LINER ABLAZE OFF U.S. COAST NEAR BALTIMORE
Several Feared Dead
Dead In
In Disastrous Outbreak HUNDRED LONDON SENSATION-LOVERS GET
IN
RESCUE DRAMA
Baltimore (Ohio), To-day.
Another tragedy was added to American sen annals yesterday when the steamer "City of Balti- more" caught fire off Baltimore, with, it is feared, the loss of several lives...
The steamer, which was carry- ing between 100 and 150 passen- -gers, caught fire when only four-
teen miles from Baltimore..
Cause of the blaze is not known but the fames spread with amazing rapidity and several persons are believed to have been burned to death. Eerie scenes are now being witnessed at the scene of the disaster, to which fireboats and coastguard vessels rushed im- mediately the first agitated S.O.S. message was received on -shore.
RESCUE EFFORTS
NAVAL PACT IN FORCE
London, To-day.
The Treaty for limitation of naval armaments and interchange of information regarding project- bed zaval construction, signed in London in March, 1936, will come into force forthwith, Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand. and India having deposited in- struments of ratification at the Foreign Office yesterday.
The United States and France had previously deposited ratifica tions.-Reuter.
LOAN BY FALSE
PRETENCES
ALLEGED
was
DISAPPOINTMENT IN
FONTANGES PISTOL TRIAL
PARIS TODAY
SENSATION LOVERS RECEIVED. A BIG SAPPOINT MENT YESTERDAY WHEN THE TRIAL OF THE BEAUTEN FRENCH WOMAN JOURNALIST, MAGDA DE FONTANGES, AC CUSED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE COUNT DE CHAM- BRUN, OPENED
Mme. de Foutages, it will be re- called had Rome, where she alleged she was the mistress of Signor Mussolini.
been stationed in DUKE OF WINDSOR
Count de Chambrun was French Ambassador at the time and she stated he broke up her relationship with the Duce.
AND WIFE NOW IN VENICE
The Duke and Duchess of Wind-
Venice, To-day
sor arrived here yesterday for a visit of several days.. --
They were ted by a large
Ocean:
She therefore shot him on March 17 while he was boarding a train at the Gard du Nord in Paris.
Yesterday the authorities 211- Li Chung Yuen, aged 29,
nounced that in charged before Mr. W. Thompson personalities involved in the case,
view of the high crowd “ The rescue vessels are playing at the Central Magistracy to day it would be held in camera. their searchlights on the water with obtaining $100 from Basant and are picking up the survivors, Singh by false pretences. some of whom, badly burned, Mr. C. A. S. Buss, who appeared have already been brought ashore for defendant, said the procedure and rushed to hospital.
Among the rescue vessels is a sister ship of the "City of Baltimore," which in the earlier confusion was be- lieved to have been the "Bay. craft, which left Baltimore yesterday bound for Norfolk, Virginia, laden with plea- sure seekers.
NO REVELATIONS
Hence the "startling revelations"
- in having him arrested on a war which accused threatened to
rant appeared most irregular. Judg-were not heard. ment had been given against de-
The proceedings were ve fendant at the Summary court and and ended in sentence being he was ordered to pay by installed on Mmme, de Fontanges ments which he was doing. Defen- year's imprisonment, with }dant could always be got at įsummons.
by
forea
rans-
FITTER BRITAIN MOVEMENT
ponement of execution of the sen twenty- tence against recognisances and Mr. M. A. Silva, for the prosecu-fine of 100 francs. Trans-Ocean. Wh tion, said defendant visited Basant The death-roll in the tragedy is Singh, a money lender, introduced not likely to reach the shocking a Tam Lung as proprietor of the proportions of the "Morro Castle" Cheung Ming Store, No. 114 Holly- and other disasters, owing to the wood Road, and asked for a loan off close proximity of the stricken $100. Next day, complainant made vessel to the shore and the sub enquiries at the shop and was told sequent quick arrival of rescue by one of the inmates that Tam vessels on the scene. Reuter.
Lung was the owner of the store.
have
"HUNDRED SAFE Residents at Bayside Beach state A loan was duly arranged and that about 100 persons have reach- Tam Lung, affixed what was sup- ed the shore from the liner, leaving posed to be the firm's chop. Later, about fifty unaccounted for.
when interest was overdue, plain- The vessel is reported to
tiff wrote to Tam Lung and later burned to the water's edge.
took out a writ against him as man- The survivors include the skip-ager of the store but reply was re- per, Captain Charles Rogers, who ceived from Mr. C. Y. Kwan that was found hanging to the side of the firm did not belong to Tam. the blazing vessel Reuter.
SHOCKING FRENCH RAIL DISASTER
The case was adjourned for week, defendant being allowed bail of $100.
The Duke of Gloucester yesterday completed the firs
\days' tops of
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railway___"disaster at Ville 50 injured have hitherto been
Neuve St. Georges about fifteen miles to the ath of Par
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