More than 150 lives were lost at Tientsin recently, when fire destroyed hutments in which 400 paupers were sleeping on straw. Wind fanned the flames, which consumed the light matting structures with terrible speed.
Signor Toscanini has promised to visit Palestine next October to conduct the first concert of the Palestine Orchestra, which has been formed chiefly from refugee Jewish talent by Mr Bronislaw Huberman, the eminent violinist.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21775, 6 May 1936, Page 12
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