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HUGE CLAIM BY ROYALTY

IN PRAGUE

Prague, To-day.

of

of

Duchess Dorothea-Marie Schleswing-Holstein, daughter the late Prince Philip of Coburg and Princess Louise of Belgium, is to sue the Czecho-Slovakian State for recovery of the sum of 133,- 090,000 crowns-

The sum represents the proportion of her father's estate to which she claims to be legally entitled.

It appears that when the co-heirs of the late Prince Philip sold the latter's domains in Slovakia to the Czech State, they failed to take the Duchess es claim into account, and subsequently alleged financial inabil- ity to meet the claim.

The suit has created somewhat of

Trans-Ocean

a sensation.

STILL HUNTING FOR

SOVIET AIRMEN

Moscow, To-day.

It is officially announced here that continued bad weather in the Arctic region still prevents fur-

ther progress in the search for the missing Russian plane which start- ed on a flight from Moscow to Fair- banks, Alaska, and has not been seen since.

One airman, however, succeeded în taking off from the delta of the Kolyma River in the eastern Arctic, and has flown eastwards to the Schmidt Peninsula, where he is now in radio communication with the icebreaker Krassan, also parti- cipating in the search.

Sir Hubert Wilkins, the famous British explorer, took off from Ak- lavik, Alaska, to join in the search but was obliged to return owing to unfavourable weather. Ocean.

Trans-

PARDON ENDS A LIFE SENTENCE Woman Who Loved Corsican Bandit

Mlle. Madeleine Mancini, former

friend of the Corsican bandit, Nonce Romanetti, has been pardon-

after serving eight years of a sentence of hard labour for life.

Gas Masks, a New English Custom

A sign of the times in good old England is this picture made during Chatham Navy week. The oilskinned sailors at the left are members of the "decontamination squad" rehear

LONG LIVE

YOUR MAJESTIES

eye of gasmasked villagers.

Royal procession

An idea of the extraordinary precautions taken for safeguarding the king and queen of England when they visited North Ireland is given by this photo showing armored cars leading the royal procession in Belfast Riots and bombing marked the arrival of royalty as fac- tions, presumably from South Ireland, seeking complete independ ence of Ireland from England kept the capital of North Ireland in an uproar.

HOW POOR TOWNS

ARE HELPED High Grants By State

penditure in the average county Out of every £100 of public ex- She was sentenced at Bastia, borough, 39 7s is met out of grants Corsica, in 1928, on a charge of from the National Exchequer, ac- having abetted other bandits in cording to "Local Government Fin- avenging Romanetti's death. Some ancial Statistics," published by the years later her guilt was question-Stationery Office. ed and her sentence was reduced to 15 years' hard labour, and since largely by the help of these grants The statistics show that it is then a campaign has continued both that local authorities especially in in Corsica and in France in favour.

her the poorer areas, are able to main- Shortly after the war Romanetti other social services-

tain good standards in health and went to the village of Lava, near Ajaccio,

and asked Madeleine £100 of public expenditure, £56 48 In St. Helens, Lanes, out of every Mancini's father to shelter him is met out of Government grants; for the night. He fell in love with at the other end of the scale is Madeleine, who remained faithful Bournemouth, with only £14 to him despite constant ill-treat-

In rural areas, where agricultur-

AMERICA'S 24-HOUR WATCH ON FAR EAST

Washington, To-day,

At a press conference on board the yacht "Indian" yesterday, Pre sident Roosevelt reiterated that the Administration is still on a “24-hour watching basis as far as invoking the Neutrality Act is concerned.

The President added that 7,789 Americans were still in China. Reuter

6Ft. Waves From The Queen Mary

Thousands of holidayma

as Romanetti was leav-tion from Exchequer grants is still had to run to

al land pays no rates, the propor- the beach at Ryde, Isle o Mancinis house, he was shot dead Some months later a te ties it is over

higher. In 47 out of the lative of Madeleine. Antoine Mau-

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and Rutland

er 70, the case being Huntingdon

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waves more than up by the Quen Mary

Bathers, warned by men, hurried from

Rowing

boats

their duties under the watchfu

FREE STATE AND LONDON NEWSPAPERS

Dublin, To-day.

The attitude towards the Irish Free State of English newspaper correspondents in Dublin will come up for discussion in the Dail im- mediately that body reassembles.

Political circles here allege that the

correspondents carry on a systematic campaign of misrepre sentation against the Free State

It is pointed out that the new Free State Constitution will con- tain provisions enabling the Go

ment to deal with certain Pre

paigns against the State and carried on within the latter's fron- tiers-Trans-Ocean.

“RAUCOUS VOICES”

IN CLASSROOMS

Teachers Criticised

Rancous-voiced teachers were criticised by Mr. Frank Roscoe, senior tutor, speaking at the City of London Vacation Course at Bed- ford College.

Many teachers used their voices wrongly and gave themselves un- necessary fatigue in the classroom, he said.

Long-suffering children had to sit and listen to raucous-voiced teachers for four or five hours day. They should take troubl to learn something about voice pro-

God

Say amust

my

On My Own Simas

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m another way and

should say mstead. My job is not

these children

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