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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16590, 13 January 1916, Page 6

— Very few people are aware that the Czar of Russia is only a colonol in his own army. This is due to the fact that he was only a colonel whenthe late Czar died, and, by the laws of Russia, a Cxar cannot confer rank or titles upon himself, and, of course, none of his subjects can give him promotion. — Marconi, Italy's greatest living son, and a member of her Senate, might well have claimed tho right to servo at his own timo and in his own way. What he did, however, was to hurry back from America directly war becamo imminent and report himself at the War Ministry, where he got his orders, his uniform, and his sword, and bccame Lieutenant Marconi, of tho Aviation Corps. Such was Marconi's homecoming. It was characteristic of the man. Marconi is no more a, typical Italian than ho is a typical Malay. He is racially an AngloItalian, and in temperament, manner, dress, and habit of thought he is 99 per cent. English. A project has been started at Winnipeg, Canada, for tho manufacture o£ »tarch from potatoes.