The first om cial celebration of New Year since the Revolution turned out to be a very merry one.
Schools, factories, hotels and theatres Wied with one another attempt to demonstrate the latest ronunclamento of M, Joseph Stalin, Secretary of the Communist Party, that "Life has become better."
Thousands of people thronged the markets throughout the day, pur~ chasing Christmas trees, which had hitherto been condemned 96.2 heathen Alexandria, Jan. 3. The bodies of five of the vietlns were recovered to-day from the wreckage of the Imperial Airways Hiner Sity of Khartoum, whicl plunge fed into the sea off Alexandria 09
New Year's Day with a loss of twelve Hives.
Half the mail-bags and a consider. able quantity of freight and baggage were also recovered. survival, More than 25,000 merry-makers skated and danced to the strains of a military jazz band in an ice carnival in the City's central park.
Numerous places of amusement remained open all night." Managers state that less vodka and more wine twas drunk, with the result that there was less drunkenness than hitherto.—
Reuter.
Divers cut their way through to the cabin and managed to bring the surface the remains of Mrs. Horsman and Miss Eckford, the only two women who were travelling in the illetated plane at the time of the disaster.
The bodies of an Italisn passenger named Tertaglione, the steward and another man, as yet unidentitict, were als recovered.
Meanwhile, the sole survivor of the tragedy, Mr. Wilson, the pilot, who is. sulferinis from exposure, Is progressig favourably.
It is thought probable that it will [prove impossible to raise the wreck fas the hhewsers of the tug's crane which is being used have already broken twice.
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