Geneva, Feb. 7.
Count Albert Apponyi, the
his ho this afternoon at 4 Hungarian statesman, died ere the age of 87. He was known as the "grand old' man of international polities." Count "Appenyi will chiefly be remembered for the Services he rendered to his country as the foremost. representative o Hiingiry on the League of Nations.
His "exceptional oratorical gifts, is Wide "Knowledge of men" and "affairs, his gift for languages, for he wrote and spoke with equal lity English, French and Italian, addition to his native Hungaria and. German," together with his Jong record of disinterested. seiviee to, his country; won for decease: the respect and admiration of the "League Assembly and the friendship the foremost British statesmen.
was due to Count Apponyi's brilliant and witiring advocacy: that the League' gave a favourable decision to the claims of Hungarians Gispossessed of property in. territory which had been handed over to Serbs, Rumanians or Czechs unlier the Treaty of Trianon, was. equally "successful in' his Mefence of the Minorities proposal for tone third, and lost no opportunity of urging' the revision of the Treaty 7 i, he maintained, had' upset' the whole economic and li tical organisation of eastern Born' in 1846, Count Apponyi was! educated at home and at the Jest College at: Kalksborg. He after-Wards studied law at Budapest and Vienna, In 1872, he was elected to Parliament, where his speecher on economic "questions and foreign politics soon attracted attention, was! a. strong supporter Hungarian Home" Rule and staunch champion of the endeavour to fvee.the: Hungarian Army from Austrian interference.
rom 1905—1910, he was Minister '9f Education. During the: Great War he, together with Julius Andrassy' and: Stephen Rakovazky, formed the Hungarian Pat ary Delegation to Vienna to request the Austrian Minister of Foreign 'Affairs, Baron Burian, to be allowed to inquire into matters relating to the conduct of the war and diplomatic negotiations." Baron' ~Burlan gave a curt refusal and the delegation. returned to" Budapest and resigned.
'When' the Bolsheviks seized Count escaped to his property in Hater eonfisca After the re. establishment of order by Admiral Horthy, Count Apponyi returned to at the head' of the 'Hungarian deputation to receive the gnc tipulaions of the Bntente a euilly, He made a remarkable protesting agalnet the terms Iposed'and, when the stipulations were tinaly agreed to, he vesigned, 1828, he ne cepted' an invitation toulgive a series of eetures Guiada. and the United States, on he position in Contval and Eastern rape, ani in 927, he lectured in Holland, Germany and Ital) on th3 of 1 Svs of the, Versailles Trea "Count "Appony} married. st, the ig, Se te gals, of, Count 4 Si getaak of oe War, and Albert Mensdorf de Pouilly who, up
in fpr many. years Austro-irian Anibassdor at the Court Se. dames Reuter Tord George Sydenum London, Feb.
'The death is announced of Lord Sydenham, one-time Governor" of Bombay, fovday following an attack of cere who. succumbed suddenly beearn al George sham Clarke, first atom of e, - was on Vuly"" 4, 1848," the' son" of thes 3 J... Clarke, Folkestone..' His daughter of the and his second wife', wa inter of die' Bie' George. Morant. "In 1868, he entered the "Royal En-fPinetrs, and) between 1871 and 1880, he Sbaved on the Steff of the R. I. B. College, Cooper's Hill.
Deceased served in the Bayptian expedition of 1882 and the Soudan Exped i885, "He was employed in. the Intelligence 'Department and as Assistant Political 'Officer in Suakin, and later ction at Hasheen. He was. men-Honed, in despot iches for' the Tanai and Thnkool affairs, and was then employed in, the War Office until 1892. Th' 1885, he was the Sec- ofthe British Expeditionary retary to the Colonial Defence Committee, and was then sent in 1893 on special duty to Sweden, Berlin, Paris, Linz, Belgium, the U.S.A., Halifax, Malta, and Bucharest.
In rapid succession, he was made Superintendent of the Royal Cat-Hage Factory, a member of the }Committee on War Office Reorganisation, Secretary to the Royal Cor mission on Navy and Army Admintration, Governor of Victoria, Australia, member of the War Office Reconstittion Committee, Secretary to the Committee on National In-france of War Risks; Governor of Bombay, Chiairman of the Royal Commission on Contagious Diseases, Chairman of the Queensland Hai Dour Committee, director of the Standard Bank of South ° Africa, Chairman of the Central Appeal Tribunal, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Empire League, President of the British [Science'Guild, Vice-President'of the
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