WINDING UP ENEMY BANKS
SOME BIG FIGURES. (Rec. January 5, 9.25 p.m.) London, January 4,. .'A report on the winding up of five German-Austrian banks in London states that the liabilities discharged to the end of September totalled. £27:600,000 sterling. Securities worth ■ £7-,800,000 have been delivered to British, Allied, and neutral owners. The assets realised amounted to £23,460,000. The debt to the Bank of England has been reduced from £11,835,000 to £4,811,000. Securities estimated at twenty-six millions still remained in the bank's custody.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SCOTTISH TRAIN DISASTER FORTY PEOPLE SERIOUSLY HURT. ; London, January 4.. '. The passenger train that crashed into a light engine on the GlasgowEdinburgh line was crowded with holi-day-makers, including soldiers and sailors, who climbed through the win- . dows and rendered assistance. Forty persons arc seriously and sixty slightly injured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .-■••■'
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2970, 6 January 1917, Page 7
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