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CHRISTMAS STORMS.
Extraordinary Situation at Home.
ROADS THROUGH DRIFTS."
Fire Brigade Unable To Get Through Snow Block.
Rugby, Yesterday,
GOLD RESERVES.
International Pooling Suggested.
MAINTENANCE OF PRICES.
Professor's Cure For Business Depressions.
Washington, Yesterday.
THE DEATH PENALTY
Drastic Chinese Law Imminent.
CHECKING CRIME WAVE.
Shanghai Ordinance Outlines Numerons Offences.
An important notice has been The extraordinary state of Addressing the American issued by the Shanghai Provisional affairs created by the Christmas Economics Association Professor Court in which the newly enacted storms and snow has to some ex- L. D. Edie, of Chicago University, Ordinance for the supression of tent been alleviated to-day, but suggested an international pool- robbery, insurgency and brigand- communications are still seriously ing of gold reserves as a cure for age, was proclaimed to be enforced affected.
business depressions which, he henceforth in the International Most railway services are al- argued, was due to under-produc-Settlement and the general public most normal again, but delays are tion of new gold. Such a plan was strongly urged to lend their still caused by frozen points and would involve the establishment help to and to co-operate with the signals, whilst some lines are still of a "Gold League of Nations." blocked by snow drifts.
authorities in thefr supreme effort to stamp out the crime wave in Shanghai.
The Professor pointed out that Several of the principal roads the production of new gold had cut of London are still blocked by been falling off below 2.7 per cent. the snow drifts. One of the deep- per annum, and it was necessary ordinary increase of armed robbery It will be recalled that the extra- est of these is on the Sevenoaks to maintain a stable price level: Road, where the barrier is 15 feet during a considerable period.cent months has convinced the and abduction cases during the re- thick. On some roads that were Reuter's American Service.
impassable yesterday passages have been cut through the drifts, and in this way communication
between London and, the isolated SENATORS BARRED. city of St. Albans was restored to-day.
Gale in the Channel,
DISPUTE.
judges that the existing Criminal Code, which was enacted under peaceful conditions, is no longer abnormal situation, because the capable to cope with the present
penalities provided therein are found, Inadequate to be deterrent to these categories of crimea especial- ly in this part of the country, where criminal facilities are usually greater than in the interior or other commercial ports.'
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The fire brigade from Bishops| DEVELOPMENTS IN CONGRESS Stortford was trying to reach the burning mansion known as Stan-) don Lordship, famous as the re-
Oklahoma City, Yesterday. sidence of the Duke of Wellington Under orders to "disperse the after his victory at Waterloo, but mob" the State troops this after was unable to get through the noon barred the members of Okla- The President of the Shanghai snow block. Another fire brigade homa's self-convened senate from Provisional Court in voicing the from Ware succeeded in reaching the senate, chamber of the Capitol public opinion of the Settlement the mansion after digging its way and thus prevented a meeting to hus, accordingly, deemed it neces- for over a mile through snow consider the impeachment of Goy-sary to petition the Nationalist drifts several feet high. The ernor Johnston. Later, however, a Government. sometime mansion was badly damaged,
prayed for quorum of 24, members met in a In the English Channel a great effect that Senate was not answer-
hotel and barred a resolution to the bandit law. gale is still raging. There have able to any other state court for been again to-day no steamer ser- their activities in impeachment Death for kidnapping any person vices between Dover and Calais, matters.-Reuter's American Ser. for ransom; depositing any but the Southern Railway decided vice.
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Before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning,) Telegraph and telephone lines Sub-Inspector Elston charged a have been largely restored, but Russian named Alexander NI 188 trunk lines are still down, and Tkatchuk with having arrived in 3,600 lines of private subscribers the Colony without a passport. In the London area are still out The man, who had come down announced that it will not permit of order. It is now possible to from Canton, had previously been the establishment of an official telephone to Paris again after two mitted to the House of Detention but that it cannot refuse the pre in the Colony, when he was com- Soviet news agency at Geneva, day's' break. British Wireless Service.
and subsequently deported. He sence of the ordinary journalist came back on November 30 last, at Geneva who is merely exercis-] since which date he had been in the ing his profession, as long as he Government Civil Hospital under-does not act as an observer or in A sharp frost, following the going free treatment for a disease an official or semi-official capa- partial thaw of last night, has contracted outside the Colony, 9.30 a.m. again made the London streets of four weeks hard labour, after
The Magistrate passed sentence city.-Reuter. dangerous slippery, and as a re- which the accused will again sult the L.C.C. ambulances dealt deported. with about Afty cases of accidents due to falls.
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Blizzard on Continent.
London, Yesterday.
Meanwhile the Thames, swollen with melting snows, is rising hourly, and great damage from flooding has been done in Canter- bury and Maidstone.
The blizzard has now passed over to the Continent and heavy damage from flood and snow is re- ported from France, Belgium, Spain, Poland and Greece. Reu-
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ARMED ROBBERY.
SHOP ENTERED IN A VILLAGE.
OWNER WOUNDED..
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In connection with an armed rob- bery at Tal-O particulars of the affair were contained in this morn- ing's Police reports.
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Buenos Aires, Yesterday. The bomb explosions are attri buted to Sacco-Vanzetti sym pathisers. The 19 injured include Emmeline Beams, who is Eng- four women one of whom is Mra. lish. It is believed that the per- Dentist. petrators of the outrage passed. According to the manager of the the guards carrying bombs dis- Budapest, Yesterday.
Kam Lee grocery shop in Muiwan guised as Christmas parcels. village, Tal-0, he and his assistants Many passengers were injured were asleep at about 8.80 p.m. on made, but hitherto the culprits Seventy arrests have been as a result of a goods train collid Tuesday when they were awakened have not been discovered. Reu ing, with the Budapest-Bucharest by knocks on the shop door. When ter express, which was held up near the master inquired who the visitor Kolozsvar as a result of severe was, he was told that it was a hun- frost affecting the railway lines. gry man who wanted to buy some --Reuter.
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Train Collialon.
INDIANS DROWNED.
seven
AFGHAN AMIR.
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men rushed into the place. DECORATION FROM KING OF One man, who was armed with n firewood chopper, struck a blow on Santiago, Yesterday. the master's head, causing a slight| Eighty Araucano Indians, includ-wound. Then the robbers easily Jug many women and children, are overpowered the other people in the that King Fund of Egypt has con- reported drowned in crossing the shop, and, ransacking the place ferred the Order of Mohamed Aly, River Cautin on horseback. They stole money and some cakes and
Rugby, Yesterday.
A message from Cairo states
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