22, appointed a Royal Commission
companies operating in Austral investigate the business of This action Is cates because companies have refused to give Voluntarily certain information Which the Goveenment, demanded, The personnel of the Royal Con Mr. Sydney Err London, March 21:—Damages amounting, to £19,000 were awarded the Sun Life Assurance Ca, of Canada to-day against the printers, publishers and editor of a yaper called "The City Midweek' for what. counsel described "terrible libels." The heard by the Lord Chief Justice and a jury, The company publishing he lation and the 'The number of members of the certain "Nelina "Socata Bary Bae nom Mittevent by fore ter, ne' new: members. wil be admitted 058000"kave been enfile. allowing prolonged negotiations with Dr. Eekener, the Catalan an. thorities have decided to erect a mooring mast for zeppelins at a cost) of 600,000 pesetas, According! Barcelona may become a regular, port of call for the Zeppelin trans-Atlantic service.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has been appointed Commission Motor Trafe in the German Min} try of Communications. The Dul received part, of his education England and he is an ardent member of the Nazi Party. were on" the suddenly" sank. department crews and members of the Coast Guard were called to take the tien out but thre of them a the hold, "rhe damage is estimated lieved to have been trapped
at approximately. $200,000, 'A murderous struggle for the control of a rum fleet seems an explan= tiation for the murder at Middletown, Now Jersey, of Alexander Lillien, rho is alleged to have been the mas hind a ring of xum-Lilien was shot dead on March 24, in his hill-top house, a [stronghold from which he could peer out ie sandy hook where rom vessels ply. is believed that Lilli house was the secret headquarters from [which the movements of a large feet of rum-runn" was controlled.
Britain's oldest infan regiment, the Royal" Scots, celebrated tercentenary on" March Jeeremonial parade at the depot of the troops was held at the Glen-corse barracks, Midlothian, and an order of the day by. the Princess the. Colonel-in-Chief, was that on March 2 1683, Charles 1 signed a Royal Wartant authorising the recruitment in Scotland of 1,200 men to form the regiments, order was read at a parade of, the Ist lion at Aldershot, A valuable coal vein was di covered by the Japanese armed immigrants in Kirin unexpected whil they were felling trees Yingfengehen recently, a to reports received in Harbin, group. of engineers will be' sent there soon to investigate, This naval year's Japanese manceuvres are taking place in the Pacific ocean with the entire Japanese fleet—participatin under the personal command of His Majesty the Emperor in. the August. This will in the last four Emperor himself has personally at tended the manoeuvres as the cor 'The Peruvians were advancing rom the south, according to Galore Tice, who made the report to. the War' Office. "Phe battle, which took lace "near the town' of Goal sted for eight hours.
Learning of the Peruvian moveinet The Coma mee ward) their positions, airplanes overing shee advance, Peruvians fail back to. their fortifeations where they fought stubbornly for ati ig, and then began a retreat through the jungles. The Colom: Blane moved into the "abandoned Positions. Col, Rice eaid, "where they began preparing ancther ad: "Dating thole retreat, th "During their retreat, the report said, the Peruvians got between the Aivided Colombian naval forces and
ea. admitted" in his report, that admiied" in his report, the Colombian forees suffered heavy 'The. reports indicated that the Peruvians did not know (haw any fictive part of the" Colombian fteey had been abe to reach points fo"far' up the Putumayo: United Press.
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