Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

breakers, much dependence on airplanes
for mail and medical supplies.
The Zuider Zee was frozen over.
At Landshut, in German Silesia, 49
degrees Fahrenheit below zero was re-
corded, the coolest since 1890. with q
loud defamation the Wilhelm Bridge al
Breslau cracked an inch wide across
its entire breadth" The Rhine at
Lorelei Rock was frozen over hard, q
rare occurrence. Only the most power
full steamers were able to force their
way to Hamburg through the foes. AL
over the Reich work was held up.
Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the
Balkans were held in like Icy grip and
buried under snow. Reports are rife,
no doubt exaggerative, but with some
basis, of famished wolves attacking pas
sengers and remote farmhouses and VII
lagos in Albania, Runania and else
where. In Silesia and Czechoslovakia
grave diggers were compelled to use
dynamite. The Danube in places was
frozen feet deep or more. OF course
train services were widely held up,
scores OF craft stuck in the ice and
schools closed; the hospitals crowded
deaths and lesser freezings numerous.
To make matters worse, the influenza
has been raging starkly over the CONT
nenC ana the BRUSH Isles.
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CHINA.-On February IL our Senate
ratified the treaty between the United
States Government and the Nationalist
government Of China. signed at Picking
on July Is, 1928, by j. ". A. Mac
Murray, American Minister. at Picking
for our Government. and T. ". Soong
minister OF finance, for the Chinese Ma
tionalist government. 1t was the first
treaty entered into by the Nationalist
government, and has had, SO to speak.
q numerous offspring. The text is as
"All provisions which appear in
treatles hitherto concluded and in force
between the United States of America
and China relating to rates of duty on
imports and exports of merchandise.
drawbacks, transit dues and tonnage
dues in China, shall be annulled and
become imperative. and the principle
OF complete national tariff autonomy
shall apply, subject, however, to the
condition that each of the high con-
tracing parties shall enjoy In the ter
ritories OF the other with respect to the
above specified and any related matters
treatment In no way discriminatory as
compared with the treatment accorded
W
me nationals Of neither of the high
contracting parties shall be compelled
under any pretext whatever to nav
within the territories of the other party
any duties, internal charges or taxes
upon their importations and eXporta-
lions other or higher than those paid
by nationals Of the country or by ma
tionals Of any other country.
The above provisions shall become
effective on January /. 1929, provided
that the exchange Of notifications here
matter provided shall have taken place
oy that date; otherwise, at a date
four months subsequent to such ex-
change OF notifications"
X
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
On February Is the President signed
the cruiser bill
William NJ Jardine of Kansas, Secre-
tary Of Agriculture, will not be a men,
Der of Mr.. Hoover's cabinet, having
accepted q position as counsel for the
Federated Fruit g. Vegetable Growers,
Inc.
Melville e. Stone. general manager
OF the Associated Press from 1893 to
1921. died on February is in his eighty
nrSt year. A career of very great value
Bids are about to be invited by the
Bureau Of Public Roads for construc-
ton Of the George Washington Memo
rial Highway, authorized by the Con-
gress In 1928 and to be completed by
1882 at q cost not to exceed $4,000, 600.
The highway Is to follow the shore of
the Potomac some 1914 miles from the
Virginia end of the Arlington Memorial
Bridge through Alexandria and Fort
Hunt to Mount Vernon. Construction
OF seven or eight splendid masonry
bridges Is involved (Four Mile Run,
Hunting Greek, ETC., to be spanned) :.
About midway Of its course it will
pass close to Abingdon. home Of John
Custss son Of Martha Washington,