Six highly educated Princes are resent ful at the election on Mar. 12 of 50-year-old Prince Aggamge Manisally, the sole and uneducated claimant the Sultanate of the Maldive Islands.
Three men have been arrested in connection with the mysterious theft of £21,000 of gold from a safe at {Croydon aeroavome on March 6.
The British exploration ship Dis. covery LI returned to Capetown on Mar. 13 after spending several months the Antarctic regions, A. special sub-committee pt the Cabinet met at 10 Downing Street on Mar. 16 to consider the New. Deal proposals forwarded to the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, by Mr. Lloyd Georee, Queen Alexandrine of Denmark was suddenly stricken with a. serious at {ack of appendicitis while attending the festivities celebrating the betrothal of her son, Crown Prince Frederik to Princess' Ingrid, grand-daughter of King Gustave of Sweden on Mar. 16, Sir Malcolm Campbell, why established a now world's land speed record on March 8, is {ll in bed with Influenza, and Dr, John Fogarty. Personal' physlelan of Mr. John Rockefeller, was summoned secretly by Lady Campbell to attend to A. fighting monoplane capable of speeding at the rate of 275 miles an hour is being constructed by the British Government. This was re. vealed on Mar. 13 when a question was asked concerning this type of alreratt in the House of Commons, Dr. Anton Rintelen, former Austrian Minister to Rome, was has deen found guilty by a military court on 8 charge of high treason, He: was sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence is regarded in Vienna as surprisingly severe.in view of Dr, Rintelen's past services to his country, The board of directors of the Bank of International Settlements on Mar 11 lected Dr. Trip, Governor. of the Netherlands Bank, t0 the post of ident of the Banke of fnternationel Seitlements as successor to the Ameri= can, Me. Fraser, who a vacating: the Dost In order to return to the United States, where to is expected to. take over me management of one of the cading "American banks The Bayonne pawn-broking scandal investigat. came to an end on Mar, 14 with indictments being found against Mime, Arlette Staviski—widow of the man who was styled "the world's crookedest crook"—and eighteen other defendants, charged with fraud and the receipt of stolen goods, The trial is expected to be, considerably delayed because of the fact that several are filing appeals inst the indictments, Chinese eggs were defended in the House of Commons on Mar. 14 by the Minister of Health, Sir E. Hilton Young, who was plied with questions fon the subject. In the course of written reply to some of them, he said that a. relatively small num. ber of bacteria had been found in samples of frozen Chinese oggs recently examined at the laboratories of the Ministry of Health There was no information, added, to show that the eggs were unit for human consumption, and, therefore, he did not consider if necessary to take special action tu the matter.
It was announced in the House of Commons on Mar. 12 by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Sit Godfrey Collins, that the Commissioner for the Special Areas in Scotland had been already authorized to spend approx: imately £106,000 on schemes of work in distressed districts, Other schemes involving a large increase in the Scottish Commissioner's expenditure were under active. consieration. It was also revealed that the Scottish' Department of Agriculture had received a free gift from a pro: minent resident of Dundee, Mr. Ma: thews, of 188 acres of farm, as well aya rust fund amounting to about £30,000 and other gifts, making a total of over £50,000, for' the purpose settling on the land unemployed men from Dundee—Wireless through Reuter,
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