The shops on the ground floor were deluged with water, their goods being encased in ice. All'the windows were broken. The Toss is considerable the studio alone having been insured for ¥.30,000, while the house is insured for ¥.190.000. The top flat also was fully insured, Of those who escaped from the top Mot were Mrs, and Miss Siinitsky: who escaped death at the hands. of the miscreants who destroyed the town of Nikolaiovsk on Amur in 1020, kaling several thousand people. The leader, Nina Lebedeva, being wounded, called for Dr. Siinitsky and as a reward for his attending to her, his wife, two daughters and son were not put to death, Dr. Silnitsky afterwards Became chiot doctor to the Sungari Fleet of Marshal Chang Heueh-liang, dying at Mukden a few years 'A couple of days before a large stationery shop on Kitalskaya street was destroyed by fire with a loss '¥.15,000. The brigade is being culled out every day as the great cold making the people fire up, overheat. ing. causing chimneys to crack and flames to pass into the rooms, many as four fires in one day occurred recently, three of them at the same time, compelling the brigade to divide its strength and call out reserves, 'The Metcorogleal Station forecasts sll colder weather next month (Ganuary>, and this,.with a. scarcity. of fud, is far from a'pleasant prospect for the beginning of 1936, For the [Japanese who have now' taken up their residence here, the climate 1s exceedingly trying, and many have had their checks and noses frost bitten owing to their Ignorance how ete ful tone must be in such weather, A sensational statement was Issued the Kokutsu Telegrapgh Agency in its bulletin of December 28, to the effect that the National City Bank of New York would assume the business fof the Dalbank in Harbin, The Agency stated that Mr. Mf, Slavutsky, Soviet Consul-General, Mr. Schapirom former director of the Dalbank and Mr. Hopiak, assistant manager of the National City Bank in Harbin had held a conference on December 18 when It was decided that the latter bank would take over the whole of the Datbank business on March 1, and would handle money order remit tances sent from Manchoukuo Soviet Russia and would accord Soviet feltizens facilities for the opening of Jeurrent accounts, The Agency also stated that the' Soviet -Consulate-General would give special protection to the National City Bank, in case of necessity, 'This information has been flatly contradicted by the general manager of the National City Bank in Harbin, who states that the story is a fabrication, no arrangements of the kind men-lone' have been or will be made.
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