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Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, May 20
Cold weather and frosts at night are seriously affecting tlie British fruit crops.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 20.
A number of political prisoners attacked the guards and attempted to escape from the central prison, Warsaw. The soldiers fired, killing timeand wounding two.. The magistrates’ inquiry into the recent conspirators’ plot showed that the intention was to kill tho Czar, M. Stolypin, and tho Grand Duke Nicholas, with a view to overthrowing the monarchist regime. Numerous dangerous accomplices escaped.
PARIS, May 20
The over-planting of vineyards in tlie south of France and adulteration in other centres, has caused much local distress. There has been somo rioting, and the town hall at Biziers was burnt because the Mayor obstructed a demonstration.
NEW YORK, May 20,
Doctor Frederick Cook, of New York, is preparing an. expedition to tho South Polo for the summer of 1908. He is constructing a special motor, which will bo ablo to travel over land, sea, or ice.
The loss of exports of American canned beef for the fiscal year is valued at one million pounds sterling. SYDNEY, May 21. Agriculture is retarded in many districts by lack of. rain.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2086, 22 May 1907, Page 3
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