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...said, " that was a bad game for Briand, a very bad game." At Ottawa Mr. George called on Lord Renfrew (Prince of Wales, who left Canada on the C. P. R. liner Empress of France, having terminated his vacation) at Government House. Miss Megan Lloyd George was already there attending a dance given in Lord Renfrew's honor; presumably (although it was not reported) Miss Megan and the incognito Prince danced together...
...parish church of the Spanish fishing village of Lequeito, near where the exiled ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary lives, the children of the unfortunate Emperor Karl (who died at Madeira, April 1,1922) and Empress Zita, were confirmed...
...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...
...order of ex-Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, Monarchists attended the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the late Empress Elizabeth, * celebrated in the Capueiner Church in Vienna. During the ceremony a detective arrested Count Hoying, President of the Austrian State (Monarchist) Party, charging him with attempting to kill Eckartsau, Executor of ex-Emperor Karl's estates. Count Hoying denied the charge, characterizing it as an attempt at political revenge. He admitted, however, that he had charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort...
...Empress Elizabeth was assassinated on Sept. 10, 1898, by Luigi Luccheni, anarchist, while walking from a hotel in GeneTa to a steamer...