FOUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 8, 7 December 1937, Page 9

FOUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS.

MERCHANT DETAINED. LONDON, Dec. 5. ■file Berlin correspondent of the Times says that there are good reasons for believing that a Hamburg merchant, Herr Alfred Topfer, was the anonymous donor of the scholarships which were given in the form of a thanks-offering tlie German Rhodes Scholarships. 'He is under detention pending inquiries regarding alleged foreign exchange regulations. Sixty other Hamburg residents are under suspicion. The trial has already begun of Herr Arnold Bernstein, head of the Red Star Line. ’ A cablegram received from London on October 20 stated that an anonymous Hamburg merchant, as a tlianksoffering for tlie German Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford, had founded a number of annual scholarships, each valued at 3000 reichsmarks, to enable students from the universities of Britain and the Empire to have a year’s study in Germany. They are to be called the Hanseatic Scholarships, and will be awarded without an examination on a recommendation following an interview-. The same donor founded three annual prizes valued at 10,000 reichsmarks in Britain, Holland, and Scandinavia for distinguished work in literature and the arts.