Numerous casualties are feared in a fire that destroyed the Hotel Lafayette to-day.
There were thrilling rescue seenes, One guest jumped from a window and was killed, Others are believed to be incinerated, 'Twenty persons have been brought to hospital suffering from burns and injuries sustained when jumping' to the. ground, Firemen on. ladders saved the guests in the upper story when 45 persons were cut off by Vienna. A Bolshevik emissary who The leader of the geological party contention that a motor launea the fame was arrested was found to possess instructions and funds. He was to have taken back to Moscow certain documents which were to have besa! procured by Jugo-Slavian' Communists-—Reuter. which has. just returned from! Papua reports indications of oil in the' Vanimo district exceeding all expectations.' Another expedition has' been' planned later to begin boring operations.—Reuter. capable of 16 miles an hour was captured after she had obtained Lathe, Tiquor from the Pictorian, thus Latest reports show that. five the schooner within an hhour's distance of the shore—Ser Reuters American Service.
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