1937-06-16 — Page 12

His Barrel for Ocean Trip

Ernest Blegajski, 45, of Buffalo, N. Y., is shown painting his barrel boat, “Nuda,” in preparation for a transatlantic voyage. He will try a trip across Lake Erie to test his strange craft before braving the Atlantic.

THE CHINA MAIL, ‘JUNE

COMMITTEE SPELLS D

VOTE IN FAVOURIO

TOO

NARROWOT

Paris, To-day.

The Chamber of Deputies re- assembled at midnight after con- clusion of the Finance Committee's examination of the. Government's proposals.

The critical situation that exists is reflected in the division of opin- ion on the committee, which voted 22 to 16 to report favourably the proposals.

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From six abstentions, five were Communists and one a Radical So- cialist. Reuter.

BITTER CRITICISMS

Social reforms instituted in France by the Popular Front Gov- ernment have wreaked havoc with France's international trade, the Centrist Deputy, M. Paul Reynaud, declared in the Chamber discussing

M. Blum, whose Popular Front Government is on the verge of de- feat after nearly a year in office.

BERLIN-PARIS AIR LINE

New Service Opened Yesterday

Berlin, To-day.

A second airline between Berlin

the plan for giving the Government land Paris was opened yesterday in plenary powers on customs tariffs view of the constantly increasing and anti-dumping action.

traffic between the two capitals.

Increased salaries and

the 40- The new line will be operated. hour, working week have brought jointly by Lufthansa and Air French prices to a much higher level France. than world prices, M. Reynaud as- serted.

of the

Following inauguration new service passengers will be able to fly between the two cities and back in

a single day Trans- Ocean.

"Eight months after devaluation, the Government is compelled to re- sort to protection," he said, "there- by implicitly acknowledging that devaluation has not succeeded in lowering prices in France to the sent production is still eighteen per level of the rest of the world.

cent. lower than it was before the "The world's industrial produc- Depression. We must not get isolat- tion to-day surpasses by twenty pered from world trade at the very cent, the highest peak attained dur-moment it reaches fifty per cent. ing prosperity, while our own pre-increase."

Here is atlantic which sh

Left to right are Dr. Hugo Eckener, famous designer of diri- gibles; Lt. Col. Joachim Breithaupt of the Reich Air Ministry, and Dr. Ludwig Duerr, chief construction engineer of the Zeppelin Construc- tion Co., as they arrived at New York to probe the fatal blast of the "Hindenburg." They left at once for Lakehurst, N.J. for the De- partment of Commerce inquiry.

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