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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1938

BLINDING SNOWSTORMS

SWEEP

NORTH

AMERICA

Lake Erie Lashed Up Into Miniature Atlantic

Thirty-Seven Degrees Of Frost In U.S.A.

New York, To-day.

Fierce icy gales and blinding snowstorms are sweeping the northern half of the United

States.

Temperatures are being experienced as low as 37

degrees under zero.

A 61-miles-an-hour gale is lashing the Great Lakes. The Coast Guard reports the heaviest sea for years pounding the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, while thirty-feet waves are turning Lake Erie into a miniature Atlantic.

OVER 200 CASUALTIES IN TRAIN SMASH

Bucharest, To-day.

Total casualties in the Rumanian frain crash are reported to be 93 dead and 142 seriously injured, according to a report issued yester- day morning.

The Erie and Buffalo gales necessited ropes along the streets to enable pedestrians to remain upright.

Ten-foot snowdrifts are reported in the North-West, where trains filled with holidaymakers were delayed.

Hitherto no fatalities are report- ed, in spite of the dangerous con- ditions for pedestrians and travel- lers.

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Reports from Toronto state that the worst showstorm of the Winter is raging all over Ontario Province. -Reuter.

DANGEROUS

Numerous other slightly injured EXPLOSIVES

persons have been released from

hospital following treatment.

It has been possible to identify

52 of the victims, while 41 other

tion.

IN SHOP

Lau Yue-dock, manager of the

dead victims have been mutilated Chung Shun Loong Fire cracker beyond all possibility of recogni-store, No. 91 Bonham Strand East, was this morning fined $150, by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Telephonic communications in Magistracy.

re- He was Rumania have not yet been

summoned for storing established, and the whole country 1,115 pounds of fireworks in is still isolated in that respect cockloft, with failing to from abroad.

two incandescent electric

than

the protect lights

a

This explains the delay in ob- with strong shades as required, and

with unlawful possession of taining information concerning the full extent of the disaster, al-quantity of explosives which in-

cluded potassium chlorate. though the scene is less

Mr. G. C. Moss, Acting-superin- twenty miles from Galatz.

tendent of the Fire Brigade said, All goods traffic on Rumanian the place was visited on December railways has been suspended until 20 at 11.55 a.m. Defendant was not further notice as a precautionary allowed to store fireworks in

the

The Chefs at the Royal Naval Barracks making Christmas pud- dings for those Naval men who were in barracks during Christmas-

tide.

-FINAL

TOUCHES AT LIMA

Lima, To-day.

The Pan-American Conference -was occupied during the week-end with putting the final touches to the resolutions which were sign- ed yesterday.

Next meeting of the Conference will be held in Bogota, capital of Colombia.-Reuter.

PREMIER AND

measure in view of the exceptional-cockloft and was allowed to carry LORD HALIFAX

ly heavy snowfall.-Trans-Ocean.

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION AT MADRID

Madrid, To-day..

only 400 pounds in the store, to be kept in a special box.

The fireworks contained potas- sium chlorate a very dangerous ex- plosive. The store was doing a│ small business, but hád a fire occur- red in the cockloft, the whole house would have been involved.

TO SEE POPE

CASE private audience

WOUNDING CASE

Milan, To-day.

FRENCH CONVERSION LOAN OPERATION

Paris, To-day.

The Finance Minister, M. Paul Reynaud, in a broadcast to the nation last night, announced the conversion to a 4 per cent. basis the entire external debt of the French Railways, amount. ing to 3,500,000,000 francs.

of

The loan is now issued at from 5 to 62 per cent.

The new loan will run for thirty be reconvertible years, and will after three years.

It will be issued at 95.

FOREIGN LOAN

An official announcement states that France has negotiated a loan of group and of £20,000,000 from a

in Swiss and Dutch banks.

in

Mr. Neville Chamberlain Lord Halifax, will be received

on by the Pope the day following their arrival Charged with wounding a Chin Rome to pay visit to the head

the Italian Government, it was board the 5.8. ese steward, on Holdia at Paraeval Bay, French timated here last evening.

in-

$12,000,000 will be placed in

land, but the public issue in Holland of Holland and £8,000,000 in Switzer-

will be.

only. £8,000,000, £4,000,000 was placed before issue of the loan.-Reuter.

The international commission ap-

| Indo-China, on December 20, the After their talk with Pope Pius, pointed by the League of Nations to chief boatswain of the vessel, Pang they will attend a luncheon given verify the withdrawal of foreign Fai, 57, was remanded by Mr. E by Mr. Francis d'Arcy Osborne, volunteers from Spain, has arrived

Himsworth at Kowloon this morn-British Minister Plenipotentiary to at Madrid.

ing, at the request of Det.-Sgt. the Vatican. Cochrane who stated that the police were making further inquiries.,

Accused was released on $200 bail.

The commission, which is headed by General Molesworth, Intends to remain in Madrid for two days. Reuter.

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that Lord Halifax's father took prominent part in the movement Special interest is attached to which aims at reuniting the Angli- this visit of the British statesmen can and Roman Catholic Churches. to the Vatican, in, view of the fact-Trans-Ocean.