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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 5

Private A. V. Sworn, R.A.M.C., waß only 17 years old when he won the Legion of Honour, and is the youngest soldier on whom the decoration has been bestowed. It was awarded to him for saving a French officer under fire. Railway companies in the United Kingdom must take out an annual license costiug £1 for each restaurant car they run. ' ' The Russian Government has ordered the confiscation of the Warsaw gasworks, which belong to a German company. The city officials in searching the company's safe found 900,000 roubles (about £90,000) in gold, which had evidently been stored up to send to Germany. Cesar Thomson, of the Brussels Conservatoire, "was. like Leopold Godowsky, cauglit _at the beginning of the war at u Belgian waside resort near Ostend and finally succeeded in making his way down into Italy, arriving there practically penniless, and with no baggaco except his Stradivarius—presumably It is a Strad. Through the efforts of tho Duke of San Martino, a leading Roman patron of music, he has been appointed head of a special master-school of the violin at the Acadcmy of St. Cecilia, in Rome, Teputed to bo the oldest music school in existence, a position similar to that which he has hold for .vcars in thi' Royal Conservatory of Music at Brussels. It is -good to bo able to record that the veteran master, long a great favourite iu Italy, has found a secure berth in those troublous times.—Wuii. *