AMERICAN ITEMS
BRITISH TRADERS. {United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] TORONTO, Dec. 21. On return from Britain, the Canadian Federal Conservative Party leader, Mr Bcmjett, said that all parties there were agreed that something .must be done to improve Britain’s trade with the Dominions. He said: “Tho question is being debated in the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and English industries are preparing all information to enable the Economic Conference, when it meets, to. have the fullest possible knowledge of every phase of the Empire.
GREAT BLIZZARD
CHICAGO, Dec. 20,
Thirty-six persons are known to be dead as the result of the lashing snow storms and the bitter cold in the Middle Western States.
Transportation and communication are'disrupted over a wide area.
Seven persons have died in Chicago City , where business is disrupted. The hotels are packed with people who are unable to reach their homes. 'Unde rthe cover of an impenetrable curtain of snow, six prisoners manhandled the guard and escaped from the Cook County Gaol in the heart of the City of Chicago. Three of tho escapees are recorded as “ desperate.’’ The Great Lakes traffic* is retarded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1929, Page 5
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