Bank Robbery Near Republican Convention Kansas City, June 14.
Six bandits to-day held up a hi bank in a street, crowded delegates, close to the Republican Convention Hall.
There was intense excitement 2s the bandits blazed away with shotguns, seriously wounding two policemen and a bystander, The bandits decamped with G.60.-
London, June 19.
Viscount Cecil moved in the House of Lords to-day that "It/ desirable that the Preparatory Disarmament Commission "at. Geneva should meet again early i meet ing of the next Assembl that no progress towards disarmament had been made since Sprit Inst year, and criticized the British Government's negative attitude, Baron Cushendan, who succeeded Lord Cecil in the Cabinet, pointed out that difficult problems had constantly arisen when the disarmament question had been considered, and defended the Government's attitude towards the proposals He repudiated a suggestion by Lord Parmoor that Britain had acted obstructively. "We have done," he declared, "infinitely more to promote and resort to arbitration than any country except the United States, and we have been foremost in directing practical disarmament." He added that useful decisions with regard to disarmament could only be arrived at by the greatest patience and forbearance, and suggested the substitution of the words "if possible" for "in any ease" in Lord Cecil's resolution, This was agreed to—Reuter,
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