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A. Long Rua.
The 80th pertormance which recently took place, of “* A Little Bit of Flag" is the longest con. tinavas.raa of any play at the Criterion Theatre, London.
Ready for Demobilisation, The Minister of Labour informa local authorities that he is about] to appoint a number of local advisory committee- in connection with the national system of em. ployment exchanges in order to ́mesint and advise the Minister i with regard to the work of the ex- changes. It is proposed that tbeer committees at a later date shall exercise important functions in connection with demobilisation,
A Torpedo's Tall.
At Bow-street recantly a man who picked up a piece of a pro- jectie ba Jane 13 believed to have been discharged from sD. enemy aircraft was summoned for not communicating the matter to the military or police. The police described the fragment sa the tail end of an aerial torpedo. On behalf of the defendant it was said he had made good ase of it by showing it to a number of girls who were on the point of rashing from a factory into the elreets in slarm, than inducing them to keep under cover. The magistrate it flicted fine of 40.)
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Chief of Secret Police Convicted.
The trial of the Chief of the Secret Police, Philippides Bay, and his wife for bribery and oor. ruption, which has been oxcopy- ing public attention for 15 days, closed recently, when both prison- ers were found guilty on eight out of 13 counts. Philippides was sentenced to five years' con. finement and his wife to one year's hard labour, both in addition be. ing foed £800. They were fab jected to a hostile demonstration on leaving the court. Philippides Egared prominently in the ani earthing of the famons "Kit chener plot," and had been 286 years in the service of the Egypt isa Government,
favalid Passed for the Tranches. An applicant whom the House of Commons Tribunal ordered to be re-examined bad been pre- tionaly rejected, nézt clasred BI, end four days Ister B3. and, finally peered for general service. "I had double pneumonis, and I was examined the day after I left the infim sry, a few hours, before I went to a convalescent home," a jaweller passed for general service told the M.A.B. tribunal. The
to gochairmen said that if a ma bad to a gas valescent home he wAS not fit for general service. It was abrard to uses this man A. Re. jected 13 times, but now clas-ed C3 6 the record of Herbert: Griffithe, 23, who was yesterday given six months exemption by Shoreditch Tribunal.
Prize Money for Airmen. Pilote and observers of two aeroplaces which sided the des- traction of the German armed craiser Konigsberg in the Rufigi River, East Africe, in 1915, are to ebare in a prize bounty of £1 930 awarded in the Prize. Court Tecently. The seroplanes were piloted by Flight Commanders B. E M. Watkins and J. T. Call, R.N.A.S. The Kenigeberg was hidden by trees and bends of the river, but the almen's “spot ting "enabled the two sztucking monitors Severn and Mersey to moske bit after bit. One aerop IsDe sleo dropped bombe on the craiser. The President anid this Was the first appliestion for priz money by officers and meneerving in seroplanes.
Bomastic Raider Reproved. German papera recently pub.
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