Evening star., 1923-04-18
Old Center of Austrian Diplomacy
TO Be Converted Into Exhibition Hall
Copyright, 1870,

berger. and have been Ief, unoccup,ed
throughout the entire winter. own q
10 the lack of the necessary fInds
with which to heat thai nort;ar ~
palace. VI ''te
Indeed. the chanceIfor.s seat Of Gov
eminent and the ministry Of foreign
aHairs are now located in mora
modern and less pretentious buildinp
ana 1t is doubtful whether they viii
seI return 10 the old Hofburg. parts
thirteenth centuries. a nile ~ h,,did
lnSs which have been added TO h.
every one Of the long list Of soyer.
elSns since the days Of Emperor Pm.
ooIpn; the founder of the dynasty of
the Hapsburgs. Va
austria government in fart ;s
no" being run on the most econor,i-
cal basis. and il has led the wav =,
the direction Of peace by aboIisbing
not only it's department and min;s.-y.
oi war, but also its army. Thirty
'iiousand troops are the maximum
permitted to Austria by the peace
treaty OF st. Germain. and these have
now been transferred from Tho do
iunct ministry of war to the defsart-
.nens OF the interior, for use purely
i,s
austria, in fact. has been forced Nv
considerations of that rigid economy
~hich induced the great powers 70
come 10 her assistance with q loan
~ aoahuon all measures of self -pro-
tection against foreign invasion ard
70 place herself unreseryedIy undar
.ne protection OF the league of ma
LIONS TO depend for her defense upon
,he great powers of the entente who
nave adopted the league as part and
parcel of their policies.
Lord Robert Cecil. in his nIea !,
DehaIf OF the league of nations in
america, might do worse than point
70 austria as an illustration of some
or the benefits which the league ia
able to bring about-nameIv the
abolition of war departments and Of
standing armies.
II is not only the western hemi
sphere that is overrun at the present
moment with all sorts Of bogus prIn-
cesses affecting to hail from Russia
ana whose fantastic pretensions and
transparent frauds have contributed
SO much TO discourage kind hearted
ana open-handed people on this side
or the ocean from extending a helping
hand to bona fide. Muscovite MOBILES
ana xlctlms of bolshevik robbery
and barbarisnl who are really de-
serving Of their generosity. The op-
eratlons of these frauds are even ex-
tending to the Antipodes Thus,
since last December an elderly woman
mas been travelling about in Australia
and In New Zealand as the Grand
Duchess Ivanovitch"
She was treated with the utmost def
erence at Sydney. Melbourne, Adelaide.
etc, especially when she announced that
she was awaiting her imperial husband,
VINO is Voyaging to meet her on his
yacht, and naturally she told the most
biood-curdllng stories of the treatment
meted out to the members of the former
sovereign house of Romanoff to which
she professed to belong. and whose fate
she asserted to have escaped Even the
newspapers seem to have taken her
quite seriously, and she cut q wide
sWath, leaving everywhere a trail of
debts to hotel keepers and credulous
tradesmen.
There is no knowing how long. her
career of fraud would have Continued
had she not dined SO unwisely at Auck-
land that the New Zealand police were
obliged to arrest her and to convey her
from the railroad train to jaiI on a
charge of drunkenness and disorderly
conduct of the most violent nature
when subjected to croSs-eXamination nv
the authorities she broke down and ad-
nlitted that she was an English ad-
ventures. a frequenter of PiccadiIly.
London, after nightfall. and that she
was known there under the name of
Mrs. Fuller having picked I'D a for
eiSn accent through many pleasure
trips to Paris. Brussels and the Riviera
in her better days. And now New Yea
land has for once the joke on Australia
and is making the best of it,