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Madrid, Yesterday.
Scotland Yard states that the boatb The new broom is busy in Spain news that Mrs. Wiliam R. Leels (ex-found in the British Museum un- and already orders are reported to Princess Xenia of Russia) has obtain-doubtedly contained explosive matter,
have been issued for the dissolution Jed un interlocutory decree of divorce | Lut the extent of it cannot be stated
of the National Assembly (the Die- from William B. Leeds, junior son of unt!! the report of the Home Office ex- the inplate mugrate. The judge wha
perts gives the result of the analysis.—while old political parties will be tatorship's puppet parliament), signed the deeree amumunced that it Reuter. was based on the referee's findings in the divorce suit, and he was unaware of the penunds on which the action
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Princess Xanic and her husband were Junch nineteen when they were married in Paris in 1921, Mr. Lord's step- mother, Princess Anestatia of Greece, opposed the marriage. Reuter's (American Service.
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Rugby, Yesterday. The American delegates to the Naval Conference were the guests of the Prime Minister at Chequers yesterday, and were conducted by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald on a lour of Buckingham- shire, visiting many places which have historic links with their ancestral New England. The first half was made at Milton's Cottage at Chalfont St. Giles, which the great poet used as a refuge during the plague of 1665, and where he meditated "Paradise Regained."
The visitors were even more in ipressed with Penn's simple grave near Jordans, the meeting house of the early Quakers and with the farmhouse, and barn built from the timbers of the May-
lower, in which the early settlers voyaged to New England. The graves of Burke, Edmund Waller and Disraeli, and other notable places of interest also visited.-British Wireless
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Hull tramwaymen who are under notice because they continued to work during the General Strike are determined to fight their case in
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London, Saturday. Scotland Yard detectives are enquiring into the startling discovery of a bomb in the Indian Room in the British Museum. The bomb was discovered following a telephone message from a stranger saying that he overheard. Indian students saying they intended, placing a bomb in the Museum. All the effeials of the Murcum were imme- diately notified and a thorough search revealed a bomb which was obviously of home manufacture wrapped in a newspaper, hidden on the first landing a short distance from the spot where the Indian exhibits are arranged.
•An alarm was raised and the police summoned. They cut off the fuse from the bomb and took the latter to the police atation for experts to report Until the receipt of the report, it can. not le said whether it was a deliberate intention"
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London, Yesterday.
A responsible official of the British Museum, when interviewed, expressed considerable scepticism regarding the ceriousness of the find. He was of the opinion that it was probably a hoax.
The result of the experts' investiga tion regarding the bomb, which was found wrapped in a piece of newspaper, is not yet known.
encouraged to open campaigns for the imminent elections.
Other measures of reform include the re-instatement of artillery. officers and university professors who were made to retire recently on acount of their respective activi ties against the dictatorship, and a and penalties.-Reuter. complete revision of certain fines
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Canton, Yesterday, Admiral Chan Chak has returned to Canton from his expedition to the Hai- Ron Island. His marines have achieved a qulets, but decisive victory the island, culminating in the capture the rebel leader, Wu Tao-nam and over 1,000 prisoners and 1,300 rifles at Hai- how. The prisoners and rifles are be- ing brought back to Canton by the gun- boots, which are expected to arrive shortly,
New Gunboat Trial
Nanking, Yesterday. The trial of the newly constructed Superintendent Parker in charge gunboat "Min Chuan' has given com- uf a special branch of Scotland Yard nieto satisfaction has taken charge of
to Admiral Chan tigations and is endeavouring to trace Navy. The length of the gunboat is: the inves-Shao-kuan, Acting Minister of the the man who telephoned a warning. It 200 feet, tonunge 600, speed - 18 is understood he gave the name of nautical miles, equipoient-10 gans, Ali Khan.Reuter.
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Washington, Saturday. The Senate has confirmed the appointments of Mr. Alexander Moore as Ambassador to Poland and Mr. Brodie to be Minister to Finland.--Renter's American Ser-
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with a crew of 150 men, including off- cors. It was sent to the upper Yang- taze River for patral work under the command of the 2nd Neval Squadron.
Youthful Communists who de monstrated before the White House at Washington, and were arrested, have been ordered to be sent home by President Hoover, who declines to offer them "a cheap martyrdom."
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