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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16571, 2 November 1921, Page 12

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LATE CABLES. : LONDON. XovoAbor 1. ’ The " Die-hards' " breakaway lias (redirected attention to tin- poss’ibilit y of :Av Itynur Law - rct-uni. If is staled in the Press, on good authority, that ho intends, if his recovery continues, to return to polities early' iiV i‘J22. v ' ■ A CAIRO. November 1. The final figures to tin- middle of tlu* mouth show that tlu- cotton crop is tlie Lowest recorded. BUD A PESTJI, N ove.tii her 1. I n compliance .with the • Entente.'s Note, the Government lias convoked, tlie Assembly for Thursday. to eon- ' ~i<!c*V the dethronement of Karl. LONDON, November !. Owing- to the. highest litle rJincv !!W:•" the Thames to-day Hooded the lowest streets of Gravesend,, where boats ,w.re •: v . used on .the Promenade and' also at. •Hartford, Wool wieli, (ireemvieb and Ilowbridge. Thousands lined the Em- ./ bankment watching the rising, water. _ which percolated hut did not overflow the terrace of Parliament House. The Greenwich tramways were temporarily suspended. Many houses and offices were flooded. HOME. November 1. Two Fiat aeroplanes, ordered by tlie Soviet, crashed during a trip to Moscow. Two Italian - pilots were killed and two injured. It was understood that the machines were intended to inaugurate tin; Italian and Busfound that they were armed with machine-guns. THE STB EAT 11AJVL TRAGEDY'. A 1 jO N DO N. No vein her 1. | In connection with the Streatham V tragedy, apparently the father and ' mother and the grown-up daughter and son. who were living liappily. agreed to commit suicide owing to money troubles due to a decrease in father was a prosperous engineer. The mother was a Spanish ' women. Her daughter had been an actress. The family never drank wine. • They purchased tlie champagne specially on Saturday. The poison used was cyanide of potassium.