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PARIS, February 28. During the Boulogne-Sur-Mer race in 1927, a British automobile crashed into a crowd, killing a gendarme, a •<! British car, who could be sued, deseriously injuring two spectators. In the absence of a representative of the, pendants of Ihe victims su<d the Au omobile Club. The Appeal Court decide*; that the Club holding the race ass • m’d responsibilitv for all risks, and awarded the gendarme's widow £l2OO, and his two children £4OO each. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN EFFORTS. LONDON. February 27. Asked if the removal of British forces from Cairo was being considered, Sir Austin Chamberlain said it was impossible to make a statement on the subject till the end of the Anglo-Egyptian conversation. No Anglo-Egyptian Treaty would be ratified without consulting Parliament. U.S. MIGRATION QUOTA. WASHINGTON, February 27. President Coolidge said that congress would revise the immigration quota under which the quota from

Britain and North Ireland would be reduced by 7,145 to 65,894, and the Irish Free State quota increased by 3,535 to 17,427. AIRMAN DROWNED. ST. JOHNS (New Brunswick), Feb. 28. Major G. C. O. Usborne was drowned here yesterday when he fell from the steamer Montnairn entering the harbour. Major Usborne last summer planned a Hight from Vancouver to Australia, but. abandoned it when the plane was found unsuitable. ’ “THE ARTFUL DODGER.” OTTAWA, February 28. Brigadier-General A. E. Ross, speaking in the House, called the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Motherwell) the artful dodger of the Liberal Party, r “ becaus'o he avoided the dairymen ’s meetings, where he would be asked about the Australian treaty.” ‘ S.A. GOVERNMENT SUED. LONDON, February 28. Armstrong Whitworth’s have filed a claim for £150,00(1 against the South Australian which is coun-ter-claiming for probably £lOO,OOO on II In* ground that the late delivery of engines, for which the Government contracted, is delaying the harvest trans--1 port.