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After running the gauntlet of diplomatic guns for nearly 20 years, the status of Tangier, seaport and district on the coast of Morocco, was fixed by an agreement signed provisionally in Paris by Britain, France and Spain. The Spanish representative stated that he was signing the agreement only as a suggestion to his Government and not on its behalf...
...story said that when the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern was lying off the Scandinavian coast the Kaiser insulted von Hahnke who struck him in the face and later had to kill himself...
During 1922-23 the fishing industry has recovered to prosperity from a dangerous situation reached during the post-War slump. New England vessel fisheries report a 6% increase in the catch over that of the preceding year, 45% more salmon was packed on the Pacific coast, and substantial advances were registered in the packing of Maine and California sardines and tuna, as well as in the production of fish oil and byproducts...
...curious result of liquor smuggling and bootlegging activities along the Atlantic coast between Boston and Baltimore has been a marked rise in the retail price for fresh fish of almost all kinds because fishermen and boats here found rum-running so much more profitable than fishing, that adequate supplies of fish can be obtained only by raising prices right and left. Whether or not this novel explanation is a fish story remains for the Coast Guard to discover; as defensive tactics by dealers it evidently has psychological merit, since no one has yet declared fish dealers were profiteers, or demanded...
...Long Island. On a recent visit to England, his electioneering by plane for Lloyd George attracted general attention. True to his profession, and his convictions, he planned to make his business trips on the Continent and his Channel-crossing by air. Leaving Pett (near Rye on the South Coast of England) last week, he was seen to fly to sea in perfect weather, to turn back when his engine started missing, then to fly to sea again. This decision probably cost him his life. The plane was seen to crumple and fall. It has been found minus the motor...