AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

{Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.] STOCK EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, .May If). The Stock Exchange seat was suit for 215,000 dollars, which is an advance of 5,000 over previous records. further details. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, .May 19. A villager at Bath who witnessed the explosion at the school house said: “The whole wing seemed to lift about four feet, the walls caved outward and the roof toppled into the interior and a heavy (loud of smoke spread in all directions. Then I heard the screams of children and saw women come running from every direction.” Robert dates who helped in the rescue, said mother after mother came % running to the school demanding information about their children and on seeing the lifeless forms hysterically sobbed and swooned. Soon there were more than a hundred men tearing away the debris and almost as many women frantically searched the ruins. Mr Gates said ho saw more than one woman lift brick and mortar, heavier than an -average man would think of handling, without a crowbar.

The charred body of Kehue’s wife was found in the ruins of their farm which was destroyed by fire after the explosion there. Tho most tragic irony of the situation lies in the fact that this was the day scheduled for the school picnic and mothers had been cooking and baking cakes for many days and making new dresses for the little girls whose crush, ed, mangled bodies are now awaiting burial. There is some discussion on a suggestion to hold one big funeral for all the vietirhs, but the inhabitants, most, ly women, ha-vc not slept all night and are at present too dazed to comprehend tile situation fully and make arrangements. Many are half crazed with grief.

MEDICAL WONDERS. WASHINGTON, May 19

The Japanese Doctor, llide.vo Noguchi, addressing American Medical Association announced the isolation of the. long sought germ of trachoma. Noguchi who is a member of the Rockfeller Institute of Medical Research, described seven, years experiments which ultimately resulted in the isolation. During this period he collaborated with Doctor Martin Cohen, ol New York. At the conclusion of his address, one thousand eye specialists rose and cheered Noguchi.

Simultaneously, in another part ol the building Doctor Clyde Snook, of the Bell Telephone Company laboratories gave a demonstration of the amplification of heart beats ten trillion times, by means ol what he calls electrical stethoscope which makes the beat sound like a thunderclap. WRECKED STEAMER. SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.

The Union Company’s motor ship Hauraki responded to an S.O.S. and is attempting to rescue the crew of the steamer Indian Harbour, which is wrecked on I'oint Garda, 185 miles from San Francisco. U.S.A. DISASTERS. NEW YORK, -May 19.

At least eight people were drowned when a natural dam on the (Jrosvcntre River hurst on Wednesday.

A well of water, swept through the settlement of Kelly, in the State of "Wyoming, and. spread for a width of a mile and a half, A cloudburst struck ibe settlement of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, on Wednesday, flooding the surrounding lowlands. Fifteen are reported to have been drowned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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'm TRADE UNION BILL DISCUSSION. In the Commons, in Committee on the Trades Union Bill, Sir'Hume Wil- _ limns appealed for a Government amendment providing that a strike could not he declared illegal except b.v an Appeal Court. Sir I). Hogg said the proposal was attractive but impracticable, as an application could not ho made to an appeal court till a strike .had begun. He pointed out a later clause gave an At-torney-General power, when a strike is impending, to obtain a'High Court interlocutory decision, whether it would die legal. Sir Hume Williams’ amendment was negatived by 250 to 141. Sir D. Hogg moved an amendment to confine the penalties to those inciting others to participate in an illegal strike or ordinary passive strikes. Mr Thomas declared that provision aimed at the Trade Union leaders, who never began strikes. They were usually begun by the rank and file at branch meetings and the executives carried out the strikes in obedience to the decisions reached through the ballots of members. Mr Barder said no Trade Union

could function under the Bill. 11 it had been passed twenty to thirty years —ago he and most of his colleagues would have spent most of their lives m gaol.

IN THE COMMONS. (Received this day nt 11.0 a.mA LONDON, May 19. In the Commons, Sir Joynson Hicks replying to questions, said the examination of the Areos papers was not completed, and lie could not make a statement till Tuesday. The Soviet periodically supplied the Foreign Office with a list of employees in Areos. He could not state the amount of damage done during the raid.

'A long discussion ensued on the Opposition’s demands for a day debate. Sir Joynson Hicks promised a statement and eventually, May 26th. was chosen. Mr Baldwin informed Colonel Moore that lie was not prepared to introduce legislation for compulsory voting at the next general election, in view of the * recent decision extending franchise to all women of twenty-one and over. Sir A. Chamberlain questioned, said lie understood that Germany intended to urge the appointment of a German to the Mandates Commission y at the June session of the League Council. Sir George Elliott, the New Zealand Economic delegate lias arrived from America en route to Geneva. LONDON, May 19. Earl Russell moved the rejection, on the grounds it would increase betting. Lord Derby said while the Jnr’ e Club was removing Welshers and swindlers from race courses the Government was licensing them. An attempt should be made to remove this grave scandal. Lord Plymouth stated when the hotting duty was introduced it was explicitly understood that no attempt should he made to legalise methods of betting which were then illegal. Pub- - lie opinion over the subject of the introduction of total isator had been widely stirred and the whole subject must he tackled sooner or Inter, hut the betting law should not he fundamentally.' altered without more experience. The Government should allow a free vote. The Bill then passed the second reading by 44 votes to 23. The Pacific Cable Bill passed the copuriittee stage.