GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Bv Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

THE COUNT! ILL CRASH. LONDON. Aug. 7. Gangs of workmen, lorry loads of timber, break-down cranes, police cordons and thousands of sight-seers combine to form a remarkable scene in the centre of the city at the site of the Cornhill crash. Officials and engineers m already are salvaging papers, and de- T molishing the unsafe parts of the surrounding buildings. It will he some time before the extent of the damage and danger to neighbouring business is ascertained. Meanwhile the woik proceeds in repairing and sealing dozens of exposed leaking gas, water, and electric mains.

SH IPPING MOYEM ENTS. LONDON. Aug. G. Arrived: At London, 'lairoa; at San Francisco, Tahiti; sailed trom Liverpool, Kent for Now Zealand. DEMAND FOR EXTRADITION. LONDON. Aug. 8. The “ Daily Chronicle’s ” Paris correspondent says that Alunmessin has forwarded a demand for the extradition of the English friend of Daniei’s. The .papers will reach London in ten days, when interest will he transferred to How Street, where the extradition proceedings will he heard.

TRADE UNION CONGRESS. PARIS, Aug. 8. The Congress of the International Trade Unions ended with the extraordinary discomforturc of the British delegates.

Mr Purcell, president, early in the proceedings aroused intense irritation bv bis speech defending tho Russian Soviets, and paying a tribute to the boundless courage of the Russian workers, in the teeth of the opposition of world capitalists, adding that toe conquest of the Russian revolution must he defended.

French and other delegates thereupon decided that Mr Purccli’ should not be re-elected on the Executive Committee, and instead, nominated Mr Hicks, as the British member. Mr Hicks was elected, Mr Purcell securing only one vote. M. Jouhaux was. —2 elected President, and at the closing proceedings, he urged the British delegation to return with a saner comprehension of their interests.

FAITH CONGRESS. (Received this day at 8 a.i11.) LONDON. Aug. 8. At the Order and Faith Congress, the Bishop of Gloucester, England, said the purpose of the re-union of the churches would he to accept as a creed, firstly, the name of Christ, secondly, the Scriptures, thirdly, the truth of the Apostolic and Ni* creed. Bishop Manning, of Wie American Episcopal Church, regretted that tIMMp Roman Catholic Church was not sen ted and acknowledged that church’s < good work. Ho opined it will not he it real unity of Christendom till* it came in.