SATURDAY, FEB
1933.
Argentina's Trade With Britain
Desire To Purchase More Goods
HER BEST
CUSTOMER
(By Sir Montague Barlow).
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The balance of trade between Western farmers (possibly with Great Britain and Argentina is an some assistance from a scare of interesting story. It is a com- cattle disease), the United States monplace that in this island we have imposed a complete embargo. live by our export trade.
British Investments,
i
£31,000,000
THE CHINA MATI
IN SUNKEN
TREASURE
Pirate Gold In Cocos Island.
CENTURY OF SEARCHES
New York.
For the total of the treasure-- As I impressed on my Argentine Clearly no proposal of increased that part of it which is known or friends, we can only pay for our facilities for import of our manu-has been estimated-reached the vitally necessary food and raw factures into Argentina will be impressive figure of more than materials by our exports of coal satisfactory which allows similar £31,000,000.
stuff.
To-Day's Short Story.
WHEN THE SEA
GIVES UP
By Peter Belloc.
IS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S exact spot where
HIS BRITANNIC
...
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the barque had
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Treasure, reported to be sunk or buco wore a puzzled expression. "I'll quod these men in Boston if buried, some of it the goal of ad- With the fingers of his left Land I have to dredge the bottom of the first." He gritted venturers for more than a century, he drummed lightly on the blot-whole Atlantic would more than cover the latest ter before him, while in those of the words through clenched teeth. instalment of war debts due to the his right he held a sheet of paper |United States from France and Bri-to which was attached a wireless If half a breakfast cup of water a
Lain.
"flimsy" just decoded and plac-day, bad bully beef and eleven days After payment of those obliged before him by his secretary. of equatorial sun had failed to tions, there still would remain a So hard was he staring at this soften the brain of Godfrey Hearts, Bum sufficient to permit Santa Claus paper that two deep perpendicu-able seaman, of the barque Luisa to fill a few million additionallar furrows ran up his fore-Jane, it was more than could be stockings.
head.
said of his two companions. One, The "flimsy" read:-
having in desperation drunk the Auxiliary barque Luisa Jane, waters of the South Atlantic had Boston, encountered at nightfall gone mad, attacked Hearst as being! Jut long. stop Drifting with the cause of their catastrophe, and canvas set stop No papers found now lay in the bottom of the boat,: and manufactured goods, our steel privilege to our competitors. True, { The largest treasure is £12,000,- only seven dead bodies and cargo the greater part of his brains de girders and electrical equipment. the most-favoured-nation clause 000 in pirate gold reputedly burled of tin containers and scrap stop corating the midships thwart, the our motor cars and lorries, our figures in Argentina's commercial in Cocos Island, in the South Seas, Whale-beat missing from slips remainder, sticking to an iron bar, cotion sheetings and woollen treaties with our competitors, but and the goal of a Canadian expedi- j fear mutiny stop Taken in tow which still dangled listlessly from
that difficulty must be surmount- tion which set out last winter,
to avoid danger to shipping stop Hearst's right hand. But in the last few years The ed; and Dr. Malbran, the active The source of this treasure has Expect to berth Recife Thursday Hia other comrade, Patrick Shaun, bottom has fallen out of our ex-fand able Argentine Ambassador in been variously attributed to dif- A.M. stop Have warned neigh was an Irish boy scarcely out of his port trade, and the drop in our London, recently, when speaking in ferent notorious pirates, including
He sat in the stern grasping] bouring shipping keep, look out teens. foreign sales has been terrific. Ifin Edinburgh, made suggestions "Black" Morgan, but investigators for whale-boat stop stop
{with all that remained of his failing we cannot sell our coal and manu- with that object in view.
have pretty generally agreed that it Richards (Capt.) S/S Morata. strength a useless tiller and staring factures to buy food and ruwj No Englishman need be anxioue was part of the loot of the city of The Consul turned to the "Boston with sightless eyes at the setting material, we perish.
about his welcome in Argentina. Lima, Peru.
Journal of Shipping and Commer-sun. If he thought at all, it was to More than that; the disastrous Undoubtedly recent efforts, largelyj Another treasure rich in value cial Intelligence." He was in luck, thank God that night was again nt decline in our export trade as stimulated or encouraged by the and romance was carried to the Under the dale April 23, and the hand. Oblivious of the fact that! meant a swollen army of unem-Prince of Wales, to cultivate and bottom of the Atlantic off the Vir-heading "Shipping Cleared," he darkness would hide them utterly ployed of between two and three develop the existing good relations ginia Capes in 1911 when the read an Item:
from the ken of passing vessels, hej millions.
between the two countries, have steamer "Merida" sank after a col- Auxiliary barque, Luisa Jane, thought only of its cooler hours Our Purchases.
(been appreciated. The British Ex- lirion. In her hulk are reported to 1.500 tons, for Montevideo with which would bring with them an In trade, Argentina and England hibition was attended by millions, he £300,000 in gold and silver, part general cargo. comprising silks, imaginary respite at least from this sland face to face; their positions and trade developmenta will of the Mexican State treasure and: textiles and manufactured sun-agony of thirst. Anyone who knew are complementary. England has materialise as times improve. | £3,000,000 in rubles said to have dries. Owners Henley and Schoen: the symptoms would have pro- taken practically the whole of Ar- It must never be forgotten that been once the property of the tra- underwriters Simpson and Tite.nounced him to be on the verge of gentina's chilled and frozen meat the British private investor has gic Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. | So that was the game. I'm con- delirfum. and her butter, together with ashown his belief in and sympathy Many widely-known American miltainers and scrap insured as "gen- Godfrey Hearst stood amidahipa large portion of her maize, wheat with the country in a very practi- lionaires at various times have in-ferai cargo, silk, etc." He left the looking down at the contorted limbs and linseed.
cal shape by adventuring at par terested themselves in efforts to Consulate early in the afternoon, of the corpse at his feet.
Either a While England is almost entire some £600,000,000 to assist de- reach the "Merida".
telling his secretary to telephone shudder or a parched sob shook his ly industrialised. Argentina revelopment, mainly of the railways, The British Sloop-of-War "De him if there was further word from powerful frame; he stepped over the maina almost entirely agricultural which, apart from one Government Braak" sank with £2,000,000 in the Morata.
midships thwart and scated himself Argentina has little or nothing inline and a French undertaking, are treasure in 1793 near Cape Hen- Letting himself in at his front as far forward as he could fit, the way of manufactures: her iron practically all under British con- lopen, off the Delaware Coast. Only door he hung up his hat and turned hunched up with only his eyes above and steel, her motor cars. her cut-trol. These British railways have recently divers were reported to to go upstairs for a bath when the the gun'le. Not once did he look ton and woollen goods and the like undoubtedly served the country, have discovered the ship and telephone rang. It was his secre- round, but gazed ever outward
well, and no charge of exploitation brought parts of it to the surface.tary: Does Argentina purchase these is possible, for the average rate of Preparations are now under way "Morata have been through again, manufactures from us, as we bur interest over a long period of years to salvage seme £2,000,000 in trea-sir. Shall I read you the message?" her meat and agricultural products has, to say the least, been asure from the "Lusitania," sunk The secretary read: from her? This policy of "Buying moderate one.
off the Irish coast by a German U- boat 17 years ago and work is con tinuing on the liner "Egypt", off Breet, France, from which about £600,000 of her £1,000,000 in gola already has been recovered.
are mostly all imported.
across the evening sera.
Hearst realised that if the whole
MONDAY'S STORY,
Monday's story will be "A Gentleman Repays A. Loan," by Keith West.
Barque Luisa Jane foundered. from those who buy from us" is.j The British investor in Argen-
6.15 p.m. in Jai. long. - while and I believe has been generally, tine railwaya has undoubtedly
in tow stop Cut cable and gotį the accepted policy of leading Ar-grievance at the moment. With
away clear stop Report on arrival *♥gentine ngriculturists. Just be the collapse in trade, many of the
slop stop fore I left there appeared in the British lines are showing sadly re-
Richards S/S Morata. Press two very significant peti-duced figures. Still, some profita Another treasure for which The Consul-general hung up, the lions to the President, one from ure being made by one or two com- dozens of companies have searched receiver with a snap. Reaching to game of life was not completely and the leading breeders and the other panies. It is said that at least in vain was said to have been buri- the top shelf of his bookcase he irreparably lost, the power either to from the Rural Society, arging £2,000,000 sterling would now be ed on Oak Island, off the coast of brought down a rolled and tattered win or to lose had been removed emphatically on the Government available for their requirements Nova Scotia. this policy of reciprocal trading. There were it not that, owing to
Admiralty chart of the, South At-from his own capable hands. Even I doubt if the importance of exchange restrictions, the money In 1796 and apparently had been panion
It was known to have been there lantic, an old and treasured com.in these straits be retained the sane of many journeys.
man's contempt of suicide. these pronouncements has been has to be held in the local bunks. there a great many years before spread it on the table, weighted it! While apparently the whole of the sufficiently realised in London. What makes the case all the that time. Its value has been es- down sailor fashion, and marked the South Atlantic separated those two
Unfortunately, in recent years harder is that the United King-timated at £10,000,000,--Reuter, the balance of trade between the dom, being far and away the. two countries has worked out on largest purchaser of Argentine] quite different lines. AB the commodities, provides most of the breeders' petition put it, "Great exchange
payments, but
vet:
Britain buys from us to the value secures no compensating advantage. of 246,000,000 (pesos), and sells to when payments out from Buenos us 106,000,000; she buys one-half Aires to London have to be made. our total exports, whereas we pur-Surely there is a case chase from her only one-Afth of allowing payments to us literally our total imports."
in our own coin.
America's Gain.
The Rural Society'a petition em- phasised the contrast with the United States, Germany and France, who, while exporting manufactured goods heavily Lo Argentina, close their doors to her ágricultural products.
here for
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GOLD RUSH ENLIVENS ALASKA
Active Prospecting And Development.
BEACON TO BE LIT BY POPE.
Wireless Control To The Vatican.
Florence.
He
FORTHCOMING A.D.C. PLAY.
"Nine "Till Six" At King's Theatre.
EXPERIENCED PLAYERS.
from their fellow beings, the whole
length of the boat divided them
more
from each other. Half-way between them the twisted corpse of the mad Peterson leered at the sky, an in-
What superable barrier. |divided them from taking solace in
each other's company words cannot] tell. Both stared fixedly towards the setting sun.
Like scarlet billiard ball balanced on the rim of a vast blue
The Pope will light by wireless" Local playgoers have always been saucer, the sun struck the horizon on Easter night a huge steel cross unanimous in their praise of the of the windless sca. For a moment
ed by the Pope.
བ་
to be erected on the summit of La enterprise shown by the Hong Kong it appeared to hesitate; then slowly, Verna (6,000 feet) the mountain Amateur Dramatic Club in the slowly, slowly it sank until the last sacred to Saint Francis. He will selection of plays, but, when it was infinitesimal section of its rim was light the cross by pressing an elec-announced that the cast of the next buried beneath the horizon, As al tric button within the Vatican. production would be 'all-female,glars of golden light followed, For instance, in 1929 (the last
The great beacon will be visible and to the number of sixteen at Hearst leapt to his full height and, reasonably normal year before the
in the darkness for hundreds of that, it was felt in some quarters letting drop the iron bar from his plague of low prices fell оп the
miles, and will remind the country that the Committee was rather over fingers, shook his fist at the last of world), Great Britain sold to Ar-l
Nome, Alaska.
He shrieked with gentina £29,000,000 sterling of The northern lights are seeing a people of the Holy Year preclaim stepping the mark of discernment the daylight.
and that the theatre-going public nervous tension. goods, and the United States sold "depression gold rush,” which La
Essentially a man of action, en- The Marcont apparatus which would, as a whole, be somewhat un- to her £43,000,000, or 60 per cent.piling up Alaska's production of the the Pope will use to light the cross responsive.
dowed at the same time with vivid | fmore than the British export. But yellow metal to new heights.
From what can be gathered, how-imagination, night now held for him on the other side of the account,! Hundreds of prospectors have re-will be the same as that he used while we took '£82,000,000 sterling vived placer and quartz mining, to light a Statue of Christ at Rio ever, it la already apparent that no all the terrors of the damned. At A.D.C. announcement, în recent the Arst movement from the bows, of Argentina's products (or get-boosting production of gold for the| The money for the erection of years, has created the amount of Shaun took his expressionless eyes Ling on for three times our sales), year to £2,000,000. the United States purchased only) Walis production of every other the cross has been collected in interest already being evinced in the from the horizon, a complete and the forthcoming, production of Aimes terrible blankness written on his £24,000,000, or approximately half mineral lagged, prospectors have large part by collections in their sales.
swarmed to work gold claims with streets made by Franciscan Friars, and Philip Stuarta' play "Nine "till features. "Sure," he thought, "and Six," which is to be presented at the the aun has never set beyond this Recent figures show a great de- the old-time pan and crude rockers |
--Beuter,
King's Theatre on the nights of endless ocean. It has set into the cline all round, but while, in 1981 as well as more modern dredges.
March 14, 36' and 16, at 9.20 p.middle, of it all and is quenched for -our purchases from Argentina still Placer mining was delayed for a
A great deal of new talent will beläver, no mapana y las 4 ...stood as high as £52,000,000, the time by heavy snowfall but in the
engaged in the lighter parts: the Look, steam!" he cried. "The United States. only took, all told, a summer melting snows sent a plen-
more responsible characters being sea's boiling, it is!"
·fere nominal £7,000,000 of that tiful supply of water shooting down country's produce.
the flumes to help wash', out the Were the crisis not so grimly heavy gold sands.
de Janeiro,'
CREDENTIALS REQUIRED TO
ENTER - BANKVE
Georgetown, Indiana.
filled by such experienced players ns. Delirium seized his tortured Helen Prior, Veronica Butterfield,] brain.” With a burst of demoniac
·nerious, there would be an element The Geological Survey for Jhat All customers must have creden-Margaret Bunje, Hilda Arnold, etc., laughter, he collapsed in the bottom
Of more than usual interest comes of the boat, serene at: last in the
of humour in this American poal-year indicated active prospecting tial to enter the Georgetown State the wakome news that, after an sweet flusion that their master tor tion. The great› packing firms of and development of some properties | Bank ***
absence of two years, Fay Grossman | turer would never ribe -mguin? Chicago have large meat undertak to the point where they may en- The President and cashier has returns to the footlights on this oc- Unmoved, unhearing, Hearst con- Inga In Argenting, created by ter the list of producers shortly"" announced that doors of the bank camión; and if augure wall for suc- tinued to stare, out abstractedly American... “capital, officered" and -Reuter."
will be kept locked at all times. cent that this talented lady is to over the darkening man. More by In- managed by American brains,
If a known customer comes to appear in the leading role,stinct than, by his senses he realised bot: whose market is almost
Bitten by an Alsatian dog owned the door, the cashier will press‹ ́s- The booking opens at the Kinga that he was gone. In a flash he entirely in England. In pre-by Kwan Yi-auen, 252 Henasy Road, button unlocking it. If a stranger Theatre os Binday, and early ap. wallas womething elsomething -vious - years they managed to a Chinese girl, three years of age appears, he will telephone the town, plication for seats is recommended, infinitely worse.", Solitude, anxiety
export their Argentine meat to the was sent to the Government Civil marshall, who will saunter past In this connection It is to be noted and acute physical surering? United States, the duty being only 'Hohpital" yesterday for ameatment, bank to inspect the pro
done their wort He -G cents a kilo, but in the last year. The dog was sent to Kennedy Town customer belon
be that for half a minu or two, under pressurs from the for obaarvation.
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