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The Story That Will Never Die
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE'S novel, with Louis Wol. heim, Lewis Ayres, John Wray. Adoptation and
Dialogue by Maxwell Anderson and George Abbot, A CARE LAEMMEE, Jr. production.
Is now the picture that will live forever... falling in towering pastages of sheer drama and crackling dialog the world's greatest story of Youth's blind struggle for happiness ...showing the HUMAN side of war as seen through the ayes of Youth... smash. ing home to you its dramatic message of hopelessness and hopel
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ULSTER PREMIER'S DASH TO
RICH RADIUM FIND
IN CANADA.
REMOTE AREA REACH-
LONDON.
ANXIOUS
ED BY AEROPLANE. INTERVIEW.
A new era opons in Canada's mineral history with the discovery
of rich deposits of pitchblende, EXPLANATIONS
from which radium may bo ob tained, at Echo Bay, Great Bear Lnke.
This remoto-aren straddling the Arctic circle is inaccessible for three months in the year except by air, and only acroplane pros- pecting by a man named Gilbert: Labine made Ita discovery pos Bible.
Aro
Madame Curio first introduced pitch-blende s ↑ source of radium to the world, and the Great Bear Lako deposits stated to be ten times greater than those alto developed in Austria.
An ounce of gold is worth ap- proximately £4; a gram of radium is worth £12,000. Gold ore which will average £3 to the ton is con- sidered high grade; some of the Great Bear pitchblende deposita nassy £1,400 to the ton.
Great Bear les 1,300 miles north of Edmonton, Alberta, by water route, or 850 miles by air from
the Waterways. Alberta, take-off base for the Arctic Ocean; air mail, as well as the londing point for freight bound, down the Mackenzie River.
Risky Route.
The
freight passenger and planes serving the newly-dis- covered mineral aren do not fol- low the Mackenzie, but take shorter and more risky route, fly. ing due north along an arm of Great Stave Lake.
R
The official report by the De- partment of Mines, Ottawa, on the Great Bear deposits.dated Octo ber, 1931, яtates:
that
"There is every evidence there exista at Labine Point An extensive and fairly closely-spuced pitchblende vein system that can readily be exploited by under- ground development. From small surface pit sunk to a depth of 12 feet at the original discovery paint, eight tons of high-grade ore were taken.
a
GIVEN.
London, Apr. 13. Apprehension created in Ulater by one of the passages in Mr. J. H. Thomas's reply to Mr. de Valera caused the sudden arrival in London to- day of Viscount Craigavon," the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
The Ulster politician immediate- ly sought an interview with Mr. Thomas and Sir Herbert Samuel, the Home Secretary.
|a desire to discuss certain aspects of the controversy raised by the | attitude of the Irish Free State to the Oath of Allegianco and parti- cularly the passage in the Domin fon Secretary's Reply which stat- od:
"It is true that the 1921 asttle- ment did not result in the osta- blishment of a united Iraland but the Treaty itself made the neces Bary provision for union at that time of the two parts of Ireland, If both had been ready to accept them.
"As to the future His Majesty's Government in the United King- dlom feel It sufficient to stata that, in their opinion, there can be no conceivable hope for the establish- ment of a united Ireland excopt on the barls that its allegiance to Crown and its membership of the British Commonwealth will con- tinug unimpaired,”
.
No Implications. Lord Craigavon explained that the In the anxiety had been voiced in "There is no difference points of view of the two govern- Northern Ireland Parliament re- ments," was the statement Issued garding this passage. Mr. Thomae later, Viscount Craigavon having pointed out that these words were been reassured. He is expected to yaed only as a reply to Mr. de Va- make an early statement in the Uls- lera's statement that the agree- ment of 1921 meant "the consuma- ter Parliament.
tion of the outrage of partition" in Ireland. They did not indicato was any change actual or contemplated Mr. in British policy regarding Ulster pos-and Irish unity,
Ulster's Fears.
It Is learned that the anxiety due to the statement by
Thomas that there was no
Viscount Craigavon,
It is expected that Lord Craig- avon, as a result of his visit, will make a reassuring statement in Belfast-Router and British Wire- less.
BLACK OR WHITE?
L.G.O.C. ATTEMPT TO SOLVE A PROBLEM,
Does white lettering on a black background provide a greater viel- bility than black lettering on a white background?
This is the problem with which the London General Omnibus Com- pany are conformed. Some time ago, In the case of some of their new omnibuses they departed from black lettering on white board in favour of white lettering on black Now, in a further effort canvas. to please, they are experimenting with black route boards and white Whatever the advantages of in the white lettering upon black canvas,
It cannot hardly seems a success. be deciphered so enslly or at such a distance.
sibility of a united Ireland except on the basis of allogiance to the Crown, which was apparently in- terpreted in Ulster as an implica- lettering. tion that the Government using Ulster as a pawn.
"No. 2 vein has been followed for 1,400 feet and 14 surface pits have been opened. Ore appeared in 13 of these in the form of a strong lead, ore being picked out for a continuous 800 feet. About negotiations with the Irish Free white lettering upon black board 12 tons were removed."
were
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Lord Craigavon, who wDS companied by his Attorney-Gener- The Royal Observatory reportsal, Mr. Babington came to London
SHANGHAI SHARES. that the anticyclone in central to from Belfast and met Mr. Thomas the south-east of Tokyo. Another and Sir Herbert Samuel at the soon after- may be developing over Northliause of Commons
LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS, The Home Secretary was China. A depression is movingwards.
Messrs. Carroll Bros. have re- eastward across South Manchuria. present for the obvious reason that' and the trough of low pressure the Home Office is technically rescolved the following cabled quota- extends from Tongking across ponsible in the House of Commonetions of Shanghal shares: South Formosa to the Pacific. for the Northern Ireland adminis- Ewo Cottons
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"THE MAN
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SPANISH ROYALIST
MANIFESTO.
AN EXPLANATION BY
KING
ALFONSO.
Paris, Mar. 18.
King Alfonso is not exempt from the unwritten rule, and the poaltion would be exceedingly diff- cult if, as the rosult of his ad- horence, the Spanish Government mado representations to France. It is essential therefore that, how-
A partial explanation of the ever strongly he approves such ac- recent publication in his name oftion, he must romain officially
neutral. a Royalist manifesto was given by
King Alfonso said that he had King Alfonso in an interview on thoroughly enjoyed his recant board the steamer Champollion, from which he landed nt Martravels, and told an amusing story of his experlonce at the Garman seilles yesterday.
Without denying that he had frontier. A particularly officious Koing knowledge beforehand of the con- Customs officer had been tents of the manifesto, King Al-through his things with exasperat- fonso let it be conceded that its ng thoroughness, and after en- publication at Madrid at that mo- during it with patience for ton ment was the work of a group of minutes, King Alfonso could no his supporters on their own initia- longer contain himself.
"Do you know who I am?" he tive. Ho added that he only knew
of the manifesto when he read the cried with Royal wrath, and it bad German, "I am an Admiral of the nows in the paper.
If the text of the declaration Floot In your Navy, a General in was fully approved by King Al-Your Army, a Colonel of your for Uhlans and your Guards, and, fonso the principal reason denying that he had authorised finally, I am a King. So you had Ita appearance must have been better look out for yourself." his anxiety not to embarrass the French authorities.
Condition of Hospitality. The condition under which hos- pitality is accorded to political exiles Is that they should not use the country of their residence as a base for political action against their own country.
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