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Danzig

SUBMARINE DISASTERS

AND THE STEPS THAT CAN BE TAKEN TO RESCUE CREWS

OR MANY years ex- with water until it is at a level periments in the about half way up the bag with rescue of

members of the crew standing. persons from sunken submarines

The crew then charge their bage with oxygen until the have been carried out by pressure inside and out is about various countries. The the same. American Navy uses 2

Placing the clip over the nose

"diving bell," and Britain and mouth to the mouthpiece, has the Davis Submarine they then begin breathing, Escape Apparatus.

whereupon the hatches nre Three years ago it was report: float to the surface of the water, opened fully and is possible to ed that Germany Was not neglecting the problem

and

had carried out a number of

experiments.

As the pressure of the water decreases upon coming near to the surface, so is it possible by The most ingenious invention means of an automatic exhaust was designed not only to rescue inside the gas bags.

valve to decrease the pressure the men from the sunken sub- marine, but to provide them the gas bag can be used as a On the surface of the water with a boat when they reached the surface.

A steel boat was built, bottom up, into the deck casing of a submarine.

This boat did not flood when the submarne dived and access was had to it from the inside of the pressure hull proper by means of an emergency hatch,; When below water, the boat was A report from Berlin suggests that turned the right way up,

released, shot to the surface and

Herr Hiller may have decided to

Another device considered by postpone any netion over Danzig the Germans has the develop until after the Nuremberg rally in ment of the system of letting September, though he may then de-surface vessels know the where- mand that it be handed over to Ger-abouts of a unken submarine,

many.

ir this report is confirmed events, it probably means

spisode, involve him in war.

by that the

Danzig! Is a town with a pre- dominantly German population, but it lies at the mouth of Poland's only outlet

statesmen made it a free city,.

Danzig has also to be considered

Hongkong.

in the context of Nazi military

A large tank fitted with a ambitions. After the

rape of submarine conning tower was Czecho-Slovakis the Nazis were used for the purpose of schooling able to dominate the whole Poland's long western and southern submarine arm of the China of officers and men attached to the

addition of the

frontiers. The Memelland to East Prussia made it Fleet.

possible for greater

Donzig.

them to threaten

the

life-belt.

When

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Cope, 1331 by tušel Iustare Bradicale,

AV ARANCE TALES

By Lichty

SUMMER

HATS JUST A PIC

•·PARISSE

"If Madam cares to wait, tho salesgirls should be done trying on the now models vory shortly!"

the Queen

meets Mrs. Roosevelt

The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt will make a brilliant pair. We think the conversation will be. prolonged....

REPORT ON THE ROYAL VISIT FROM LONDON'S NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT DON IDDON

New York. meet the King and Queen.

two First there is Lord Tweeds-Hull, gentle and white-haired----

Secretary of State Cordell topics in the town just muir, Governor-General of man behind the international now; one is the World's Fair;

THERE are only

on...

coming.

Down Broadway

we are YES,

men of

Official Greeter PINALLY Mr.

will

Grover

Fuehrer has realised that the Danzig SOME time ago, Italian ship the other well, it goes like this: Canada, a tall, lean Scotsman, trade pacts--and his wife will question is not simply one of the yards were experimenting on a "Yessir," says the man with the who has turned his agile mind also spend considerable time right of a few thousand Germans to submarine lift in which the yellow shoes, peering at the from creating mystery stories us with the King and Queen. Mr. enter the Reich, but that it is a highly man to be rescued entered a dissolving ice in his highball John Buchan ("Thirty-Nine Hull, one of the most popular complicated issue involving far-water-tight steel cylinder which glass, "I guess we are all set for Steps" and the rest) to govern-modest, not unlike the King in men in his country, is quiet and

reaching econohle and political con- connected with a life device fitted

the King and Queen. Geel what ment administration. siderations, and that if he attempted to the bottom of the submarine. bergh's will be nothing to it.

temperament and demeanour. a reception they'll get. Lind-

Lord Tweedsmuir is, they will | Then there are Mr. Roosevelt'à to settle it in the dictatorial spirit This was raised to the surface (We'll all go haywire."

tell you in Canada, the most other Cabinet Ministers, the which he showed over Czecho- by means of a steel cable and the Round the bridge tables the popular Governor-General that Justices of the Supreme Court, Slovakia it might, unlike the Czech lift was afterwards returned to women chatter. They're such Dominion has ever had. the Generals and Admirals-all

the submarine for another man. a nice couple. So natural. I'm And there is his charming and the distinguished

sure they'll like us." At the talented wife-a very gracious Washington. village crossroads, in the great lady. They will entertain the British Ambassador Sir Ronald department stores of the cities, King and Queen-at Rideau Hall, Lindany and his American-bom to the sen, and any Great A SUCCESSFUL demonstra-the people are talking-"they the Governor's residence in wife Lady Lindsay, too, Power with control of Danzig would tion of the Davis Submarine tell me the King's an expert ten- Ottawa-a fine old house with have an important role during be able to strangle Polish trade. Escape Apparatus was held in favourite colour is blue-I saw.

nis player. yes, the Queen's splendid grounds.

the visit, Recognising these facts, the Allied 1984, at the Naval Dockyard in it in the paper."

Then there is Mr. Mackenzie Tall and angular, a

man of King, Canada's Prime Minister, few words, Sir Ronald, is the In the buses and the subways, who will accompany their stage version British Ambassa at the street corners, and in the Majesties throughout the visit, dor come to life, and the parties skyscraper offices the talk goes including the trip to the United at the British Embassy are the

the King and Queen are States. He is a bachelor and most glittering in Washington.

sportsman.

In New York the King and “ Most of the Canadian arrange- Qucon will meet stocky, dynamic ments of the tour Mr. Mackenzie Mayor LaGuardia, a dark, in- excited. King planned personally. tenso little man whose brooding There has, after all, A description of the Davis part of Poland's northern

Then there are the mayors face lights up with laughter frontler as well. But one link was Submarine Escape Apparatus never been a state visit by the (and their wives) of all the unexpectedly as he shoots out a missing in the chain. That link was and of the drill in connection King and Queen to Canada and Canadian citics and towns the wisecrack. It is quite certain he America. They are subjects for If the Nazis had control of Danzig after the Poseidon Disaster by an speeches, history book people, to industrialists and, of course,

with its use was given shortly photographs and articles and King and Queen will visit, the will wisecrack with the King.

chiefs of police, the judges, the EN they could reduce Poland to economic officer of one of the Australian this side of the world. Now we all the members of the Canadian

and political vassalage. With Poland submarines Oxley and Otway. are going to see them-nothing Cabinet. impotent they would greatly minimise

less than a personal appearance. the risk of a war on

The apparatus is manufac- two fronts. They could then give their sole at-tured by Seife Gorman, the well-of her Dominion status, gets the Of course, Canada, by virtue tention to the West, and neither known diving engineers, and was lion's share of the visit, but. France nor Britain could view the brought into use in 1929. It is there is no hard feeling about future with anything but apprehen- now employed throughout the that. Only right and proper. velt and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt past, bowing his supple, imma-

In short, what is at stake at the

submarine service; each mem-But their Majesties are spending will play the part that Lord and culate person to other royalties, mouth of the Vistula is not only ber of the crew being provided Ave whole days in the United Lady Tweedsmuir will enact in to dukes and duchesses, to ocean

Mr. the future of Danzig

States-Washington, New York, Canada.

Roosevelt has flyers and scientists. He is well but whether with the equipment. the Nazis are to

the World's Fair, worthy of probably more personal charm rehearsed. When the King and be in a position whence they will be able to dominate out in the service in 1980. It the Hyde Park country all will lenders put together.

The first trials were carried ranking as a separate city, and that all the rest of the world's Queen visit his Fair his cup will Europe by fear of their

be brim full. Was claimed then that the be visited. Good times are un- Ho radiates it.. Ho. is the So, of course, will the Fair, for If Herr Hitler has taken a deci-apparatus would be effective (doubtedly ahead.

master of the happy phrase, the day when their Majesties from 300 to 400 feet.

Which part of New York-the boyish and irrespressible the visit it will be the highlight of that decision may well be a crucini Poseidon Disaster was the first wonder city of this hemisphere perfect host. There is no doubt the exposition. After that. one for peace or war. It is true that occasion-on-which-the-escape just a little. Now what New fascinate the King and Queen.

--they will visit is troubling us at all that he will completely all else will be anticlimax.

Well, there you have the more accompanied by a threat which may

Yorkers would like is a grand He is looking forward with important personalities, and, we mature in the autumn but by that] The apparatus is fashioned parade through the streets of tremendous enthusiasm to en-have told you what the people time the situation will be very much the same as a gas mask. Manhattan, preferably down tertaining them in the White are thinking and saying. So all Britain and France to give way to and is strapped to the body by dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose- which led The gas bag hangs over the chest Broadway.

House-spick and span and that remains now. Is for the visit The King and Queen, Presi-decorated for the occasion. threat last September.'

to get under way and that, as The problems of Danzig is un-means of belts round the neck volt, in an open car, gliding vialt will be the crowning event

For the President's wife the we say, "won't be long: now," doubtedly one which ought to be and waist, leaving the head and slowly past the massed thou of her life as First Lady of the WORM GULPED FOR settled by negotiation, but in view body entirely free for movement, sands, through a blizzard of United States. Mrs. Roosevelt Government's past Goggles can be worn and there torn-up ticker tape and a storm Is something of a wonder woman. record, any offer of Its services must is a Pinch" for the nostrils. At of telephone book confettiShe writes a daily newspaper

50 CENTS Inevitably recall the Runcitnon mis-

Turlock, Cal. sion to Czecho - Slovakia and the the base of the bag,

They'd like that, though there'll

column, lectures three times a · Psychiatrists who diagnosed the calamitous course of events which small cylinder of oxygen is fitted be no grumbles if it can't be week, holds Press conferences, recent nationwide goldfish swallow-

arranged.

ing epidemic as being due to “exbibl- with chemical purifiers are also

makes a dozen speeches, a month, tionism" overlooked the cash motive.. Any solition of the Danzig question in use.

Bachelor Premier opons: exhibitions,, and lays Sammy Edgar, hight school student, cornerstones during her lunch held up an angleworm and offered to PERHAPS you would hour, fles almost everywhere, swallow it for 50 cents.: Tea of his like to know about the and still has time to look after anal by chipping in 10 cents each schoolmates quickly · financed, the compartment is gradually flooded leading personalities ho will her husband and family.

and the worm went down...

sion.

strength.

alon

not to force the issue

armed

now,

"All The Fun Of The Fair" the postponement of any action is apparatus was demonstrated.

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must be frealy reached" "without threat or pressure and it must do full, The servico drill is on the Justice to Poland as well as to Ger" following lines: The submarines

niany.

Wonder Woman

Whalen, President of the New York World's Fair. Mr. Whalen will be in his element.

IN the United States Presi- He has held the job of Official dent Franklin D. Roose-Greeter to New York. in the