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Empress Disaster Recalled, A Yokohama resident has just received from relativos in Liver- pool (England) a latter which he sont from Yokohama early in May Inst, and which wont down in the O... Empress of Ireland, which foundered in the St. Lawrence. river on May 20 last, after a collision with the Norwegian collier Stora är.
Rockefeller Foundation and
Carnegie Endowment. New York. January 1.-Tha Federal commission on industria!' relations will begin" Monday next to investigate the Rckafuller Foundation, Carnegia Endow ment and other Jurga pubile foundation of wmi oranjuse. The henrig will be held in the council chimber of the city Lull, Mir than fly witueres either. we under subpoena on have expr 8-ed their willingness to appear. Tho induda Messrs John D. Rockef ler Jr., J. P. Mörgun, Andrew Carnegie, George F. B.kir. Henry Ford ardo hes of proininenDA, Japanese Army Officer's Suicide.
A Japanese arany paymaster, attached to the Kumine Division, committed-enicida with a sword at bis residenca recently. It w roported that he had been greatly
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ROOMS suitable for offices on to the effect that the work of on the floor, the child's bed, is bread and butter, bacon, choco-the first Door of No: 3 Duddali installing plant in the oil-felds another refugee from Ypres Lates and cigarettes, and with street. in Shaoui Province, China, has puppy of very indefinite breed.ber luxuries when the supplies No. 7 MOUNTAIN VIEW " alre dy heen commenced under He gas probably thrown by some allow. The largest number of Peak. the direction of the Standard On compassionato soul into a cart Company of New York. Accord which was flying in haste from wounded fed on one day by the ing to a report of an American the barsing town. He is little was 2,300, while the total engineer who he investigated more than a round woolly ball-umber ministered to in fire:
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I cannot speak too highly of Hold measures 44 miles and is youth, and round as the result of this station," commenta Sir Fred- 3.000 fast deep. To transport the orsistent over rationing.
"It is a curious picture: the rick; and adda: "it is the very oil, iron pipes will be laid bɛ- tween the district and Hankow, white-washed rofectory full of greatest boon to the poor fellows on the Yangtze river, a distance gravely wounded men, some still who reach the Baso after a long
North Borneo and the Belgian Rellef Fund.
of 1,800 miles, the cost of the work groaning with pain, come nearing and exhausting journey.” being estimated at 20,000,000 death, with, bigh con the wall, Referring to the efficiency of tacle. Seven creight yours bence, a kindly statue of the Virgin the voluntary hospitale, Sir Frad- It is claimed, the Standard O. looking down upon the scene, erick Treves is inclined to give Company will be able to supply and, in the centre of the room first place to the Duchess of oil from Shensi Province to Far near the stove, the ridiralons Weatminaler's hospital at Ls Eastern markets,
pappy and the nue-legged by." Touquet. He remarks that it is This little o men of life in the wall found, and bas gained a high British hospital at Furues is one reputation for good work, The In scknowledgment of the sum of the interesting storien told by Allied Forces lospital at the of £25 which was remitted by Sir Frederick Treves in a report Hotel Curistol, Boulogne, afforde the Court of Directors at the tohto British Red Cross Society evidence of caralul administa British North Borneo Company on his return from a viestin, and is in all particulața mell at the request of the Governor, into the hospital buses on the Con- quipped. At Wimersuz the best the Belgian Relief Fund, the out. The Globe in privileged voluntary hospital is the Anglo- Belgian Minister a kert the to quote from bir Frederick's American, which is usually known ax Lady Hadfield's flospital. It Court to convey to the 8 remarks. Andrew's Society, Jesselton, and Not the least illuminating part can provide a hundred bed, and all those who helped them, his of the report is that which refers well deserves its high reputation. grateful thanks for this gonerous to the value of the motor-car in The so-called Quaker Hospital on. token of aympathy towards his Red Cross work. Speaking of the outskirts of Ypres is apokon suffering countrymen. He cau- his visit to the Boulogas Station, of bigbly, and it is pointed out cludes with the segurance that ir Frederick expresses the that but for its help the people, Belgium will never forget the opinion that the fleet of motor from Yeros would be without help she has received, in this sad ambulances provided by the medical and rurgical aid: The hour of trial, from people in all society represents the most valu: Baltic Hospital at Calais is a good parts of the world, which has able service ever rendered to the one, and in doing splendid work. greatly alleviated her diatreas. Army Medical Department in the Alt gether, this expert survey of
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"These ambulances are every where," he says. "The majority a stirring debats to-day. the Senate heard sharp Republican are working at the front in con- attacks upon Frosident Wilson's of various size. They are
perfectly organized and equipped, spparently not increasing. It in UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. recent Indianapolis Pporch,
and are always at work. When reported that there are only 200 criticizm of the administration'sbey come down with patients to 250 casas of typhoid among policy towar} Mexico, and denanoiation of Democratis legis- they return with stores for the Belgian soldiers in the whole of wounded. In the saving of life, Calais. Now cases are coming in lation, followed by warm defence in the lessening of zuffering, and at the rate of about ted a day. of the President by Democratic leaders, and a prediction of bistrantment for the wounded, thes in the secating of prompt surgical renomination and re-election. Political discassion was precipi ambulances have done a work toted over Senator Commins the value of which can hardly be resolution, requesting information exaggerated.
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Swedish Explorer's Retúra Copenhagen, January 12,—The government proposed to do with day for whatever transport may be famous Swedish explorer, Ealand Mexican customs, collected during the American occupation of Vera required, Almest before the Nordenskjold, has just returned ambalance train from the front to Christiania from his two years' to a vote. Ia to course of the orderlies are at work. I saw a der between Bolivia and Brazil. Cruz. "The resolution did not got has pulled up at the platform our expedition in unexplored South American territories on the bar discussion, Senator John Sharp fall train discharged, and on Among other interesting dir Williams of Mississippi declared, only say that I have never seen a wish emphasis, that President
new Indian tribe of cannibale: Wilson would be "tonominated convoy evacuated with such coveries, the expedition found a and re-elected" Senator Borah rapidity and precision,"
Sir Frederick has something to At a time when the explorer know of Idabo was referred to any of the drivers of motor-cars nothing about the war, M. Nor- Republican Presidential
point to the society. One in Hr, denskjold aspt to Europe a num. sibility, and Seastor Cummins of Kennerley Bamford, another the bar of large boxes with valuable lows voiced the wish the Fra vicar of a diet English parish collections, uses also arrived sident Wilson could be confined A despatch rider on a motor-in Hamburg, but these seemed to the raining of his constitu orolo was pointed out to me, he to have entirely disappeared.
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