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SANCTIONS' DECISION

DEBATE IN COMMONS

Opportunity Welcomed

London, June 18.

debate Opening the Commons on Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Government Secretary said the

the welcomed

οι opportunity making plain their attitude on the number of problems confronting the League of Nations, upon which the League states together would have to reach decisions before the close of the month.

BRITAIN'S PART

TO THE LEAGUE

AND PEACE

Before the

London, June 18. house crowded 13 every part for his statement on the Government's, policy at the forthcoming League meetings, the Foreign Secretary announced this afternoon in the House of Com- mons that while ready to take part in whatever action might be collectively determined, His Ma- jesty's Government had decided for its part that there was no utility in continuation of sanctions against" Italy. He added the as- surance that the Government would devote itself to restoring the From the beginning of the Italo-League to its full authority." Ethiopian dispute the British Gov. ernment had taken their full par In collective action. It might be should collective aution argued have beer, more complete Mr. Eden said, countering the interruptions Irom opposition but none could deny that the British Government had played their full part. They would continue 1.0 do So. "We shall act fully and loyally in line with any action the assembly may decide upon."

PERIOD OF DIFFICULTY

her

In the later stage of his speech, Mr. Eden referred to the efforts of the successive British Govern- ments to bring about a reconcilia- lon between France and Germany, and to the situation created by

of Germany's repudiation Locarna obligations on March 17 last. He said, the British Govern- ment in the present circumstances felt justified in looking for an early reply from Herr Hitler's Government to the enquiries re- cently addressed to it.

The Government might, if they | British Wireless. had cared. Mr. Eden, went on, have left it at that. but at a period of dculty in the League's history

that would not in their view nor he believed, in the view of the Bri- tish people be a very herole course. They nad responsibility to their Jellow-members of the League, not only for compitance with collec- tive decisions, but for guidance in reaching them.

The Foreign Secretary rehearsed the Initiatives the British Govern- meni had taken at the successivc crises while the dispute had been before the League and declared would not be right at this time of

perplexity to shrink the duty of giving the lead.

"I am quite con- vinced so far from the lead we are guing to give embarrassing others, It will be welcomed in many ouur- ters."

LEAGUE'S FUTURE

MEMBERS TO CONSIDER

London, June 18. In the middle part of his speech which was subject to some inter- ruption at times from opposition benches, the Foreign Secretary taiscussed the future of the League which he said needed to be earn-

GOT TO BE FACED Turning to the question what the League should do in the pre- sent circumstances, Mr Eden sald The fact had got to be faced that the sanctions imposed had not realised the purpose for which they were applied. Abyssinia was in Italian military occupation and so far as he was aware no Abyssin- ian Government survived in any part of Abyssinia. It could not De expected that continuation of existing measures of economic pres-ure would restore the post- tion in Abyssinia. Nothing but miliary action from outside could possibly de that and so far as he knew, no other, Government and certainly no British Government were prepared to take such milit- ary action. To maintain existing sanctions without any clearly de- fined purpose would only result in crumbling of the sanctions front. so that in a short time the League would be confronted with a state of affairs even more derogatory to

its authority than that which it

faced 10-day. In these circum- stanres His Majesty's Govern- ment after mature consideration and on advide which I, as Foreign Secretary, thought It my duty to give, have come to the conclusion that there is no longer any utility in continuing these measures as a means of pressure upon Italy **

ATTEMPT JUSTIFIED

Though the League had not availed to prevent the successful

by the League last Autumn or acts of aggression being either modi- ned or revised.

ual assistance among the Coven-

esily and urgently considered by all its members. He must make it plain. he declared that the Gov- ernment was determined the lea- gue should go on.

reason

The fact that it had tried and failed to arrest aggression was not for regretting the at- tempt, but for seeking so to or- ganise it that it should have a better chance to succeed hereafter and with that object lessons of last few months had got to be analysed.-

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ENGINEERING AND`

THE "QUEEN MARY"

A Great Enterprise

When the Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden voy- age across the Atlantic, a great enterprise came at last to frul- tion. Whether it be regarded as a demonstration of technical skill and craftsmanship, or as an example of what can be ac- complished by industrial co-ordination on a truly national scale. or merely as a commercial undertaking, the completion of such a ship is an achievement well worthy to rank with the structive works of those less mechanised eras, whose remoteness has endued them with a "romance" often alleged to be lacking in the materialistic world of to-day. "

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BUILDING

BORING FOR OIL IN GREAT BRITAIN

The rat attempt to discover oll in Great Britain, since the pass- ing of the Petroleum Act of 1934, was inaugurated on, Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth, on "Monday. March 30, "by Mrs... Crookshank, mother of Captain H. F. C. Crook- shank, M.P, the Secretary for Mines. Mrs. Crookshank has as- sociations with Petersville in the United States, where Colonel Drake drilled his first oll well. The

The Illustrated descriptions of regard

of convention is rather the liner should remove any difficult for the insulat mind plant, which is being operated by Messrs. The D'Arcy Exploration lingering fear that modern Bri- assimillate; "unconventional" and

Company, a subsidiary of Messrs. tain is content to relinquish, or "bizarre" are "not synonymous

The Anglo-Iranlän Oil Company. perhaps has permanently lost, her terms, but the usual British reac-

is of British manufacture and con- earlier maritime pre-eminence:tion to marked departures from

sists of a derrick 135 ft. high, from Standards of living have changed, precedent hardly does justice

which a rotary drill with a load- but not, apparently, to the the distinction. We may progressing capacity of 400 tons 1s operat- triment of · those fundamental in time, to disguised ventilators ed. The mud is extracted from

"STRONG COMPETITION

da.

"Blue

THE DESIGN

to

and but

pro-

the bore by three pumps, which, like the drilling machinery, are supplied with steam at a pressure

of 250 18. per square inch from four 14,000-lb. capacity boilers. It is expected that the work will take about two years. Speaking at the Inaugural ceremony, Bir John Cad- man said that Messrs. The D'Arcy Exploration Company had been as- sisted in making their present effort by recen: advances in geo-

qualities which seek advancement and concealed anchor, gear, and ensure it. Less than a century; even to "teardrop" funnels. has clapsed since the Atlantic the progress must be regular, with was first crossed by the agency of none of the intermediate stages steam alone, by the wooden pocket omitted, if it is to be recognised as steamer Sirius. In that relatively progress and not futurism. short space the twin" setences of shipbuilding and marine engi- neering have evolved a vessel of

The design of the Queen Mary sixfold greater length and appro- has evolved with exemplary re- ximately hundredfold greater gularity from those of her distin- displacement, designed to complete guished predecessors, with due re the round trip between Southamp-gard to subsequent developmentalogical methods and drilling tecn- ton and New York in two-thirds ir machinery design and in the nique. They also owed much to of the time then taken to make production of improved materials.

the skilful and far-sighted manner the single crossing from Queers-Certain innovations are to be not- in which the Petroleum Act of 1934 ed on the passenger decks, and and the regulations of 1935 had town

especially in the public rooms, by been conceived and drafted. There way of concession to the spirit of was, however, 2 point beyond The new.ship nas some strong the times. In the space, and ser- i which the authorities could not competition to overmatch in order vice and general amenities

Assist them, and they must now regain the coveted

vided for the individual passenger go forward to

into the unknown, Riband"-a possibility which the the designers who have planned | where "only the drill can tell." In public. "Technical and non-tech- her accommodation. "and the con- choosing this particular site they nical alike, persistently de- tractors who have executed it. had been gulfed by a volume of clines to Ignore. although have attained a standard com- geological evidence. Many miles both owners and builders parable with that of any other to the east and west were out- have been careful to point out vessel afloat. In pleasing contrast crops of rocks of Wealden and to the overdone character and un-pre-Wealden age, which in certain that service speeds are dictated ÖV the conditions of the route comfortable styles of furnishing | places were heavily impregnated and decoration which for many with petroleum. It was fair to as- years have been such conspicuoussume that these rocks, lay deeply features of big ships the Queen buried below the chalk of the site. Mary' will certainly be a most and it was hoped that the drill country comfortable boat to travel on, in would find these rocks porous and Each the minds of many passengers: suitably folded, thus forming a re- one of the other Ave, two German. though many will regret the ap-servoir in which petroleum had two Italian, and one French, owes propriation of the finest position becomie trapped 17 commercial some part of her necessary equip-in the ship to a cocktail bar, no ment to British firms, but in the construction of the Queen Mary there was no occasion for the bull- ders to go outside the United Kingdom for any important item of machinery, structural materials, or for technical guidance.

alone. She enters the field pos- sessing one distinction enjoyed by none of the rival vessels, in that she is, in all essentials, 100 per cent. a product of the whose ensign she

wears

OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE

less than the decoration of that apartment with a frieze quite in- congruous in a vessel, bearing so dignutied and revered a name.

Many of these features, have been well publicised already, and most students of the general press must be familiar by now with the customary statistics-the miles of

not

quantities.

There was of course,

an elenient, of speculation in all this. but olfelds had been dis- covered elsewhere on no better evidence, and the effort was well worth making.

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CHINA'S RAILWAYS

In design and appearance, as in carpets, acres of upholstery, thou- construction, she is an outstanding sands of blackets, and millions of example of all that is most chur-rivets: to mention the in- acteristic of British practice

inevitable .comparison with the The Poshan Railway, which is naval architecture;

of height of the Nelson column, and as present owned by private capi-. the demonstration of the inade- tal, will be purchased by the Bhan-

not least

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London, June 14. Mr. Robert Gordon MacGregor, B.A., B.M., B.Ch. (Oxon.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., son of Dr. Scott Mac- Gregor, Glasgow, and a lecturer at | Birmingham University, has been

appointed to the Chair of Physio-that national predilection tur or 10gy in the University of Singa-thodoxy and distaste for anything quacy, as a graving dock. of the tung provincial government at the savouring of the flamboyant which east side of Trafalgar Square, price of $780,000, according to a announced by General would probably prevent us, as a These attempts to interpret im- decision He was educated at Glasgow

in terms of everyday Han Fu-chu, the Governor. Pre- Academy, Trinity College, Glenal-hation, from producing spontane-mensity

ously a design with the striking things show how difficult a task |parations have been completed to mond, and subsequently at Oxford

of the Normandie. it really is to convey an accurate construct the Tsinan-Llucheng

pore. He takes up his duties in

the autumn.,

University. At Oxford he graduat-originality

ed B.A with honours in 1924, and However much we may admire at impression of an undertaking so Ballway and work will start next

the same year obtained the boldness and the skill displayed in greatly exceeding the normal units month. physiology prize of his college, and the execution, such courageous dis of measurement.

in

an Exhibition in anatomy and phy- siology at St. George's Hospital. London.

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THE RECONSTRUCTION

OF WANDSWORTH

BRIDGE

The line will cost about $6.000.000 Another line is being planned between Liucheng and Changten with a branch line to Lung-wangmalao and Tsokow,

The Peiping-Laoning Railway's Varks at Tangshan are to be m- proved and extended, according to plans now underway. It has been decided to establish an In- spection section there to pass upun all locomotives.repaired as well as to increase the facilities for the overhauling of both coaches and

In 1927 he was appointed house accomplignment of violation of 1a | physician at the Brompton Chest Covenant, the Government did not Hospital, London, and in the fol- Legret, Mr. Eden emphasised-nor | lowing year he became physiologi- ald he believe its fellow League cal investigator to the Safety in members regretted-having made Mines Research Board of the De- an attempt. For that, they had partment of Mines, and research nothing to apologise for and no assistant in the Department of thing to retract. Nor was there Physiology. University of Leeds, any question in the British Gov- His present lectureship at Mir- ernment's view of Judgment passed mingham University began in 1929. Mr. MacGregor has" travelled ex- tensively In America and the Con- tinent to study the various methods Before proceeding further to of scientific research. He has consider the future action of the made several original and which was opened in 1873, is of League the Foreign Secretary made teresting observations in the field the continuous lattice girder type to be designed so that it can be The Klangnan Railway, now pri an important declaration on mut of physiology, and these have re-

cently been confirmed by workers with brick abutments, and is sup- widened later. If necessary, to 80 ately owned, will be taken over ported on eight wrought-iron ft. The design has been prepared shortly by the Government, it was cylinders. It has an 18-ft. car-by the Council's engineer and tearned by the "Shunpao" The Two years ago he accepted an riageway and two 6-it. footpaths. architect in

collaboration arid terms for the transfer of the line exchanged last December under Invitation from the authorities of and the maximum headways for severe simplicity in treatment la to the Ministry of Rallways have Faragraph 3 of article 16 of the Moscow University to visit Moscow river traffic are 19 ft. 9 in, af the to be aimed at. During reconstru: been agreed upon. It is stated."" Covenant between the Govern- and while there he delivered two three central arches, and 14 ft etion which it is expected wil? take Mediterranean lectures to the students of phy810-in at the two others. Since 1891 it about three years, a temporary Fowers including His Majesty's logy.

has been necessary to limit the footbridge will be provi

The river facilities east of Tower Bridge Government and said in view of

loads passing over the bridge to scheme has been submitted to the and what steps should be taken to the latter which view they pio-

five tons, and since 1927 there has Minister of

Transport, and has improve them, In so doing he posed to state at Geneva as a con- months, the Government had de- been a speed restriction of 10❘ been approved by the Port of pointed out that between 1914 and tribution to confidence-those as-

termined it was necessary that n..ph. Somewhat naturally, there-London Authority and Royal Fine 1035 the number of vehicles using surances should not end with rals-

Great Britain should maintain fore, its reconstruction has been Art Commission. The estimated Blackwall Tunnel... Rotherhithe ing of sanctions if the Assembly permanently in the Mediterranean repeatedly urged; and is not bein" groas coat is £503 500 of which it Tunnel, and Woolwich Ferry had decided to raise sanctions but defensive position stronger than undertaken before it was needed. is considered 60 per cent, should. Increased by 500 per cent., nearly should continue during the period that which existed before the dis-It is proposed, that the new bridge be met from the Road Fund. At 350 per cent, and more than 200

same pute between Italy and Ethiopia | shall be of the threespan cantil- the of uncertainty which must neces-

Bir Cecil per cent, respectively. The maxi- sarily follow. Mr. Eden added, in broke out

ever type. and shall be construct-Levita asked the Highways Com-mum capacity of Woolwich Ferry light of the experience of recent

ed of steel with granite-faced plera mittee to report on the cross- was now being appoached.

A report on the reconstruction and abutments. The centre span locomotives. The manufacture of Wandsworth Bridge was pre- will have a clear width of 283 ft. and repair of tools, for which sented to the London County between the piers and a headway additional equipment will be Council at their meeting on Tues-at the centre of about 21 ft. above bought. will be housed in a

day, December 10, and will be high-water level. It will be 60 separate building, soon to be con- discussed next week. This bridge. ft, wide, with a 40-ft. carriageway, structed.

and two 10-It footpaths, and is

ani enforcing states. He re- called the reciprocal assurances

ments of certain

in America.

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