Br .T Owens, speaking at a meeting of the CVil-Smoke Abatement Society, said that as a result of London's sulphuricacid laden smoke her ancient edifices were rotting awav. He had broken off lumps as big as his fist from Westminster Al>iievbv simply catching hold of them. The Houses of Parliament were also crumbling. General W. 11. Bradford, who celebrated his ',111 th birthday at Bournemouth, is believed to be the oldest living British officer. He entered the army in 1833, and curved in the Crimea with tho Eillo tfrigadc. Two lion cubs born at Iho Leeds Zoo, Hunslet, are dead. The lioness declined to feed them, and though 'they took a certain amount of milk from a bottle the food did not agree with them, and they died, : „. v
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1090, 31 March 1911, Page 5
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