MISCELLANEOUS CABLES
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Vice-Admiral Stokes, who had just been appointed to the command of the Navy in Irish waters, died suddenly on Friday at Queenstown, aged 59. The. new film marvel, tlw *spidiastrophe. throws living mo\-ing objects upon the screen in natural colore, magnified to 30 diameters.
M. Basil Zaharoff has given £20,000 to enable France to be worthily represented at the next Olympic Games to be held at Berlin. Mr Smuts, in introducing the ; Budget into the Siruth African Union Parliament, announced that the Government meant to impose an income tax and aho a tax on undeveloped lands. A number of landless cottars have seized the Isle of Taransay, in West Lewis, belonging to Lord Dunmore. Government House on the Isle of Man was partially destroyed by fire. Lord and Lady Raglan and their family had narrow escapes. ' , , A French squadron of armored aeroplanes will shortly be stationed at Mailly. They will consist of biplanes with two seats for the pilot and one passenger, and will be mad© of steel armor 2£ millimetres in thickness, and have, a speed of 100 kilometres an hour.
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Evening Star, Issue 15477, 27 April 1914, Page 8
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187MISCELLANEOUS CABLES Evening Star, Issue 15477, 27 April 1914, Page 8
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