LINER ABLAZE OFF U.S. COAST NEAR BALTIMORE
Several Feared Dead In Disastrous Outbreak HUNDRED LONDON SENSATION-LOVERS GET
IN
RESCUE DRAMA
Baltimore (Ohio), To-day. Another tragedy was added to American sea annals yesterday when the steamer "City of Balti more" caught fire off Baltimore, with, it is feared, the loss of several lives.
The steamer, which was carry- ing between 100 and 150 passen gers, caught fire when only four teen miles from Baltimore.
Cause of the blaze is not known but the flames spread with amazing rapidity and several persons are believed to have been burned to death.. Eerie scenes are now being witnessed at the scene of the disaster, to which fireboats and coastguard vessels rushed ✨im- mediately the first agitated
S.O.S. message was received on
shore.
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RESCUE EFFORTS
NAVAL PACT IN FORCE
London, To-day.
The Treaty for limitation of naval zimaments and interchange of information regarding project- ed-naval construction, signed in London in March, 1936, will come into force forthwith, Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India having deposited in- struments of ratification at the Foreign Office yesterday.
The United States and France had previously deposited ratifica tions-Reuter.
LOAN BY FALSE
PRETENCES
ALLEGED
was
DISAPPOINTMENT IN FONTANGES PISTOL TRIAL
PARIS, TO-DAY.
SENSATION LOVERS RECEIVED A BIG DISAPPOINT- MENT YESTERDAY WHEN THE TRIAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL FRENCH WOMAN JOURNALIST, MAGDA DE FONTANGES, AC- CUSED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE COUNT DE CHAM- BRUN, OPENED
Mme. de Fontages, it will be re-
called, had been stationed in DUKE OF WINDSOR
Rome, where she alleged she was the mistress of Signor Mussolimi.
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Count de Chambrun was French Ambassador at the time and she stated he broke up her relationship with the Duce.
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AND WIFE NOW
VENICE
IN
Venice, To-day
arge
She therefore shot him on March 17 while he was boarding a train
The Duke and Duchess of Wind- sor arrived here yesterday at the Gard du Nord in Paris.
visit of several days. Li Chung Yuen, aged 29,
Yesterday the authorities
They were greeted nounced that in view of the high crowd on their arri charged before Mr. W. Thompson personalities involved in the case, Ocean. The rescue vessels are playing at the Central Magistracy to-day it would be held in camera their searchlights on the water with obtaining $100 from Basant and are picking up the survivors, Singh by false pretences. some of whom, badly burned, Mr. C. A. S. Russ, who appeared have already been brought ashore and rushed to hospital.
Among the rescue vessels is a sister-ship of the "City of Baltimore,” which in the earlier confusion was be lieved to have been the "Báy. craft," which left Baltimore yesterday bound for Norfolk, Virginia, laden with plea- sure seekers.
NO REVELATIONS
FITTER BRITAIN MOVEMENT
London, To-day.
Council
for defendant, said the procedure Hence the "startling revelations" in having him arrested on a war-which accused threatened to mak rant appeared most irregular. Judg-were not heard. ment had been given against -de- fendant at the Summary court and and ended in sentence being pass-for Physical Traming and Recreat-
The proceedings were very brief The National A he was ordered to pay by installed on Mmme. de Fontanges of one ion in furtherance of its campaign ments which he was doing. Defen-year's imprisonment, with post for a fitter Britain dant could always be gót at
is setting up ponement of execution of the sen-twenty-two area Committees fine of 100 francs-Trans-Ocean. Wireless. tence against recognisances and a England and Wales British-
[summons.
by
Mr. M. A. Silva, for the prosecu tion, said defendant visited Basant The death-roll in the tragedy is Singh, a money lender, introduced not likely to reach the shocking proportions of the "Morro Castle" Cheung Ming Store, No. 114 Holly- a Tam Lung as proprietor of the and other disasters, owing to the wood Road, and asked for a loan off close proximity of the stricken $100. Next day, complainant made vessel to the shore and the sub-
enquiries at the shop and was told sequent quick arrival of rescue.
by one of the inmates that Tam vessels on the scene Reuter
Lung was the owner of the store. TA HUNDRED SAFE -Residents at Bayside Beach state
A loan was duly arranged and that about 100 persons have reach-Tam Lang, affixed what was sup- ed the shore from the liner, leaving posed to be the firm's chop. Later, about fifty unaccounted for.
The vessel is reported to burned to the water's edge.
when interest was overdue, plain- have tiff wrote to Tam Lung and later took out a writ against him as man- The survivors include the skip-ager of the store but reply was re- per, Captain Charles Rogers, who ceived from Mr. C. Y. Kwan that was found hanging to the side of the firm did not belong to Tam. the blazing vessel-Reuter.
SHOCKING FRENCH RAIL DISASTER
Paris, To-day
The case was adjourned for week, defendant being allowed bail of $100.
The Duke of Gloucester yester completed the first part
days our of boys clubs in twelv of the
Lancashire
centres.
express were smashed to smither
Fifty persons are reported toeens and wreckage was strewn all have been killed and many injured
over the line. Fifteen dead and
a ́ railway disaster at Ville 50 injured have hitherto been Neuve St. Georges, about fifteen recovered miles to the south of Paris,
Several
Details for the moment are lack dying
One of the trains involved was ass
Paris
which was derailed following col-
another train.
irst four coaches
from the wreckage the injured are in a
fire brigade rescue
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