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RADIUM FROM THE ARCTIC

Canada's Valuablė Deposits

MINING -UNDER DIFFICULTIES

Vancouver-The Creat Bear Lake radium field has ended its first year of active development and the pro. apenta seam to bear out the estimate of mining assayers that the radiun

Aeroplane Fare,

The aeroplane fare from Water ways is £100 per passenger. The freight rate is £45 ton. Coffee is 6 por lb., bacon 45. Gd., four 28,

Ad

Radium ores are now assaying $1,250 to the ton. Thera is open water for not more than two months

of the year. Ores must be freighted cross a section of the lake, bo miles down Bear River to the Mackenzie, then up the Muckenzie by Hudson's Bay Company: steamer, through

The only alternative route is Iron Aklavik, at the mouth of the Mackenzie, westward and south along the Alaska const, through Behring Strait Vancouver. Transit by road seems at the mo- inent impracticable to a degree, but

to

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.

forms the basis of radium. Much of the silver explored to date is on the surface. Copper is there -in vust quantities, but cannot be min ed at a profit at the present ruling rrice of 3d. par lb.. There is gold; assaying £3.to the ton; cobalt, used fin steel manufacture; coal, bismuth and manganese. None of these may be mined at present freight rates:

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to 11.30 am. Stock and change. quotations, weather port, etc.

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BRITISH BEER BOY- - COTT IN DUBLIN

SPY'S NIGHT IN A BALLOON

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1.R.A. ON THE WARPATH

· Dublin, Dec. 3-Men who repre- sented themselves as belonging to the Irish Republican Army visited. re-licensed houses in Dublin Inst month, and warned the publicans

From May 10 to August 10 there is continuous daylight. Under-

-] aid of their stocks within a week. ground working is done while snow 11.30 am-Chinese recorded prout to sell English ale and to get is on the ground; surface work in the two clear months. There is a 19.30 p.m.-European programma of ļ

They added

that every proprietor Columbia records,

of licensed premises throughout the Post Office at Murphy's Store, wtich

"huge" · "tonte A 1. p.m.-Local time and weather Free State would be similarly noti- Mounted Police officer has in- |- ·

report.

*fied. The only regular visitors are Eski-1.20 p.m.-Rugby Press hows, salect- ed London and New York stock mos and Dogrib ludians. Being

quotations, stelyos located beyond the timber line, gane is confined to ptarmigan and Aretio fox. The rivers carry trout. tp to 50lb, herring whitefish and Arctic grayling

ore deposits discovered by Labina treat Slave Lake and Laki Atha- | Halled himself. Dogs are scares brothers, two French-Canadiany, basca to Waterways. will rival, if they do not exceed in value, the deposits in the Katanga Basin, in the Belgian Congo, chitherto regarded as the world's

main source of supply.

The winter, population is 200, Great Bear is not a prospector's

lorers Major Burwash-Burwash The radium field, on the shore of liver Jim," who has lived thirty of the Arctic-who, for 34 years Canada's largest expanse of fresh years north of fifty-Three, bas al- patrolled the North-West Territo water, has over 800 miles of impas-ready surveyed a road over the hillries for the Dominion Government sutile swamp and musker country cuntry between Great Slave and

p.m.-Close down

4.50 to 7 p.in.-Chinese prograïunie. to 10.30 p.m.-European pro-

gramme.

A youth of about eighteen armed with a revolver entered a shop in Canden-street while another kept gunid ́at the door.

ADRIFT OVER GERMAN LINES

·BELGIAN'S „BRAVERY TO AID THE ALLIES

nast dlaye though during the

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"I had the pleasure of meeting Baschwitz after the war, and ba told me the story of his voyage. Owing to the lesk the balloon did not go quite an high as was expect" ad. Over the trenches he expected to be seen, and one. Verey-lig pearly fell into the balloon,

Buperb Kerro, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who was in the Secret Service in the "Nothing happened, and he war, told an audience at Finsbury landed on a beautiful summer mor Town Hall a story of how thening He stepped out of the bal bravery of a Belgian officer resulted | loon, and off it went. He put the in the Allies being able to get news overalls he was wearing out of of German troops movements in the sight, and walked two miles scross German Lig push just before the a field to a road. He had land and of the war.

ed within half a mile of where it was calculated he would land. A

and I think this was the most motorcharabane came along the road

brazen cheek--he asked the driver

As Germany had made it more tor's authority, and the reply was, through Holland, it became the The proprietor asked for his visi- and more difficult to get agents "Our authority is the Irish Re-practice to send them by aeropla publicam Anny, which demands nes. Owing to the difficulty of hid.

send a man over by balloon."

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or an alluvial miner's proposition: Colonel J. K."Cornwall, Pence comprising "some notable Arctic ex-7 p.m.-Closing local stock quota more respect than any Government. ing parachutes, it was decided to it be was going to Luxembourg,

Great Bear.

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The next richest find to radium is a high-valued silver deposit, mingled with the pitchblende that

between it and the northern ter- minal of the 'railroad at Water- ways, Alberta, the jumping-off point of the Arctic air mail.

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as Inspector, and reported on the discoveries of Franklin relics. honds n mining syndicate. Bill Walton, best-known prospector in Manitoba, who discovered Long Lake field, is there. The most picturesque figure in William La Valle, 59-year-old Yukon sourdough. There are 2,000 claims, maboly held by syndicates.

There is one woman on the Great

Bear field. She is Mrs. Gerhart,

wife of Peace River prospector. She admits she is lonely, but will zoon have company, as other wo men are going in by air during the coming winter, following their men on the eternal, quest for precious metals.

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"Two's company but three's a crowd" -and yet nothing so truly assures the success of an evening as "Meet Johnnie Walker an old friend of mine-and one of the best." To which the reply is "Surely we've met before.”

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7.13 to 1.30 p.m.

Orchestra).

Posters Torn 'Down,

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The man who volunteered to go was a Belgian officer, named Basch witz, who was sent to England to be trained.

"The balloon was taken over to France to await a south-westerly In Rathmines publicans who ex-wind," said Lord Balfour, "The pressed resentment were threatened balloon was filled, but there was with drastic action" if they did

"You will have to obey this or- der," said the youth. "If you don's we will see next Saturday that "Bolero" (Ravel)-Willem Men-avery bottle you have is cleared

gelberg and his concertgebouw (out:” Orchestra.-LX@9/LX49. "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" (Liszt and Wood)-Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the Now Queen's Hall Orchestra. DX9/DX10.

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7.50 to 8.33 p.m.

Variety.

Banjo Solo" St. Louis Blues." Banjo Solo-"Some of These Days"-Eddie Peabody-DB713 Piano Solo Have You Forgot....

ten?"

Piano Solo-- Holon "-Sclection

Billy Mayerl-DB777, Vocal Duet- I Lost My Heart

u Heidelberg," Vocal Duet- Wo've got to Put

That Sun Back in the Sky, Layton and Johnstone.-DB526 Cigan Solo A Faded Summer

Love."

Urgin Solo Save the Last Dance for Me"-Quentin M. Maclean.-DE759,

paid his 2d., and away he went.

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The people who sympathised with the Allies, thought he was s French officer, and because he did not make sufficient efforts to escaps be was ostracised and presented with white feathers!

My story has a happy ending, not obey the order, and in one or some delay caused by a slight leak, added Lord Balfour." He wor two cases the man jumped over the By 1.30 in the morning all was through the war, and at the Armis counter and smashed bottles of English ale displayed on the ahel-ready. I shall never forget the tion he was decorated with the

scene. He stepped into the balloon Distinguished Service Order

Vod.

When one publican asked why he and disappeared into the night, Douglas Haig himself, and also should not continue to sell English "The first thing that came was was made a member of the Legion ale, he was told that it was in puran anonymous letter, denouncing of Honour" suance of the "Boycott British Goods" campaign in retaliation for the British duties on Irish pro- ducts..

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Late to-night bodies of young mon representing themselves members of the I.R.A. went through the city tearing down posters ad- vertising English ales,

Publicans who have large stocks on hand do not know what to do with them, as they cannot possibly ell them over the counter within a week, They say that if they are forced to get rid of them they will have to give them away.

Numerous complaints have been Vocal. Dust-"Live, Laugh and made to the Ministry of Justice,

Love."

Vocal Duet Just Once for Allaudl questions are likely to be asked

in the Dail on Wednesday, '-Time,”--Layton and Johnstone,

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5.33 to 8.60 p.m.- Schubertiana " (Schubert, arr. Finck)-Heman Finck and his Orchestra.- D480/9481.

6.50 to 9.15 p,m.--

"Gilbert and Sullivan Selections.

"The Mikado "--Vocal: Gems.-

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"The Gondoliers-Take a Pair of Sparkling Eych," John Coates (Tenor),—0508.: "Patience"-Yocal Gers-Colum-

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A Classical Programme.

Piano Solo" Prelude and Fuguê

No. 1 in C Major" (Bach)." Piano Solo Prelude and Fugle

No, 1 in C Minor" (Bach). Piano Solo Prelude and Fugue.

No. 3 in C Sharp Major" (Bach).

Piano Solo" Prelude No. 4 in 10 Sharp Minor" (Bach).-Har.

riet Cohen.

Quartette in G Major (Mozart, K387)-Lenor.' String Quartette. 1st Movement -Allegro vivace

Assai

2nd Movement --- Menuetto ---- Al

legro.

3rd Movement" Andante can.

tabile.

4th Movement-Molto allegro. "Concerto for. Bassoon and Ör- chestra (Mozart). Archie Cornden" (Bassoon) with Or- chestra conducted by Bir Hamilton Harty.

Part 1-Allegro/4"-

Part 2-Allegro, g-

Part 3-Andante ma adagio Tart 4-Andante ma adagio. Fart & Rondo (Tempo di Menu

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