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ROYAL AIR
FORCE DISPLAY
King To Attend
London, June 16.
Final arrangements for the Royal Air Force Coronation Display at Hendon on Saturday week bave
now been completed and the extent of advance bookings indicate that there may be a record attendance. The King, who is a Marshal of the Royal Air Force, will be present. Members of the British and Do- minion Governments, the whole or the Diplomatic Corps and many important service delegations from foreign countries will be amongst. others attending.
The number of aircraft taking Dart will be greater than ever, nearly 500 being engaged as com- pared with the previous maximum of about 200. Another feature of this display will be the new types of aeroplanes recently supplied to Service Squadrons, and amongst them are the Bristol and Blenheim medium bomber with a top speed of about 280 miles an hour at a height of 14,000 feet, This is the fastest bomber in the Royal Air Force and in Service, use in the world. The Blenheira Squadron will take part in a set plece. The principal new heavy bomber in Service will be a Handley Page Harrow which will be seen among the squadrons allotted to the Coronation mass formation of 250 aircraft. It has a top speed of 190 miles an hour and carries a much
than the medium
heavier load bomber class.
The flying programme occupies 54 hours during which the sky will never the empty. There will be low bombing and dive bombing at tacks. aerobatics by single air-
craft. by fights and by squadrons, demonstrations of army co-opera- tion duties and use of "smoke."
OPIUM ADVISORY SUICIDE OF
COMMITTEE
AGERJAKOFF
Favourable Report White Russian Leader
Geneva, June 16.
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Moscow, June 18. A remarkable improvement - in Another Soviet leader has evaded the position regarding the legit- the uros" band of the purge by mate manufacture of narcotic | taking his own life. It was off- drugs, due to the operation of the clally announced here to-day that Geneva Conventions of 1929 and
Agerjakoff, Chairman of the Cen- 1931, is recorded in the report de tral Executive Committee of White the Opium, Advisory Committee. Russia-a post equivalent to that of State President had committed suicide,
The manufacture of morphine and cocaine is little higher than in 1921, and of diacetyl and mor- phine the present total is only 18
per
cent., of the 1921 Agure. This means that "to-day there is 12 close approximation between world needs and legitimate manu- facture.
The report gives in detail the results of the Chinese Govern- ment's activities in suppressing drug addiction Including the Government's alm to reduce the number, ot, registered smokers of oplum by one-ffth annually.
The Shanghai International Settlement has reported a notable decrease from the 1936 clanestine manufacture of heroin among the Chinese population in .com- sequence of the effective enforce- ment of the new Chinese regula- tion in territory surrounding the Settlement,
The same situation prevails throughout the rest of China.
The Commiffee report, however, states it is notorious that the smuggling of opium, especially of manufactured drugs by certain foreign nationals, is paralysing the efforts of the Chinese Gov.
ernment.
The reason that compelled this leading personality to take his own life is said in the official statement to be "unknown," but it is an open secret that during the last few days numerous arrests of leading omcials have been made in Minsk, the capital of White Russia, some of the arrests carried out by the GPU under the charge of anti- Stalin activities."
It is thought, that Agerjakofi took his own lite rather than face the fate of the other persons.— Transocean News Service,.
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at the progress shown in the re-
In spite of the gratification felt recalled, previously held by Gen- eral Gamarnik, who committed port, the Committee is neverthe-suicide shortly after his arrest be- less deeply concerned at the illicit fore the recent "Generals Trial." trafic and clandestine manufac
The Soviet Government has con- ture of dangerous drugs in the firmed the appointment of Corps Hope! is becoming the centre of the world's most extensive, though illicit, heroin manufacturing.
and as grand finale a thriling set Far East. It says the province of Commanders Velikans and Julik as
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VISIT AROUSES INTEREST
More, June 16. " The forthcoming visit to London cf Baron von Neurath, the Ger man Foreign Minister, has aroused a great deal of interest in Roman papers, although the Wednesday papers confine themselves to re- print the Berlin comments, which stress that the visit in no way affects the Rome-Berlin axia.-On the whole it can be said that the news of the visit has helped ease the tension between Rome" and London.
Reuter. trade.
GENERAL BECK
VISITS PARIS
París, June 16. General Beck, Chief of the Ger- man General Staff, arrived here to-day and was received at the station by members of the German Embassy, with a whole battery of cameras "shooting" him/
At a luncheon given by the Ger- man Ambassador in bls honour, the General wil meet General Gamelin, French Chief of Staff, and other high French officers. Before returning. he will pay a The leading article in the
visit to the battlefields near Nancy. "Giornale d'Italia" states that any The 'visit of General sudden change in Germany's for- taken to be a sign of great im- Beck is eign policy is out of the question,provement in the European situa- as Italy and Germany are already tied down to those clearly defined principles which form part of the definition of the Rome-Berlin axis. The impending Londoni conversa- tions are important enough to de- serve full attention. although it would be ignoring fact if it were thought that they would bring about a change in European poli-
tics.
tion, especially in view of its pre- paratory character to Baron von Neurath's visit to London. Transocean News Service.
tention between Germany and Great Britain, the paper concludes by saying that there are other problems as well, for instance the German colonial claim.—
After mentioning the many pro- blems that form the bone of con- | Fransocean News Service.
Roosevelt To Confer With
400 Congressmen
"Washington, June 16.
With the object of quelling "dis- 'sension in the Democratic Party,. President F. D. Roosevelt has taken, the unprecedented step of inviting 400 Congressmen to con- fer with him in three groups on lonely Jefferson Island, for three | days, beginining. Jurje 25.............
During the conversations news papermen will be barred from any closer approach than Annapolis, 15 miles away.
President and Congress since the, days of Mr. Herbert Hoover.
The Conservative southern De- mocrats fear the radical compost- tion of the party in the northern
states.
The southern Democrats say" the Northern section of the party is surrendering to Mr. John Levis, head or the Committee of Indus- trial Organisation, and his strike- infected unions, They believe President Roosevelt should take a firm stand against strikes, currtall spending for social services and balance the Budget.
The President's action is taken to indicate that his advisers fear the party may divide openly, not only over the Supreme Court Re- President Roosevelt claims that form Bill but over the strike pro- the people of the nation gave him blem, and social policy generally a mandate to carry out his advan
Vice-President John Garner's ced liberal policy, which he is in departure on a six weeks' "vaca" honour bound to complete lest the tion," although Congress has masses lose conndence in demo- hardly begun to enact, the Roo- cracies and turn to more danger- sevelt programme, and Benator ous remedies. Robinson's reported distress call
The entire Administration will
to President Roosevelt, saying be present for the conferences or that he could not hold the rebels Jefferson Island, and President at bay any longer unless some Roosevelt will devote his time to compromises were made, demon trying to drum the "back-sliders" strate the seriousness of the split into line with his afbu It is the gravest quarrel between Reuter.
army commanders of second rank, as well as the appointment of army corps commander Bersin as Army Commissar of second rank.
It is asserted that Marshal Bluecher-Galin has left Moscow to resume his command in the Far East.-
Transocean News Service.
PRINCE SIMEON
Soda, June 18. The Crown Prince that was born to the Bulgarian Royal couple yea- terday. will be christened Simeon. and receive the title of Duke of "Tirnovo. Simeon was chosen by King Boris in commemoration of the Bulgarian King Simeon who reigned in. the 9th century, whilst Tirnovo is the name of the ancient town where former Bulgarian kinga were crowned.
It is stated that Prince Simeon and Queen Iona are, both well Transocean News Service.
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CHURCH COLLECTION FOR AIR FLEET
Athens, June 16. The Ecclesiastical authorities in Greece have ordered that a collec- tion be made in all orthodox catho- lic churches for the
fleet Transocean News Service.
ESCAPE SUCCEEDS
Paris, June 18: Madame Acquirre, wife of the Basque President, accompanied by- her sister, has succeeded in es- Greek aircaping from Bilbao, and arrived in
Bayonne to-day- Transocean News Service.
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