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SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925.

HAWAII'S DEFENCES.

NEEDS OF THE ISLANDS TO BE STUDIED.

ון

LEGISLATOR'S PROPOSALS

"The Strongest Military Outpost in the World." With the object of making Huwali" the strongest military out- post in the world."an American legislator will shortly urge Congress to immediate action.

COMING MISSION.

·(Reuter's American Service)

Washington, May 8. Following a public discussion of the weakness of the Hawaiian defences, as disclosed by the re-

island defences as well as the fleet. Unofficial details of the short comings mention the necessity of deepening Pearl Harbour and the state of the aircraft, bases, which are overcrowded and inadequate, while a deficiency of troops, heavy guns and communications are re-

"AMERICA'S BATTLE FLEET,

The United States battle fleet steaming to the, recent. „máneuvres held in Hawaiian watersy

went American Nayy manoeuvres, vealed at Oahu, where the garri Mr. Butler, Chairman of "the son requires doubling in order to Naval Committee of the House of

Representatives. said that he would urge legislation at the next session of Congress to make the Hawaiian islands "the strongest military outpost in the world."

Plans are being prepared to en- able members of the Naval Com> mittee to visit Hawali next month In order to obtain Erst hand in- formation. The party will be accompanied by high naval .officers.

A thorough survey of the needs! of the islands will be made with particular reference to. Pearl Harbour.

Mr. Butler added that his 'pro-, posal for the fortification of the Hawaiian group did not mean that he would be opposed to a world court of justice or the prin-

ciple of disarmament,

He hoped that these objects

could be attained, but he was be- repulse theoretically a possible ginning to doubt whether the landing force of forty thousand other nations were in earnest men.

about disarmament..

EARLIER CABLES.

New York, May 8, At the conclusion of the officers' conference.. following . the Hawaiian. manoeuvres, the um- pirés issued a brief communique acknowledging that the opera- tions disclosed deficiencies, in

QUITE VALID.

(Reuter's Service.)

BERLIN, May 8. The Election Court has declared Marshal Von Hindenburg's clec" tion valid.

When Marshal von Hindenburg. was elected President of Germany, the soclialists protested against

RUBBER JUMPS.

VERY HIGH PRICES TO COVER.

(Reuter's Service.)

""

LONDON, May 8. The rise in the price of rubber for immediate or near delivery to 2s. per lb. is attributed to the shortage in the supply and the brisk demand to meet contracts now maturing in America.

The situation. is intensified by the delay in the arrival of 200 tons coming via Suez, which had to be transhipped, and by short accounts, having been opened in the markets of which has necessitated paying for May delivery, the covering

very nigh prices.

SHARE ISSUE.

LONDON, May 8.: The United Sua-Betong Rubber the result on the ground of alleged Estates are issuing 160,00. £1 shares irregularitles.]

at three.

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'KING'S SPEECH.

All the World To Hear.

WEMBLEY OPENING.

!

A

BLARE OF BANDS AND CRASE OF GOSS,

(Reuter's Service.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

· RADIO FROM ARCTI

ESKIMO-FOLK SONGS AT EQUATOR?

EXPLORER'S FANCIES.

Future Landing Places For Air Routes.

An American professor, who is about to lead an exploring expedition into the cold lands of the Arctic, says that he may put Eskimo folk songs "on the air," to be picked up by wireless listeners on the Equator

London, May 8. Listeners. Inull over the world will be enabled to hear the King when the offing the Empi

•Empire exhibi

Washington. Forty-three, naval fliers and It is highly probable that mechanics have applied for the tion on May

Professor The prxfilings are to be transpeople at the Equator will hear posta.

Macmillan mitted through the high powerCalk songs by the Eskimos in the recently suggested to the Presi-, Arctic this summer," sald Pro-dent that the United States should station at Chelmsford,

·

They begin at eleven o'clock in the mornille (summer time) with military music.

The royal tute on their Majesties arrival will be fired st

This will be followed by the Duke

of York's introductory speech.

His Majesty's speech is timed to

be delivered at noon...

After that a short religious mer vice will be conducted by the

Bishop of Londonda

COTTON TROUBLE."

SCHEME OF CONTROL NEEDED.

(Reuters Service.) ▼

LONDON, May 8. The provisional emergency cot- ton Committee of Manchester has Expressed the opinion that short me movements on a voluntary basis will never command entire oyalty. Consequently the trade, Is beginning to recognise that there' is no real solution for the present. difficulties in the cotton trade, apart from a full-fleged scheme of control; and the sooner it is put in to actual operation, the better, for everybody concerned.

BOMB PLOTS?

WARSAW COMMUNISTS..

ARRESTED.

NORTHOFOLE

UNEX

PRED

EXPLORE ARCTIC BY AIR Capt. Donald MSMillan, with the aid of the Navy Department, is com pleting plans for a search for land in the unexplored Arctic regions. The start will be in June, flights made from a base on Axel Haiburg Land, with return in August.

OTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

"

fessor Donald Macmillan, the claim any territory found as veteran Arctic explorer, after, the future landing places för a pros Navy Department have announced pective air route to Europe. that President Coolidge had approved of two navy seaplanes, Professor Donald Baxter Mac- with experienced pilots. accom- Millan, Professor of Anthropology panying Professor Macmillan's at Bowdoin College, was a mem (Reuter's Service.)

ship.

ber of the' Feary North Polar He sails on June 15 from Expedition, 1908-9, and in the WARSAW,-May 8 Wiscasset, Maine, to survey the The police have arrested a nümunexplored area between Alaska ber of Communists in Warsaw and and the North Pole. It is esti Grodno who are alleged to have mated that he will cover a million been plotting a series of bombing square miles.. Later he will outrages also the theft of secres explore Labrador, also, Greenland. documents from the War Office, the Ministry of Interior and other Government offices.

"

Detailed instructions were found

in their possession and proofs are said to have been obtained of their connection with the Soviet lega- tion.

TYPHOID. SCOURGE.

HUNDRED EUROPEANS

DOWN.

(Reuter's Service.).

SUVA, May 8. In Fiji a hundred Europeans and many Indians are suffering from typhoid.

Three Europeans have died. Extra doctors are being sent fro m.Australia and New Zealand.

WORLD FLIGHT:

ITALIAN 'AVIATOR'S

PROGRESS.

(Reuter's Service.) ·

BOMBAY, May 8.. The airman Commdr. de Pinedo

has arrived here...

CABINET TROUBLES, (Reuter's Service.)

BRUSSELS, May 8. The King has received the Catholic leader van Devyvere who has agreed to try to form a new ministry

has been grunted to a British, con-

Moscow, May 8.-A concession.

cern, the Ayan Corporation, to ex, ploit the goldfields of Okhotsk, Kamtchutku. The company pay on the basis of the area worked, and also surrenders five per cent. of the

output to the Soviet.-Reuter,

EMPIRE'S VAST SHOP WINDOW OPENS AGAIN TO-DAY.

hibition has been

by the

THE NATION'S FOOD. (Reuter's Service.)

LONDO, May The Food Commission has issued one majority and two minority reports. The minority reports are signed by Mr. T. H. Rayland and Mr. W. R. Smith respectively. The majority report principally recommends the es- tablishment of a food council to maintain continuing supervision over staple food prices.

In connection with port charges on wheat it recommends that the port authorities carefully consider the rates with a view, to making. reductions in the near future. It favours compulsory registration of retail butchers and endorses the recommendation of the Linlithgow committee that cold storage pro prietors should be required to furnish statistics of stocks of meat cold-stored, to be published at the food council's discretion.

I recommends the

council

closely, to watch future develop ments in connection with the im portation of neat from Argentina since it is of the opinion that it may be necessary for the Govern- ment to intervene by acquiring the Controlling interest of British companies operating in Argentia or by other means, if the supply of chilled frozen meat to Britain should be dominated by adverse trading combinations

TRADE WITH· "THE '·

DOMINIONS.

Professor McMillan.

following year went to Labrador with the Cabot Expedition. The years 1911 and 1912 he spent in ethnological research among the Eskimo of Labrador, and then he had charge of the Crocker Land Expedition of 1915-17. In July, 1921, he set out, also from Wiscasset, on an expedition to couple of years. Baffin Land, which occupied à An ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Professor MacMillan has gone through an aviation course.

WOOL SALES.

SUSPENDED ALL OVER AUSTRALIA.

(Reuter's Service.)

MELBOURNE, May 8, A conference of the National

It believes the Government may Council of Wool Selling Brokers wish to discuss with the Dominion Governments the possibility of and the Australian Wool Growars encouraging, in the Interest of the Council decided to suspend wool producer and consumer, the flow of sales all over Australia until July food from the Dominions to the I when they will be resumed if markets of Britain. It finally re- circumstances permit. commends the Government to exercise its influence to ensure that the economic section of the League of Nations shall continu- ously study international food problems and prepare periodical reports for submission to the League council.

* MINISTER RESIGNS.

(Reuter's Service.)

ROME, May 8, The King has accepted the resignation of Admiral di Retel, Mr. Ryland's minority report Minister of Marine, and bas objects to the establishment of a appointed: the Premier... Signor. food council as a definité advance | Mussolini, to act as Minister ad in the direction of State socialism | interim.,

and Imposing a heavy burden on

the taxpayer, edtailing, a serious flour in the hands of a statutory risk of increasing the cost of the | import board acting on behalf of proples' food, an

the whole community. Also na The food commission majority similar centralisation of meat sup. report points out that there is no plies, carrying out the recommend-. evidence presented in support of_ations of the Bridgeman-Macrosty the suggestion that the inter- committees in regard to the public. national-whoat-trade-is-controlled, acquistion of-the-freezing works in by à suiali “number of firms. South America by Britain. We exploiting the needs of the The milling Industry should be

formed into a statu tion wherein present would hold.

GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY: Smith minority report is very lon gthy. It recommends that the Government nsume responsibility

for food and

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