TWENTY-EIGHT DEAD IN OSLO FIRE DISASTER Celebratory Party Ends In Ghastly Horror
Bodies Charred Beyond Recognition
Oslo, To-day.
In a four-storey building in Oslo, a fire broke out yesterday and spread with such rapidity that many of the inmates could not be rescued. Thir- teen persons are known to have met their death.
Four persons sprang from the windows of the fourth floor and were killed instantaneously on striking ground.
"ANIMAL IS LOOSE"-M.P.
£3,000,000 NAVAL
ORDER PLACED
Aircraft Carrier To
Be Built On Clyde
"I would almost 'have been pre- pared to the point of war to de- monstrate that it was not possible. The Admiralty announce that, for one large country to crush a subject to the settlement of cer- small country," declared Mr. Harold tain details, it has been decided Nicholson, Leicester M. P.
to entrust the construction of
"The guarantee of the Czecho- the aircraft carrier Implacable, slovakian frontiers was a most authorised under the 1938 build- farcical bit of diplomatic hypo- ing programme, to the Fairfield crisy and was quite unworkable," Shipbuilding and Engineering -
Co., of Govan.
he went on.
"We ought to have resisted Hit-
was
years.
ler's attempt to show. that he was If this ship resembles the air-
last the dominant power
craft-carriers in
now building, at Europe. But we are afraid it is now which average 23,000 tons, the too late. The Munich capitulation gross value of the contract will one of the most disastrous vide employment for thousands exceed £3,000,000. It should pro- things that ever occurred. Later, an official notice stated that it appeared that
"Bulgaria, Rumania and Yugosla. of workmen for about three the total of deaths were 24 and it was feared via, who have looked to us with al-
most passionate longing, hoping we The aircraft-carrier Ark Royal, that the number would increase to 28. It is should do something to save them, of 22,000 tons, recently com- treaties missioned, cost £3,215,639. The thought that the fire began in a photogra- are probably drawing up
now and saying 'We have to make Implacable may be a considerably pher's studio where a festival has been cele-
our terms. The animal is loose. larger ship. brated on Saturday.
The gates are open. The keeper has gone.'
The Fairfield Co. already has a large amount of naval construc- Latest investigations show that against the door leading 'to the back "WILL TIGHTEN NOOSE" tion in hand. It includes the the number of victims is probably staircase while the other to freedom "We have given away the whole
35,000-tons 30. All Norway has gone into a could'
inwards. key to Europe, and we shall find in the 5,450-tons cruiser Phoebe, battleship Beatty, only be opened deep mourning.
This way out, however, was block-about three months that Germany and the big destroyers. Gurkha, The cause of the fire is now stated by the fugitives themselves who will tighten the silken noose of trade Maori, Jamaica and Kelvin.
all crowded forward in panic and agreements round every State on The 40th anniversary of the for-jammed the narrow corrider so that its borders. mer court photographer, Anderson, the front door could not be opened. was celebrated in his studio by his successor, Brandstrup, on Satur- day night. The studio was not far from the Royal palace.
ed to be as follows:
CARNIVAL NIGHT
Anderon's widow and other re- latives and friends numbering altogether 40 persons were invit- ed, A part of the furniture was cleared out of the studio and piled behind the back exit door. The
JAMMED IN HEAP
About 20 carbonised corpses were found in a heap just inside the front door. It seems DOW
The previous Implacable was "Germany will be in a position a battleship of 15,000 tons, to hold the whole trade of Europe [launched in 1899. She was broken in a stranglehold.
up after the Great War.
"It is the first time in British history for 300 years that we have departed from our tradițion and
beyond doubt that all those who openly made, peace with the strong CARTOON NEARLY
took part in the festivities with exception of the widow of An- derson and the servant girls have perished.
against the weak.”
Mr. Nicholson referred to the
criticisms of the Munich agreement which he had made in a speech.
"I admit that what I said was
the
As, however, it has not yet been not only ill-considered but ill-man- studio had been given the air of ascertained exactly how many of nered, and I do apologice to carnival time by means of bright those invited actually took part House," he added. coloured paper, steamers and lan- and as moreover numerous bodies terns. Three young girls who were have been charred beyond recogni- tion and could not be identified, it waiting on the company left the house soon after midnight when has not been possible to issue a the company was in elated spirits, list of the names of the dead. but without much wine having been drunk.
r
MAN, WIFE TO
In removal of the bodies which DIE TOGETHER
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lasted till the afternoon the re- mains were carried along between
LEADS TO DUEL Minister Ends Quarrel
Two French political writers. quarrelled violently over a poli- tical cartoon. A. challenge was made and weapons were ready, when the matter was amicably settled by the intervention of M. de Monzie, Minister of Public Works.
The cartoon, which was on the subject of Czechoslovakia, was Partners in death as in life, a hus-published in the "Lumiere,"
+
to
Shortly before 2 o'clock the widow of Anderson withdrew to her own a lane consisting of 10,000 mourners band and wife are both to be electro- which M. Emil Roche, editor of apartment in the same building. seized by deep grief. The corpses cuted at
Hotsprings, Arkansas, the paper "La Republique," and She seems to be the only one who were conveyed to the Royal hospital. after eating their last meal together at one time a close collaborator took part in the ́célebrations and The real cause of the fire is still in the condemned cell.
of the former Finance Minister, who escaped with her life. The unknown.-Trans-Ocean,
Imploring the Governor's cle M. Caillaux, took' violent excep- mency the broken-hearted relatives tion. of the wife, pale Lucille Goad, ". twenty-eight, said that on marrying M. Roche wrote to the Pre-
fire must have broken out half an
hour later. People passing the
spot at 2.15 noticed nothing, but
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soon afterwards flames began to M M. PONCET LEAVES Buford Goad, thirty-seven, she did sident of the National Fencing
burst out of the studio with explosive violence.,
an
CATASTROPHE IN FEW MINUTES
FOR ROME
Paris, To-day. “
At 2.30, the fire brigade reached the spot, that time the whole The new French 'Ambassador. in studio was in flames and it proved Rome, M. Francois-Poncet, left for impossible to force a way into the Italy yesterday night. studio.
mile" to the execution chamber.
or
not know he was an ex-convict and Association, M. Pietri, himself a bandit.
former Minister, demanding sat- It was Buford, they said, who jisfaction by "arms" from M. forced his adoring wife into Georges Boris, editor of the crime. Unless the Governor inter- “Lumiere,"
immediate venes Lucille and Buford will, apology. after their last goodbye, walk one after the other the dread "lustonds was arranged to discuss meeting of the four sec-
Numerous political · personages
the seriousness of the alleged Buford Goad, one of the most des insult. It was finally decided to People living in nearby houses and representatives of the Diploma-perate criminals in Arkansas, has ask M. de Monzie to act as ar- relate that the whole catastrophe tic Corps, assembled at the railway confessed to five hold-up murdera. apparently lasted only a few station to take leave.
He boasted "It's my techique to kill minutes for only a few cries for Among them were the German em; dead men make such poor wit After full deliberation, M. de help were heard from the studio, Ambassador, Count Welczeck, the nesses.”
Monzie decided that neither the then there was complete silence. British Ambassador, Sir Eric He and his wife have been found artist who drew the sketch com-. As it turned out later, the only Phipps, and the French Ambassador guilty of murdering a grocer plained of nor the paper that exit from the burning building had in Berlin, M. Coulondre. Trans-Throughout the trial Mrs. Goad published it had been guilty of been blocked by the furniture piled Ocean
denied she's taken part in it:
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bitrator.
any voluntary inault,