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.
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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.