London, Oct. 20.
A close friend of the King died today In the person of Lord Ponsonby, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Treasurer to His Majesty, Deputy Governor of 'Windsor Castle' and Constable of the Round Tower. He was 68 years of At a meets Labour peers age. in London on Oct. 21, it was unanim-2%; whim. He was knighted in 10, and. reously decided to elect Lord Snell leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords in succession to Lord Ponson~ by of Shulebrede, who had held thet ost since 1931. j On November 6, after their_wedding in the private chapel at Buck-Ingham Palace, the Duke of Glouces. ter and Lady Alice Scott will drive to St, Panéras station in an open carriage escorted by a company of the' Royal Horse Guards, Albert Stern, 21, suspected of seven recent gang murders, was found dead ina Newark, NI. apartment which was filled with gas. Police officials Newark. are uncertain whether the dead gangster had committed necktie, Sah suicide or had been choked with a 'M, Leon Trotsky, ce-leader with the late 'M. Nicola Lenin of the Russian Bolshevist revolution in 1917, was dis~ charged from a hospital where he had been confined for the past fortnight.
reported, although without confirmation, that M. Trotsky is in. grave condition' from tuberculosis, despite his leaving the hospital in Oslo. ceived his peerage this year—Reuter.
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