Grenoble, May 1 A dog of the famous St, Ber-nara Hospice, high in the French Alps, bit a ten-year-old Marianne Bernard, who later died.
The little girl, with her father and two sisiers, was on an excussion to the famous monastery, but near tne Hospice the dog, playing in the snow, jumped on her and bit her vielousiy. "Despite Immediate aid from the monks and her father, she died soon The monks believe the dog suddenly went mad. One of them Geclared to Havas, "He was one fof our best dogs." We are quite upset by the. frightful " scene. Never, never since the foundation of the Hospice by. St Bernard in '062, hog any dog bitten a travel-the Dail to-day by Mr. Eamon Valera, President of the Executive Council when speaking on the vote for the League, de Valera position was "more or less" doubtful, id the League' 'Unless Inherent dangers were removed, it was possible in the Interests Of the Free State, that they would have to withdraw' from the League.
Me, de Valera defended the osten: tion of the Pree State from the Imperial Conference now in session in. London '"We do not want to be put in the same position as at Ottawa in 1932, when the British Ministers attempted. {o regard us as people who would hot keep our word,"
While the dele to Ottawa, Mr.
Brith: Government imposed levies fon Irish agricultural exports, The delegation would have left Ottawa immediately, except that they were the guests of the Canadian Government The Imperiat Conference ws dealing with matters which interested the Irish Free State, but there. matters of much closer concern at home." Until these fundamental issues were solved, no real co-opera tion could. be secured because the position of the Free State would be
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