Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Layton has been appointed Director of Personal Services, with effect from November 8.
It was revealed on Aug. 26, for the frst time, that the Reichstihrer, Herr Adoit Hitler, underwent an operation fon his vocal cords on May 23.
Barbers, publicans and restaurant proprietors Who hear customers making remarks against the Government must report immediately to the secret police of germany, The Admiralty announce that Admiral Sir Cyril Fuller is placed on the retired list, Vice-Admiral Sir Erle Fullerton is promoted to be Admiral.
Progress is being made with the Jdevelopments scheme of the Port London Authorities which Is to cost £1,750,000 and which will give Yegular employment to 600 men for five years.
President Roosevelt signed the Wheeler-Rayburn public utilities bill on Aug. 26, thereby bringing to fan end one of the most acrimonious Congressional campaigns in recent years.
According to a report of the Board of Education, just issued, the total number of children attending public elementary schools last year was 5,576,752, and there were 448,421 in secondary schools In Britain, Benny Howard of Chicago, fying his self-designed aeroplane, "Mister 'Mulligan, reached Cleveland' on Aug. 30 at 140 pin. to win the Bendix Trans-Continental Air Race. He covered the 2,046 miles from Los Angeles in 8 hr. and 33 min.
Miss Cecilia Allen, last entrant to take off from the Los Angeles municipal airport in the annual Bendix Trans-Continental Air Race, crashed to her death a few minutes after her ascent on Aug. 30
'National mourning was assumed by the whole country' on the occasion of the state funeral of seventeen victims of the recent disaster in Berlin, when the tunnel for a new underground railway collapsed, oury-Ing nineteen workers beneath tons of earth, Gruesome punishment was meted out, in Berlin, on Aug. 27 to a M-year-old "woman, who was beheaded with an axe for the murder of her three children. The woman is. alleged to have shut the children in an unused room and to have allowed them to die of hunger and thirst in order that she might devote her attentions to her A cheque for U.S.$2,500,000 has been delivered to Mrs. Will Rogers, Widow of the American humourist, who was killed with Captain: Wiley Post recently when the plane in which they were attempting to fy over the "top of the world" from San Francisco to Moscow crashed in Alaska. This represented a special insurance policy on the life of Will Rogers
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