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ANGLO-AMERICAN ANTARCTICA.
Several months after entering office, the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Cotton, learned of the unans- wered British note and the unsent
THE CONFLICT OF CLAIMS. American repudiation. He order.
BRITISH CLAIMS TO SOVEREIGNTY.
(UNITED PRESS.
to be seen at the Central Theatre last night, when Sherlock Holmes appeared to explain to 'my dear Watson just how Professor Moriarty did the dire deed. Those who remember the facinating series of stories which appeared in the Strand Magating thirty years ago will welcome this opportunity of seving Conan Doyle's famous char- acters on the screen. And those- if there be any who have not read
Experienced diplomats said that Mr. Cotton had evaded immediate any of Holmes' amazing adventures
Mrs. Byrd went down the har-discussion of the problem of sover." will be thrilled with the story, now being shown at the Central. The bour in the municipal "welcome eighty but had left the question. United States could raise its claims picture-directed by Basil Dean, tug" Macom and greeted her hus-open in such a manner that the
at any time. one of the leading English pro-band who, when she Inst saw dücers--is well produced, and Clive him, had only the rank of lieuten Brook's presentation of the title ant-commander with which he retir-
ed from the Navy. role is a most impressive one.
ed a reply to the British note, which was sent November 15, 1999, Mr. Cotton expressed apprecia- tion of British interest in Byrd's' expedition and then proceeded to evade the issue of sovereignty in n manner which won the privately ex- New York, June, 19.-Returning pressed applause of others in the in triumph from Antarctic explora-reference to sovereignty in the Aut department. He said, the British tions which included an aeroplane arctic had been noted. but that it fight over the South Pole, Rear was assumed this merely was-men- Admira! Richard E. Byrd and his tioned for the Department's infor companions arrived home to-day aboard the vessels Eleanor 'Bolling and City of New York..
An interesting contrast to the main picture is provided by a short Chinese talkie in which the famous actor Mei Lan Fang appears,
“Lucky Stär " at the Queen's.
Lucky Staf," third of the Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell production, which Frank Borzage is responsible for, is to open at the Queen's
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Admiral Byrd and other leaders of the party boarded the Macom and steamed up the harbour to the Battery while steam whistles sounded a salute from neighbour. ing ships. Entering waiting motor- cars and surrounded by a police motorcycle escort to clear the way through throngs which struggled for a sight of them, the explorers proceeded through a storm of con fetti to the City, Hall where they were greeted by Mayor James J.
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Theatre to-day This Fox talking After Mayor Walker's formal picture is the tenth which Borzage address of welcome, Admiral Byrd has directed under the Fox banner.responded. From reports received on the first 'week's success, this makes it ten efforts and ten hits made by Borzage,
heard throughout the United States) over a nation-wide radio broadcast. Negotiations in Washington.
It is expected that Admiral Byrd) will soon proceed to Washington to Sonya Levien wrote the scenario discuss with Government officials the adaptation of this Tristram Tupper question of possible American sover- atory, while John Hunter Booth, eignty over Antarctic areas-a ques- tion in which he professes to fee), of "The Masquerader" and other no interest, but one of some mo stage successes, wrote the dialogue.ment, to certain American officials who recently evaded acknowledg- The cast includes Hedwiga ment of British claims in that re Reicher and Guinn, Williams. The thief locales are the "down east" hillside, a "bled white" farming region, and war-torn France.
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No dispute is considered likely, but it was recalled to-day that the State Department some time ago prepared a thorough-going repudia- tion of soma British claims to the South Polar regions. “
This document was drafted after receipt of a British note in Novem- ber, 19209, in which the British Gov- ernment expressed interest in the Byrd expedition and directed the State Department's attention to formal and detailed British claims on seven specific Antarctic areas which, on examination of the map, are revealed to represent most of the South Polar continent.
Mr. Ootton's Evasion,
In these regions, the State De partment was informed, British title already exists by virtue of dis- covery. The Department drafted a reply objecting to such wholesale claims of sovereignty and citing American explorations which were considered here to give the United States a basis for counter-claims in some areas. About the time this vigorous document was to go for can naval understanding began to develop. The disadvantages of pre cipitating a dispute over Antarctic aovereignty-at-such a moment were. Lobvious and the Note was held up i
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