GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian Press Association & Sun.) DISTILLERY EXPLOSI ON. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, .March 12. With a deafening roar, Distillers Company's four-storey distillery at Alexandra Dock, King Lynn, inexplicibly blew up and then caught fire. Five out of eight workmen escaped, and of the other three, one was incinerated, and two were suffocated in the debris. The factory was used for making acetone alcohol. SOVIET VIEW. BERLIN. March 12. Litvinoff, en route to Geneva, said: “ I doubt the existence of a desire on the part cither of Chamberlain or of the Soviet to resume the December conversations, as no new basis has arisen. TURKISH DELEGATE. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 12. Hewlik Uuslidi Bey has been appointed delegate to the Disarmament Commission. SICILIAN TRAGEDY. ROME. March 12. Arriving unexpectedly from Naples, a Sicilian named Devita fatally stabbed bis father-in-law and sister-in-law, and it was found be bad similarly killed his mother-in-law in another house. When he was arrested he boasted he had killed his wife on Saturday and had hidden the body in a trunk. This was verified by the police, who learned the motive was jealousy because his h-ife had begun a separation suit. WHEAT SALES. LONDON, March 12. Wheat cargoes are steady but the demand is slow. Prices are firm with a fair inquiry advance.