“TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1925,
PRINCE IN THE TROPICS.
VISITING THE "WHITE MAN'S GRÀVE.”
SIERRA LEONE'S WELCOME.
FRANCE'S CRISIS.
FINANCE MINISTER'S
PROPOSALS.
RAISING THE WIND.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Colony That Began As Escaped Slaves' Refuge, A CAPITAL LEVY THE LAST RESORT:
The Prince of Wales is now visiting Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, which was once known as "the white man's grave.”
BOOM OF GUNS. '.
(Reuter's Service.)
Freetown, April 6. ILMS, Repulse has arrived at Sierra Leone in glorious wellther, The Prince of Wales hai moi. enthusiastic reception on bandius, with the Governor,
Imany's African colonies during
the war.
The coast lands are unhealthy and have earned for Sierra Leone the unenviable reputation of being the white man's grave.". The mean annual temperature is above deg.. The rainfall, which varies ja «grent deal, is from 150 to 180 or more inches per annum! Ir 1890 no fewer than 203 inches were recorded. In 1894, a "dry"
WHAT HE IS DOING NOW!
PRINCE OF WALES.
This may not ptional snapshot of His Royal Highness in a ship's swinmur. "foon was taken during one of lifs earlier trips through the tropige fore thd he istagnin in the tropes it is to be supposed that he is enjeu de homself in the earne way,
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Sierra Leone is inhabited by
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, April 6.
M. Demonzie submitted to the Cabinet the Bills with which he proposes to improve the financial situation and the state of the Treasury,
The first Bill authorises the Banque of France to issue four
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UNKNOWN
NORTH
ARCTIC CONTINENTS SEARCH:
AIRCRAFT TO ASSIST.
Exploring the Only "Blind Spot " Left.
The lure of the Great North is still as strong as ever, and an expedition is seen to start to find the supposed Aretie continent.
The McMillan expedition is to be a private one and is to start about June 15.
PRIVATE VENTURE.
(Reuter's American Service).
Washington, April 6. President Coolidge has approy-
Ja
Donald Baxter. McMillan was
milliards of new bank notes. fed the proposal of the Arctic born at Provincetown, Massachu
This increase to forty-five! milliards of the limit fixed for the explorer Donald McMillan forts, in 1874 and was educated at Harvard His polar expedition issue of bank notes, which is at exploration with the assistance was with Pepry in 1908 under the present forty-one millarda, will at Government aircraft of the suspices of the Arctic Club. Two be met by an exceptional volun- North Pole in the hope of finding years later he joined the Cabot tary contribution from capital the amount of which is fixed in prin- ciple ut ten per cent.
This contribution will be pro- ductive of interest at four per cent, and all Treasury bills will The accepted in payment at the current market rate with a slight bonus..
The product of the exceptional! contribution will be applied to the redemption of debt.
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M. Demonzie will only contemplate # levy capital
lust .resort. In the event of the foregoing pro- posals not being accepted. M. Demonzie has asked for a debate in the Chamber of Deputies thereon to-morrow, when their adoption will be made a question of confidence in the Government.. AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE.
Paris, April 6. After a two and a half hours' meeting, the Cabinet decided to, ronsider M. Demonzie's pyopérils. at another meeting to-morrow inder the presidency of M. Douniergia President at the Republic.
Several Ministers at the, con- ela-ion of this evening's meeting) nted that they agreed in prin- ciple with M. Demonzie's pre-j posals. Only a few details re- mudged to be settled.
CHEERS AND JEERS.
Paris, April 6, The Cabinet discussed M.) Demonzie's proposals for two) hours this morning and adjourn– i ed till six in the evening.
The Cabinet meets again to- morrow morning.
This delay in reaching a deci- sion is attributed to M. Herriot's) desire to confer with the Socialist leaders as to the idea of a volun-i
THE MAN WHO WILL HEAD THE SEARCH,
Donald Baxter McMillan, the famous explorer, who is to lend
the coming expedition into the last "blind spot" an the map in the North.
tury capital contribution as the Arctic continent long believed Labrador party to undertake apposed to the Socialist iden of a to exist thereabouts. compulsory levy,
M. Millerund has joined the Poincarist Senatorial
group
ethnological work among the Esquimaux of Labrador... He next It is said to be the only remain-ecame leader of the Crocker Land
ing "blind spot" on the map in the Expedition, which kept him em- known as the Republican Union, north comprising about. a million ployed until 1917 when he accept- Acknowledging the Chairman's square miles of unexplored terri-ed the post of Professor of
welcome he said that their task:
was to restore national concurd. tory.
M. Millerund taking his seat in the Senate"received, cheers from the centre and jeers and shouts of "Renegade!" from the Left.
EARLIER CABLES.
NINĚ TO BE TRIED.
BAWLA MURDER CASE VERDICT.
. Crowds of pectators cheered | year, only 14 inches of rain fell.] tremendously with the guns of in so other part of West Africn is the battery borming.
the ruinfach so heavy. The rains Begin in April or May each year, so it is just possible that the Sierra Leone" is the British Prince will have excellent wen- Colony between Liberia and they for his entire visit. French Guinea. The talony has n const line of 880 miles. The land various negro tribes. Freetown is is low and swampy pear the shore, peopled by the descendants of
Paris, April 6. Ministerial deliberations over
. (Router's Service,) but rises in the north part to over early every negro tribe and a the week-end have assisted in the 4,000 feet in toum Baro, The district type, known as the Sierra crystallisation of new financial
Bombay, April 6. rainfall at Fit is 18 inchesLeont his pen evolved: Their measures, which will probably be
All the nine accused in the but it is less the interior. The angonge is pidgin English. Since tabled in the Chamber to-morrow. Bawla murder case have been Colony ninistered by "a governor with nominated. and Syrians have settled in the coun- Demonzie's proposals. indicating sessions.
1900 a considerable number of The "Matin" gives the gist of committed for trial" at the next executive to tell. The per-nor ay as traders. Most of the a compulsory loan substituted for | [The Malabar Hill outrage is also in charge of the pry negroes are pagans and euch capital levy. The public will be occurred early in January when tectorate, which is divided into tribe has its steret societies and appealed to make a voluntary Abdul Kadir Baula, five districts, een aanter a Puro-fetishes. They are very powerful return of individual fortunes but pean commistofer Sierra Leone and are emplared often for bene- in the event of the failure of the Was permanently sited by the delent mupons, such as the re-voluntary plan the Government British in 1791, Foing a settlement culation of agriculture and the will take steps to enforce accur for esenped saves. From a com- | padm-oil industry. The majority ate returns. It is stated that the any it because a crown colony in it the Sierra Leoni are nominally loan will bear interest at four per 1867. The altchande was estab- Christian. The European com lished in 1996. Native troops munity numbere shared in the conquest of Ger-hundred.
over flyo
WHERE THE PRINCE IS NOW.
BECHUANALO
SVAALE
OF GOOD HOPE
Cape Town
SOUTH
AMERICA
BRAZIL
FAMBIA
SIERRA LEONE
GOLD COAST
NIGERIA
AFRICA
ur map shows Sierra Leone where the Prince le now Freetown.
cent.
SLAP IN THE FACE
rich
Anthropology at Bowden College.. A year later, however, he took up. aviation in the United States Naval Reserve, When the war. was-oyer he took an expedition to Baffin Land and remained there for two years. Commander Mc- Milkin has written several books, including "Tour Years in the White North," and has contri- uted largely to the magazines. He is a fellow of the American Geographical Society and a rem- ber of the Royal Geographical Society (London)
COLOUR PROBLEM-
SOUTH AFRICA'S DIFFICULTY,
(Reuter's Service.)
Mr.
Mahommedan merchant "and & member of the Bombay Corpora- tion, was murdered in his motor- car. and Mumtaz Mustapha Begum, a girl with him, was dis- figured with knives. The Bom-
Capetown, April 6. bay police hold the opinion the crime was the result of an attempt Mines Works Bill debate in the At the resumption of the to abduct the girl. Baula, who Assembly, the Premier, Paris, April 6. M. Millerand's decisive return had been protecting the girl for Hertzog, expressed his apprecia- to the Senate at the first ballot, in the last four months, had been tion of General Smuts' attitude. the teeth of the greatest opposi-repeatedly warned from hostile tion of the Government coalition, and friendly sources that his life was in danger, but he continued is a significant political event.
"Ere Nouvelle," the Govern- to keep the girl and disregarded ment organ, has declared that this the warnings. The girl was for- may not presage a catastrophe merly attached to the palace of for the Government, but it is un- the Maharajah of Indore.. Some doubtedly a slap in the face. On time ago she escaped from Indore and made her way to Amritsar, the contrary the Opposition newspapers hail the event as a where, it is alleged, numerous final collapse. M. Herriot end M. attempts were made to make her Millerand when interviewed stated they intended to net and not to talk.
M. Millerand intimates that he will join the Republican Union group in the Senate, of which M. Poincare is also a member.
to
Paris, April 6-With reference the report that the Franco- Chiuse agreement with regard to the French sbare of the Boxer
return to Indore.]
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TRADE HOPES
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S
OPTIMISM.
(Reuter's American Service.)
He said that the time had not tion between white and coloured, yet arrived to abolish differentia- but they must be careful to see they gave no offence.
The Premier suggested that the question might be considered in a select committee granting certificates to persons in charge of dangerous work.
Sir Thomas Smartt, former Minister of Agriculture, dwelling on the effects of the Bill on Asiatic races, declared Japan, as one of the five great Powers of theworld, could not possibly allow an indignity of the sort contemplated by the Bill to pass. [Speaking in the Legislative Assembly at the second reading| of the Bill to amend the Mines: and Works Act, which restricts Washington, April 5. | employment, to natives and. Indemnity is to be signed on April President Coolidge, address- Asiatica in mines, and factories, 14.at the Qual-Dorsay, it is stated--ing the National-Cotton-Manufacthe former Premier... General that negotiations begun fast turers Association, predicted in Smuts, urged the Government to Autumn in Peking have taken a increase in business activity--He avoid casting a stigma on Asiaties most favourable" turn, which may said that be found in the present in legislation, by coupling them well lend to a conclusion of the and future industrial situation with natives. We shall gather agreement before the end of the justification for the American on our heads the hatred of the month. But any announcement of terift polley Ra promised the whole of Asia from North to fcnatures on a definite date is full desistance of the Government South Every Asiatic country premature and in any event the infighting boll-weevil and an he said, wia branded by the Bill sikaing of the grooment will dorned the proposal for co-opera and they would feel the weight of Houbtless occur in Poring and not tion among the cotton producing their batred for years to come. In Paris-Reator.
Staton.
The debate was adjourned Inte
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