AMIR'S SLAYER EXECUTED

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 183, 29 April 1919, Page 6

AMIR'S SLAYER EXECUTED

NASKULLAH GAOLED FOR LIFE.Delhi, April 26. Nasrullnli has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for complicity in the murder of the Into Amir. Tho actual assassin has been executed—Aus.-N.Z. Cnblo Assn. [■Immediately after tho murder of the Into Amir, his brother Nasrullnli was proclaimed Amir at Jellalabad, with tho consent of the locai notables. The lato Amir's eldest sou waived lfis claim to tho throne. Nasrullah's succession, however, was not recognised at the capital, where Amanulhih, the late Amirs third 6on, assumed the throne; and Nasrnllah subsequently made submission to him.']

For 125 years tho Marseillaise has been tho national anthem of tho French people. The average-sized Ateka walrus is as big as an ox, and often weighs more than a ton. ■ Of .£17,000,000 collected in Customs duties at Bristol last year over .£15,000,000 was from tobacco. These arc said to have been the prices of food in Berlin just before th; armistice was declared:—Coffee or tcrt, 30s. to 50s. per lb.; butter, 255. per lb.; a small chicken, 255.; goose, .05; Imui, i:25; eggs, Is. 3d. each. Italy's national debt is now more thin ,£2,500,000,000, whereas when she entered the war it was about ,£55,000,000. Tho United States owns fully one-half of the world's stock of diamonds. Silk is 60 cheap in Madagascar that th» ooorest people can afford to wear it.