NEWS CURIOSITIES.
JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. Manchukuo now lias its own navy in three gunboats recently launched at Kobe, I Japan. During a three clays' pier festival at Dover 431 competitors caught i>27 fish, weighing 3671b IV2O/.. "Tommy" Robinson, of Crow Hill Road, Garlinge, Margate, famous as a trainer of athletes, has cut a new set of teeth at the age of 84. He Had been without teeth for over a year, and the new teeth began to show themselves without giving him any trouble. | Rum runners are turning to wool smuggling along the JSTew York-Canadian, border, according to customs officers. A marked increase in the smuggling of Canadian wool since the decline iu liquor traffic has been noted, and numerous seizures are being made. Ten years after committing the murder for which 110 had served a term in gaol IHja Simeunovitch, of Petrovatz, Yugoslavia, visited the scene of the crime. As he stood deep in thought lie was attacked and killed by two men who bore him a grudge. It turned out they had no know ledge of the previous murder. *
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)
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