Since the War, some 12,000,000 persons, equal to 30 per cent, of the population, have moved into new. houses.
Joseph Stalin has married again, the Soviet dictator's new wife velng Dora Chosan who is said to have been born in Georgia.
The number of, unemployed in Germany at the end of March was 1,248,000, representing a decrease of (608,000 during February. and March, The allan Naval Estimates for 1937-8 show an increase of 248,000,000 lire, according to a report submitted to the Chamber of Deputies. The Estimates total 1,857,000,000 tire com red with 1,609,000,000 lire for 1036-7, Convictions of William F. Warms and Eben Start Abbolt, officers of the ill-fated Ward liner Morro Castle, on grounds of negligence contributing to the disaster, were unanimously reversed on April 7 by the U.S, Circuit Court of Appeals.
The pay of all soldiers of the Red Army has been raised by 30 per cent. as from April 1, by order of the Commissar for War, Marshal Voroshilov. "AL the same time the pensions of war invalids have been in-
Ins, Chalepski has been appointed soviet" people's commissary for posts in succession (0 Mr. Yagoda, former, GPU chief, who was recently arrested, Mr. Lawrence Roger Lumley, Con servative MP. for York and private secretary to the Foreign Secrelary, Mr, Anthony Eden, has been appointed Governor of Bombay in succession to Lord Bradbourne, who has been transferred t0 Bengal ay Governor. The appointment will necessitate a by-election:
The great Russian National Library, "which in the course of its G00 years of existence grown to a sig of over 6,000,000 volumes, is to be transferred! from Leningrad to Moscow in accordance with a unanimous decision of the Goard of governors of the Academy of Sciences, creased to G5 Roubles.
The centenary of the birth of Algernon Charles Swinburne is being commemorated by articles in the press, exhibitions and public readings of his poetry. The exhibition at the Bodleian Library at Oxford will be open for three weeks, and, includes Some of the most valuable Swine bourne manuscripts, The 20th anniversary of the entry of the United States into the Great War was commemorated on April 6 President Roosevelt and the Secrery of War, Mr, H. 3, Woodrin reviewed 5,000 troops in the presence of thousands of spectators. A troop fof negro horsemen and a score of tanks: took part.
A modern tve-storey high building collapsed at Geneva' on April kiting "four persons and injuring several others, following a terrific explosion of a bomb in a barbershop situated on the ground floor. The bomb is understood to have' been deliberately touched off by the hairdresser' who had chosen this way to commit suicide, 'A_ decree prohibiting the showing ims promulgated by "the in France of detective or gangster Fre the Interior. to the fact that a series of bank holdlups and other crimes were recently perpetrated in the south of France, the criminals using methods obvious-Jy inspired by a number of well known Hollywood productions. on the tent terry aes acer A letten nets tie Shall Mer a a erin aa alto Mey ce ut ere Schte Ri wane Setermination of people."
Harry Weiss and Martin Sehlossman, New York underworld characters, were sentenced to terns of twenty years to life imprisonment', in Sing Sing Penitentiary for the Kidnapping of Paul Wendel, former New Jersey attorney, who was at one {ime an Important figure in the Lind bbergh Kidnapping case, The Berlin Far, East Association fon April @ gave a luncheon for the technical director of the Central News Agency in Nanking, Mr, Kao Teung-hsing, who is making a tour through Europe studying technical arrangements of the—various inter ational news agencies, and who has been in Berlin for the last ton days, Italy's frst television centre will be established in Rome before the end of the year. The televism contre will include apparatus for transmitling and receiving, as well as a Jorge hall for public projection of television programmes, Similar cen tres will be established in Milan, Turin and other cities ater, it also was announced, 'The International Livour Mee report for the first quarter of 1937 is the most' optimistic in years, Une employment in the United States for February of this year was 11.9 per cent. as compared with 16:7 per cent. @uring the same month In 1900, "Unemployment in 'Canada showed decline from 148 per cent.' In Feb-friary, 1996, to 14.5 per coni. in February' of this year.
'The anti-lynching bill introduced by Mr. Arthur W. Mitchell, Demcratic' Representative from" Minols and the only negro member of Cone eres, was defeated by a vote of 257 to 122 in the U. 8, Mouse of Representatives. Mr. Mitchell bitterly com~ plained that Republican members of the House had withdrawn their promised support' of his bill because of lobbying by a negro propaganda organization which favours a strong: er bill sponsored by Mr. Joseph A Gavagan, Democratic Representative from New York,
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