A Bill extending the Neutrality. Law until May, 1, 1937, was passed by. the House of Representatives. today by 398 votes to 27.
An appropriation of £25,000,000 for extraordinary expenditure in East Africa was decreed in Rome, on Feb. 18, Col, E, Francis Riggs, chief of the Puerto Rican Insular Police, was fatally shot on Feb. 23 by Elias Beauchamp, @ youthful Nationalist leader, who Was himself killed by police.
Germany is seeking to grant substantial new credits to Russia in hope of "securing new orders from ihe Soviet Government.
Technical experts associated with the Royal Air Force are engaged in experiments with a new fuel oil called "Octane" whose properties are expected to increase engine power by 20 per cent, Mr, Upton Sinclair, former Socialist and. "well-known author, has announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States onan. Eple "(End Poverty in California) ticket in the California presidential primaries, 'M, Sarraut, the Premier, emerged from a stormy debate on' the. suppression of Royalist leagues in the Chamber of Deputies on Feb, 21 with flying colours, challenging "and obtaining a vote of confidence, The vote was 280 to 151
Charlie Chaplin's new firn entitled "Modern Times," & skit upon the mechanization of industry, has been banned in Germany. The Nazi spokesman attributed the banning of the plelure to "its Communist ton-
The reply of the Attorney-General suggested that the three defendants had really been out to corner pepper, and that all three knew about it—Reuter.
Lt.-Gen. Sir Walter Kirke has been appointed Director-General of the Territorial Army in succession to Lt-Gen, Sir Charles " Bonham-Carter, newly appointed Governor and Com= mander-in-Chief of Malta.
The Countess Reventlow, formerly Barbara Hutton, heiress tothe Woolworth fortune of £8,000000, gave birth in London on Feb. 24 to a son. Mother and child are doing well—Reuter.
Purging Upper Silesia of National-/Sociatist element, Polish authorities on Feb, 18 dissolved a secret organiza tion of German Nazis in the region, tur resting 33 Germans belonging (0 the movement.
Three members of the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber are feared to have lost their lives as a result of Mr, Lincoln Ellsworth, the Amerlcan, explorer, who, with his com-anion, Mr, Hollick Kenyon, "was rescued in the Antarctic by the Royal research ship Discovery LI, on Feb. 17 expressed his warm appreciation of the assistance given by the British and Australian authorities at Melbourne where the Discovery If arrived yesterday.—Wireless throtigh Reuter, Alexander McKay, a British sub-Ject who Is to be executed on Febuary 28 for taking part Inthe January 1935. break at' San Quentin Penitentiary, has written directly' to, King Edward imploring the latter's Intercession, it was revealed to-day. ame, It was learned the machine falling Into the sea carly jon Feb. 19 off Havre, France while engaged in alr exercises to test the effect upon control and intelligence of Intensive operations under sinter As a sequel to an incident in the Lobby of the Chamber of Deputies Jon Feb. 19, when the moderate deputy, Philippe Henriot, was slapped in the face by the Communist, Ramette, {or having insulted the latter's party, the rightist leader, Louis Marin, and other members of the Republican Federation group have announced their' intention to submit a bill providing for sanctions against those gullly of assault within the precincts St Parliament.
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