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50 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1000,

The whole of 1ter Majesty's Guards have been supplied with new Magazino rifter,

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Mr. Kruger. President of the Bouti African Republic, who was at Johannes. bur yesterday, was interrupted in specchi he made by a hostile crowd; the demonstration took place in the evening In the market palce when the govern iment was denounced and the Transvaal BAR lowered and destroyed. After the demonstration in the nirket place tha crowd afterwards inareled to Landdrasin where they sung "tule Britannia" and smashed the roitings and endeavoured to seize the fag. The outbreak is conifered anore of a rowdy than of a political: character.

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The English Army Estimates amount-to 117,700,000, being an increase of 2300,000 which is chiefly due to te Introduction and manufacture of the new magazins FIRs.

25 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1915. A Paris official statement says:-Br- tween 1.15 and 3 o'clock in the morning. fuur Zeppelins_made for Parts from Etio direction of Comptegne, following tho vayyel of the Olsc.

Two were compelled to return before reaching the capital-ane at Ecouen and toller at Mantes. The remainder were aftcaked by anti-aircraft guns and only flew over the suburbs of north-west Paris; they withdrew after drapping some torch bombs. The damage to property ilgificant, Seven persona

struck, one seriously.

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Mr. Thoiras A. Watson, an associate of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone, who heard the first word spoken over a wire, recently spoke from San Francisco to New York at a cele. bration of the completion of n trank continental telephone service. The original experiments were made in Boston in 1570. Mr. Watson was on the floor of a bund- Ing and the inventor on another. Mr. ilell apake the first words over the wire. He, nid: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.

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A New York despatch from Valparaiso states the armed merchantman Orama fought and sank the German armed liner Navarra in November off the River Plate. and rescued the crew,

10 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1930. The aeroplane which Mr. Van Lear Black in using on his world tour is a Fokker F. VII-3m, a high winged mono- plarie and is engined with three 300 hp. Wright Whirlwinds maintaining a crus- ing speed of 100 in.ph. and this machines In particular to provided with extra tanka giving 11 a range of 1.200 miles,

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The A.D.C. production of "And So To Ded" open at the Theatre Rayal ta morrow night.

5 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1034. "We are marching towards war," de clared Mr. George Lansbury, Labour Party chief and Opposition leader in the Houre of Commons, during the debate on the European crials yesterday. Germany as flung a challenge to the world. and he therefore demanded that Great Britain nake #coutter-challenge favouring the nhandonment of aerial warfare every where,

"" want Britain to my she is willing to take her chance in an cornest eni deavour to end this foul business of nght- Ing from the sky.

"There is no excuse for Germany's Viaturam of the Treaty of Versailles," declared Mr. Frank B, Kellong. Joini becne of the Driand-Kellogg Pact out. lawing war and American member of the International Court at the Hague, „Inter- viewed here to-day.

Mr. Kellogg asserted that there would be no, war in Europe over the present impasse.

"Certainly we Americans are not going to be in any war, that may appear later In Europe," said Mr. Kellogg.

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The decision of the White Star Line to present a petition for the compulsory winding up of the company, was the outcome of the ndjourned extraordinary general inerting to-day.

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London, Mar. 21. Russin is buying large quantities of war material from the United States,

This was disclosed by the Minister for Economic Warfare question time in the Commons to- day. He said the Soviet purchases of all in the United States during the year ending March 31, although much above the 1030 Agures, would not be in excess of the quantities Imported In some previous years.

The Minister said there was, how- ever, evidence of large Sovle! pur- chases in the United States of other war material, especially copper, and this question was receiving the con- stant attention of Itis Majesty's Government-Reuter.

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