AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian it N.Z. Cablo Association.] MINE DISASTER. DSO -MINERS ENTOMBED. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, March IJO. Between Il.jO and -100 miners were entombed and a number of surface workmen killed to-day in a terrific explosion in Pennsylvania Coal Corporation mine, near .Pittsburgh, NEW YORK, March DO. At ( lirenleld, Pennsylvania, a terrific explosion in a mine belonging to Pennsylvania Coal and Cuke Company, entombed Dot) men. Mine officials are doubtful about the (bailees of any to escape, except a few who have already come out through the air shaft from a separate section to where the majority were working. These were iguolantol tl.e late of their companions. ft is feared Will Mere in the immediate area of the explosion which wreeued the mil fliers and was heard for miles around. Gas mine dust is believed to have caused the upheaval. Officials are unable to teli 1 the extent of the explosion but houses a bundled yards away were knocked off the supporting props. Rescue crows, ambulances, doctors and nurses have rushed to the

BODIES RECOVERED. NEW YORK. March DO. A. message from Cbrcnteld says tieindies of eight explosion victims were ('covered to-day and it is believed all lie entombed men were brought to ti.e uiTaee.

CANADIAN DELEGATE. [Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) OTTAWA, March DO. • Ernest LaPoinle (.Minister of Justice) leaves Vancouver on -»pril (ith to represent Canada at Canberra opening. WHEAT POOL. OTTAWA, .March DO. Winnipeg reports delegates from four Australian, three Canadian and three American wheat pools will attend the wori'd pool conference at Kansas City on May sth. U.S. MINERS' STRIKE. (Received this dav at 12.25 o.in.) NEW YORK. March DO. Indianopolis reports the walk-out of bituminous coal miners in the Middle West fields lias already started, nearly forty-eight hours ahead of the general walk-out scheduled for mid-night on .March 31st. Reports indicate many miners, especially on the southern Illinois fields decided to quit ahead of the schedule to find new employment in their respective communities. Approximately 150.000 will drop tools at the hour appointed. Tho trouble is due lo operators’ refusal' to renew the present wage scale of seven and a-half dollars per day. Operators insist they cannot continue operations and compete with non-union mines, which pay four and a-half to five dollars per day. The walk-out will be elie ted without disorder. FILIPINO HOPES. WASHINGTON. March China’s nationalism is spreading lo the Pliillipines. st itnulnl in< r an intensified campaign for island independence. Filipino leaders here express the conviction that the political ascendancy of the Cantonese Nationalists will lead to a new balance ol power in the Orient counter balancing Japan's previous superior political position. I’edrii Guevara (resident Commissioner for Pliillipines) in the l idled States Congress said the national aspiration of Eilipino people had hcen spurred by the Chinese successes and a campaign for independence from l line l states supervision would consequently result. Filipinos felt the triumph of

Chinese Nationalist movement would mean the failure of the Imperialistic policy of Japan, which would then heroine a factor to promote a democracy in the Ear East.