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PERILOUS JOURNEY FROM ZERMATT.
TOURISTS MENACED BY-
SLIDES OF SNJ
Genova, Mac 1. The British tourists who, for a week, were snowbound at Zermatt owing to all the roada being blocked by snow for a distance of 22 miles, and in some places to a height of a thrilling encope 40 feet, made from their Alpine prison...
For several dayn gang of men were tunnelling through the snow and early yesterday morning they succeeded in clearing the railway ine from Viap to Theach, the ata tion below Zermatt. A steam anow plough completed the clearance.
Owlug to the cables being broken in several places by the force of the snow-slides, no electric trains
he cule! run. The authorities therefore put on a steam engine and run a train through to Tacsch to pick up the stranded tourist.
THREE DROWNED IN SNOWSTORM.
MOTOR-BOAT UPSET BY GALE
NEAR SHORE.
Blyth (Northumberland) Mar. 1. Fifty yards from the beach and of a Life-Saving Within sight Brigade, three Blyth men lost their lives and another from Gateshead narrowly escaped drowning when their motor-bont was capsized in a sudden Blyth Bay to-day by storm, which, accompanied by thick) snow, awept the Northumberland const
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The four men left Blyth Harbour on a fishing trip about 8 a.m. bright weather, but an hour later they wore struck off Seaton Sluice and were driven by the storm shorewards.
They could be seen standing in their boat waving their arms for help.
Within three minutes the Blyth motor-lifeboat raced away, having on board the father of one of the mea who was drowned.
The most exciting part of the journey was from Zermatt's to the
Menaced prac
The lifeboat, however, had gone) slation of Taesch. tically all the way by alides of only a short distance when the boat loosened snow or by small avalan-capsized about 100 yards from shore ches, the tourists had to descend and was driven among the breakers.
The
in sleighs or on akl, a few oven A Life-Saving Brigade, wearing doing the journey on foot in their cork-jackets and carrying a lite ordinary boots. paths were line, dashed into the sea and made Atill covered with deep snow, and for one man who was clinging to the "caravan" of visitors had to the broken mast of the motor-boat. thread it way down
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he utmost caution 10 in the track of the guide.
The railway authorities put on special through carriages to Bou- logne, and permitted an extension of expired return tickets withou! extra payment.
Big Avalanche.
quitting Switzerland 'Before several of the tourists expressed Their appreciation of the prompt efforts of the authorities and also their complete satisfaction with the way they had been accommodat- during their enforced stay at Zermatt.
The leader of the brigade had just renched the mast when he was knocked unconscious by heavy seas but, both still clinging to the spar, the two men were dragged nshore by the life-line.
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Hard rye bread, called "Knaccke- a. hundred years or broed." for more one of the many specialities of Sweden'a peasant homes, has now won an international market. and fame fur beyond the borders of its home country,
They got away just in time, for last night and today Switzerland visited by one of the has been heaviest snowfalls of the season. In the old days bread-making Even in the lower districts, such n Geneva, several inches of anew have fallen during the last 24 hours, and at prescal there are no signs of a change in the weather.
was a laborious procedure in the Swedish country homes. The huge baking ovens had to be heated by woodfires, and the housewife some times kept on for a whole week making enough broad to Inst the household for three months.
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A big avalanche occurred during Friday night on the slopes of the Mittaxberg in the Canton of St. The thin, hard rye bread, which wer into round cakes with holes Gallen, completely blocking the kept its crispness and flavour for the centre and afterwards hung main road from the Toggenburg to a long time then became the most up on poles in the ceiling of the cottage. To-day the same bread is The valley. All traffic is held up.popular kind of bread. and a large number of workmen
The careful mixed and spiced made by the ton by electrical ma- have been set to clear a passage. dough was flattened out into thin chinery, baked in apecially con- a ateel-tructed revolving ovens and ship To-day official warnings were sheets, perforated with A very hot ped in great quantities to different parta of the world, where it has
issued against the danger of aval-wiro "roller, baked in anches in practically all Alpine re-
gions.
MILITARY BUDGET.
PREPARING FOR DISARMA- MENT CONFERENCE.
Geneva, March 1.
The work of preparing for the Disarmament Conference, which begins at Geneva next February, has now been advanced a further stage by the termination vester- day of the task of the committee of exports on budgetary questions. The experts have established a model statement of expenditure on national defence, and have drafted a report dealing with methods for the application of the principle of limitation and of the publicity of expenditure, as Lodied in the draft convention for the limitation and reduction ar Armamente.
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The present report, which was submitted by Mr. G. H. S. Pinsent, of the British Trosaury, makes detalled proposals for the execu- tion of the limitation of arma- ment expenditures and for pub. licity as provided for in certain articles of the disarmament con- vention
The principio of limiting.arma- ments by the budgetary method was considered by the Preparatoru Commission to be the most prac- ticable and for limiting land war material and for limiting the on- all thron tire amount spent on arma (land, sea, and air) takon as a whole.
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turns out about 6,000 tons a year. Forty years ago only about 80 teg won great favour on account of its
The staple bread of the lowly of "naeckebrood" was exported taste and healthgiving qualities. farmer's cottage is to-day served At present the export amounts p the 2,500 to 8,000 tons a year with i delicacy on 21 special
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The chief foreign" com- tinent. There are now no less than kronor. 60 Swedish bakerles making this sumers are England, the United bard rye bread, the largest of which States and Denmark.
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