SAIL IN REPULSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 86, 13 April 1939, Page 11

SAIL IN REPULSE.

Arrangements For King And Queen Unchanged. VISIT TO CANADA IN MAY. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. Arrangements for the King and Queen to sail in H.M.S. Repulse on May 6 for Canada have not been changed. POLAR REGIONS. GERMAN CLAIM EXPECTED. BERLIN, April 12. Following upon the Schwabenland expedition's return to Cuxliaven, Germany is expected to claim 230,000 square miles in the Antarctic hitherto claimed by Norway. The expedition reports that the territory constitutes a geologically separate land mass bounded by an icefield''which rises to 12,000 ft on the Polar ice-cap.

The most westerly point charted was 71 degrees 23 minutes south, 4 degrees 50 minutes west, and the most easterly point was 72 degrees 10 minutes south, 16 degrees 30 minutes east.

BRIGHT EASTER.

WARM WEATHER IN ENGLAND. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, April 12. The warmest Easter holidays in England for eleven years drew large crowds into the open. On an average 110 trains an hour were leaving Victoria station yesterday morning. At one point on the roads entering London last night returning cars averaged more than 4500 an hour. London enjoyed another fine warm day to-day. In the afternoon the temperature was 69 degrees Fahrenheit, which was eight degrees higher than yesterday and the highest for early April for five years.

SIAM'S DESIRE.

FRIENDSHIP WITH ALL.

TOKYO, April 12,

The Siamese Minister to Japan, Mr. Phva Sri Sena, denies that Siam is forming an anti-Japanese bloc with Britain. He says Siam seeks only continued independence and friendly cooperation with all nations.