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QUAKES AND FIRES. LOS ANGELES ALARMED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK, Sept. 24. Advices from Los Angeles state that earthquake shocks and forest fires have caused both alarm and destruction in various parts of the State of California. There were three distinct shocks in the Los Angeles district. Many of the residents rushed from their homes, but there was no loss of life or damage. Four fire fighters are dead, and many have been injured, while two thousand fighters are battling with forest fires in widely-separated parts of the State. A total area of one hundred thousand acres has been devastated, with many homes on the ranches and in the small settlements.
WHEAT RESEARCH. OTTAWA, September 24. After two years investigation, the National Research -Council announces that touch and damp wheat can he dried'without injury to its milling and baking qualities. One hundred and eighty Fahrenheit is the maximum'kafe temperature for drying air where the grain enters.
BRITISH MIGRATION TO CANADA. OTTAWA, Sept. 24. Sir William Clark, British High Commissioner, agreed on Sunday to take over liis duties immediately. He intimated that British Immigration would probably be discussed at the beginning of October at a conference with Mr G. F. Plant, Secretary of the Empire Settlement Board, now in Canada.
AMERICAN REPLY. ON ANGLO-FRENCH PACT. (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) •* WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. Mr Kellogg spent an hour and a-half on Monday in conference with Secre-. tary Wilbur, Admirals Hughes, Jones and Long, discussing the .policy of United States in connection with the Franco-British naval accord situation. No announcement was made public, but it is said at the State Department that a draft of the United States reply to a request from London and Paris for comments on the proposals, as to. the limitations contained in the understanding is still before Mil’ Coolidge, and the date when it may he sent is uncertain.
2,200 DEAD IN FLORIDA. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. The Chairman of the Red Cross Society at Miami announces that in Florida the dead number 2,200.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 5
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343AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 5
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