GENERAL CABLES
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTMGHT.)
Trinity College of Music is celebrating- its jubilee. The Earl of Shaftesbury, who presided over the festival dinner, said the college examined 53,180 students all over the world,in 1921, compared with 32,987 in 1913.
Frank Bums, the Australian boxer,
has received the Pioyal Humane Society's medal for his gallantry in rescuing one of the victims of a boating accident on the Thames recently.
The French National Alliance for the increase of population is offering 120,000 francs- in prizes for the best pamphlets suggesting how to increase the population of France.
General Petain placed a wreath on the Cenotaph in London last week on behalf of the French Army.
The Dickens Fellowship has secured an option over the house in which Dickens completed the "Pickwick Papers." It ir proposed to establish a national Dickens shrine and museum in the house.
Applegnrth, at Dundee, broke the British miming record for a hundred yards, his lime being 9 3-Sse.j.
The Pope has written to M. Tchitchcriu protesting against the imprisonment of Russian bishops for offering to buy Church treasures from the Soviet..
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 142, 19 June 1922, Page 7
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