Small and Big Facts of the Week
- Outvoted in the Prussian Diet, the Marx Cabinet resigns.
- The wife of the fairground wrestler Eugène, from Paris, killed her rival in a caravan at the Daumesnil festival.
- A businessman buys the historic ruins of the Château de Guise for 18,425 francs.
- The great mill of Thieux is destroyed by fire.
- A ship collides with a steamer and sinks off the coast of Rotterdam, and seven sailors drown.
- For 1925, the total amount of English aeronautics will be 2 billion francs.
- General Nollet receives the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun.
- At the "Rennes" station of the North-South, a 68-year-old woman fractures her skull after getting off a moving train.
- Two old shells explode in the Aisne, killing four people.
- America will call an international radio conference.
- Herriot will inaugurate the statue of Jean Jaurès in Castres on March 8.
- Near Sevastopol, an enormous mass of rocks measuring 37,000 cubic meters and weighing about 130,000 tons collapsed into the sea.
- The communist movement in the Dutch East Indies, which had caused some serious incidents, has been completely suppressed.
- The Friends of Saint-Saëns inaugurate a commemorative plaque on the building bearing number 14 on rue Monsieur-le-Prince where the illustrious composer lived.
- The United States still refuses to recognize the Soviets.
- In the middle of rue Chaptal, a young Russian dancer kills herself with a bullet to the head.
- A delivery man on boulevard de la Chapelle disappears with 42,000 francs.
- Doctor Socquet, a famous forensic doctor, has died in Paris.
- A jewelry store is robbed in Saint Ouen
- Malvy gives a lecture on his trial at the Théâtre d'Evreux.
- On Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, an underground cinema showing pornographic films charged its customers 200 francs to enter; the police intervene and arrest the four Russians who ran it.
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