Request for Loan of Treasures Displayed in London Peiping, Dec, 18, The American Government Mas requested the Chinese authorities to hip the Chinese art treasures "now jon display at the London Art Exhibition, to New York for the benefit of American connoisseurs, it is learnt xt the Peiping Palace Museum, Arrangements for an exhibition of the art treasures In New York next year are being made between the Zhinese and American authorities Min, shaken from its sleep by an earti-Jquake of moderate intensity a few eights ago, and for several days its effects were the chief topic of ce Versation. Despite predictions that there might be further shocks to follow, the earth's surface remained quiet, and what damage in the short duration of A yuit of the Norwegian Red [Cross, en route to Abyssinia, arrive' at Hamburg on Wednesday. The party carries a lazaret tent, accommo dating 90 persons and 0 camp beds. Medicines for tropical di Jeuses are being carried in large ment Jcomparisons are somewhat dimeult, but it is generally felt that this year's shock was more severe.
While the quake was felt in all the large cities of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinees, it later was discovered that the shock had Jucen much more acute in the sparsely settled regions of Northern Quebe There the railway line from Quebe: to Cochrane was badly twisted in several sections, and in one place a Assure opened up in the earth about four hundred feet long and severs {fect wide. This made the track quite unsafe, and. passengers had to he moved over with care to a train un
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