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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930.

World News In Pictures

Nature's Secrets

Grand Duke Breaks Monte Carlo

Woman Governor

Mrs. Ethel Ely Pattison, one of the few expert woman seed analysis in the world, at work in her laboratory, weighing some imported soy beans, preparatory to making a complete analysis of their suitability to native culture. Surveys are also made for the guidance of purchasers of huge quantities of seed from abroad.

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Recants Ape Theory

The former Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia and his American wife, the former Audrey Emery, is reported to be the first to break the bank in the present Monte Carlo season. Duke Dimitri, who is really the last of the grand dukes living in traditional grand ducal splendour, achieved the break of the bank by the persistent use of his favourite number, 29.

Mexico's New President

Mrs. Oda Negbaur is the first woman to be appointed to a non-subalterns political office in Europe. Mrs. Negbaar has been made Governor

of the Province of Stainmark, in Austria.

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Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and one of the world's most distinguished zoologista and paleontologists, has retracted his ape-man theory because he is now con- vinced that the primordial man had long legs and short orms.

New Official Adviser

Left to right are Assistant Secretary of State Francis White, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Senora Donna Yvonne Lynch de Campos-Ortiz, President Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, Pre- sident Hoover, Senora Ortiz Rubio, Mrs. Hoover and Manuel Tellz, Mexican Ambassador to the United States. The new Mexican President is in hospital, having narrowly escaped assassination.

Paisley Cinema Fire

Harry A. Husted, Cleveland inventor And manufacturer, is planning to cut In two the Graf Zeppelin's 21-day world-ensircling record by performing the same feat in 10 days and 12 hours. Busted's proposed route is from San Francisco to Hong Kong, Siberia, Moscow, Paris, London, Newfoundland, New York and back to San Francisco.

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Viscount Dunedin, one, of Beetland's most distinguished jurlata, has been made official adviser to the King and Queen in private matters. He has served as Solleitor-General, Secretary and Lord Advocate for Scotland.

French Delegate

First photo to reach this Colony of the Glen Motion Picture Theatre, in Paisley, Scotland, where seventy-two children were killed and scores more injured in the worst tragedy that the British film. industry has over suffered. Cht dren were either crushed to death or asphyxlated by noxious fumes from burning films in a mad rush for liberty, when panic struck 2,000 children attending a New Year's Eve performance in the theatre.

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Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, Labour 'M.P., and one of the two women mem

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