London, Apr. 9.
Sales of American goods to Soviet Russia have declined sharply during the first quarter of 1931, the Unite States Department of" Commerce announces announced that Major-Sir Frederick Sykes, tha mor of Bombay, is going home on leave on April 25 on medical advice. It is learned that Sir Free derick Sykes was faced with the ale ternative of undergoing treatment only obtainable in Europe or of Submitting to an operation, Dr. Heinrich Sabin, former Pres~ ident of the Free City of Danzig, who only a few months aco. driven from that important, post by, the opposition of the Nationalists, was oh April 9 nominated Lord Mayor of the German capital for term of seven yeara by the municipal election committee whose choice Twill undoubtedly be confirmed by ithe city-fathers in their plenary The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's new liner, Reina del Pecifico, the latest masterpiece of British ship-building technique, left Liverpool to-day on her maiden trip South America.
The ship. is luxuriously fitted aroughout in the Spanish style and expected to secure a large share lof the passenger traffic.
Among those travelling by the liner on her maiden voyage is Mr. [William Lewis, the General Mac-Jager of the Company.
"The Pacific 8. N. Company, which, /"as incorporated in 1840, is, now Jcontrolied by the Royal Mail Steam Vacket Company—Through Reuter.
Me, Will Rogers, popular Ameri" jean motion picture' actor, humorist, lecturer and newspaper paragrapher, on April 9 staged a benefit show the survivors of the devas earthquake lent Jose Maria Moncada 'Nicaragua' announced the capital of this stricken republic will remain in desolated Managua. lance of the ait liner Southern Cloud The inquiry into the, disarpen ied on April 10, Tt lence that the Tost plane had carried over 8,000: passengers and. {own 671,000 miles without injury to a single passenger.
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