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SRTTISH AND FORWTGN.
Ireland still much undisturbed:
many raids ' have taken place, and
latterly several deaths have resulted.
America has ruled that the war-time,
prohibition is now constitutional, and
that beverages containing 24 per cent,
or more of alcohol are intoxicating and
cannot be sold.
The Chinese Treasury is bankrupt.
the Banks Commission have been
asked for £3,OflO,O0Q, bat there is a hitch
as Government officials continue to
squander money in the payment of un
necessary troops.
August, the Kaiser's fourth son, and
Joachim, the sixth, have Instituted
? divorce proceedings against tlieir
wives; it is surmised that ugly light
will be thrown' on the private lives of
the Hohenzottern family.
Ti» British Emprie Exhibition, ^o be
opened on September 19, 1921, is to be
the biggest thing ever seen in Great
Britain; the exhibition will probably
last two years, and possibly develop
into a permanent showroom for Im
perial commerce.
'A Market of the World' is being
established at Paris, France; it win be
an immense six-storied block, and cost
£4,000J)00; included will be 5,000 shops.
- cinema theatre baths - and lecture
rooms, and a luxurious club, for world's
buyers and producers.
Prance estimates that it will take
six weeks to repatriate the 350,000
' German prisoners of war ~whsx are still
in that country; as the Peace Treaty
has been ratified, France lias aow no
enemy in Germany, and the prisoners
held are to be released.
^urtiber details oi the great earth
quake in Mexico reveal that seven
towos were wiped out, iod ttu*e |3xos
sand persons killed; rivers disappeared
r and grazing lands became, great lakes;
disease' epidemics are feared through
the water courses becoming contami
nated.
Asierica ba& fixed a penalty of fire
yeajrs* imprisensnent and a fine of
£l,OG0 for persons convicted of ofieoces
of writing, utteriag, mailing, ot dis
tributing inaterial ac^?ocating the over
throw.of jtbe £&vernnK«t by means of
violence or through the methods of
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