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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1934.

MANY FIND WORK. CALIFORNIA

UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURE 'SHRINKING RAPIDLY-

London, Jan. 2.

The monthly Ministry of Labour returns reveal another substantial increase in the number of employ.

U

CLOUDBURST

MANÝ KILLED IN

GROWING TRAFFIC. -

LATEST POLICE CENSUS FROM LONDON

London, Jan. 12

LOS ANGELES.

A traffle census taken by Metro- Los Angeles, Jan. 2.

politan Police last July shows that ed persons. Figures show that into Los Angeles with the New traffic centre, Hyde Park Corner, Storm and flood came rushing vehiclos passing London's bualest there were at work on December Tear, taking heavy toll of life were 12,846 more in the course of 18, 51,000 more than in the month and doing vast property damage. 12 hours than in July, 1931. On before and 567,000 more than in Already official figures stats that an average day this contro la used December, 1932.

With the exception of the thirty-one are dead and ninetoen by 81,857 vehicles between 8 a.m.

and 8 p.m. month

missing, and there are many more July, of

when there.

Thousands are home- injured. WA

vory alight [

increase

Counts were mado during the jens, In unemployment, figures have

consus at 98 places in the London shown

aron. Next to Hyde Park Corner | Trafalgar Square with ́ €4,735 vehicles in twelve hours was the busicut. Tho Marble Arch conaus showed 62,197 vehicles and Pic- Known damage is said to cadilly Circus 51,100.-British have exceeded $1,000,000 already. Wirelces. Trafic in many parts has boen Decreases in the numbers completely paralynod:: At least unemployed in the past year in twenty-four bridges have been various trades were: engincoring washed out in the city's environs. 55,148, buliding 45,103; coal mini- in Los Angeles Itself, ordinarily Ing. 40,674: metal goods. manu- a city of teaming traffic and facture, 36,118; iron and steal, continuous business bustle, there 30.937; woollen and worsted, 23, is a strange bush fa many parts. 098; cotton, 22,271; shipbuilding | Shops and offices are inundated, and repairing, 20,580; distributive, the huge General Hospital has 20,223: motorcycles and aireraft. been without light and heat for 16,525,--British Wirelens.

twenty-four hours,

Blendy and progres The floods came following A sive decrease throughout 1933.cloudburst, and the conditions In twelve months unemployment are the worst on record in fifty has dropped by no less than 499, six years. 208 and December figures of 2.- 224,079 was 55,938 less than the number on the registers on Novem- ber 20.

of

CHINA'S MINISTER. To add to the terror of the flood a large section of the Grimth Pork Zoo was wrecked by a land slide, and many wild animals escaped. Roaming the country side, they are still uncaptured.

MR. CHANG HSIN-HAI IN LISBON POST

DEATH IN FOG.

LONDON TRAFFIC STOPPED

. BY DENSE PALL

London, Jan 2. All traffic services, with the exception of those underground, were much diaorganised as a result

of yesterday's fog, which was the densest experienced for several years,

Accidents were numerous and some deaths were reported. In some areas of London road traffe was brought entirely to a stand- still and for a time a large number ning. Fog lifted in outlying lis of trama and buses ceased run-

con-tricts about seven o'clock and be- fore ten o'clock London was also. clear.--British Wireless.

The floods were worst, however, in the Montrose and La Crescenta districts, low-lying for the most part, whero a heavy and tinuous rain is adding to the misery of the people.

Lisbon, Jan. 2. Mr. Chang Hsin-hai, new Chinese Minister, presenting his creden- Hals to the President to-day. dwelt upon the long cultural and commercial contact between Chin- ese and Portuguese and emphasis- ed that the Portugueso were among the earliest foreigners to

A wall of water, twenty-five open relations with China during | f:ot high, swept through Montrose, the porfod of the Renaissance, and wrecked completely the the only means of illumination in Mr. Chang is expected to under-American Legion Hall, where two parts of the residential section of take a Incture tour in England women were killed.

Glendale and Montrose, where the turing the coming summer. Floodlights from Hollywood lighting systems were completely Reuter.

motion picture studios provided | wrecked.—Reuter.

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