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Show FOREIGN A man was bicycling past a group of Paris policemen in a suburban street, and when hailed by them as a suspicious character, circled, drew a revolver and fired six shots without with-out dismounting. He killed one policeman, po-liceman, probably fatally wounded another with three bullets, and wounded another with three bullets, and brought down a third with two remaining shots. The assailant then pedaled off safely. lumbers of the London house of lorus, who, because of age or other causes, can not hear properly, and who sit throughout the sessions with one hand behind an ear, are to be relieved of this painful posture through the installation if microphones microphon-es and amplifiers. The French birth rate continued to decline, according to the vital statistics sta-tistics for last year, just completed. The births numbered 752,101 and the deaths 679, SSo, the excess of births over deaths being 72,216 a compared with 95,000 for the preceding year. Malaria conditions in the near east and southern Europe are to be investigated inves-tigated by the league of nations malaria ma-laria commission which met at Geneva. Gen-eva. It is proposed to examine the situation on the spot in Egypt, Palestine, Pal-estine, Syria, Turkey. Spain and Sicily. Si-cily. France has asked the commission commis-sion also to make an inquiry in Cor-sica. Cor-sica. j "Country and city unknown," was I the notation on a number of letters I recently returned to the German postal pos-tal authorities in Berlin, which were addressed to St. Petersburg, Russia. According to the instructions of the soviet postal authorities, letters for soviet Russia must be addressed "Union of Socialistic Republics." Otherwise they will not be delivered. And "St. Petersburg" now is Leningrad. Lenin-grad. M. De Fleuriau, French ambassador to Great Britain, who returned from Paris for consultations, is going back to London after another interview with Premier Herriot taking with him instructions that are expected to facil- j itnte the Franco-British negotiations over the problem of European secure ties. j |