BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] ANXIETY FOR COBH AM. LONDON, Sept. 13. An exchange agency message from Rangoon states no direct news has j been received from Cobharn since he i _ left Penang last week. It is surmised t that heavy headwinds which caused the forced landing strained the engine. Considerable anxiety is caused.

A MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT. LONDON, Sept. 14. There were touching incidents towards the close of the inquest atDrumcollogher, in County Limerick, on the victims of the recent cinema fire disaster, numbering over forty.

A dramatic action followed the inquest when both the cinema operator Patrick Downey, and the owner .of th<» show, AVilliam Forde, were after the jury had returned a verdict that they were guilty of carelessness, as was evidenced by naked candles being placed near the film, one of which overturned, thus igniting the film. According to the police evidence, if only somebody had thought to smash a thin partition, all might have escaped and reached the ground floor safely. Forde heard the "inquest proceedings huddled in a corner, with Downey and the hitter’s sobbing wife, who burst-iilv/*'. to tears and flung her arms her husband when manslaughter was> mentioned.

The Court was full of the bereaved ■ people, but they seemed to forget their own sorrow in the face of Fordc’s and Downey’s ordeal. The Coroner was overcome by emotion, and was in tears. lie decided not to call any further evidence, declaring: “AA’o all know how it happened ! AA r o are all heartbroken! How can you blame anyone? Tdo not think it your duty to find anyone guilty.” The jury, however, retired, and returned with a verdict of manslaughter, with which both Fordo and Downey ■ were later charged and remanded. RECORD TUBE LINE. LONDON. Sept. 13. The. longest, tube railway in the , world has just been opened, extending from Edgeware, Middlesex, to Morden. Surrey, a distance of twenty-two and a half miles. The fare is ninopehco. This will case, the traffic problem for two and a half million Londoners. Six new stations have been created. The extension has cast £3.500,000.

ITALIAN ARRESTS. ROME, Sept. 14. The police have made numerous ar- 1 rests, .particularly Communist friends of Lncetti, including Enricho Mnlatesta a well known anarchist. Fascist deputies are urging an early extraordinary convocation of the Chamber to legislate for the re-introduction of capital punishment for attempts at asassination of the King, or head of the Government. It is revealed that Lueetti is heavily tattooed on the chest displaying a huge inscription “Vive La Alortc.” THREE HUNDRED ITALIAN ARRESTS. ROAfE. Sept. 14. Arrests in connection with attempts--! - on Signor Alussolini, number three hundred. A SOVIET RAMP. RIGA, Sept. 14 Soviet newspapers condemn Germany’s entry into the League. Tile “Izvestia” deplores her joining the “wasps nest of international intrigues where roguish diplomatic and political sharpers are increasing the danger of war, clhoking the life of the weaker nations and organising an anti-Soviet campaign. Germany will rue the. day when she enters the arena where capitalistic robbers are tearing each.others throats.”