8 It is learned that the report that the Suez Canal company contemplates a reduction of dues for ships Proceeding through the canal is The Government of the Union of South Africa has accepted the fender of £060 a year submitted by the millionaire sportsman, Com. mander Glen Kidston, " for th transport, of diamonds' from Alex ander Bay 40 Cay town, 'The Secretary, of State for the Colonies, Lord Passfield, has, with the concurrence of the' Treasury, appointed Sir Sydney Armitage Smith to undertake a mission to the Leeward Islands and to St. Lucia, Princess Mary Countess of Harewood, speaking at the annual meeting of the Girl Guides Association at' the Imperial headquarters on April 22, announced that there Were now 560,000 guides in the British Isles, an increase of 40,000 since a year ago.
Morphine valued at $500,000 has been seized in New York by Customs officials. The drug is reported to have been, discovered in, packages marked "cotton goods" landed from a German Tiner.
A new and strong eruption is re-from the island voleano Huge masses of ashes jerater ig enveloped in wre streaming out of the felouds, "The inhabited istrict of the island is, however, so far not Hundreds of thousands of acres of barren desert will be converted to smiling orchards and farms by the" construction of the giant 'Boulder Dam on the Colorado River, for which Mr, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary' of the Interior, signed a '$49,000,600 contract on April 20.
The Academy of Sciences an-hounces that it is organising and sending out in-the course of the present year 40 scientific expeditions ous parts of the Soviet Union if Siberia, Kusakistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia, he political crisis in "Iceland's capital Reykjavik is apparent! suming a revolutionary Although the Danish government ouring to minimise the seri-onsness of the situation, it seems that the autonomist movement on the. island has exploded in tumultudemonstrations in front of Government House at Reykjavik whi the students in the capital's univers~ ity have unanimously carried a resolution demanding the island's complete independence and the estab ment of a Republic, Mr, William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, replying to in the House' of Commons on April 21, said he had no suggesting that recent strandings of ocean going vessels in the around Southampton and of Wight were due to uncharted obstructions. Nor, id, was he} fare of any dangers to navigation in these waters which were un-Anown to salle Banknotes oxgregating 8,000,000 000 Marks issued during the 'German occupation of Belgium and for years past. stored in the vaults of the Bank of Belgium, are now being round into palp in the presence o igh officials of the Belgian. state bank' and the German Reichsbank, Whose. presence was stipulated the German-Belgium treaty "con eluded in connection with the Young Plan and providing the redemption of these, notes by the Reich. The transport of the notes to the paper mill and their destruction ave being <imdertaken under heavy guard.
A. large part of the Belgian press is conducting a campaign for the "opening of "negotiations. with Holland for the conclusion of customs union pact along, the lines ofthe German-Austrian agreement and project. Tt is pointed out in the™-papers' that both countries recently' joined the North-Europe Customs agreement embracing, the Scandinavian states. As both Belgium as. well free' trade rather than to high Protection, a customs, union would Present no insuperable practical stacies. Besides, it would Pher strengthen the movement for the destruction of the present high <tarift walls and for' closer cooperation between the countries of The noted Liberal leader, Sir John Simon, speaking at London University on April 21, said it was the paramount duty of the British people fo make a close study of the Indian robiem. Pledges had been given the Indian people to which every Party was committed and from which no one would dream of draw-Ing back. "But before any one could usefully consider alterations to the resent -very complicated constitu.
ional structure of India, they must study patiently what it was, because whatever the new constitution. fal plan—ard he trusted it would be an ampler and more generous jan—it must inevitably be super-Imposed on the existing foundations.
Patliament's approval of the governments bill Tnerensing the gal percentage of alcohol in beer taken as a first sign of the ap-Ti'Finland which bad led toa star raching breakdown of prohibition
of affairs similar to that in the United States and to a strong popular movement for the complete speal of at least-n drastic amend-of the prohibition law.
After consultations several political "leaders King Boris of Bulgaria called on former Minister Zankow to form a new! Cabinet which may at least_make the necessary preparations for new] general elect Despite competition of well-known men artists, women have won both silver and bronze medals offered for first time at the Spring exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists. Miss Sylvia Gosse, daughter of the Into Sir Edmund Gosse, well-known author, won the silver' medal, and Miss ' Dorother Sharp the bronze medal, 'The delegates to the annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association on April 24 -elected as their President Mr. Harry Chandler, the Publisher the "Los Angeles Times."
Bucharest was put into a state of great alarm when the historic bells of the metropolitan cathedral suddenly started pealing. They are only rung on the outbreak of war or the death of the sovereign. The wildest rumours of war with Russia or the demise of King Carol spread throughout the city like wild fire, Soon huge crowds were asse led in front of the church awvetully awaited an oficial authorities found out what was behind the matter and everything dissolved into, laughter, it being discovered that lunatic had: somehow gone up to the bell-tower and was tolling the bells for his own amusement The Soviet planning committee is studying proposal erection lof a number of big electrical power works in Eastern Siberia. A_special commission has been formed for cluding the well-known—specialist, Professer Alexandrow besides a number of prominent engineer:
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