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IMPRISONED IN THE ICE

LONDON AND ITS TRAGEDY FOLLOWS

SLUMS

WILD PARTY

HUSBAND AND WIFE SHOOT THEMSELVES

THE ALPS GIVE UP (L.C.C. TO TACKLE THE

THEIR DEAD

PROBLEM

Paris, Apr. 24.

the

Geneva, Apr. 26. Questions regarding slum clear In a fit of remorse, following a The mystery of the disappear-anco in London were asked at a riotoue night, a young woman and ance of thirteen Italian smugglers apecial mcoting of the L.C.C. called her husband shot themselves yeu- In the Swiss Alps last January has by the chairman, Mr. E. M. Dence, terday. In spite of protests by the mem-neighbours they went on dancing been solved by the annual melting on a requisition by twenty

and drinking with guests in their of the snow in the higher altitudes,bers of the Opposition, Yesterday evening the bodies of Mr. H. R. Selley, Chairman of flat till about 4 a.m., when eix of the men were discovered the Housing Committee, in answer young woman requested her hus- beneath thirty feet of rock and lee. to Mr. Herbert Morrison, stated band to turn the guests out.

that while he could not form an The smugglers were attempting estimate of the number of slum to carry sugar and coffee across the areas in London, the problem was frontier in the depths of winter an extensive and dilleult one, and were crossing a pana 7,500 feet high above Locarno, when they were swept away in the path of an avalanche. The spot at which the bodies were discovered was over 3,000 feet below that at which the neeldent took place.

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It would engage the close atten- tion of the Housing Committee and the Council for some years,

In December, 1930, Mr. Selley added, the Council approved a pro- visional programme for dealing

with

Shortly after, overcome as sho declares by depression, she took a loaded revolver and shot herself through the breast. Seeing what- she had done the husband shot him- self dead in the heart, after writing a note to say that he was deeply ashamed of their conduct.

When the wife came to she found

her husband's body lying in a clearance arean covering cupboard. She had just strength about 98 acres and dealing with a to summon help, and was taken to population of 30,500. That pro hospital, where she lles in a sori- gramme would be reviewed by the ous, but not fatal, condition. Housing Committee In connexion

with their consideration of the yours, and we are quite prepared Ministry to deal with it. We shall not be recent circular of the

of Health. The Committee had lacking in our attempts to assist a been indefatigable in their atten-Tory Minister of Health In what- ever stops he may take to clear tion to their duties,

away a grave and difficult problem."

Mr. Herbert Morrison, on behalf of the Labour Party, moved that the Housing Committee be in structed to prepare forthwith programme

An amendment declaring that a special instruction to the Housing

a Committee was unnecessary in the

of alum clearance circumstances, was carried by 65 schemes in accordance with the votes to 36.

recent cireulnr of the Ministry of

Health. Ho urged the Council to

take the circular of the Ministry of{}ews 25 d Health seriously and go forward

with slum clearance,

Adequate Programme

Mr. Selley replied that when the time came thoro would be an ade- quate programme to enable the Council to fulfil the whole of the needs of London.

Sir William Ray, Leader of the

For Your HEALTH

Council, sald: "It is obviously the CHOCOLATE

intention of Labour supporters of the motion to talk at large about the iniquity of the members of the Munipient Reform Party. The whole of the debate has been an attempt to score off an opposing party."

Ile cleared that 50 per cent. of slum dwellers lived in the slums from choice and not from-necessity. "Those who are there from eccs- sity," he said, "are there to be near their work, and not from actual lack of funds."

There were cries of dissent from the Labour benches, and Sir William retorted, "I am not afraid

to say that. The slum problem is

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