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Times Special) OSLO, Sunday.—The good fortune which has followed the various operations to rescue survivors of the ship Italia during the past few days enabled the Russian aircraft Chukovsky and his four companions to return in safety to the Krassin last evening, after having been marooned on the coast of North East Island, near Cape Platen, since Wednesday. Chukovsky and his crew were able to repair their damaged plane with materials at hand. They experienced no difficulty in flying back to the ice-breaker, from which they will take up the search for the Alessandri and Amundsen groups, which of all
search for the Alessandri and Amundsen groups, which of all the victims of the Italia disaster and its aftermath, are still missing. Braganza Rescues Warming. Meanwhile details of the rescue of Captain Sora, the Italian Alpinist, and his companion, the Norwegian guide Van Dongen, indicate that both were in danger of death from sheer starvation when they were picked up by a combined Swedish-Finnish aerial expedition on the coast of Foyn Island early on Friday. Sora left Beverly Sound with Van Dongen and Warming, another guide, on June 18 to search the coast of North East Island for General Nobile's
search the coast of North East Island for General Nobile's party. On June 21 the Norwegian airman Lutzow-Holm flew over the party and dropped a note advising it that Nobile had been located by Major Maddalena and warning against attempting to venture onto the open-sea ice, which was beginning to break up. Sora and his comrades failed to find this note. Ignorant of the situation, they pressed on with their dog teams towards Cape Brown, where Warming fell ill. He was left behind with a supply of food and yesterday was taken on board the rescue ship Braganza. Meanwhile Sora
was taken on board the rescue ship Braganza. Meanwhile Sora and Van Dongen continued to Foyn Island, which they reached after much difficulty. Food ran low. After feeding several of their dogs to the remaining animals they themselves were forced to kill and eat the dogs that were left. The Krassin sighted them on her way to rescue the Viglieri party on Friday—at that time it was not known who they were and it was hoped that they might be part of the Alessandri group—and intended to pick them up later. Meanwhile Commander Tornberg left the Swedish base with another
later. Meanwhile Commander Tornberg left the Swedish base with another Swedish plane and a Finnish machine, piloted by Lieutenants Jacobson and Sarko. While Tornberg cruised overhead in the Junkers plane Uppland, Jacobson and Sarko alighted skillfully on a small patch of water near Foyn Island, and succeeded in taking off again with Sora and Van Dongen. The health of the seven men of the Italia now on board the Krassin continues satisfactory, including that of Engineer Cecconi, who had been erroneously reported dead. There continues to be no news of Amundsen and his party. ITALIAN AIRMEN RETURN ROME.—The squadron of
Amundsen and his party. ITALIAN AIRMEN RETURN ROME.—The squadron of aeroplanes which took Italian officials to London to see the Royal Air Force pageant at Hendon Aerodrome, London, has arrived here from Berlin. MARYSE BASTIE CAPTURES RECORD FOR LIGHT PLANES DANTZIG, Sunday—Mlle. Maryse Bastie, the young French aviatrix, has broken the world's distance record for light aeroplanes by a flight from Le Bourget (Paris) to Treptow (Pomerania), near Dantzig. She covered 1,154 kilometers with her 40 horse-power avionette. The previous record was established by Maurice Blaat, who flew from Le Bourget to Tempelhof (Berlin) last October. AMERICA CONTAINS COTTON WASHINGTON,
Bourget to Tempelhof (Berlin) last October. AMERICA CONTAINS COTTON WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The condition of cotton on July 1 in the United States was 79.5 percent, of perfect, compared with 84.8 percent in 1927. The two Houses added their suggestions and made the programme a law before retiring for the Summer. The summer will not be vacation time for the Minister of Labor, M. Louis Loucheur. “We shall prepare a series of regulations for the practical application of the law,” he says. “To that we shall devote our holidays. We shall examine the methods followed in the United States, Great Britain and
the methods followed in the United States, Great Britain and Germany to find the best system of construction compatible with our tastes and customs.” The law itself puts credits of eleven billion francs at the disposal of the organization that will construct moderate-priced dwellings. The funds will be administered by a Loan Commission working under the Department of Deposits and Consignments. The Ministry of Labor has already taken steps against speculation. Manufacturers of construction materials have agreed to maintain present prices unless justified by variations of the general index figure. As to sites, most of the cities already have land
As to sites, most of the cities already have land available for cheap building projects. The funds will be available for building in all parts of France, of course. M. Loucheur estimates that funds can be made available under the new law by the beginning of next year and thus will have their effect on operations during the building season of 1929—February to November. “We have been guided, first by the desire to create a ‘balance wheel’ of available lodgings,” says M. Loucheur. “It is as clear as day that the lack of apartments is considerable and that, in such
the lack of apartments is considerable and that, in such circumstances, the law of supply and demand is not in effect. It cannot act until the normal balance of free apartments is re-established. “In the second place we wish to reopen the way to ownership of property. At present the price of the smallest cottage is above the financial possibilities of the ordinary worker.” The balance wheel of available housing has been provided for and only remains to be set in motion. A stabilization of family life is about to begin. A VEIL OVER “CAL” Is the President of the
begin. A VEIL OVER “CAL” Is the President of the United States taking a vacation or is he not? If he is, why is not the world told what kind of hair he is using this year, how many fish he is catching for supper, and how many delegations of admiring natives are shaking his hand? Also, how is his appetite? Does he still rise up at dawn and go for a long walk before a hearty breakfast? Does he sit on the veranda in a rocking chair to enjoy the cool of the evening with Mrs. Coolidge? Is he
the cool of the evening with Mrs. Coolidge? Is he wearing rubber boots and a straw hat this year or has he brought along that twenty-gallon sombrero that was presented to him last summer? And how about the chaps? He is in Wisconsin and that is as much cowboy country as anywhere in the American West. Surely they must be holding a rodeo or two for him. Is not Europe to have the boon of just one little photograph of Mr. Coolidge in a 1928 model cowboy suit? Or in Indian costume with feathers and everything? Is not the Wisconsin
Indian costume with feathers and everything? Is not the Wisconsin Legislature to name any mountains or rivers after him? What can be the trouble with the press service in Wisconsin? Was it fair to give the public all the minutiae of Mr. Coolidge’s daily doings last year and this year to draw the veil of secrecy? Mr. Coolidge is still the President of the United States, is he not? He is just as good a President this year as he was last year, is he not? Because there is to be a different President next year should not make any
be a different President next year should not make any difference in the loving interest of the United States in the life of the incumbent. It should not, but apparently it does. Of course last summer there was the possibility that there would not be a different President. Perhaps that is the answer. As it is, the only time that Cedar Island Lodge has been in the news in recent days was when Mr. Hoover sent there his resignation as Secretary of Commerce. THE WORLD’S PRESS American Comment “China, a history professor tells us, hasn’t woken yet, but she evidently
history professor tells us, hasn’t woken yet, but she evidently is doing fairly well in the matter of walking in her sleep.”—Jackson News. British Comment The Observer attacks the Foreign Office for not signing the anti-war pact of Mr. Kellogg immediately. “British policy must be a world policy or nothing. Anglo-American friendship must come first in all circumstances. Franco-British friendship, high as we value it and generously as we would cherish it, comes second. Above all things, the latter must not be allowed to get in the way of the former.” French Comment. Even the Nationalist writer Henri de Kerillis
former.” French Comment. Even the Nationalist writer Henri de Kerillis in the Nationalist newspaper Echo de Paris is moved by the spectacle of the Soviet ice-breaker Krassin saving the crew of the Fascist dirigible Italia. M. de Kerillis finds the meeting of Communists and Fascists strange and symbolic “there in the midst of the tragic solitudes of Polar ice.” In ancient Rome, he says, the oracle would have read a meaning into the event somewhat as follows: If Fascism, even with the most noble sentiments, attempts in its pride to do something which is beyond its forces, Communism will appear
do something which is beyond its forces, Communism will appear to collect the remnants of Fascism’s defeat. But the rescue of the Fascists leads M. de Kerillis still further to dream, as he says, “of a gentler age, when a little true peace may descend upon earth, and when poor human beings who are already overburdened with life will help and love one another instead of fighting for ever and for ever to all eternity.” The Left Volonté says that M. Beneš, the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, has made a fruitless effort to induce Austria to enter an economic federation with
effort to induce Austria to enter an economic federation with Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia. According to this newspaper, such an effort might have been successful five or six years ago, but is impossible now because of the progress made in developing Anschluss sentiment in Austria and Germany. The Volonté believes that the union of Austria and Germany is ultimately certain, that nothing can be done to stop it, and that therefore the Little Entente and the Great Powers should make the best of it and not run the danger of war by refusing to allow the union. German Comment. The
war by refusing to allow the union. German Comment. The executions in Moscow are described by the Socialist Wochenblatt as “a judicial crime.” Vorwarts repeats the view that the trial was staged to convince the proletariat that the Soviet system is infallible and that the chaotic industrial conditions are due not to its inherent defects, but to the machinations of “Counter-revolutionary elements.” The Démocratie Borsen Courier says that the executions were the answer to foreign protests, and it doubts the wisdom of well-meaning appeals “in the name of humanity” from abroad. It recalls that these were dangerous even in Tsarist
abroad. It recalls that these were dangerous even in Tsarist days and that Bismarck warned his Government of the peril of intervening for their countrymen and thus pushing the “spirit of distrustful absolutism” to extremes. Comment in India. The old question of when a woman is a woman and when she is a lady has been called to the attention of the Calcutta Statesman by one of its readers who, having noticed a report on a street accident, wrote to inquire whether the Statesman would like “our wife” to be called a “woman” in print. The Statesman replies: “There was
called a “woman” in print. The Statesman replies: “There was a time when people liked to be described as ladies and gentlemen, but even before Queen Victoria died there were those who disliked it, and we, should have thought that they had for some time been a majority. Not many years ago, it is true, the Statesman received a solicitous letter demanding compensation to the tune of 26,000 rupees from an aggrieved ‘gentleman’ who had been inadvertently referred to as a ‘man.’ He received an apology for being so incorrectly described, but whether he saw the point is doubtful. The
described, but whether he saw the point is doubtful. The bright young things of today seem to think that even Mr., Mrs., Miss and Esq. are superfluous verbiage, survivals of ancient hypocrisies, and many prefer to use only their name. There is something to be said for this practice.” Italian Comment. The Impero finds in the sacrifice and tenacity of the Russians and Scandinavians who went to the rescue of the crew of the Italia a splendid example of human solidarity. All the press pays tribute to Dr. Malmgren, who is described as a noble and heroic character whose name
is described as a noble and heroic character whose name will be forever engraved on the heart of every Italian. Polish Comment. Polish relations with Lithuania are discussed by the Epoka, which declares that M. Waldemaras has made an appearance of negotiating with Poland because he does not wish to quarrel with the League of Nations. “The Polish Government has given proofs of goodwill in avoiding all controversial questions. Under the pressure of European diplomacy, the Government of Kovno has begun pourparlers with Poland, but the last Lithuanian diplomatic documents attack the integrity of Poland, and are judged provocative even
attack the integrity of Poland, and are judged provocative even by certain organs of the German press.” The Conservative Czas says that the object of the Lithuanian project to make Vilnius an isolated territory has been put forward to create the impression in Geneva that Lithuania does not want any check in the discussions, and that thus M. Waldemaras is gaining time and putting off a definite decision in the hope that events favorable to his projects may arise in the interval. THE GOURMET THE CRAYFISH SEASON June to September is the season of the crayfish—i.e. the freshwater crustacean that
is the season of the crayfish—i.e. the freshwater crustacean that is known in France as the écrevisse. France consumes literally millions of them during the summer; England knows them very slightly, and the acquaintance is possibly even more remote in most parts of the United States. Yet what a dish the crayfish—no, the écrevisse, which sounds better to Anglo-Saxon ears—can make when served in a famous restaurant. Apicius spent fortunes on them. Brillat-Savarin loved them. So does almost everyone who tastes them. An écrevisse is not the same as a crevette nor yet a homard or a langouste, although they
crevette nor yet a homard or a langouste, although they all belong to the same family. There are two kinds of écrevisses, the freshwater kind which may be distinguished by its having six claws, and the saltwater kind which has only four. The ancients used to believe that the freshwater crayfish was good medicine—a good as a spring purifier for the blood. Possibly because it turns blood-red when cooked. The ancients were better cooks than doctors. Crayfish—beg pardon, écrevisses—abound in French, English, and American inland streams, particularly those which have chalky foundations. All are edible, but most Americans and Englishmen,
chalky foundations. All are edible, but most Americans and Englishmen, never think of eating them except when a maître d'hôtel brings the scarlet plate to the table. Supposing that one has caught a basketful in one’s own chalk streams, the simplest way of preparing them is to give them a little preliminary cleaning and then pop them into boiling water to which an equal part of wine vinegar has been added, together with a glass or two of white wine, pepper, salt, and a small amount of chopped onion. The écrevisses can be eaten hot or cold, with red pepper.
écrevisses can be eaten hot or cold, with red pepper. Another way is to throw the freshly caught écrevisses into boiling water for ten minutes until they turn pink or red; shell them when they are cold, remove the intestines, and accompany the flesh with mayonnaise and lettuce. The French are likely to add more herbs to the court-bouillon—a common French failing or triumph, according to whether one likes the flavor of thyme and laurel. The simple French style of preparing écrevisses is to remove the swimmer from the middle of the tail in order to take out, at the
of the tail in order to take out, at the same time, the black and bitter kernel; then cook the crustaceans in a court bouillon composed of good white wine (red wine darkens the écrevisses) or half water half wine vinegar, in which thyme, laurel, parsley, garlic, pepper, salt, nutmeg, onions, and carrots have been previously cooked for half an hour. Cook the écrevisses for ten minutes and then remove the pan from the fire and let it stand, covered, for fifteen minutes. Drain the écrevisses and serve them in a buisson, garnished with parsley. Écrevisses in this form make
a buisson, garnished with parsley. Écrevisses in this form make an excellent entremets, and there is no reason why they should be confined to the very beginning of the meal as the fish to follow soup. The great, the classic style of serving écrevisses is in a bisque. It’s not so complicated and difficult as the recipe sounds. The first requirement is écrevisse butter. Chop cooked écrevisses and put the meat in a pan with butter, heating slowly for fifteen minutes and being careful not to burn the meat. Then add a little water and boil for half an hour,
add a little water and boil for half an hour, passing the mixture through a sieve. The colored and perfumed butter will rise to the surface of the liquid and can be drained off before it cools. The next step— the processes are those of the famous Ali-Bab as he details them in his Gastronomie Pratique— is to make a potage crème velouté de volaille. For eight persons the ingredients are: 500 grammes of knuckle of veal; 500 grammes of butter (of which 150 grammes is écrevisse butter); 250 grammes of cream; 150 grammes of flour; 2 litres of chicken
of cream; 150 grammes of flour; 2 litres of chicken broth; the yolks of two fresh eggs; the white part of two leeks; the red part of two carrots; one medium-sized chicken; a little celery and parsnip. Color the flour with 150 grammes of écrevisse butter, moisten with broth, add the chicken and veal, and bring to a boil, putting in the vegetables and let it cook for about two hours. Take out the chicken, remove bones and skin, mince the fish, adding 100 grammes of ordinary butter and 100 grammes of cream gradually. Strain. Then strain what remains in
grammes of cream gradually. Strain. Then strain what remains in the pot— vegetables, veal, and the rest—add the chicken purée, mix, and bring to a boil. Remove from the fire, stiffen with the yolks of the eggs, the remainder of the butter, and the cream. So rich for the second step in preparation. Now for the bisque. This requires at least six écrevisses per person. Pass the tails of several écrevisses through a sieve and put them in the crème velouté, with several other whole écrevisses and some which have been minced. Add only enough chicken to give consistency to
been minced. Add only enough chicken to give consistency to the mixture, if the écrevisses are not enough. Heighten with a little cayenne pepper. Most dealers in sea foods in Paris have écrevisses in their ice-boxes during the summer. Écrevisses generally sell by the piece, varying according to size from 1fr. 50 to 3fr. 75. Tiglath Pileser Further excavations at Jezireh, in Syria, have resulted in the clearing of the Palace of Tiglath Pileser, King of Assyria, and in the discovery of enamels, little figures and ivory plates, the subjects of which are Egyptian but the workmanship Phoenician. A DUTCH
of which are Egyptian but the workmanship Phoenician. A DUTCH CONCEPTION OF M. POINCARE’S ARMOR It is suggested by De Groene Amsterdammer that the French Premier has in the franc a shield to protect him from the uncertainties of Parliamentary majorities. The first ten commandments are the hardest. Instalment-paying makes the months shorter and the years longer. Crooked politicians fear those bearing gifts. Silence is far from golden if you have something to sell. He MAGNET PROVES THE TRUE When a resident of Berlin receives a handful of change these days he produces a pocket magnet and picks out the
days he produces a pocket magnet and picks out the 50-pfennig pieces with it. The reason is a flood of spurious coins that are made of a non-magnetic alloy. APPARITION The ghost of your dead love came back To haunt my heart tonight; I felt no shrinking terror grip My soul with dread or fright, For it was such a sorry wraith, Fear-shaken with alarms, Which sought, with such a homesick sigh, The shelter of my arms. —Elva Batterson Fuller. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. —G. K. Chesterton. Money itself is lifeless, impotent, sterile. —John D.
K. Chesterton. Money itself is lifeless, impotent, sterile. —John D. Rockefeller Jr. The Books of the Day FOR THE MUSEUM SELECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM WATSON (Butler & Co., London; 10s. 6d.). TIME IMPORTUNGS, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. (Chatto & Windus, London; 5 shillings). Before the war, before the beginning of the century, William Watson was well known. During the war, he wrote poems of extravagant praise of Mr. Lloyd George and kindred gentlemen, and became Sir William Watson. Now he bids for second fame with a selection of his verse. In writing of Gray, he expresses his own ideal, and
In writing of Gray, he expresses his own ideal, and in the writing admits that he has failed to achieve it: Gray, who on worn thoughts conferred That second youth, the perfect word, The elected and predestined phrase That had lain bound, long nights and days, To wear at last, when once set free, Immortal clarity. How far is all this wordiness from “the perfect Word”! Alexander Pope said the same thing, in writing of What’s oft been said before, yet never quite so well. Justly irritated by the carelessness of the younger poets, Sir William returns again and again
of the younger poets, Sir William returns again and again to a defence of his own methods: Nature! whose legendary seas Labor a pebble without ease. Till they brought perfection That miracle of polishing, That never negligently yet, Fashioned an April violet, Nor would forgive, did June disclose Unceremoniously the rose. Yet roses appear unceremoniously enough. But Sir William rides again to the charge, saying that Nature is a power that: Visibly aches when called to bring Some inchoate amorphous thing. Into a world her curious wit Would fain have shaped all-exquisite As the acorn cup’s simplicity, Or the Moon’s
shaped all-exquisite As the acorn cup’s simplicity, Or the Moon’s patience with the sea, Or the superb, the golden grief Of each October for each leaf, Phrased in a rhetoric that excels Isaiah’s and Ezekiel’s. Unashamed and without fear, the Poetic Knight is untiring: You scorn as idle—you who praise Each posturing hero of the herd— The lofty bearing of a phrase, The noble countenance of a word. “This has no import for the age!” And so your votive wreaths you heap On him who brought unto our Stage A mightier dulness over the deep. Great Heaven! When these with
mightier dulness over the deep. Great Heaven! When these with clamor shrill Drift out to Lethe’s harbor bar. A verse of Lovelace shall be still As vivid as a pulsing star. But what is true of Lovelace is not necessarily, or probably, true of Watson. Miss Sylvia Townsend Warner has the same poetic ideals as Sir William Watson, but she is more concerned with following than expressing them. Occasionally she writes something highly memorable, as in this couplet: "Between the lamb’s bleat and the ewe's reply A star has come into the sky." American Library in Paris. Among books added