CHRISTMAS ABROAD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17451, 27 December 1930, Page 5

CHRISTMAS ABROAD

DULL TIME IN ENGLAND HEAVY TRAIN TRAFFIC (British Official Wireless.) Rec. ID a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 2-1. The Christmas rush prevails at the London railways stations, and a specially augmented service will be run to-day on all lines for crowds of holiday makers. The fog lifted yesterday .just in time to enable the compaios to deal with holiday traffic. Over .id,ooo passengers left Paddington station yesterday, and 80,000 are expected to-day. Forty-four additional trains will be run, and the principal expresses duplicated. . Between l! and S o’clock to-night JO trains will leave, one evlM'v four minutes.

Despite the economic depression, the hotels at seaside and oilier resorts are full for, Christmas.

The last morning newspapers published until Saturday - contain little news. It is generally agreed that this Christmas is one of I lie quietest and dullest over known. The shadow of depression, unemployment, high taxation', and aiHiivlionsioiis for llie future affect the whole country. SPIRITS UNDAMPED CONDITIONS IN SYDNEY (Mice. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Doe. 23. On Christmas Eve the crowd in the city was much as usual. The shops were busy, but the purchases generally were smaller in value, though the spirit of merrymaking was undamped.

The weather was hot and humid, sending large crowds to the beaches, which were again patronised to-day, as well as scores of other holiday resorts. A hot, bright morning changed into dull and threatening weather, with one or two light falls of rain. OVER 80 DEATHS IN U.S. ACCIDENTS AND CRIMES NEW YORK, Dec. 25. Christmas Day fatalities throughout the United States exceeded 80. The majority were due to motor accidents, while fires and shootings caused others. Three people were killed in Indiana when a bridge collapsed. Liquor fatalities in New York city were 11 killed and 25 poisoned. A whole family of seven, motoring to a midnight .service, was wiped out in a collision with a train.

Chicago’s boldest Christmas crime was a raid by bandits on the Roman Catholic parish house, where they trussed up four priests and took £4OO poor offerings.

Detectives believe that vandals who broke into the Vanderbilt mausoleum were racketeers, plotting the theft of coffins for the sake of ransom.