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NO TERRITORY AND NO TALK ABOUT IT, SAYS DALADIER

Algiers, To-day. ANOTHER inspiring speech was made yesterday by the French Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, during his tour of French colonial possessions in North Africa.

Speaking at a banquet given by the Governor, he said:

"France wants peace with all countries, and wishes all the great problems of modern times to be settled not by war but by construċ- tive effort, but if anyone interprets this attitude as a sign of weakness or abdication, then I will cry halt. BLUNT REFUSAL

"I don't blame the violent polemics to which allusion has been made, but I am rather tempt- ed to thank the authors, for from beyond our frontier they have re- vealed France to the French.

"When I say I will maintain the integrity of the French Empire, I not only said I would not yield an acre of territory but meant that I would not be led into juridical which some people

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POLICE IN THE

QUEEN MARY

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Charles Boyer, who stars in "Algiers" at the King's Theatre.

boarded the liner were Scotland

Carried To Cherbourg Yard officers. They were inves

Itigating a report that a band of sworn to assassinate Officials and visitors who went, terrorists, aboard the Queen Mary at Ply-Prince Paul, Prince Regent of mouth recently were carried on Jugoslavia, were in the liner. to Cherbourg and Southampton. It was found that two Croats they were They had gone aboard by ten-were on board, but der and intended to return to men of irreproachable character. Plymouth an hour or so later They left the ship at Cherbourg. due Special branch officers also with passengers who were to land there. The weather be- boarded the liner, but were satis- no-fied that there was no truth in came so bad, however, that

the report of an assassination body could have the ship.

Among the party

had plot.

who

B.B.C. To Have Five Studios Underground

Five underground studios will begin shortly and 1,000,000 cubie form an important feature of the yards of earth will be removed. new extension to Broadcasting The area of the new site is 20,950 House, more than doubling the square feet, compared with 17,390 size of the present building. To feet of the existing building. No the accommodate them a huge excava- official estimate is given of tion down to a depth of 54ft below cost of the extension, but the pre-

Broadcasting

cost House pavement level is to be made. This sent

is lower than the vaults of the £650,000, and its equipment and Ex- Bank of England..

furnishing another £200,000. Though these underground penditure on the new building and studios were projected long before its equipment will therefore probab- the crisis they will constitute aly be in the region of £1,000,000.

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The building will comprise eight maximum raid precautions. In war time the floors, and will have a whole basement and sub-basement height of about 110ft, continuing section of Broadcasting House the facade and skyline of the pre- structure. Five floors will would be converted into a gas-proof, sent

be devoted to office accommoda- self-contained broadcasting centre.

be The power plant is already below tion, on the sixth there will ground level, and an artesian well a staff rest room, on the seventh provides BM independent water a control room extending the pre- and on the supply. There are already two sent control room, other studios in the sub-basement. eighth a restaurant with accommo- The largest of the new studios] dation for 300 people. It is hoped will be 80ft long, 54ft wide, and that the work will be complete by 30ft high. Three dramatic studios, the end of 1940.

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one for sound effects, and a number of rehearsal rooms are also being DANCING IN 6 HOURS provided. To insulate these studios Five alternative schemes for the from outside noises each will be elevation were submitted, and the Rapid easy lessons. Be-constructed as a separate "shell," one chosen has been approved by ginners A speciality, floated and isolated from the rest the Royal Fine Art Commission. Advanced courses. Mo- of the building.

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sions in Portlandplace and Duchess-stand all pressures. The walls will street, demolition of which is well be covered with asphalt, which will advanced. Work of excavation will also be laid out over the whole site.