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The Story That Will Never Die

ELICH MARIA REMARQUE'S novel, with Louis Wol- Heim, Lewis Ayres, John Wray, Adaptation and Dialogue by Maxwell -Anderson and George Abbott. A CARI LAEMALE, It. production.

Is now the picture that will live forever... falling in towaring passages of sheer drama and crackling dialog the world's greatest story of Youth's blind struggle for happiness showing the HUMAN side of war as seen through the eyes of Youth... smosh. ing home to you its dramatic message of hopeleness-and hope!,

Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE Presented by

CARL LAEMMLE

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

TRY SHAKING US!--

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.`:THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.

RICH RADIUM FIND IN CANADA.

REMOTE AREA REACH- ED BY AEROPLANE.

A new era opens in Canada's mineral history with the discovery of rich deposits of pitchblende, be ob- from which radium may tained, at Echo Bay, Grent Bear Lake.

+

SHIP DESIGN EXPERIMENT.

LESSENING WIND RESISTANCE.

million

WHITE MAN IN THE JUNGLE.

"CONVINCED, HE IS MY HUSBAND.”

her:

Geneva, Mar. 18.

Mrs. Fawcett, the wife of Colonel Fawcett, the British explorer who ECONOMIES IN FUEL

has been lost in the jungle of Brazil sinco 1925, told me to-day CONSUMPTION.

that she is now convinced that her This remote area straddling the

Discoveries which may revolu- husband has been found.

Her confidence is based on several Arctic circle is inaccessible for tionise the design of cargo vessels, facts in the following cable from three months in the year except and says more than by air, and only aeroplane pros- pounds annually to British ship the News-Chronicle New York pecting by a man named Gilbert owners, have been made at the Correspondent, which I read over to Labine made its discovery pos- National Physical Laboratory, Ted-

Fresh hope that Colonel Fawcett sible.

is still alive was raised hore to-day Madame Curle first introduced

was by a circumstantial report given to of source n pitch-blonde

Press representative radlum to the world, and the recently shown, in the Yarrow tank the British Consul at Sao Paulo by Great Bear Lake deposits are of the Laboratory, the unusual Stephen Rattin, a trapper, who is stated to be ten times greater than spectacle of a ship model being making one of his periodic returns those she developed in Austria.

towed through the water with ita from the jungle to civilisation. An ounce of gold is worth ap- tunnels downwards, and nothing proximately £4; a grum of radium visible above the surface except a is worth £12,000. Gold ore which fint "dummy" bottom. will average £3 to the tou is con-

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miles

dington.

A

He tolt the Consul "I came to an Indian encampment, six weeks' journey from Sao Paulo, between the rivers Xingue and Madeira. A wearing a long beard approached to measure accurately the wind me, and told me his resistance of superstructures, and to make suggestions which will render possible substantial econ- omles in the design of cargo vessels and passenger liners.

name

Whe

This, it was explained, was the sidered high grade; some of the method by which the Laboratory white man dressed in skins and Great Bear pitchblende deposits had been able, for the first time, asanу £1,400 to the ton.

lies 1,300 Great Bear 11orth of Edmonton, Alberta, by water route, or 850 miles by air from Waterways, Alberta, the take-off base for the Aretle Ocean air mail: as well as the loading point for freight bound, down the Mackenzie River.

Risky Route.

Fawcett and asked that went I got back I should report to you and to someone named Pagot."

The Consul, Mr. Arthur Abbott, after closely questioning Rattin, said he had every confidence in his

story.

The methods has been compared with the actual performance in a

Rattin described the white man head wind, and has been shown to.

tive) as being about 60 years of freight give upproximate agreement with (who he said was being held cap- The passenger and planes serving the newly-dia-observed results.

Without radical alteration in the age, oft. in height and powerfully covered mineral area do not fol

avarious superstructures, It has been built.

of

Clue of Two Names. low the Mackenzle, but take

Mrs. Fawcett told me that her 67, looks shorter and more risky route, fly-shown that for an ofl-tanker

could be effected husband, although Ing due north along an: arin of modern design a saving of 420

horse-power

This younger. He is 6ft. in height, and Great Slave Lake,

a 40-knot wind. The official report by the De- against

The "Puget" referred to would partment of Mines, Ottawa, on the would be equivalent to a daily nav-| (as Rattin said) "powerfully built." If bo Sir Ralph Paget, a former Bri- (ireat Bear deposits, dated Octo-ing of 4 tons of all, or more than

£400 on a three weeks' voyage. ber, 1931, slates:

that alternative designs can be develop- tish Ambassador to Brazil, who was "There is every evidence there exists nt Labiny Point and which are otherwise satisfactory, great friend of Colonel Fawcett. friend of Colonel Fawcett, and, extensive and fairly closely-spaced it is anticipated that substantially The Consul at Sao Paulo is also a Mra. Fawcett told me, the fact that pitchblande vein system that can greater benefit could be effected.

Rattin mentioned these names sub- readily be exploited by under- ground development. From small surface pit sunk to a depth

stantiates his story. of 12 feet at the original discovery point, eight tone of high-grade ore were taken,

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"No. 2 vein has been followed for 1,400 feet and 14 surface pits have been opened. Ore appeared in 13 of these in the form of a strong lead, ore being picked out for a continuous 800 feet. 12 tons were removed."

OTHER MEN'S

About

INCOME TAX.

£1,050 PAID TO INFORMERS.

Better Steering. Results in the case of a famous propor- Atlantic liner, although

even tionately less, proved of granter financial significance. It is BLACK OR WHITE? estimated that some 2,000 h.p. could be saved, representing about tons of oil a day, or more than £500 on a single voyage.

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I..G.O.C. ATTEMPT TO SOLVE A PROBLEM. have Other experiments, which

Docs white lettering on a black. been recently undertaken, promise still further economies, In the case buckground provide a greater visi- of certain vessels, from the ad-bility thun, black lettering on a justment of the superstructure to white background?

WRS

This is the problem with which give good steering. In the tanker!

found the Londes General Omnibus Com- already mentioned it

on pany are conformed. Some time that a "wobble" of 10 degrees either side of a direct course was ago, in the case of some of their necessary to hold the ship straight. now omnibuses they departed from Good steering, it has been found, black lettering on white board in on the favour of white lettering on black depends on how far back ship the centre of wind resistance canvas.. Now, in a further effort is placed, just as an arrow flies to please, they are experimenting Mr. Chamberlain, Chancellor of straight because the principal wind with black route boards and white

tail. Exact lettering. the Exchequer, stated in the House resistance is in ite

Whintover the advantages of Commonas that £1,050 was paid figures of fuel economy are not yet. during the current financial year available, but it is recognised by white lettering upon black, canvas, poor steering white lettering upon black board to persons giving information to ship captains that the Commissioners of Inland Re-substantially reduces the way of hardly seems a success. It cannot yenue as to the incomes of other a ship, and proportionately adds to be deciphered so easily or at such a

distance. taxpayers.

fuel consumption.

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"THE MAN IKILLED"

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SPANISH ROYALIST

MANIFESTO.

AN EXPLANATION BY KING ALFONSO.

Paris, Mar. 18. A partial explanation of the recent publication in his name of

King Alfonso la not exempt from the unwrition rule, and the position would be exceedingly dif cult ir, as the result of his ad herence, the Spanish Government made representations to France, It is essential therefore that, how- ever strongly he approves such ac- tion, he must remain officially

a Royalist manifesto was given by neutral.

King Alfonso said that he had King Alfonso in an interview on board the steamer Champollion, thoroughly enjoyed his recent from which he landed at Mar-travels, and told an amusing atory of his experience at the German soilles yesterday.

Without denying that he had frontier. A particularly officious knowledgo beforehand of the con- Customs officer had been going tents of the manifesto, King Al- through his things with exasperat- fonso let it be conceded that its ing thoroughness, and after publication at Madrid at that mo- during it with patience for ton ment was the work of a group of minutes, King Alfonso could no his supporters on their own initia- longer contain himself,

"Do you know who I am?" he tive. Ho added that he only know

of the manifesto when he read the cried with Royal wrath, and in bad German, "I am an Admiral of the news in the paper.

declaration Fleet in your Navy, a General in a Colonel of your. for Uhlans and your Guards, and,.

If the text of the

was fully approved by King Al-Your Army, fonso the principal reason

denying that he had authorised anally, I am a King. So you had

been better look out for yourself."

Its appearance must have

his anxiety not to embarrass the French authorities.

Condition of Hospitality. The condition under which hos- pitality is accorded to political exfles is that they should not use the country of their residence as a base for political action against their own country.

GRETA GARBO

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