The Archive · 1938

Intense Cold Grips

Pan-AmericanConference — All Europe — Postpones Decision Diplomatic- Protection' Issue

London Has Snowfall; Held Over Five Years River Seine Freezing New York, Dec. 19.

Over; Germans Shiver The Pan-American Conference has postponed for five years a decision on London, Dec. 18. the resolution urging the adoption of London saw snow this afternoon the principle that foreign investors as the cold wave over Europe crossed sin Latin America should be entitled the Channel. Several northern count> diplomatic protection, "except in ties and Scotland also reported abun-cases where justice is denied them dant snow. The temperature here in the local courts." the capital fell all the morning to This information is cabled by the reach 2 deg. C."below zero by noon.

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All France Shivers Paris, Dec. 18.

He states thát the Conference referred to a committee of experts the codification of international law for A wave of intense cold swept over France today and temperatures of 14 deg. C. below zero were reported in several eastern regions. Temperatures of 8 deg. C. below zero along the Normandy coast and of 12 deg. C. below in the interior were not uncommon.

Records for past decades must be studied to find reports on cold waves similar to that which descended upon France during the past 24 hours. Little floes of ice have been seen in the River Seine, and the. banks of this stream have begun to freeze over.—Havas. further study, ordering the committee to report to the Ninth Conference, to be held five years hence.—Reuter, *Quakes Felt in Turkey Stamboul, Dec. 18.

A series of exceptionally violent and disastrous earthquakes were reported from the Kircheir region by the "Kouroun, newspaper, today. To the present, the casualty list has not been compiled, but it is stated that there have been 16 houses

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