CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 11

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

COMMUNIST OUTRAGE. SHANGHAI, November 21. In au attempt to wreck the Nan-king-Shanghai express. Communists removed four lengths of rails. Four roaches were derailed, and four Chinese killed and scores injured. The attempt is attributed to a report that Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, the Mukdeu War Lord, and hiß staff, would bo aboard the train.

SUICIDE OF SISTERS. VANCOUVER, November 21. Three sisters at Santa Monica, inseparable companions since the youngost was born 60 years ago, one being blind, waded together into the Pacific Ocean and drowned themselves because of stock market losses and their inability to pay taxes. Only, m death were the women ever separated. The bodies of two wer* recovered, but the third is missing. SHIP TOTALLY LOST. LISBON, November 21. The motor-ship Highland Hope, on the rocks in the Far if hoes, off the Portuguese coast, is still partially afloat, but is being swept by huge waves. A meeting of the otiieers decided that she must become a total loss. Sams first-class luggage and luxurious fittings have been salvaged. A diver found the vessel hopelessly fast on the rocks, with a 12-foot hole in her bows.. FIRE DESTROYS DREDGE. ADELAIDE, November 2*3. The Government dredge on Lak« _ Torrens was burned to the water'* edge. The loss is estimated at £3OOO. HUNGER STRIKE IN GAOL. SYDNEY. November 22. The Communists sentenced for wrecking a house at Clovelly bava commenced a hunger strike at Long Bay Gaol. MALOLO'S GOODWILL TOUR. SYDNEY. November 22. The Matsun liner Malolo arrived this morning from the United States with American tourists on a trip. She will later visit New Zealand . SYDNEY .MEAT STRIKE. SYDNEY, November 22. Assurances have been given by th« Sydney master butchers that adeauat* supplier of moat will he available to j the public during the '.reek-end. ! MARRIAGE AMENDMENT HILL. I LONDON. November 21. ! In the House of Commons the Iter. .7. Bnrr's (Labour) Marriage. Amendment Rill was rend a second time without discussion. It permits a man to m.irr? fcia deceased's wife's brother's daughter, of other pers-r.i at present prohibited. i MUSEUM APPOINTMENT. 1 LONDON, November £l. I Mr C. B. Htimphrovs. Christ College (Cambridge!, anthropological investigator m New Guinea, where hj« lost h valuable collection through shipwreck. and also in tbv» New Hebrides and elsewhere in the l'noifie has been appointed keener r.f tbe Me;anesian ColleetiVr. at the Csnmbridge Museum of Archaeology end lithnology.