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THE POISON GAS.
Death Roll Now Numbers 10.
A NEW ERA.
Woman As World Ruler.
MATHER MINE.
The Latest Death
ARTIST'S PROPHECY.
171 IN HOSPITAL.,
Police Confiscate Foodstuffs That Japanese In London Looks Ahead
May Be "Gassed."
Hamburg, Yesterday, The phosgene incident death-roll now numbers 10 while 171 are be- ing treated in hospital.
4
The police have confiscated all the foodstuffs likely to be affected by the gas.--Reuter.
GREEK
To:1947.
Roll
82 DEAD.
Survivor In An Air-Locked Compartment.
London, May 4. Brownsville, Penn, Yesterday. "The year 1947 will witness the The death-roll at the Mather commencement of a new era in the Mine has now reached 82 and it world's history, in which humanity is feared that the remaining 115. will be dominated by women, and will be added, though one miracul- national and racial lines will dis-ously survived for 60 hours in an air-lock-Reuter's American Ser- appear.".
POLITICS.markable prophecies made
"A. JOURNALIST SPEAKS.
This is one of a number of
re- by Yoshio Markino, the Japanese art-
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NEW CAPITAL.
THE DELIGHTS OF NEW DELHI.
VICTOR HUGO'S mér faltert
MARVELLOUS CITY.
LIVELY SCENES ON RESIGNA-ist engaged to Miss Elizabeth. TION OF GOVERNMENT. Williamson, of Kalamazoo, Michi- gan, in the course of an exclusive interview with the United Press.
"Women are the fundamental Athens, Yesterday, sex and men their complement," reassembled continued Markino. "Women hald the sweetness and honey of life, and true happiness can only come
A new city has risen from the through their ascendancy.
dust and heat of India. A garden "War-like nations and nations city now stands on what Was -scenes which believe too much in mate- fifteen years ago-a barrea plala,
When Parliament
the resignation of the Government was announced and the sitting was suspended..
The Tsaldarists and Metaxista cbjected, and. boisterous ensued.
New Delhi, May 4.
rial success, both tend to under- treca and flowers grow where only The Speaker left the house and rate women because they cannot a few mud-built Indian villages the Vice-Speaker, who is a Metax-fight, nor earn so much money as formerly stood, and the famous ist, took the chair.
Gallery-Reuter.
the dust and cool the wind.
acres
This
& sheer block of The Opposition held a short alt-men. They are, however, the true Delhi Ridge,
quarzite which formerly radiated upholders of civilization. ting by itself but no shorthand
"I base my predictions of a new heat across the plain for miles, lo writers were present.
An amazing feature of the alt-renaissance and a world dominated covered for thousands of ting was that a journalist address-by women starting in 1947, on the with trees and ahrubs which hold el the house from the Press Bacred writings of Japan. These
say the first evidences of the re-modern miracle is the New Delhi,
India's new capital. naissance will become markedly noticeable in 1933 or 1996 and cal- Fifteen years ago three men, minate in some big event in 1947. Captain Swinton, Mr. Brodie, and M. Kafandaris has resigned the These writings predicted the great Mr. Lutyens, (the latter now Sir leadership of the Progressive war and I am certain that events Edward), arrived in India as mem- Liberals owing to a divergence of will bear out their predictions of bera of the first Planning Commis opinion between himself and M. the new renaissance."
. Cabinet Resigns.
Athens, Yesterday.
The Cabinet has resigned.
Venczelos. He is forming & new
| party. Reuter.
POLAND AND “REDS."
THE TRIAL OF WHITE RUTHENIAN COMMUNISTS.
AGED HAWKER.
MAGISTRATE'S KINDLY CON- CERN FOR AN OLD MAN.
NO LICENCE,
sion. Their task was to give | India a new capital on the area of some five aquare miles of wind- awept territory, flanked by the broken walls of Purana Kila (In- drapat), one of the many Delhis of the past, and the Delhi Ridge a veritable furnace which would blister the skin in hot weather, and which scorched the entire territory At the Central Magistracy this with an intense and continual heat morning, Leut.-Col. F. Eaves,
wave. There were but few : Warsaw. Yesterday. D.S.O., showed concern for
a 72. Thirty-seven White. Ruthenian year-old Chinese who was charged on the plain; a few large Moham Communists have
médan tombs, surrounded by thick been found with hawking without a licence..
jungle, were the most impressive sights on the landscape.
THE SENTENCES.
There will be one collection from the pillar-boxes and one livery of ordinary correspondence as on Sundays, and also one de-guilty. Four, ex-members of the The Magistrate decided to dis- livery of registered correspondence at 9.00 a.m.
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trees
On a spur of Delhi Ridge, jut ting abruptly away from the main section of the sizzling rock, stood the small village of Ralaina. Pro- phetically enough, the tomb of the Sikh who foretold the coming of Col. Eaves remarked that the the white race stood near the set- accused was too old to work, and tlement, although the records of If he could not get a lience, how the ancient prophet do not show ARMS & MUNITIONS. was he going to live? He inquired that he predicted that the white If there was not a place where. old man would some day blast away the people like the accused could go to, crest of Raisina spur to make way and the Inspector replied in the for the construction of three great negative.
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THE BILL BEFORE DUTCH SECOND CHAMBER.
TREATY OF 1925.
The Hague, Yesterday,
Is Worship said that the man plete. certainly could not stay in the Fifty miles of roads and avenues streets until he died. Addressing are complete to-day in the formerly The Second Chamber passed by the accused, the Magistrate said deadlate area. Each thoroughfare | 64 votes to 10 a bill approving of that he could not hawk without a is lined with forest treea, and the
the Treaty of 1925 regarding, licence; and therefore he (the
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would, however, discharge him with a caution and advise him to go to one of the Chinese hospitals and see, what could be done for him there."
NOVEL EXCUSE.
'A DAGGER.
The Soviet tribunal at Smolensk WHY A CHINESE WIFE USED in trying cases of an alleged evon- omic counter-revolutionary plot, sentenced to death two men and awarded king Imprisonment to six others.Reuter.
TO CHASE EVIL SPIRITS!
at city plan in the world. There are bungalows and community dwellings for 85,000 inhabitants,
settled on a green carpet of trees, grass and flowers. The Moham- medan tombs, once almost hidden by jungle, are now surrounded by well-kept gardens, their domes ris- | ing above the new garden city.l
A Mall almost two miles long and a quarter of a mile wide call- ed-Ringsway, forms the backbone of the city plan, extending from the Raisina spur to a great arch- When a Chinese, living in Laf-way commemorating the Indian chikok was yesterday charged be-armies. The palaces of the Indian fore Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kow- Princes are to be grouped around loon Magistracy, with the unlaw the arch. Already one ruling ful possession of a dagger without prince, ELB. the Nizam of Hydere- a permit, be offered the novel ex bad, has erected his palatial rest cusa that the weapon had been used dence within the princely circle. Before Mr. Schofield, at the How for the purpose of chasing away colour, and material, are to fol by his wifs, without his knowledge, Others, which may vary in style, foon Magistracy, this morning, a evil spirits during his brother's Japanese named Tajima was recent Illness. He did not know Within two years the Viceroy is
How charged with being drunk and with where his wife got the dagger expected to move into the new Gov- behaving in a disorderly manner at The Magistrate discharged the de-
ON THE “JAG.” HIS PERIODICAL VISIT TO THE MAGISTRACY.
His Worship: I seem to remem ber, his face. He has been here
the Yaumati Ferry Wharf yester fendant with a caution, and order ernment House, a palatfal marvel day evening.
ed the confiscation of the weapon which can hardly be conceived. In
this age. The assembly Building When à motor car tout who was large cular structure
chargcently designed, is complete.And
Boon New Delhi will take her
| before, hasn't balne
en errested in West Point,
Inspector Marke: Numorous ed before Liet
| times, I think, your Worship,\\|D.S.0, at the
His Worship He seems to run this mor
straight for a few months and the
then break out again.
Inspector - Marks: When? breaks cut, he does so strong) (Laughter)
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