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Times” Sekvice.j RIGHT TO KILL. BARIS, July 11. The quesion of the right to kill, in order to end hopeless suffering, has, lor the third time in a few months, been answered in the affirmative by ■ i French jury. The latest case is that of the widow i,f a .Station-mas-ter, near Orleans, who was stricken o.v an incurable disease. 'The couple decide.l that they should die together. 1 I"- »ile built iijj a charcoal lire, sealed up the room, and lay down to die by her husband's side. Several hours, later, neighbours broke in just in time to save the woman, hut the husband "as dead. I lie woman uas charged with murder, hut the jury unanimously acquitted her.
EXECUTIONS DELAYED. London, duly 11. Ihe German official analysis of the Moscow trial ol Kindermann ami others characterises the death sentence as a miscarriage of justice, hut admits that tlx-- prisoners are guilty of certain misdemeanours. Germany expects t«o afiair to he settled by the expulsion ol the three accused. -Meantime the suspension ol the executions is announced from -Moscow, pending the consideration of l>etitiotts of mercy. A GERMAN DENIAL. BERLIN, July 11. The German Coal Commission denied the London story that the importation ot British coal in Germany has been prohibited. There is, it says merely a restriction ,>n imports, owing to depression in the German coal.
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