AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Renter Telegrams.] ARCHBISHOP MANNIX. NEW YORK, July 11. Archbishop Mannix, of Melbourne, addressed a meeting of five thousand people in New York. It was held under the auspices of the American Association for the reorganisation of the Irish Republic. .

Archbishop Mannix and other speakers stressed the fact that there is a movement in Ireland as against tlie Free State Government for the declaration of complete independence. A socalled Irish Republic was desired, but this, the speakers stressed, should be secured by constituional means, instead of by resorting to force.

FATALITIES EXAGGERATED. NEW YORK, July 12

A Dover message says; “The number known to bo dead on Sunday night was only three or four, there being fifty injured. The property damage, however, is estimated at ninety million dollars. There has been -a great exaggeration in the number of dead. This was due to the enormity of the explosion, which has wrecked the largest, naval depot in the country.” ,

There are twenty soldiers and mar-' ines now missing. . They are believed, however, to be on, leave of absence. A later message from Lake Denmark says; “Thus far, only four bodies have been recovered, and it may bo' many days before the debris can bo searched. Ten million pounds of powder, mostly ‘T.N.T.’ anil one hundred thousand shells, were destroyed.’’

The- Army and Navy officials have estimated this damage to the arsenals alone at ninety-two million dollars, which, with the destroyed civilian property, brings the total perhaps as high as one hundred million dollars. NEW YORK, July 12.

Senator Edge, commenting on the explosion, said: “It is an outrageous, criminal practice to store high explosives in thickly-populated centres.” Ho said lie would introduce a measure for the removal of such depots to sparsely-settled areas. NEW YORK, July 11.

A. message despatched from Dover, late on Sunday night states:—The explosion deaths have been increased to nine., Twenty-five are missing. Several hundred are injured. The damage is 93 million dollars.

NOTABLE AMERICAN DEAD. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m-‘ NEW YORK, July 12. j_ A telegram from Lancaster, New Hampshire, says Mr Weekes (Secretary for War in the Harding and Coolidge Cabinets) died on Monday after a long illness. DEAD TOTAL 16. NEW YORK, July 12. News from Dover states the dead due to the explosion numbered sixteen on Monday. Two hundred buildings out of five hundred located in the depot reservation were' destroyed.