SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925.
HAWAII'S DEFENCES.
KING'S SPEECH.
"NEEDS OF THE ISLANDS TO BE STUDIED.
All the World To Hear.
LEGISLATOR'S PROPOSALS.
WEMBLEY OPENING.
"The Strongest Military Outpost in the World." BLARE OF BANDS AND CRASH OPGUNS,
With the object of making Hawnii "the strongest military out- -post in the world" an American legislator will shortly urge Congress
to immediate action.
COMING MISSION.
(Reuler's American Service.)
Washington,. Muy 8. Following a public discussion of the weakness of the Hawaiian defences, as disclosed by the re-
(Reuter's Servicą.)
London, May 8. Fisteners in all over this world wil, te mbled to hear the King when he opens, the Empire exhibi. thon on May
The pressings are to be trg mitted though the high power station at Chelmsford,
island defences as well as the fleet. Unofficial details of the short comings mention the necessity of deepening Pearl Harbour and the state of the aircraft bases, which are overcrowded and inadequate, while a deficiency of troops, heavy They begin eleven o'clock in guns and communications are re-tas mirning (summer time) with
military mitide,
The royal salute on their "Majesties" „arrival will be fired at
11.06.
AMERICA'S BATTLE FLEET.
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The United States battle feet steaming to the recent mahanvres held in Hawaiian waters,
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sent American Navy manoeuvres, vealed at Oahu, where the garri, Mr. Butler, Chairman of the son requires doubling in order to Naval Committee of the House of“,
Representatives, said that he' would urge legislation at the next session of Congress to make the Hawaiian islands "the strongest military putpost in the world."
Plans are being prepared to en- able members of the Naval Com-i mittee to visit Hawaii next month in order to obtain first hand in- formation. The party will be accompanied by high naval .officers.
A thorough survey of the needs": of the islands will be made with
to Pearl: particular reference
Harbour.
Mr. Buller added that his pro- posal for the fortification of the Hawaiian group did not mean that he would be opposed to a
world court of justice or the prin-
ciple of disarmament.
He hoped that these objects
could be attained, but he was be- repulse theoretically a possible ginning to doubt whether the landing force of forty thousund other nations were in
about disarmament.
EARLIER CABLES.
earnest men.
RUBBER JUMPS.
New York, May 8.
At the conclusion of the officers"
following conference,
..the Hawaiian manoeuvres. the um- pires issued a brief communique acknowledging that the opera- tions, disclosed deficiencies in
QUITE VALID.
(Reuter's Service.)
BERLIN, May 8. The Election Court has declared Marshal Von Hindenburg's elec-
tion valid.
VERY HIGH PRICES TO COVER.
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, May 8.. The rise in the price of rubber for immediate or near delivery to 2s, per lb. is attributed to the shortage in the supply and the brisk demand 'to meet contracts now maturing in America.
This will be followed by the Dnie
of York's introductory speech,
His Majesty's speech is tied to
be delivered at noon..."
After that a short religionis ser
will be conducted by the. Bishop of London.
VICO
COTTON TROUBLE"
SCHEME OF CONTROL NEEDED.
"(Reutér'& Service.) ▼
LONDON, May 8. The provisional emergency cot- ton committee of Manchester has expressed the opinion that short time movements, on, a voluntary basis will never command entire loyalty...Consequently the trade is beginning to recognise that there" is no real solution for the present difficulties in the cotton trade, apart from a full-fleged scheme of control and the sooner it is put ins to actual operation, the better, for everybody concerned.
BOMB PLOTS?
WARSAW COMMUNISTS.
ARRESTED."
(Reuter's Service.)
THE CHINA MAIL."
RADIO" FROM ARCTIC. ESKIMO FOLK SONGS AT EQUATOR 7-
EXPLORER'S FANCIES.
Future Landing Places For Air Routes.
An American professor, who is about to lead an exploring expedition into the cold lands of the Aretic, says that he may put Eskimo folk songs "on the air." to be picked up by wireless listeners on the Equator.
Washington. Forty-three naval fiers and "It is highly probable that mechanics have applied for the
Professor people at the Equator will hear posts.
Macmillan folk songs by the Eskimos in the recently suggested to the Presi-. Arctic this summer." sald Pro dent that the United States should
ARG
¡NORTH O.FOLE
UN
ONS!
EXPLORE ARCTIC BY AIR-Capt Donald MSMillan, with the aid of the Navy Department, is com- Valeting plans for a search for land in the unexplored
Arctic regions. The start will be in Juna, flights made from a bose on Axel Heiburg Land, with return in August
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
fessor Donald Macmillan, the claim any territory found as veteran Arctic explorer, after, the future lariding places för a pros- Navy Department have announced pective air route to Europe. that President Coolidge had approved of two navy seaplanes, with experienced pilots, accom- panying Professor Macmillan's ship.
- He sails сл June 15 from WARSAW, May 8-Wiscasset, Maine, to survey the The police have arrested a numunexplored area between Alaska bar of Communists in Warsaw and hand the North Pole. It is esti- Grodno who are, alleged to have mated that he will cover a million been plotting a series of bombing square miles. Later he will outrages also the theft of secret explore Labrador, also Greenland. documents from the War Office, the Ministry of Interior and other Government-offices.
Detailed instructions were found |'in their possession and proofs are said to have been obtained of their connection with the Soviet lega. tion.
TYPHOID SCOURGE.
HUNDRED EUROPEANS
DOWN.
(Router's Service.)
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SUVA, May 8. In Fiji a hundred Europeans and many Indians are suffering from typhoid.
Three Europeans have died. Extra doctors are being sent fro mAustralia and New Zealand.
WORLD FLIGHT,
ITALIAN AVIATOR'S
PROGRESS.
(Reuter's Service.) ·
CABINET TROUBLES. (Reuter's Service.)
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THE NATION'S FOOD,
(Reuter'a Service.)
LONDON, May 8.· The Food Commission has issued. ane
two majority and minority reports. The minority reports are signed by Mr. T. H. Rayland and Mr. W. R. Smith respectively. The majority report principally recommends the es- tablishment of a food council to maintain continuing supervision over staple food prices.
In connection with port charges on wheat it recommends that the pert authorities carefully 'consider the rates with a view to making. reductions in the near future.. It favours compulsory registration of retail butchers and endorses the recommendation of the Linlithgow committee that cold storage pro- prietors should be required to furnish statistics of stocks of meat cold-stored, to he published at the food council's discrétion.
BOMBAY, May 8. It recommends the council The airman Commdr. de Pinedo closely to watch, future develop has arrived here..
ments in connection with the im- portation of meat from Argentina since it is of the opinion that it may be necessary for the Govern- ment to intervene by" acquiring the controlling interest of British companies operating in Argentia or by other means, if the supply of chilled frozen meat to Britain should be dominated by adverse trading combinations.
BRUSSELS, May B The King has received the Catholic leader van Devyvere, who has agreed to try to form a new
The situation is intensified by the delay in the arrival of 200 tons coming via Suez, which had to be transhipped, and by short accounts ministry. having been opened in the markets for May delivers, the covering of which has necessitated paying very nigh prices.
When Marshal von Hindenburg.
SHARE ISSUE. was elected President of Germany, the socialists protested against
LONDON, May 8. The United Sua Betong Rubber the result on the ground of alleged Estates are issuing 160,00. £1 shares irregularities.)
at three.
TRADE WITH THE DOMINIONS.
Moscow, May 8.-A concession has been granted to a British con- It believes the Government may cern, the Ayun Corporation, to ex. wish to discuss with the Dominion pidit the goldfields of Okhotsk, Governments the possibility of Kamchatka.
The company pays encouraging, in the interest of the on the basis of the area worked, and producer and consumer, the flow of also surrenders five per cont, of the food from the Dominions to the Fontput to the Soviet-Renter, markets of Britain. It finally re-
EMPIRE'S VAST SHOP WINDOW OPENS AGAIN TO-DAY.
The Empire's shop window, as the British Empiro Exhibition has been called, is to be opened to-day by the King Hongkong is again represented.
commends the Government to exercise its influence to ensure that the economic section of the
League of Nations shall continu. ously study International food problems and prepare periodical reports for submission to the League council.
Mr. Ryland's minority report objects to the establishment of a food council as a definite advance in the direction of State socialism and imposing a heavy burden on the taxpayer, entailing a serious risk of increasing the cost or the peoples' food..
Professor Donald Baxter Mac- Milan, Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College; was a mem ber of the Peury North Polar Expedition, 1908-9, and in the
Professor McMillan.
following year went to Labrador with the Cabot Expedition. The years 1911 and 1912 he spent in ethnological research among the Eskima of Labrador, and then he had charge of the Crocker Land Expedition of 1915-17. In July, 1921, he
set out, also from Wiscasset, óo an expedition to couple of years. Baffin Land, which occupied · a An ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Professor MacMillan has gone through an
aviation course.
WOOL SALES:
SUSPENDED ALL OVER AUSTRALIA.
(Router's Service.)
MELBOURNE, May 8. A conference of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers and the Australian Wool Growers Council decided to suspend wool sales all over Australia until July when they will be resumed if circumstances permit.
MINISTER RESIGNS.
(Reuter's Service.)
ROME, May 8. The King has accepted the resignation of Admiral di Revel, Minister of Marine,
and has anpointed: the Premier... Siknor Mussolioi, to act as Minister ad interim.
flour in the hauds of a statutory import board acting on behalf of the whole community.
Also a The food commission majority similar centralisation of meat sup report points out that there is no plies,carrying out the recommend.. Levidence presented_In_suppou ofations of the Bridgeman-Macrosty the suggestion that the inter committees in regard to the public national, whost trade-in-controlled acquletion of the fraazing works in {by a small number of firms. South America by Britafa,
exploiting" the needs of the consumers.
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The milling industry should be. formed into a statutory corpora GOVERNMENT tion wherain pipeshat millowners
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