Paris, Jan. 7.
It ig officially announced that, the french liner' Atlantique, which caught fire early in the morning January 4, when the vessel was off "Guernsey in the English Channel fon her way from Bordeaux to Havre for overhaul and repairs, must be considered a total loss, At four o'clock this morning, th Ailantique sent out an''S. 0. S,," Whereupon the German steamer Ruhr, on her way home from the Netherlands East. Indies, rushed (0 the rescue and took on board 86 of the crew, leaving the remainder to be picked up by the steamer Ford Castle, the American ship Faknouth and the Netherlands boat, Achilles, Late this evening, 211 "survivors of the Alantique were landed at Cherbourg from the steamers Ruby, Ford Castle, Achilles and Erato," The commander the ill-fated liner, M, Sehoofs, has been rescued. The British destroyer Westcott, which was sent from! Porismouth specially to aid in the Fexeue work, The Atlantique is 42,000 tons and cost 500 million francs, The entire French press is demanding to know how sible that the outbreak was not noticed until it was too late in a magnificent units, the Georges Philippar' and Atlantique, should be picked out by de: for destruction.
A very siti ent inquiry has been f, opened at Cherbourg. The Minister of Merchant Marine has instructed the crew of the vassd and other witnesses to hide nothing in the interests of humanity.
The number of missing is official-ive 'a. 10.
1¢ English insurance market is finvalved "fo the' extent of about 1,200,000, while a report from Ber-Ain estimates that German insurance nies will lose a quarter million marks if the ship isa total Joss, as British insurance companies handed over n portion of their labi-'The Atlantique is the fifth French vyousel to be the prey of fires. The Paul Lecnt was destroy:
in, 1028, the Paris In. 1929, the 'Asin in 1940, the Georges Phillppar ju' 1082, and now the pride of the Compagnie Sud-Atlantique.—Reuter.
Lo Havre, Jan, 8, The neighbourhood here was alarmed bythe sound of fre-bells fand sirens: which pierced the stile ness of the night at three o'clock this morning.
The alarm signalled a fire boned, the: famous "French trans Asie ie France, wich "the a ing after for Washington, Jan. 5.
A threat of a general strike on the part of all organised labour was Ihurled: at Congress to-day. in effort to force. through a bill providing for a 0-hour week. This twas made by Mr, William Green, president of the American Federa-Hon of Labour, in his testimony before "the Senate Judiciary Gon mittee, which was considering a bill submitted by Senator Hugo L. Black day, of Alabama providing that" goods [Produced by persons of corporations falling to observe the 30-hour week feannot be admitted to inter-state or foreign trade.
United "Press.
New York, Jan. 6.
Crowds of unemployed loudly demonstrated outside Mr. Franklin D. [Roosevelt's house, while he was holdig & conference with. Democratic leaders of Congress, to-day. They shouted that their needs should be met, but there was no disturbance Washington, Jan. 8.
The mental courage and the physical "wellbeing of American cpreasion and anembismen ip the Yao wot reached session and unem
itiam Green, president 0 Amecican Federation of Labour, aid" tovday in announcing the un: employment. siatistis, Ins. Green estimated that 11,600,-
employed and the three. years 0 nen and amen ae naw dopresaion have 2 worn them down lite they ate losing their Initiative taking the eastest way, name coking. relief from the regularly Organised agencies." This army" of every week, he said, and. the. need Persons seeking relief is growin
tham ever before. "A'few ctene have nesurned. to" work in Factories while greater numbers have been Tet out, iterating hia stand that, there must be a complete. renovation of the emplaymen? system. and" the
export figures just complot of bon ae Gre Ge the Department of Commerce forthe first 11 months of the Your. Thes Showed hat sales abroad had. de-lined three quarters of a billon dollars. -The total for the IL month was, $1,481,750,058 in com: Parison "with. §2,240,218,010; Ex-Porte had" fallen in direst relation with. production, the " Federation Figures" showed," and' fit har statistics of the Federation nor th reports of the trove revealed Ip increase.
Federation's. dil before Congress for the 30-hour week and said that, When "boat has satiated the coun: try's mods, fe has done its work lid' should' not, produce a: surplus. The men must be returned to work and the money for Shor return must released, he said. When. i La Feleaved, buying will be resumed ""hwe Senate Judiciary Committee report of the 30-hour to a short-circuit in-a passenger cabin, There wore no casualties—Router, here "has been no. Indication whether it will be Fecontmended for aéeptlon or disapproval-—United Cherbourg, Jan. 9
Atlantique which was already believed to be extinguished, flared up again dating the night Although all available' firemen are Ancessently at work, it is nid that the fire will' be completel subdued before Tuesday.
Experts who to-day made a preliminary' survey of the have indicated the possibility repairing vessel. Before al final decision is reached, "however, the: liner must be drydocked. The engines of the ship are said to have suffered only little damage, As to the fire aboard the str. Te do France, experts state that 1t was caused by a. short-circuit /Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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