Paris, May 5.
In the course of the municips elections in Martinique riots occu red with the result that several persons were injured. Polling had tw be abandoned in four of the communes.
Newspapers report that two per~ sens were killed and 50 disturbances at Oran d3_and Jews owing to the of anti-Jewish candidates] in the elections.
newspaper office was sacked but the police and itary have restored The annual Royal Academy banquet was held at Burlington House esterday evening. There Unguished gathering, including the Duke of York, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Earl of Birkenhead and members of-the Diplomatic Corps. Sir Frank Dicksee, President of the Royal Academy, was in the ch Responding to the toast of the Imperial Forces, Mr. Bridgema First Lord of the on Brit Britain, he said, we maintain the one-power standard. She would keep abreast of the times regarding replacements, Britain prepared to consider any proposttion for the further limitation of ermaments, He pointed out' that of 345. ships laid down by the five great Powers since the war Britain was responsible for only 1.—Reuter.
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