Los Angeles, Sept. 20. Two Southern Pacific crack passenger trains came into collision today at Tortuga, California, A driver and a fireman wre known to be dead, but it feared that the death toll is higher.
It is believed that at least seven persons were killed and 40 injured—Reuter. not at liberty to submit your name to The King for the permission which you seek."
Older readers will well recollect the dim culty made by the Government over bestowing a knighthood on the late Sir Edward Pearce for his long service as chairman of the Council' particularly during the War. The same sort of trumpery excuse was made as in the letter 1 have quoted. If T recollect, the scale was! fumed in Sir Edward Pearce's favour by the fact that the Japanese Government wished to confer an. honour upon him, but could not do so until he had been decorated by his own Government, 'This question of the emergency medal is of course a piece of pure red tape, typical of the departmental mollusk,' "which exerts enormous force in order to do nothing." One would bet fairly long odds that Lord Halifax never heard of the medal, One's advice to the Defence units would be to wear the medal wherever they please and take the consequences. There won't be any.
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