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SAFETY
FIRST
"A
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN HUGE NEW AIR FLEET TO BE
With constant rumours of
PERIL OF LIVES
GRIM FIGHT FOR FOOD SUPPLIES
CUT OFF BY ICE CREVASSE
DANGER GROWS
HOURLY
New York, Jan. 30. Complete disaster is threatening to overtake forty-four members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, marooned in the Bay of Whales.
Efforts by the Jacob Ruppert to lend them assistance have been un- availing owing to the rapidity of the break-up of the ice, which has made it impossible to berth.
..In wireless messages, Byrd reports that his men ashore are now is peril of their lives. They are now grimly trying to save their
Admiral
Hohentollera restoration in Ger-food supplies, which are threatened
many, despite Nazi deniala, In-
creasing interest is being taken in the movements of Major Frel. herr von Sell, who has kept the ex-Kaiser in touch with devolop. ments in Germany for
JOATE.
many
by the collapsing of the ice.
CREVASSE OPENS UP.
PRESIDENT SIGNS": MONETARY BILL
Devaluation Decree. To-morrow
Washington, Jan. 30. President Roosevelt sign- cd the Monetary Bill at 3:54 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, but the devaluation proclamation will not be issued before to-morrow.
The President has issued ́executive orders governing ...the taking over of all mone...
tary gold-Router,
BIRTHDAY OF A PRESIDENT
SNOWED UNDER BY
GREETINGS.
2-CWT CAKE SENT
AUTHORITY AT LAST
COTTON NEGOTIATIONS EXPECTED SOON
JAPANESE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS
London, Jan. 30.
Referring to the recent inquiries -in-Lancashire made by the Pre sident of the Board of. Trade, Mr. Runciman, regarding the cotton industry and Japanese completi tion, the Oversons Trade Secret- ary, Colonel Colville, and the Gov- ernment. fully realised the impor tance of the time factor in this problem.
Ho added that within the last 24 hours, the Japanese Ambassa dor had informed them that the representatives of the Japanese cotton Industry and the Rayon Textile Exporting Association had
tho been duly authorised by Japanese interests concerned to en- ter into formal negotiations with the representatives of the British cotton industry. This informa- tion had been communicated to
the special ponilmittee In Man
chester and be hoped that arrange-
AS GIFT Washington, Jan. 30. President Roosevelt, who ments would be made forth with for the commencement of dis- celebrated his fifty-second cussions. British Wireless and A wide crevasse has now opened birthday to-day, was anowed between the unloading depot and under by a quarter of a the pressure camp which is one and million messages of greeting a half miles away. Meanwhile, the from all parts of the world. dissolution of the ice covering the
In addition to the
countless
MORAL TEST FOR bay on which the camp is situated messages of esteem and affection,
BRITAIN
NEW DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS
APPETITE FOR DETAIL WHETTED
London, Jan. 30. The First Lord of the Ad- miralty, Sir Bolton Eyres
in rapidly incrensing, putting the the President received hundreds men in extreme jeopardy. The of gifts, mostly of cakes.
ico in which the unloading depot is situated may elip into the sea at any time-Reuter.
“D'ARTAGNAN” MISHAP
ERRONEOUS REPORTS
They included one cake which weighed no less than 250 pounds, and loaf weighing 256 pounds.
One message from Alabama contained over 40,000 signatures. } It was 1,280 feet long.
Reuter.
NEW RULER IN TIBET
SEARCH FOR THE. DALAI LAMA
New Delhi, Jan. 30. Tibet now has a new ruler in the person of the head lama of the
(two
BUILT IN AMERICA
- Grakle, 1931 winner of the Grand National, whose career is termin-
ated by heart trouble.
GRAKLE'S CAREER
TERMINATED
Found Suffering From Heart Trouble
London, Jan. 30.
It is announced that Grakle, the winner of the Grand National in. 1931, is to be scratched from all engagements, including the 1934 Grand National, owing to heart trouble.
WARNING TO INDIA
WITH FULL TREATY NAVY
ARMAMENTS MEASURES PASS HOUSE
Washington, Jan. 30. The creation of additional armaments on a huge scale, both for the Navy and the Air Force, was authorised by the House of Representa- tives to day.
An.
overwhelming majority voted in favour of the Vinson Naval BIII, 'which authorises the Government to build the United States Navy up to the full strength permitted by the London Naval Treaty, by the construction of 120 new warships.
Tho charge that. Administra- tlon was attempting to hoodwink Congress was made by Mr. Fred A. Britten in a speech during the discussion on the Navy De partment Supply Bill....
Mr. Britten asserted that, al- though the budget carries a Navy: appropriation for the 1935 fscal year, amounting to $205,000,000,, the Navy Department will really spend $442,000,000. He said that
HIGH-SUGAR TARIFF the difference is to be derived
CRITICISED
DUTCH INDIES. POLICY
from the Public. Works funds,
Mr. Britten emphasised that he did not object to the spending of so much money on the Navy, but, to the contrary, favoured it. It was ble duty, however, to point out that the Administration is at- tempting to hoodwink Congress.",
HUGE NEW AIR FLEET E
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London, Jan. 80. The possibility that Holland The Veterinary Surgeon will be compelled to reconsider The House of Representativea. says that if Grakle runs heher Open Door policy in the also authorised the construction of --is very..likely-to-drop.dead.. Dutch East Indies was envisaged 1,184 new military acroplanes of
-Reuter.
by the Dutch Minister, Mynheer all types, to equip a modernised van Swinderen, at a meeting in fleet. amme London to-day.
President Roosevelt will review Holland's chief grievance is the United States fleet at New
Six thousand parties were given. Reting Monastery days AUSTRIA RUMOUR
in different parts of the United Journey, north, of, Lhasa), who is States in honour of the President, the Hu Tuk Tu, or
all of them being charity shows. lama. The proceeds, which will amount'
incarnate
He will be installed Immediate-
to several million dollars, will ly as. Regent, pending the dis be devoted to providing treatment covery, of the new incarnation of (the Living from for sufferers
infantile the Dalai Lama paralyals at Warm Springs, Buddha.) In connexion with the loss of a Georgia-Reuter..
CORRECTED
yesterday,
Monsell, speaking at Lei-propellor blade by the M.M. liner cester to-night, said that the d'Artagnan, reported moral strength of England it now appears that the mishap occurred while the vessel was was being put to the test by crossing the Inland Sea of Japan the proposals which she was on the 24th inst., after departure now making to the world on from Kobe, six days before arrival In Hongkong. Only one blade on the grave problem of dis-the port side of the propellor was
lost.
the abip
BRITISH FINANCE
POSITION
LATEST RETURNS
DENIED
against the high tarif imposed by York on May 31.
the Indian Government against The fleet will remain in New sugar imports, and the Minister York until June 17 when it will hinted at a possible change
of
polley when moving a vote of 80, to the Caribbean Sea for thanks to Heer de Wilde, the Chief manoeuvres to be held there be of the Juridical Section of the tween. September 17 and Septem- ber 20 After completing the Dutch Colonial Office, who read a APPEAL TO THE
paper on Dutch polley in the Eastmanoeuvres, the fleet will take up Guantanamo na Its base until LEAGUE
Indies.
November 1. that! The Dutch Minister sald the Indian tariff walls against
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Since the donth of the Dnial Lama, Tibet has been administer- ed by a Prime Minister and Cabinet, while prayers have been NO RESISTANCE sugar were so high that anyone
offered throughout the country for the
a discovery of speedy reincarnated' Dalai Lama.
Bables born about an after his death have been
hour
enre-
BY BRITAIN
made by the BRITAIN'S EXCHANGE States World War forces in 1918.
FLEET LEAVING PACIFÍC
Representing virtually the en- who tried to jump titem was
tire naval strength of the United jumping to death.
States, the armada will leave San He dwelt on the prejudicial Diego, California, on April 9 for London, Jan. 30. effect of the Indian Government's New York where it will immediate- Questioned in the House of polley on the Netherlands Indies ly assemble for the review, which fully examined by holy men for Commons to-night regarding the sugar industry and appealed for will take place on, the Hudson SATISFACTORY the distinctive marks ordained by
tradition. A number of baby political situation in Austria the recognition of the mutual benefits liver. It will be the largest armament.
the gathering of naval units in Ameri Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Anthony of trade between India and On solution of this problem, he Contrary to the report published
can waters since Mr. Daniels, Sec- London, Jan. 30., boys were eventually chosen. said, the pence of the world must yesterday, the Captain of the liner
retary of War in President Wil They will be reared till they Eden, said the Austrian Minis Dutch colony.-Reuter, - returns did not wireless that
The Intent Treasury
final ter
the recently informed
son's Cabinet, reviewed the United Jurgely depend.
to Hongkong show that ordinary revenue for are two years old, when a
made. Foreign Secretary of the re- These proposals, which are like, was proceeding
on under slow speed. Actually, the the current financial year up to test of identity will be
presentations ly to be ofcially disclosed Thursday, were being made not d'Artagnan left Shanghai on 27th January amounted to £515,--Renler.
At the corresponding by one political party but by Saturday, 27th Inst., at 3 p.m., and 625,652.
of last year, the amount united England, and this fact arrived here on scheduled time. date would give them the greatest pos-On arrival, she entered Taikoo stood at £511,484,739.
Ordinary expenditure to date sible weight.
Dock at 7 a.m. yesterday, and all The First Lord 'referred during the passengers were landed by for the current year totalled £666,397,332 as compared with his speech to the absurd stories 9 a.m.
Reports that the liner ex-£615,196,209 at the corresponding published regarding the recent
the date last year.--British Wireless." meeting at Singapore between the perienced heavy weather on Naval Commanders-in-Chief of the run down from Shanghai are dis- East Indies and Chinu Stations, counted by the report of the Cap- and the Admirals in Command of tain, which states that he had the Australian and New Zealand seldom experienced such fine and Navics. He said the meeting was calm weather during his 25 years' merely one of their periodical and service on the China-Japan run. routine talks together and Singa- pore was geographically the most natural place to meet. Britisk
Wireless.
KAILAN STRIKE
SETTLED
CYCLONE HITS MAURITIUS
MINERS RETURNING TO WORK
ONLY THREE DEATHS
(Telegraph Special.)
REPORTED
London, Jan. 80.
GRIMSBY STILL WINNING
CLEAR LEAD OF SIX POINTS
SUN TIEN-YING'S COUP
NINGSHA CAPITAL
IMPERILLED
(Telegraph Special.)
Austrian Government at Berlin, in which the possibility was mentioned of an eventual appeal by Austria to the League'. of Nations.
So far as he know, no reply had yet boen) made by the Gor-) man Government to these represen-1 Lations and further statement) could therefore
made at
no
Mr. Eden.
FUND
£350,000,000 Still Intact
London, Jan. 30.. Referring in the House of Com- imons to the exchango equalisation fund, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain Lagain emphasised that its purpose was to correct temporary fluctua tions in the exchange value of ster- | ling.
Naval circles point out that the. roview is probably inspired by the 'personal interest that the Pre- sident is taking in', the · United Stafex Navy, which ho is deter- mined to make second to none in the world. He was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in President Wilson's Cabinet-Reuter and United Press,
NEWFOUNDLAND'S NEW REGIME
Nanking, Jan. 31. Fighting in Ningsha has again be flared Into intensity following an-prosent..
Further ques~| other offensive by Tien-ying's
COMMISSIONERS TO forces. They manœuvred towards tioned 'ns to tho
It had hot boen used to create an
ARRIVE SOON London, Jan. 30. Ningsha from another direction and rumour that the
artificial value for sterling for the Grimsby Town, the Second their attack came as a complete aur. Britiah, Govern-
London, Jan. 30. pro- ment had discouraged the Austrian purpose of returning to the gold Division leaders, defeated Brad-prise. Severe fighting is in
agress in the suburbs of Ningsha, Government from bringing the standard, or for any other purpose, ford by three goals to two in
this matter, handw Government of Newfoundland league match at Grimsby-to-day. General Ma Hung Kwol, Military matter before League Council, Mr. and as there was a good deal of mis- Letters Patent constituting the Positions are changed as follows: Governor, has wired to General Chu Eden said: "I have heard that undertanding on
force on their being proclaimed in Goals
Shao-lang, Governor of Kansu, rumour and am glad to take this added that it would be, in his opin-have been issued and will come into
Replying to a question, ho said the island.ge P. W. D. L. F. A. Pis, asking for reinforcements. The opportunity of stating that there lon, Ineffective if so weed,
Those Commissioners now in that the £850,000,000 was still in situation is described as extremely is no truth in It whatever." 48 39 82 82
critical-Central Newa.
the fund.British Wireless.
Britain will sall for Newfoundland on 2nd February and the now
Grimsby Port Vaio Tientsin, Jan. 81. Brentford Through the mediation of the Bolton
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Bary and Monday.
agreement with the Kallan Ad Preston N.E. 20 11 Three deaths occurred from fall ministration. The agreement was Fulham Ing debris. No material loss of alged yesterday afternoon. They West Ham 200 property is
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We understand that Miss Helen
British Wirolas, "....
Yu is being appointed Censor of NEW GOVERNOR OF HAWAII A dance will be held in ald of the Government will be formally in- Films be longong in place of the Washington, Jan. 30.
M.C.L
(Police Branch) at: Lane Bugurated on their arrival. Crayford's Restaurant, Exchange British Wireless, Building, on Friday, Februray E, at
Into. Mr. Ho Leung, 1 Mies Yunwar President Roosevelt has no educated at Oxford, Paris and: Home, and at the latter cly the was trained iminated the Hawaiian, Mr. Joseph 9 pm.Dance music by kindness of TMS. Berwick left this morning. asa Montessori teacher by Dr. B. Poindexter, to be Governor of
Hawall-Reuter, Montessori,
Cheero-Band, Admission ?—Genta
2.609, Ladies, 21; including 1ht on exercises and is expected to return
to port on Friday. Tofroshments.