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It is reported that Marshal Pilsudski, the Polish Premier, in- tends to resign to devote himself to military affairs.""
Thirty motor cars have been stolen and abandoned in the Willesdeh district during the past *ix weeks.
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Mr. Edward Wild, of Norwich, father of Sir Ernest Wild, Re corder of London, has celebrated his 95th birthday.
London's death rate in mail. weak rose to 15.8 from 13:2 in the previous week, the deatha numbering 1,478, compared with 1,070.
With $160 in gold and notes in. his possession, Thomes Griffin, 76, a tramping labourer, has died in Alcaster, Warwickshire, work- house Infirmary,
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Containing more than 100 dresses, a motor-van of a London' firm of costumiers disappeared from outside a Brighton shop while the traveller was inside,
For stealing. 17 pork pies which he shared with two other boys, | giving the remainder to dogs,
Whittlesey Cambridgeshire, boy of 11 was sent to an industrial school for five years.,
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A youth of eighteen, named Thomas Howell, was at Croydon Aried 35 and placed on probation
On charges of wounding his for two years for stealing four granddaughter with a hatchet boxes of cigarettes from a kiosk and setting fire to the house in George Street, Croydon, be Heratio. Taylor, aged 77, a steel longing to Henry Crane, a blind-worker, was committed for trial ed ex-soldier.
at Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire...
Paris, France Warrington Dawson, famous writer and diplomat,, who has carried on in these two fields from an invalid's chair, was signally honoured by the French Academy recently, when it presented him with the "Medaille de la Langar Francaise, the first award of this kind ever made to a foreigner. The medal was presented tỏ him by Marshal Joffre Photo at left shows Warrington Dawson in his sick room at Versailles, where he issues the works that make his personality. Photo at right shows a close-up of the Medallio de la Langue Francaise."
Ralph Charles Langford, gar- age proprietor, of Kingsway, Luton, was found dead with his head in a gas oven.
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Mr. Henry Barry Blagrave, well-known Berkshire sportsman, and one of the oldest residents in the Reading district, died, aged seventy-nine.
The University of Lille tas conferred the degree of Docteur d'Universite on Mrs. Fond, head- mistress of Tollington Park (London) Central School.
Mr. Leslie W. Archer, one of the earliest lay readers in the diocese of Exeter, has celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his work in Devonport churches,
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Gipsies who frequent the New: Forest celebrated in picturesque style at Golbury Parish Church, Hants, the weddings of four of their number. The sisters Flor- aence and Elsie Doe were married |
to Daniel and Job Williams, and many old customs were carried out.
An aeroplane which landed in a field just outside Melton Mow- bray, struck a ridge in the field and was overturned. The pilot scrambled out uninjured.
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Spanish oranges are to be ex- ported in future, says a Madrid telegram, under rigorous State Bupervision, with a view to asHUT- ing the good quality of the fruit
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Two women were injured when
a motor-lorry skidded and mount-
ed the pavement in Charing. Cross Road and crashed into the railings in front of a police sec- tion house.
Sir Ernest Rutherford, Direc- tor of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, has been awarded a. prize of 1,000, dollars by the Sigma XI National Scientific Honour Fraternity, meeting at Philadelphia,
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Strabane and Donemana, Co. Tyrone, Old Age Pension Com mittee, granted a pension to a woman whose age was given as 99 and whose application was supported by a man who said he was aged 102.
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Another fatal skiing, accident has occurred in Switzerlaud: Two Italian students skiing in the ra- gion of the Matterhorn were overwhelmed by a sudden avalanche, and one of them has. died from the cold..
The body of Arthur Johnson, a street cornet player and Army pensioner, who mysteriously dis- appeared at the end of November when walking from Staines to Chertsey one foggy evening, Was Zound in a gravel pit midway be tween, the two towns.
The Rev. W. D. Budga Rector of Longford
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The old central power station of the General Post Office on the south side of the Thames opposite Temple Gardens is for sale.
Twenty-nine persons, including two women, were lynched in the United States during 1926, an in-. crease of thirteen over the pre- vious year.
Canon E. F. Forrest, a native of Birmingham, for 36 years the Vicar of Pemberton, Lancs, has died in his seventy-fourth year at Dormans, Surrey.
Colonel John W. Keyworth, who Mrs. Keyworth, widow of died the day following her hus band's funeral, was buried at Bishopsteignton, Devon.
Mrs. Kay, wife of the, Rev. W. H. Kaya retired clergyman, of East Hayes House, Bath, died while attending a suddenly mothers' union social party.
A youth, aged 17, who became so helplessly drunk on Christmas Day through drinking red wine that he had to be carried home by a policeman was bound over for 12 months at Blyth, Northumber land. *
""Beauty," an Australian cocka- too, which escaped from a licensed house at Greenwich and spent most of his freedom perch- ed on a clock tower in Deptford Broadway, has returned: to captivity.
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A former tramp.at St. Francis Home tramp. colony at Batcombe, Mid-Dorset, who was found êm- ployment in a sugar factory and earned from £8 to 24 a week, gave- a sack of sugar to the home..as a New Year's present.
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On the same day that Mr. W. R. Morris, the motor manu- facturer, contributed £104,000 to St. Thomas's Hospital; London, his wife met with a motor mishap, breaking her. collarbone,. when her car skidded,
James Robert Wilson, secretary of the South Shields. Branch of the British Legion, after attack- ing his wife while she was in bed, jumped out" of a window, was impaled on some iron palisading, and died soon afterwards. His wife is recovering.
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