T may sum up a variety of other small topics re briefly. Princess Mary has launched the new battleship "Rodney" though she had make three attempts to break the bottle of wine. Scotland "is still not going "dry." A striking reversion from "No licence" inf of "No change" (which m2 restriction") is shown by the results of the polling unvler the Seattis! Temperance Local Veto Act in 16 parishes of Lanarkshire, which were declared yesterday. The only recorded by the "No Licence' Party was in Avondale, where a, resolution in favour of further Timitation was carried. The strike of Irish Police Specials has collapsed dismally. The Ulster Government declined to make any compromise and the men who thought that their: terms of dismissal were not satisfactory, gave way. By a very daring action some youths, prestimably Fascisti, have hoisted ' the Union Jack on' the top of Battersea Town Hall to repl Communist. Red Flug. As it is a very steep pole and lanyards were cut, the Courcil is having considerable difficulty in replacing their parti cular emblem. Slate Club defaleations are as numerous as ever and tone or two are very bad. It may interest visitors to London to that the London County Counc dropping upon hairdressers who swindle their clients and have withdrawn the licence from a well-known firm at Charing Cross who charged a Canadian £7: 18: 3d for what} they called "ultra violet ray treatment." Waterloo Bridge is to be entirely rebuilt on a much larger scale and though we regret the disappearance of the present artistic ture, we regard the decision as inevitable.
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