Speaking to-day at a luncheon given at the Savoy Hotel by the Government: in honour of. Captain Sir George Wilkins and the Note wegian Lieutenant Eielson, whd recently flew across the North Pole, the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, recalled the prophecy of the Arctic explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, that the future regular route from Europe to America would pass over the North Pole—Reuter, Loxnox, June 7—The House of Commons today passed: the second' reading of the Rating Valuation Apportionment Bil. after rejecting, by 308 votes to 140, Mi. Phill Snowden's amendment—Reuter,
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