Commenting upon the Canadian financial situation in a speech at Toronto, the Prime Minister, Mr R. B. Bennett, declared that Canada would honour all her obligations in accordance with the terms of her borrowing contracts. Fifty aboriginal wood cutters died in the jungle, in the Bombay Presidency, from a mysterious disease believed to be cholera. It is stated that the men killed a large crocodile, buried it, and then dug it up after'two days. They feasted on the flesh, after which they all died.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 234, 2 October 1931, Page 1
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