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...money alone was enough to debar him from the Spanish Court. His wife, who is very beautiful, managed to advertise his wealth ostentatiously, and thereby aroused more jealousy, criticism and suspicion. When the revolution became a fait accompli, Don Alba was in San Sebastian, on the Franco-Spanish border, but he rapidly crossed the frontier to Biarritz in order to avoid arrest. The National Directorate charged him with...
Secretary of State Hughes published some correspondence that he has been having with the Canadian Government through the British Embassy in Washington. Mr. Hughes has been trying (with indifferent success) to secure Canada's coöperation in preventing border rum-smuggling...
...Flag. "Looking from the window of the car as our train approached the Russian border, my attention was attracted by a flag of the Soviet Government flying from the top of the frontier station. Doubtless it was once red, perhaps deep red, . . . but the winds had whipped it and the elements had beaten it until its carmine hue had faded. It looked colorless...
Explaining the procedure of expulsion the bulletin continues: " In the occupied regions, when a man is ordered to leave, he is taken to the border under a military escort. His family, however, is granted a four days' respite. According to instructions issued on April 9 by the Commander-in-Chief, ' if the wife or any child of the expelled man is sick, the family is allowed to stay until complete recovery.' It is emphatically denied that some people had to leave on a 10 minutes' or on even a 12 hours' notice...
...gypsy moth is threatening again in Northern New York and New England. The state has a special Bureau for its control and has a 25-mile zone on the Eastern border under constant supervision for the study of air currents in relation to the moths. More than 6,000 toy balloons were liberated at various points to determine the prevailing course of the winds, and 400 were returned to Albany by their finders. A motorized balloon of a new type, equipped with pumps and sprayers, is used to combat the moths...