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Nearly every potent civilian on the island of Malta is a Roman Catholic, but bitter and never-ending is the feud between pro-Italian and pro-British factions, between the Archbishop of Malta and Prime Minister Baron Strickland. During the War, doughty John Miller, roughest hooligan anglophobe, had to be locked up with German and Austrian prisoners. Last week Mr. Miller proved that his hate of Britain has not cooled. He attacked the prime minister as he entered the Court of Appeal, fired one shot point blank and two others as he struggled with police. All shots missed...
...Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly attacked Mayor Stricklin, alluding to cattle thieving, a charge for which the Mayor was indicted but exonerated last year. Among these three there was the kind of bad blood peculiar to a Mississippi political feud...
...Benton, Miss., because of an article which he had printed. In that affray he lost a brother-in-law, D. D. Dorsey. T. A. Kelly was also killed. Governor James Kimble Vardaman had to send troops to protect the jail that lodged Editor Birdsall. Now that he was dead, feud-wise Yazoo City talked it over quietly on Main Street, waited to see who would be next to fall...
...General Election of last spring all Liberals stood together. Shoulder to shoulder fought the witty, opportunist youngsters who follow David Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election...
...follow were Liggett & Myers with Chesterfields and Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco Co. with Lucky Strikes. The Lorillard To bacco Co., faced with the heavy expense of introducing Old Golds met the reduction only partially, cutting its price to $6.10. During the intervening months the costs of the feud were heavy and many a rumor spread that an agreement for its termination had been reached. Last week from the Winston-Salem (N. C.) offices of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. came an unexpected telegram that Camels had been boosted to their old price of $6.40. Chesterfields, Piedmonts, and Lucky...