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YOU SHOULD EAT NESTLÉS

QUICK CATS

THE CHINA MAIL,

INVESTIGATION OF

GRIM IRONY

OF BLACKBOARD

FOUND IN DEBRIS

New London (Texas), To-day

When the rescue workers ceased their labours among the debris of the wrecked school house yes- terday afternoon, 425 bodies of children and tea- chers had been recovered from the ruins of the FOR EXTRA POWER New London consolidated school.

NESTLÉS QUICK OATS

NOW ON SALE

IT IS NOW FEARED THAT THE TOTAL DEATHS WILL NUMBER NEARLY 620.

AS THE RESCUE WORKERS PULLED ASIDE SOME DE- BRIS THE SCHOOL BLACKBOARD WAS EXPOSED ON WHICH WAS WRITTEN "THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS OF EAST- TEXAS ARE THE GREATEST MINERAL BLESSINGS. WITH OUT THEM THIS SCHOOL WOULD NOT BE HERE, AND NONE OF US WOULD BE HERE LEARNING OUR LESSONS.”

REDUCTION IN SIZE OF FOURTH ARMY

Conference Called In Canton

General Yu Han-mau, Comman- der-in-chief of the 4th. Route Army, is summoning 3 military conference in his headquarters to

Investigation of the disaster is being started immediately by a board of six.

The board will open a hearing and will question eye-witnesses and survivors of the tragedy in an endeavour to solve the mystery of the explosion.

WASHINGTON EXPERTS

Four field experts from the

morrow morning, and all divisional Bureau of Mines have been de-

amanders are to attend. -

spatched to New London from

d

It is reported that the conference Washington to investigate the dis- will discuss the cutting down of aster. military expenses for the 4th. Boute

| Army, and the number of regimen, Texas House of Representa-1

tives yesterday adopted a resolu- in each division will probably be tion providing for legislative in- decreased from six to four. vestigation of the disaster

Ren Our Own Correspondent.

ter.

Taken during an informal interva Room of the Peninsula Hotel. In ce Mr. R. A. C North and Mrs. North.

Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, who scored in "Mr. Deeds Goes to

Tow" are remaited in Cecil B.

DeMille's story of the West, “The Plainsman ich opens simul

tanously

at

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