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Mr. Roosevelt's Year.
Moving The Assyriani
The mission to examine the land on which, it le proposed to settle the Assyrians from Irak recently arrived. in Brazil
SATURDAY, MARCH, 24. §1934.
STEAMING INTO THE
BIGHT BATTLE
SHIPS PERILOUS COURSE
AT TOP SPEED
SIR ROGER KEYES' MEMOIRS
The cost is paid by the Leaguė, and so largely by this country. The cost of the actual colonisation, it (By Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, M.P.).
it ever materialises, is officially estimated at £$14,000. This is to
·· ́ Sir · · Roger · Keyes resumes the Germans, Some of the wounded be collected partly from the Irak narrative of the naval action in the had bullet wounds in their · ́ shoul- Government, partly from the AB- Heligoland Bight on August 28, ders, which no doubt required ox syrians themselves, partly from 1914, at its last stage, when the planation when they arrived in private charitable organisations, German cruiser Brains had sunk, Germany. The German, Minister and partly from the members of
The · destroyer" Lurcher, with. Sir In Copenhagen declared that they, the League..
survivors
The Nansen refugee office at Roger on board, had taken off her were indicted by us!
One can have nothing but ad- Geneva will be responsible for the
miration for the determination of actual carrying out of the move.
X7HEN our rescue work along- the German officers to defend their side the Mainz was still in ships to the end, and go down with
The whole plan seems wasteful W
and of doubtful benefit to the As- syrians themselves. No Britishress a wireless signal was re-their colours flying. It does not, ceived from Admi. Beatty ordering however, speak well for the morale of the German Navy if it was neces- money should be squandered on
■ ́general retirement. Hit.
can
that
WAT
sea.
I felt it was time to clear out,|sary for the officers to use their re- too, and as quickly as possible, for volvers to check the desertion of Rum Runner Redivivus
we were between Hellgoland and men from their posts in action......
It is not surprising that discip- The repeal of Prohibition, it Borkum, less than twenty miles seems, has not killed the Ameri- from the latter, and the Lurcher, line maintained in this manner
of with a crew of seventy (at least failed under the conditions boot-legger. "Hooch" various kinds is still being sold twenty of whom were required be-prevailed at the end of the in Bottles bearing on their skilfully low to steam her at full speed), and resulted in the most humiliat
names long had 224 Germans on board! |ing surrender in the whole counter-felted labels honoured by the drinking public. The situation for the next few history of the world. The faking is so well done that hours was not without its anxieties. "Salt Horse" Officers "only be expert taster knows the The thought, of falling in with an The Lurcher and Firedrake en- enemy was not an attractive one. tered Harwich at Sa.m. on Aug. good from the bad."
This seems to be either an ex- the limit of visibility being still 29, in a thick fog. The wounded aggerated encomium for the boot well within gun-range. The Lur were taken to the yacht Liberty, leggers or a libel on the Ameri-cher's forecastle, was crowded, with which her owner, Lord Tredegar, can palate.
had fitted out as a hospital ship, The best synthetic unwounded Germans, liquor is easily detected,
Caring For The Wounded and equipped with every concely- The surest way of detecting
It is true that the prisoners were able up-to-date appliance. interna-"cut" liquor is to examine the quite and obedient, but one won- In the mist and uncertainty that tional co-operation and trading. base of the battle, which is oftendered whether they would remais obscured the Battle of the Bight Even the roughest advocate of awn off and replaced to avold currency expansion perceives the breaking the seals on the cork. futility of the Government's "buying_hogs in order to throw them into the Mississippi." A year ago the President's current
markets means a tariff reduc- tion and a return to
President Roosevelt's first budget proposals would have
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so if we had to fight their friends, ne thing stood out crystal clear. The after part of the upper deck was Beatty and Tyrwhitt were two sea or "salt horse," officers, as they are encumbered with wounded, many called in the Navy, brought up in of them in a terrible state. Indeed, the hard school of the early des the Lurcher was in nọ condition to fight an action, neither were her risks, and accept responsibility.. troyer service to act quickly, take consorts; the Laurel and Liberty They seized the opportunity given train had been badly mauled, the Fire to them ef proving their worth to
"With a little practice," declare
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The Last Straw'
:
year of office has drawn to a staggered even American close the American people will humanity; nowadays a proposal psychologist, “you can doubtless look back to reflect to spend over 10,500 million yourself to awaken at any pre drake was in a better plight, but those in power and to those they
The triumph she had thirty-eighty prisoners, had the good fortune to lead. upon its astonishing achieve- dollars in the present year against determined hour." ments. How far thè improvement, an income of only 3,260 million of mind over mattress.
whose presence on, board "would ja distinct improvement is the is accepted with a sort of be
have been an embarrassment In But for an act of gallant good. mens comradeship on the part of Com- fruit of economic planning, and wildered faith that "it will come
Jaction,
modore Tyrwhitt, commanding the how far it is due to recovery in out all right in the end." "Bet The traveller had taken rooms In these days destroyers had no destroyer flotillas, the last phase the natural order of things from ter business, better employment, at a fashionable hotel," but just as medical officer and only carried a of the action in the, Heligoland the trough of a wave, is a debate and greater human happiness he was signing the visitors' book a small medicine chest. This was Bight would never have taken in which rival opinions can both will pay the bill," says the Pre-little Insect hopped on to the page of course, quite inadequate to cope place. His fagship, the light-eruí- find evidence of support. The sident. It is a gamble; but He put down the pen and told the with the situation in the Lurcher ser Arethusa, had been badly maul- panic of a year ago has been maybe the passion for gambling clerk he couldn't stay there.
before we obtained help from the ed In the fight, most of her guns allayed, and the President's bold was the only appeal with which When asked the reason, he an Cressy. To quote from my diary: being out of action and her speed leadership did much to allay it. the Prealient could catch the swered, pointing to the Insect, "Our officers and men were reduced to ten knota Where he has made mistakes he public attention. Nobody knows "Well, it's bad enough when those splendid in the way they looked
At nine that morning our effort has simply ignored them or what is to be the end of the gold-ilttla, beggars attack you in the after the German wounded?
bad practically come to an end. At changed his advisers. Ás his buying campaign and the night, but when they come to see Campbell and Rankin never 9.45 it was reported to Tyrwhitt ship met the varied experience ultimate value of the dollar the number of your room, it's 4. stopped the latter took of that I was in trouble, and without of the storm, he has altered against foreign currencies, but bit too thick!"
several bits of limb with a carving any hesitation, in spite of the seri course as seemed best. He has is seems clear that London and
knife, a very gruesome business."ous condition of the Arethusa, he Sheets and shirts were torn up turned back towards Heligoland to for bandages, blankets taken from help me,
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had to apologise for nothing, for Washington are drawing near to Answer to Correspondent he declared from the outset that an understanding about currency If you want a yard-dog, Heary, The sought an end, and by any stabilisation. The repeal of why not get a dachshund?
means that from time to time prohibition was a necessary first should seem expedient. The step in the task of reducing the American people have rallied appalling growth of lawlessness A chef saya that too many wives to him, and believe in him. That in the United States.
That re-
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in itself has been an immensely form is an outstanding feature cook on the hit-or-miss principle. important factor in the fight of President Roosevelt's first Hence pol-luck. for recovery, To enlist that year, Another is his gradual support has been the President's lealing of the United States into supreme purpose in tactics, and an interest in International An author confesses that after he has sought it through the affairs, and in that direction the finishing a novel he threw it lu Press and in his broadcast ap-improving relationship
Jevery bed and hammock, and the The delay in the retirement had devotion and attention of our ped-given. the enemy time to bring ple must have saved many lives. others of their cruisers into action. The fortitude of the wounded was Before long. the Arethusa and admirable; they were obviously Fearless and their fotillas were amazed at the attention they re-engaged Intermittently with the ceived from our officers, and their Koln (flagship of the Destroyer [gratitude was 'very genuine,
Admiral), Stettin, Stralsund, Atla German. Destroyer's Great Fight dne, and Strasburg, and Tyrwhitt
Fourteen died before we reach was compelled to call to
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with the fire. This is known as burned Harwich, and their bodies were Fleet ships for help, the Grand
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Facts You Did Not Know.
committed to the deep with proper ceremony. The traditional chi- valry of the Naval warfare of the
tracts from the naŭtral Press giv-
ing a German Minister's account
AMBITIONS
of our brutality in the action of Translate Chinese Poems the Heligoland Bight
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peals in a way unprecedented at Japan takes important place. The ing the midnight toll. the White House. The "Blue new bill whereby the President. Eagle" uplift campaign, conduct- seeks ppower to negotiate trade WE'RE BEHIND IT! ⠀ ed with all the air of an evangell- treaties suggests that his dele-Old faces, mys a beauty special past was closely observed, and it MR. A. E WOOD'S TWO cal mission, soon lost momentum; gates wil be real plenipotenti-ist, can now be exchanged for was exasperating to rend later ex- but it was a plan so eminently in aries at the next international new. We have decided to perss the American character that It economic conference when It vere with our olă model. - suffered little discredit on that comes about.. The "New York account. --- No American is really Times" Washington correspon- cynical about the uses of ad-dent wrote recently that secret
The German destroyer V187 hâd]2007 vertisement, The Civil Works emissaries of the President
|fought "i'great: fight and was lying Administration has (as they might any day be sent to Lon-
in a sinking condition, with her say) “fallen down"; but it is ac- don "armed with credentials for Rubber ferrules have been in colours still flying, though most of cepted that there must be some an effective currency discussion, vented to quickly repair itring casualties. The exposures of and even that such representa-windings used to secure leather her crew had abandoned her and
were overboard: supported by the I
The Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood, retir graft in various investigations tives may be in London' already, wrappings on golf club grips,
bells. The Goshawk (Cmdr. the ing Secretary for Chinese Affairs, continue, but they all help to As for the Government's credit furnish support for the Pre- at home, the Treasury at Two Japanese scientists have Hon. H. Meade, the senior officer who left by the P. and O. Chitral to for London, to-day after 26-years sident's "new deal" policy. The Washington means to test it found that catfish glow warning of of the Division) lowered boat
pick up the crai
the in the Colony, said in a farewell N.E.A.· legislation to has some boldly by going on the market earthquakes by becoming nervous ́e
|Defender to stop
cewi; Interview with the China Mall that months to run. Bo far the Pre- for: 10,000 million dollars in all few hours before shocks............
Whilst they
ould probably live in London sident has actually signed about before June 80 next, of which premazon.
his retinement and pursue 150 codes, Hundreds more are 4,000 millions will be for meet-As a novel garden tool is wheeled
In life—to trans-- still being debated, and mean- ing maturing obligations, If along it opens the earth,
boms and!
get his |while "Industry is somehow sup- the market will not respond, seeda" at evenly - apaced intervals
porting the general", "blanket then it is believed the Gove and covers them with soll code."" each trade or business ad- ment will be forced to Gin-
apting it to fit Its own circum-
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