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Above is seen the new French Cabinet, which includes six ex-Premiers. Left to right:---- Front row: MM. Briand (eight times Premier), Poincare (three times Premier), President Doumergue, Barthou. (ex-Frumier), Louis Marin, second row, MM. Leygues (ex-Premicr), Herriot (twice Premiër), Paluleve (twice Premier), Albert. Sarraut, third row, MM. Leon Perrier, Bokanowsky, Andre Turdfou, Queville, Andre Fallieres.

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"HINDENBURG”.

RE-FLOODED.

GALE IN SCAPA FLOW.

Rugby, Aug. 26.

ON SMOKING.

THE BUSINESS MAN'S HEALTH.

SMALL NEWSPAPERS.

SPACE-SAVING PLANS IN

ITALY.

In the case of most business Rome. July 14. Although the As the result of a severe gale men, meals and drinks are usually order to reduce all daily news- which swept over the Orkneys, the followed by smokes, if not actually papers to six pages came ag a sur- ex-German battle-cruiser "Hinden- punctuated by them, so that it is prise. Fascist journalists at onee burg," which is being raised in a natural sequence to discuss the began scarching for the bright Scapa Flow, has been re-flooded. question of tobacco at this stage. side of the situation,

An Ex-German destroyer, which Food, as we have seen, becomes a 'One writer thinks that less space is being used as a breakwater for poison when taken grossly In ex-(might be given to foreign correa- the "Hindenburg," damaged the cess of the requirements of the pondents: far too much was writ- flouting dock which is now under body, drink becomes a poison when ten on the English strike, and less repair. One of the large patches it is made the vehicle, or dilutent attention might be paid to the cut on the Hindenburg" also gave of drugs which are noxious when of Monsieur-Caillaux's clothes. way and some smaller patches also taken to excess. But both food It is also a good opportunity to require attention before further and drink are necessitics. The free the sporting columns of “all progress with the pumping can be same cannot be said of tobacco. the grotesque, conventional, "qati- resumed.

There is no necessity for anyone Italian language which has hither- The Times says that proper to smoke or otherwise to absorb to disfigured them." But the salvage operations will not be the toxic properties of the tobacco sacrifice should not be all on the ro-started until next week plant. Tobacco is definitely a side of journalists; official'oraters, | British Wireless.

poison. The practice of smoking he thinks, might curtail their is an acquired taste and one ac- speeches with advantage, quired in some cases only after An eminent journalist, Emílio great tribulation. It is accord Fielli, says it is absurd for writ ingly argued by a gertuin type of ers to indulge in lengthy discu person that the habit is, therefore. gions on any subject when there is radically and essentially wrong a complete absence of debate, and and deleterious.

NEAR RIOT.

(Continued from Page 1).

this edict of Mussolini re-awakens his old ambition of founding a diminutive paper with potted [news, entitled "For those who have

no time to lose.".

the President's emissary but they

Yet I know five or six failed to appear. Colonel Lang- horne auspects foul play of some

Smokers who freely mix Still with their fellows. kind because the other side' had their full list of speakers.

So sang Calverley, and it la real- for the Another account of the incidently, a sufficient answer

Ermete Zacconi, the great actor, says: About 100 Moro chiefs, in-practical man, for the fact is that cluding several local sultans, call-almost all of us smoke nowadays, also has a suggestion for reform. ed on Colonel Carmi Thompson and we manage to carry on... More He wants all theatrical critics to today and discussed views regard-over, there is no doubt that man be silent for at least fifty years, ing independence,

The chiefs has smoked since the dawn of his-when apparently actors will have who travelled a long distance tory, and perhaps for countless educated public taste in the right made a pictureseque appearance

generations before history began. direction without any firesome, as they assembled in their turbans is impossible to discover how obstruction.

long the North American.races It is remarkable what a lot of and native costumes,

had smoked before Raleigh disco-people are invoking silence. The The first speakers who entered vered the practice and introduced official organ of the Vatican, makes the home of Governor. Orville

it into this country in compara-complacent remarks on the Johnson where the meeting was held, demanded immediate inde-tively recent times, but the earliest economy in news, which so often pendence but it was said after Chinese records show that they consists of crime. For over fifty ward that they received pensions years ago.

were smokers many thousands of years the "Osservatore Romano” There is good reason has succeeded, in saying" all It from the insular government. to believe that the use of tobacco wanted to say to the, whole Roman Other leaders asserted that may be bracketed with tilling of Catholic world within the space! majority of the Moras preferred to the soil, brick-making, and the of four sheets, and has, therefore, remain under "American rule and manufacture of alcohol by fermen; no liking for the voluminous news- desired American teachers. They tation as among the first uses made paper-an innovation, it says "of said they had surrendered to the by man of the advantages confer-modern times. United States and had been dis-red upon him by the adoption of armed by the United States, be the upright position, the conse- Jieying that they would-be-pro-quent-freedom-of-his-upper-limbs,

tected from Filipino rule.

place of Miskolcz.

Captain A. HA Colvite of the development of his thumb, and Pevenseyroad, St. Leonards-on- the potentialities of this more Sen, for over 50 years a magistrate; highly convoluted brain.

has died at Hastings. In the A new stalactite grotto of con-

It has been stated on the highest morning he had presided at a sit- siderable extent has been discover-authority that "man cannot live ting of the Hastings Petty Ses. ed at the Hungarian watering by bread alone," and it may well signs. Towards evening he said be that his complex organism he felt.tired and went to lic down. really thrives best with the as-He died a few minutes later. Bills-have been laid-before-the-sistance of some of those artif Austrian Parliament for the rati- cial products, which in the course: fleation of alterations to the exist of evolution he has been enabled ing tarif agreements with to discover. After all, the results at Worcester recently for the com- Czechoslovakia and with the of Nebuchadnezzar's classic ex-ing regatta, the eight of the Wor Belgian-Luxembourg Customs periment in the "return to nature"cester College. for the Blind came Union. The proposed tariff al-do not appear to have been sat- into collision with a skiff propell- terations in the agreement with Isfactory either from the mentaled by a King's School boy named Holland have also been laid before or physical point of view, and the Sponge. The prow of the Blind Parliament.

royal investigator abandoned his College bont gashed his thigh, and research in order to return to the he was taken to the Infirmary. As a result of a serious outbreak highly artificial conditions of the

of cholera at Johore Lunatie Asy-Babylonian Court, no doubt feel-

While practising on the Severn

lum, which spread to the town it-ing that the growth of talons and that the possession of a human. self, Johore has been declared a feathers was not in itself a worthy nervous system, impress a certain suspected area. Cholerà first broke Jend.

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Alleged to be the man who coolie, without employment, was out in the Asylum on August 14 Tobacco then is definitely a that combination of stimulant and caused an awkward "predicament arrested yesterday by the police, when eight casce and five deaths poison, but it is. one for which sedative which is supplied by what to a party of bathers in the New following the recovery of the were reported. On August 15, tolerance le very quickly establish are called "narcotic drugs and Territories by stealing some of missing property.

He was to three fresh cases were reported and ed, and just as opium, strychnine, are not required by other mam their clothing whilst it was left have been charged before a Dis-" on August 16, additional 16 cases and many other vegetable pofsons malion animals. It is, therefore, in a car on the roadside, a Chinose trict Court to-day. There were two cases in the town, ed in attitable doses, so the majo-man should abandon these artif were reported, with three deaths. have their uses when administer-no more logical to suggest that

reported on August 16 and 17rity of amokers not only experl-cial aids. because animals do with. Since these dates, no fresh cases ence no ll-results, but probably fout them than it would be to urge have occurred either in the asylum dorive a certain benefit from their him to live on grass like shepp and or in the town.

habit. It must be remembered other beasts of the field.MAM

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