AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1925, Page 1

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] AMERICAN DISASTER. NEW YORK, Oct. A tie Ingram from Richmond. Virginia, says that several men are believed to have been killed when a cave-in occurred in a railway tunnel under Jefferson Park there on 1‘ relay afternoon, imprisoning a work tram and, a crew of thirty to sixty. Over TO workmen are entrapped in the tunnel at Richmond, hut many crawled to safety, and were taken tto hospital to 'have their m.itines dressed. . . , The railway olfmials this evening sail it is not believed more titan eight remained., in the tunnel. PARLIAMENTARY C'O N < PRESS. W ASHINGTON, October 3. Mr Sakalatvala’s ease was thrust into the otherwise peace!id inter-Par-liameniary session on Friday, when ,\| r Ren Riley, the British Labour inetuher. said il wtis unfortunate that a fellow member oi ibc union bad I icon ]irevent--d Irom attending. He said that unless such arrangements were made as would enable all tuetn.!>ers to enjoy equal rights, and make each a particular contribution to the groat work for which the Union existed " the confidence would he destroyed and a gretil blow would be struck at the very basis and purpose id the Union." Sir Robert Horne, former British Chancellor of the Kxeehequer, is a member ot the British Delegation In the liiter-l’iiiTiainentnry Unions’ Conference. lie hns issued ;t statement strongly commending the action taken by tlw United Stales Secretary, Mr Kellogg, in preventing the entry into the United States ol Mr Kaklatvala, the Communist M.U., for Battersea, London. The statement was issued after Mr Bilev made u protest against i he exclusion. WASHINGTON, October 2. The Council of Ihe inter-l’aiTianien-larv Union decided the 1 nion should not appeal to the l oited States to join the League of Nations, or ask the League to revise its covenant, or espouse the adoption of a world language. Miss Mary MneSwinev, the Irish Republican Advocate, was refused admission to the inter-Barliaineniarv Conference sessions hv President Huron Theodor Adelswaord, of Sweden, alter tie had obtained the approval of the. Irish Free State Delegation for