Extracts from Swiss papers

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

Band (Jahr): - (1928)

Heft 369

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Vol. S—NO. 369 LONDON, NOVEMBER 17, 1928. Price 3d.

PREPAID SUBSCRIPTION RATES ment, le cabinet de Rome a déplacé le fonctionnaire The work before us is intended, as the 3 <13 des author in the preface, for both special- UNITED KINGDOM f Months issues, post free) - 3'6 italien Signori, impliqué dans l'affaire ren- explains AND COLONIES s 6 (26 - 6/6 à ist.s and laymen; the .illustrations will, he hopes, 12 (52 - 12/- seignements illicites qui ont abouti l'arrestation de be welcome while the 6 Months (26 issues, post free) - Frs. 7.50 Rossi. Ajoutons encore que, de notre côté equally to both, latter, if 12 (52 14.— - nous avons expulsé deux fascistes mêlés à l'affaire thev wish, can neglect the footnotes : at the same 5u6scr('peions may 6c paie? info /*o»fac/iecÄ-/konfon time he " le est ÄaWe V57IS). et menacé d'expulsion deux autres Italiens habitant recognises that secret d'ennuyer le Tessin, De Vitto père et fils. celui de tout dire" (he should not, however, have et. omitted the of remains of a station 7V£ WS Il y a entre la première la seconde note discovery post, //OM£ italienne une différence de ton dont on ne peut on the Italian side of the summit of the little St. s'empêcher d'être frappé. Cet échange d'explica- Bernard in 1924), and his object is to emphasise dans the characteristic features of Roman Switzerland Official figures with reference to the general lions lequel le Conseil fédéral parle un Um- à describe that elections have now been published bv the Federal gage la lois ferme et courtois et le gouvernement without attempting to everything has been found in the Statistical Office. Altogetl 1er 804,779 citizens have italien fait preuve d'une volonté marquée de con- country. recorded their votes (743,679 in 1925) and the server l'amitié entre l'Italie et nous, laisse l'im- One of the difficulties of the subject is, that present strength of the different political parties is pression que si nous n'avons pas obtenu des satis- the modern and ancient political boundaries do tactions à shown by the following percentages compiled from formelles, l'Italie veillera soigneusement not coincide; so that the inscriptions, for ex- I le renouvellement de tels incidents. he actual votes cast. : empêcher ample, fall into four different volumes of the GTzaeô <7e Fcz/sa/zwe. Radicals 27,3"» (27,8oo in 1925) e è'oz-/'/zx. Under the earlv Empire the western part Socialists 27,3/o 2o/o belonged to ; while Eastern 1,8 eingenommen haben nicht gebracht hat. Die Ab- Switzerland belonged to Raetia. The towns and The composition of the National Council as re- klärung, die der Notenwechsel hätte bringen sollen, villages as would be expected, to be found in gards occupation is of considerable interest: the ist also negativ ausgefallen. Dem entspricht auch are, the lower country to the north-west and north, legal profession supplies the largest: quota. This is sein Ausgang. Diesen Ausgang wird man allerdings and along the main .Alpine routes, t.lie Great and how the 198 magistrates are recruited : Lawyers bei uns mit sehr gemischten Gefühlen aufnehmen. St. Bernard the south-west, and the 39: cantonal state councillors 27; farmers and es- Aus dem Ausgang des Notenwechsels erscheint sich Little on S. Bernardino, Splugen and Julier on the east. täte managers 21!, trade union and party secretar- für uns die Aufgabe zu ergeben, jeweilen sofort die The road as whole forms a kind of ies 24, industry and commerce 18, municipal conn- nötigen Ausräuimingsarbeiten vorzunehmen, sobald system a cross-connexions east- cillors 11, editors and publishers 12, judges 9, wir die Organisierung eines unerlaubten auslän- parallelogram—but with no wards through the territory of the Liepontii from teachers 9, liberal arts 9, civil servants 6, employees dischen Nachrichtendienstes auf unseren Terri- Domodossola through Ticino (these were only 5 and independent means 3. torium gewahr werden. Wir werdeil es zu unserer :ff possible along the Rhône and Valleys * * Aufgabe rechnen müssen, auch jenen Zwischenfällen (Furka and Oberalp passes) but for some reason The speculations as to the successor of Federal inskünftig mit Energie entgegenzutreten, die wir there is no road marked in the between Councillor Chuard have now taken a more definite vielleicht -bisher geneigt als blosse Spekta- map waren, Disent is and the centre of form by the officially endorsed candidature of Dr. kelszenen zu betrachten, denen aber das fascistisehc Coire)—surrounding the country. This bv the Marcel E. E. Pilet (Radical), a well-Imow n lawyer Italien eine grössere .Bedeutung beizumessen scheint. was occupied , whose was the at who, though only 39 years old, has for A'Vzze Zz/yc/zer Zez'/zz/zg. capital (Avouches), Roman a number of years been a prominent member of the most important city in Switzerland. The Vaudois Grand Council. D'intéressants discours - M. Henri Martin, minis- Raurici lay to the north, round Basel; the Se- * * * Ire de Suisse, en présentant, ses lettres de créance, quail i and Allobroges held small portions of The exchange of Notes with Italian Govern- a prononcé une brillante allocution au cours de la- Western Switzerland; and the present Canton ment in the "Rossi" affair has now been, satisfac- quelle, rappelant les luttes pour l'indépendencc de Valais was held by four tribes, who were grouped torily terminated and it: is officially stated that the la Suisse il y a dix siècles, il a dit que la Suisse under the name of Poenini. All these tribes regrettable incident is thereby clbsecl. suit avec grand intérêt les efforts de la Turquie were Celtic, while the Raeti, who were perhaps * * * pour sa rénovation dans les domaines national, poli- of Ulyrian origin, extended from Giants east- et culturel. La Suisse est: ficre wards into Tirol. The Federal Tribunal at Lausanne has, on ap- tique, économique de voir la code La peal, confirmed a judgment: by the Zurich Courts Turquie adopter son civil. It is interesting to note that the only spcci- which fined a motorist for warning others of the Suisse, patrie de Rousseau, est heureuse d'être men of the 400 villages of the Helvetii of which existence of a particular police trap. The Lausanne l'amie de la République .turque. Caesar speaks, the remains of which have been Dans le de Tribunal maintains that such a practice would null i- sa réponse, président la République found at: Basel, shows clear traces of having been a déclaré le but de la fy the action of the authorities. It seems, there- que Turquie, tout comme celui suddenly abandoned in 58 B.C., at the time of de la Suisse, est vie sociale de fore, an offence in Switzerland to warn a person d'organiser une et the great migration, which, owing to Caesar's les who is about to break the law principes démocratiques, après longues luttes military genius, ended so disastrously with the * * V qu'elle a soutenues pour son indépendance. La Battle of . But it: should also be noted 1 lurqiue est: heureuse de posséder des institutions et he re-introduction of the hazard games at that the courage with which the Helvetii fought des lois analogues à celles de la Suisse est fière hotels and casinos, which is the object of a coming et led to their being granted the privileged position d'être amie. initiative demand, is being favourably received bv son of /V;fv/e..'Yz/z. allies of the Roman people. 's avoir fair tie l'héroïsme the many popular meetings called for the Après l'éloge historique attempt, in the autumn of the next vear, to occu- purpose des Suisses, déclaré of discussing the mailer. il a que ces derniers sont des py the Cff. St. Bernard permanently failed owing mais n'est des * * * guerriers émérites; ce pas pour buts to the insufficiency of the forces employed; and. offensifs ou ocation gardent leurs One of the inmates of the in Berne, par prov qu'ils Caesar's main achievement: was the foundation, bear-pit c'est à seule fin de faine face à the 22 months old Romeo, has been armes; toute attaque at Nov iodunum () on the lake of Geneva, presented by éventuelle contre l'existence de leur honneur. Nous the town to the Swiss Colony in Barcelona. The oi the Iulia Equcstris. He had perhaps sommes fiers d'avoir animal was despatched last week to its future abode toujours en vue l'exemple d'une planned the foundation of the Colonia Raurica telle nat ion. --/ozzzzzzzZ <7e GV/zdcc. in a motor lorry in charge of a keeper. It is not (later Augusta, the present: Angst, near Basel) disclosed what rôle this accession to our cnterpris- which was actually carried out bv his successor in ing sister colony has been allotted. /VOT£S M/VZ) G££MM/VGS. , Munatius Plauens, to whom Lyon also owed * * * its origin; and it may be due to the fact that Follow ing the discovery of irregularities in his Roman Switzerland. Flancus came from Tibur, where Hercules was accounts, H. a chief clerk in the cantonal at and Villiger, A very interesting work dealing with Roman especially honoured, that Angst, nowhere taxing office at Zurich, was found to have else in works com- remains in our country has recently been published Switzerland, of art connected with mitted suicide himself under a his have by throwing train at Basle (Benno Schwabe) under the title worship been found. near Cham. "Die * * * Schweiz in Römischer Zeit," by Felix Stahelin. found himself obliged, for the safe- The of 77zc TV/zztw ty oi to reduce the The unguarded level crossing between Uznach literary supplement (Nov. 8th) Italy, Alpine tribes, especially devotes to it a most appreciative review, which we the Salassi, founding the colony of Augusta Prae- and Schmerikon (Zurich was the scene of a fatal reproduce z'zz. e.v/czz.vo as probably few of readers toria (Aosla) in their and then the accident when a motor lorry was run into and our territory, have waded so far back into earlv history. zdzzwaz-zev AVzc'/z', who had a for Completel}' destroyed by an approaching train; the our reputation brigan- " Switzerland has been dage. As a result the Valais or Wallis driver, Vincent; Küster from Eschenbach, was the playground of (Vallis killed. schoolmasters and professors for so long that it Poenina) was combined administratively with is rather surprising that we have had to wait Raetia and the land of the Vindelici in a single EXTRACTS FROM SWISS PAPERS. until now for an authoritative account of its Ro- province under first, a military praefectus, and man remains. Most guide books arc silent on then an imperial procurator. Besides this, one of Press Opinions on the "Rossi" Affair. such points as the exact nature of the Roman the four legions of the Army of Upper Germany La dernière note italienne est d'unie brièveté buildings at (really an amphitheatre was quartered (probably as earlv as 15-13 B.C., Le de à frappante. gouvernement Rome se borne and a , the latter with a temple and some as recent finds indicate) at , on the constater l'intention réciproque des deux gouverne- houses adjacent to it), the relation of the late site of a Celtic o/.yzV/zzzzz, halfway between Basel ments de considérer l'incident comme clos et af- Roman fort to the medieval town at and Winterthur, where considerable remains of firme à nouveau ses intentions amicales. Il re- and at Basel, or the real date of the Sep timer its permanent camp have been found. This was à nonice complètement poursuivre la discussion sur pass, which Baedeker calls "one of the oldest a strong position between the Aar and the , la matérialité des de and road faits; il ne tente plus con- Alpine routes" and enumerates among Roman at an important centre; and it is one tester avions dans, ce que nous affirmé notre premi- roads—whereas it has been ascertained to De of the most interesting Roman sites in Switzer- ère note et confirmé encore dans notre seconde note. medieval. As a fact, however, the author is able land. Like all other camps north of the Alps, Pour avoir une impression exacte de la manière to quote only three general works on Roman it began as an earthwork with palisades, the dont ce conflit se termine, il faut considérer en- Switzerland—a short though masterly article of stone wall having been substituted after a fire le désaveu très core net infligé par le gouverne- Mommsen's (only 27 pages), published over 70 in A.D. 46-47. ment fasciste à de M. Pariai, l'auteur la note in- years ago, and two popular works, respectively made both the Great and the Little la Suisse adressée convenante pour aux fascistes sixty-five and forty years old; so that this book St. Bernard into regular roads; and the inhabi- résident dans notre et le fait pays, que, spontané- certainly satisfies a want. tants of the towns at the foot of each pass called