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NICARAGUA'S REVOLT.

THE UNITED STATES AND MONROE DOCTRINE

Buenos Aires, Jan. 1. The newspaper La Nacion de seribes the recent landing of United States marines in Nicaragua as an "assault on international law and a hard blow at the Monroe Doctrino which established the definito right

MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1927

GOLDEN FISH.

SAID TO BE THE LOVELIEST LIVING CREATURES,

Fifty times its weight in gold may deem an impossible price for a fish, yet that was approximately. the price realized a few years ago for the frat pair of lion-headed goldfish to reach America. They were sold for £200 Nobody of American nations freedom from knows, writes David Noville, how all colonising encroachment."long ago the Chinese began, by Referring to Mr. Kellogg's con patient seletive brooding. to tention that the landing was for the transform the little olive-grey purpose of protecting American in-carp of their rivers Into a living teresis, the papar asorts it has not replica of the golden fish that is been stated that the contending one of the eight symbol of Buddhi. Nicaraguan forces caused any dam- It was a task that only Orientals, ago to, violated any right of, or for whom time has no meaning, made any attack on American re could have accomplished. sidents to justify the intervention.

The paper declares: "According

Just as they evolved the Peking ese spaniel in deliberate imitation

PARTNERS IN MORGAN'S.

CHANGES IN BIG FINANCIAL HOUSE

New York, Jan."1., What apparently is a new policy. of J. P. Morgan'a is marked by the appointment to partnerships of three members of their staffs who have risen from the ranks..

Morgan's bitherto have recruit. ed their loaders from outside sources. A partnership in Mor gan's is rumoured on Wall Street to be worth it. least a million dollars. W

THE NEW PARTNERS./

New York, Jan. 1.1. The names of the new Morgan's: partners are Francis Dwight | Bartlet, Arthur Marvin Ander-

and William Ewing

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to the precedent thus established, of the lion-like Dogs of Happi-Renter's American Service. the sovereignty rights of Americans (pairs of which are so cóm- countries are to be subordinated to magn a subject in Chinese porce. the number of dollars which the lain), so they produced goldfish of United States has invested in their strange, grotesque beauty that territory." Reuter's American at first repels and then fascinates. Service,

Bulging telescoped eyes and strange forked fins make them look like that other fish in Chinese Jogend which swarm up the Yel-

MEDIATION DECLINED..

Managua, Jan. 1. The Conservative Government has refused Costa Rica's offer of mediation on the ground that the United States recognition of the Diaz Government renders redia- tion unnecessary.

The Liberals admit that their to tal cusaltics in the recent 3-days battle were 82. They estimate the Conservatives' losses at 150

Reuter's American Service.

OUTCAST RUSSIA.

MORE PLAIN SPEAKING BY AMERICA.

low River until at last it passed the rapids of the Dragon Gate and itself became a dragon.

Japanese Improvement, It was left to the Japanese to borrow the art of China and to improve it beyond all recognition. There is no living creature that for pure loveliness can surpass their vuiltail, with its three or

four inches of trailing, gossamer fins and tail. Whole families have worked for generations, and are still doing so, to produce it.

The common goldfish is hardy enough and will live beneath the ice of a frozen pond, but these pampered artistorerats must be nursed and tended. watchfully. There is a deadly; contagious Washington, Jan. 1. The State Department has flat fungus that attacks them, and ly denied the statement made at when the tiny fry emerge from the Moscow that the United States has spawn, a myraid onemies Jurk, in approached Russian Soviet officials waiting for them water snails, during the past year on the sub-beetles and their kind, not to men- ject of American recognition of tion their own cannibal parents.

There are great open-air Ent- Russia.

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The State, Department has de-cheries for the common goldfish clared that the American Govern-in Italy and in the United States, ment, B President Coolidge said and at one time they were intro- in his message to Congress, does daced to certain Portuguese not propose to barter away its rivers, But, like all such artificial principles. If the Soviet authoricreaturen turned wild again, they ancestral ties are ready to restore the con- speedily reverted to flecated property of American cfti- typo The young. Indeed, still zens or make effective compensa show no gold. tion, they can do so... It requires no conference or negotiations to ac complish these results, which can and should be achieved by Mos- cow as evidence of good faith. The American Government has incurred no liabilities to Russia, nor has it repudiated any obligations.

"The most serious of all Russian activities is the continued propa- ganda to the overthrow of institu- tions in this country. This Govern- ment can enter no negotiations until these efforts directed from Moscow are abandoned. Reuter's Ameri- can Serviac...

AIR FORCE MARSHAL.

THE HIGHEST RANK ATTAINED.

Rugby, Dec. 81. A notable appointment is made in the Royal Air Forco. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff, is promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Royal Air Force.

It is obvious, of course, that the domesticated fish could not sur vive in the struggle for existence of wild life. Its flaunting livery would make it a target for every enemy, while the trailing fins of the fancy kinds are a serious im pediment to swimming.

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By means of swallowing dead typhold germs, it is now claimed, everybody may in future be made immune to typhoid fever. The method of preparing the vaccine is the invention of Dr. Desredka, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris.

In the Polish town of Lodz, which has a population of over half a million, and where typhoid epidemics ara prevalent owing to bad housing conditions and sanita- tion, 43,198 people have been im munised by swallowing typhoid germa.""

In a group of 161 tenements, where there was very bad over He is the first officer to attain crowding, two casca of typhoid occur per month. The what is the highest rank in, the used to R.A.F. This, rank, which was total number of inhabitants was created in 1919, when Air Force 23,918. Of these 20,807 swallow titles were approved, is the equiva-ed typhoid germs. Subsequently lent of Admiral of the Fleet in the 149 cases of typhoid fever occur Navy and Field Marshal in the red, 47 of which were among those

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The Air Ministry has ordered two all-metal, Bring boats with a capacity of fifteen passengers and driven by three engines of a total of 1,350 horse-power, with a non- stop range of 500 miles, to be used for experimental flights on the truns-Mediterranean, Calcutta and Singapore sections of the 10,000 miles of the Empire air route from London to Australia. The machl

nes are to be known as the Calcutta type-Reuter.

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