Gandhi's son Ramdas, who was arrested on December 19, for a speech on civil disobedience, was sentenced ts six months rigorous imprisonment.
Nineteen de-commissioned destroyers, now lying in. Philadelphia Navy yard, will be sold to bonded purchasers, either for cash or on the instalment pla Another sensation has been caused by the arrest in con nection with the Oustrie Bank sean-dal of M. Giraudon, the director of the well-known contracting firm of the same name. He is charged with corruption in connection with e¢r-tain valuable contracts for the The amalgamation is announced of the International Mercantile Marine and the Roosevelt shipping companies.
Mr, James Ralph, Jr,, Republican San Francisco," was inaugurated governor of Californi island of Martinique, the most important Frenca colony in the West Indies. It is understood that the firm will be wound up. succeeding Mr. C. C, Young who retires to private life as the result fof his defeat in the last primary lection:
The public prosecutor has institurcriminal proceedings against, Senator Lo Bonn who is involved i the Oustrie Bank scandal and charg. ed with breach of trust, corruption and a number of other offences.
Similar charges have been preferred against all former members of the board of the Holfra, one of the numerous undertak trolled by the Oustrie Bank group.
Mr. Dwight F. Davis is planning goodwill orniss to the countries of the Far East aboard the U.S.S. Pittsburgh, the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, before her departure for the United States. Mr. Davi is taking a party of American and Filipino officials to study conditions in, and extending goodwill to, the countries visited.
Thomas Wong, who is half Chinese and half Caucasian, eseapthe electric chair by giving 1 promise to reveal the innermost secrets of the Tongs or Chinese regret societies as they exist in the United States.
The modest but renowned summer home of Mr. Eugene O'Neill, the famous author and playwright, no longer squats on the bleak sands of quaint Provincetown beach, fell into the ocean after stormy sea waves had washed out its foundations.
'Valabhai Patel, the Acting President of the All-India Congress, who was arrested on December 6, has been sentenced to nine months' simple imprisonment, Plans are nearing completion for demonstration flights by British] Aircraft in connection with a larg' scale exhibition by British aircraft manufacturers at the British Empire Trade Exhibition at Buenos: Aires in March next.
Slight earthquakes shook San. Francisco and the Bay Region, sone public appre The tremors were of to make windows, battle and to break crockery but no serious damage was caused,
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