The Polish Minister at Washington will launch a campaign in tho United States to float a fifty million dollar loan for the Polish Government. The proceeds of the loan will bo utilised to purchase machinery and raw materials. Sixty cardinals, four hundred bishops and twenty-five thousand French pilgrims, including one hundred and twenty members of Parliament, participated in the impressive ceremony of the' canonisation of Joan of Arc at St Peter’s, Rome. Scores of women swooned, owing to the best and tho fumes of incense. Pageants and commemoration services were held at Notre Dame, Paris, and Westminster Cathedral, London A Times ” message states that Marconi has arrived at Rome, having completed the first half of the Eleotra’s trip. He states that lie heard nothing from Mars. The mysterious signals have ceased. His discoveries in elude a new wireless compass, which will omit wireless warnings.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18411, 18 May 1920, Page 5
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