Relations between Germany and false fire alarm had serious con-Siam have become somewhat strain-fed as the result of the decision of the Siamese Government to raise the import duties on beer, nave by an old paper, optical instrument Woman who mistook the clouds of number of other articles chiefly incense wafting towards her for Ismoko, striving at the same time Germany. The reason given for this frantically to gain one of the exits. measure is the need for improving The ery was taken up and within a the unfavourable trade bal: fow seconds pandemonium reigned Siam, but in effect the me throughout the cathedral, with the directed chiefly against Germany. hundreds of worshippers, mostly women, rushing for the, doors.
The campaign of the British Post Attempts of the officiating clergy to Ofice against radio pirates "has quell the panic were of no avail and netted "booty to the of E125, in one ense a priest was trampled 1000 in the shape of licence underfoot. fees. A month ago the Post Offics authorities, aided by a mechanical detector, set out to discover those A proposal calling for the unificapeople Using wireless receiving sets tion "of all of the railways to without being in possession of the the United States into a G.$24,00 Post Ofice licence, as it was known 000,000 system was. advanced that there were thousands of such
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