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Reuter.
WORKERS CONFER.
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BIG PAN-PACIFIC GATHERING CALLED.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1925.
MOROCCO CAMPAIGN:
· SPANISH LANDING EFFECTED,
Madrid, Sept. 8.
It is officially announced that the Spaniards have effected a landing at Alhucomas-Router.
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MOZAMBIQUE STRIKE.
MEN GAIN THEIR POINT.
Bolra, Sept 8.
The strike in the Mozambiquo Company has onded. The Com- Madrid, Sept. 8.pany has conceeded the principal Gen. Primo di Rivera has wire-demands of the strikers, whose lessed to the King from the battle-orderly attitude and consideration ship Alfonso Thirteenth that the for the public earned thom general troops commanded by General Soro | sympathy.-Reuter, landed on the peninsala of Morro
Nuevo, on the western side of the
bay of Alhucemas, at nopu. They LEAGUE OF NATIONS. established their position half an
hour later, after a short bombard- ment, without great resistance.→ Reuter.
Costly Preliminaries,
Paris, Sept. 8. - Le Journal'a Madrid correspon Sydney, Sept. 8. dent says preparations for the The Australian Labour Coun-Spanish landing at Allucemas cil has called & Pan-Pacific, began on Saturday evening when Workers Conference in Sydney Spanish naval detachments escort- for next May and has invited Ing the troopships left Ceuta andy. inter alia, representatives" of Mellia respectively. The detach-1 India, South Africa, Japan, China, ment from Ceuta feinted at landing Singapore and America.-Reuter, south of Wadau, which is south of Tetuan, then steamed" full-speed for Alhucemas. The detachment from Melilla feinted at landing at Sidir Riss, then joined the Ceuta, detachment, which was reinforced by French warships. False land- ings were made, intended to mislend the Riffs as regards the real object of attack. An intense bombard- ment of the coast was carried out
UNSEEN DANGER,
Shoe Dye Poisoning.
NEW VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Geneva, Sept. 8. Six now Vice-Presidents of the League Assembly include Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M. Briand, ViscountIshii, and Arsaud Dowleh of Persia Reuter,
An anonymous donor has given £40,000 to the Chamber of Com- morce at Bradford to be used to sond young men to the continent to study Russian, Spanish' and to specialize in some branch of the toxtile industry.
TO THE RESCUE.
"Poisoning from shoes newly dyed black seems to be fairly common, says an authority. Dr.
air force, afid on Monday morning Mr. William B. Jemmott, a Bri- C. W. Muchlberger, Wisconsin, State Toxicologist, finds, that 47 the landing of troops was attempt-tish artist drowned at Biarritz in cases have been recorded, 25 offed. This only resulted in costly attempting to rescue a bather, re- them in the United States, aince losses, as the Riffs were prepared contly, was the tallest man in his profession, and had the reputation this form of poisoning was first for the landing and offered during the war of being the tallest noticed in France in 1900, and to determined resistance.-Reuter... these he adds nine new cases ob- served within the last two years. The number of cases that have gone unrecognized and unreport- od has undoubtedly been very much greator!
on Sunday evening by Franco-English Artist Six Feet Nine. Spanish warships, supported by the
The most marked symptom is an alarming cyanosis, er blueness of the skin, which is accompanied by weakness, dizziness, and often headache and vomiting, the patient usually feeling very ill. The effects continue for a few days to several weeks, two of the reported cases having proved fata The black shoe dyes aro found to consist chiefly of such pigment as anilin black dissolved in an alcoholic solution of either nitrobenzene or anilin; and the nitrobenzene or anilin is absorbed through the unbroken skin; INTO- ducing serious poisoning without apy local sign.
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"Here," said a lady to a beggar, is a glass of water pure, cold, delicious water. What! You re fuse it?" He shook his head and sighed. "I have to, ma'am," he said. You see, I've got an iron constitution, and water would rust it."
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British soldier.
He was 6ft. 9in. in his socks- too tall for the trenches; ho had to be given a post at the base. After the war he had several offers in America to act as a screen gaint; but he refused to consider them.
Early in 1921, however, when "The Knight of the Burning Pos- tie" was revived at the Kingsway, and a "gaint', had to be found in a hurry, he took on a job. He made up under some discomfort for his head, touched the coiling of his dressing-room."
In artistic and Bohemian circlos he was a well-known figure; and- in the West-ond, was one of the most stared-at men. In the streets: he was frequently worried by peo ple coming up to ask him to settle
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Most of the American' cases Temporance Lecturer: "What have been due to nitrobenzeno, is the curse of Britain? What
"Six feet nine inches," he said. which is recognized in the dye by brings a man bleary-eyed to his
"And a very good height, too," Its very offensive odour. It ie work? What makes women neg-was the comment. beliovod that non-toxic solvonte lect. their children? What is The bearded man was King can be readily substituted for the wrecking half of the happy homes Edward. harmful ones, and it is recom-in our land!"
Jemmett belonged to Tonbridge, mended that the unsafe ones bo prohibited By health regulations.
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