Oslow, Feb. 21.
'A. son was born to-day to Princess Martha, wife of the Crown Prince Clay of Norway. Both mother and child are reported to be doing well.
This is the first son and third child of the Norwegian Royal couple who Were married in 1929. There are two daughters, six-year-old Princess Ragnhilg and Princess Astrid who was five in December.—Reuter, onan Rome, Feb, 24.
a great weariness whicl forces him to remain on his back for many hours a day, Pope Pius. XI hopes to attend the General Con gregation of Rites after Easter and meet the assembly In the large salon adjacent to his apartments to read the canonization decree of Father Bobolla, a Jesuit who was martyred Preis tat Foreign Ne ws in Bris of Senator Robert F, Wagner of New York and Senator' Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana has Introduced an anti-lynching bill In the US. Senate.
Over a quarter of Siam's total expenditure during 1037—eslimated at early £10000/00—Is earmarked for Getence, commercial agreement with Cul was signed by Great Britain at] Havana on Frebruary 19, and enters Into force provisionally' from that date, The $15,000.00 U.S. heavy cruiser Vincennes was commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on February 23, under the command of Capt.
Green, The Texas State Senate refused to ratify the child-labour amendment} the Constitution. Twenty-seven States have approved the measure, with 36 required for enactment, Traq and Palestine have just con eluded a commercial accord provid-Ing for an outlet on the Mediteranean Sea for Iraq by the institution of a {ree zone in the port of Haifa, Even hospitals and the Pope's apartments were suddenly black' out during the busiest hour on Fet 22 when emergency sirens prociaimfed anti-air raid exercises in Rome.
Teurono's famous suspension bridge across the Menai Straits, which was opened in 1826, is to be reconstructed Sta cost of £228,000 to ft it for modern traflle requirements, Six new Soviet Russian consulates are to be opened in the tst half of ind, France, Greece and Bulgaria United States.
Tue former Soviet Ambassador to Madrid, M. Rosenberg, will be eng aged in the Soviet Foreign Commissa~ nat after his return to Moscow from Teave.
'A mew "godless" periodical in English, French—and Spanish will be published at Moscow from July Will be richly illustrated and will have "a special supplement for. children.
The Government of Nigeria has notified the Colonial Secretary, Mr. William Ormsby-Gore, of its intention to contribute £75,000 to the British Government towards the cost of Imperial defence.
Italy, ko Germany, will not ate tend the Geneva conference on the distribution of raw materials, will not attend any League of Ulons conference "because she has reason to change her attitude towards the League of Nations."
The standstill agreement in regard to the foreign indebtedness of Ger= man provincial states. communes and public corporations was, with minor alterations, renewed on Feb, 22 for a further twelve months." The Amount of this indebtedness is at pro-Sent approximately 42,000,000 marks.
The Soviet Government has created a new trust for the construction of motor roads similar to those in Ger~ many. The new trust, which will be named "Autosteadstro, allotted an amount of foreign currency for the purchase of road building materials from abroad.
Aw Chief Marshal Sir Edward Ellington was has been appointed Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force, and will be succeeded as Chief of the Air Staff by Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, member of the Air Couneit for Supply and Organization since 1935. The appointment takes effect from September 1.
The German-Polish commercial The US. Senate has approved the nomination of Mr. Paul MeNuth, formerly Governor of Indiana, to be High Commissioner for the Philip= pines in succession to Mr. Frank Murphy, who is now Governor of Michigan, 'The Board of Trade has issued ollprospecting licences covering areas in Derbyshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, "Hampshire, Surrey and Dorsetshire to the' development branch of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Ca. The areas total 638 square miles.
Seven emeers wore Killed and ton others Injured as the result of the explosion of a shell at the Brasschact military camp during exercises. The acers were approaching a 44-Ib, shell which had' failed to explode when "it belatedly detonated.
'The minting will begin in Rome shortly of nickel, bronze and silver coins to be put' into circulation In Bthiopia on May 9 which is the frst anniversary of the congust of Abyss ulla by aly, Silver coins will minted in particularly large quantities this metal is favoured by East= African_natives, The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Ctaude A. Swanson, has revealed that he had asked the Bureau of the Budget to recommend an additional appropriation of $5,000,000. for the construction of a dry-dock at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. It granted, the additional appropriation would bring the total allotment for the project $18,000,000.
'The Radical Soclatist Paris dally, "L'Oouvre," hae been banned in Ger: many for' an indefinite period, Although no reason has been given, its pointed out that "L'Ocuvre" maintained close connections with the Soviet Embassy in Paris and was pecially active in propagating reports of alleged German plans for establish= ing large bodies of troops in Morocco.
The Berlin Secret Police have banned the Importation or circulation of American humourous magazine for the order recently incor orated a number. of editorial tures and the mailing-list of "Life: the name and good-will of which were purchased by Time, Me. for a new picture-magazine.
'The Radical Socialist Paris daily, 'LOcuvre," has been banned in Germany for' an indefinite period, Although "no reason has been given, is. pointed out that "L'ocuvre™ maintained close connections with the Soviet Embassy In Paris and was ¢8+ treaty, initialed on February 13, will pecially active In. propagating resigned on Feb. 22 at Warsav. To paris of alleged "German plans fOr Fomaln in effect for two years, the establishing large bodies of troops {ecay provides for the assing of the Morocco. annual quota the two countries fo 17006000 zlolys, pointed ihe engineer, Me Antone to of exchanges between Soviet Governme which 27,700,000. will be for The post of railway. commissar "for the Por Bastern territory. He tas 'Autired inthe full dress uniform been glen powers to improve the of an Admiral' of the Fleet, King discipline amongst the railway star, George 'VI held the frst Investiture get 8 boiler Wain service inaugurated of his reign at Buckingham Palace and take measures for extending the fon Feb, 24, The cceaslon was an "om. fallway to those parts of Soviet tcr= cial" one. Consequently, the 150 people to whom the King! presented honours all wore either uniform or levee dress.
Following one year's planning, engineers of the Boeing Alreraft Ca, are prepared to build a fleet of four-motored sub-stratosphere trans port planes. Work on two. the planes will begin immediately. The new transports, it was reported, will resemble the Boeing bombing planes built for the United States Army. ftitory in the Far East which are con sidered Important from a military point of view.
Forty American, English and French aviators have organized the "Esea~ Grille Etrangére,"" a private French foreign, legion of the air, under the leadership. of the veteran American pilot, Mr. Hilaire Clu Berne, Head Quarters will be established at Monte Carlo. "The group is already issuing circulars offering the services aviators of the legion to countries all over the world.
New hotels are being built or completed in 31 towns of the RSFSR. This year, hotels are to be opined in Kala, Toshkar-01, Ulan-Udo, Engels, Birobidjan and other towns of the autonomous republics "and regions. 'The largest hotels are being built in Chetiabinsk, Gorky, Yaroslavl and Petrossvodsk. 'The' Soviet People's Commissariat of Municipal Economy of the RSFSR. has allotted $5 mile on roubles for hotel construction. the existence of a Soviet Maginot Line of strongly armed subterranean fortresses extending from the Ladoga Lake, north of Leningrad, to the Black Sea, is revealed by the' Soviet press on the occasion of the nineteenth anniversary of the Red Army, accord ing to a-report published." by the "Petit Parisien" from its Riga cor respondent. Work is now in pro-gre-s to make frontier fortifications in the Ukraine particularly strong.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.