BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] QUAKE FATALITIES. AVELTEVREDEN, June 30. A message from Padang states it is difficult to estimate the dead in. the Padang catastrophe. 1 Happening, as it did on market day, many from the suburbs were in the town. Aloreovcr, many are under the debris. It is estimated there are twenty Chinese and fifty native inhabitants dead. Practically all the stone buildings collapsed. The population is camping in tents fearing new shocks.

An official report from Solok, states' thirteen are dead and eight- injured. A fire column was seen above Tailing volcano.

QUAKE DISASTER. WELTY REDEN, June 29. Advices from Padang and Fort De Kock report a heavy earthquake. Sov- k eral shops collapsed, killing two and . wounding others. Soeibeilocloe reports that seventeen are dead there, and that almost all buildings in Padang and Pandjnng have collapsed, more than one hundred people being killed, and also many wounded. There are Europeans amongst the dead. A military dispensary chemist who felt the shock entered a room to save his child, and on returning was killed by a falling wall. The child and its mother narrowly escaped. - Solok was severely shaken. y Fifteen dead are reported. > THE FASCIST IDEA. ROAIE, June 29. In view of the Italian economic sit>*' uation, the Cabinet lias adopted a Bill, prohibiting the erection during the next twelve months, of buildings, ..except popular economic dwellings. There is a prohibition against the opening of new bars, cafes, confectioners’ shops, dancing balls, and similar premises, until further notice. The Bill limits tlie number of pages) of each daily paper to six. and tlnAj pages must not be enlarged. The Bill provides that no petrol will be' available without an admixture of , alcohol after November Ist. Employers will be authorised to increase the working day immediately. COB lIAM J UAH’S OFF. LONDON, June 30. Lieut. 'Cobham, the airman, has started on his Australian flight. He hopes to reach Naples to-night. His wife’s shrill cherio rang out aa he took off. Cobham successfully started at five in the morning, having a perfect take off. PACIFIC CABLE AND N.Z. LONDON, June 30. The Pacific Cable Board considered Mr Percy Hunter’s proposal to appoint a Cable Manager for New Zealand. The decision was postponed. NEW LONDON AIIUTAR V COLLEGE. LONDON, June 30.

In the House of Commons, Air Baldwin stated that there would be an Imperial College of Defence instituted, which would train a body of officers and civilian officials in imperial strategy. Vacancies would be reserved for students from tile Dominions and Jnj dia. The college would probably lie in London. CURES IN ITALY. ROAIE, June 30. Using a special earth found near Naples, which is taken either in the form of pills or applied externally, Don Luigi Garfalo, priest of the village of Quarto Disoc-cavo, is reported' to have been successful in curing more than a hundred eases of illness, ranging from tuberculosis and paralysis to toothache and broken limbs. The priest’s house is surrounded day and night by thousands ot ailing Italians seeking treatment.