GLAMIS CASTLE EXPLOSION IN CELLAR EARTHQUAKE AT DARWIN IRAK AND THE LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 14

GLAMIS CASTLE

EXPLOSION IN CELLAR

EARTHQUAKE AT DARWIN

IRAK AND THE LEAGUE

TO BE CLOSED DOWN

*; • * j • ■ , ' (Received 30th July, 2 p.m,) ( ' LONDON, 29th July. Owing to the burden of land taxation the Earl of Strathmore, father of the Duchess of , York, is closing Glamis Castle in the' autumn. At present th« , estate is taxed to nearly 20? in the pound.- Only ,a very small portion of the castle will T>e reserved, for the us« of the family. '• > >

SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED

v * (Received Mth July, 2 p.m.) -," ' '.PRAGUE,"'29IV July.' A girl carrying a lighted candle entered the' cellar of a garage whereia the proprietor^as'filling a can of petrol. An explosion occurred which shattered the- building, killing the girl, th« / proprietor, and four others. Soon after the fire brigade arrived a tank of petrol exploded, hurling nine firemen mt# the aijr and injuring forty people.

EARTHQIJAprAT (Received 30Jth' July, 2 p.m.) ' DARWIN, This Day. An earthquake,',-shock was felt at Darwin at 6.45-a.in. to-day. No damage is reported,, but buildings were

S (BriiU4h"'omci*l Wireless.) , (Received'3'Oitti Jufy, '2 p.m.) . '/' '.^BUGBY, 29th July. A formal request- that Irak should bt . admitted to': the' League of Nationi has beea made by' JCuri Pasha al Said, Prime Minister, of . Irak, through the British' Foreign "Office, and Sir John Simon has asked'the Secretary-General to place the request on the agenda of the September Assembly meeting.