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POLAR FILM
Admiral Byrd is busily occupied arranging the films he took during hís last expedition to the South Pole. The film will be acreened in Hong- kong shortly under the title of "Little America".
New Ship
Sails To Sea- Vanishes
ANOTHER MYSTERY OF THE ATLANTIC
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Oct. 1, THE
Canadian destroyer Saguenay is searching the Atlantic for the motorship Joseph Medill, which sailed from the Tyne, turned her prow northwards--and disappeared into the North Sea haze.
Already the Joseph Medill, with her crew of sixteen souls, is nineteen days overdue.
Welded Ship
The mystery of her where- abouts is as profound
48 the allence which has encompassed
her,
The Joseph Medill is a now ship. She is the largest all- welded vessel in the world. Not a single rivet was used in the construction of her hull,
Scientifically she is the last word in mercantile naval con- .atruction.*
She was built in the Tyne yard of Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, builders of the Mauretania.
Built for service on the Cann- dlan lakes, had a gross tonnage of
2,086.
There were six Tyneaiders, one- man from Glasgow, one man who joined the ship at Grangemouth, Scotland, German, and Hoven Canadians.
Without Wireless The master is John Macintosh, of St. Catherine's, Ontario.
the
It is possible that Joseph Medill had been held up by a difficulty that may not seriously endanger her safety and the lives of her crew, Her owners have despatched a search vessel carrying oil in case the Joseph Medill has run short of fuel for her 1.000 hp, engine.
£10,000 AIR YACHT FOR MAHARAJAH
200 M.P.H. DRAWING ROOM FOR SIX THE most luxurious air
yacht ever designed is to be built at Hanworth for the Maharajah of Patiala, one of the world's richest men.
It is to be a Monospar 200 m.p.h. twin-engined airliner. It will cost £10,000 and be the. fastest machine ever built for a private owner.
But instead of scating ten passengers and two pilots, as it would as an airliner, it is to
be a flying drawing-room for six passengers.
Keon On Chess There will be six armchairs and a long table in the middle of the cabin.
The Maharajah is a keen chess player, so there will be a chess set, specially made so that the pieces cannot fall."
The sound-proofed walls will have concealed cupboards, con- taining an electric refrigerator, a cocktail cabinet, a radio, and bookshelves.
Next to the main cabin will be the kitchen, with electric cookers............. .
The whole machine will be air conditioned electrical heating.
and have
The Merchandise Of
Peace-Not War
SPECTACULAR INCREASE IN EXPORTS BRITISH mills and factories are busy on the mer-
.
chandise of peace, not on materials for war.
Another spectacular increase in overseas sales of manufactured goods was recorded in August-according to the trade returns for the first eight months of the year. Only one-seventieth of British exports were war materials.
It is true Britain is exporting more armaments this year than for five years, but the total ex- ports are insignificant compared with the increases recorded by other industries.
Here are comparative exports for (the first eight months of the lust three
|vents:--
Ammunition Armi
Torpedom and mine appilance Miilor alorre
1039
1034
1396 1,221,768 £1,439,714 £1,868,277 161,001 4460,000 072,68
£30,682 404,270 $123,818 2380,808 #180,001 £177,005 War vrusels. £225,000 *270,88€ 4874,220 £2,412,348 62,081,870 £8,803,010
Tetai
The returns give no Indieations of the countries purchasing these materials, but it is known that most of the war vessels-there were eight completed this year with n total tonnage of 4,210- were built for South American countries.
In contrast are the export figures for iron and steel goods (non-armaments), electrical ap- paratus, and machinery, the three branches of trade mainly conducted in the centres de- voted to armaments in war- time.
Motor Exports-£3,560,000
Exports of tron and steel so far this year total £24,350,000, un in- crease of £2,357,000 on last year; machinery exports at £25,146,000 are up £4,431,000 on last year: while an improvement of £1,055,- 000 is shown in exports of clec- trical goods at £5,913,000.
Most cheerful' feature of the re- turns concerns motor-cars. So, fur this year Britain has exported 28,939 motor-cars, valued £1,564,361.
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Corresponding figures last year were 22,252 motor-cars worth £3,105,000.
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Total British exports in the first eight months of the year valued at £277,736,000, an im- provement of £22.647.000 on 1934, and of £470,091,000, show decline of £301,000 on 1934.
CAN'T PROVE
HE-IS-ALIVE
SO BOHEMIAN HAS TO PAY OWN DEATH DUTIES!
Prague. Oct. 1 A Bohemian farmer is trying hard to prove that he is alive, so far without success.
He is Robert Guenzl, of Zated. Unless he can satisfy the authori- ties by means of an official certi- ficate certifying that he is living. his "widow" will have to pay death duties on her "late" husband's
estate.
When his wife received the de- mand for these death duties, her husband at once went to the tax- ulice and protested that he was alive.
The officials agreed that there must have been some error in their records, but pointed out that they necessary correction unless Guenzi were in, no position to make the
could produce a certifiente proving that he really was alive,
The fact that the parish church at which Guenzl was baptised and. married did not mention his death proof that he was still living. in its register was not accepted as
TOY BALLOONS AS AIR DEFENCE
INVENTOR'S OFF TO ABYSSINIA
Addis Ababa, Sept. 28. There's a fellow from Texas who wants to sell the Imperial government a million top balloons.
The idea is simple.
They mined the North Sea during the Great War. This in Iurely an adaptation of the idea. You mine the air.
You tie a bit of dynamite to the bullon, send it
it up, it flouts some- where above the city, an aero.
comes along, and
plane
There's another fellow who seants to market almost any given number of metal sandals, to pro- tect the bare feet of the Abyssin ian army apainal a chémient which he says' is in the posavasion of the Italians; and which would burn those feet terribly,
Worried
Not smiling, but decidedly wor- vied now, is Mr. Anthony Eden, Britain's League of Nations, minister, as he fights in Europe's most difficult diplomatio game brought about by the italo-
Ethiopian crisis. ·
England's Oldest House Is Up For Sale
TELEGRAPH. “MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1935.
Minster Abbey, Isle of Thanet, reputed to be the oldest house in England-it was venerable when William the Conqueror landed in 1066-is to be cold. The house was built because Since that time it has been con- of murder committed 1,200 tinuously used as a house, years ago, The two brothers of Domneva, niece of the King of Kent, were killed at the King's command.
Now it contains fourteen bed and dressing-rooms and, in the words of the prospectus, "com. pany's gas and water are laid
on.
As blood money the King offer- ed his nieco one half of Thanot,
Despite modernisations, the poo- and on it she built a «nunnery, I ple who lived in the Abbey hun where prayers wero said day and dreds of years ago would not find night for the King's forgiveness.. it unrecognisable if they could ro- visit it. Tho character of the
Three hundred years later King building has been stronger than Canuto granted the abboy to the the wear of the centuries. monks of St. Augustino's, Canter- bury, and they lived in it until the The abbey is to be sold by dissolution of the monasteries 500 Menars. Knight, Frank and Nutley, years lator.
of Hanover-square, W.1.
ENGLAND ADDS NEW SUBMARINE TO NAVY.
The latest addition to Britain's mighty navy is shown sliding down the ways at Barrow, Nemed the Narwhal, this submarine of the Grampus class, with all latest "wrinkles" in naval design, will be a mighty support to the sea supremacy of England. It has A displacement of 1,520 tone, and a surface speed of 15 knots.
You Must Eat Meat
wda 80.
If You Want To Get On
Liverpool, Oct. 1.
Bee, dilly-daily, and hope-for-the-
Meat eaters have been--and best type. always will be the conquering he-nien of the world,
"A great many people do not eat enough meat to keep up their Dr. J. Neil Leitch, of the London stamina. They buy houses on the College of Dietetics, assured a 'never-never system, motor-cars, conference of fresh meat traders wireless, and household gadgets, in Liverpool yesterday that this and by the time they have palá their weekly Instalments there is "If you study the history of the nothing left for the joint of beef. world right from the beginning "There is also danger in the you find that people who ate meat week-end habit. People go away came out on top," said Dr. Leitch. in their motor-cars without having "Wherever you go the meat-eaters their Sunday dinner. They ought are strong people who get on in the to take their joint at the back of world; the others are the wait-and-'the ear and eat it."
Lovesick Princess
DOORN ROMANCE "BROKEN OFF" Secretary Will Not Take "No"
Berlin, Oct. 1. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD "Princess Car- mo," stepdaughter of the ex-Kaiser, whose engagement to Herr Wunderlich, commoner, has been frowned on, has been "interned" at Doorn,
Herr Wunderlich is distraught. For nine years he has known the Princess: they were boy and girl lovers.
Big Speeds In The Stratosphere
LORD SEMPILL CALLS
FOR RESEARCH
OUR Imperial future undoub-
tedly depends on the deve- lopment of the most rapid means of communication," said Lord Sempill, when he made a plen recently for greater attention
He is sure she has not gone voluntarily to Doorn, the Dutch refuge of the old' German Court. Taken To Castle
Herr Wunderlich was private secretary to' the Princess' mother when they said they wanted to marry. Mother ob- jected, then yielded.
But the condition was made that Herr Wunderlich must find a new job. He went to Berlin.
Princess Carmo ran away from Doorn, followed him Mother followed her, secured her daughter again, took her to a silesian castle, forbade the engagement.
Three weeks ago Herr Wun- to be paid in this country to the his princess breaking it off. He derlich received a letter from conquert of the stratosphere,
He was speaking at the open-is now going to Doorn to try to ing of the Shpping, Engineer-sce his lost sweetheart and
soften the heart of her parent. ing and Machinery Exhibition.
Ho was speaking at the opening of the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition."
"For really high speeds," he said, "we must look to the air-not only. to that lying immediately above the surface of the earth, but to the stratosphere.
OPERATION ON
QUEEN OF TONGA
Queen Salote, who is 35 years
Sydney, N.S.W., Sept. 30. Queen Salate of Tonga, the ruler of the Friendly Islands in the In this region there are greater South Seas, has just undergone a possibilition of achloving high serious operation in a Sydney hos- speeds without the expenditure of pital. She is stated to be recover- excessive power, and researching rapidly. should certainly bo directed in this country to its potentialities to a greater extent than has been the case up to the present,"
Educated at Auckland, Now Zen- Lord Sempill predicted that land, Queen Salote is an ablo before the next exhibition spoeds speaker and a capable administra- of 90 m.p.h. with heavy trains, tor. Apart from jurisdiction in and of more than 100 mph, with foreign affairs and finance, the light coaches, would not be un-Tongans, are wholly self-govern- common on the railways.
of age and Gft. 3ins, in height, auc- ceeded to the throng in 1918,
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It takes thief.. to catch thief
But the only thing that Father
Brown evar atole was the march an Scotland Yard 1 He loved to match wits with clever people and
Flombeau, the boldest of adventurers, appealed to him as a worthy opponent. Adolph Zukor prosants
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