GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press HOUSE BLOWN UP. BERLIN, Jau. 4. A mysterious, violent explosion occurred in a house in the City early this morning. A large number of the occupants were i in bed at the time. Half of the building collapsed, and a lire started in the wreckage. Ten ]>ersoiis were extricated badly injured. A number of others are still buried in the ruins, and it is feared that many were killed. Firemen art) fighting the flames, and rescue efforts are continuing.

THREE KILLED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 5. Three were killed and seventeen injured in the explosion. BERLIN EXPLOSION. BERLIN, Jan. o. The explosion is ascribed to a refrigerator for a five-storey block of flats, or the escape of coal gas. Twentyfour people are still buried in the ruins and it is feared they are suffocated. DEVOURED BY WOLVES. LONDON, Jan. 4. The “ Daily Mail’s ” Vienna correspondent reports that depredations by starving wolves in Hungary and Slovakia are increasing. Tho animals have penetrated districts where they were unknown for years. One pack attacked and devoured eleven girls in a wood in the Carpathian Mountains, and the countryside is panic-stricken. A special gendarmerie is organised to protect lonely farms and villages.

DOCUMENTS STOLEN. BERLIN, Jan. 4. Important documents relating to the proposed Polo-German loan were stolen from representatives of the British hanks engaged in the liegotiatinos. The Englishmen left an attache case in an anteroom at the Government Office in Wiihelmstrnsse, while they interviewed officials. When they returned for the bag it was empty. BUDGET SURPLUS. MADRID, Jan. 4. Cabinet is utilising the Budget surplus of £950,000 to enable persons throughput Spain to redeem pawned articles of clothing. CAVALRY ON WHEELS. LONDON, Jan. 5. With a view to the further mechanisation of tho Army, the War Office proposes putting a jxirtion of the cavalry upon wheels, says the “Daily Telegraph.” Two ideas will be tested oil Salisbury Plain and at Aldershot during the doming spring. In one case horses will he stripped of all' impedimenta except the man and his rifle so that they will !)e in the best possible fighting condition when they come in contact with the enemy; while the material will follow on six wheeled lorries. The other idea is more revolutionary. It is proposed that each cavalry regiment shall ho composed of two squadrons of horse and a squadron of fast whippet tanks, accompanied by a ileet of fast lorries to carry machine guns and their crows, which will_ enable the cavalry to establish strategical points in force. The experiments will have an important liearing upon the horse supply for Home and India.

SINKING OF OGOZA DENIED. LONDON, Jan. 4. Advices from Moscow deny the reported sinking of the Ogoza. POLISH-LITH UANI AN D.TSPDTK WARSAW. Jan. 4. . British and French representatives here are urging Premier Valdemaras, in tho interests of his own country, to begin negotiations for a settlement- of the Polisli-Lithuanian dispute. AN UNUSUAL WEDDING. PARIS, Jan. 5. Lions were among the guests at an extraordinary wedding of a lion tamer and a circus girl at Montpelier. Mounted cowboys escorted the couple and civil and religious ceremonies were carried out to the accompaniment of revolvers. 'Hie benediction was given through the bars of a cage in which there were lions and lionesses, the priest and choir believing in safety first. The remainder of the outside animals were lavishly fed at a subsequent banquet.

AUTOMATIC SPIES. LONDON, Jan. 5. The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent states automatic spies are Germany’s latest post office installation, to meet the demands of the Foreign Office, Ministry of Interior, and poll- - to complete the system of listening-in to telephone conversations between journalists, diplomats, politicians, and persons suspected of crime,, whereby a, shorthand note is taken for example of a despatch being telephoned to a foreign newspaper. SHOCKING FATALITY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON. Jan. 5. A horrible accident occured at Hoc-k----lilfe when n motor lorry skidded through a hedge down a hank and the petrol tank exploded, setting fire to a load of six tons of phosphorous powder contained in shell cases. The driver. Rivett, was pinned down and screamed: “ I’m burning alive.” Rescuers were striving their hardest to rescue him, when the load then exploded, injuring four, including a man named Wagstaffe, who caught fire and was partially blinded. Rivett suffered an agonising death.