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...route to be taken was undetermined -even the direction was undecided. The Lindberghs might fly east from New York across the Arctic Circle via Labrador, Greenland and Spitsbergen to Peiping, a course that would take them only 850 mi. from the North Pole. Or they might fly west across northern U. S. or Canada (where water stops are plentiful) to Seattle. British Columbia or Alaska, thence to bear along the Aleutian Islands, the southmost tip of Kamchatka, Siberia and across the stepping stones of the Kurile Islands to Japan...
Newfoundland's Mere $8,000,000. Because the Government of Newfoundland, "Oldest British Colony," has been unable to find buyers for an $8,000,000 bond issue, harassed Premier Sir Richard Squires raised money last week by selling Labrador to "European interests": such was a Wall Street rumor that jolted the British Empire...
Squires at first said, "Labrador is part...
...Labrador is not for sale!" In Montreal, whither Sir Richard went personally to seek a loan last week, he was asked again about selling or leasing Labrador. ''Have you any offers to make?" he smilingly queried correspondents. "Has Quebec, or Canada, or the United States anything to suggest? We'll be willing to listen...
...Greenland glaciers calved their bergs and Arctic ice floes cracked up as usual. Lieutenant Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year, he believes and hopes to find, the "ice fence" has failed to form. Consequently the southing bergs must have piled...