Glad of Abolition: But Othee Countries to be Considered London, Feb. 16. att proposed abolition of submarines Britain's udo towards the was voiced by Mr, Bridgeman, the First Lord of the' Admiralty, in a speech at the Constitutional Club to-day.
"Our position," he said, "is exactly the same as stated at'tho Washington Conference. Wo would be glad if submarines could be abolished, but the weaker and smaller countries regard submarines aw their only weapon and we have to. take them into consideration."—
Renter.
1869, Feb, 17.
The death of the comedian Eddie Foy recalls the terrible fire in the Iroquois Theatre at Chicago in 1903, when a hundred persons were killed, Foy rushed to the front of the stage, the flames roaring: overhead and during embers failing about him, and implored the terror-stricken audience not to yield to panic. The courage and presence of mind of the little comedian grotesque figure in tights and a shock wig—amid the blazing seenery.arrested to a great extent a mad scramble for the doors.—
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