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Where Twenty Died in Bombed Spanish Train
*The most frightful tragedy of the recent anarchist uprising in Spain was the bombing of the Barcelona- Seville express near Valencia. Above is the scene shortly after the train crashed through a blown-up many others. Volunteers were removing vic- bridgs, bringing death to twenty passengers and injury,
tims and survivors when "this plcture was made.
THE GRASS FIRE SHIPPING REVIVAL IN
(Continued from Page 9.)
U.S. AND SOVIET?
May Result From U.S. Recognition.
wet so the broom-straw would not Carl stooped over in the grass and catch on fire, could burn over the struck a match on the seat of his largest hayfeld in the State. Water pants. He held the flame close to alone would not even begin to put TWO LINES ADD 19 VESSELS A tuft of grass and weathered it fout a grass fre; it was the smother- ing of the flame with the broad side with his bandı.
New York.
of the broom that kept it from Recognition of Soviet Russia The flame flared up no quickly
spreading. But nobody with any by the United States has brought| and so suddenly that it jumped up
between the throngh his arms and singed his sense at all would have thought of into prospect a revival of the whiskers before he could get out of firing a field that year until a rain shipping trade
had come and made the ground two countries. It is planned to. the way. The wind was true in the moist and dampened the grass tufts. add 19 ships to the fleets of the east just then, and it was blowing Under these conditions a field would American Scantic and American
at about thirty
miles an
hour.
B
coiled
the
The wind
the The flame died down almost as sud-have burned so slowly that one man Export lines, operating to
could have kept it under control. Baltic and Black Sea respectively. 21st Feb.denly as it had flared up, and
Jake knew that Carl did not have Estimates of the trade expect-¡ column
white of
smoke straight upward for a few feet be-a chance in the world of being ableed to develop between the two fore it was caught in the wind and to check that fire once it had got countries varies widely, one au-
under way.
thority setting the value of pro- curried down over the meadow.
bable American experts to Russia The white smoke was boiling up- 23rd Feb. The fire was smouldering in
Of the 19 ships, seven will be dead grass, and the white smoke ward in a column the size of a bar as high as £200,000,000 annually. showed that it was feeding on the ref-head by that time. crisp dry tufts that grew around had shifted again, circling around added to the Scantic fleet, at pre- sent comprising four vessels, this A Carl's back and blowing down across making possible a five-day ser the stems like powder puffa.
from a now angle.
Ivice from New York, while tho' hayfield could never be burned over the meadow completely if it were not for the The gross tops bowed under the addition of 12 vessels is planned smail colls of grass that curled in force of the wind, and the wind was by the Export Line. The former When changing so frequently that it kept will provide a service to Lenin- tufis close to the ground.
grad, via the Scandinavian ports, the tufts blazed, the long, waist-high the field waving first in one stems caught and burned through, then in some other direction. Carl with Murmask serving as the ter Then the tall grass fell over as if looked around and overhead, as ifminal port during the four It were being mown with a scythe, by that he were doing something months of the year when Lening- and the fire would be under way, that would cause the wind to die rad is ice-bound. feeding itself for faster than any down into a breeze.
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Both companies have the neces- number of men could have done. Jake crossed his lege again and sary tonnage available, though| Jake Thompson watched the waited to see what was going to the ships are at present out of white smoke boll and curl in the happen next. Carl Abbott was commission.-Reuter. air. He saw Carl walk over to one without doubt the biggest fool he
of the buckets and souse the broom had ever known
in the water, taking all the time ho Suddenly the flames shot into the wished. Then he went back to the air higher than Carl's head and be fire and stood looking at it smoulder in the tufts.
gan leaping across the field towards
the meadow like a pack of red foxes A fairly new, well-sewn house let loose. Carl jumped backward, broom and a pail or two of water stumbling, and overturning one of was the finest kind of fire-fighting the buckets of water. equipment in
A
rarely undertook such a task with-
The flames bent over under the
PROTEST AGAINST
BARBER'S CODE.
San Francisco Prices Too High.
San Francisco. Men in San Francisco are expect
But hayheld. farmers who burned over hayfields force of the wind until they looked ed shortly to resemble the inmates as if they were lying flat on top of of the House of David or an inter- out having three or four men to the grass. That made the field
national convention of planista as: help keep the fire under control burn even faster still, the leaping the result of a protest against the Six men who knew how to souse names setting fire to the gr256 broom in a bucket of water at thei
quicker than the eye could follow. new barber's Code,
This code establishes the price of proper time, keeping it sufficiently it had been burning no longer than a bair-cut in San Francisco and en-
two or three minutes, but in that virons at 2/9d while the rest of the| short time it had spread out into State pays 2/-.
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the shape of a quarter cut of ple, The Code itself specifies no príco, and it was growing larger and larger but divides the State into two dis- each second.
"PATROCLUS" Carl ran around fa|tricts and leaves the price-ixing to circles, his wooden leg sticking into a committee of master barbers and the ground and tripping him with representatives of the Barbers' Dearly every step. He would have Union. Just why it is worth more to stop every step or two and take to cut San Francisco locks an both hands to pull the wooden peg those that grow in Los Angeles out of the ground.
has not been explained, the State "Hey, there. Carl Abbott!" Jake representative who took part in the shouted.et kim above the roar of framing of the code lives in Low the burning grass. "What in bell|Angeles-Router. are you doing out there? Get away
from that fire!"
Carl heard Jake, but he paid no HERRING INDUSTRY
FOR POLAND,
New Challenge To British Fleet.
attention to what he said. He was trying to beat out the fire with hin wet broom, but his work was 'not checking the dames in any, direc Hon. He was so excited that, in- stead of beating at the flames, most of the time he was holding the
The Hague, broom in the fire and hitting the Polish interests are preparing to water buckets with his wooden leg: enter the herring fishing fold in .... The' broom caught on fire, and the North Sea in competition with then he did not know which way to British and Dutch fabing feets: turn. When he did succeed in hit. They have purchased 87 motor ding at the fire with the broom, sluggers from the Dutch which will fast as he smothered one tuft of her manned by Polish crews...ex-
ram it caught fire again almost clusively a large
Mitely. In the meantime two. The duet will flab under the or three fresh ones blazed up be-Polish fig and will probably kold monopoly on herring Imports! Into Poland
(Continued on Page 11),.
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