Small and Big Facts of the Week

- The military evacuation of the Ruhr will be completed on August 15th.
- The Chamber votes for a general secretariat of the Post and Transport Commission (PTT).
- A French merchant is killed in Canton.
- A monument to the dead of the Great War is unveiled at the 10th arrondissement town hall.
- Captain Bégo, the oldest registered maritime officer in France, celebrates his centenary in Vannes.
- In Le Mans, a car smashes through a parapet and falls 2.5 meters.
- At a sale at the Hôtel Drouot, "The Wounded Bather" by the painter Renoir sells for 505,000 francs.
- Mr. Léopold Bellan is elected President of the General Council of the Seine.
- The number of wastepaper baskets in Paris will increase.
- A bust of the poet Paul Verlaine is erected in Metz. - The "Bastille-Étoile" tram derails on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, causing casualties.
- During the performance, a spotlight falls from the ceiling of the Casino de Paris, injuring two performers.
- Pelletier Doisy protests against the nickname "Pivolo" being given to an aperitif.
- Mimi Pinson's picturesque procession marches through Paris.
- Near Châlons-sur-Marne, a schoolboy, having failed his school leaving certificate, hangs himself.