Fractured skulls, broken arms, legs, collar-bones and wrists, and dislocated fingers were among the 2,000 casualties treated in 30 London hospitals to-day, due to falls on the icy streets, after a sudden' thaw. Ambulance drivers, doctors and nurses worked at top pressure. Such an experience is unprecsdont-
Similar conditions obtained in the provinces. Hundreds of cars, mar-coned on marble-like roads, are unable te make any progress.—Reuter, The Maritime Exchange recently presented a meny al to Coolidge, all Canada, and At <ralia are distri minating against American shipping and urging American retaliation, The petition cited as an instance that Canada required that cargoes to Canada must be forwarded Canadian ports, in order to obtain preferential "duties. It also referred to the arrangement by which cattle shipped from the United States vid Canada might remain in England for fattening—before slaughter, whereas cattle sent from the United States had to be slaughtered immediately they arrived, The petition also alleged that Australia gives preference to merchandise from Canadian ports on the Pacific over goods imported ports on the Pacific,
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