Death of Eminent Landscape Architect
WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL PRIZE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy rich t. Received Sunday, 11.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 14. Private advice has been received of tho death in India of Mr. Walter Burley Griffin/ landscape architect, whoso plan of the Australian Federal Capital was awarded first prize in an international competition. In 1913 the late Mr. Griffin was appointed Director of Design and Construction at the Federal capital. He also planned the towns in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area. He was a native of Illinois, United States, and was aged 61. view of the extraordinary European tension. ” BRITAIN BUILDING UP FLEET. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY WARSHIPS. Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 13. The Sunday Graphic forecasts that the Defence White Paper expected on February 16 will disclose that Britain is completing 150 warships of various types, including 11 super-dreadnoughts in the next five years, deliveries totalling 3000 aircraft containing secret improvements from 1938 onwards, and reserves of ammunition and equipment for the army costing £2,500,000 for use in the event of an emergency. HOLLAND AND GERMANY. Received Sunday, 7.30 p.in. THE HAGUE, Feb. 13. The Government has informed Germany that it appreciates its good intentions but docs not desire to conclude a treaty with another country regarding Holland’s integrity. “FINE FELLOWS WE SAVAGES.” GOEBBELS ANNOYS FRANCE. Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. PARIS, Feb. 13. An indignant speech by Dr. Goebbcis was delivered to 20,000 Nazis, in which he contemptuously reforred to France, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Britain. He declared: “If we compare the political life of so-called democratic France and Britain with the German, we find we savages are iibe fellows after all.” He added that the French had lost the inclination to march into the Ruhr again. “We have torn up the Treaty of Versailles and thrown it in tho face of our opponents,” he said. “Rearmament cost us mauy sleepless nights and entailed a great risk. We could not take the German people into our confidence at the time, but if we are accused ‘of springing surprises, our reply is that there was no other way possible.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 7
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