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July 12, 1929

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TROTSKY IS BARRED BY BRITISH CABINET; Tories Cheer Labor Minister's Announcement in Commons, but Speaker Blocks Debate. SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS NEAR Invitation to Russia to Parlay Is Expected to Go Through Norwegian Legation. Tradition of Asylum Stressed. TROTSKY IS BARRED BY BRITISH CABINET Trotsky Exiled to Constantinople.

By Charles A. Selden. Special Cable To the New York Times

Trotsky barred by British cabinet; negotiations near

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Texas Boy Wins French Prize As Student of Mathematics

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

M Block wins Mathematics Prize

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Warship Drops Wreaths Over Sunken H-47; British Abandon Hope of Raising Submarine

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

abandon hope of raising H-47; H M S Rodney drops wreath over sunken H-47

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SVERIGE FIGHTS GALE TO REACH GREENLAND; Swedish Fliers Battle Whirlwind Along Coast and LandClose to Ivigtut.THEIR PLANE CAPSIZED No Damage Is Done and Aviators, After Fast Hop, Are Readyfor Flight to Labrador. Fires Lighted After Landing. SVERIGE FIGHTS GALE TO REACH GREENLAND Traveled 100 Miles an Hour.

By Captain Albin Ahrenberg and Lieut. Axel Floden. All Rights Reserved. Wireless To the New York Times

forced down in sea; arrive in motorboat at Ivigtut, Greenland

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ARMS TALK RESUMED BY DAWES IN LONDON; Ambassador Meets MacDonald in Commons Office at the Invitation of Premier. MOVE WITH LEAGUE LIKELY Envoy Indicates After Return of Gibson That Efforts Will Parallel Geneva's. Gibson Again in London. ARMS TALK RESUMED BY DAWES IN LONDON MacDonald and Dawes Meet.

By Edwin L. James. Wireless To the New York Times

Internatl naval conf likely to move with League

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Notable Deaths

1929Robert Henri, American painter and educator (born 1865)^[†]

Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher.