DR. SCHACHT'S HOLLAND AT PLAN UNDER
STANDSTILL IN
CONSIDERATION ICY WEATHER
•
London, To-day.
Conversations concerning a plan
for facilitating the emigration of
Amsterdam, To-day.
The extreme cold spell which has settled over. Europe has crip-
Jews from Germany, which was pled transportation throughout Hol-
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tinued in Berlin in January, accord- ing to informed quarters here.
The Zuider Zee is frozen over and communication with the islands of Terschelling and Ameland is main- Dr. Schacht's proposals are still tained only by aeroplane since the regarded as unofficial. It is de-ice is not yet strong enough for clared that they were merely aug- however, gestions at first which, will now lead to the opening of official negotiations.
Dr. Schacht has suggested that those countries which admit Jewish emigrants from Germany increase the volume of their imports from Germany and that currencies ac- cruing from payments for these imports be placed at the disposal of the Jews emigrating so that these might take about twenty per cent. of their property with them to foreign countries which agree to receive them.
traffic.
Canal and river shipping is in- terrupted with the result that many towns which are dependent upon water transportation are practically isolated-Trans-Ocean.
PARIS FREEZES
The
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Paris, To-day.
to fell thermometer centigrades below freezing point in Paris yesterday, a temperature not recorded in December in Paris for ten years.
The weather station, however, It is learnt that it was also con-announces a snowfall which is ex- sidered whether the Bank of Inter-pected to alleviate the bitter frost. national Settlements might faci- -Trans-Ocean.
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Owing to the earlier departure of the steamer, the wedding of Miss Margaret Mignon Montgom- erie McLay to Mr. William Hewitt fixed for Saturday, December 24, at 3.30 p.m., will now take place at St. John's Cathedral on Friday, De- cember 23, at 2.30 p.m.
The reception following, as pre- viously arranged, at the Hong Kong Hotel.
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