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LONDON, Julv 12, ROOUS INVITATIONS.
A timely discovery frustrated a repetition of the hoax carried out at the wedding of the daughter of Lord Ivylsnnt, when hundreds of bogus invitations were distributed. Viscount Tredegar’s son, Evan, gave a birthday party to which 150 guests were invited, including Royalties, and Venders in politics, art, and the stage. Two urgent acceptances by telephone to-day warned the host, who, acting on police advice, issued special passes to the guests.
The police have interrogated a relative of an eminent member of Parliament.
Those who received bogus invitations included members of negro jazz bands, ami chorus girls.
WAVE OF SUICIDES. “CHRISTIANITY ONLY CURE.” ROME, July 10. Using ns a text the spectacular suicide of James White, the English financier, tho Vatican, through its official organ, the “Osservntore Romano,” draws attention to tho alarming wave of suicides, which started in Central Europe, and spread to England and the United States. The paper says that religious instruction during youth and the practice of Christianity in later days are the only cures for an epidemic of selfdestruction.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1927, Page 3
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