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330 miles to Constantinople, where they made a perfect landing at Miss Bondfield, Minister of Taxi driver to driver of ona, of China, with 10 pm (local time) two hours after Labour, in a written reply to the new London buses on which sentral over Tong night fall. The journey of 1,600 for the financial year 1831-32 the glass: "Thoy'll 'ave to put yor out Parliamentary question, states that the driver's seat is enclosed with depro Love
miles from Lympne had occupied amount to be borrowed for the in the air soon. That's the worst
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tributions of employers and work ers calculated at £30,000,000, giving a total expenditure on unemploy ment for the year of £118,000,000.
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LONDON TO ASIA IN A
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An amazing story of a suicide club on Long Island was told by Miss Louise Schwarts after she had bean indicted for aiding and aliet tings the suicide of her brother, a chronic invalid, who had been found dend. The aister said that her brother was a member of a Industry Prior to Agriculture.group of middle-aged chronic in
J. M. Davidson of the Industrial valids, who met weekly to pray for Development Board of Manitoba deliverance from their sufferings, states that industry is gradually When these prayers were unavail- taking priority over agriculture in ing they committed suicide. She the province. It is pointed out said that her brother's prayers that Manitoba is rich in natural resources, having more than 8600,000,000 in ore reserves, 137,000 square miles of timber, and 20,000 square miles of water surface. The provines is also extremely rich in metallic and non-metallic minerals. 1,700 miles in 142 hours. One interwith an annual production of more mediate halt was made, at Belgrade for oil and fuel. STACK and CHAP LIN, were able to say to friends in London, "We saw Asia to-day!" No man in history has previously been able to do that. This is high speed flying, and comes, as in emphasis to the fine flight accom plished a few days earlier by the same aeroplano and pilots in get. ting from London to Berlin and back between, dawn and dusk of the anme day. Evidently an air mail service bringing Turkey and the Balkan States within one day of England is feasible, while con- tinuance of the same rate of travel all along the line means Australia in a week!
having gone unanswered he an nounced that he was going to take his life, so she bathed and dressed him in preparation and went out. When she returned she found him sitting upright in a chair, dend, with a gun between his knees. Another member of the "Club" than $105,000,000, moreover, Mani-was found dangling from the raft- toba's 130 industrial plants have aers of his home. The police are carrying out a frantic investigation early pay-roll of $35,000,000.
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