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September 22, 1920, Temperature 79.
日一廿月入酉辛大歲年十國民華中
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PARIS, Septber 21, A message from Mainz states that the chemical works at Oppau near Frankenthal in the Bavarian Palatinate have blown up with over a hundred casualties.
PARIS, September 21,
Latest messages from Mayence state that the explosion at Oppau was very terrible. It is declare that the casualties number thousands, including a thousand derd.
BERLIS, September 21.
It is now reported from Mannheim that hundreds were killed and injured ani enormous damage done by two terrific explosions at the Badische Anilin Fabrik works at Oppon where highly explosive nitrogen compounds were manufactured.
TERRIBLE HAVOC
LONDON, September 21.
The terrible efects of the explosion at Oppan were felt throughout the tich industrial Upper Rhineland, causing scores of victing pea and twerty miles from the scene of the disaster. The pretty flourishing sillage of Oppan was completely destroyed in a few seconds and reduced to blazing heaps of shattered walls burying hundreds of helpless victims. The surviving villagets fled in frenzy helter-skelter.
POISONOUS SMOKE OVERHANGS RUINS. The district was overhang with dense columns of poisonous smoke visible for miles and rendering the ruins at present inaccessible.. A member of the Hadische Anilin Fabrik works declares that there is no possibility of further explosions at Uppau. The full extent and the origin of the disaster at present can only be conjectured.
800 MEN KILLED AT ONE STROKE,
MAYENCE, September 21. The explosion at the Badische anilin works at Oppau, among the most terrible in history, occurred as the shifts were changing at eight o'clock in the morning. The concussion was felt at Mayence and all windows in the Barnhem wisky wars blue thound the first explode ordin a laboratory where 800 man were working. All these were instanty killedga
PEOPLE KILLED MILES AWAY.";
Other explosions followed in rapid succession, making it impossible to assist the first victime. Several persons were killed and 36 injured at Mannheim thirteen miles distant. The roofs of many houses were blown off. A number of people were killed at Ludwigshausen, while Oppan was reduced to a heap of ruins.
INJURED TERRIBLY MUTILATED.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
FACTORS MILITATING AGAINST
TROFITABLE WORKING.
The report of the Douglas Steam- ship Co., Ltd., submitted by the General Managers, Messrs. Douglas Lapraik and Co., for presentation to the shareholders at the 38th Ordinary General Meeting to be held at the offices of the Company on Friday, September 30 at noon, is as follows:-
Political disturbances in China, and consequent restricted business; in- creased competition, and a phenome. pal advance in the cost of liquid fuel
during the first six months of the period under review, have all militated against profitable working of the steamers in our regular trade.
After paying all mnning expenses, ordinary docking charges, premia of insurance, allowances for leave and pensions of the fanting staff, and transferring $31.127.66 from the serve Fond to meet the cost of special repairs, renewals, and addi. nious to steamers, there remains the sum of $101,461.46 at credit of Profit and Loss Account, which, subject to the approval of Shareholders it is proposed to sppropriate as follows :~~ To pay a Dividend of 7%
($3.50)
....$ 70,000.00 To write off the Value of the Company's Steamer and Properties.. $ 31,461.46
$101,461.16
Consulting Committee-Mr. John Johnstone "resigned on leaving thei Calcay and Mr. D. G. M. Bernard was invited to fill his place. The Com mittee now consists of Messrs. D. G. M. Bernard, W. E. Clarke and A. 0. Tang, who retire but offer themselves [ fór re-election.*
Auditors. The Accounts for the first half year were audited by Messrs C. Bernard Brown and A. Ř. Lowe and for final half year by Messrs. C.
Bernard Brown and A. E. M. Williams
(the latter acting for Mr. A. R. Lowe)
Messrs. A. R. Lowe and C. Bernard Brown retire but offer themselves for re-election.
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE.
LUDWIGSHAFEN, September 22. In a statement the management of the Badische factory shows that the explosion occurred in a warehouse containing 200 tons of ammonium sulphate compound. Ladwigshafen resembles a great hospital. Schools have been converted into wards. All available transport has been com- mandeered to convey the victims to the wards. Along the roads leading to ALLEGED FRAUDULENT NOTE. Oppaa and in all the fields round the town lie hundreds of badly injured men, women and children. Many are terribly mutilated with shattered limbs. In many cases eyes have been torn out.
SEEKING THEIR RELATIVES.
Hundreds of weeping women and children are flocking to the scene to scarch for relatives bat a cordon has been drawn around the wrecked works barring approach for a radios of half a mile. Medical detachments are arriving from Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Heidelberg and other places.. Unofficial estimates place the casualties at over a thousand dead and nearly 2.000 injured.
THE CAUSE.
MAYENCE, September 22.
The catastrophe at Oppau was due to excess of pressure in two adjoining gasometers which caused the explosion. It is now estimated that the death roll may reach 1,500 people,
CONGRE-8 KE1951MBLES.
GERMAN AND OTHER TREATIES RECEIVED,
WASHINGTON, September 22.
Congress has reassembled. President Harding sent a messenger with the German, Austrian, and Hungarian treaties. Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, previously conferred with President Harding. It is understood that
Eighteen bags of dried mussels
worth -$800 alleged to have been obtained by false pretences figured in a case heard before Magistrate Lindsell yesterday afternoon when two men were charged with obtaining and alternatively with receiving the goods.
Mr. G. G. N. Tinson (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master) pro- secuted, and Mr. F. X. d'Almada ap- peared for one of the defendants.
Mr. Tinson explained that the first defendant was a former employer of the complainants but was discharged after China New Year becanes business was dall. He had worked, since then, with a firm on another floor in the same building and still took his meals with the complainants' fobis. On the morning of September 15, the first defendant, visited- the complainants' godowa and three minutes later, an nnknown individual arrived with, an apparently genuine order from the office that 18 bags of mossels were to be delivered to the address of the second defendant. There they were repacked into smaller bags and
it has been arranged for the treaties to be referred to the foreign relations some were despatched, forthwith, to committee.
ARMENIAN QUESTION.
LEAGUE URGES PROMPT SÉTTLEMENT,
GENEVA September 21. The Assembly of the League of Nations unanimously adopted the report of the committee urging the Council to take steps to impress on the Supreme Council the necessity for prompt settlement of the Armenian qucation.
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A recent strike at the Swansea steni wo cceptance of an urgent order
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a third party with whom arrange ments had been made, beforehand, to sell mussels on commission. A part of the consignment was found at the second defendant's private address,
After evidence had been heard the hearing was adjourned.
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