Seattle, Oct. 21.
Furious gales swept down out the Bering Sea te battered the northwest coast, lashed the usually calm Puget Sound to a frenzy and brought death to at least eleven per~ sons and disaster to hundreds.
Walle shipping suffered most heavily, substantial damage to communications system and urban anq rural property Is being caused by the terrify storm.
'The howling gale reached a maximum velocity of 95 miles an hour at Tacoma and, while losses} will run into large' figures at Gamage thus far occurred at Seattle when the Dollar s. President Madi. son broke loose from her moorings and ran amuck through the harbour.
Communication by telephone and telegraph is crippled all along the Rorthwest coast, while aeroplane services have been stopped by tne] side. Nothing of that sort can happen now. The influence and counsel of every statesman in Europe will, T trust, be used to discount any such remote possibility.
"Then there were armed and hostile ations, straining at the leash and ready to leap at one another's throats, Now we have had the bitter experience of four years of war and when we survey this stricken and shattered world, men can realize not only the horror but the uselessness of slaughter.
Blood-Letting Rejected antiquated method of blood. Jetting as the cure for national fever rejected not.only by conseiencs bhut by the experience of mankind Then international politics were being conducted under a system of selective! alliances and special combinations, with little opportunity for friendly and rapid general consultation. New international consultation is constant and organized and it is everywhere! being used for the purpose of peace.
"The value of the League of Nations is not to be measured merely by making a lst of its concrete] successes and failures, but by reallzing how much it contributes to the cause of good understanding and to the assuming of sudden resentments by providing an outlet, and by encouraging resort to the practice of inter-communication, which it has made the ordinary Habit of European "Already, before the crime at Marseilles, we had marked with great satisfaction the speech made by Signor Mussolini in Milan on October 6. in which he expressed the continued intention of the Italian Gov ernment to seek agreement and understanding with her neighbours, especially with France and Yugoslavia. The sentiments then expressed by Signor Mussolini are all the more precious to-day,.after the death of King Alexander, because we do not doubt for one moment that they' still represent the policy of the Italian government."—Wireless through Reuter.
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