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INFLUENZA VICTIMS. [PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] GENEVA. February IG. Britain, with four million cases around the New Year, and a mortality of 19.5 per thousand suffered most in the influenza epidemic, according to the League’s healF.i statistics. German towns were severely hit, but not comparable with 1918-19. In the rest of Europe the epidemic was relatively mild. MUSEUM ROBBED. ALEXANDRIA. February 16. Thieves who are believed to have hid behind the mummies in a GraecoRoman museum, before closing, stole during the night, a large part of the collection of jewels and coins presented by King Fuad. CABINET RECONSTRUCTION. LONDON, February 16. The political correspondent of the “Morning Post” learns that the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) has now definitely decided to resign as soon as possible after the Coronation. it is generally expected that Mr. Neville Chamberlain (Chancellor of the Exchequer) will succeed him. The change is being made an occasion for extensive reconstruction og Cabinet.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 7
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