The Archive · 1938

Delaware Valley

President Roosevelt and Crown Prince to Attend — Wilmington, Del., June 26 — Dr, Wollmar Filip Bostrom, Swedish

Minister to the United States, announced here today that Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden would arrive here today in the s, Kungs-holm to take part in Monday's opening ceremonies commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the New Swedish Valley settlement in Delaware.

The Minister said he feared the Crown Prince would not be able to appear at the opening ceremonies however, as he is suffering from a painful but not critical recurrence of a kidney ailment. The Crowa Prince's son, Prince Bertil, will deputize for his father if the Crown Frince has not recovered by tomorrow.

President Roosevelt left Washington for here tonight to take part in the What Happens When Mine is Exploded A geyser of 150 feet caused by the explosion of a Chinese mine in the Yangtze River near Ankimg.

The mines are brought to the surface by nets used by Japanese minesweepers and then fired a by machineguns to explode them,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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