broken
up and disappear
from the tissue,
and
at the same
time the patient
is
ren-
dered
no longer
capable of trinsmitting
the disease.
Moscow,
Jan.
4th— An earthquake
on
December
29tr
in
Russian
Turkestan,
near the town of Uratyube,destroyed
two
villages comprising four hundred
houses.
Eighty three
persons
wetreKkilled.
Ihese
advices
were
received
today
in
a
des-
patch
from
Tashkent,
lhe
quake
left
big fissures
in the earth
over
a wide area,
and
severed
all communications
with the
affected
auistricr.
v
Rome,
Jany.
4th— The
suspense
sur-
rounding
Premicr
Mus:olint’s
plans,
1n
so
far
as
they
concern
his
con-
tinucd ruie,
either
with or
without
elec-
tions,
is about
to
be
broken.
An
oefficial
communtgque
given
out
teday
contains
this prowise,
saying
“‘The Fremier
since
last
December
has
made
irrevocab
e
de-
cisions
concerning
the political situation.
These
decisions
will be published
during
January’’.
Th:
papers
are
filled
with
gonjectures
on the political line-ups
vhich
they think are
imminent.
Sswsnsea,
Jany.
4th —Six
men
were
blewn
to pieces
and another
one
died in
a
hospital today
as
a result
of
an explosion
at midnight
on
the
river bank
adjoining
the
Rhosataman
Colliery at Brynatiman,
in the
Swansea
Valley.
The
men
were
engaged
in driving
the drift in a search
for coal,
when
the explosives
they
were
to use became
ignited.
‘lhe force
of the
explosion shook
the whole neighbaurboua
and the moise
was heard
six miles
away.
Yaris,
Jany.
4th—The
leading
finau-
ciers
have been
invited
by tke Finance
Minister, M De Lasteytie,
to confer
with
him
concerning
means
of
suppressing
speculation’
in exchange:
and halting ti.e
depreciation
of the trane,
Washington,
Jan.
4ib.—The
Govern-
ment
has
sold
5,000
Enfield rifles,
model
1917,
5,000,000
rourds,
30 caubre,
rifics
ammunition
and eight
airplanes
to
the
Obregon
Government
of
Mexieo,
The
Secretary
for war,
Mr. Weeks.
1n
o brief
sratement
today said
the
term-
of
the
sale
eatled
for
one half
of
the puichase
price
in
cazh
uand
the
balance
within
20
days.
Montrea!,
Jan.
4th —Damage
s2t
at
SIOO,OOO,
the
deatn
o
an aced
jatient
a4ld
the
removal
of
250
other
palients
from
the butluing
to hospitals
and
other
quarters
was
the
result
ol
she
wihich
broke
out
in
an
attic.
beiow
the
roof
of
the
hosp
tal
Gamelin,
in
the
east
eud
of the eity early
this morning,
Galveston
Lexas,
Jan.
4ih. —All
of the
Me <lcan oil fields
are
now in
tae
posses:
slon of the rebels,
accosdingh
o
an
fficial
despaten
receivegl today
by
Ado so Jime-
pez from
de
la
Huerta
headquarters
at
Vera Cruz.
New York,
Jany.
4th.—Flames
start-
ing
trom
a
short-circuit
in
the
press
room
of
the
New
York
World,
in
the
basement
of
the
Bulitzer
Building
to-
night, shot
up
un
elevator
shaft
to
the
=T
L ROl
a1
top
of the
{fourteen
storey
building,
|
causing
derse
smoke
which
forced
a
|
general evacuation
¢!
the witorial
and
composing
room
in
the
upper
storey.
Working
under
the
difficulty of having
|
to
draw
lines
of
hose
up the
staircase
|
firemen
controlled
the
firein
an
hour
|
and
the
employees
of the
newspaper
re-
|
turned
to
their
work.
Three
of
the!
fourteen
presses
in
the
basement
were
!
damaged.
It
was arncurced,
bowever,
that
the
damage
wculd
not
interfere
with the publication of the
paper.
Vancouver,
B.
C,
Jan.
4th.
Trade
between
the pert
of
Vancouver
ard
Ja-
pau
will probably
break
all
records
for
|
volume and
varietv
in 1924, accordii
g
to.
details
being
made
in
the annual
report
|
of
the
Japanese
Con-ulate,
now
being
completed,
and
in
:he
opinion
of
ship-
pers
closely
linked
with export
ana
im-
|
port
conditions
of
this
port.
Probably
|
the
largest
item
is
lumber,
for
which
|
orders
have already
been
placed
for more
|
than
twenty
million
leet
from
British
|
Columbia furests
This
lumber
wiil play
an
impertant
part
in
the
rebuilding of
|
Japan’s
devastated
area.
Japan
1s
also
expected
ro buy large quantitiesof wheat
through
this port.
|
Paris,
January
4th.—The
rise
in the
flond waters
of the
Seine
was slower
to-
|
day
than
on Wedunesday,
but
the
level
reached
during
the night
was
sufficient
to
cover
larre
areas
of
new
terriitory.
This
compelled
thousands
of
additional
water-kound
peopie
to
take
safety
in
bhoats,
or
to rely
on boat
services
for sup-
plies.
Many
of
the
large
apartment
buildings
in large
town just west
of the
|
city,
sueh
as
Annieres,
Columbes:
and
|
Areenteail
have
been
cut eff.
The
au-
|
thorities
found
it
impessibie
to
get
all
the inhabitants
out of the
buildings,
8o
a
sort
of
omnibus
skiff
service
was
or-
ganized
te tuke
housewives
to the
mark-
ets
»nd
businessmen
1o then
trains.
The
number
of people driven from their homes
increased
during
the day by several
thou-
|
sands,
a
large
number
of
these
were
removed
from
Alfortville,
where
a
majority
of the
houses
have
become
un-
inhabitable,
and from
along the
Marne,
where
more
than
4,000
buildicgz
a
e
sur-
rounded
by water,
at Nogent,
Champig-
|
ny and
Letérreus.
The
damage
done
hy
the
waters
irside
Paris
is still cemfined
to
the
distriet of Anteuil,
where
a
numnber
of streets
have
been
invaded
and cellurs
|
filled
amd
to
the
sections
in
the
neigh-
|
bourhood
of
the
Chamber
of
Deputies
and
to the Invalides
Palace,
where
the
|
Seine
is
now
high
enough
to
seep
|
through
t"e porous
soils and
inte cellars.
|
Some
anxiety
is felt
as
to
the
ultimate
|
off2et of
the
water on
the subsoil.
It
is
|
recalled
that the
waters
s2ejed
through
’
‘he ground under the Boulewur?
Hausse-
|
mann
after
the
flood in
1910,
causing
|
col apses
at =everal different
uoints
with
i
several
fatalities.
Thereis
no protection
!
from similar
damage,
as the Seine
is now
i
higher
than
the level of the
streets
and
Boulewards
along
the rive» front,
London,
Jan.
sth.—A serious
industr-
al
situation affecting the railways
again
appears
on the
horizon,
as
a result
of
a
ballot of the
men
which
overwheiminglv
rejected
the recent
award
by the
Wage
Commission.
Under
the
terms
of
the
ballot
the
Executive
is
enpowered
to
call
a national
strike
if
necessary.
but
extreme
measures
are
unlikely until
the
union
has
tried
to
secure
modification
of
the anard.
Union officials statg that the
men
are particularly resentful
of the
con-
ditions governing extra
pay for Sundays,
also
overtime
and
milezge
allowances
I'rey
declire
that
engine
drivers
lose
thirty shillings
a
week
under
the
award
and
firemen
from
twenty
to thirty
shil
linzs.
fondon,
Jan.
56th.—By
defeating
Switzerland
8 to
1, the
Oxtord
Universi-
ty
team
won
the
International
tourna
ment
in
which
teams
representirg
lKne-
land,
Swiizerland.
Austria
and
Ger-
many
contested,
and
Oxford’'s
victory
also
carries
with
it the
winniny
ot
the
Spengler
Cup
for
1924,
The
Oxonians
im
the.r three
games
amassed
a
total of
18 goals.
A solitary
score
by
Davos
was
obtained
in a mixup
in {ront of Oxford’s
net
in the first period.
Paris
Jan,
dth.—The
re'amnine
wall
at
the entrance
of
the
Invalides
railroad
station
coltapsed
for
a
distance
oi
10U
feat
this
morning
and
the
water
from
the nearby
Seine
timmediately
rushed
in.
The
station
has
been
cios
d
since
Xmas
I'ay,
beeause
of
danger from the flood,
The few watchmen
1n tie
structure
heard
the wall eraumbling
and
escaped.
Washington,
Jan.
sth.
—T'he
Weather
Bureau
issued
this
sterm
warning
today:
“Adwvisory
9.30
a.
m.
nr h-east
storm
warning= displaved
on
the
New Fnoland
coast
and
rnovth-west
storm
warnings
di-pla’ed
on
the
Atlantic
coast
from
New
York
south
and
on
the
east
Guif
coast
from Mobile) o Keywest.
Disturhb-
ance developing
off Cape
Hatteras
wil
advance
north
north-eastward
and
in-
crease
in intensity.”’
Washington,
Jan.
sth.—-The
weather
forecasters
brought
into
play
some
of
the
superlative
terms
of their scientific
l-xicon today to deserib:
what
wili
hap-
pen
to the country
in
the next 24 hours,
a4s
a
result
of
the
cold
blast
that
bas
come down
out
of
the north-west.
A
severe
cold wave’’, was forecasf
for mos
of the east,
as far south
as
the Virginis-
Carolina
line, "while
a
cold
wave,
with
temperatures
below
ficezing,
was
said
to
be
in
store
for
all
the
rest
of
the
eastern
forecast
district,
exceot
Florida,
The term
‘‘severe
cold
wave'’ is seldom
employed
by
the
Government
Weather
...
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and plants
MOULD can
be
had
from
MARCUS
PAEK well pre-
pared.
J.
B. MAREUS.