'A report that between 300 and 400 persons were killed in a train wreck between Athens and Belgrade was received in Belgrade on Mar. 6 from the conductor of the wrecked train.
Four years' imprisonment was meted out on Mar. 9 to M. Mariani, 2 Police inspector, im connection with the "fiscal stamps" scandal which came to light in Lille last September.
As part of the celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the King's accession a review of the combined Home and Mediterranean fleets will held at Spithead in July.
The London County Council will The mystery enveloping the dis appearance of Lady Young, wife of the Governor of Northern Rhodesia, was dispelled on Mar. 5 when a native runner reached Gowke with the news that she and her companion, Dr. Kerby, were alive and well.
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who spent along lifetime breaking precedents, broke one in death in leaving more than half of his $508,000, estate to the' United States for use ey the Government in any way it sees Int, Bastias Spada, the dethroned Corsican bandit "king," was sentenced to }aeath In Ajaccio on Mar. 6 after Kins Sliver Jabilee on the evening Spada was the leat of the notorious reception in honour of the ial om eight charges of, murder
of May 31 at the County Hall, West- bandits whose acts of terrorization minster when the King and' Queen in the island over a period of man will attend Years finally lo to an elaborate semi miliary expedition o eradicate them.
While a snow-storm raged during the grey, shivery dawn, a savage Construction of one main line bat-duel was fought on the Pare des Heship and two 1,700-ton destroyers Princes football ground in Paris on by the end of the year was proposed Mar. 9 by two French barristers, by the French Government on Mar. 7 ines Meriat and Kanoul. Disdain-to the Chamber of Deputies. It ing their forensic weapons, MIN.
Meriat and Kanoul fought with sabres begin under the expert direction of Mf, Ar-manid Massard, Olympic fencing cham-January, 1987, on a second battleship. pion. Blood gushed outen the trodden The Secretary of State for the Snow and Massard stopped the duel Colonies, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, The duellists are still unreconciled disclosed in the House of Commons Tits is the second duel fought in Paris on Mar. $ that Sir John Campbell re-this week, two Corsican members of presented Malaya on the tin bulfecthe Chamber of Deputies, M. Cesar stock committee. Nigeria, he added, Campinchi. a barrister, and had appointed Mr. John Homeson, Horace de Carbrieca, the fiery but the latter was reluctant to serve director of the weekly newspaper Decause "there might be some ap-'Gringoire," exchanging pistol shots parent conflict between the buffer and on Wednesday. M. Campinchi had the undertakings in_ which he war the worst of the encounter, being Interested." Nigeria, Sir Philip added, shot in the forearm—Reuter, was going to appoint a substitute.
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