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According to the Kölnische Zeitung, the clergy of Antwerp were compelled to ring the church bells when the fortress was taken. -Le Matin (Paris...
...Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaper bigwig, gave it a seat when he said: "Who of us sitting here today would twelve years ago have predicted that Americans, Frenchmen and Englishmen would meet in Berlin to discuss advertising methods?" France's Dr. Marcel Knecht, secretary of Le Matin, gave it a place on the platform when he spoke on "Advertising and World Peace," suggested that if ever a United States of Europe should be formed, it would be to collaborate with the U. S. A., with everybody working in unison, bound together, of course, by advertising. Finally world peace...
...Author. Able editor of the Paris Matin from 1905 to 1924, Henry de Jouvenel entered French politics actively via the Senate in 1921. He was made a delegate to the League of Nations, and in 1924 became Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts under Premier Poincaré. In 1925 he did a brilliant six-months' job as French High Commissioner for Syria. Returning to Paris in 1926, he later began La Revue des Vivants with the help of other War survivors (his Croix de Guerre is for Verdun). Now aged 53, he continues in the French Senate, a potent member...
Died. Georges Landoy, editor of Matin of Antwerp, Belgium; in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Touring the U. S. with a party of European journalists (guests of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), waiting to see Old Faithful Geyser spout, he, too near the Castle Geyser just as it spouted, was fatally scalded...
...suffering mother a narcotic. Then he shot her through the head. Next he shot himself, but lived. Last week he was in the hospital at Hyeres, reluctantly alive and detachedly wondering what state and social judgment would be on his matricide. He wrote a long letter to Le Matin, outstanding Paris daily, explaining his deed, admitting his "guilt," urging that, come what might to him, the law be changed. "I regret nothing," he said...