GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 26 February 1927, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

AVIATION TRAGEDY. I (Received February 25 at 7 p.m.) HELSINGFORS, February 24. I A Finnish army aeroplane, while at ' bomb-dropping practice at an altitude of 250 ft., was blown to pieces, ami its two occupants were killed. EMPIRE ACADEMY. LONDON, February 25. 'The Empire Academy has adopted a scheme to buuTl a temporary palace of arts, costing £25,000, near Lambeth Bridge, as a meeting place of authors, sculptors, painters and musicians of the Empire. An appeal will be made for subscriptions. CANINE “BABIES.” LONDON, Feb. 24. The Coroner, at Hammersmith, censured I the English women’s ‘ f distracting habit of kissing pet dogs,” when hearing the pathetic case of Airs Temple, wife of a barrister, who consulted a specialist, and found that she suffered from a virulent disease of the mouth, apparently directly due to a Pekingese biting her inside the mouth. SUMMER TIME ARRANGEMENT. PARIS, February 24. Britain, Belgium, France and Holland have reached an agreement that ! summer time should begin on April 9 and end October 1. FIRE DISASTER. MANILA, February 24. A disastrous fire destroyed a block of business buildings. ‘ The damage is estimated at four million pesos. U.S.A. NAVY INCREASES VOTED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The U.S.A. House of Representative-; has passed an addition tc the Naval A >- propriations Bill, providing for the commencement of the building of throe cruisers, as cabled on January Ist, al though slightly reducing the sum which the Senate appropriated President Coolidge, in order to veto the provision, would be compelled to veto the entire Appropriations Bill which is considered unlikely. HOSPITAL EXPLOSION TRAGEDY. LONDON, Feb. 24. At Giessen, a spark from an electric iron exploded some ether xvhile the nurses were filling bottles in the hospital kitchen. Eight were instantly en veloped in flames. One holding a bottle was incinerated. Two with their clothing ablaze rushed into the street and rolled in the snow. Seven were seriously injured.