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Austria is now 45 per cent. Naxi, according to an abserver in Vienna.

The movement is strongest In provinces like Carynthia, weakest in Vienna, where the proportions are respectively-80 per cent and 80 per cent.

TUESDAY MARCH 13,

GRIM FIGHT FOR THE ARCTIC REGIONS

CANADA AND RUSSIA ARE

CONTESTANTS

pire

RICHEST OF THE LANDS

By JAMES SPENCE)

* Settled "a permanent post on Wrangel Island, Behind all these developments is

The Nazis strength lies in their

A grim and silent war is being; unity. The opposing parties agree In little save their anti-Nax! convic-waged for the possession of an em- tions.

The army stands firm for Chan- It has already lasted for several the encouragement of MosCOW. cellor Dollfuss Arrests and dis- years; it has coat the lives of many Successful explorers are decorated missals are purging the Govern brave men, but the prize is su-with the Order of Lenin or the Red ment posts of doubtful elements premicy over two million square Banner of Labour.

But every night the South Ger miles of land and a mastery of ae man radio stations are drumming crets which may revolutionise the out propaganda and instructions future of the world.

to Hitler's followers across the frontier.

The contestants are Canada and [the Soviet; the battlefield is the

The survival of Dr. Dollfuss de: Aretic. pends on his retaining the loyalty A report has been issued by of his 30,000 troops and the 40,000 Russia showing what she has no auxiliary police with their green-hieved in the polar regions during striped helmets.

the past few years. To do more than survive he must show some signs of winning the up- bill fight against Austria's econo- mic troubles,

*

Naval Problems

Canada's Methods

Their suggestions are carried out, no matter what the cost or the sacrifice may be.

Canada's methods are less spectacular, but even more suce cessful. She does not drive whole populations into remote territories, but concentrates on extending her knowledge of the geography of the Arctic.. Year by year she increases het hold Until recently the Arctic was re- The whole population of the L garded as a sterile waste. To-day 258,217 square miles of land of it is realised that the so-called which she has taken over the

It is an amazing document. But Canada's achievements are no leas remarkable.

.....

The Japanese Government's do barren lands are among the richest guardianship is under 13,000, but cision to demand naval parity with in the world.

she knows every inlet of their Great Britain and America is not

Oil, gold, silver, lead, zinc, country, and has established for the only great problem which con- coal, and radium are all being their benefit a vast wireless net

fronts the next Naval Conference. found in Increasing quantities, work,

Germany and Soviet Russian will besides great reserves of fish.

equal

demand representation on terms when the revision of the London Naval Treaty is discussed

sub- fiect of

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FILM NOTE Mae West's curves show that

game, and timber.

New Island's Found

Every white man in the Cana- dian Arctic is in constant commu nication with civilisation. It has been found, too, that in Already. Canada is working the are the solutions to most northerly mines in the world: weather problems which Is a short time she will be selling many have so far baßßed our meteorolo-radium from the shores of Great

Bear Lake.

Recently she established ists.

Many of these discoveries have been made on land already in Can-gular air service further north Soviet territory. But than Russia has yet dared to at- adlan ́ or hitherto unknown islands are now tempt. being found by each country and To ensure food supplies, ber scientists are now working in quietly annexed.

Unofficially representatives of next year.` the American administration' Germany hopes in the interval to the Arctic have twice recently approached have acquired a Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 13, 1934.11he Bank of England with pro- marines.

posals for a survey towards stab- Russia already has submarines ilisation of the pound and the in the Ballic and at Vladivostok, These unofficial ap-and has lately increased her build- Washington Change? dollar.

proaches were firmly rejected on ing programme for submarines and Currency stabilisation was in the ground, as the Washington light cruisers.

correspondent of the "New York the forefront of the agenda for Times" wrote in mid-December, the World Economic Conference that "the dollar must be put, by in London last June. In its the gold-purchase policy or second week President Roosevelt otherwise, in a more satisfactory "torpedoed" that conference relation to the pound and held she's no angle, se with his sudden reversal of his there for three or four months,

Doctor's Advice Government's previous attitude, with a daily variation of not

In other The captain of the tramp and his vetoing of the draft more than 5 cents."

authorities steamer and his mate went to the plan of the financial experts (in-words, the British cluding American experts) for were confident of the ability of bar and ordered two pints of beer, sterling to stand such strain os currency stabilisation. Washing-it was feeling, did not believe said the mate. He picked up his

"Well, here's health, skipper,' ton refused to have anything to in the permanent weakness of tankard, but before he held it to do with exchange stabilisation the dollar, and could afford to his mouth he firmly closed his eyes. until its own internal experi-bide their time. Washington'a

The skipper looked on in as- ment under the National Re-reply in the form of a statement, tonishment. covery Act should have raised broadcasted to the. American "Here," he said, "why do you CANADA

commodity prices and depre- Press. that not the dollar but

close your eyes when you drink!"*

ALASKA

Tering

RUSSIA

OCEA

ARC

& TOW

ciated the dollar for both home foreign currencies had been per- "The doctor told me I mustn't and exchange purposes, The forming gymnastic variations look at anything stronger than conference had been summoned met with derisive laughter from water," replied the mate. to debate means for revival of the leading American financial international trade; International critics. Washington last Novem Shakespeare on Woollen Pyjamas production and trade, strangled ber expected a British counter-

Airplane. bases and settlements laboratories in Ottawa to produca "Now is the itching hour of are also being established, for the wheat which will germinate in a by restrictive tariff and other attack, in opening of a "currency

night." regulations, demanded, and still war." It did not come. Nobody

nation which can control the Arc-far shorter period, than any yet" demande, common action to re- really wanted ́it.. American

tic may in time dominate the evolved, and enable grain to be Tricked By a Trick duce those restrictions; and at commodity prices have recovered

"Can that elephant de tricks?" world's mineral supplies and mono: grown well within the Arctic least a temporary stabilisation of only a fraction of their original

polise highly important air routes cle. the elegantly dressed young man exchanges was accepted as a no-losses, and two months ago, in

between Europe and the Far East-

Harnessing Rivers "The Arctic must become 'So- cessary preliminary step. When explanation of the phenomenon asked, the keeper at the circus.

"Rather," said the keeper. "We've viet Arctic," decreed Stalin, and One of the most remarkable the conference had to be termin- the London "Economist” drew ated in face of the defection of attention to the subtle tendency taught him to put money in that

purpose. The period has just end. fiuished of the United States, it was point of the dollar to rise rather than box up there. Give him half-as ordained a five-year plan for the treks in history has just been Four years ago the Canadian ed out that restoration of world fall Moreover the gold-buying crown and he'll do it."

Government bought 3,000 reindeer markets must still be the goal policy has produced little im-

The elephant took the coin and ed, and Russia is well pleased with for that country as for all others provement in export orders. Two deftly placed it in the box up on the progress she has made.

Her explorers have shown the from the United States, and has (the wall. dependent, upon export trade, and other signs of Washington's 171- that sooner or later the United easiness are a recent address by

"Remarkable!” cried the young same ruthless determination as just moved the whole herd from States would have to come Mr. Wallace, the Secretary for man, "Now let's see him take it cost a party of Russian scientists Alasks to the mouth of the Mac their lives a few days ago when kenzie River to form the basis of back to some international Agriculture, and the report of out again. se conference for help and to the Foreign Policy Association to "We haven't taught him that they tried to beat all altitude re inexhaustible supplies of food, and

cord in their stratosphere

(Cont help in what is essentially a the administration on the dan-yet, blandly replied the keeper.

This is what they have done world problem, incapable of gers of a currency war. This

with a fleet of seven ships, QUR= solution by any one nation alone. report warns Washington of the Messages from Washington re- retaliatory measures open to George Benard Shaw thinks no drons of airplanes, and bands of port that President Roosevelt is foreign nations such as, surtax more of sitting down and writing bold men, UTTA expected soon to open "formal on American goods equal to the a 200,000-word play than I do of negotiations"; with Britain for a difference between the "rubber" sitting down and writing a £200,000 modified stabilisation of the dollar and the par dollar, and im- cheque. pound and the dollar. It la de position of quota restrictions. clared also that the President ex- Mr. Wallace has been reiterating Ipects it to be necessary to reduce to American farmers that the the 1980 American tariff to as depreciation of the dollar "should mist trade revival as a prelimin- eventually cause prices of raw ary to negotiations concerning materials to rise to the extent with garden hose, a noxale having currency exchanges, This fore that the value of the dollar is re- cast bears all the signs of trust-duced, but it may take years to worthiness, and is supported by reflect the change" The reason insecticides the tendency of the dollar to ap-in, he, declared, that world de preciate confounding American mand for American farm exports prophets despite the operation is being antagonised "changes of the Washington” gold-buying must be made in our tariffs to plan Infor

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