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January 19, 1925

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Headlines from January 19, 1925

JAPANESE BACK US IN NEW OPIUM FIGHT; Tokio Officially Commends Porter for Efforts to Maintain Friendly Relations. BUT HE FACES CRISIS TODAY This Is Due to British Opposition to American Proposals to Suppress Opium in the Far East. JAPANESE BACK US NEW OPIUM FIGHT

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Official message from Tokio to S G Porter, Amer delegate to internatl drug conf in Geneva, commending his efforts to maintain friendly relations

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CHAPMAN IS CAUGHT BY MUNCIE POLICE AFTER 2-YEAR HUNT; Mail Robber and Slayer, Identified From Pictures, Is Surrounded in Indiana City. FIRES ONCE AND IS FELLED Quiet "Traveling Salesman" Had Nitroglycerine, $4,963 and $3,000 in Bonds in Pockets. MURDER CHARGED TO HIM New Britain (Conn.) Authorities Want to Try Bandit for Slaying Patrolman There. CHAPMAN IS CAUGHT BY MUNCIE POLICE

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G Chapman caught in Muncie, Ind

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BOOTLEGGERS RESCUE WOUNDED PRISONER; Blackjack Coast Guardsman Hurrying Smuggler and Another in Auto to Hospital. CAUGHT OFF SANDY HOOK Launch Surrenders After Chase in Which Shot Injures One of Her Crew. BOOTLEGGER GANG RESCUES CAPTIVES

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Captured off Sandy Hook by Coast Guard, with liquor aboard; while Motor Machinist's Mate Moore was taking wounded smuggler and prisoner to hospital in auto he was blackjacked and prisoners rescued; launch registered under license to Mrs J Richard of Atlantic Highlands, N J, who denies ownership

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TROTSKY DROPPED FROM WAR COUNCIL; He Is Warned That Defiance of Party Will Cost Him Other Places in Soviet System. REFUSES TO ADMIT ERRORS Resolution Adopted Charges Him With Undermining Confidence of Peasants in the Soviet.

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L Trotsky ousted

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1925Nina Bawden, English author (died 2012)^[†]

Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.

Headlines from January 19, 1925

JAPANESE BACK US IN NEW OPIUM FIGHT; Tokio Officially Commends Porter for Efforts to Maintain Friendly Relations. BUT HE FACES CRISIS TODAY This Is Due to British Opposition to American Proposals to Suppress Opium in the Far East. JAPANESE BACK US NEW OPIUM FIGHT

BOOTLEGGERS RESCUE WOUNDED PRISONER; Blackjack Coast Guardsman Hurrying Smuggler and Another in Auto to Hospital. CAUGHT OFF SANDY HOOK Launch Surrenders After Chase in Which Shot Injures One of Her Crew. BOOTLEGGER GANG RESCUES CAPTIVES

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TROTSKY DROPPED FROM WAR COUNCIL; He Is Warned That Defiance of Party Will Cost Him Other Places in Soviet System. REFUSES TO ADMIT ERRORS Resolution Adopted Charges Him With Undermining Confidence of Peasants in the Soviet.

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