CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

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(Received This Day 9.35 a.m.)

AN ARCTIC EXPEDITION

WRECKED,

New York, August '27,

The Bcliooucr Groat Boar, canying { Borderla lie's Arctic expedition, was 1 totally wrecked in the Behring Sea on * the 10th instant. The crew landed on St. Matthew Island, nnd subsisted on (salved provisions until yesterday, when they were rescued by a coastguard , cutter. . AMERICA'S BIIT FOR. SEOOND PLACE. Mr. Daniels, secretary to the Nar?. in an interview, said he proposed to rush the naval program through, and hoped within six months to have l(Vl vessels under construction. This may bring the total outlay to six hundred and fiftv million dollars. He is confident that the United States will have the second navy in the world. (Received This Day 9.20 a.m.) MTNTCHS' STRIKE AVERTED Capetown. August 27. A minors' strike at Johannesburg has been averted. The industrial federation decided not to force the wages dispute to extremes, as the present is re- ' garded as an inopportune time for a j general settlement.