receiving
a communication 'front a firm of law-
yers, 'hurried across 'tale lAtlantic only
to discover that the 'fortune"
amounted to a, mere :tits, rates home
Once more the fact that these un-
claimed 'millions are usually .mythical.
Ii-tu•mdreds and thousands di ,t,tottey
and years of effort hate' been spent in
laying claim to the .supposed $50,-
000,000 csta'tes, left 11130 yeanrs• ago by
William gentians, who did not live to
sign the will he' had prepared, Edward
Rogers, an ex-lsoldier, has spent his
life._ in unravelling_ the centuries -oil
secret of the £t314,0'0'0000 supposed to
''have ,been left by the Jacques family:.
Dixons, the world over, 'are chasing
a ifinatrcial will -o' -the -w'i'sp when they
try to establish their c'lo'th to the
£1110,000,000 fortune deft by 'J'aenee
Dixon, 'tale 'founder df the Sheffield
electroplating -firm, who died over
100 years ago. For 'over halt a •cen-
tury, it is true, his ,fortune lay dorm-
ant in ,the 'lea'isds of ,ole 'Chancery
Court, Then' relatives es't'ablis'h'ed,
their claim and 'the whole of the es-
tate 'was distributed. Yet. every year'
a .dozen.or more 'Dixons make claims
or ask for particulars. All over the
world, 'People are spending -their tines,
all their strength, all their savings, in
a search for evidence by which they
may fay claim to alleged fortunes -
They waste both time and money. As
a rule, the estates no longer exist. If
they do, there is not much left of
tlient. There are 00 millions a'w'aitin,g.
owners in Chancery. The iew ntillio,n>•
which• remains unclaimed at the pres-
ent time is niatle up of small ,saris.
Hardly any are over $5.000, and many,
are a good deal under $250.
-Bore than one life has been epent
in the pursuit of the Page '.Estate, said
to include land stretching from the
\farhlr Arch to Hendon, and the ex-
tensive •Angel fortune, which is 'sup-
pc'secl to fill an entire vault in a bank.
Yet, neither of these estates have
ever been in the hands of the Chaeic-
ere. Court 1 In ninety -Mae cases out
of a hundred, the talee of tutclaitited
money cannot hear -tate slightest ex-
amination, They are merely mirages,.
established by cunning crooks to con-
jure fortunes from confiding people:
11p and down the country, la tallier
words, the "unclaimed 'fortune" ramp
att merely a gigantic confidence trick
No less an authority than the account-
itat-general of the 'law courts ha's re- •
vealed how a certain ratan lived for 50
years entirely on claimants to 0110
large it -tate, a number of whom t5 -
Malty s=,ld part of their homes t
supply him with mnta.% 1rt te few.
mantle-, by pr raisin r to return a
thousand dollars for citry dolltt
down, he contrived to collect ,over a
million and a half. Tire lure of the
bogus ,Board Of Chat tette 515101
respnn:,ibte for hie criminal: sttece--_
The United States Court a 511 01 tient.
ago sax arh,ther instance. °scat.
Hartzell ',Vas c"t,ti:•t 1 -,r fraurtttlei:r
pra ticre it eanlcetiiti with t'1"
Frances Drake estate. In one neel,
..
Hartzell c` •lintel.' r- ntrade a. $2„0its
Other trtcu lers,-tylirts tits cave::
't'e'al 11rClai•ned tm mty have
cunt ire+l 1 tsine: n racy froom
th,nt'auds of eth,te far establishing”
thea r1114w,,, and from time to time:
telling them of how- difficulties are
gradually being laid aside.
It is true that the Angel c'fate
takes up at least tierce sgnarc toile..
of London. There is 'money to as
made by anyone tdito can cstuili 1,. ?rt
title to the Chadwick million-, con-
sisting of over !100)1 houses in import-
ant residential districts, Unclainte'
deposits in .l- ritish bank: amount t:
more than eaa,u00,anla Arnty prize
money awaits Owners and dnrntane
accounts in the post office saving;
hank: are both l:u•,e arae. ants.
None the lee'. the e large balance_
of money are likely tetsleep for inane
yare to conte. In practically ever:
c Nee, the a t o: proving a title tc, aft,
one of them wallet be doable aur
tt el le that 411 :t would ,he iortltcotn
ins f,otta 11, 'i opus .agents who bleu'
their dope fees for inquirie-,
copies cf nest-oi-kin notices and rt -
scare}res 1111 .a ills and family tree-
thor,ng}ily conceal this outstanditts
:act—ll 1 a penny can he paid ou-
withont a high court order or similar
official warrent.
Ili 1ortimes remain :unclaimed, yot
may be sure it is ,hecanse of 'but al t
reason -they are not avorth clamming 1
CIGARRETTE BUTTS
'CAUSE ,OF 'FIRES•
During the hot weather, when the.
forest lands bake under trememdoue
heat waves, various reports are re-
ceived by ,the operating department of
the Canadian National Railways of
fires which break ou't in the vicinity
of the rigth-of-way but sufficiently
far front the tracks to preclude the
possibility oi a locomotive startittg,the
blaze. A typical report of this nature
was one received from the Huntsville
subdivision, in the 'Muskoka .district,
which stated that early in the evening;
a fire was found burning more than
300 yards from the tracks and "close
to a road, tlhefore;the blaze could he
extinguished by the use of sand tet,
acres of stumps and slashing had been
burned over. The rause was eventual-
ly fixed as a lighted cigarette letter.
carelessly thrown Frons a passing ye-
hicle. ,Before the fire was extinguished
sectia•n .men shad to ieonk many hours
overtime, ht is tot generally known
but all locomotives operating through
forest lands carry -every prot'cctlon'to
prevent sparks, stating ,fires,
':Distemper respon'd's quickly' tea'
Douglas' 'Egyptian 'Li'niimentt. Keep
a bottle shandy in the stable,
Send us the natnes of you't visitors.