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Since last year's "freak" Canadian election (TIME, Nov 9) Premier King's 101 Liberal supporters, augmented by a perpetually fluctuating contingent of the 25 Progressives, have barely sufficed him to maintain a Parliamentary majority against the 116 conservative, M. P.'s led by former Premier Arthur Meighen...
...Deputies of the Left, angered at M. Briand's disregard of their views, deserted him. Though M. Briand could and did obtain a vote of confidence by a majority of 114, the situation had become a hopeless tangle. Stabilization of the franc could not be accomplished with the freak support of a Chamber "majority of enemies...
...back would the fingers of Freak Krao bend...
Died. Mme. Krao Farini, 49, famed "Siamese Missing Link, for 30 years a strange hairy freak in the employ of numerous circuses; in Manhattan, of asthma and influenza, while employed by the combined Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circuses...
...directing a series of operations which were reported last week to have completely dislodged the Riffian artillery which has been desultorily peppering Tetuan from the hills throughout the winter. The citizens of Tetuan have grown thoroughly tired of this endless haphazard bombardment, though it was featured by several interesting "freak shots," such as the escape of an old woman unhurt when a shell destroyed the sewing machine at which she was seated...