BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.
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DISASTROUS FLOODS.
VANCOUVER, August 11.—Floods
in Virginia wrecked several mining villages. Five hundred houses Avere carried away and 75 persons drowned. THE MAROONED EXPLORERS. LONDON, August 11.—The Disooy. eiy sail from Plymouth yesterday for Port Stanley to pick up Sir Ernest Shackleton. CHANGE OF GENERALS. LONDON, August 11.—General Duff, Comm'ander-in-Chief in India, is returning to England. General Munro succeeds him. LABOR ADVISORY. LONDON, August 11—The Government is establishing a. Labor Advisory Department under Mr. A. Hen. dersou. LORD LANSDOWNE. LONDON, August 11.—The Daily Chronicle says: It is understood that Lord Lanadowne Avill shortly resign on health grounds.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1916, Page 2
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