Berlin, Apr. 22.
"Great Britain's provocation in German South-West Africa" is the main item featured in the "B. Z. am Mittag" today. The newspapers says that London is behind the manceuvre of the British provocation, which is also asserted to have reached "scandalous proportions" in Dar-es-Salaam.
The message is printed significantly above a Vienna telegram concerning the Colonial Congress which will meet in Vienna on May 16, and which states that 25,000 persons will attend and that special celebrations are planned for the golden jubilee of Colonial forces in German East Africa and South-West Africa.—Reuter.
State Department to Rear-Admiral Byrd were issued following the recent announcement by Germany of claims to ownership of 270,000 square miles of Antarctic territory after a four months' expedition to that region. Since the United States previously had informally claimed those areas the U.S. is dispatching Rear-Admiral Byrd to report on the claims to be made in an international conference it was said.
Much attention was being attracted to the substantiation of American claims, Japan has erred "legitimate' claims to the disputed area, since Lieut.-Shirase, J. G. made an expedition to the Antarctic in 1911
—Domei.
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