Madras, Aug. 21 A million acres of land will be fertilized by the gigantic dam at Me-tur on the Cauvery, which was opened by the Governor, Sir George Stanley, to-day.
Tits cubic content is $4,000,000 cubic ft. and it embodies the largest single block of masonry in the world. There is also a waterfall 95 ft. high with @ width of over 620 ft.
In March, 1925, the Secretary of State sanctioned the Couvery Reservoir Project, the estimated cost of Which amounted to £4,500,000 Reuter.
'A mass court martial of 142 Nazis will be held next month, following sweeping investigation of Nazi organizations within the past six months in Lithuania, /mountain is enveloped in an immense cloud of dense smoke. Tremendous flames recall the great outbreak of four years ago.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
The Radio Industries Exhibition at Olympia closed Aug. 25. after exceptionally successful display, and it is estimated that business resulting had, two days before its close, totalled Signor Fulvio Suvich, Italian undersecretary of foreign' affairs, was married at Trieste on Aug. 25 to Mar-chess Mathilde Staglieno, nee Baro-
Mr. Clark Howell, chairman of the Federal Aviation Commission set up by President Roosevelt, who has been visiting continental centres to investi gate various methods of organizing the aviation industry, is now in London, and has paid warm tribute the manner in which Britain is
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