Gen. Nobile, commander of the Il-fated Polar airship Norge expedltion in 1926, 1s returning home at the end of January after four years of aeronautical work in Russia, A bold bid to blaze a non-stop alr trail from Britrea to Italian Somall-Jand across French and British Somaliland and Ethiopia is being made by the Italians.
Dr. Hans Drieseh, emeritus professor of philosophy at Leipzig University, has been elected honorary member of the Philosophical Society Tondon—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, The authority of the Governor of Wisconsin to impose codes of fait competition upon state industries under the Stale Recovery Act was voheld on Jan. 7 in a decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, sao Lord Horder, Physician-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, resigned today from his post as senfor physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on, tenching the age limit of 05 years:
The Lord Mayor has declined to grant a permit for the holding of a Fascist meeting at the Town Hall at which Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, was to have made an Troops were called out in Buenos Aires on Jan. 7 to curb disorder arising from a 24-hour general trans portation strike in which five persons were killed and several wounded In clashes between police and strikers.
The Secretary of Navy, Mr, Claude Swanson, has announced that Vice-Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn would become full admiral in Juni Me will become Commander-in-Chief Of the United States Fleet, replacing Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, The board of directors of Imperial Chemical Industries have elected Mr. H, J. Mitchell president in sue-cession to the Into Lord Reading. The new president entered the com: pany's service in 1899 as an office boy ina subsidiary concern—Reuter, Col, and Mrs. Charles A, Lind-borgh have engaged a Welsh nuts for their son, Jon. Meanwhile residents in Cardiff have completely lost Interest in the tier's household, and the family has been undisturbed, United Press, see 'The trial at the Old Bailey of Dr. Hermann Gortz, the German novelist, on charges of espionage under the OMeial Secrets Act, has been formally postponed until' the next "session, which begins February 4, Seventy-one bags of mail and the bodies of seven of the twelve victims have been recovered by divers front the wreck of the Imperial Airways jiner City of Khartoum, which plunged into the seq near Alexandria on the night of December 31, Lord Edward Montagu, has been sentenced to four months' Imprisonment by the Nice Court for issuing Jan uncovered cheque for ten pounds, Lord Montagu, who last year tried to join the French Foreign Legion, but was rejected owing to ill-health, Jattempted to pay his hotel bill. with the uncovered cheque—Trans-Ocean, Property owned and protected by the National Trust in Dovedale, a famous beauly spot, surrounded hills from which there are unrivalled views of Derbyshire und North Stafford shire, has recently been. extend-fed by the addition of about 100 acres comprising "the iron. tors and. the nabbs," which are bold limestone promontories close to the river Dove.
For the first time since last May, the King of Italy and Signor Mus-olm appeared in public. together in Rome on Jan. 8 when war standards belonging to disbanded Fegiments were presented to new re-ments, following which the King placed @ wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Ni Duce wore his favourite uniform of an honorary corporal of militia, Reuter.
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