AROUND THE GLOBE

It has been confirmed that Mr. Krassine will leave Paris for Moscow on Saturday.
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The Labour Party is gaining ground in the House of Lords. Lord Gorell of Barnes, a former High Court judge, has obtained its affiliation to the party.
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200 bus drivers went on strike in London. 150 cars were immobilized as a result.
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The English battleship Monarch was sunk yesterday, in execution of the Washington agreements.

There are fears in England that Saturday's solar eclipse will interfere with football matches. The time of the France-Scotland rugby match, to be played in Edinburgh, will probably be brought forward.
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In Nuremberg, a pacifist meeting, at which von Gerlach and the French lawyer Demont spoke, was disturbed by nationalist students who were expelled by the police.
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The British police, aided by the Chinese police, arrested seventeen pirates in Bias Bay, the leader of whom was killed.
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A snowstorm raged over New York for twelve hours, stopping traffic in some districts and cutting many telephone and telegraph lines.