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DUKE OF YORK TNVITED TO VISIT THE STATES. PRINCELY BEQUEST TO MISSION WORK. j SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE. VOLUNTEER OFFICERS IN DISGRACE : WAR OFFICE UNPOPULAR. FRANCE TRYING TO GET RID OF ITS INSIDIOUS DRINK CURSE. LONDON, Dec. 12. Received 13th, 10.34 p.m. President McKinley has invited the Duke and Duchess of York to visit the United States after their visit to Canada. Robert Arthingan, a Leeds man, has bequeathed a quarter of a million to the London Missionary Society. Somerville, an engineer, has divorced his wife on the ground of her adultery with Earl Russell in England before the latter married Mrs Sommervill in America. Received 14th, 12.27 a.m. I The War Office has removed from the volunteer service three officers, including the Colonel of the Ist Warwickshire Artillery, for horse-play at the Parkgate camp. Other officers threaten to resign unless they are re- j instated. The French Chamber of Deputies has adopted a bill providing for the total prohibition of the use of absinthe.
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Southland Times, Issue 14813, 14 December 1900, Page 3
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