The Archive · 1936

Foreign News in Brief

King Edward on July 2 received Sir Hughe "Knatchbuil-Hugessen,—who kissed hands on his appointment as Ambassador to China, In the four weeks since it was launched, the Lord Mayor of Lon-eldon's appeal for a national memorial to King George has received contributions totalling £129,115, Sir Henri W. A, Deterding was reported by the press on June 30 t0 be contemplating resigning from the presidency of the Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Ca.

The Countess of Covadonga is ginning suit to divorce het husband, the former Crown Prince of Spain, in the Cuban courts "within a day or two." The sult will be brought on grounds of incompatibility, Dr, Edouard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia and for many years his country's Foreign Minister, pu. June 20 formally resigned the presidency of the League of Nations As sembly.

A Greyhound bus overturned on. July 1 on Virginia's famous Natural Bridge at Natural Bridge, killing five persons and seriously injuring all the other 28 occupants of the ear, Only the presence of a sign-post in the roadway prevented the bus catapult ting off the bridge to the hatton of chasm underneath,

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