Famine Still Haunts Parts of Free State Coast
June reports famine remains dire in western Ireland with acute hunger and scarce food as potato crops fail. Relief work continues along Galway with better weather and sea fishing partially resumed though small fishermen struggle against poachers and steam trawlers. Medical officer H Fahey warns famine may linger until new potato crops, seed potatoes and work opportunities arrive.
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Ireland
H. Fahey
Ardhara
Donegal
Irish
Balle
Galway
Atlantic
Wanen
Ile
Veteran 109 asserts creation view against evolution
Major Edward Monroe, a 109 year old veteran and claimed son of James Monroe, denounces evolution as bunk. He says man was created in God’s image and would jail those teaching evolution, blaming fundamentalists for the Tennessee controversy and noting he may descend to monkey talk.
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Jacksonville
Fia
Tional News Service
Adam
Edward Monroe
James Monroe
United States
International
Whipper
Tennessee
St. Avolution
Moniias
Auto Death Toll Tops Sunday Across Mid West
June 29 reports show nineteen killed in motor accidents in Chicago and surrounding areas over the week. In Bloomington Illinois a car struck by an inter urban train killed Mr and Mrs Seaver and four children including a newborn. In Tabula Ohio Mr and Mrs Woodring and three children died when their car was struck. Mrs Bunne killed at Anderson Indiana in a cross road collision. Jacob ... died in Grand Rapids Michigan after being thrown from a vehicle. A score of other persons were injured or killed in similar incidents.
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Mid-West
Chicago
Bloomington
Ill
Seaver
Inter
Tabula
Ohio
P. “Woodring
C.C. Bunne
An- Ind
Grand Rapids
Mich
Jacobitn Prea
Apology Demanded Over Shameen Incident In Canton
A Chinese official arrival in Shameen brings demands from China for compensation for all deaths and an apology from naval officers. French gunboat Marne lands reinforcements as fourteen foreign gunboats remain in port and foreign residents retreat to safer areas in Canton.
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Canton
Shameen
Dene
Marne
Reinents
Revision of Pacts Gains Support in Peking
June 29. Marshal Feng Yu announces military strength to back China’s demand for a revision of unequal treaties. The public presses for declaring war against England while others seek severed diplomatic ties with Great Britain.
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Peking
International ’Service
Feng Yu
China
England
Zere
Canton Situation Deepens as Foreign Concessions Tension Escalates
A Canton clash worsens as foreigners face renewed danger in the foreign concessions. British and French authorities reported the sit down in the international zone after students fired on troops last week, raising fears of a recurrence of prior violence.
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Nton
China
Canton
Shameen Rer
Sheik Said Sentenced to Death by Rope in Khur District
United Press reports that Sheik Said and 29 others were given death sentences in the Khur district. The sentences followed a court martial and were imposed in joint proceedings.
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United Press
Sheik Said
Khur
9 & Central News Dispatch
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