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...interest on another set of N. S. W. bonds, this time defaulting interest due in the U. S. as well as Great Britain. As he has done before, Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of all Australia announced that the Commonwealth will make good this default, but Mr. Scullin will raid Australia's gold reserve...
First, he will raid the £33,000,000 "dollar exchange" credit maintained by the Exchequer in Manhattan. Twenty million pounds will go to balance the Budget, the remaining £13,000,000 will be transferred into Great Britain's account with the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland...
Panama. President Ricardo Alfaro sighed with relief when a timely police raid netted 40 rifles and a case of ammunition in the home of Chief of Police Alejandro Ramos of Los Santos Province, bud-nipping a revolution in Los Santos and Veragua Provinces...
Died. Sir Edward Clarke, 90, "Grand Old Man" of the British Bar, onetime (1886-92) Solicitor General, barrister in the baccarat cheating case in which Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, figured (TIME, March 9) and the trial of Dr. Jameson who led "Jameson's Raid" into the Transvaal in 1895; in London. In the London Times appeared his obituary, written by himself, describing his "very busy and very happy life" and revealing that his income for 17 years averaged...
...years, she arrives at the house just after it has died. Paul Stein has put in some thoughtful directorial touches-the lovers talking in bed in a scene in which you see only the wall which they must see from the head of the bed; the Zeppelin raid on London with the sirens hooting and fast cars placarded TAKE COVER roaring through the streets; the scene- presented entirely in shadow silhouet, from the doorway of the room-in which Miss Bennett finds her baby dead. But as an emotional actress Constance Bennett is still merely a big-eyed young woman...