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SUICIDE OF SIR HENRY PRIMROSE.
LONDON, June 19th. At the inquest on Sir Henry Primrosesa venlict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. Evidence was given by a son of Sir Henry to the effect that the deceased gentleman suffered from insomnia which followed a nervous breakdown. In a well letter to the witness Sir Henry said:
know that what. am about to do will set to be unpurilopable, but I have lust all hope of recovery toon my nervous break; down which is worse than formerly, think that ne treatment would be of any. use, I feel that my mind is giving way.
2] siz I shall be unable to do work, and I shall become aniserable wreck and a misery to myself and to all who
for me. It will be far better to end | this at once, shameful and horrible although the process may be. Tina will dull your pain. Your Distracted Father."
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LONDON, June 1st, A letter to The Times, signed by die tinguishabdica! men of Great Britain, Franes,
Belgium, America and Italy, includ ing the Directors of the Pasteur institutes in Paris and Brussels, and the Director of the United States General Public Health, as well as prominent men in other walks or life, pays an eloquent tribute to Sir Ronakl Ross and suggests marking the 25th anniver- sary of his discovery of malaria cure by the establishment in London, of a Ross In- stitute of Research for Tropical Diseases at an initial cost of £50,000 The signatories appeal for funds.
BECKETT AND CARPENTIER,
LONDON, June 22nd. There is a possibility that Carpentier and Beckett will meet shortly at Sunthampton, but only to lid each other farewell when Carpentier sails for America. Beckett has gone to Southampton to let his dostur see his d. He has been closely pursued by the promoter, Major Wilson, who hopes to induce champion to say if he will fight by the
20th July declares that if Beckett does
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LONDON, Jana 91st. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the daughter of Generaf Brusiloff, the Red Army
and formerly the Cars Commanderie Chief, was executed by the Bolshevika in Moscow for concealing sered vessels to prevent their falling into the hands of the sinformed that in con Bolsheviks. She was sequence of her father's service a petition for partion would be favourably considered.. She replied: "I cannot accept partion from the blood hands of the executioners of the Russian people."
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Loxton, Ji ne din 1. Like other noblemen Viscount Novar hús registered a company with a expital of £30,000 to minister and develop his estates, He himself and his wife are the principal subscribers. Viscomt Novar, who owns about 27,000 acres, is better known to the general pablie Sie Ronald Munro Forga son, who was Governor-General of Australin from 1914 to 1020.
AIR RACE TRAGEDY.
Loxnos, June 23rd.. The first aeroplane race of the year for the Grosvenor Challenge Cup (handicap met for. aeroplanes under 150 horse-power) was nuur- wed by a tragedy.
The Bristol monoplane containing Major EL. Foote caught fire, crashing near Chertsey. The pilot was burned to death
Nine competitors started in the race which was over 404 miles from Lympne to Croydon, Birmingham, Bristol, Croydon and Lyvipne, stopping half-an-hour at each place.
The race was won by Flight Lieutenant Longton.
ton. flying a Supwith 110 horsepower
machine.
It is generally accepted that the Chertsey tragedy was due to the crumpling up of one of the wings causing Major Footes machine to stagger and spin It dropped vertically on the roadway where it blazed up. The first arrivals on the spot gazed at the terrible which was a red-hot sight of the tutor tex cody doubled up in miss with Major the centre of it.
BECKETT BOWS TO KISMET,
LONDON, June 24th. The latest announcement in the Wilson- Beckett verbal battle comes from Joe Beckett
i found Carpentier's in a whosays, "I suppose, if Major Wilson insists,
worse condition. It is ap to Becker to say if he will fight."
Carpentier positively rebukes Beckett, saying the affair redects on him ladly. "Hu picked up my $500 when I asked for a postponement,
his hand must have been
unit for Joe Beckett has rejected! the suggeted new date for his fight with Georges Carpentier, namely, the 20th July, and has refused to meet the
Hand Frenchman on any date till his
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Carpentier has also consulted special ist with regard to injuries to his hands which he sustained" in his fight with Battling Siti and the specialist has an: nounced that Cerpentier's hands are in a worse condition than those of Beckett.
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ETNA ERUPTION.
Lospos, June 23rd. The Daily Mail's special correspondent has visited the scene of the Etna eruption and has provide an exact picture of what a lava flow really looks like,
I will have to fight on July 26th, though, I' cannot guarantee to show any form or make a fight of it."
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Telegraphing from Linguaglossa after night and dawn spent on the volcano he says that the scene in different from what he expectedl. It is not precisely terrible when it is possible to apprinely the lava at the risk Dr. Farnell, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, merely scorched face, but the relentless has refused to allow Mr. Lansbury, the flow isslowly crashing the houses out of shape Labour member of Parliament, to speak at a and thes entering their underhors The but has consented to Mr. Clynes, Mr. Walsh
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heap of smouldering lng, 50 feet high. stretching for miles,
of huge indered boulders from whence rise countless is colamas of smoke.
He proceeds:
tedy: "You know the mass is red hot only because the boulders on the edges exposing the
has been
owing to the Warden, Dr. Wells, who will be Dr. Farnell's successor as Vice-Chancellor, withdrawing consent on learning that the Communist of l'arliament. Kirkwood, was dục peak. It is possible that the Oxford City Labour! Party will arrange a meeting at which both.
are continually breaking Every der Messrs. Lansbury and Kirkwood, will be
glowing molten liquid
vant who rakes the embers smouldering in a kitchen
en grate gathers a miniature of erupting Etna into the ashipun. These elinkers, y they tumble, keep up a constant rattle. It is by Babes and trees burst into flames as
their falling
that the mass creeps for- ward.
asked to speak.
BRITISH OFFICERS IN INDIA.
LONDON, June 26th. as In the House of Lonli to-day, Lord Haglan the fierce embers crawl up at Taorminis fays the sate Allowance for married officers is asked why officers in India did not receive The Times correspondent a
at Etna still pours an apparently interminable those in England, why officers holding brevet flow of lava from 12 apertures. The main rank should forfeit two shillings daily ou stream moves extremely
ely slowly, but the very transfer to the Indian establishment and slowness suggests a a sinister, uncontrollable also whether officers on six months' home force. He saw a
He saw a house, overtaken suddenly, leave were liable to full income tax in both become a
ashes. The
The countries, A heap of advance sound of the perpetual
is even more Viscount Peel replied that the first the sight. Baffled rumbles qucation was baxed impressive than the
on a misconception, from the depths of the mountain, the cracklinasmuch as it assumed that the pay in
the was based on ing from the lava as it crumbles, disclosing both uses
trees a principle. He pointed out that generally all crante speaking the pay of Indian, officers wad more in the nature of a consolidated rate Experts consider that the eruption has whereas the pay of un officer in England was entered its second phase, but they cautiously more in the nature of pay recall that the eruption of 1892 lasted for allowances. Ile declared Elutt several six months.
fresh molten depth o
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