AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] U.S.A . Tit A IX SMASH. (Received this day at 10.0 a.in.) NEW YORK. Oct. ‘-’B. I.atcr news from Alomephis reveal* that there were nineteen fatalities as the result of the accident to the passenger train of ten cars, which, when travelling at fifty miles per hour, plunged down a twenty-five foot, embankment near Victoria. The wreck was caused bv a defective rail.

TRIBUTE TO LATIN AAT F RICA NS (Received this day at 10.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.

In accepting a monument of (leuoral Jose de San .Martin. Argentine, soldier and statesman, a gift from the .Southern Republic, President Cool id go on Wednesday held up South American statesmanship as a model for the world, lie said that since the first panAmerican Conference, held one hundred years’ ago. “the history of the relationships among the nations of the new world have been a continuing story of the efforts to substitute the rule of arbitration, mediation, adjudication and confidence for the rule of force and war.” To the scholarly statesmanship of the r.ntin-Amerieun nation, the world owes a debt which it has been too tardy in acknowledging.

GRFFK HF.PL7. ATI!HNS, October 28

The (ircek reply to the Council ol the League of Nations states the (Ircek evacuation of Bulgaria commences tomorrow. The incident may now lie regarded as clsoed. All that remains is for the League to enquire into the responsibilities and claims of the town parties.