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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2197, 17 October 1913, Page 4

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£I>EK MAIL STEAMEK.]

A LABOUR PA1 } ER,

London, Octobea- 9. The Daily Citizon, one of th© London Labour organs, celebrates its farst ' anniversavy in muck more favourable circumstances than once seemed possible. Despite the fact that general advertisers refuse to patronise the Labour daily, its future eoems assured The Miners' Federation lias iust voted it a shilling levy for three years, which means a birthday gitt to the paper of £90,000. FLYING TO CAIRO. London, October 9._ M. -D.aucort, a French airman v.;no has anouncod his intention of flymg f¥om Paris to Cairo, was to start, on October 15. Supplies of petrol ami other necessaries Have been despatched to Smyrna, Beirut, and Alexandria :for distribution along the route that AI. Daucourt proposes to follow, lie anticipates that his chief difficulties I wUI be met with when flying over the high ranges of mountains m the .Balkans and the Tsmaus Mountains. TIiIPBE ALLIANCE. London October 8. A Berlin monthly magazine prints an article, said to be founded on conversations with Count yon.Aehie - .thai, a former Austrian foreign Aluu ister,- in which it is stated that the periodical renewals of Uie Tnple Alliance only refer to the German and Austrian agreements witli ; whereas the Austro-Gennau agteeoiei is renewed automaticaUy until (mo or ' the, other Power gives notice of its J renunciation. Tho avowed purpose or } this article is to promote co-operation j with Vienna with a view to strong and I united action in the possible partition of Turkey in Asia. CHILDREN'S GHASTLY FIND. New York, October 8Sumo school children '» . Kin p sto "; on the Hudson Kiyc- while play»m on a vacant piece oi land m the busness section of the city to-day, found the upper portion of a woman fa head and arm in a packing box. Long daik brown hair, with a woman s comb matted in it, was still clinging to t c sc -ilp The arm, which was the lei t one was intact only from the elbow foint down. The features are missing, the skull having been sewn across the occipital bone. The surgery appeared u> have been that of an amateui. The police are now hawing the iemains carefully examined to dete - mine whether tnoy are those or tlit, Schmidt, recently murdered, and ! whose trunk was afterwards disco^i-