ATLANTIC GALE RESCUE DRAMA
Veendam Picking Up Crew In Violent Weather
MEAGRE BUT DRAMATIC CABLES RECEIVED IN HONG KONG THIS MORNING TEND TO INDICATE THAT THE ATLANTIC, GRAVE- YARD OF MANY SHIPS, CLAIMED AN OTHER VICTIM YESTERDAY.
She was the British steamer Maria de Larrinaga
-AMERICA'S
MOTOR EXPORTS
New York, To-day.
The value-of-exporta" of motor vehicles in 1938 amounted to
$283,000,000, according to the
Department of Commerce.
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This represents a decline of 21
per cent. compared with 1937 but
last five years, which is $265,-
is still over the average, for the
000,000.--Reater.
(4,988 tons), belonging to the Larrinaga FRANCE'S
Steamship Company of Liverpool.
For over a day the captains of five Atlantic liners, POSITION IN
four of which were British, drove their vessels
at high speed through heavy seas in an endea- EVENT OF WAR
BARONETCY CONFERRED ON BOY OF FIVE
London, To-day.
The King has confer- red a Baronetcy of the United Kingdom on a five-year-old boy.
He is Andrew Ashton Waller Hills, son of the late Mr. John Waller Hills, Privy Councillor, whose name would have been submitted to the King for a | Baronetcy in the New Year Hon- ours List but for his death last Christmas Eve at the age of 71. Andrew was his only child. His mother became Mr. Hills' second wife in 1981, and is grant- ed the style of precedence of a 'Baronet's wife. Reuter. "Le Journal" asserts that M. S.O.S. messages from the
Daladier declared at the secret army, M. Daladier declared Maria de Larrinaga revealed that session of the National Defence after the termination of a period of mountainous seas had stove in
Committees of the Senate that in abnormally small annual contingents the forward hatch, and that
the event of war France would of recruits, the strength water was pouring into the have to fight practically alone annual recruit classes would again of the with the pumps unable to during the first week since Bri-show a substantial increase.
tish help would not be available M. Daladier alsó revealed that so quickly.
substantial progress had been made. with rearmament.
vour to reach the distressed liner.
OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT TO BE AMENDED
London, To-day. The Government will introduce a Bill in the House of Lords next week to amend Section Six of the Official Secrets Act.
with the inrush.
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Now three liners (says Reu- ter) have reached the spot from where the docmed vessel was last heard of.
FLOATING WRECKAGE
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Paris, To-day.
The French Premier, however, added that Britain would render France the maximum help in the event of a conflict. `
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that
Munitions factories were now working at full pressure and the hours of employment were between In reply to questions regarding 50 and 60 instead of 40 as hitherto.- All that they have discovered is the effective strength of the French Trans-Ocean. floating wreckage, mute_testi- mony to the ordeal through which the ship had been passing.
So far, there is no sign of the crew, and none of the wreckage is that of lifeboats.
Rescue vessels which are now on
Sir Samuel Hoare (the Home Secretary) announced in the House the scene and are cruising over a of Commons yesterday that the de-wide area in a search for survivors cision had been reached after the Government had given very care- ful consideration to the question.
are the Canadian Steamship Com- pany's 1,558-ton freighter Canmail, the Stag Line's 3,106-ton Clintonia, and the Holland-Amerika Lijn's 15,450-ton luxury liner Veendam.
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Section Six, which deals with provisions: requiring persons who have come into possession of of- ficial secrets to disclose the source Wireless messages received from which they received them, has New York from the Veendam state been the subject of considerable that the rescue vessels have sighted criticism among journalist organ-numerous pieces of wreckage, in- isations and civil liberty societies as threatening the freedom of the press.
cluding ladders and a table top.
Other wreckage has been found near the last reported position of the ill-fated ship by the 18,984-ton Cunarder, Aurania.
Wreckage sighted was that of a hatch cover and oars.
Bearing of these provisions on Members of Parliament has been under consideration of the Select Committee of the House of Com- mons following the Sandys, Case, Early developments in the drama when Mr. Duncan Sandys, nephew were reported by the giant “Quest of Winston Churchill, was charged Mary," which picked up and relayed with revealing confidential inform-distress messages from the Maria ation.British Wireless.
NEW FRENCH TRADE PACT WITH YUGO-SLAVIA
Paris, To-day,
The Minister of Commerce stated yesterday that a new commercial agreement between France and Yugo Blavia will be signed to-day.
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de Larrinaga..
The huge liner, however, was too far away from the scene to be of immediate assistance,
GREW FOUND
Later.
A Reuter despatch from New York states that a further wire- less message has been received from the Veendam.
The Dutch liner says she is now rescuing the crew of the Maria de Larrinaga, though-ham- pered by heavy seas,
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