The Legislative Assembly of India votes approval of the idea of introducing Prohibition. Of course British colonial officials, sots to a man, won’t allow any such thing.
Divers are still trying to get inside the sunken submarine S-51 to rescue crewmen who couldn’t possibly have survived this long.
George Hagedues, a Hungarian MP who is president of the Awakening Hungary group, gives an anti-Semitic speech and then drops dead. He died as he lived: of apoplexy.
Republican candidate for New York City mayor Frank “That Fountain Pen Guy” Waterman claims the Board of Health spends $72 for each rat it catches and $77 for each flea. That is, each flea killed. They don’t catch fleas; they’re not weirdos. Update: ah, the fleas in question were on the rats, which is relevant if you’re trying to prevent bubonic plague. Anyway, he’s claiming these ratcatchers are examples of Tammany patronage featherbedding.
The London Daily News claims Mussolini is trying to put together an alliance with Germany and Russia, without so far receiving a positive response from the latter.
The British censors finally allow George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893) a public performance in London.
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