'The King has formally approved '2 proclamation appointing' May 6, the Jubilee date, as a public holiday.
Afier_a visit of 2% days, the Prince of Wales, who is on his way. home from a winter holiday in Kitzbushel, left Vienna on Feb, 20 for Budapest.
'A leaking all-pipe brought a swift end on Feb. 22to Captain Wiley Post's projected dash through. the strato-Sphere from Los" Angeles to New York, 2450 miles. a With a bullet wound in his head and with his legs trussed up ike 0 fowl, the body of M. Arthur Gulllume, a wealthy Belgian who ha: been missing since February-2, was washed up on the beach at Cannes on Feb, 23.
An air mail route from Belgium to Phe Congo was inaugurated on Feb. 23 with the departure of the three-Jengined machine, Edmond Thieftry.
Preparations are being made by the authorities for what promises to be tone of the most sensational trials in Germany sines the Nazis came int> power in January, 1933—the trial of 300. alleged Communists, most of them charged with high treason, Another' American air record was broken to-day when Mr. Leland Andrews, 'a former army affeer, [spanned the continent in a dig minutes. transport plane in 11, hours, 34
'The eighth annual report of the Brilish "Broadcasting "Corporation, which in accordance with the toms of the charter, is presented to. Pare lament' by. the Postmaster-General, 2a, of wh #.120268 comes from wirdes licences and £947,706 from "publications. The total was! £23000 more than the previous year. against 154 individuals and groups in six foreign countries, designed to halt the distribution of' foreign sweepstakes tickets in the United States.
Two important trade agreements are reported to have been signed on the 'Continent on Feb, 18—one at Bertin between Germany and Soviet Russia, and the other at Brussels between' Belgium and the Irish Free State.
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