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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-10-03, Page 3Report is Spread I3r tain Prepares To Abandon Irak i Rhineland is Sorry to Lose British Troops Government Believed -to Cori. • template Surrendering Mandate to League EGYPTIAN EXAMPLE •Support May Be •Given King • Feisul s Ambitions at Geneva LonCon. "Phat the Labor G.overn- iuent has decided to relinquish British control. of the Kingdom of Irak is • clearly the #explication of a report for 'Warded by the Colonial Office to the mandates commission of the League of Nations, just made public here, acrd there is inferential connotation of this hi a responsible quarter. The British report states baldly and without qualification the reasons why Icing Faisal and all sections of opin- ion iu Irak desire to see the British mandate terminated. No compensat- ing reasons are adduced 'by the Col- onial •office as to why the British should .remain In Bagdad and continue garrisoning the country against the wish of the inhabitants. ' British Bayport will be given to Irak's request for urexnbership in the League of Nations this year. Such membershap would automatically ter- minate the British mandate. Irak'e appeal for membership hi the League was refused last year. by the Conservative Government, largely for the reason that a similar request by Egypt had been turned clown, and it was felt that to support Irak's league membership, while denying Eger pi% would enrage Egyptian nationalists. For the same reason the Egyptian de - mend for independence could not he refused if Great Britain at the same time was preparing to clear out of Irak. This situation has been changed by the recently drafted Anglo-Egyptian treaty, stili.to be ratified, and for'have had such pleasant associations. [hese and other reasons it seems clear Life Less Colored that Labor has decided to bring the The troops, likewise, have grown expensive adventure in Mesopotamia fond of 'Wiesbaden with its charming lo an end and clear out. open-air cafes, its bands, cabarets and • It is generally thought here that the gardens. They realize that back in British will retain Basra, with troops Aldershot they will miss the warm, stationed there as a protection for entertaining life of Wiesbaden. Anglo -Persian oil fields and pipe lines. A young Scottish artilleryman sum- med up the situation admirably from Ms angle. He said; His Majesty Will "It is much cheaper to have a sweet - Many Affecting Scenes at Railway Stations When, Tommies Entrain for Home Wiesbaden, G.erinany.--Tbe powers rx that ove' the soldiers of the world have made Germany rejoice and Gret shed weep, English "Tommies," who for three years have bean" "stationed this quaint old German city and have .now started their trek homeward, are leaving behind many fvauleins with heavy hearts. Three years have fostered many ro- mances. There have not been many marriages because the authorities. have frowned upuu the soldiers mar- rying while on duly. Fifty-two . Bri- tish" soldiers, however, will return to England with German wives, many of whom cannot speak English, When Mark Was Cheap In the early days of the occupation when the nark was heavily inflated and Tommy's wages represented a Princely income the champagne flow- ed freely and the Soldiers ate of the fat of the land. Many of them mar- ried and supported their wives in a lavish scale while the inflation lasted. Disapproval of such marriages by the military authorities did not lessen the rush to the marriage altar hall' so fast as the mark's return to a solid footing and Tommy's sad realization that he could not afford a wife on his wages. The tearful scenes at the station as each contingent departs demonstrates the affection to while the residents of Wiesbaden and especially the 'frau• leias hold "their former enemy. Some of the last scenes between sweet- hearts recall the departure ot the sol- diers to light in the recent war. The Germans are glad to have the Rhineland evacuated but they regret that the evacuation takes away the friendly Tommies with whom they heart here than back home. They Paste, Quiet Winter nialce you save more money, anti when you take a German girl out she al- wa3's wants to pay her share." Kin°' Will Not Be Permitted to Shoot—Reads' Detec- tive Thrillers First Canadian L ndon.—The King is fighting his way back to health on a literary diet of detective yarns and thrilling my- stery stories, The Daily News re- Published By Geographical Ported the health of His Majesty is Section Defence efence - extrardinarily reassuring after his DepartmentfDe long siege" of illness last winter. At Sandringham, the royal coun- try estate in Norfolk where he is spending his summer holidays with the Queen ,the Daily News says the King's existence is simple. There are none of the great house parties which in former days featred the lire at his country seat, enol there is no indication the King will be permitted to engage in his tavorite pastime of shooting. His physicians felt it would not be wise to make undue demands `on. His 1\1ajesty's reserve strength. and he enlist prepare to spend the coming winter and future winters living very quietly and carefully, Air Map Issued Everyone Wi'►es Bien a Speedy Recovery AGRICULTURAL HEAD DURING CONVALESCENCE. During convalescence after recent illness, Hon. John S. Martin, Ontario's minister rf agricult lug his prize Wyandottes, of which he has several thous and on his farm. He can't participate in Explorer of Arctic 1 A German View i ells of CeSS O I See New Alliance Forming in Of Great Ice Cap MacDonald's Trips r+^a Newagen, Me,—Discovery of the ice cap which now covers an area of 700 square miles, with a maximum depth of 3000 feet betweeu Frobisher's 13ay and Hudson Strait, long sought by na- tural scientists, was recounted by Lieutenant Commander Donald , B. MacMillan, on his return from his sum- mer's arctic trip on the schooner Bow- doin. The cap was estimated to have at one time exteuded over 4,000;000 square miles. a• . Commander MacMillan said this was believed to be the last of the. ice caps of the Pleistocene period, which covered all of New England, ex-. cent the tip of what is now Mt. Wash- ington, to a depth of 5000 feet, over a period of 35,000 years. xe said the ice cap actually consisted of two caps, one of approximately 400 square miles and th"e other of 300 square antithesis leading to open warfare? At miles. Four glaciers were diseharg- the burning center of this battle any ing from its into the bay, all flowing accord seems most difficult if not im- north. possible. This center is made up of The ice capis "receding" according South America and the Far East. to Commander MacMillan thus. set - "The "Tire Anglo-American harmony sen- tling a long disputed question. Photo- timent may be left out of considera- graphs of the ice cap were made by tion. Far more intense in effect is the the expedition for comparison with interlocking of capital between New other photographs to be nxade on next York and London. In England it is summer's expedition to definitely es now so close that the electrical, the tablish that the ice cap is growlug - Britain's Labor Government will throw .both France and Fascist Italy overboard and start a violent flirta- tion with America, according to some German editors, who declare that Bri- tain can no longer bear "the load of French imperialism," and believe that the key to world politics in the im- mediate future lies in harmony be- tween. Britain and the United States. 'Rival naval strength, however, is not the critical factor in this matter, says meat, a note expressing the vrety the Berlin Vossische Zeitung, but bust- the time had come when it would he xie'T rivalry, and g adds: desirable to resume the conversations ins bitter fight g the l e interrupted several months ago by against the dollar rages inall the the departure o1 the Soviet Plenipo- fluen markets. Everywhere the in- e tee departure to e o f tevs fluence of the pound declines while It is thought possible a meeting that o1 the dollar rises. Even in the may be arranged between Right Kang British Dominions London shrinks be -Arthur Henderson, British foreign fore the financial power of New York. Secretary, and a representative of the "Is an accord possible here, or is this Soviet Government while Mr. Hender- son is at Gneva. September Storm Is. Almost Fatal Australian Boys Caught in Blizzard , Are Almost Frozen -- Reads Like Northern Canada Story; Melbourne, Australia.• ---Caught la a blizzardthat covered the ground with a mantle of snow two feet sleep, two brothers, Albert and William Mills, aged respectively 11 and 14 years, wandered for four days among the foothills of the Australian Alps in the Mitta Mitta district before they found their way back to their camp.. Owing to the intense cold bald, their plodding hour after hour through snow and water, the boys' feet began to show signs of frostbite, but with great forti- tude they kept on walking. It took them almost a day to cover a anile on the last stage of their struggle to reach safoty They are now in the Melbourne hos- pital suffering from frostbitten feet. Those of the younger boy are the more severely affected and it is thought possible that he may lose one or more of his toes. The boys, who had been staying with an uncle at Lightning Creek, in the Tallangatta distrit, travelled on horseback to a spot known as Wom- bat Creek, 12 miles from Lightning Creek, where they Pitched their camp ure, enjoys feed- for a holiday, spent in shooting and election campaign walking over the hills. After a few days snow began to fall, and, afraid l of being snowed -in the boys decided Britain Renews to return to then uncle's place. Their horses, however, had wandered off and Soviet � vert gyres could not he found. They set out on foot for a point six miles from the camp, where they were to have been Note Sent to Norwegian Gov- picked up by a friend in his motor eminent for Moscow car.' Nightfall came and found then "bushed." The blizzard had ceased, Delivery but it was followed by a thick hill fog LONDON TAKES LEAD which blotted out everything. Cold and weary the boys gave up hope of continuing the journey and snuggled London,—Great Britain took new steps toward resuming oommercial into the shelter of a hollow tree. and diplomatic relations with Soviet Three more days of wandering and Russia. The British Government sent suffering from hunger, cold and expos - to the Norwegian Government for ure were spent by the boys in search transmission to the Rusiau Govern- of a camp, which they finally found, though it was deserted and contained no food. They were found the fourth day by the friend who was to have picked them up in his motor car their first day out from the camp. Ottawa.—The first air map ever chemical, and a portion of the metal cede the Russian desire for rmme smaller. industry word: with Amerian capital. compiled in Canada was published by Next year the party will "stake' cede tothextmeut of ambassadors be On the other laud; English loans to fore questions in dispute were taken the geographical section of the De- with roc partment of National Defence recent- edge of the ice tip. The Russian ambassador return• ly ed to his post in Paris. some 47-0 silhons oniv • The question has been in abeyance The map, drafted for the use of air pilots and navigators, covers that see- since then. A handed by M. don of the air sail west extending structure Bot1i are Islnce evsky to noteMr. Henderson said from Montrealnas far ~first as Morris Ure English Tour Germany that Mr. Henderson's declaration that burg, Ont•, and is the first coversheet'of a M world -market crisis does to the d ble showed that series which will eventually cover the Tierhn—laonu.n lug loan capacity of Lutope and was unveil entire route from Rimouslci, Que., to Windsor, Ont. All detail which is of no importance to the pilot has been omitted, and only .those features included which will aid him in finding leis way about the country from the air, The first draft, an expermieutal map, shows airports, emergeuy land- ing fields. ground elevations wooded and cultivated areas, power lines, wireless stations, and magnetic varia- tion. On the back of the sheet ap- pear plans of the airports and sea- plane bases occurring along the route. Deadlocked on August 1 Mr. Henderson and Ambassador Dovgalevsky, who came to Loudon from Paris for the purpose, began preliminary conversations fo rthe re- sumption of trade and commercial re- lations and the renewal of diplomatic services on July 29. They reached a deadlock on August 1 when Great Britain refused to ac- •Unemploymen in Britain Manchester "The Policy -Holder": Unemployment as an industrial dis- ease is not confined to this country tior to any country, not excepting Rus- sia. Unemployment is world-wide. It Is a sign that either we are dissipat- ing capital already created, or else we are railing to reale sufficient new capi- tal, In England, we do both, The un- productive expenditure of all classes Corms au initial check on the creation of new capital. An das fast as new capital is created, too large a pronor- ti7n of it goes down the sewer of bogee or ill -managed outk cairns the outermost cap,so that explorers in future years can determine with ac- America, which before the World War stood at 751 million pounds, are now curacy the rate of recession or ad „Moreover both couix + les for a hun- vancement. - dred years and more ,rave had the same economic • conscious of facing an impending eclin- travel bureaus re r. the port indications of an increase of 30 of op erica Se per cent. over 1928 in the number ofon English toueisit visiting Germany. The number of grorp trips already an- nounced is 20 per cent. greater than last year. The urst month of the Ber- lin season attrt.cted 3,512 American visitors. Alleged Slavery In African State Commission Named to Investi-, gate Conditions'of Labor in Liberia Geneva.—Liberlan delegate Sottile notified the League of Nations assem- bly sixth commission recently that the United States had agreed to ap- point a delegate on a commission to investigate slavery and forced labor in Liberia. Liberia, the little republic in Africa founded for the benefit of freed slaves is now the scene of large operations by American rubber companies. It is charged that certain American con- cerns are taking advantage of native labor. Tho commission to investigate forced labor will include, in addition immediate resmnption of dip oma'xo to a member from the United States, services was impossible i one named by Liberia and one by the closely knit resources the British GovernmentLeague of Nations. ing or unable to agree to the restore - Open sides long been an eagerness n tion of normal relations betweeu the both sides to forestall n obviate any two countries. open conflict between London and Referred to Soviet Chiefs New York financially, Neither land The note added that Russia would can afford to keep up the costly ! nsidera- have to devote specialnew co tion to the question and that the coni- stane is like a missariat for foreign affairs would ap- ply for instructions to the Central Executive Committee •of the U.S.S.R. Grain Mixing Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. Cons.) : (By au amendment to the Grain Act pass- eco at Ottawa last session grain mh- ed enterprises. The ing in grades 1, 2 and 3 was abolished. IThe wisdow of this amendment is ratiital surviving this risk is swooped questioned in the West). If any farm - upon by state authorities who levy I or could reasonably epect that year death -duties without the slightest en - 'after after• year be would produce nothing ciuii y as to toxer the heir to the 'I but 'top -grade wheat he could logicai- capltal is going squander it or con - iv oppose mixing in the standard serve it—ixideed, the state promptly ;- grades, for without mixing he could sets the example of sgaanderirrg all i expect the top grades to run a little it an collar from him. To use a Iran- ., to the maximum of the grade chant expression of Mr. Willis of Nor- and eomma,ud a slightly higher price. wick, there is no problem in ahem- But the fact is that for four years the ployment: there is only ignorance' cars of No. 1 wheat have been con- spicuously scarce. Last year the crop, as Mr. N. M. Paterson told the Saskatchewan Commission a few days ago, was little better than a No. 5, be- cause ot the frost damage in the grow- ing season. When there is so much low-grade wheat to be bandied un- doubtedly the producer can market it to somewhat better advantage if mix- ing is permitted than otherwise. All the substitutes for the mixing process that have been suggested would not serve to create a worthwhile market' Lor some of the wheat that now Is mixed mist sold. I , The primary class in punning could uta.-.,.r�Tlti *,. dress is roc small-•- Coals ludo the $50,000,000 merger of s, . it's ;art !r. lit!" yeast and baling-poiviior firms, with Barfly-- ' tit;^!nw to give you couvul• . a view to saying something, about rals- s4orzs trying to get fie it thoitytr. Ing all that dough, What 'Rower does a shoemaker gen- erally like?—Lady's slipper. struggle What —Agate, for supremacy." precious door? Keeping Up the Friendly Relations Nothing has been heard on the Rus- sian side since tlteu. Parity Ottawa Journal (Cons.): In two years Great Britain has reduced mili- tary bills by $23,000,000; the United States has increased hers by $117,- 000,000. 117;000,000. This year the United States is spending $194,000,000 more than. Britain on her army and navy—"at a time," to quote Mr. Hoover, "when there is less real clanger of extensive -- --- disturbances to peace than at any m Buie in more than half a. century."— Cancer entury."" - Cancer TreatinThe most sceptical Congressman will Centres Proposed figures that Britain needs to be watch - i find it difficult to prove from these ^_____ led closely for fear that she might Dr. Gordon Richards Sug- grab the Panama Canal and seize New Yak and San Francisco some dark gests Five Establishments night. Across Canada kwy :a Winnipeg. --Placing of four or five centres across Canada devoted exclu- sively to treatment of cancer, was ad- vocated by Dr. Gordon Richards, of Toronto, before the Manitoba Medical Association cony ration here recently. He said these centres are specially needed as the life of a patient de- pended almost entirely upon the de- gree of skill exercised in the first treatment by radium. Such centres should be staffed with men who could be trusted to do work of high standard. He declared that the greatest danger attending use of radium now was that it might be used by someone lacking the necessary skill and experience, with consequent di- rect harm; or, what was worse, failure to obtain success where success was possible, Possible location for the comer in- stitutes would be Vancouver, Calgary or Edmonton, Regina or Saskatoon, innipeg, Toronto, Mo*.treal and Hall - fax. •-.rr—n�rllj INTERESTING f✓IGURES IN EUROPEAN POLITICS Dost thou love liteiat henIshdosnot t Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain and -Aristide Briaed, French reinter, squander time, to vital Fratilciin, photographed at the Quai tl'Arsay, French foreign office in Paris, receaitly, life Is made af. Be j Reggle--"Algy and I entertained a utast reader lawst evening." "ism Sharpe -•--"\teat an tminterest, ing evening he must have Spent." Italian Sets Balloon Record Brescia, Italy, — Captain Stoll -L eg- nani recently established a new Rai - Ian balloon record by remaining in the air twenty-seven hours. The pre• vlous record was twenty-one hours.