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OUTRAGE AT SOFIA.
COMMUNISTS KILLED WHEN DISCOVERED IN HIDING,
Soria, April 19tà. Beveral agrarian leaders who support 10 principle a coalition with the Com munista, and also certain members of
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illegal executive committee of the Communists, were discovered biddan in ia Soba. Some of them resisted ad were killed by persons maddened by the loss of relatives in the Cathedral explosion
DISCOVERIEN BY POLICE,
PARIS, April 19th A mesage from Solis states that the police have discovered that the authors of the Cathedral outrage ire alleged to Be Yankot and Minkoff, president and vice-president, respectively, of the Cen-
tral Communist Committee.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21ST, 1925
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GERMAN PRESIDENCY. VIEWS OF VON HINDENBURG ON COUNTRY'S FUTURE.
HANOVER, April 19th.
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PORT SAID, April 20th Divers report that no apparent damage Standing for an hour like a graven has been done to the hull of the ma
SCOTTISH LETTER.
sent iroment
image, attired in his Field-Marshal's Carnarvonshire, She has finished reload-in England. is infinitely worse than
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uniform and wearing the Iron Crossing and is proceeding on her voyage, Marshal von Hindenburg this morning. reviewed a parade of some 2,000 "goos stepping members of the Nationalist organisations.
This was his first public appearance since his nomination for Presidental elec-
tion,
Interviewed by Hruter's correspondent, Marshal von Hindenburg said that it
REVOLT IN PORTUGAL. REBELS SURRENDER AFTER BEING. BOMBARDED:
LISBON, April 19th The révolutionary forces surrendered this morning.
The Government forces bombarded the
THE IMMENSITY OF SPACE. DISTANCE OF THE ANDROMEDA NEBULA.
FEAR OF FAMINE IN RUSSIA. INCREASING SCARCITY OF GRAIN.
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SCOTLAND'S HOUSING SHORTAGE.
The information in the Soviet Press GREATER THAN IN ENGLAND,
One of the finest of the spiral nebulas with regard to the winter crops is not writer in the [FROU OUR OWN CORRESPUNDEŃT.]
treat Nebula in Andromeda, which weather of the beginning of February, in the heavens is that known as the very reassuring, says
Tinter. After the abnormally warm EDINBUROR, March 18th.
moonless nights is plainly visible to the The housing shortage was acute in naked eye and quite a fine object in a good cold wayn set in, and the
severe froak pair of binoculars. Scotland before the war, and at the pre-
Many attempts ava was expected to damage the delds unpro- been made to determine its distance, and sected by snow. In the north-western. a recent measurement by an American provinces a partial resowing of the area The special difficulty in
astronomer is reported in a recent issue under winter crops is inevitable, the Scotland is that housing accommodation
af Popular Astrowany.
amount of seed necessary for the purpose has to be planned on an altogether die
According to this, the urbula is pre-being estimated at from 17,000 to 21,000 ferent standard from this suitable Southbably at least 130,000 light years from cons." of the Tweed. That is particularly the
the earth-that is, the light from it takes ease in the West of Scotland, where the that enormous period to traverse the gall Bennicheskais lies, there is an acute In the province of Vladimir, says the "normous industrial expansion of the separating us, and light moves at 3001, last century has led to immigration on kilometres a second. A light year the cora crisis. The peasants, fearing a a large scale, not only from other parts distance light moves in one year is coming famine, are buying grain, thereby of Scotland. but from Ireland. The re- 5,890,348,300,000 miles, so that "the distreating an increased demand on the part sult has been an intensifed growth of tance of the Andromeda Nebula is of the urban population of this industrial slums. 77,000 in 1980 has become approximately
in Glasgow a population of 5,520,00,00,000,000,001 Billion)(approxi-area. In the district town of Ruvroy the
and a
is being rationed.
he is appointed' President he will act barracks, which the rebels were holding extraordinary congestion of people in the earth in little over one second, and from are the highest in the land. ·
About 100 were wounded.
ALL IS QUIET. Deputy Cunha Leal, who is believed to be the bead of the revolutionary maTEL ment, is a prisoner in the republican guard barracks, where the Cabinet is
constitutionally and protect the laws of the Reich. He said he was specially interested in the question of a security part guaranteeing the frontiere of France and Belgium. He asserted that Ger- many's eastern frontier must be altered by egotiations, and he enigmatically remeeting. plied to a question whether de favoured-a
All the Communist leaders have been Republic or Monarchy by stating that AFTERIPU
his personal wishes were of no avail"
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HIS OUTLOOK PEACEFUL
Captain Kartone, who "is alleged to have procured the explosives used in Marshal von Hindenburg, replying to a Cathedral explosion, committed questionnaire submitted by Reuter's cor- anicide, and his Wife is said to have respondent, said that if he is chosen Pre- be killed by the Communists in or aident he will respect the military as well der to prevent her revealing the plot, Ans the other provisions of the Versaill Cathedral servant, who has been arrested,
is alleged to have been bribed to permit a
man to place the infernal machine in
position.
TO STUDY SITUATION. Col... Wedgewood, M.P., Major P. B. Malone, M.P., und Mr. W. Mackin- der, M. P.. have arived at Sofia to study the situation.
The War Minister, General Velkoff, in the course of an interview, declared that an increase in the army is indispensable to maintain order, and that steps will be taken to conscript anenditional 16.004
сен.
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KING'S NARROW ESCAPE,
Soria, April 90th,
Treaty.
His outlook was a peaceful
one. He was convinced that it would
warlike adventures, which after the war he had always opposed, because they could only end disastranaly,
Traffic in the city is absolutely normal and the banks are open."
All is quiet.
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HEUTERS AMERICAN SERVICE.] COAL-MINERS STRIKE. NO SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT IN NOVA SCOTIA,
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де
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At that distance no telescope "would the star that burst out in the nebula must show a body as bright as our sun, for have been, when of the seventh magnitude, more than 100,000 times brighter than the sun, which itself is 152.000,000,000 times brighter than a first-magnitude stabula
But not even the Andromeda marks, it is believed, the boundary of the universe, if there is a boundary, for, by similar refined methods a distance of 1,000,000 light years has been calcuated for another nebula, which would place 30,000 billion miles more distant than
Some idea of the vastness of this dis- a million today, and the area wherein
tance can be obtained when we remember people lived has not been spread out a great deal sincs 1880. There
a similar that light passes from the moon to the
the s
earth in eight and a bal: sua to the counts of Lanarkshire. The shortage of minutes. skilled
is also more acute than in
Some years ago a new star appeared in England. We have to change over from
the Andromeda Nebula, which, when stone, the native building material, to brightest, was about the seventh magni, brick. There were few firms in the old tude, too faint to be seen with the naked days able to undertake the construction
it remained "at, the seventh of brick buildings and even to-day a
magnitude
itude only
a few days, and thep brick house in Scotland is something of slowly faded away, being of the sixteenth Bovelty. Aberdeen has a special pro-magnitude, barely visible in the biggest telescopes, six months later, This star blem, because hitherto ita houses had been
was very near the brightest part of the built of granite. Generations bad accus tomed Aberdonians to granite, and brick
nebula, and was probably immersed in buildings were not only disliked, but were unknown to contractors. As à con- sequence it is impossible at the present day to get a house built in Aberdeen * paying rent. Put shortly the situation all over Scotland is simply that in regard to ordinary house-build- ing labour and materials demand is far ahead of supply. The real and only solu- tion lies, in our availing ourselves as speedily Job possible of alternative methods of equstruction. A curious state of affairs prevails in Glasgow, where the needs for houses is more clamant than in any other part of the country. We are told that ning out of every ten builders in that city are employed upon the con- struction of barks, insurance offers, nad places of entertainment. So bad is the Mtate of affairs that it was aggrated at this luxury building compulsorily sa a housing conference in Glasgow to stop
that more houses to live in might be that Scottish housing experts have come erected. It is disappointing to learn to the ecclusion that the steel house is relatively dearer than the brick hous It is calculated that the rent required for a stee! house of three apartinents would be lia 3d. per week compared with rent of 9s. id. for: a brick house of corresponding accommodation. Even The strike has been in progress six although the steel houses should prove unpractical on the ground of expens, werks.
the great firts of the Beardmore and the Weirs, both of Clydeside, are desery ing of all praise for the way in which they tackled the question. It may be mentioned that his experiments have already cost Lord Weir something like
£75,000-a
fre example of public spirit...
Mr. Wolvin, president of the British be foolish for Germany to indulge in Empire Steel. Corporation, has issued a statement, which says that, negotiations between himself. Mr. Lewisrepresenting the urited miur workers of America, and Mr. Armstrong, Premier of Nova Scotia. and other Government officials, have not resulted in a settlement of the strike of 12,000 miners, owing to the unreasonable attitude of the Union. The Union hap refused to consider the reduction of wages, despite the fact that the Com pany's cont operations recently have been purenndlurted at a loss.
As a military expert, Marshal von Hin denburg said he did not think Germany was even capable of defending herself against the small neighbouring States, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, which each possessed bigger standing anvies and were prateted by inilitary alliances.
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"· RECEIVES THE PRESS. Marshal Vou Hindenburg, in AURIC of his Presidential candi-" dature, this evening received her of German ant, foreign journ. alist. Me read out, in vigoróna," It has been ascertained that the in
clear voice, a statement, of which the fernal machine, which caused, the explo- theme was the need of restoration for a former officer,perefa! labour of that spirit of unity air, was loaded by named Mincof. It was charged with which characterized Germany ip the war. melivite and detonated by a fuse, lit by This should be/unity unconcerned with a youth whom the beadle smuggled into party polities, but the outcome of the
wholesome feeling of a Nationalist.
the bell-tower
it is now Patablished that the erine
was the work of the Agrarian Com munists.
Another telegrami shows that King Boris and a very narrow escape; he had intended to be present at the Cathedral ceremony, but at the last moment was prevailed upon not to expose himself. Ife sent General Davidoft as his repre- sentative. The fytter was (1 blown to bit) when the bomb expanded close to the throne, rrected' for King, Boeis. Most of those killed were close to the Royal chair, which was drumlished by falling
Masonry.
A SİGNIFICANT SEQUEL.
SOFIA, April 26th,
As a sequel to the outrages, Bulgaria bar asked permission of the Allies to increase her army by 10,000 men. The Conference of Ambassadors will settle the
matter.
It is noteworthy that the Conference recently approved the Bulgarian request for an additional 3,000 "men.
FRENCH FINANCIAL CRISIS.
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT READY
FOR PARLIAMENT. ́ ́·
PAKIS, April 20th.
A ministerial statement, which will be read to-morrow ic Parliament, will stress the emergency "for a settlement of the Suance and security problemt, without applying extraneous measures,
The statement will demand a rapid vote on the budget, and securing a Balance before the establishment. of new taxCK. It will ground. security on the basis laid down at Geneva by M. Herriot and M. Briand. It will state the necessity for national union and concord nud suggest bat "the" maintenance of the French Embassy at the Vatican would be com patible with absolute respect for the so-called laical lawa-Novar
As President of the Reich, he would unly think of his duty to strive for the best interests of the Fatherland on the basis of the Constituition and with regard to Germany's present, position in the world. He asked them not to expect frum in a programme of a party man whe entered into detailed political issues. The most important consideration was to restore German prestige in the world.
Nothing, he added," was more capable of jeopardizing the peaceful object of restoration of the Fatherland and colla toration in the progress of the world than blatant falsehoods about threatening German military reaction having inspired in candidatnie. He emphasised that he was only striving to ensure German sovereignty and freedom with a place in
the sun of Nations. To attain this, the grave charge of our war guilt must he dropped. You will surely believe that ali this prattle about my unconstitutional plans and reactionary and other danger ous machinations are scuseless," -
and
The Marshal's address, was frequently interrupted by shouts of "bravo. enthusiastic cheering-especially with reference to war guilt.
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LEAVES KANO EN ROUTE TO IBADAN.
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MR. KENT COOPER SUCCEEDS MR. F. R. MARTIN.
NEW YORK, April 26th.
IRELAND IN SCOTLAND).
that in Andromeda.
THE RED ARMY. "BOLSHEVIZATION " OF HIGHER
RANKS.
AF
Bubnoff, Chief of the "Red Army Political Department, has given, in a lecture, some interesting details in regärd to the personnel of the Red Army. The personnel of the Army is composed of 9 per cent. of peasants, 11 per cent. of workinen, and per cent of other elements. The Army has in its ranks only 15,000 Commanists, or 5 per rent. of its strength. Three quarters of these are officers, of the commanders of Districts, Corps, Divisions, Regiments, and Companies 69, 83, 45, 44, and 42 per cent respectively are Communista
Bubnoff said, that because the peasant
th element preponderates the Army is. sensitive instrument which refects the opinion of the villages, and therefore, it is now specially important to maintain proper discipline. is the Communist anxiety Party's task. Apparently the in regard to strict discipline, the peastra tion of Communist ulei,, which the lecture reflects, and the Bolshevization" of the higher ranks are produced by the
The directors of the Associated Press have appointed Mr. Kent Cooder as It has ever been the rule that Scutian general manager in succession to Mr. should export many of her best citizens. The stream of emigration 18.as great as Frederick Roy Martin, who has resigned.ver, but the process has a new and disfear that the prevailing discontent in the
Mr. Kent Cooper has been Assistant Genral Manager since 1920.
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WAR CRIMES.
THE FORMER GERMAN CROWN PRINCE ACQUITTED.
BERLIN, April 19th. The Supreme Court has concluded the investigation of the alleged war crimea of the ex-Crown Prince, and found that the Crown Prince never ordered the burning and plundering of villages and borns, was not reponsible for the execu- tipus ordered by the railitary tribunals of his Army Corps, and therefore quash ed further proceedings...
S.S.RHESUS."
TO ENTER ALEXANDRIA FOR NEEDED REPAIRS.
PORT SAID, April 19th. The Bleaner Bhatte (which was in collision, on April 13th, with the motor. ship (antun) has arrived.
The vesset will discharge her cargo and then proceed to Alexandria, where she will be dry-Jocked for repairs, aftag. which it is expected she will return here and again loud her virgo."
turbing sxpect. In the past the place of villages may infect the Army. the emigrants was filled by young Scots. That is not how the case. The country is Hooded with people from Ireland, the tremendous Irish community in the West and the Midlands of Scotland multiplies and remains. The Census gives only the Irish-born, and offers no clue to the num bers of the second grueration... but an authority recently estimatřů, a tetas of 35,000 births of Irish, race in Glasgow in three years. This means a gradun but steady displacement of the Scottish by the Irish strain, and there is no subject causing greater reflection and anxiety beneath the outward. surface of palities today. The Egures of emigra tion have acquired a new meaning in the antional balance-sheet. They must be related to the present statistics of population and to the remarkable colonis ing movement with which Ireland se it were, retaliates for Ulster. The force of industrial attraction has brought a large and growing Irish community to live among the descendants of the Western covenanters. It confronts Scotland with tasks of adjustment and assimilation which would have a more familiar look in a new country." It challenges spe- culation, some of it unduly alarmis, as to its ultimate bearings upon race and religion, citizenship and industry in Scotland of the future.
of the opinions of many Scots. Ons thing is certain, the Clydesitle Socialist Brigade would he negligable quantity if it were not for the heavy, Irish vote. SCOTTISH PRISONE.
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Lord Alness, who recently visited Peterbead, gives it as his view that Prison life is much more tolerable now than it used to be in the "good old days. The convicts, he tells ue, enjoy the privilege of communal feeding; they have a military discipline which they appreciate they have daily and direct access to the governor; if they have any complaint to make; they are placed upon their honour and trusted some of them as orderlies-and they rarely abuse the Privileges conferred upon them. And as at Peterhead, so at Saughton Prison. There the inmates have all the coinfarts of electric light and central Heating, a good library, and from the windows an excellent view of the Ceratorphine hill. They have, his Lordship says, almost everything except liberty. And they get even that in time.
A RIGHLAND CLUB IN LONDON.
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The
In the Ukraine, auvorling to the offfcial orgun the Commuuias, the grain prices significance; and the situation calls for problem of corn is acquiring particular
an accelerated import of forsigue four, The amount of extra seed for resawing the area under perished winter crops is roughly estimated at 20.000 tons, but this amount cannot be collected in the Ukraine and will have to be partly brought from other provinces."
In the agricultural province of Tamber, in central Russia, all the grain stocks are exhausted, and in the town itself bread queues appeared a month ago.
The price of grain, which rose by 20 to 30 per cent, during January continued to increase throughout the whole of Soviet Russia. At a joint meeting of the Plenum of the Council of the Goods Exchanges the Aconomicheskuia Zhian, that the grain it was stated by Professor Orloff, says collecting campaign of this year was pro- veeding far less favourably than that of a year ago the amount collected being. only two-thirds of that of last year--and there was every indication that matters would become worse. Some members of the council blamed the calleding organ- izations for inefficiency in wresting the corn from the peniants, who Withheld it, while others shared the view of Professor Orloff, that there was a great deficit ̃of corn throughout the country,
FOREIGNERS IN FRANCE.
DRASTIC REGULATIONS.
residenes of foreigners in France were The new regulations concerning the
published last month. They are of a very.... drastic character. It is a very lengthy circular that has emanated from the Minis try of the Interior, and its digestion,
Paris says a
correspondent, is not an easy business. The points in it can thus be suceintly set forth. Every foreigner over 13 years of age who desires to reside in France
ance more then, fifteen days must apply for an identity card, and when application
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made an ideatification paper for pass- port must be produced. Steps must be taken to procure this identity card within forty-eight hours of the foreigner's arrival. Police Commissary or Mayor in order to He will be expected to call upon the
carry out certain formalities, taking with him four small photographs, full face and without a hat When he has given the "Police Commissary or Mayor all the m- formation desired he will be given a te- ceipt for his application for an identity card.
There are special regulations concern ing" workers of foreign nationality who come to France to take paid employment. The term workers does not include domes- tic servants, drivers of private motor-cara, or governesses. When the foreign worker presents himself at the frontier stations he must produce a contract of employ ment. If he has not this contract he wil
or
office of employment, and if this or- be sent to the nearest immigration bureau ganisation finds employment for him he will be given the necessary contract and admitted to French territory. If, on the other hand, ad employment is found for im he will legefused admittance for
ers must be provided with five photo- bat, and one of these will be taken from him a graphs, fall face and without
the frontier,
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CRIMINALS" SPARED.
IRONY OF THE FIRE AT MME, TUSSAUD'S,
The executive committee of the London
What the crowds in the Marylebone Highland Club are about to issue 43 Road saw on the day after the recent fire appeal among. Scots at home and abroad
at Madame Tussaud's, was a fabric bear- for subscription to a permanent premises ing few evidences of ruin, so wonderinliy fund. The club is the courageous venture.
well had the girders, the stone and brick- of a little group of exiled Scots, without work, and the concrete withstood: the money and without influence. It is non-NO! political and non-sectarian. Membership dome had been stripped of its covering
furnace that raged within. True, the is open to all Scots. The Club so far bad but its skeleton of steel remained intact, net once a week in the hall of the Maryle- and even the Tussaud "house, fag" was bone Presbyterian Church, granted on still flying Wan it, after all, one asked. most "gefterous terms, by the managers
a case of fout peut se rétablirī Alas It has now outgrown the present accom
a visit inside soon furnished modition During these first fifteen evidence of the extent of the destruc months of its existence the Club has had A new Tussaud's Day afise, but the Te an extraordinarily vigorous growth, so saud's familiar to and beloved of the much so that its possibilities are being considerably restricted through lack of countless thousands of London's provin The member cal and couuopolitan visitors has met its adequate accommodation.
What does the Sect think of this problem of the Irish immigration? A recent investigator gives the following summary of the opinions held all over the north, south, east, and west of Scot
land: The Irish do not assimilate LONDON STREET ACCIDENTS. with us or acquire the Scottish qualities and tradition. They are not, in the 238 PEOPLE KILLED IN THREE MONTHS..
main, a reinforcement to anything but the ranks of unskilled labour. By their Particulars of the street accidents in London during October, November, and natural turn for the arte of political con December last year were issued by New nection they get themselves into the sheltered employments, such as the gas Scotland Yerd recently. A total of 233 persons were killed, and the number of and sanitary departments of the Cor accidents to persuns and property totalled poration of Glasgow, where a new-come- 21,619, Tho deaths due to accidents, in
aver will often get a job from an Irish which various clames of vehicles were con- foreman in preference to a Scotsman
were as follows:
out of work. They
control of trade It is believed that with an initial morning en route for Lagon. His first private motor-cars, 50; motor-cycles, 12 unions, where their weight is all lent to ininimum capital of £5,000 it would be tradd and commercial rootor vehicles, 76; extreme views and destructive courses. possible to open a suitably equipped destination is Ibadan.
trade And commercial
horse-drawn They are responible for the turmoil of Clas vehicles,
15 pedal bicycles, 15; and the Clyde. They do not seek education, scor's DISCOVERY.
and do not rise in business the profes Mr, David Celgborn Thomson," who was Lase (including fatal accidenta) to persons or bumble class are found" doing. Their
at last General Election, has just return. property
were:- The intense heat, has slightly affected,
Omnibuscs, 2,416; tramcars, 1,322; cabs, highwater mark is that of the publicated from the United States One thing
pawn-broker, or politician. They remain 1.090; private motor-cars, 6,234; motor aomy mumbers of the Prince's staff cycles, 1,110; trade and commercial motor social system. They add far more then being, a Seoterman, I soon learbed the the invalizable representations of illos
a true proletariat at the bottom of the that impressed mo everywhere," he tells ment, though flooded, was little the we
an interviewer, was the advantage of for the ecurrence. In other words, all though in nowise seriously.
vehicles, 5,007; traction engines, 17; horse their share to the burdens of poor relief wisdom of letting it be known that I was trious personages, tableaux, and paint [Ibadan is a town in the west pro8; broughams, 42; trade and commercial
drawn omnibus, 3; horse-drawn cabs and of crime? A good deal of the above Scottish and not English, Having ings which ate replaceable, are no more vince of Southern Nigeria, capital of the horse-drawn vehicles, Yoruba statra
2.157; Petal is undoubtedly exaggeration; but it must heard Mr. Timon speak cannot but the fames which reduced emperor It 14 miles from bicycles, 2.104; and horses ridden or led be admitted that it is a fair reflection understand how saybody could have any and kings to dust, spared Crippen, Lagos]
(Continued on next Column)... doubt about it
Landru, and their company
MINHA, April 19th. > The Prince of Wales' left Kanu this
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long
Briefy, the position was this: The
ofesi 13 tramacare; 10; cals; 7;same methods into the ctrate by the ship is now 500, and is increasing weekly Sedan,
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halls of the second floor, including that which boused, the very valuable Napo lechic relics, among them the celobrated military duriage in which Bonape-t travelled on the Russian campaign-con- tained nothing but a mass of charred
tensively damaged But the irony of it
The Prince has clearly benefited from correponding numbers of accidents Biok, or public life, as Bootsmen of every Liberal candidate for South Edinburgh rubbish. The ground floor was very ex
the polo yesterday, which was his first ride since March 29th.
the Chamber of Horrors in the base-
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