AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] A SCIENTISTS FAILURE. SAN FRANCISCO, September 23. Roy Chapman Andrews (archaeologist) returned to-day from an ineffectual attempt to penetrate the Gobi Desert for scientific exploration. The expedition was halted at Peking by the warring factions. It is feared the t camel train supplies valued at twentylive thousand dollars sent to the des< r to await his coming were annihilated by bands of marauders as they have not been heard from since they left Shanghai. ANOTHER DISASTER, ASUNCION (Paraguay), Sept, 22There was a hurricane on Monday, which - caused heavy loss of life and property, in Vilht Enoarnacion, a town and port on tho river Panama, | 180 miles south east of the capital. The messages from theic indicate that tho official reports' placed the number dead at two hundred. There is other information, however, t-liat the death list already totals five hundred. The total reported killed is hourly growing. More than four hundred buildings have been razed' at Villa Encarna-c-ion. One section of the town, scion i streets long by four wide, is a mass , of ruins. DISASTERS AT SEA. NORFOLK VIRGINIA, Sept. 23. Vessels at sea report sighting the wreck of vessels which were victims of the Florida hurricane, including a derelict wooden vessel, .a naval target, and a raft. The steamer “Lake Caharlis,” with a crew of 36, has not been heard of since she left Miami on Friday for Norfolk. RAILWAY EXPERT’S VIEAVS. NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Mr Galian, of the Commonwealth Railways, wliq / is inquiring regarding tho means .adopted in America to prevent boiler corrosion front water, which is one of tlie most important railways problems in Australia said that the internal combustion of tho locomotives used here would meet tho situation in Australia, but he did not lbelievo that such engines as those now being used in America would prove useful for passenger haulage in tho Commonwealth. Mr Galian goes to England to investigate tho steam turbine typo ol locomotive. | Mi- Galian remarked, i however, that the American railways are losing competition, but his observations , hero have convinced him that the motor transport could best accomplish a useful purpose when it was used as a feeder to the railway lines. Mr Galian noted that the American railways are meeting the competition of tho motor vehicles by investigating lieavilv in motor vehicles for such feeder-purposes, Mr Gahan believed that the situation, which is shaping itself in a similar direction ill the Commonwealth, would probably be met in , the same way. THE NICARAGUAN RISING. MANAGUA (Nicaragua), Sept. 23. The revolutionary forces, bombarding the El Bluff Nicaraguan Customs Stations, were badly defeated.