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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 ... FOR SALE. FOR Roses and plants MOULD can be had from MARCUS PAEK well pre- pared. J. B. MAREUS.