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OBITUARY

Famed Opera Star Dios

In Poverty

Nome, Apr. 28.

of the The death has occurred famous singer, Lulsa Tetrazzini, fol- lowing a stroke several days ago. Reuter,

the soprano, In November 1037 whose golden volee had earned her a fortune, was reported to be in want. She was so poor that she had to give singing lessons. Two months ago t parnlysed won feared that she wo9 for life.

The famous operatic soprano was born at Florence in 1873 and came of a musical family. She once stated that as a child she perhaps uncon- sciously assimilated the operas which her alster Eva was in the hublt of practising at home. This, she said, wan carried to such an extent that she knew both the words and musle of several operas before she was aware of the fact. Among them "Un Ballo in Mur- were."Faust," chera" and "La Gioconda." This was before she was 12 years old.

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At

that me her voice was a deep con- tralto, Soon afterwards, however, it began to extend upwards until she was able to sing F in alt in 'such The Magic Flute and uperan as "La Sonnambula,

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Her mother was consistently posed to her following her sister Eva's profession, but she was allow- ed to begin studylog of the Liceo Musicale in Florence. She first had to before her sister's teacher who was director, at the proficiency she dis played. For three months she at- tended the Liceo and this was almost all the academic training she had. But after she had left the school her master come to the home

il, the

and con-

tinued to study operas with her. In this way she added to her repertoire "Semiramide," "The Daughter of the

and Regiment"

"Crispino Q In -Comare."

At

Monday,

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ST. ANDREW'S A.D. C. TO PRESENT FOUR PLAYS

The St. Andrew's Amateur Dramatic Club is to present four short playa to-morrow and again on Wednesday at the St. Andrew's Church Hall. Here is a scene from "Lobelia Scores," with Iris Woolley, Eileen Bliss and Grace Darby-Ming Yuen:

Mysterious Nazi Plane

Lands At Bucharest

Under Secrecy

BUCHAREST, Apr. 28 (Router). A German military plane landed at the aerodrome here this morning.

Two civilian passengers were wel-

tlon.

BUDGET IS HOTLY CRITICISED

Chance Of Resolute Action Missed

Revolt Plot Uncovered

Panama Police Seize Nazi Machine Guns

PANAMA, Apr. 28 (Reuter). -A secret store of arms, includ- LONDON, Apr. 28 (Reuter).ing German sub-machine guns, comed by a number of Germans andA Sound Budget" and "A was seized early this morning by

the police here. the Rumanian Director of Civil Avia-Budget of Delusion" are two of A number of arrests were made but

The plane left for Sofa after half the heading given to leading no details were revealed.

articles in the British press in The police are belleved Rumunion official circles refused jeonnection with the new budget.searching for other similar stores.

Rumours of revolutionary plotting te comment. but according

They reveal the difference of opin-have been current here recently and generally well-informed 'source, the

the zero hour was sald to have been plane brought coples of the German ion held by the press.

set for lust Friday night but nothing White Paper containing "evidence"

happened. of Britain's intentions in Scandinavia.

an hour.

At length her chance came. the Teatro Nicolini in Florence the manager required a singer to take the small part of inez in Meyer- beer's "L'Africaine." He offered her

and an the part, which she accepted, was given a contract for four months,

is being followed by a second en gagement at double the salary. The sequel was engagements all over Italy, Spain, Russia and Soul America. At Rio de Janeiro she was a great favourite.

Instantaneous Success

to a

In November 1007, a Milan agent; ALLIED WAR MACHINE was asked for a light soprano for.

WORKING SMOOTHLY the Covent Garden autumn season. She was recommended and sant

Traviata" one night, her fee being

FROM PAGE ONE £100. Her success was Instan

triumphs, wh

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The heading of "A Sound Budget" was used by the "Spectator" which follows the line of reasoning by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who, the paper says made a fair distribution between borrowing and taxation.

It approves of other taxes with the exception of the raising of the postage rate.

Very Critical

of

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NORWAY CAMPAIGN WILL NOT BE EASY

FROM PAGE ONE

be

April 29, 1940.

A Look Through GOLF WEAR. The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

April 29, 10DO, The recent Imperial Journey to tha Tombs was accomplished without any contretemps whatever. The Emperor had A chair, cart and a horse, so that he could vary his mode of travel, a Majesty is rather a handsome young man, somewhat pale, but with a very intelli- Rent face, The Empress Dowager i A person of extraordinary force, very well preserved, lier features denoting great most striking strength of will. The characteristic of the whole cortego was the irreproachable freshnem of every- thing different from ordinary Orlenial processions. Everything was brand new, or at least newly done up: chairs, carts, harness and accoutrements, the uniforms of the troops, etc., The males and horses were also very elegant. The procession, which numbered more than 10,000 men, had an air of bellllancy and splendour which we are little accustomed to. Thir Ing, the absence of the Imperial family the care of the palace was entrusted to the Governor of the City. Fu Chungtang. and the outer walls were surrounded by Tartar soldiers who lived under tenta.

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The report of the Captain Superinten dent of Palice for 1980, laid on, the table at the Council meeting this afternoon, ON follows:

Bir have the honour to forward for the Information of 15is Excellency the Governor, the Criminal Statistics for the year 1880. They show that 7,401 conos were reported to the Police during the last year, being a decrease of 657 cases. In the subdivision of these cases into and minor serious crimes (so called offences an increase of 437 cases or 18.76 per cent. is found in serious criniew, and a decrease of 1.110 cares or 10.58 per cent. in minor offences. The proportion of convictions for serious crimes is 3 per cent, higher than in the previous years. 2. If the house building and population Increase in the same way that they have done for the last few years, it will be necessary to apply for an increase of the land force.

3. The adoption of telephones instead of the somewhat antiquated magnetic in- struments used for the Police telegraphs Ja under consideration and I propose In the next requisition of Stores from Eng- land to include three standard Poloe alarms of the kind, that they have lately tried in London; they may prove to be serviceable placed at the Clock Tower, the Chinese Recreation Ground, and near the Albany,

W. M. DIANT Captain Superintendent of Poller

25 YEARS AGO

Aniri 29. 1015 The War Office announces that medical

evidence shows that Canadians perished in the recent fighting not from wounds but from poisonous gases employed by the enemy. contrary to the provisions of

the Hague Convention.

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Reuter's correspondent at Athens says that the landing at the Allies in the Dardanulles has stirred public feeling to the utmost depths and great disappoint- ment prevails at Greece pot participat. ing.

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According to a message from Rome the "Messagera" states that the Italian am- bassadors to London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin have been summoned to Rome to

rapidly up the Awo valleys from Oslo, conter with the Government. the Gudbrandsdal and Osterdal.

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The War DMs and the Admiralty an- nounce that after a day of hard ghing the troops were In dificult country, landed on the Galpati peninsula and are thoroughly making good their footing. effectively assisted by the Navy, Tho Lakeri

hundred Ave French have

A telegram is unofficially published in Calro which says that the landing of the Dardanelles under excellent conditions, troops was elected on both sides of the Many prisoners were taken and the forces continue to advance.

Juneous. Next day she was offered hazardous 36 hour journey from the

and n contract for as many seasons

The heading of "A Budget London Swedish frontier by a horse-drawn

Not An Easy Campaign much money-ns she liked.

sledge over the mountains and frozen her. mode

and repulation

We did not expect this campaign to herinkes in central, Norway, relates the Delusion" comes from "The Econom which were repeated in story of the capture of a crew of ist which is very critical,

be easy. Morqtroops are being lant- The Chancellor missed Пn op. the United States, recalled the great three when a German bomber was days of Pattl and Albani. Among

prisoners.. Despite repeated attacks from the forced to land on Lake Imminghem.portunity to introduce the Budgeted supported by anti-aircraft guns. her most famous parts were Violetta, The capture was effected by three which would have served as Gilda and Lucia di Lammermoor. Norwegian peasants and a Custon's resolute netion and would have given south the Germans are still on It is this advance which is of real in 1026 she was one of the first great official to whom the Germans politely the people n chance to demonstrate way from the garrison at Trondheim:

27 for

while the concealed their passionate desire to serve the

not, the surrendered sopranos who consented to sing

importance,

setback

ninor affair broadcasting in England.

peasants covered the airmen with state, says the paper.

of Usually the discussion husband rifles,

the Steinkjer which was a minor The prima donna's first

much The correspondent also tells of Budget is concerned with details and due to the local commander's just!-

to cover was an Italian named Bacelli. At

fable anxiety Rome in October 1920, when she was seeing a low-flying German bomber the totals are generally taken

ground .ps possible towards Trond- 53, ahe married Pietro Vernali, who bumbing

my advanced. railway station and granted.

This year the discussion about heim before the enemy was 32. The wedding presents in machine-gunning the British delach-

The damage at Steinkjer could be cluding gifts from the King and

totals has been taken up, rightly so,

quickly repaired if the main German He describes all the British and continues "The Economist."

forces advancing up the two valleys French troops he encountered as:

are held up. This is the news we being well-armed, well-equipped,

shall be watching for during the next confident and cheerful.

few days,

Queen of Italy, the ex-Kaiser,

Kaiser, the

King of the Belgians and Mussolini. It however, she was grant- May, 1929,

ed a legal separation from her hus band on the ground of incompati bility of temperament

ane

the nt

she

ment.

Many French Alpine troops were on skis,

Position Improves

manage

for

as

NEW C. IN C. FOR CHINA SQUADRON

Miserably Inadequate ***£220,000,000 Is miserably inude- quate. It represents £5,500,000 day but already last month we werel in public since She had not sung

spending £5,000,000 a day. but since her marriage,

in 1932,

The correspondent interviewed Does the Government really wish although she had made her farewell Generat. Carton Dewart at the Brius to belleve that the most of it can

Metropolitan appearance

Bttle Nor-

12 months for for the next Opera House, New York, with Caruso tish headquarters in a

our war effort now only one tenth

FROM PAGE ONE some years before, she returned to wegian cottage.

The General sald the position was more than now.. The Nazis are said the stage

in America. Tetrazzini claimed to have made now much better as the men were to be spending around £3,000,000

and were hppy. In this year on the war. seliling down

London four days after leaving £1,000,000 by her singing, but

Is there any pretence that we can Copenhagen. Reinforcements were arriving in win this war with a smaller effort Promoted Commander in 1916, Ad- explained that she had emerged from their new environment.

miral Layton received the DS.O. in than theirs. money, ale

This forced her to accept Good numbers.

It should be pointed out that in 1918. He reached the rank of Captain with this figure of 23.-in 1922 and in 1933-34 commanded connection anti-aircraft defences and fighter 000,000, the Nazis do not publish HMS. Renown. In May of the latter planes had come into action in the their Budget like we do. One Home year, he was appointed Commodore was of the Royal Naval Barracks, Ports Agure paper suggests that the

1935, พาช Two Bombers Shot Down put out by Dr. Goebbels just to Im-mouth, and in January,

promoted Rear Admiral.

Made a CB. In 1930, Admiral Layton was promoted Vice-Admiral In 1938 and has been.commanding the lat Batlle Squadron and Second-in- Command of the Mediterranean Fleet since.

her retirement because she needed

variety

an engagement to sing at a Boston picture house and vaudeville theatre, sharing in a "four-a-day" programme with acrobats, comedians and talking films.

Allies Sow More Mines Vest Fjord Becomes A New Death Trap LONDON, Apr. 28 (Reuter)-The Admiralty announces that Vest Fjord and approaches have been mined and. that vessels navigating in these areas Instructions from without seeking

Vest-

The German air attacks had greatly diminished since the Allied

war zone.

There had been no raid on Namsos press the world.

The Economist" in olso dissatisfied for four days although on one oc- curion German planes came over on with the methods. a reconnaissance flight at a great height.

Ponal Imposition

General Carton Dewart said that

The taxation proposals bear heavily two German bombers had already been brought down by British figh-only on specific points on which they

are imposed.. ters near Namsos.

NAZI ADVANCE ON TRONDHEIM HELD

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Judgment was given on April 20, in the Osaka Marine Court in the case in which an inquiry was held in to the circumstances attending the stranding and inking of the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Nile of Uwajima in the Inland Sea on January 11. The Court found that Captain King, the pilot on board, wa responsible for the disaster, and wi- pended his certificate for eight months.

10 YEARS AGO

April 29, 1200. The storming of Tientsin by the Weich Fusers and American Marinca during the Boxer rebellion was recalled at a colourful ceremony during a dinner of the Gridiron Club, an organisation at Washington newspaper correspondents, at which President Hoover and Sir Ronald were Ambassador) Lindsay (British guests of honour. To the stirring sizains of new military march by Southe diners were told the entry of the Fuliers and Marines into the city to rescue the beleaguered foreigners, who had walled for weeks almost hopelessly, for the coming of the troops, protected by a barricade of rice and sugar baga; and it was a happy coincidenes that the bags were set in position by a young American engineer who was then plain Herbert Hoover,

Soure's now march will be presented to the Royal Welch Fusillers in London shortly by General Dawes,

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The Grat Zeppelin left Friedrichshafen at dawn this morning for England and flow via Dasle, Besancon and Paris. She passed over Paris at noon and appeared over the Wembley Stadium in London. flying very low, in the middle of the Cup Final. Thla was done by arrangement, the Zeppelin saluting Hayalty at the match.

5 YEARS AGO

April 29, 1935. The assertion that King George of Eng- land clearly warned Germany in 1913 that

Admiral Sir Percy Noble, hus The increases un beer, spirits and been Commander-in-Chief of tobacco are stiff and the increased Chinn Station since 1938. No men-Britain would aid France in the event of postage rates are penal.

tion has been made so far of Sir But the increase of taxation us Percy's new appointment. whole is light.

The new purchase tax le an in-

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teresting newcomer but it is not LITTLE DOING ON

major contribution towards paying for the war.

savings even if all forms of expendi-;

More should be done to increase WESTERN FRONT

the local British or Norwegian nuval to Bangsund across the water ten authorities do so at their own peril.

miles from Namsos. The announcement says:

Naxi Advance Hold Up ture must be brought under control PARIS, Apr. 28 (Router)-An Issued to-day The "Sunday Times" says that the official communique fjorden is mined to northward of a

LONDON, Apr. 28 (Reuter).—A line extending in direction 120 de

British cannot be taxed with states that there is nothing to report High Command

people

No people except some artillery fire and a local grees from Vaeroy Island light, 67 Norwegian degrees 39 minutes north and 12 de- munique says that fighting in eastern put their own consent.

50 heavily. Yet the principle crl-course of which we infleted losses frees 45 minutes east to the main-Norway continues without the Ger-n that position have ever been taxed encounter west of the Vosges in the

mana advancing.

German troops in Oesterdal have tielsm of the Chancellor has been to on the enemy.

imply that he should have asked for reached Roeros.

One ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our troops checked the German more sacrifices and not less.

could destre no better evidence of pushes towards Fordal und Innset,

"The channels to the north-east und to the south of Steinvper Island, and 69 degrees 10 minutes north and 16 degrees 35 minutes east are also mined."

Gorman Warning

Several German planes in the the nation's resolution than the re- Donations to Charitable Narvik district were destroyed by cepilon given British bombers. Others made forced Budget.

ESCAPED CAPTIVITY

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1ast Tuesday's

ANGLO-ITALIAN

TRADE TALKS

And Other Causes

L'

with

EIKKOP TENAO'S FUND Bishop Valtorta acknowledges thanks chenue for $5.00 from Mungret College, Limerick, in favour of Bishop Tchool Fund,

CHINA RED CROSS

a Franco-German war, was made in La Revue de Beaux Mondes to-day by the eminent French diplomat. 14. Maurice Paleolomuo who was the head of the Foreign Ministry Political Department before the War.

- He says that King Georga told M. Paul Cambon in the course of an audience at Windsor, February 1, 1913 that during the vizit of the Kaiser's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, the posibility, of an Austro- Itus) war had been envisaged. At that time the likelihood of intervention by the armies of France and Germany was ad- mitted, and Prince Henry of Prussia asked King George whether Britain would participate.

His Majesty replied: "Yes. Certainty. In certain circumstances."

Prince Henry was astonished and de- clared the possibility of an Anglo-German wer was unimaginable in Berlin.

Hla Majesty-replied: "We are engaged. by honour to remain faithful to our friends"

M. Palcotorue stia reparte a conversa- How between a French opent in Calto in March, 1913. and Lord Kitchener. The French agent said that Lord Kitchener warned the French authorities not to rely upon the ald of the British army which "is excellent for fighting negroes, but which is not equipped for European war."

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The Dianne Quintuplets were one year

The Foreign Auxillary to the National old on Bunday. Red Cross Society of China desires to

LONDON, Apr. 28 (Reuter),The landings, Berlin rndlo to-night warned all German shipping that two large areas off the Estonian coast in the Gulf of Finland are danger zones which German shipping must not enter. The first zone running about miles from west to east and averag- ing eight miles from north to south,, miles through the snow for 17 hours, relations were discussed at an inter-ion of $25 in response to the appeal for

the Estonian came to a villago where they were view between

greatly surprised to find about 130 Foreign

lies directly outside

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port of Baltiskl, which Russia leased from Estonia under the Mutual Assistance Pact signed by the two countries a few months ago,

LONDON, Apr. 28 (Reuter).-It exprean its appreciative thanks to Colonel

is learned that Anglo-Italian trade . B. L. Dowolggin,. n... for his dona-

help to pay the salaries of the forefan Lord Halifax, the doctors previowly supported by the Nor Secretary, and Signorwegian Rellet Committee. This donation men from the destroyer Hardy and Guiseppe Bastianini at the end of the from Colonel and Mrs. Dowbiggin and Miss Anne Dowbiggin, in memory of Dr. number of men from other mer week.

chantships.

Francis, Clark, who died on April 19

“Ambulance Unit For Norway LONDON. Aur. 20 (Reuter),-À British ambulance unit, which was MADRID, Apr. 28 (Reuter)The in Finland, is now on its way to join North-Western Expeditionary miles from north to south, is situated battle of Narvik when they signalled were Interrupted early in Murch at death is announced of the celebrated the

It consists of 20- just east of Kolko Bay and nearly to the British destroyers and were the time of the incident concerning Spanish painter, Hoaquin. Mir, aged Force in Norway.

| 60. | Italian coul ships at Rotterdam. opposite Helsingfors.

The second zone, which is about

Bix miles from west to east and 12

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1940,

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