i Chicago, Dec. 20.
The Federal Arbitration Board has granted an increase of wages to engine-drivers and firemen on the Western Railways, the average man being 30 cents increase affects 55,000 employees.—Reuter.
Mexico Crry, Dec. 18:—Mr. Bertrand Holloway, the British executive president of the National R: ways of Mexico, has resigned his post, owing to ill-health—Reuter.
Lonpon, Dec. 15:—The Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, announced the House of Commons to-day tha Parliament would be prorogued on Thursday next and that the new Session would begin on February 7, 1928—British wireless through Reater.
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