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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 26 November 1907, Page 4

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Paris, Nov. 23. The civil marriage between Prince George, of Greece and Princess Marie Bonaparte, will l.e celebrated in Paris, and the religions ceremony will take place at Athens on December 12 thThree passengers on the Orleans express shot two of the guards and stole the cash boxes from the van. They escaped as the alarm w.-S given, and the train slowed down near Ktampes ; bnt abandoned their booty. London, Novembes 2?.

Suffragettes’ disturbances, free fights between supporters and opponents, and rowdy violence broke up a meeting which was addressed by Mr Gladstone (Home Secretary) at Leeds. Mr Gladstone and his wife escaped from the building by a back staircase.

Advices state that the earthquake at Karatagh, in Turkestan, killed ten thousand people scattered throughout a wide district. Ottawa, November 23.

Hundreds of penniless unemployed from the United States are entering Canada. Only those physically and mentally unfit can be rejected. The problem of defiling with the indigent has become serious. The number of unemployed is in excess of what it was in 1906. [According to the Daily Mail, Europe is about to experience a a similar inundation of labourers, especially aliens, dismissed from American industries.] New York, Nov. 23.

Owing to Hebrews in New York protesting against sectarianism, the singing of Christmas carols has been forbidden in the'- public schools, and the name of Christ will be expunged from all song books.