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An Orława misasagu days the Gov- ernment has lesuad a call for 14,000 men for farm work is Canada this spring.
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Mrs Rebecca Buttarfeld, Caged 201; died In the infirmary at the Poor Law institution, Windsor.
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A. Paris message states that fol towing the Catalan plot the Govern ment; has reinforced the military police on the Franco-Spanish from tior.
At & county meeting at Leaming Accordiar to repeated uncon- ton It was decided to form a War Armed reports from Athens gravewickshire branch of the National unrest reigns in the Greek Army Playing Fields Association.kennere among the Royalist officers.
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The cries of a 5-months-old baby awakened one of the occupants, all of whom escaped, when fire occur red in a Bradford dwelling-house.
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Mussolini has"approved an #p- propriation from the Italian Red Cross funda for the relief of the Albanian sufferors from the recent earthquake.
For the last time in Salford, Man- chester, a rato was passed by. Salford justiçen under a 400-years- old Act; in future rates. will be
levied by the town council,
The participants in the recent Albanian revolt were court-martial- led at Scutari. Five were Ben- tenced to death. 46 to imprison- ment including life sentences:
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Charged at Hull with drun
George, Drinkwater, chance labourer asked for a A New York message states that to live in accordance with five workmen were killed and his name, ‘and.... In reply to nine were injured when an question. said he was not working." explosion occurred at the Dupont powderworks at Carney's Point, New Jersey.
The solicitors of the corporation announce that owing to differences British National Pictures have tar- On the suggestion of Mr. Arthur | minated M=> J.-D."Wiffiam's agree- James, Mayor of Newport, Monment as managing director... Mr. Wales Williams has issued a writ claiming mouthshire, several South towns held thanksgiving services | damages for breach of contract. for the restoration of peace in the coal industry.
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When the flying: boat on the Southampton to Guarnacy service of Imperial Airways, Ltd., was return- ing to the air port at Woolston Southampton, it made a descent of the Needles, Isle of Wight, owing to lack of fresh water
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Folkestone Town Council decided to grant licences to the omnibuses| of the Co-operative Transports Society, which had been previously society's refused because of the failure to carry out their time tables on the routes during the general strike.
Stolen from outside the Winter The Soviet press attaches, great Gardena, Dool, on September 1. Importance to the Korno court- while the owner, Lady Sargant, wife martial on four Communists and According to the "Potit Parisien" of Lord Justice Sergant, was open-violently attacks this alleged poll- It foreshadows following the recent pist agninating a charity bazaar, a five-seater tical persecution. Primo de Rivera and the King. motor-car has just been located in a foreign political consequences. twenty were arrested whereof four Portsmouth garage.
Meanwhile the Lithuanian Govern- were court-martialled and shot..
ment denies the reported execit A reprieve having been, refused,tion and states that the condemned Charles Houghton, a “butler,
received pardon in the last mo executed at Gloucester jail for the ment. murder of hiá employers, the Misses Minor Drinkwater Woodhouse and Martha Gordon Woodhouse, Burghill Court, Herefordshire.
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The League has submitted the Danube Commission controveray to the Hague International Court for definition of the Commission's com- petency which Roumania'queries..
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The Zoological Department of the" British Museum has received a gift
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of two exceptionally large speci-Bristol was passing on the opposite mens of the glassy bodies of uncer-line at Parkgato, near Rotherham talu prigin known ag tektitea, from (Yorkshire), o coal-laden mineral the F.M.S., presented to the Museum by Mr. J. B. Scrivenor.
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Viscount. Peel, who moved the second reading of the Electricity Bill which, he contended. was jua- tifted, because we were behind our competitors, we were not making as much progress as they were mak- Ing, and our progress พ.08 being made along wrong, uneconomical, and wasteful lines.s Viscount Haldane said that the bill was a real- ly great attempt to advance the con dition of industry and to make the condition of the working class bet- ter. In the opinion of Lord Weir 'the necessity for the bill was: over-
train, when one of the wagons jumped the rails and ripped open the sides of most of the coaches, The Czecho-Slovak Sokol-Com-killing nine persons and injuring munity, numbering 600,000 has re-twenty-seven. Among those killed solved to sharply protest against were the Rev. F. W Davis, a well
Vatican's veto forbidding, known Cheltenham preacher, and Catholic Potes and Serys to parti Mr. H. Wöllinan, of Shirley, a lead-whelming. Lord Banbury describ icipate in the Sokol-Congress com- ing grower of violna and chrysan. ed the scheme as nothing more or
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ita medium for introducing a
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lovely patterns and will undoubtedly fashion many of the season's smartast
Lines on the newest wrape indicate that the dolman type will predominate. Pelta ile, amoothly in diagonal lines and do not lend themselves to unusual pat-
The eye of Paris has taken in all the terns this winter. They possess a gen levely designs of nature as well a eral appearance of simplicity despite
patterns made conventional by man and the somewhat fuller lines forecast
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