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been unde; construc: 'The craft has 'sister of the R-101, wh ow 'being built for the Air Ministry. It 'is probable that tests will be made from the air station in Cardigan, Yorkshire, in early spring and the de- ~monstration voyage to the United 'States and return will follow in the early summer, when weather condi- ~.tions probably will be best' for the t * Commander C. Dennis Burney, ember of Parliament; who will com- 'mand the dirigible and under whose supervision the craft is being built by the Airship Guarantee Company, said that the progress is satisfactory, and that, unless some unexpected trouble arises, the R-100 will take to the air very soon. The craft represents a néw epoch in airship building, 'for not only is she the first dirigible of her kind designed for world operation but the work has been undertaken with a view toward commercial success. If the experiment proves successful and financial support is forthcoming fied for a cru 0 {regular Atlantic" air miles an hour can be the air liner will 1 The obtained not be a mercial success. chines, which will be "Trans-Atlantic" type, will be design- ) speed of 104 miles will not only permit a service tobe opened but also will make the ships considerably safer, diminishing the rolling effect in the air. = - At the same the increased speed will make the ip better able to withstand the vertical gusts of wind which partly crippled the German divigible Graf Zeppelin in her flight to the United States. ; The R-100 will be driven by six 700- horsepower Rolls-Royce engines car- 1ied in three separate engine cars, suspended from the hull. Sufficient fuel will be carried for the ship to an hour, which Christoplier Columbus, flagship of PASSENGER PLANE FROM MIAMI TO WEST INDIES: e planes which inaugurated passenger the Pan-American airways, one of tb service to Havana and then on down to the West Indies to San Juan. ; London Hopes Restriction on "Non-Preferred" Migrants 'May Prove Benefit London. -- The Canadian Govern: ment's decision to restrict "non-pre- f8rred" European immigrants in favor ot the British is warmly received in Downing Street. 'High hopés have been expressed that it will be possible to obtain mow an enlarged British quota, despite the difficulty experi- enced In persuading unemployed miners to emigrate. The incomplete- ness of the success attending the dis- patch of British harvesters to Canada last autumn is attributed to the fact that arrangements had to be too hur- riedly completed. Immigration au- thoritles, the Monitor understands, now anticipate little difficulty in find- ing a sufficient number of married people to satisfy this year's require- ment, and various schemes have been organized for this class of settler. The Times says, however, "there appear to be doubts in some quarters whether the new demand for single 'young men can be met unless further travel 8,500 miles-with 100 p and a crew of forty, also including generous baggage dati will also react unfavorably on the' There will be a cross between a { Pullman "sleeper and a trans-Atlantic liner, the~quarters being two and four- berth cabins, a lounge, dining room and. probably a dance floor. Every room will be electrically lighted, the cooking also being done electrically. Below the two floors allotted to the passengers is a third for the crew. These three floors and the coach are slung directly below the hull of the ship and inclosed by double walls which will prevent the drone of the motors from reaching the passengers. Many requests have been ace al- pr of the party in power, un. less there is speedy improvement. Whatever there is to be said for or| against the principls of lalssez faire, | the ordinary voter takes the situation | as he finds it. For him the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The Tariff Dangers "At the same time, any attempt to abandon laissez faire for protection would, we' believe, be attended with' the same result as in 1923, and Mr. Baldwin's attitude towards the pres- sure put upon him to introduce a gen- eral tariff seems to show that he is also of this opinion, {tough thé eni- doubt that the Opposition --certainly | its Labor -wing--is on the upward grade. What the position will be next summer when the contest takes place will largely depend on what happens between now and then, and to add to the difficulty of speculation there Is the unknown quantity of the five mil- lion 'flappers' who huve been added to the roll since the last general elec-! tion. "But it must be remembered that if the Conservatives wish to retain the substance of power, it is not en- ough for them to comeback the, strongest of the three parties, They encouragement can be given them. Every effort therefore should be made to provide agalust such a contingeficy. It should be quite possible, for ex- ample, to organize new schemes under the Empire Settlement Act for settlers Moslems of India Confer on Policy cplorer Unable to. Cor _. Operations Till New Base Found ' bo ---- ¥ 2 A States Land at South Pole Broken Up Into Islands NEW YORK---Having completed the first phase of the Wilkins-Haarst expedition's work in the Antarctic, Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins announces in a radio message to the New York American and associatd Hearst news- papers, that he will return to the United States and prepare for the sec- ond phase which will be carted on next year from a different base. The announcement was made fol lowing a new 500-mile flight made re- cently during which Capt. Wilkins searched Graham Land in the hope of finding a suitable and more southerly base which would enable him to con- tinu his explorations farther south throughout the present season. No such base could be found. In making public Capt. Wilkins' de- cision, the New York American added the following analysis of the situa. tion: 3 "The only alternative hope of reach: ing Ross Sea this season lay in ability to take off on skils with a load of gas- Delhi Assembly Seeks Unity in Deciding With Hindus on Dominion Status According to dispatches from India in the London press, the most diffi cult problem that the Simon Commis- sion has to deal with in its survey of of this class, and to amend the Act so as to permit in approved cases of ad-| vances being made against the cost of | the journey, or to secure from the Treasury special permission to make | such advances outside the Act. { The British House of Commons | showed by its attitude last session oline sufficient to drive a plne 1,800 miles. Owing to the wussasonably warm weather at Deception Island and Graham Land which has softened the snow six weeks before it was ex- pected to do so, this was obviously impossible. "But even if the snow and ice had been normal the discoveries as to the India is found in the fact that, while Hindus and Moslems are united in desiring Dominion status for India, that it would contemplate far more drastic extensions of the use to which British contribution to empire settle- must have a clear majority over both | there is no common idea as to what| ment can at present be put," terrain of Graham Land made by Cap tain Wilkins precluded the possibility of such flight without unreasonable risk, It remained only for Captain even larger airships are proposed, veady By persons wishing to travel to gmatical character of his pronounce- and it is understood that the Airship America on the first flight. Offers of ments on the subject has supplied his Guarantee Company already has plans | $5,000 huve been made for passage. opponents with a handle which may for a colossal craft with a capacity Thus far, however, the fare has not be useful to them on the platform: for more than 9,000,000 cubic feet of heen determined. "If, however, the Government must ---- b : take the blame for what is amiss, Sa propter hoc is the invariable logic of there is something on the other side Election Shadows the 'masses. wy © iof the &ccount which may rebound to ro ™ *a * "Had the situation remained fairly their credit. The peace in industry In Great Britain constant. its political Sons igs be movement still flourishes. The Trades ANTI less important, But individual efforts Union Congress, indeed, endorsed the A Detached Observer Writes in the direction of better co-ordina-| proposals of the Mond Conterence for About the Liberals Who tion have not yef resulted in better a National Industrial Council early in A . , financial resplts--the figures, indeed, September. The employers' organiz- "Voted Tory Last Time, the Prospects of Labor their rivals. Nor can the contingency | form this status should take of the latter joining forces after the |what should be the share of the vari election any longer be dismissed as|ous classes and .the two dominant i ont¥ - . Slight Gain Made tastie. -Both have now issued pro- pg In its intenance. { LT 51 Ho, i Tore is Re interesting de- Taces 1; Ran ns are con- by British Trade, gree of resemblance between them in | cerned, {he conference which began important respects. Enough has, at Delhi on Dec. 31 Is expected to in- Notable moreover, been said by representa: | dicate the terms on which Moslems, tives of each of the two parties to arg ready to work with their Hindu show that some form of combination prethren (.r the attainment of Do-| might in certain eventualities be con- minion status--that is, a government! ILondon.--Complete provisional fig i sidered. similar to ours in Canada and to that | ures of British trade during 1928, "This article must now be brought of the Union of South Africa. issued by the Board of Trade, show a' to a close, but first an omission must There is a dearth of news from slight improvement on the previous | be made good in our estimate of the | Delhi showing what the conference I8 year. The adverse balance of imports | credit side of the Conservative ac-idoing, but the native press comment over-all exports is £353,000,000, The | count. The genial and sympathetic | nor -- Wilkins to return and make a new start from a new base. "The expedition had two major ob- ectives: "Iirst----Exploration of Graham | Land and the western coast of Wed- dell Sea by aeroplanes. . "Second--A flight from Ucraham Land to Ross Sea and further cxplora- tion from a base established *kore. ACCOMPLISH OBJECTIVE "In flights from Deception Island over Graham Land, Sir Hubert and his ssoclates have accomplished tho first objective and thereby solved the great objective and thereby solved the Increase Made in Ex- port of Artificial Silk, Report Shows "are worse than they were in spite of | ations, 'however, have not even yet, at | these efforts--and. bad trade, jozetls th moment of writing, come to a de- with the necessity of reducing the| sf , h thi ; and the Asset of Mr. er y cision, and if it should be in the nega. x A Baldwin's Per- sonality Pe ' AN ENGLISH VIEW "The Round Table" London, always endeavors to give a detached, un- biassed view of the tendencies of the time, and under the heading "Election Shadows"~it should be emphasised that each "Round Table" contribution is invariably _written by an expert whose identity is concealed--a writer in the current issue says:-- "In the first place, it was by the moderate Liberal vote that aa. Bald- . win's Government was put into power at the 'General Election of 1924. der the electoral system, as we know it, a huge parliamentary majority can be obfained without a clear majority or even with a considerable minority of the votes cast. But apart from this there can be no doubt that srafy Liberals in their anxiety to see Mr. MacDonald out of office, decided to support Conseivative candidates in the constituencies, "To what extent this tendency ac- tually operated cannot be precisely determined, but the result of the next general election may well turn upon Mr. ,Baldwin's ability to retain the support of these Liberals. There is . however, no class of voter which can be so confidently expected to be ln- ~~ fluenced by considerations which af: .-fegt the League. b 8 estive at Disarmament Hanging Fir gr are just-the people who find the Government's foreign policy most distasteful and even alarming. The Liberal thei who voted Conservative last time, disquieted by the Geneva . failure, restive at the way in which "disarmament is hanging fire, puzzled bythe apparent hesitancy™over the question of the renunciation of war, Anglo-French proposals to repoin the 5 of the Opposition' parties. Much ill. doubtless depend upon the cour- age and dexterity which the Govern: o n shows. } Sa ex 7 "A bold and, above all, a frank Un- | ~tives ina minority. persounel engaged in the coal trade to a figure which bears some reason- ' able relation to the economic facts, ! has had a sensational result on unem- ! ployment. Week by week a puzzled ! public watches a steady and seeming- ly malicious increase in the figures. moreover, the state of the depressed areas is so bad as to be a source of serious alarm and even horor to all people of sensibility. "It may be true that no party can supply a quick cure for these diseases, and that, so far as politicians arg to blame for our troubles, the honors are widely distributed, But it is upon the Government of the day--and the pres- ent one has been in power for just four years--that the responsibility is traditionally placed for anything amiss. The Conservative party may, therefore, stand to lose pretty heavily unless the figures show a substantial improvement before the election. Their losses will naturally be heaviest [in the areas most affected by trade stagnation. "In the actual coalfields, certainly, the Opposition have little to gain, since they already hold most of the mining seats. But Lancashire, the West Riding, the North and Mid- lands generally may, at the election, all reflect: politically the depressed condition of cotton, textiles and iron and steel. A wide movement of re- sentment against the Government in these areas might put the Conserva- Constructife--But Benefits Delayed "Nor can the accusation of a cer- Main complacent inactiyity be easily rebutted by the supporters of Mr. Baldwin's administration. It is true that the wide and almost revolution- ary proposals for rating relief and local government reform may be stood and thelr defects removed the soundness of the underlying principle {will no doubt tell in the Government's favor, the scheme has--from the elec- toral standpoint---the fatal objection that its benefits are delayed. = "Nor can it be claimed that the - policy might go far towards dispelling oo . But much also depends uj ich is made of these mat-| e hustings. For the first e since the fall of the Coalition' > nt ak in the! ! rating will relief to industry which whl follow de- v more than substantial and imp tI t decisive. The details of-the propased local gov- ernment reorganization are, claimed as an example of progresssive | policy and constructive foresight. But { , although when they tre better under- . may be induced - by disgust at the| tive, the reaction upon "Conservative | prospects might be the reverse of fav- orable. "But, handicaps, there fis one of a more general kind. People find a want of | character in this Administration. No one -quite #knows what it stands for or how it will act in a given emer- gency. If the country feels that the | leadership which it looks for in vital, matetrs is subordinated to the exi-| gencies of keeping the peace between | conflicting views inside tlie Govern-| ment, it will give it short shift next summer. Mr. Baldwin's trump card--if people were sure of the alternative. "The expulsion of the Communists | and the defeat of their extremist ele-| ment have, no doubt, abated the old | suspicion of Labor. We shall, how! ever, have to wait until the election to see whether enough of it still re-! mains more than to counterbalance the adverse effect of the considera- tions to which we have already refer- | red on the prospects of the Conserva-' tive party. "To sum up, although there is no-|the 'effect is more harmful, in my | conference is Fazal Ebrahim Rahim-| mnants thing at resent to point to the im- minence of a Conservative debacle, there is abundant reason for Con-| gervative qualms, and there is no | besides these two pro personality of Mr. Baldwin is still an | asset of value to his party." i EE i See What It Feels Like | London Sunday Dispatch (Ind. Cons.): (Lord Rothermere's letter to a" correspondent is prominently print- | ed In the Dispatch.) I cannot under- | stand your extreme fear of a Labor | Government. 1f by any chance the Labor Party is certain to come into] power within two or three years, be- | cause it is not within the bounds of | possibility that the Conservative Gov- It would, that Is to say-- ernment can be returned next time |The and this brings us to what is possibly | with anything more than a skeleton specially erected majority. As you know, for the last | seven or eight years I have been full | of apprehension as to the economic | outlook of this country. In season | and out of season I have. urged upon | Governments the reduction of expendi: | ture. . . . I think something may be | gained by bringing the electorate sharply up against reality. The So- cialist Government will be a reality. Under the present Conservative Gov- ernment of drift and inertia, our aco- nomic conditions are so disguised that | opinion, than one or two follies of al Socialist Government. It is the un-| obvious, the indiscernable, the indefi. nite and the vague that.are so deadly. Ex-Champion in New Role | of a month ago said it would be the figure for 19 {and Maulvi Muhammed Yakub, vice-| Ww. £386,000,000 and most, fmportant assembly of Moslems | for 1926 it was £462,000,000. ever gathered in India. It was called| The actual total of imports in 1928 by thirty-eight non-official Moslems wag £1,196,000,000, = while exports members of the Central Legislature, gmounted to £120,000,000. acting on a suggestion from the fam- | The greater part of the difference ous Aga Khan, that the Moslem mem- | hetween exports and imports fs, of bers of legislatures all over India course, balanced by what ave termed should endeavor to provide a platform on which . Moslems of all schools | jp the calculation of which are the might unite to consider the con-|earnings of British shipping and the stitutional problem, | interest on investments abroad Aga Khan is presiding, but, owing| There was a notable increase In ex- to the delicate state of his health, a ports of artificial silk, the value of mighty demoastration which had been | which rose from £5,750,000 in 1927 to prepared in his honor was foregone. | pearly £8,000,000, seating 1s provided within a| Among the exports which show de- pandal; wor tented creases wre coul, £8;500,0007 tron and hall, capable of holding 3,000 persons, | ieal, £2,500,000; cotton goods, £3. of whom 400 were to be delegates | 500 000, from the various legislatures. The i most influential leaders of Moslem! . public life had promised attendance, | Plan Raid on Jehol including Feroz Khan Noon, Minister | in the Punjab Government; Sir Mu-| s 3 hammad Shafi, president of the. All-| Former Chinese Soldiers, Now India Moslem League; Mauivi Daudi, Bandits, Say They Have president of the Caliphate Committee, | Nationalist Aid president sembly. of the legislative Assi Peking The general secretary of the of the 60,000 disorganized troops, re- of several former Northern tulla. armies, wandering In the mountains Even if the cgmference can agree north and northeast of Peking. upon no plan of procedure which will | The men who command these un- be acceptable to the Hindus, it is ex-| afilliated soldiers have recently been pected that a plan will be evolved] in Peking, and have confided which will allow the Moslems to pre-| friends that they Intend to organize sent a united front in the controversy, a "bandit rald" on the city and dis- | trict of Jehol early in the Spring, in order to capture the city and then { turn it over to the representatives of | Nanking --at a price. . | Jehol is held to be the key to Man mn, churia. Nanking's forces cannot | penetrate to Manchuria. without first . taking the city of Jehol and the mn Alberta mountain passes on either side of it. Calgary, Alberta---Though he will With Jehol in Nationalist hands the probably visit England In the not far way would be open from the south: distant future, Frederick Joseph Tre- west without {invading that zone Egmont, Refusing Seat Lords, Will End Days velyan Perceval, tenth Earl of BEg-| which Japan has declared it will pro-| mont and Alberta rancher, does not tect from disorders. But propose to claim his seat in the House | edged Nationalist armies ¢ of Lords. A resident of Alberta for used to take Jehol fre the past twenty-eight years, the new "Tang Yu-lln, the Manchv Earl apparently feels mo urge to as-| sentative, who holds it : sume the cares of state, for; he de-junder Mukden. To do s¢ clared that he intended to make his open civil war in China. home permanently in this province. So the Nationalists, with promise When a call was made at the Per-! of rich cash reward, and assurances ceval homestead the Earl and his 14-| that they will later.be taken into the year-old son and heir, the Hon. Fred- National army, are conspiring with erick Joseph Moore Perceval, were the semi-brigand troops to grab Jehol, claring brush from part of his land. | Rifles, munitions and supplies are bhe- Asked what his intentions were, he ing from Peking to these: Irregulars, replied: i their leaders say. "I've lived in Alberta for twenty- acknowl- 'mot be ieneral repre- lovernor ould re- | the estate ,but that once b wo enti a ------ eight years. 1 love my cattle and my| National injustice is the surest road horses and I intend to stay herg until to national downfall--W, BH. Glad- 1 die." A stone. Later he added that it might be, rimmed necessary for him to go to England) New furniture exhibitions In Buropé to attend to matters connected with indicate that the woods at present 1 1 had , fashionable are sycamore and Macas- een completed he would return to sar ebony. main in Noa A 'wish rallway companies n- 'having special compart. tow {Invisible exports, the chief elements | --Adroit use is to be made to PARES aE BE ~ What becomes of old American} films bas been learned; French tin: ! erant caravan stiows and greatest problem that has confronted clentists and geographers in the Ant. arctic. | "Graham Land 1s pictured on tha | maps as part of the Antarctic contin. ent. Flying 1,200 miles over land i never before seen by human eyes, in | company with pilot Ben Ellson on De- | cember 20, Wilkins discovered that Graham Land consists of two maln lands and that the southernmost 1s separated from the Antarctic contl- nent by a body of water 40 to 650 miles wide, lying between the seventleth and seventy-first parallel south and longitude 60 and 70 west. This he has since named Stefanssen Stralt. "The northern Island has been re- named North Graham Island, and the southern South Graham Island, the t separated by "& narrow is two being | crooked strait. "On the sixty fifth parallel south, or within 100 miles of the Antarctie circle, Wilkins found the coast of | North Graham Island cut by Indenta« , tions so deep that they almost met, threatening to sever it into still ad<' other island. These indentations he named the Hektorla Fjords. "A group of six islands discoverad southeast of South Graham [sland he | has named Finley Islands, in honor of Mr. John H. Finley, president of the ! American Geographical Society, which gponsored the expedition. EDGE OF CONTINENT 'Capt. Wilkins established what he believes to he the true edge of the Antarctic continent on approximate- ly the 57th.parallel south, This he has named Hearst Land in honor of William Randolph Hearst, by whom the expedition was largely financed. { "One portion of the South Graham Island coast Capt. Wilkins designated as Bowman coast in honor of Dr, (Isaian Bowman, director of the Am- erican Georgraphical Society. Various mountains, plateaus, "gldclevs ' and other geographical features were | named for different persons whom Wilkins desired to honor. | "By the very nature of his dis-. coverles, Sir Hubert is prevented from pyrsuing the second phase of hls work | during the present season, | "All his plans were predicated upon the Antarctic map as it was supposed {to exist. ' | "If Graham Land were a part of the | Antarctic continent he might, with a | sufficient load of gasoline, fly from | Deception Island to Ross Sea, most of the distance over land. Forced down by engine trouble, he and Elelson, his pilot, would then have a chance to - survive by walking to Ross Sea. "With Graham Land a series of islands, as Wilkins' exploration has demonstrated it to be, this became impossible, A falling engine which might force a landing on one of the islands meant isolation without hope of rescue and inevitable death. ; *By his flig] ly conch 'Sir Hubert Wil )