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Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK

Band (Jahr): - (1923)

Heft 85

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No. 85 LONDON, JANUARY 20, 1923. Pkice 3d.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES A somewhat ambitious political programme has loan, and that the funds required for paying off 3 3'6 been sent to the Swiss the Association the Frs. due the 1st UNITED KINGDOM Months (13 issues,issue post free) - - press by of 54,500,000, falling on January, AND COLONIES {36 „ (26 „ - 6/6 Young Ticinese in Milan. It will probably cause would be raised fromj the National Bank and not 12 (52 „ .; - i2/- (26 7.50 the further SWITZERLAND { Months issues, post free) - Frs. little anxiety to authorities concerned, but it by way of public subscription. It was 12 „ (52 „ - „ 14.— is evidence of the active and constructive interest announced that the reductions in tariffs effected (5uiiii Lausanne for refusing to do Monday on " the Chamossaire (Bretaye), when a English- of this transaction is that the " Ipu now will military service. young that * * * man, John de Tass, a pupil of a local institute, only have overseas interests, and the capital the will be Frs. 25,000,000 in "A" shares and Frs. the current the sections slipped owing to giving way of a snow bridge. During year following He had 3,750,000 in " B " shares. of the Swiss Federal to be joined a party of English residents in Railways are expected Villars in which completed for electric traction;—Zug-Zurich, Sion- a s-ki-ing excursion, was proceeded The annüaT results of some of the smaller Swiss with in intense A search Lausanne, Lucerne-Olten, and Thalwil-Richterswil. spite of an fog. party, banks are beginning to come in, and show quite organised by Major Lavanchy of Lausanne, re- * * * satisfactory progress as compared with 1921. The covered the body under great difficulties. Bank in Ragaz, for instance, with a capital of The Grand Conseil Geneva has, a small of by Frs. 1,000,000, and reserves of Frs. 250,000, has elected Mr. Albert Naine, the Socialist majority, a net profit on the year of Frs. 71,907, as com- candidate, as its president, Mr. Paul Lachenal EXTRACTS FROM PAPERS. pared with FYs. 72,013 in 1921. The dividend is and Frédéric ~ (Radical) Mr. Martin (Conservative) maintained at 5% ancl the same allotments made being appointed first and second vice-president to reserves, etc., as last year. respectively. La Vente d'un Château historique. * * * The Volksbank in Hochdorf has total net profits Le château de Lucens, propriété de M. Jean After a discussion the Geneva Grand Con- of Frs. 216,560, as against Frs. 197,084 in 1921. lively Gruring, à Berne, qui l'avait acquis, il a deux seil has voted the frs. towards the y The turnover increased from Frs. 136 million to sum of 15,000 ans (mars 1920) et fait restaurer à grands frais, et loss frs. incurred the Frs. 152 million, and a dividend of 8o/o is again of 31,000 by organising com- les terrains attenants (15,750 mètres carrés) ont été mittee in connection last Gordon-Bennett to be paid on the share capital of Frs. 2,100,000. with year's mis en vente mercredi, à l'Hôtel de la Gare à balloon race. Forward reintroduced in the * * * Lucens, par les soins de l'Office des poursuites de dealings were Moudon, sur la réquisition de l'Etat de Vaud, Geneva Stock Exchange on the 2nd of January. The elections for the States Council of the pour paiement des droits de mutations et d'impôts Canton Ticino, which were fixed to take place on fonciers. STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES. January 28th, are abandoned, as the political parties L'estimation juridique de l'Office des poursuites Bonds. Jan. 8 Jan. 16 have agreed not to contest the present five members était de 700,000 fr. (en 1920: 92,000 fr.). Les Swiss Confederation 3?» 1903 80.50% 85.25% by putting up new candidates. curieux ont été plus nombreux que les acquéreurs : Swiss Confed. 9th Mob. Loan 5°/° 101.25% 101.15% ceux-ci n'étaient que deux. L'adjudication a été Federal Railways A—K 31% 84.70% 85.40% Canton Basle-Stadt 1921 104.75% 105.25% The Basle Grosse donnée (éventuellement et sous réserve de ratifica- 5j% Rat, on an interpellation by Canton Fribourg 3% 1892 77.00% 77.00% Socialist members, has decreed the 1st of May tion) pour le prix de 133,000 fr. à M. Oscar Flaef- Zurich (Stadt) 4% 1909 100.00% 100.00% to be a public holiday, v—A proposal, supported liger-Bitterlin, à Winterthur, frère d'un précédent S HARBS. Norn. Jan. 8 Jan-16 by medical circles, to make vaccination against propriétaire. Frs. Frs. Frs. Swiss 500 659 659 a Flanqué de plusieurs tourelles et dominé au Bank Corporation smallpox compulsory was rejected by great Crédit Suisse... 500 680 685 majority. nord-ouest, par une haute tour ronde, le château Union de Banques Suisses 500 551 563 * * * de Lucens est d'origine fort ancienne. C'était jadis Fabrique Chimique ci-dev. Sandoz 1000 1650 1650 The population of the town of Zurich shows a un château-fort, propriété, dès le Xllme siècle, des Société pour l'Industrie Chimique 1000 1235 1235 decrease, 199,588 the number to' end évêques de Lausanne, sous Lucens connut C. F. Bally S.A. 1000 960 975 slight being lesquels de Machines Oerlikon... 500 585 584 de de Fabrique December, 1922, whilst the Federal census in De- une longue période paix et prospérité. Il Entreprises Sulzer 1000 650 650 cember, 1920, recorded a figure of 207,161. fut pillé et brûlé par les Confédérés après la S.A. Brown Boveri (new) 500 333 335 * bataille de Morat. Lors de la conquête bernoise, Nestlé & Anglo-Swiss Cond.Mk. Co. 200 170 168 * 100 104 101 Lucens se rendit résistance et son château Choc. Suisses Peter-Cailler-Koliler The civil servants of the towns of Zurich and sans, de le Lac Léman 500 468 468 devint la résidence successive de neuf Comp, Navig'n sur Lausanne are strongly opposing the proposed reduc- baillis. Lors tion in their salaries. de la révolution vaudoise (24 janvier 1798), le château et domaine devinrent natio- * * * son propriété CORRESPONDENCE. nale; en 1801, la République Helvétique revendit About 8| million francs worth of cattle, repre- 77i£ i?c//£ur is «o£ mpowsib/s /or Ms opmz'cms sa'prssssd! Äis château et terres 72,800 à divers Cormpowdewte senting about 11,000 head, have recently been ex- pour fr. particu- liers. Dès lors, l'édifice a passé en mains: ported by Swiss breeders, chiefly to Italy. The plusieurs Cholec, de Moudon, les frères MILITARY TAX AND MATRICULATION FEE. Russian agricultural delegation has acquired breed- Briod, Landry (vers ing stock to the amount of 80,000 frs. from far- 1860), Saunders, Delessert, qui y transféra, en 1880, To the Editor of 77zo Szfm Dfrsez-z/ez-. son institut de jeunes L'hoirie Porchet et mers in the Bernese Oberland and the canton of gens. Sir,—I have followed with interest the corres- M. Joseph Pfaff l'avaient vendu à M. J. Gruring. Schwyz. pondence under this heading, published in your * * * (FezzzVZe r/'Az'z.ç r/e TY/zzs/zzzzz/?.) journal recently. The Swiss League of Nations Union has made It seems a pity a gap occurred in the last the following awards in judging the essays sub- issue, for if the movement is to bear fruit, a mitted for the best ways and means of familiarising FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS unique medium of publicity among the Swiss Colony, Swiss school children with the objects and ideals stich as TVzt? 5zwz'm OTwerz/er offers, should not be of the League of Nations:—1st prize, Werner FROM SWITZERLAND. lost. Günther, stud, phil., Thüringen; 2nd prize, S. Unfortunately, many of us have the feeling Schoch, Unterseen, and Heinrich Bächtold, Stein At a board meeting of the Swiss Federal Rail- that we are " a voice crying in the wilderness " a. Rhein; 3rd prize, Marthe Mange, Ölten, Emil ways, held on the 12th of January, it was stated unless we can tackle the problem as an organised Schibli, Lengnau, Melchior Diirst, Glarus, Gustav that it had been decided that the present time body. I am one countless others who are ' among Pickel, Unterschlatt (Thurgau). was not a favourable one for the issue of a new in the same boat with " Drei Eidgenossen," etc., 636 THE SWISS OBSERVER. January 20, 1923. and I should be only too pleased to join your The old text' represents one of the most impor- correspondents in united effort to stop this tant in the Constitution, and the most any passages THE SEVENTH ANNUAL • impossible state of things, if they can convince me outstanding fact in it is that there is not even a that something is going to be DONE at last. hint at Federal authority in the matter. It was I am confident that those who blindly submit. to not an oversight. As the Confederation, or the the artificial law the officials are now trying to Federal authorities, have competence only in matters Swiss Samples Fair enforce on their fellow-citizens are, fortunately, few specifically transferred to them by the Constitution, and need not be seriously taken into account: the withdrawal or curtailment of our national birth will be held at they are generally people who are not slow to right never having been so transferred, it would benefit by the advantages secured for them by have been a legal inconsistency to put on record others. limitations- to powers which have never existed. BASLE I should be very grateful indeed if Mr. Braga As matters stand now, we are quite safe: but or other correspondents would kindly, through the the proposed new paragraph is nothing more than columns of your paper, give us their views -more a clever piece of camouflage, and it is in any event 14th to 24th April, 1923 definitely as regards tenor of petition and collecting not: good enough for the Swiss abroad. I feel sure signatures, and if any Swiss Society has some plan the Swiss people will not have it, as there is no under consideration. Now can the many Swiss limit to the legislation and o/r/cwMwctw which may Uor jH/ormo/ion ap_ph/ to : who, like myself, do not belong to such a Society, be barricaded behind those innocent or even attrac- THE COMMERCIAL DIVISION OF THE but the less to for and tive words. who outside are none eager fight right sounding We, are already SWISS LEGATION, fairness, do their bit. the territory of the Cantons and Confederation, " Fair Play." are thereby virtually deprived of our national rights 32, Queen Anne Street, W. 1. * * * and could be dropped in mid-Atlantic. I would, o?' to : NATURALIZATION IN SWITZERLAND. therefore, like to know what is to be the consti- THE SWISS BANK CORPORATION, tutional standing of the Swiss abroad under the Tä