QUEEN’S PRIZE FOR MARKSMANSHIP
(Rec. 11 pan.) LONDON, March 24. The Queen has told the National Rifle Association that she will follow the practice of earlier sovereigns and give a prize of £250 annually for competition among the marksmen of Britain and the Commonwealth, says the “Daily Telegraph.” It will be known as the Queen’s Prize for the first time since the reign of Queen Victoria, who initiated it. The Queen’s Prize winner this year will be decided in July at the Imperial rifle meeting at Bisley. Bomb Outrage in Buenos Aires.—A bomb exploded in the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange shortly before the Argentine Finance Minister <Mr Ramon Cereiji) was due to appear to address Exchange members on the Government’s 1952 economic programme late yesterday. One man was wounded in the chest by the bomb fragments.—Buenos Aires, March 25. Six Die in Fire.—Six men lost their Uves in a fire which broke out in a six-storeyed hotel in Los Angeles this morning. Five were suffocated and the other fell to his death from the top of the building when he lost his grasp of a ledge. At least 10 other persons were injured or burned and many Others were affected by smoke.—New York, March 25.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26692, 28 March 1952, Page 8
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