Second Edition British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 October 1913, Page 3

Second Edition British and Foreign.

I [EI.ECTIiIC TEI.WUIAPir, COl'YltlGUT.] [l'Klt I'RI'.SS ASSOCIATION..] | (Received This Day, 0.10 a.m.) TILE MINE CATASTROPHE. London, October 15. The first uui 11 "who was rescued (yesterday) from the burning mine was 1200 yards from the shall. The rescuers hurst into cheers upon their first realisation of hopes that any wore living. Moore recovered alter a long course o.f artificial respiration. Proceeding, the rescuers found a dozen dead and living horses lniddled together. Another party, in the west ! pit., discovered Bert Williams, a footballer and local boxer, unconscious amidst a group of sixteen dead, including a man and boy clasping hands. DIMiLIX STRIKE. Dublin employers offer to recognise the Transport. Workers' ( uioii if it be properly reorganised with officials approved by the British Trade Unions. 'TOUNT XO MAX RICH." Berlin, October 15. ,I)r. Diesel's liabilities are stated at t'75,000 ; the assets at .£2OOO. AKROPI,AXE JJKCOJI]). StoeHler aeroplaned from -Johanuislal to Mulliausen, 1400 miles, in twenty-four hours. This is a world's best record. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) It ALLAY AY ACCIDENT. London, October lf>. The Harwich boat-train from Central Station, Liverpool, collided with the express for Warrington, which was standing outside St. -James's station, Liverpool. The last coach was smashed, two or three carriages telescoped. Several bodies have been extricated from the wreckage. Eighteen persons were severely injured. The accident is attributed to a passenger on the first train pulling a cord in a tunnel and liberating steam, which obscured the signals for the oncoming train. L;AYL\(t TO PENALTY. .Miriam Pratt has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for incendiarism at Cambridge, in May last. ITOI'E All AX DO NED. London. October l ; i. At the Cardilf mine 0-' is descended on the morning of the accident ; 5-'!2 have been rescued and thirty-one bodies recovered : ; >72 are entombed. The lire is extinguished and Ihe rescuers are in touch with hvenly-nme men who are alive. The rescue parties at the Universal Colliery have seen heaps of dead. There is no news regarding the twenty-nine reported to he alive. Fire has restarted badly, and all hope of effecting rescues lias been abandoned. ROYAL .PRESK.YTS. The presents to 'Prince Arthur of Connaughl and the Duchess of Kile number over live hundred, and are valued at £-100,000. They include jewels from the 'Royalties of England. . Europe, -Japan and ra < 1 ia. The King and Queen's gift is a tiara of one thousand diamonds. The Canadian Ministry presented a silver dinner service. A suffragette was arrested for throwing papers into the King's coach: other women threw papers info the coach of Alexandra, Queen of Norway. ' A "COXTERT'S" STORY. Sf. Petersburg, Oct. 15. Archimandrite Autononiius, a converted Jew, in relating cases that came under his own notice of the kidnapping of Christian boys by -Jews, declared that Tews tortured Christians fo death, but he has not heard of them using Christion blood. Cross-examined, he completely failed to give precise information.

CLEMI^OY. Delhi, October 15. Viscount' I Ims visited Cawnpore, to investigate the Mosque incident, of which details were rallied on August Oth. lie announced that lie would invite the Courts of lit'inission to withdraw the prosecution, as accused had been already severely punished.