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EASTERN EUROPE

PACIFICATION,

POLITICAL MISSION OF DANZIG.

A Danzig correspondent has sent us the following:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928.

STRANGE EXPLOSION IN PICCADILLY.

PEOPLE THROWN INTO

THE AIR

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corners of the

Shortly before 5 pm, on Oct. 2, when traffic in Piccadilly Circus was The memorable speech with at its height and hundreds of people M. Briand, the French Foreign were crossing to and from the Minister, accompanied the signing various refuges, there was of the Kellogg Pact is worthy to ominous rumbling, and the ground rank among the greatest oratorieat began to move as if at the approach of an earthquake; then came in achlevenments recorded by His-load report, and stones and masonry tory. He pointed out, among were fung up into the air from other matters, that the Kellogg three different. Pact has formulated in documen Circus. tary shape the pacification of the The three upheavals were almost world, and that it will be incum-simultaneous, and were followed by bent upon the future to organize clouds of fumes and smoke. the pence thereby established. A woman crossing the street op- This object can only be accomposite the Criterion Theatre was plished by the elimination of the fung into the air, a bootblack turn- danger spots and danger zones a complete somersault over his that still threaten the peace of the wooden box, a flower girl world, and of which the Eastern thrown from her sent, and section of Europe is one of the roses were scattered in all direc- most important. The banks of tiong, and women and children the lower Vistula are inhabited by screamed with fear.

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A few minutes later fire engines rushed to the spot and ambulances from Charing Cross were soon on the scene.

a population which is partly Ger- man and partly Polish, and in that part the area covered by the Ger- man Republic is cut in two by the so-called Polish Corridor. Neari Indescribable Confusion, one of ita termini lies Danzig,

All traffic was brought to a formerly a German seaport, but standstill, and for a quarter of an now made into a free city, ie, an hour not a vehicle could be moved. independent and neutralized state Indescribable confusion reigned, under the aegis of the Leaguo for, owing to the fact that it was the rush hour, of Nations. Danzig constitutes the height of one of the pillars on which the omnibuses and cars were jammed pence of which M, Briand has along every approach. Regent- Piccadilly, Shaftesbury- spoken must rest. She is the no-street, tural intermediary between the avenue, and the Haymarket were west and the east, both politically solid blocks of traffic, and police and economically; and now that worked hard to keep a way clear for the diplomats at Berlin, Paris, the fire engines and the ambulances. Warsaw and Moscow are working Meanwhile, the site where onco for a German-Polish understand- Eros stood had been railed off, ing, It may be of interest to in- The ganga of men who had been vestigate the special tasks that working under the Circus construct- fall to her share in the capacitying the new Underground slution were brought up in buckets by the just described,

large crane. About eight men were more or less seriously injured,

Danzig Problem.

It is not quite easy to approach and others suffered from slip the Danzig problem sine fra et shock,

One ambularice alone made six studia. The city and the surround- ing ferritory were forcibly sever-journeys taking people to hospital. ed from their German mother Mr. G. Roberts, of Stafford-street, country under the terms of the Kilburn, who was at work under- Versailles treaty and were intend-ground when the accident happen- ed to facilitate Poland's access toed, said he was severely cut. "I the sea, ie, to enable that coun- and about eight other workmen," try to get into contact with west-he said, "were constructing a sub- orn nations. Danzig is near the way when one of my mates put his spot where two entirely different dertric drill through a light pres- cultural regions meet. Western eure gas main. The gas burst out and Eastern Europe are divided with a rush. One or two of my from one another, in spite of the tes went back to get some “pug" (clay) to plug the hole with and levelling effects of certain as the rest of us stood back in case of peels of our present-day civiliza-

nceldent." Lion-by a deep chasm which neither the West, nor the East enn Masonary Torn Up. bridge unaided. Danzig, however, The most serious upheaval was could be of service in this con- at the corner of the roadway op nexion.

posite the Criterion Theatre and Even before the war Danzig ext to the public lavatory on the Look a large share in the trans-island site. Great pieces of wood- portation of raw material from the work and masonry were torn up and into the air. Fumes east to the west and of finished thrown articles from the west to the cust, poured out of the holes in the road Whilst, however, at that time the and the report could be heard us chief importance of the port of far away is Leicester-square.

The new County Fire Oflice shook Danzig was due to the exportation

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of agricultural products, cereals when the boards above the entrance and beet Bugar, it now rests to the new escalator were thrown up on (L much broader basis-the under the arches there, and further rearrangement of frontiers in the confusion was caused by the third east having caused the number of upheaval in the roadway opposite exported raw materials to be con- Swan and Edgar, where much the

CR-same thing took place. siderably increased, more pecially as far as the products of the mining industry are concern c. The importation of manu- factured goods, on the other hand, has suffered a severe setback ow- ing to the protective tariffs raised by the East European countries.

Intermedlary.

Experts were inmediately called to the scene and were able to trace the cause of the explosion to a nine- inch gas main in the centre of the newly-constructed booking hall.

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Most of the injured workmen were cut about the face or arms and were brought back to Piccadilly- elreus after being treated hospital, but others were gassed b It will be the task before Dan- the fumes. None was detained in zig to act as an Intermediary in hospital after 7 p.m. the economic sphere and to open A newsvendor, Peter Allcroft, up, by an Intelligent economic whose stand is at the corner of Re- near the Criterion, policy: new trade routes and ad-gent-street, ditional channels for the distribu-said that, when the explosion_took! tion of imported articles. Danzig, place, he was near- blown off his occupying as she does an inter-fect, and others standing by huu mediate position between the narrow escapes. western countries with their high- Mr. Day, a boot-black, told me ly developed manufactures and that there was a rumbling noise, the eastern nations with their followed by a detonation. "Three wealth of natural resources, upheavals followed and the Circus might be made the sent of numer was filled with dense fumes," he crossing the ous finishing industries where said. "A woman the imported raw materials from street opposite the Criterion was the east could be converted into thrown several yards. A police. manufactured or semi-manufac-man took her away in a taxi-cab.” tured articles ready for exporia- tion. The development of such Industries is actually facilitated

Official Statement.

An official statement issued by

by the customs policy pursued by the Underground last night stated:

"A slight explosion took place the new acar this afternoon

the East European countries, more especially Poland. It will be incumbent upon the Danzig Piccadilly Tube Station. It is be Government to encourage this delieved to have been caued by a velopment and to bring about an small leakage of gas. Sou work- enlargement of the area set aside men near the scene of the explosion train services along bris. The for the purposes of a free part, in were injured through falling do- order to enable the industries referred to settle in the free this route were not affected."

Hundreds of people visited the port as well.

wreckage during the evening, and A task more important-hut workmen were busy at a late hour also more difficult than the one repairing the damage. A large been road had Just outlined awaits the Free part of the City in the cultural domain. Dan-torn up, and this.section had 'beep zig forms one of the most ad- roped in. vanced outposts of western-or, to put matters more procisely-of

German civilization.

The extensive areas of Eastern German, colonies in Poland, the The press of the West European Europe, sparsely populated as they. Baltic countries and Russia.

they are, have been unable to keep countries receives its political in- with western development, the formation concerning Eastern result being that they only can Europe partly from Danzig, and tain certain individual centres of

vico veron. In this respect, there- civilization that have been power-

by

western fore, the Dunzig press can be of fully influenced Europe. Their number. includes, great and useful service to both

sides. apart from the large cities, the

GLIMPSES of JAPAN

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(Artist's Original Proofs)

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