AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.} TRAIN SMASH. RUKXOS AYR ICS, July 7. Reports show that the wreck casualties are rnlich gl-enter than was lit first believed: The bodies of til victims Were recovered to-night. Alnny cadets from the Chilean .Military Academy, on route to Buenos Ayres for the Independence Hay celebrations, were killed. Their special collided with the regular passenger train in a fog, which obscured the clanger signals.

A previous message stated that ten were killed and fill injured in u train collision at Apateaicn, in the -Mendoza Province. AIT. KILATEA ERUPTS'. HONOLULU. July C. Volcanic action is occurring in the Alalematimnu Pit, where four fissures have opened up. The fire is shooting three hundred feet in the nfr. Molten rivers are forming, and vast fountains are slowly circling the pit.

HENRY FORD’S REGRETS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, July S. Jlenry Ford ordered his newspaper “Dearborn Independent,” to eea.se the publication of articles reHecting oil the Jewish people; also to withdraw from circulation international Jewish pamhlets. Ford says a multitude of activities makes it impossible for him to keep informed of the contents ol the magazine articles which justified the righteous indignation entortanied h.v Jews everywhere towards him. adding: “ I was mortified upon the discovery of the actual nature of the articles. Those who know me will hear witness that it is not in my nature to inflict insult and pain upon anybody. I deem it my duty as an honourable man to make amends for the wrong dhue Jews as fellow men and brothers. In asking forgiveness for acts unintentionally committed, I give them my assurance that henceforth they may look to me for friendship and goodwill.”

MEXICAN DOCTOR’S CLAIM. MEXICO CTTV, •Julie 23. Dr Jesus Romero has announced that he has discovered an n]>parent,v certain cure for consumption through the use of a serum upon which ho and two noted Mexican chemists have been experimen ting for two years. Thirty cases of various kinds and stages of development have been treated at the general hospital, and all have resulted in apparent cures. The formula probably will he given to the medical profession.

. IN HALF THE TIME. GRANT’S PASS (Oregon) June 20. Mad Bull, a Karook Indian, aged *l2. won the 470 miles Marathon from San Francisco over the famous* Redwood Highway, taking 7 days 12 hours. His tribal brother, Flying Cloud, was second in 7 days 17 hours. The San Franeise > CliatnlKT of Commerce allowed 15 days for the race.

AVARICIOUS SERVANT'S. NEW YORK, June 26. That lie gave insufficient tips to his servants was the reason, alleged for the wanton destruction of art treasures in the-Fifth Avenue apartment of a millionaire manufacturer. A Van Dyck and a Raliens, valued at £15,000 each, acre destroyed. Two employees are under arrest.

MYSTERIOUS HAPPENING. WASHINGTON* (N.J.) June 00,

This town was subjected to a mysterious gas attack' yesterday which left most of the inhabitants coughing, sneezing and breathless. There was no explosion or lire in the region.

A belief prevails that the fumes were the aftermath of the passing of the Pons-IVinlieeke comet. Sufferers said that the gas seemed to contain sulphuric acid and smelt like cinnamon,