Stimson, the Secretary of State, wa heavily guarded on Dec. 25 following, pt by the Washington police of threats against his life. Following the receipt of the threats the police requested permission of Col, Stim-to station guards at his home. The police decline to state the nature of the threats. They decline to reveal how the threats came to their knowledge.
Thieves have discovered a new use for poison gas, A party ct men who raided a' poultry "farm" Rheinkassel near Cologne on Christmas night pushed a pipe into a large roost and pumped in poison! gas. In this way over four hundred hens were gassed without a farm was sleep! house quite close by but did not hear a sound. new bridges and one new station are the monster presents given to Par-he new Pont de I'Europe, was opened to traffic for th first time on Dec. carries th roadway over a wide railway cross ing and adds very greatly to trafic facilities. The Pont do La Concorde, the ote new bridge and the. new Works two opened
days previously. depreciation of currency. The firm Was organised 80 years ago and has Jexported most of its products to India, Egypt and the Far East.
'Terrifying experiences in the mid-die of the Atlantic were related: by, sin the 17,000-ton liner from New York, which ar= rived at Glasgow on Doc. 22 with casualty list of two dead and 26 injured. 'The' Tuscania ran the gauntlet of tremendous seas, one of which broke over her stern, bate tered down doors and poured down companion ways into cabins, flood ing them to a depth of 18 inches, The lurch of the ship knocked parsongers off their feet, an elderly, Irishman being so injured about the bead that he died Jater. Thirty-five others sustained injuries, while a woman who was ill when she embarked apparently died front shock.
President von Hindenburg: on Dee, 21 received the Abyssinian Minister at Paris, M. Agnedecn, who had coma te Berlin en the special mission of thanking the German Chief Exe ecutive for his Bit on the occasion fof the enthiawement of Emperor eile" Sines early Ute ent The coronation present had cone sisted of an elaborately gilded gal coach from the former imperial stables at Potsdam, together with team of six milk-white Hungarian horses: in charge of a former ime venal coachman, Emperor Haile Silassie had driven in this coach ty A strike in the Lancashire cotton industry, affecting more than 500,000, will hands, is threatened for the new peat, The workingman's bugbear of longer hours issue, al though there fs also the question reduced pay and reduced. staffs The industry has for a long time Leen ina state of depression and unrest, featured by strikes and lock-cuts in the last two years. But matters have been brought to a head fey the action of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners, which has} Jannounced that the hours and wages agreement of 1919, will end on December 31, after a mon The agreement brought 48-hour week and a 90 per cent. increase in wages. Wages have been reduced 12h per cent. since then, but it ig understood that the Federation desires a return to the 52! hour; week, and another wage-cut of 128 [per cent. ceremony at Addis Ababa ang had Fnetructed hi specier envoy leenvey to President von Hindenbut gift. his appreciation of the beautiful
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