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Reginald GARDINER
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EUROPE
GRIPPED
BY COLD
BERLIN, Dec. 19. WITH THE THERMOMETER at 10.1'degrees centigrade below) zero (ono degree fahrenheit be- low zero) Monday has been the coldest December day experien- ced in Berlin since 1985, when the thermometer fell to
16.16 degrees centigrade below zero on December 11.
The severe cold is adversely
WOMAN'S TERRIBLE
DEATH
Buried Alive In.Well
By Fall Of Mud
A woman' curth coolle was buried alive by mud in a drep well on Kowloon, yesterday. The mishap building site in Hillwood Road,
occurred while the coolles employed on the lot were having time and the woman was puising the mouth of the well, which was 60 feet deep.
December 20, 1938:
EUROPE'S EXODUS OF JEWS
وسر
BUCHAREST, Dec. 19. THE EMIGRATION of 150,- 000 Jows from Rumania · to Palestine within the next three Xears, is said by the newspaper Rumanian Government. "Curentul" to be planned by the
Jewish Institutions.
be
Under this alleged scheme, 59,000 Jews would be settled annually for the next three years.
According to the paper, the Gov stament has already entered Into negotiations on the subject with the British Government. Meteorologists here point out that As she passed the woman slipped December is generally far from being and fell to the bottom of the well in borne by the Rumanian Government,
The cost of
transport would the coldest month in Germany, where several feet of water, which broke-while the cost of setting them in much lower temperatures are, as her fall. She was not killed but Palestine would have to be met by rute, recortied In January and when her colleagues rushed to the February.
mouth of the well, which was sur However, it is expected that the rounded by mounds of soft mud taken thermometer will drop still further from the well, their ecarts at rescue In the course of the next few days. started a land slide and in a few minutes, tons of the mud had tailen affecting Christmas shopping.
Into the pit. Winter aports enthusiasts, on the Several coolies only murrowly miss other hund, hope that the cold spelled being swept down with the moving with the addition of snow, will mut, and when they looked again extend over the Christmas holidays, the women could not be seen. An --Trans-Ocean.
attempt was immediately made to extricate her but it was soon realised that the task was hopeless, as the narrowness of the pit allowed only one men to work at a time and it was Bentschen, Poland, Dec. 19. An
estiinated that the woman was cover- epidemic of Influenza based by several feet of mud, threatened to break out in the Polls{1-
An attempt to recover in "No Man's will be made to-day. Jew refugee camp
the body Land" on the frontier as a cold wave
The scene of the mishup is adfneent I.
FLU RAGES IN JEW NO MAN'S LAND
The paper sees in the withdrawal from a large number of Jews in northern Rumania, of Reences for the sale of alcohol and tobacco, means of pressure by the Rumanian Gov cenment to compel the Jews to emigrate, and the paper predicts tho adoption of other measures in the near future.Trans-Ocean,
DISCUSSED IN LONDON
Berlin, Dec. 19. Dr. Schacht returned to Germany from London to-day. It is admitted In Berlin that he discussed the ques-. lion of Jewish emigration during bla stay in London.-Reuter Bulletin,
COMING SOON Dito Pario - John Lodor - Erich Von Stroheim inn ver o refugees are at présent to the lot where a man and a Joint Protests By
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at the camp is crowded, and many who are I have been taker, to private,
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The refugees are those who werel expelled from Germany Fix weeks ago.United Press.
SHORTAGE OF COAL
London, Dec. 10. Bitterly cold weather is being ex-
woman
Assassination Is Re-Enacted In Court
S'hai Associations
London, Dec. 10. Answering Sir John Wardlaw-
Mite the House of Commons to-
day, Mr. R. A. Butler stated that the Foreign Secretary had recently re-
Paris, Dec. 10. Herschel Grynszpan, the alleged ceived a report on the joint state- murderer of the German Embassy ment Issued by the British, French und Counsellor, Herr Vor Rath.
was American chambers of commerce and of eight cross-examined to-day in the pre- the national associations sence of his defence counsel, and the counties represented in Shanghai, personnel of the German Embassy complaining of Japanese restrictions
An attempt was made to re-enaet on foreign trade. the crime in the court room, and the
The despatch had only just been
perienced in most European count policeman, who arrested Grynszpan/received, and he was not in a posi~"
tries.
was called upon to testify-Trans- tion to make a full statement, but the
In Poland and Czecho-Slovakia Ocean. there were 60 degrees of frost and; children have been told to stay away from school until further notice.
As most of the Czech coal fields: have been ceded to Germany, there is a shortage of coal in Prague and the price of this commodity has risen. by half.
In the Balle two ships came to #lief and the crew suffered badly from exposure—Reuter Bulletin,-
SNOWSTORM IN STAN
Somaliland Will Remain British
London, Dec. 19. Mr. Neville Chamberlain agnin emphatically denied to-day in the House of Commons the allegation
that the
matters raised already had formed the subject of numerous representa- tions to the Japanese authorities.
Eir Jolin Wardlaw-Milne: "Isn't this the first time that all the trade associations representing the various countries have joined together in a note to protest at the position of the trade of foreigners in Shanghni?"
Mr. Butlers "I believe that is so." --Reuter..
British Government had Chinese Re-Occupy
Railway. Districts
made a proposal to the Italian Gov. Lernment for the cession to Italy of
British Somaliland.-Trans-Ocean.
Sian, Dre. 20. The Brst snowstorm of the year occurred here yesterday. It raged from 2 o'clock in the afternoon and YANGTSE QUESTION shawed no signs of abating late in] the night. The whole city is blanked with white.-Central News.
Chamberlain Not To Meet Hitler
CANTON, Dec. 18.
It is reported that the Japanese forces have evacuated Chunchuen and Konnahan, both of which
arc
May be Prejudiced By stated to have been re-occupied by
Pearl River Opening
Canton, Dec, 19.
the Chine
Practically the entire Kewisen- Canton Railway zone below Snek- lung, on the East River, has been re-cecupled by Chinese troops.
During the past week, however,
It appears that the Pearl River will be closed to foreign shipping! until the Yangise question is settled. units of the Japanese forces have London, Dec. 19.
The Japanese Consul-General, in-periodically pushed down the line Ofeli circles here deny 011
terviewed by Reuter, stated that the towards lite Hongkong frontler and knowledge of a meeting between Mr.
Pearl River was not an important zeine spirited encounters have been Chamberlain und Herr Hitler, rum-issue by itself, but should traffe be reported-Our Own Correspondent, oured in some of the Sunday papers restored it would prejudice the in connection. with the Premier's Japanese case regarding the Yangtse. projected visit to Rome.
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Rain of Questions On
Position
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LONDON, Dec. 19. MOST OF Mr. R. A. Butler's answers to questions on China were made to-day on the omnibus principle.
-Replying to Commander Mars
den and Captain Alan Graham, Weather Postpones
no
Boycott Parade
A Central News" new Kwangtung Provincial
message states who asked whether Mr. Butler Nor is anything loown in the same Government will be inaugurated at that hon use of life was reported to was aware that Japanese mer- ircles of a meeting allegedly having 10 a.m. to-morrow with Mr. Pang Japanese merchant vessel off Wayside chant shipping was plying freely
* have resulted from Bro aboord been arranged between Mr. Cham-Tung-yuen as Chairman. He will Warf, he the Yangtsepos at Shanghai berluin and Field-Marshal Hermann also act as Mayor for the time being. yesterday morning. The ship was load-on the Yangtse, and that
London, Dec. 19. Goering. Trans-Ocean.
Japanese cargo vessels had yet The China Campaign Committee's met with misfortune owing to intended Japanese boycott parade to
day in Oxford Street was postponed drifting mines, alleged by the on secount of the bitter weather. Japanese as the objection, to re- The China Campaign Committee opening the river to British shipping, is holding a ball to-night on behalf Mr. Butler said that advertisements, of the International Peace Hospital. and notices of sailings appeared In| It will be accompanied by raffles, exhibitions by Chinese gymnasts, and Chinese language papers in Shanghai, providing evidence that other side-shows, for which, a large
number of tickets have been sold. Japanese steamers were trading on, the Yangise.
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The Japanese Minister for Foreign at the China Ladies Relief Fund- Affairs had now undertaken to give, Reuter. further consideration to the matter in the light of fresh evidence which Sir Robert Craigle had put before him.
The Japanese Government, in ព note on November 14, stated that of Japanese transport had lately been sunk by mines, but that appeared to have been an isolated Instance. Reuter.
JAPANESE COMBINE
Speaking
Systematic Search For Arab Rebels
London, Dec. 10.
A systemaile search of Arab "in- surrectionary centres" in Palestine is being continued without relaxation. sccording to a telegram received at in the House of Commons the Colonist Office to-day from the
London, Dec. 10.
to-day, Mr. Greech Jones asked whe- | High Commission and settlements
ther the newly-formed Yangtze Ship-seven Arab
which states that
ping Company was likely to exercise were thus searched for arms and a monopoly, and whether the Govern munitions during Sunday, in the ment proposed to take action to main region of Samaria. tain British interests.
One Arab was killed, and ten
Mr. Buller replied that the British arrests were made during the opera- Consul had promised to furnish full, tions-Trans-Ocean,,,. particulars as soon as possible,
Mr. A. C. Moreing asked whether |
tude of the Japanème authorities in
the Premier was informed of the atti- New Terrorism By. allowing Japanese soldiers in the Japanese Warships
Yanglacdoo district to sell entire
buildings cheaply for break-up and
bricks outside the area; to demand menced a now campaign of terrorism Japanese warships bava Com- large sums for personal protection, ugainst Hongkong fishing junks, ac and for permission to curry goods
outside the area; and to what extent ding to Chinese reports. such opportunities for illicit profit ure are ceasing to go outside British ler- As a result, Hongkong Ashermen- proving a permanent obstacle to the ritorial waters.
restoration of the area to the control
"Central News" reports
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al
been
of the Municipal Council,
Mr. Butler replied: "No. There- seized by the Japanese during the
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