Calcutta, Jan. 15, here, at 245 this afternoon. The A severe earthquake occurred
shock, which was the longest' within living memory, lasted three minutes sects SR out tie Catholic Chueh, thee Govern tment Secretariat, the Tmperiat Bank And the Bleetrie' Corporation ulld=
"Betails now being received here conn many were led and it-Bight persons were killed at Patna, land nine in Gaya, At Jamaipur the, station building 'f the East India Railway collapsed killing wives land children of Railway officers, In Bihar many public buildings and homes were. wrecked.
'The shock was felt, throughout India, and it, is expected that the leasualties, will' mount—as reports from stricken towns and' villages fare: receive reported from Darjeeling that the Government House and also ithe European stores of Mesa Whteaway, Laidiaw & Ca, were da: maged, Many' houses collapsed, 'Telegraphic' communication with Darjeeling is disorganised, and the Bengal government is sending an oficial there to ascertain the an lage wrought.—Reuter, The acco nce by M. Titulescu of the portfolio of Foreign Affairs is Jeonstrued as meaning a clean sweep fof the Palace camarilla, who are alleged to have being. playing fast ®Jand loose with Rumanian politics. Dumiteseus is being dismissed and The King's po retary, te
the" same achen is being taken. Fegard to his father, who commands the gendarmes. The general in Jcharge of the secret service is ike-wise being dismissed.
Ait three are alleged to have had ome connection with the -antiemetic. Tron Guard organisation, the disbandment of, which. by Dien, the late Premier, is vog ae the cause of hie assassination King Carol demurred. for some The whereabouts of Mme. Lupeseu is at.present unknown, but i ie bee Hicved that she has already toft the
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