Nouvelles des ports

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Rafiots et compagnies

aquarelle marine cargo au mouillage - marine watercolor cargo ship at anchor

Nouvelles des escales

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor


Le Petit Journal illustré 16 mars 1924


01 - In a canton near Clermont-Ferrand, the Mardi Gras festival was in full swing. a truck came around a street corner, entered the crowd, sowing death in its path.

02 - We have just inaugurated the Lyon fair. surrounded by committee members, Mr. Édouard Herriot, mayor of Lyon, visits the stands.

03 - Miss Muray Dike was admitted to the agricultural academy in Paris. here, at the end of the reception session, Mr. Viala, president of the academy, Miss Murray Dike and Mrs. Morgan.

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04 - Marcel Buys (teaming with Brocco) has just added a victory to a very long list; he won the six-day race in New York.

The French military cross-country championship ended in Saint-Cloud with the victory of Croquet.

Borotra, the famous tennis player, has just won the title of French lawn tennis champion, which belonged to Cochet.

Our national Celimene, Cécile Sorel, who last week was still playing at the Comédie-Française, is seriously ill.

Mr. Theunis having been responsible for forming the new Belgian cabinet, it is Mr. Hymans who would take the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

05 - Paris will soon see a new bus on the road. the express, better suspended and more expensive, will only stop two or three times on each route, it will present great advantages for travelers who make long journeys, and will reduce cumbersome bus parking.

06 - It is in Soviet Russia that the largest telescope in the world has just been completed; in an observatory in Crimea, this formidable device has been put into service. It is electrically driven, allows the sky to be photographed at considerable distances and gives astronomers the greatest hopes,

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