SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1925.
THAT SECURITY PACT,
POLAND AND HER FRONTIERS.
FOREIGN MINISTER'S MISSION:
Australia's Singapore Base Anxiety,
World security continues to dominate international politics, the latest contributions coming from places as far apart as Poland and Australia.
DRAMATIC SURPRISE. «
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They might be associated. declare that such a pact would be Ineffective unless completed by military arangements on all frontiers of Germany, whose association in the pact would only be useful if she joined the League of Nations unreservedly.
CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH.
PEACE FIRST TI
PROVOCATIVE MEASURE
REJECTED.
(Router's Servico.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
TREASURE TOMBS. FABULOUS FORTUNES IN SOUTH AMERICA.
GOLD OFFERINGS TO GODS.
Will Expedition Discover Long-Lost Hoards
Golden ornaments, thrown into a inke, a king'a ransom burled no one knows where, gold, silver, and precious stones in fabulous quantities secreted in long-forgotten caches all are hidden some where in the mysterious interior of South America.
London.
London, March 6. The House of Commons reject- ed Mr. MacQuisten's trade union political levy Bill and carried by 825 to 153 votes an amendment by Mr. Baldwin approving the prin ciple of political liberty embodied in the bill but expressing the The Daily News says that opinion that a measure of such Colonel P. H. Fawcett's expedition far-reaching importance should to the Amazon Basin in search of not be introduced as a private long lost cities focuses attention member's Bill.
on South America as a treasure cemetery.
The House of Commons was unusually crowded and animated for a Friday for the debate, with a full attendance of Labour members."
Paris, March G. great comment of in- terest
has. been'. created by the sudden arrival from Warsaw en route to Geneva of the Polish Foreign Minister,
London, March 6,
Mr. Baldwin said that the Con- .M. Skrzynski, who had a long
Comment on Mr. Chamberlain's servatives, while they believed the conference with M, Herrlot, the
speech is directed to the cautious Bill was just, were not going to Premier, this afternoon, Te
The push their political advantage The security pact to which Ger-Times" appreciates that the home at present, because they peatedly urging him not to accept ness of the utterance. many is party and which does not Dominions distaste of the protocol stood for peace in the country and guarantee the status quo of Ger- is shared here, which is simply a abolition of suspicion. (Loud. many's Eastern as well as her new and more plausible version of general cheers, especially from
a feeble compromise of the Peace the Labour members.) western frontier.
Treaty over the unrealized Rhine The Liberals supported the The paper declares | Government's amendment, which frontier. that on the other hand the sugges- the supporters of the bill accepted: tion of a wider pact, as indicated in the German proposals to the Allies, must be considered most
· scrigusly,
M. Skrzynsk! left for Geneva to-night without seeing Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
Melbourne, March 6. Advocating the Singapore base; Mr. S. M. Bruce, the Prime Minister, trusted that those think-
M bruce wrz
ing only in terms of England instead of the Empire as a whole would not carty weight with the Imperial Government,
Australia up to the present had. been consulted on every angle and ths entitled to be heard now, and, her opinions could not lightly be ignored.
Australia without such a base could only regard herself as deserted by the Empire.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY:
Paris, March 6. The newspapers are of the opinion that Mr. Chamberlain's speech clearly shows that Britain favours an Anglo-Franco-Belgian guarantee pact, wherein Germany
MARCO POLO BEASTS.
YOUNG AMERICAN'S SEARCH,
EXPLORING THE HIMALAYAS.
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New York, March 6.
OFF TO GENEVA.
London, March 6. Mr. Chamberlain, en route to Geneva, has departed for Paris
where he will meet M. Herriot.'
[Aprivate members' Bill, which was subjected to a storm. of Labour and Liberal denuncia- tion in advance, passed its first! reading in the House of Commons last month. The object was the separating of political and indus- trial funds of trade unions and illegalising political levies without the specific agreement of mem- bere, instead of the present system which merely gives mem- bers the right to contract out. The Bill rigidly forbids the application of ordinary funds to political purposes and laid down that political contributions were Mcollectable quarterly, half yearly-
or arinually.
DINNER AT THE EMBASSY.
Paris, March 6.
Mr. Chamberlain dined at the British Embassy, where Herriot's Councillor of the Embassy, M. Phipps, and Mr. Chamberlain's Private Secretary, Mr. Selby were the only guests.
Afterwards Mr. Chamberlain and M. Herriot had a long confer-. ence.
CLAIMS FOR MILLIONS.
WARTIME SHIPPING
EPISODE.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Alexandria, Virginia, March 6. Reversing the decision" of the lower court which awarded $2.500,000 to the Virginia Ship- building Corporation, the Federal Court has awarded, the Govern- ment $11,572,000 against the Corporation.
The case arose from the seizure of the Corporation's ships 'owing to disagreement over accounts, the Government alleging with regard to war contracts that the Corporation used for other pur poses money advanced it for emergency shipbuilding.
OFFICIAL MISSION.
CABINET MINISTERS,
EXPEDITION.
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London, March 6. It is officially announced that Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for Colonies, and 'Sir S. Hoare, Secretary of State for Theodore and Kermit Roose Air, accompanied by officials of Office and Air velt, sons of the late President the Colonial Roosevelt, are going to India in. Ministry, will leave England on April to explore the Himalayan March 19 to visit Iraq and regions with the object of secur- Palestine on official business. ing for the Field Museum of They will return to England at 'Chicago
as many specimens the end of April.
as possible of rare Himalayan birds and mammals, especially the ovispeli, said to be the original |
mountain sheep, first described by Marco Polo, the long-haired tiger, the Yarkand stag, the markor,
LABOUR SETBACK.
SALES OF TEA.
WHAT CHINA AND JAPAN
HAVE LOST.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, March 6. Speaking at an Empire Exhibi- tion luncheon, Sir Charles Higham, the author and publicist, who advocates the claims of the Exhibition during his forthcom- ing visit to the United States.. stated that his visit is primarily connected with propaganda on behalf of India tea.
He stated that in the first year of the campaign the sale of Indian tea in America increased by 3,000,000 lbs., while the sales of China and Japan tea decreased,
He declared that India. Ceylon and Java collectively had cap- tured from China and Japán 10,000,000 lbs. m the American market and asserted that tea
would shortly become the common every-day drink in the United States.
FLEET'S VISIT.
SILLY BOYCOTT IDEA SCORNED.
AUSTRALIA TO GREET AMERICA.
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Melbourne, March 6.
Caciques (chiefs or patty kings of South America), and often plan- ned to drain Lake Guatavita, Colombia, into which the natives were accustomed to cast golden ornaments and utensils as offer- ings to gods.
CHINA'S HIDDEN TREASURE HOARDS.
ANTEDATES KING-TUT-Russian explora- tions near Urga, Mongalia, have revealed sarcophagi of ancient Chinese kings and princes who ruled more than 4000 years ago. The martuary chambers are said to be filled with arti- des of historical value offer the manner of the King Tut tomb
· ©THE INTERNATIONAL" SYNBİGATE,
Several South American States, f They also searched for the particularly Colombia, Ecuador, enormous treasure with which the 44 Bolivia, and Peru, where the Indians intended to ransom the aboriginals formerly mined gold Inca King Atahualpa, but which and silver in, fabulous quantities, they hid when he was murdered in abound with tales of buried tren- 1623 by the Spaniards. Their.
SEEKING TREASURE FROM THE DEEP.
Berled cities are not the only places where treasure can be found. Vast wealth lies at the bottom of the sea For example back in 1798, on October 6, the a.a. Lutine, laden with 25,000,000 in gold and silver, was wrecked on the rocks at Terschelling, en route from London with pay for the British soldiers on the island of Texel, Quite a few attempts at raluing the gold have been made, and with the gradual shifting of the sand bars, the sunken vessel has been covered over to a depth of about 46 feet. Now two Delft technical men are working on the job with a full personnel of men and equipment, which com priacs mainly a huge sucker-dredger, which "bites" off a chunk of. the sand and earth covering the vessel, the sucker draws it to the deck of the small boat, while the dredger goes deeper. Our photograph shows the dredger ready to go'down..
secret
sure, dating from the time when descendants knew the The Commonwealth has ap the inhabitants concealed more caches, but refused to reveal them, pointed a
strong committee, gold than they surrendered to despite threats of death by tor- Chairman Sir Neville Howse, to Pizaro and other Spanish adventure, arrange receptions throughout turers. Australia for the American fleet. "Get-rich-quick" men of all races
The proposal of the Australian sought vanished hoards section of the Industrial Workers,
of the World to boycott the
of
American fleet is not meeting LOCAL CINEMA FEATURES with any support in trade union circles.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
Probably a deputation will see the United States consul to endes My Love is Sadly Shining" your to obtain the release of mem featuring Mady Christians is the bers of the Independent Workers attraction showing at the Queen
Theatre fo-day. It is a story of soned in California.
the great thex of the Tianshan LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL of the World' organisation impri
mountains and the goitred gazelle.
INDIAN'S COTTON,
ELECTIONS
(Reuter's Serole.)
LONDON, March 6,
The final state of the parties In the London County Council elections is as follows -
Municipal reformars..... Labour
Progressives.
AVIATION MARVEL.
PILOTS ESCAPE CERTAIN
DEATH
a girl's love, for her tutor of humble birth: The objection te offered
Anglo-American syndicates attempted to re-locate the rich gold and silver mines. Jesuits persuaded, converted Indians to reveal the locations, but they were lost when the Jesuits were expelled in the eighteenth century.
Only one man found any Jesuiti trendure. After 15 years' search, when the territory was heaved up by an earthquake, he recovered silver bars valued at £1,400,000.
by her brother, Lucien, the AMERICA'S AIR SERVICE.
Duke of Gramount, angers the young tutor who turns revolu- tionist. The revolutionist takes rovenge by burning add pillaging and taking into captivity some of the mobilities." Among the captured in Jeanne, the girl he loves. The tutor now A known as St. Just, the Bloodhound, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, March 6 ́ ́ sets Jeanne free when he hears For what is said to be the first she has been captured. St Just time on record two airmen escaped also note free her brother, Lucien
COLLISION IN MID-AIR.
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Delhi, March 6. In the course of the debate on the Indian budget in the Council. of State, Sir Dinshaw Wacha' asserted that the Government had not put an export duty on Indian cotton because of a secret. Anglo- Japanese comtnercial treaty, though Japan's competition in Paris, March 6-The papers unscathed in a mid-air collision, who is also a captive Lusien asks India was proving detrimental to have Interviewed M, Alberto army bills, whose his sister Jeanne to
the Indian cotton trade. Sir Saraut, the new French Ambassa azachines Interlocked 4000 feet up him, but her love for St. Justin Basil Blackett assured the Coun- dor to Constantinople who stated and crashed down ablaze, safely greater
that the sympathleed deeply with Parachuted to the earth.
cil that no secret treaty prevented the Turkish nation in their eb-
the Government imposing an exdeavours to bring about moial and port duty on cotton. They had political reconstitution. He added not imposed this in the interests that he would safeguard France' of the cultivator The Govern riditions) influence in the East ment could not abolish the cotton excise duty until the provincial contributions were wiped off?
and cher economic interests, ance try to draw both countries neare by the settlemen questions.
In picture worth
N'E PAIN BALMĮ
Howis
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Washington, March 6.
It is announced that Colonel James E. Fechet will succeed General Mitchell as Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service on April 27, when Mitchell's term of office expirée,
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