Small and Big Facts of the Week

- Mr. Albert Sarraut, our new French ambassador to Turkey, leaves for Constantinople.
- The centenary of Saint-Simon is celebrated at the Sorbonne.
- The Paris pavilion is inaugurated at the Decorative Arts Exhibition.
- A balloon lands in the Montparnasse cemetery.
- A gang of Italians attempting to sell counterfeit banknotes is arrested in Lyon.
- A fire destroys 200 houses in Japan.
- A military plane crashes in the heart of Chartres.
- Lord Milner, the famous British statesman, dies in London.
- A group of mothers of American soldiers killed in the war come to France to lay flowers on their sons' graves.
- In Troyes, a neurasthenic woman cuts open her stomach with scissors and slits her entrails. - The war continues in Morocco between our troops and the Riffians.
- Herriot is re-elected mayor of Lyon.
- In Namur, a tank explodes, injuring several people.
- The English novelist Sir Rider Haggard dies.
- Rockefeller's daughter, the world's richest heiress, marries a modest lawyer.
- In Boulogne-sur-Mer, a doctor dies of croup, contracted at a child's bedside.
- The police prefect takes charge of cleaning the air in the metro.
- The Free Commune of Montmartre appoints the singer Polin "Maréchal"... des Logis de la Butte.
- An Irish farmer from Dublin dies at the age of 115.
- Mr. Lapie replaces Mr. Appell as rector of the Paris Academy.
- A Parisian boat is hit by a tugboat on the Seine.
- During a bullfight, a Spanish matador is killed in Marseille.
- German nationalists hold large demonstrations in Berlin.
- The Limas autodrome reopens.
- In Meaux, a traveler and her two young daughters are hit by a train.