Prague, Feb. 26, On the occasion of the ightieth birthday on March 7 of Dr. Thomas Gartigue Masaryk, the fir President of the Czecho-Slovak Repub-Ne, Parliament has voted him personal gift of over £120,000.
Answering questions regarding Colonial development schemes, Dr. Shiels said that a preliminary application for assistance from the Colonial Development Fund had been made by the High Commis. sioner for Transport for Kenya and Uganda in connection with the proposal to extend the Kenya-Uganda railway westward to the Uganda-Congo border. Arrangements would be made in the usual way, he said, to ensure that plant, machinery and materials imported into East Africa in connection with any such pro-
Starting his career as the em-jects would, save in exceptional ployee of a Vienna blacksmith, circumstances, be of British manu:
'Thomas Masaryk, who was interest ed in philosophy, literature and politics, became' successively a teacher, university professor a magazine editor.
Entering the parliament of Vienna in 1891, he resigned two years Inter, when he devoted all his energies to the moral education of the nation. After ti he outbreak of the War he fled to Italy and Switzerland, later settling in London, where'he Derame a lecturer] at King's College. Organizing the Crachoslovak movement for pendence, he became President 9 inde otkee ever vince int 88 PER)
President Masaryk is the author of many works on history, philoso phy and politics. He received honorary degree of Doctor of Law at Oxford University in 1923.—Router.
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