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Advertising and Circulation Telephone 98 Editor and Reporters' Telephone 86 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations BAD INDICATION Thursday, Dec. 26, 1920 Whefl there is a succession of bank robberies, it is an indication of an undesirable condition. Usually it means '. that tlbte (ftp men to whom the future looks black and who arc wimng to take the risk of capture rather than face a future of hunger. It may also4 mean that the ban-; clits, judging by experience of others, see a good chance of i getting away. That 'is why the robberies of Saturday! prove such good reading. Neither man got away. A more desirable condition would be one under which no one would wish to rob a bank because every person would have enough to eat and to spare and there would be no degenerates who would wish to use violence to secure the means of livelihood. Gradually we are working toward that end, but with the advance must go a great deal of education. N o matter what the system under which the world carries on, there will always be some one who will take advantage of others until there is a total change of heart in the whole race. Thought End of World Had Gome; Death Rode In From the Sea and Wall of Water Snuffed Out Lives I .trnST. JOHN'S, Nfld., Dec. 23. (By CvE. A. Jeffery, Canadian Press correspondent) Through generations of rwrestinp a living f mm the sea, and knowing instinctively how to dal with iis varying moods, the fishermen of the south coast of Newfoundland have become almost immune to any sense of danger. They strive with the storms and derive the same pleasure from their victories sis the members of a team from their's on the footbail field. When they lose out as not tnfrwni-,tiy happens they take their del'eati , . ,,,,, , steteeJfy. and reckon the lives ; water eaught them, mtjam of them bodily and crushing Others which the sea takes as the toll which some time or another must ma a oi sp.nun. inevitably be paid as the price of the harvest from its depths. Home from the ocean in their humble dwellings, they have come to believe, even though t billows roll in within a few r.iPt of t.bvir coming in." Burin, thr chief settlement on.he coast, had lust re ceived it when a wall of water was press, it gained in height as the funnel-shaped arm of the bay compressed the onrush. There was no time to warn people whose homes Christmas mo i W11CI1 lllVi A 1 Confounded fot a moment by the invasion of the land by the ocean, the fishermen with the greatest ett-possesflien rushed to the rescue. In the rear at waters and the crash of breakinc timber cries for aid came from all directions, and la the . """J "l- j.i , JlfM..l ,. till ttcnaoly. . Ashore the game was " u"1; ' """" over; they were no longer looking I Mpee (W most urgently need-for trouble. On Monday, Novem-;- Heedless J dnr menleap-ber 18. they had fought a storm all ! m J6 the wwe the shore and smashed in day. As darkness came on they made for the shelter of their coves. ! S-01 ?d windowC and as the Their boats had been made snuggo uc 2Bt l"SL!lX and their gear stowed av.-ay when j , bF Kceiy wavea they the sofcW earth trembled and their the tartan ty to fling wo-houscs to othen wait-foundations. were shaken to their JtodchBdreii Never had such a i mtt0J'eJTe J.?1-. ... thing happened before. There was A the freaktati action uneasiness everywhere, and while f w a which to soroc Cases they vere still asking each other I mW waMtags to r saw bart what could have been the cai'.se. , aato " times, that many lives another short, mor? .olent v jn ' were saved. Cne household of ten the first, intensified the ala:m.;'e"Hi5fSn'teh" tvo..o. .,i j ,., f , I for the third time flung against the Jm? SSJ'hSw ore Then It Went down into the 21 wh.rJtv.S 1 maelstrom. One man path was an earthquake, others believed that Wnr.kMi hv fint.in hn5. .ix h the end of the world had com The telegraph office, their one connect-ling link with the outside world, could obtain no reply to enquiries apart from nearby settlements. was rushing to the rescue of his family. Unable to proceed, he saw his home cctttaining wife and family borne to sea on the crest of the receding waters. For a mile he tore Then came a message from St. through the darkness seeking a Lawrence "My Ood! the sea is boat, nut hts home had been swal lowed up. In one little hamlet of seventeen houses, five remain The places seen bearing down upon the town. ; where the others stood are as clean coming wiin uie speed oi an ex- as though they never had been oc cupied. The waterfront in most of the stricken area, formerly cluttered up with stores, flsfa flakes, wharves and boats, is as it -was when were in the landwaah. The turmoil tfee Creator first made tt bare and Lin & Leans ,,!Bffr ""WSSr (Comphl with tuh,t) fogkaken, but fcr the atrfeken and beWfwered fishermen standing liit-fessty. seeking in the flotsam that is strewn over the surlae of the Wws some trace of those So suddenly snatched away, or bending now and then to drag from the water some useless piece of wreckage that he recognized as .once formed part of his home. It la little wonder, that ope finds a disinclination among these stricken people to start work again. They are stunned, their womenfolk and children are gnnc. their live:; work destroyed, without fuel, without light, wtthaut food, without the where-withall to ply tlwir trade, without hope what is left to restore their spirits? That will pass, however. O It on the means tc renew their work and once again they will pit their strength against the elements. It has been discovered since the disaster that in certain places where vessels couW formerly lie at rest there is not sufficient water to float them. Aii examination of the shore indicates that the tidal wave attained a 'height of not less than one hundred feet, as buildings situated at that elevation above the ordinary level of the sea were destroyed. One shop stocked with goods was lifted by the tidal wave off its concrete foundation and deposited in a meadow two hundred yards away from its site, and nothing in it was disturbed. The telephone office occupied by the girl operator who sent the warning to Burin lies at anchor in the middle of the harbor. She had barely time to make her escape when it was swept away. A search through Newfoundland history discloses that once before a "imilc.- catastrophe visited this coast. In the year before the American Civil War, a tidal wave twenty feet high swept in and took a too of three hundred lives. Hospital Enjoys Happy Christmas Roth l'atients and Staff Received . Good Thinss From St. Nicholas Yesterday Christmas was. as usual, enjoyed i in a happy manner by both patients ' and stafr in the Prince Rupert 9n-"ral Hospital. j On Tuesday evening the nurses'! Christmas tree was held in the! home. Santa Ciaus arrived In due course and presented manv gifts to W V. We wish you the joy of the restive, Season a. Amorif lhcmariv preprint,. offered you this season include our sincere message of friendship and good will May 1930 bring happiness and prosperity and the continuance of the friendly relations between us of the many years past. 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