M, Edouard Herriot, State Minister: without Portfolio and former Prime Minister, has been re-elected Mayor of Lyons, alter a run-off election, The King has approved the conferment of a barony of the United Kingdom "upon Mr. John Buchan, Governor-General designate of the Dominion of Canada—Reuter.
Following the example of Germany, Austria has taken" what may. be regarded as a decisive step towards building up an official alr force con-teary to the Treaty of St. Germain.
The German four-masted barque /Priwall frushed first on May 16 in the windjammers grain race from Australia. It completed the passage in 91 days. The Priwall was second ast year, taking 106 days.—Reuter, Much anxiety has been aroused by the illness of the octogenarian, Field-Marshal Anton von Mackerisen, of Germany who arrived in Budapest, several days ago ona visit to his, son, the Reich Minister, One of the most meteoric of New Dear careers is coming to a close 'a result of Mr. Donald Richberg's desire to resign his position og head of the National Recovery Administration on July 1."
The death sentences passed on the four German Memellanders for their alleged conspiracy against the Lithuanian Government have been commuted into imprisonment for life by. the President of the Lithuaniaa Republic-Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
Stanley Hausner, the Polish ftior who narrowly escaped death in June 1939 when he was forced to descend into the sea in the course. of an attempt to fly from New York to Warsaw, was killed on May 18 in an Jair accident. While flying to Detroit to. attend a memorial "service for JGeneral Joser Pilsudsk An air convention between France Jand Italy has been signed in Rome after brief negotiations between Signor Benito Mussolini and Gen. Denain, French Air Minister, The agreement provides for the establishment of new alr tin cluding one linking up Rom Peris, and Tripolitana, which may be extended to the Italian and French colonies in East Africa after agreement has been reached with the Egyptian Government.—Reuter
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