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Second faring District Voters Viiii'liieienee as, a ltestrlt of tire
; flare it Freta the Armory to frolieynietta’ Shite inllevr York‘
the?“ Avenue is (ironing Worse
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'kliuikl——~sWung through the streets of
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largest iiitliber‘ iii ' Line at Any
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regulars—t wenty-six
in dust-stained
Guardsmen and
thousand of them ’
El Patio and past a reviewing stand!
at ‘Fort ‘Bliss today, in the first parade}
and review 01' an infantry division at;
full war strength ever held in the!
United States. Military men said also'
that a larger number of troops werei
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Will 100k After USN!!!" and Trying to Persuade labor leaders
Other lattersnf interest From Declaring General Strike
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NEW YORK Sept. ill. ~chentyrtivo
business men organized as a commit
tee tried to persuade labor leaders to»
The annual meeting of the Second
Titling, liistrlct was held last evening!
j‘u lite (‘ity Hall, The meeting was
Very quiet and all oi the reports were,
arm-pied without any discussion. ‘ day to refrain from declaring h gent-r-
(‘liarles A. Walters was reinstated its All strike iii sympathy “till the strcc:
autii'oz' of the district for the coming railway ciiipinyees of whom it is as
yea; lserted there are eleven thousand on
A motion to extend the proposeil’strike. This is the last day of gracr
hyslz-m of ornamentai‘sireet' lighting given by the labor unions to the mayor
trout Monroe street to Woodward me and volunteer mediators to settle the
title. was carried and $2.300 was alt-.disputt- with the liitei'borough (Rapid
pmprialed to carry out this work. The Transit t‘ompauy and the New York
limit of Electrical Commissioners Railways t‘oiupauy.
up llhD authorized to ilpltoml counsel? if today's conferences full to find a
to :uok Flier the interest of the disgplau of settlement the labor leaders
1m“ in Legislative and other tilalierathrong-11,10 issue it call tomorrow for
a general sympathetic strike to bcgin
ll such ti need should arise, Another“
appropriation of 84,900 was made forton Monday. The. citizens committee
had little hope of success,
rim Public Library.
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American Federation of Labor. is here.
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simmering for Bridge white
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with W’ committee this at-
ternoon. Local strike leaders also will
participate in the conference. Mr.
Goinpera refrains front making tiny
public announcement of his views as
to the advisability of calling a general
strike. it was reported today that
some of the trade unions Were opposed
to it, owing to the fact that they ltave
contracts with their employers which
would be violated by a strike.
Rioting continues nightly. Despite
the fact that two thousand policemen
are concentrated in the center of the
city last night to protect elevated and
'tal‘y district. reviewed them.
history of the country with the excep-i
tion of the grand review in Washing»
ton at the close of the Civil War, May
23 and 24,4805.
Tanned by service on the burden!
brown-clad infantry, field artillery and,
auxiliary troops marched in an un-l
broken column, nearly twenty miles,
long. Major-General Cbarlel H.!
Clement, commanding '
in line titan at any other time in the.
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vania division, and Brigadier—General:
Bell, commanding the El Paco mitt,
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Participating in the review were
troops trout the regular army. fi'om‘the first body exhumed in the inveaii .mpasure’ set forth in the opening par-
Yiiicliigim. Keiitiit-ky',laation ot’ the deaths at the Al‘vllltf'Way‘raph:
Massachusetts,
Ohio, South (‘aroliiia, l’cnnsylvauia.‘
SOUTH NORWALK,-corm.,,jri-ioasoav, sameness 2t, 1915
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SPECIAL Will AND OUR OWN 0P
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DllER SlRANGERS
Ilsa Anita I. Gillan » Leaves All
“Fer Aulataaeeef Worthy Eit~
Each—“ll Fifty Vets I llaye
lever Ieeelyed Freer Tire-t a
, Stacie Kindness”
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A remarkable will in which Miss
|Anna K. Glimun left an estate esti-
[plated at $116,000 in trust for the pur-
pose of collecting alleged claims of
i more than $1,000,000 and devoting the
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Aeoutricea." to the exclusion of her rela-
,iivea, who were cut off with one cent.
each. was filed in the Surrogaie'n of
i lice in Brooklyn yesterday. She died
at Rowayton‘. ("0nd, July 5. last.
The will was executed at Wakefield,
('oun..,ou May 28, 1897. anti indicates
that Miss thman for more than nine-
teen years cherished a grudge against
‘ail her living relatives. That she fully‘
‘realizetl the oddity of the instrument
‘ is clearly shown in the steps she took
to disarm potential contestants. a
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”Know all men by these presents?
liliode lslillltl and New Mexico, in all‘ was disclosed today by State's Artur-,iimt 1. Anna K. mini-n, ningle woman;
71410 otticers and 2.3.10“ men.
laight‘ni-y ’Hugll M. Alcorn, after he had'being of sound and disposing mindq
llltllltillltl auinrtis and one thousand 1 presented an indictment to the Grand. having been examined by G. W. Mead,
vehicles, int-lilting iiiiihiilaiiccs,
make up the pageant. .
BOSTON. Sept. Elm-Anticipating
the early return of the .\'tttio.\'l'
Guardsmen from this state, now on:
duty at the Mexicali hortlt-r. officials;
of the state and city have begun plans:
for a reception in their honor. Mayor:
Illuker asking that the troops be sent:
home in a body so that they might?
parade here. (‘01. Edward J. liognnJ
commanding the Ninth liegiuwntd
“"d has promised ‘0 attend R "1091le which is at El PKUO, is quoted as favor- i and Mrs.
ing the proposal and Governor McCullt
said he would support plans for a‘
"tremendous reception."
SAN ANTONIO, Tcx.. Sept. 21.~-7
The request of 300 members of the!
the first degree on five counts. Four
of the cast-s had been known for some
months. but today the fifth case was
made piihlic by the state's attorney.
who said the first body taken from
the gran-yards in the state's investi-
ration, was that of Mrs. Maude Lynch,
. (‘urh-y today wired secretary of War-‘34 years old. of Lakeville. who died at
the Archer Home. February 2, Will,
anti on whose body an autopsy was
performed April 3, 1910.
Mrs. Lynch wait a daughter of Mr.
Edwa Winckwortli, of
lakevllle.
ed her and her parents are said to
have been induced to send her to the'
Archer Home. A contract was made
for Mrs. Gilligan to care for her for‘
Her ft sband had abandou-‘
gnn‘iury charging Mrs. Amy FL. Archer- M. t)., of Winchester. Mass, do give to
.czu‘riages and supply wagons, helped Gilligan of Windsor, with murder in'all my legal heirs one cent each. to'
hold to them and their heirs forever.
1 limit these bequests because in a
life of fifty years! never have received
from them a single kindness or
courtesy."
To Be Loaned or Given.
Miss Gilman then urges the trustee;
named by her Daniel G. (lllman of
Baltimore, president of Johns ilopklns
University, and Richard liritton and
George Sweeieer, both of Wakefield,
Mass, of whom only Brllton in now.
alive—to collect what they could of'
her legal dues and to "loan or give!
. to any worthy'exectltrlx who med. aa- . district called the meeting to order. A bomcss of their mintenie
teiatance enough to enable her to pb-'
‘tain her legal rights."
The claims enumerated includo‘
Second New York infantry to iemain ,1 life for $1.000. about four monthe after, "scooooo and over" from the estate of
on border duty after they had beenlMl‘l. Lynch entered the home. Someiher father. Nathaniel
;“8400,000 and over" from the estate;
ordered home resulted today in an ail-l
eight months later she died. tile
Gilnian, 81“.. '
nouucement by General Funston that? cause 0' dl‘llh ht‘infl given 88 89"!er 3 of her brother, Nathaniel Gilman. Jr..i
Guardsmen who wished to stay could,
transfer to other regiments. rcleasinq
men who wanted to return to their.
homes.
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pernicious anaemia. She was buried
in Windsor. and Captain Robert ‘Hur.
and “a remnant of ”00,000 which I
hold in my own right ,some in the‘
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icy of the state police said today theluncoln Dank, some in the estate of
rte-eon her body was taken up firat was i William Miles. who received it under
because it mambo most convenient to
t at on a dark night, and was one
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confession of judgment given to save‘
my Fifth avenue property."
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QUEBEC, Sept. 2l.——A verdict of
accidental death was returned by the
coroner's jury here yesterday at the
inquest into the loss of thirteen lives
of workmen in the. collapse of the
central‘span of the Quebec bridge
(in September 11.
the responsibility and ’of the re-
liability of the construction methods
used in the attempt to hoist the
span into place were not consid-
ered in the findings, as being out-
side the province of the coroner. al-
though testimony" was taken show
ing that the immediate cause of the
disaster was the breaking of the
southwest. supporting ~caating.
There-trait also expert testimony
» to the effect that the hoisting jacks
were not responsible, and that tie
The question‘ of .
go
of the most recently interred, I0 evi- . 0n Augugi 15 Surrogate Ketcham, in
deuce: of poison could be more read- , the absence of a will, issued tempor.‘
11y detected. tiry letters of administration to Miss
Captain Hurley said the only reason Gilmau‘s brother. Frazier Gilman of
the authorities had kept the case of; 265 Clinton street. The will was filed
Mrs. Lynch a secret was because her tw George H. Gilmau. a lawyer of 67
mother, Mrs. Winckworth. had beenwul street, whose father. William C.
critically ill. and effect of publicitinilman of Norwich Town, Conn, gets
BOSTON. Sept. 21r—4‘npi. Georue on her was feared. 31,000. Two other beneficiaries get
Birnic. of the Portland acnoonef: The Grand Jury had a long consul-[81.000 and 8200. respectively. The law-
Lucia l’ortcr, arrived here today. from f eratlon of the state's evidence against ‘ yer said last night that his father was
Gibraltar. with six members of his: Mrs. Gilligan today, there being nbout‘not related to the teetatrlx.
were smashed under showers of bricks (‘l‘t‘W aboard ”19 steamship Cretlc.. fifteen witnesses present. i in Many Legal Battlee.
and bottles and several passengcm and reported that his vessel had beeni Shortly before 1 o'clock the Grund' \Mlsa Gilman was born in Water-
were injuredn ahandont‘d six hundred miles west of‘Jury was excused from its labors for: ville, rue, eighty-two years ago, (laugh.
, the Azores. lan hour for lunch. State Policeman . ter by a second marriage of Nathaniel
i "Disaster hits ended my 1881 llll’mi‘liuriey and StatevBacterlologiat ArthurlGilman. who amassed a fortune of.
iVOl'flges.” Captain lsirnie said. “i J. Wolff, who have had a great deal} three or more millions as a trader dur-
[began ”19!“ all on Friday, because 1' to do with the autopsies. Dr. W. biting the war of 1812. and later as ship
illlollghl that auperstitution was a Thompson. of Hartford, Retredt, andtowner and ship builder. He died fifty?
idream. Now We decided I'll never Dr. Arthur G. Emmett, the Jr" phy-‘ycars ago, naming Miss Gllman as
sail again if I have to start on that siclui, who have observed Mrs. Gilli" executrix of his will. !
day." gun's mental condition. were amongi Following the death of her father
, in February the Lucia Porter was the witnesses. Others were relativeetMiee Gilman was involved in manyA
stripped of her sails and her seams of the five persona Mrs. Gilligan isilegal battles over the settlement or.
cross-town surface lines, strike‘irym-
pathizers bombarded cars with mis-
siles. in one case several hundred
strikers attacked a car in Central
Park, West. and were beaten off only
after a battle with the police.
‘Repeatedly during the early hours
today Sixth and Third avenue elevat-
ed trains were assailed by strike. sym-
pathizera on roof tops. Twenty-two
such attacks were reported by the par
line within a few hours. Car windows
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span did not buckle until it was tilt-
ed and strained in a manner it was
not intended to withstand. The.
same methods of elevating the span,
It was testified by experts. would
probably be used when a new link is] .
put in place. though the socket cast-t 'NEW LONDON, Sept. 21,—Prepara-
in: would be of different material. ltory to their conference today with
’ (the Mexican members of the joint
. iMexlcan-American commission. the
. . 'American members studied fresh in-
9 Sloflfs lo "BUSES 'fomtation relative to conditions in
f Mexico, received from Washington.
l'l‘he Mexicans were still awaiting full
BURNEB AI ERIE MIC“ {official reports of developments in
_ , e 'thhuahua. Such informatlsn as they
have received caused them to minim}:
7“.“ lthe importance of the attack on Chi-
ERIE. Mich. Selli- 21.-.\'lne i huahua. and they maintained their at-
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2-; orce was a van ageoue ra er 1 an
d3! afternoon by 8 fire Misha“!!! 1111 otherwise, since it would afford oppor-
awgigfixluzhzrfinflrdfnm'li‘idllegueg'”filmy for pursuit with reasonable
0. "Ac mice 0 success. .
twelgmlggesfiffifig “slated tlhe tithe; It was clearly indicated before the
dope roe _ n ex on! 'i commie, alonere met today that until the.
2‘31er dblaze. Th; store buildinssmewly created situation in Chihuahua
existirzyguilnal:pra::tion‘ :gllllgléytoglfils explained satisfactdrliy. no agree
_ Wmeni on a border control plan involv-
The loss is estimated at 6100.000- lug. the withdrawal of the American
NOUTH BEHEg—FOR MURDER groans merger General Pershing could
-, e reac .
01AM. Km» 39% 21.-—Berti It was expected thatthecommlaelon-
Dudley. chmed with the murder Otters today would continue their countd-
Henry Miller, II 88911 German. “iteration of general conditions in Mexi-
gis 1333.158 glen t£111 llhe Johnnie: i on. as well is of the Chihuahua situa-
puny I'D I Ilme.,fl0n.
mob and hanged'to a telephone poleJ
The mob eerie to ,Olathe lumotor‘rd’Mis'rs ARE Tuna-mph a
can humbly MI W smwellli MERIDEN. Sept. 2L—Announce-
mw; 1:41 nvaumguadcx; meat was made here toda’y’of the
.‘ “'0'! "It .of.fitov.uol.l|lnu.me-
worm!“ bin. Milieu bat- ' at oty Amie church. South Mention.
dandt’do'u three tall doora. Several,to 8t. Peter’e'Church. Danbur‘y.’ as,
“were tired. but no one was in- will he succeeded here by Rev. Edward
T. Walsh. of Waterbury. '
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opened in a storm off the Maine coast. ‘
and in May she was tossed up on the
beach at Swampacott. almost a wreck.
and her crew taken off in a life buoy.
After being rebuilt. the schooner
sailed from St. John, N. ‘B.. on Friday.
August 11, for has Palmna with a
cargo of pine, and a few days later
encountered a 'storm.
Captain B rnle said he and his crew
were force to seek refuge on the
after deck house, and had about or
hausted their limited food supply when
the British tramp steamer Knight of
the Garter picked them up on her
voyage from Norfolk for Italy, andl
landed them at Gibraltar.
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‘ HARTFORD, Sept. 21.~—Joaeph ,El-
mer, with the alias of J. A. Cohan.
wanted in Boston and Chicago, plead-
ed guilty to obtaining money under
false Menace by a worthless check
in an automobile tire deal in this city
and was sentenced to state prison
from one to three years in the crim~
inst court. by Judge Shumway today.
Otto Most, 50. of Enfieid. pleaded
guilty to an apauli on a five year old
girth hiahoine. He was sent to
auto-rm from one to threelyeam.
Tony Wt, 55, pleaded guilty to
a similar crime and was sent to state
prim foe trout one to yearn
flurry Rack. pleaded guiltyto hin-
dering wee of a_wituoea in the
town . ot’Bex-lln. He warned-
teaeeluto: a undue.
accused of murdering while they were‘
inmates of the Archer Home antlerA Meier Gilman of 265 Clinton streetfl'
iBroolrlyn, said last night at her home
contracts for care for life.
Mrs. Gilligan was present at the
sessions., No attorney for the state
or for the accused is allowed to ap-
pear before the Grand Jury.
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BOSTON, Sept. 21.—-—Gaapare dl
Cola, a wealthy importer and whole-
sale fruit dealer. died today. as a re-
sult of wounds inflicted by an un-
known man who shot. him five times
near his home in Brookline, last night:
The Broolene police early in the day
had found no trace bf his assailant.
Di Cole. was shot just after leaving”
a street aron hie return from a meet-
ing of ftaliana in Boston in celebration“
of the anniversary of the capture of
Rome by the Rattan army in 1870. His
wife, who accompanied him, said that
two men approachedthem and without
saying anything one or both opened
fire. Di Cola fell and the me off.
Before his death at a h 1, d1
Cola said that he did not how who'
had done the shooting Ind knew of
no motive which anyone could have
had forthe act.
Dmola was pee-ideal of the Boston
“manned Cross Society and a prom-
nent memberuorthe Society Dante
.the estate. Her niece, daughter oft,
that her aunt became embittered over
court contests and as a result entrant; .
ed herself for years from all her rein-’1
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A titan lNDDSilil‘
state commissioner of weights and;
measures. who today called on all
local ofilclala of his department to pur-
sue an inquiry into the bread-making
industry in this state, announced that
he had also naked 8. W. Siratton, fed-
eral director of the Bureau of Stand-
a‘rde at Washington. to.,call a meeting
of officials throughout the country for
‘diacuaafbn of the subject, and to de-
termine on a uniform law for a stand-
ard. loaf. Recent changes in the nine
and price of bread in this state, land-
ing to reduce the quantity sold for a
given price, via the occasion for Corn-
inluloner Hanson’s activity, he stated.
The expediency of puking master bak-
ers and flour producers to fake port in
a conference to be held under federal
auspices. wee “We , Director
Stratum ,he-utdcumnemvet pout:
ble agreement oer a: fair unit uniform
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province of Dobrudja. WI
lNlEMD NESENND combined Gemn. autumn-i
been
ifor the railroad from
tto interior Rumania, ha;
District Water System-StakingZCPYding '0 “mum mm
‘Sldes of the struggle.
{a check for van Mackcnsen’a. ”
;ics on the line of defense,
bil 'll lt'.tl ’l“l‘ lint“ .1
:vt:illiii;;ulitl illowti‘llnsml‘l‘ tiletletlliisgenof tall: 1 i'Elafgls'ttechhoTZadiey brig?” ‘
Town Assembly Hall. in Wall street.
Frederick Bulllle, secretary of theitcrday's date concede: '.
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advance through the
,Turkish forces have
Voters» Decide to Extend Firstwhccked for mom,” 1-.
Fund Amounts to $121,639.68? Bucharest yesterday a .
The district commissioners. and up by the Rm. “a...
First District which was held in theithc Sofia WI: Office ‘
and Charles ii. Dliworth nominated
Mayor Carl A. Haratrom as chairman. ports the Entcnte m”
holding their strongly
Mayor Hurstront was unanimously . _
elected. i POSltlonl. ‘ ‘ .
The clerk of the. meeting, Fredericlr’ Reports ' the .. - V
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Buikley. then read the annual report in the Flori
of the First District for the fiscal year; .
ended August 3131, 1916. The report'fvestem Mum. “e "'
ng. Accounts From
was the same as was published in ,1
last night's Sentinel. and was accepted soures have "It!” mg
by ”‘9 "W”“S- ians were falling‘back on'
A resolution in which the First Disw - .
trict Commissioners were authorizedtterntory' Sofia, however.
in obtaining 84,000 from the Board of‘ ces a tum in'the filming f‘.
Estimate for library purposes, unable to the Bulgarian ibrcea. .
presented by Irving C. Byington, and: Further “at, in the mom;
was unanimously adopted. :
Charles H. Dilworlh' then presented'ggidcoungy dong the '
a resolution in which the commission-1 err e “1983mm? _
era were authorized to purchase addi-l heavy one all along the hue.
tlonal land for reservoir purposes, lathe far western end of flu .
which purchase the commissioners”1e Allies .n making pro‘
were to use their own judgment. rlllai The defeat of the W
resolution was also adopted. , _ .
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district in
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flowed by comet-adv: quaeb' ' ,
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'Gcrmans did not renew their
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ltacks during the night. .
. After a lapse of some dayt.
ttivity has been resumed by
1Frcnch in the ,Verdun regi
‘. The repulse of violent B
iian attacks on‘ the peak ‘
imakcalian with heavy losses,
. . t the attackers is repo' rtcd in’ to
Great Flood Ill Diana lies Caused gcial statement given outby
. . . i tench War Oflice today.
Alrlrons otDellars in loss In the region“, the Brod
, —- her the Bulgarians forced
wasuixo'ros. Sept. 21,—Nearly nfwal’ "“0 the “flue 073‘! . . -
million people have been made home-i after two attacks had failed. _
less by one. of theugreattetgmflood?l .on i were driven out by the‘ Serb 2
record in that see on 0 an IV erefi ting K2.
the American Red Cross already haaqm #33:? fish .f th _ N .
spent $600,000 for flood protection‘. it . ”mm 0-" em
and where the $30,000,000 loan for 18 reported on the left
reclamation work, which was post- where they have melted
ported by the war, was to have been 1550. three miles north“;
spent. Reports to the state depart- Fieoderi ' 2
men! yesterday from the American T F. - .,
consul at Napkins said the Hwal Riverf . hf meh P" mac " ' "
h‘d inundated an area of about 7.000 cam in thevyel'dun sector. w,
square miles in Anhui province. Ap- th'ey captured two mm
pants for aid have been sent out for one hundred men ‘_ ,4.
the homeless, who virtually are 921- the Thiautnone Work. “3....”
to an official mesme'
the French War Office. 'lh .
tlrely dependent on charity, as all
the autumn crops were destroyed.
gained one hundred yard“ a,
Fort Vuux and in'the M
The flood occurred inn very flat.
alluvial section. where the north-to
south passage of the Grand Canal had
damned up purge latte and allowed
the uni river too little space to
entry of! the excess of water. Yester-
da‘a delayed advices described count:
tlona several ween ago‘,‘but officials
believe there probably baabeen Mia
improvement. in the-cane .of’ vl‘. ,
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