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The crew then charge their submarines
bags with oxygen until the have been carried out by pressure inside and out is about various countries. The the same.
Three years ago it was report ed that Germany WILS not neglecting the problem
and
:
American Navy uses a Placing the clip over the nose "diving bell," and Britain and mouth to the mouthpiece, has the Davis Submarine they then bogin breathing, Escape Apparatus.
whereupon the hatches arc float to the surface of the water. opened fully and it is possible to.
As the pressure of the water decreases upon coming near to experiments.
the surface, so is it possible, by The most ingenious invention valve to decrease the pressure means of an automatie exhaust was designed not only to rescue inside the gas bags. the men from the sunken sub- On the surface of the water marine, but to provide them the gas bag can be used as a with a boat when they reached the surface.
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Danzig
A report from Berlin suggests that Herr Hillier may have decided to
A steel boat was built, bottom up, into the deck casing of a submarine. 1
This boat did not flood when the submarte dived and access was had to it from the inside of the pressure hull proper by means of an emergency hatch: When below water, the boat was
turned the right way up. released, shot to the surface and
Another device considered by
life-belt.
When
meets
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"If Madam cares to wait, tho salosgirls should be done trying on the new models very shortly!"
the Queen Roosevelt
Mrs.
postpone any action over Danzig the Germans has the develop REPORT ON THE ROYAL VISIT FROM LONDON'S| until after the Nuremberg rally in ment of the system of letting September, though he may then de-surface vessels know the where- mand that it be handed over to Ger-abouts of a unken submarine.
many.
by
If this report is confred events, it probably means that the
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| reaching economic and politicat con-connected with a life device fitted sklerations, and that if he attempted to the bottom of the submarine. to settle it in the dictatorial spirit This was raised to the surface which he showed over Czecho-by means of a steel cable and the Slovakia it might, unlike the Czech lift was afterwards returned to episode, Involve him in war. the submarine for another man,
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pre-
Danzig is a town with dominantly German population, but
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT DON IDDON
THERE
The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt will make a brilliant pair. We think the conversation will be prolonged,
meet the King and Queen.
First there is Lord Tweeds Hull, gentle and white-haired- Secretary of State Cordell muir, Governor-General of man behind the international
New York, are only two topics in the town just [now; one is the World's Fair; Fuchrer has realised that the Danzig SOME time ago, Italian ship the other-well, it goes like this: Canada, a tall, Ican Scotsman, trade pacts and his wife will question is not simply one of the yards were experimenting on a "Yessir," says the man with the who has turned his agile mind also spend considerable time right of a few thousand Germans to submarine lift in which the yellow shoes, peering at the from creating mystery stories as with the King and Queen. Mr. enter the Relch, but that it is a highly man to be rescued entered a dissolving ice in his highball John Buchan ("Thirty-Nine Hull, one of the most popular far-water-tight steel cylinder which glass, "I guess we are all set for Steps" and the rest) to govern-modest, not unlike the King in compleated Issue involving
men in his country, quiet and the King and Queen. Geo! what ment administration. bergh's will be nothing to it. [a reception they'll get. Lind-
temperament and demeanour, Lord Tweedsmuir is, they will Then there are Mr. Roosevelt's We'll all go haywire."
tell you in Canada, the most other Cabinet Ministers, the Round the bridge tables the popular Governor-General that Justices of the Supreme Court, women chatter. "They're such Dominion has ever had. the Generala and Admirals-all a nice couple. So natural. I'm And there is his charming and the distinguished men of sure they'll like us." At the talented wife-a very gracious Washington. village crossroads, in the great lady. They will entertain the British Ambassador Sir Ronak it lies at the mouth of Poland's only
department stores of the cities, King and Queen at Rideau Hall, Lindsay and his American-born outlet to the sea, and any Great
A SUCCESSFUL demonstra-the people are talking-"they the Governor's residence in wife Lady Lindsay, too, will Power with control of Danzig would tion of the Davis Submarine tell me the King's an expert ten-Ottawa-a-fine old house with have an important role during be able to strangle Polish trade. Escape Apparatus was held in favourite colour is blue-I saw
nis player... yes, the Queen's splendid grounds.
the visit. Recognising these facts, the Allled 1934, at the Naval Dockyard in it in the paper."
Then there is Mr. Mackenzie. Tall and angular, a
man of King, Canada's Prime Minister, few words, Sir Ronald is the In the buses and the subways, who will accompany their stage version British Ambassa- in the context of Nazi military
A large tank fitted with a at the street corners, and in the Majesties throughout the visit, dor come to life, and the parties ambitions. After the
skyscraper offices the talk goes including the trip to the United at the British Embassy are the. rape of submarine conning tower was Czecho-Slovakia the
Nazis were used for the purpose of schooling coming.
the King and Queen are States. He is a bachelor and most glittering in Washington. able to dominate the whole of officers and men attached to the
sportsman. Poland's long western and southern submarine arm of the China
In New York the King and Most of the Canadian arrange- Queen will meet stocky, dynamic ments of the tour Mr. Mackenzie Mayor LaGuardia, a dark, in- excited. King. planned personally.
tense little man whose brooding There has, after all, greater, part of Poland's northern Submarine Escape Apparatus never been a state visit by the (and their wives) of all the unexpectedly as he shoots out s Then there are the mayors face lights up with laughter missing in the chain. That link was and of the drill in connection King and Queen to Canada and Canadian cities and towns the wisecrack. It is quite certain he America. They are subjects for with its use was given shortly photographs and articles and King and Queen will visit, the will wisecrack with the King. If the Nazis had control of Danzig after the Poseidon Disaster by an speeches, history book people, to industrialists and, of course, chiefs of police, the judges, the they could reduce Poland to economic officer of one of the Australian this side of the world. Now we all the menbers of the Canadian and political vassalage. With Poland submarines Oxley and Otway,
are going to see them-nothing Cabinet. impotent they would greatly minimise
less than a personal appearance.
statesmen made it a free city.
Danzig has also to be considered
Hongkong.
frontiers. The Meinelland to East Prussia made Fleet,
addition of the
possible for them to threuten
the A description of the Davis
frontier as well. But one link was
ON
Danzig.
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We
Down Broadway YES,
are
Wonder Woman
Official Greeter FINALLY Mr. Grover
Whalen, President of the New York World's Fair. Mr. Whalen will be in his element. IN the United States Presi He has held the job of Official dent Franklin D. Roose-Greater to New York in the
In short, what is at stake at the ber of the crew being provided ve whole days in the United Lady Tweedsmuir will enact in to dukes and duchesses, to ocean
slon
the risk of a war on two fronts. The apparatus is manufac They could then give their sole at-tured by Seife Gorman, the well- of her Dominion status, gets the Of course, Canada, by virtue tention to the West, and neither known diving engineers, and was lion's share of the visit, but France nor Britain could view the brought into use in 1929. It is there is no hard feeling about future with anything but apprehen-now employed throughout the that. Only right and proper. velt and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt past, bowing his supple, imma- submarine service; each mem. But their Majesties are spending will play the part that Lord and culate person to other royalties, mouth of the Vistula is not only
States Washington, New York, Canada. the future of Danzig
with the equipment.
Mr. Roosevelt has flyers and scientists. He is well but whether the Nazis are to be in a position.
the World's Fair, worthy of probably more personal charm reliearsed. When the King and whence they will be able to dominate out in the service in 1980. It the Hyde Park country all will leaders put together.
The first trials were carried ranking as a soparate city, and that all the rest of the world's Queen visit his Fair his cup will Europe by fear
be brim full. of their armed was claimed then that the be visited. Good times are un- strength,
He radiates it. He is the So, of course, will the Fair, for If Herr Hitler has taken a deci-apparatus would be effective doubtedly ahead.
master of the happy phrase, the day when their Majesties not to force the issue now, from 800 to 400 feet. The
Which part of New York-the boyish and irrespressible the visit it will be the highlight of that decision may well be a crucial Poseidon Disaster was the first they will visit is troubling us at all that he will completely all else will be anticlimax.
wonder city of this hemisphere perfect host. There is no doubt the exposition. After that. one for peace.or war. It is true that occasion, on which the escape just a little. Now what New fascinate the King and Queen. Well, there you have the more: the postponement of any action is apparatus was demonstrated. necompanied by a threat which may
Yorkers would like is a grand He-is--looking-forward-with- important personalities,-and-we- mature in the autumn but by that The apparatus is fashioned parade through the streets of tremendous enthusiasm to en-have told you what the people time the situation will be very much the samo as a gas mask. Manhattan, preferably down tertaining them in the White are thinking and saying. So all different from the one Britain and France to give way to a and is strapped to the body by dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose- which led The gas bag hangs over the cheat Broadway.
House-spick and
and that remains now is for the visit span The King and Queen, Presl-decorated for the occasion.. to get under way and that, as The problem of Danzig is un-means of belts round the necks velt, in an open car, gliding visit will be the crowning event
For the President's wife the we say, "won't be long now." doubtedly one which ought to be and waist, leaving the head and slowly past the massed thou-of her life as First Lady of the WORM GULPED FOR settled by negotiation, but in view body entirely free for movement. sands, through a blizzard of United States. Mrs. Roosevelt of the British Government's past Goggles can be worn and there torn-up ticker tape and a storm is something of a wonder woman.
confetti. Inevitably recall the Runciman misia a "Pinch" for the nostrils. At of telephone book,
threat last September.
record, nny offer of its services must
50 CENTS
Turlock, Cal alon to Czecho-Slovakia and the the base of the bag, They'd like that, though there'll She writes a daily newspaper
Psychiatrists who diamored the colamitous course of events which small cylinder of oxygen is fitted be no grumbles if it can't be column, lectures three times a
week, holds Press conferences, recent nationwide goldash awallow- succeeded it..:
Any solution of the Danzig question in use.
with chemical purifiers are also arranged.
makes a dozen speeches a month, ng epidemic as being due to "exhibi- tionism" overlooked the cash motive. Bachelor Premier opens exhibitions, and lays Sammy Edgar, high school student, corner-stones during her lunch hold up an angleworm and offered to PERHAPS you would hour, flies almost everywhere, swallow it for 60 cents. Ten of his like to know about the and still has time to look after affair by chipping in 10 cents cach schoolmates quickly financed the compartment is gradually flooded loading personalities who will her husband and family.
and the worm went down
must be freely reached withoutThe service drill is on the Ureat or pressure and it hitist do full justice to Poland as well as to Ger- following lines: The submarines mpny."