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Lord Asquith criticizes Lloyd George for not aiding Liberal Party during strike; Lloyd George's reply; lrs
TOKIO, May 25 (AP). -- A mountain lake, released by an eruption from a long inactive volcano crater, caused the greater part of the death and destruction which followed yesterday's resumption of activity in Mount Tokachi, in Central Hokkaido, northernmost of the principal islands of Japan.
Russian oil fields
Criticizes banks for not giving messengers police protection
1926Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (died 1991)[ā ]
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in genres such as jazz, classical, and experimental music.
1926SreÄko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (born 1904)[ā ]
SreÄko Kosovel was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political poet resisting forced Italianization of the Slovene areas annexed by Italy, an expressionist, a dadaist, a satirist, and as a voice of international socialism, using avant-garde constructivist forms. He is now considered a Slovenian poetic icon.