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“GENERAL·

Two Rhodes Scholarships Annually For India: High Standard Of Qualifications.

LONDON, MAR. 7 (REUTER)—KEUTER HAS BEEN INFORM- HAVE DECIDED ΤΟ ED THAT THE RHODES TRUSTEES FOUND TWO RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS ANNUALLY FOR INDIA. Rhodes Scholarships are annual and valued at £400 and tenable at Oxford University.

With one or two exceptions, they are awarded to young men who have been educated at universities in the British Dominions and in the United States..

HIGH STANDARD

Dutch Submarine Disaster

THREE MEN STILL TRAPPED

Cecil Rhodes laid down in his will that, in the election of a scholar, special regard should be paid to his scholastle" attainments, hls fondness for manly outdoor sports, his qualities of manhood, truth. courage, devotion" to duty anselfishness, sympathy for the AMSTERDAM, Mar. 7 (Reuter) weak and his powers of leadership. Three members of the crew

The Rhodes Trustees are con-still trapped in the Dutch suh- ndent that candidates fully up to marine which was rammed by a the high standard set by previous tug at the naval base of Den Rhodes scholars "will be forthcom-Helder.

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Ing from India and they have been Last night, dryers and other assured, that Indian Rhodes scho- rescuers worked desperately to lars will be welcomed at Oxford. reach the men who may not have

These scholarships are founded enough air for more than for an initial period of five years, hours. after which they will come. Into- residence at Oxford after the end of "the war.

FAIR STARI The Times, commenting on the foregoing. points out that defer ment of operation of the scheme until the end of the war streng- thens the intention to..give the experiment a fair start

The Rhodes scholarship system is at present almost in abeyance, owing tu transport difficulties, claims of military service and re- luctance of the United States to allow their citizens to enter bel- ligerent countries; moreover, 1+ cannot be said that the University, as a whole. is living under normal conditions.

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LIFTING OPERATIONS - Three tuga raced up the "coast from Amsterdan in the after- noon to assist in lifting the hull of the submarine to release the trapped men. There were about

30 men on board at the time of the disaster.

The "tuga worked all day trying to get the submarine's nose out of the mud, but at nightfall they atfil had not succeeded. This is the nrst accident in Holland's 30 years of submarine history.

ITALIAN LINER TAKES GOLD TO U.S.A.

Meanwhile, there will be time to

ROME, Mar. 7 (Reuter)-The settle the various detalls which | 51,000-ton Italian liner Rex sailed have been worked out in pther from here on Tuesday afternoon parts of the Empire and to ensure for New York. In addition to six- that the great departure "is que-hundred passengers, she carried a cessful from the outset,

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CHINESE ART COMMITTEE

quantity of gold from the Dutch Government as payment to the United States for purchases re- ceived.

NEW BATTLESHIP FOR FRANCE

CHUNGKING, March 7 (Cen- tral)----A Chinese Art Committee has been formed in Shanghai for the purpose of arousing American

PARIS, Mar 7 (Reuter) The interest in Chinese art and culture, says a Shanghai report. Dr. Alfred second of France's two new 35,000- Size, former Chinese Ambassador ton battleships has been launched." to the United States, is honorary she will be equipped with eight fifteen-inch guns, fifteen six-inch chairman and Mr. Julean Arnold.

guns and powerful anti-aircraft US. commercial attache in China.

defences. is chairman,

The Committee will hold ex- hibitions of Chinese art objects. in clubs, libraries and museums in America.

ACCURACY OF NAZI BOMBING ACCIDENTAL

NEW YORK, Mar. 7 (Reuter)— Judge Ontcault, an officer in the United States Air Reserve Corps, lecturing in Cincinnati on advances in aircraft, declared that the ac- curate bombings by the Germans were purely accidental.

SOVIET APOLOGY

TO SWEDEN STOCKHOLM, Mar. 7 (Reuter)- The Soviet Government has apolo- gised for the bombing or the Swedish town of Pajala last month.

The Soviet note says that two Russian pilots lost their bearings. The note, does not mention the compensation claimed by the Swedish. Government.

MORE CLOTHES FOR

NAZI YOUTHS BERLIN, Mar. 7 (Reuter) Youths from fifteen to seventeen will be granted extra ration cards for clothes. It is explained that

He described the bomb sights used in German war planes and said that American planes alone had accurate bomb sights and this had made it possible to aim a bomb accurately from a height up at this age, they normally require to 30,000 feet.

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