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  2. FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS President Millerand Resigns

    A first-class political crisis has occurred in France. It is officially announced in Paris that the President of France (M. Millerand) has resigned his office as the result of a motion of censure moved by the Left Groups and adopted by the Chamber of Deputies. The ...

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  3. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. Republican Convention

    With the calling to order of the National Republican Convention to-day there began the great quadrennial political circus. The huge auditorium, ...

    Article : 429 words
  4. EMPIRE TEXTILE INDUSTRY.

    Mr. John Emsley, the President of the Textile Institution, in opening to-day the Empire Textile Conference at the Empire Exhibition, announced that the ...

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  5. RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

    The political observer of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the British Government is now in possession of a full explanation from the German ...

    Article : 169 words
  6. ROYAL REVIEW.

    At the close of the Royal review at Aldershot to-day, the King intended riding a horse behind the Queen's carriage on the return journey, but the ...

    Article : 146 words
  7. A NEW ENGLAND

    This is the first of a series of articles on topical subjects from the pen of the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, the well-known British politician, ex-Cabinent Minister and writer, and for which "The Mercury" has acquired the exclusive rights of ...

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  8. LONDON RAILWAY STRIKE.

    The situation in regard to the strike on the underground railways in London is officially reported to be still improving. Although 39 stations are still ...

    Article : 166 words
  9. JAPANESE CABINET.

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  10. LEFT GROUPS MOVE FIRST.

    The Left Groups unanimously adopted a resolution which is to be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies to-day, declaring:— This Chamber has resolved not to enter into relations with a Ministry which by its composition is the negation of the rights of ...

    Article : 287 words
  11. ATTACK ON MISSIONARIES.

    Conditions are becoming increasingly more serious in the Kwangsi Province of China, where one missionary is known to have been killed and ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. ADDRESS BY CHAIRMAN.

    The permanent chairman (Mr. F. W. Moudell), addressing the Convention, intimated that the disinclination of Congress to accept President Coolidge's ...

    Article : 307 words
  13. CRICKET IN ENGLAND. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY v. SOUTH AFRICANS.

    The match between Cambridge University and the South African team at Cambridge ended to-day in a victory for the South Africans. ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. THE SENATE ADJOURNS.

    The Senate, by 154 votes to 144, adopted a resolution adjourning the debate on the interpellation of the Minister for Agriculture (M. Henry Cheron), who was thus prevented from presenting the case for the President. The Senate then adjourned till to-morrow. ...

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  15. PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION.

    An official communique announcing the resignation of the Government says that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet called at the Elysee to inform the President of the events in the Chamber and Senate. M. Millerand thanked the Cabinet for the assistance they had given him in ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. GIGANTIC TURBINE.

    The transportation of the 50-ton electric turbine, made in Birmingham for the Sydney Corporation, has already cost £40,000 (?). The moving of the ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. COUNTY MATCHES.

    The following are the results of English county matches begun on Saturday and continued yesterday and to-day:— Leicestershire, 198 and 96 (Wells five ...

    Article : 150 words
  18. NEW PRIME MINISTER.

    The new Marsal Government has made a declaration to the effect that it was only formed to enable Parliament to pronounce itself constitutionally intact, and therefore submits no programme, but only asks the Parliament to decide whether constitutional laws shall remain intact, and above ...

    Article : 122 words
  19. LOCUST INVASION.

    A locust invasion from the Karahari Desert is assuming alarming dimensions, and the pest is crossing the western border of Cape Colony in millions. (Some ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. GAUZE LEFT IN WOUND.

    A Paris court has ordered a hospital surgeon to pay 10,000 francs (approximately £2,500) damages to a patient who had to undergo a second operation, ...

    Article : 58 words
  21. SENATOR LAFOLLETTE'S DEMANDS.

    The action of the Resolution Committee to-day in throwing out Senator Lafollette's demands for inclusion in the platform caused a temporary flurry that ...

    Article : 254 words
  22. ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

    M. Litvinoff, a former Russian Bolshevik Minister, arrived in London to-day, making the first visit since his expulsion in 1918. The "Evening ...

    Article : 116 words
  23. FEDERAL TAXATION PROPOSALS.

    The Premier of Tasmania (Hon. J. A. Lyons), and the Attorney-General (Hon. A. G. Ogilvie), yesterday waited on the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), and the Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page), in regard to the announcement made in Monday's "Mercury" of the Federal ...

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  24. MILLERAND'S MESSAGE.

    A message from M. Millerand was read in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon by M. Francois Marsal, and in the Senate by M. Ratier, Keeper of the Seals, in the course of which M. Millerand declared that he had faithfully kept the solemn engagement he had made before the ...

    Article : 183 words
  25. EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE

    An extraordinary outrage occurred last night at the stables of Mr. Melton Vasey, the well-known Doncaster trainer. Someone obtained access to the ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

    A significant indication of the turn of opinion in Nationalist quarters in South Africa was afforded to-day by the resignation of a prominent Nationalist ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. MEETING OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

    The National Assembly, consisting of members of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies, will jointly assemble at Versailles on Friday to elect a new President. The choice is regarded as being between M. Painleve, a former Prime Minister, and M. Gaston Doumergue, who was ...

    Article : 110 words
  28. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAY.

    Statistics of the Whitsuntide holiday traffic in London show that buses alone from Saturday to Monday carried 12,804,000 passengers, which is a record. ...

    Article : 172 words
  29. GREEK MINISTRY.

    [?] correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that General Con[?]ylis, Minister for War, has resigned from the Cabinet. He accuses the ...

    Article : 75 words
  30. PRISONER MARRIED.

    Surrounded by soldiers with fixed bayonets, John Downey, a prisoner in the Ballinasloe (Ireland) gaol, was to-day married in his cell to his young ...

    Article : 69 words
  31. THE RETIRING PRESIDENT.

    M. Millerand, the retiring President, after being Prime Minister of France, was for many years a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was Minister for Commerce from 1899 to 1902, and later on Minister for Public Works. He was a vigorous Minister for War from its outbreak ...

    Article : 97 words
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