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Allled Petroleum Conference.

An inter-Allied petroleum or ganisation has been formed to consider and den! with the petroleum problems of the Allies in connection with the war, and a conference was recently held in Paris. The headquarters of the Inter-Allied Petroleum Con.

ference are in the cffices of Mr. Welter Long's Patroleum ErecU- tive, at 12, Berkeley-street, W.1.

His "Sainted" Wife. Married thres times, Mr. Charles Davis, a metal broker, ef; New Malden, Sarrey, expremead a wish în his will that the letters) he bad received from esch of his wires should be put în his ocffio. His will, disposing of an estate of £18,765, left £3.000 in trast for his wife, Lydia Davis, and stated that he desired to be buried at Brompton with his "esinted" wife. Fenny, and three bundles of lettere, being the correspondence he had had with his three wives, and sundry locks of hair whiob would be found in bia safe are to be placed in his coffin and buried with him. There were to be no Hɔwarn or mach "trampary” used at his faneral, but he desired that a memorial card should be sent to each friende su desized to bare

one,

Rations Alter the "War. That our rationing system met last a considerable time, even after the war was over, was the view expressed by Mr. Olyces. in a letter read recently at the Co-operative Congress at Liver- pool. The Parliamentary Secret: ary to the Food Ministry went on to say We wish to give no advantages whatever to private trading enterprises compared with co-operative organisations, and, as services of co-operators dis- sharged in the interests of con.. gamers and not for the purpceo

f making profit, have been acknowledged in the most re- sponsible quarters, I trust that the relations between co-operative organisationa and the Ministry of Food will, in the future, be much improved. We should be fair to, private traders, and see that neosary services in food dis tribution are ressonably paid for.

£850 Worth of Teeth, Three parcele containing 21, 000 false teeth valued at £850 were the subjct of a theft charge at Marlborough-street recently. The man charged with the theft was Horatio Nelson Hawkins, s Peckham clerk, and be was aleo obarged with receiving the pro- perty, which belonged to Messrs. De Tray & Co., dental manufac torere, Denman-street, W... , and disappeared from a trolley in Regent-street. According to the evidence the parcels of teeth, which were valued at between 2850 and 1909, were placed in) the trolley for delivery to custom- ers, and it was ssid that, when' Hawkins was arrested, he admitt

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War Pensions. Prentio-lly half the time of the onal wir pensigns committees, Raid M. J. H. Divia recently at Metropolitan Police Join up. the Allied Conferenc' on the About 600 members of the Care of Disabled Soldiers at Metropolitan Police Force report Westminster, is spent is express-

ed having sold some teeth to sed recently d New Scotland Yarding realment at the action of map, Bailer. He had bought the baring been called up for military the Ministry and officials. Mr. teeth, he said, at the Caledonian duty. market for £2, bat he did not know the man he bought them) from, nor could be describe him. Axemand was ordered.

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