Chamonix, Aug. 2%.
The death-roll of Thureday's trait disaster is now 21.—Reuter.
Chamonix, Aug, 20, 'Twelve thousand persons, include ing tourists, to-day followed the cots ting of the' victims of the Alpina railway accident to the station after the funeral service at the hospital, Nine coffins wore entrained, the mainder being interred in: the local cemetery.
The Minister of the Colonies pre Jsonted a gold modal to the conductor fof the second car—Reute Bacupan, Aug. 27:—Saiyid Mahe eud, the eldest son, of the. lat Naaib, has been appointed Nagib of Baghdad by Royal deerce.—Reuter, Came, Aug, 27:—Ip is rumoured that the Government is disposing of 500,000 kantars of cotton to an Alexandria firm: prices have slump-
Bucnanesr, Aug. 26—A warrant thas been'isstod for the arrest of Faleoyanu, managing director of the Official Gazette, on a charge of ems bezzling Lei 60,000,000—Reuter.
Tonowto, Aug. 25:—A_ Fords Stout monoplane piloted by Come mander Richard Byrd with My Maurice Bokanowski, the Freach Minister of Commerce, as a pose ger, landed here this morning from Came, Aug. 26. the Council of Ministers has Gecided to creek statues of the late Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Nationalist Party, at Cairo and Alexandria, and to purchase his house as a "Zaghlal museum," where his body will be placed in a mauéoleum—Reuter.
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